Local Brevities

Every printer iu the city is at work. The boud oL Sheriff Gillen was flled yesterday with Edw. DePuy, George Feldkainp aud John Lutz as sureties. The Maccabee hall will be open every Wednesday evening to those who wish to spend the evening there. John Gillen has purehased tho black horse with whieh Sheriff Judsoii has been wou 't to Irastle arouud the couuty. President Angelí has received an invitation to respond to n toast at the New England bauquet in Detroit, Dec. 22. John Gottes, who was seut to jail 'by Judge Kinue, has done his 24 hours bread aud water penauce and been released. A new railroad is to be built from Marión on the Ann Arbor road to Tustin ou the G, R. & I. , ruuuing through Ossceola cotrnty. Sheriff Gilleu will move to this city on Saturday, Dec. 81, Sheriff Jndson vacating the liviug rooms at the jail on the day previous. Col. Frank Baldwin and Maj. Hysell have inspected the 81st Michigan aud told Col. Gardener that they saw no reasou why it was not fit for foreign service. One of theregeuts elect has applied to the secretary of state for his certifícate of electiou. But the certifícate will have to be iuspected by the stipreme oom-t before he can act. Á Northfield farmer lost bis wateh Saturday... He thought it stolen aud ' complaiued to the marshal, who found it for him iu au alley, wbere he had dropped ít íü tlie önóW. The ice at "Whitinore Lake yesterday ' ■was five iuches thick and very clear. The Toledo Ice company is making raugements to cut 100 acres of ice as soou as it is 12 inches thick. T. W. Mingay this morning received rom Capt. Ross Granger, a roster of he officers of tho 31st Michigan, toether with a photogravnre of each of 'hem. The pietures of thc offlcers of Co. A are partieularly good ones. Sheriff-elect John Gillen today announces the appointment of ex-sherifí Charles Dwyer as a deputy sheriff. The selectiou is a good one. He will uot announce any other Aun Arbor deputies vmtil af ter Jan. 1 . After two days' work a jury in the Así'her nmrder case was secured at 11 o'clock today in the recorder's court in Detroit and Assistant Prosecntor Mandell oponed the case to the jnry describing tho way in which he believed Valmore C. Nichols lost bis life. Mrs. Hrti-riot Maynard Foster, the youuaest daughter of the late Wm. S. Maynard aud Deborah L. Maynard, died Monday uight at the residence of Mrs. Jolly, 410 Observatory St, after a brief illuess. The funeral was held at 2 o'clock this aftérnoon. Sbe leaves tWO KOUS. The Dexter Leader has in its possession an non "cotu bnsking machine" that has somethiug of a history. It is tbe property of Chirstiau Fritz and has been nsed by him every seasou since 1856. It is made of horseshoe iron and he brought it from Illinois wheu be nninf tn Micbieau. Cííillt LU itutuigttuTbe Woruan's Auxiliary of the Y. M. O. A. will keep "open house" at the rocana of the aasociation, Monday Jan. 2 iiQin 3 to 10 o'clock p. m. All friencls of the ussociatiou are invited to cali. Befreshments will be served and the guests will be entertained by musical selections during the afteruoou and evening. A dispatch from Torouto says: Al'lan Hesel, alias Colo, who hails from 5 Ann Artior, Mich., was tried at today's 5 pólice court ou tiie charge of picking i the pocket of Miss Errett, of tbat city, ] taking a purae and some raoney, while 5 she was shopping a week ago. Magis5 trate Deuisou grauted a remand of one 3 week to make au iuvestigation coucren■g ing Hesel's previous record. At a regular meeting of Welch Beleí Corps, held yesterday, tlie followng officers were elected for the ensuing cear: President, Mrs. Delia B. Dean; enior yice, Mrs. Jennie Pearson ; junior vice, Mrs. M. Duke; chaplain, Mrs. Viola Groat; conductor, Mrs. Etta iCurner; guard, Mrs. Jennie Long; lelegate to the state W. B. C. , Mrs. H. Soule; altérnate, Mrs. Ernily Hatch. rhe secretary, assistant conductor, as?istant guard and color bearer are appointive ónices. Dr. Henneage Gibbes has started a jrusade against fllth in the city hall at Detroit and has aronsed the animosity af the janitor who goes for the doctor in the following fashion : "Germs," said Mr. Lelirhuupt, snifflng, "Qenns, indeed, Gibbes wouldn't know a germ if he met one on tho street. Look at that baseboard. It's as clean as the one in Gibbes' kitchen. Look at those Soor casings. ïhey're as clean as Sibbes' character. Look at the doors. rhey're cleaner thau Gibbes' face. Why does'nt he come down here in the aiorning before 15,000 people have iracked snow and dirt through the jorridor?" From Yesterday's Daily Argus. The Western brewery got its flrst ice today. The nnmber of U. S. pensioners is now 993,714 The citizens of Plymouth hold au ice race carniVal on Safrurday. Henry C. Srnith's majority iu this congressional district is 1918. Seven car loada of Christmas trees went north on the Ann Arbor road yesterday. The Northern brewery is cntting ice on itg pond. It is six inches thick and very clear. John Hiller, of Soventh Rt. , is rejoiciug greatly over the birth of a fine bouncing boy yesterday. The revival meetiugs vfhich have een in progress ut the Methodist ihurch closed last eveuing. The lamber yard of Stone & Moore, '■ it Dundee, borned yesterday. Loss L5,000, insured for $2,000. Prof. Reighard lectores on the Bioligy of the Great Lakes before the Unity club next Monday eveuiug. Three tramps are sojourniug for 10 (Jays iu jail for sojourniug on the streets in a badly iutoxicated coudition. Miss May Darrow has liad to go to the hospital again.this being the third time in two yeurs, for treatmont for appendicitin. H. G. Krause, formerly of this city, is now editor of the Woodman of Des Moines, Iowa, a niouthly devoted to the Woodman order. Margaret E. Boyle, wife of J. H. Boyie, died yesterday. Mrs. Boyle had been aa sufferer f rom heart troutla and asthma. She veas 44 years of age. Mrs. Anna M. Hopsou, wife of Postmaster R. P. Hopson, of Stouy Oreek, died soddenly of paralysis. She was 82 years of age and was born in Ireland. The O. M. B. A. will give a New Year's party at the Light Infautry armory on Wednesday eveniog, Dec. 28. The affair will be striclly by invitation. The exeentive conmiitteo of the Washtenaw county Jackson club meet, in this city Satnrday to make arrangements for a banquet on Jacksou's birthdav. James Schiappacasse, of Detroit, formerly of this city, lias reuted the store of Mrs. Devaney, 118 E. Hurou st., and -will open a fruit and coufectionery store. Fifteen or tweuty conples of merry, happy sleighriders drove out to Charles Rose's last eveniiig where they liad i royal good timo, returning soou after midnight. Being about tho only repnbliciui pebble left ou the eourt houso beach, Geo. A. Cook will be invited to partcipate with his democratie brcthren in the Jacksou day bauquet. Sorue editora evidontally have money. Harry Colemau, of the Poutiac Post, formerly managiug editor of the U. of M. Daily, heads tho list of direotors of the Pontiac Saviugs Bank. City Olerk Mills ia indexing the old files iu his office which rnn back to the time Aun Arbor was a village. His plan is to file them so that with the index any old city papers may instantly be fonud if wanted. Harry Herdman met with au accideut yesterday while driving on N. Main st. near Suiainit. In turning around his borse slipped and feil down upsetting the cntter and causiug the vhole outfit to slide down into the litch. ïhe Pastime Perdo Club had a meetng last evening and John Liudenchmitt won the first gentleman's prize nd Engene Koch the booby prize. tfrs. Jonas Otto obtained the first ady's prize and Mrs. Hangsterfer the woby prize. The subject at the Seventh Day Adventist church nest Sunday evening is ne of peculiar interest. It is advertisd as "The City of God; or the New Jerusalem. " 1. lts location. 2. Desription of the city. 3. Character of ts inhabitantp. The court house clock stopped for he night at 8 :30 last evening. A reent storm rusted the gearing of the clock and it probably needs a thorongh overhauling bef ore it can be relied upon to go at all times. The clock has only been cleaned once since it was put n the tower. Charles Sauer returned yesterday from Menominee where he has been spendng several days. On reaching home ie found a letter from the secretary of the state board of education asking him o submit plans for a projected new building for the State Normal school at Mt. Pleasant. The Gamma Phi, together with some Ypsilanti young people, held a social at the Rorison place in Ypsilanti last night. One of the features of the enertainineut was a farce in tableaux ïllustrating the reveries of a bachelor. Some of the party drove over to Ypsilanti in sleighs. A local business man said lo a Daily Argus reporter this morning the weatber, the roads and everything else ís propitious for a good holiday trade. We are usually complaining of bad weather and bad roads. I ara going ;o make a comparisou this year and nscertain if there is anything in our eomplaints. At the meeting of the stockholders and board of directora of the Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor railroad yesterday afternoon in Detroit the following directora were elected for the ensuing year : President, J. D. Hawks ; S. F. Angns, Henry T. Thurber, S. M. Cutoheon, E. M. Fowler, B. W. Hemphill and M. J. Griffin. Athens Lodge, A. O. U. W. , elected rhe following offlcers last night : M. W. , Thos. O'Conners; foreman, Fred Wolf; overseer, Edwin Gar.tee; recorder, Wm. Bury; financier, Fred Helber; guide, J. A. Herbert ; receiver, Homer Godfiey; trastee, B. F. Watts; representad ve to grand lodge, Chas. H. Manly; altérnate, J. A. Herbert; medical examiners, E. A. Clark, John Kapp W. J. Herdman and Martin Belser. The regular monthly meeting of the school board occurred last eveuing, liaving been put ove-r from Ttiesday evening. The meeting was taken up chiefly with routine business. A considerable nnmber of bilis were allowed and the treasorer was directed to pay teachers' salaries for the month on Friday before Christmas. The request from a number of ladiesfor a cbange of the session honrs in the first three grades was heard and denied. Snpt. Slauson reported the total enrollment in all schools to date as 2,051. Of this number 576 are enrolled in the high school.