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Do all this: l'aiiil your hoa Shut up your heus. SUck up your yards. 1! pair your sidewalks. Clean out your sfeMrcfc i I-et out your gauze clothes. Pay up your last year's subscription. And then happiness will surely be yours. A tent of Macabees will soon buzz here. Anotüer council meeting next Monday evening. ______ The Millcn soap factory has been pur,.(..,) (,r Mr il M M'ii Thos, 11. (rcrhaa rented his residence nu Washington street, to Mr. Burün game. The "Ulympia" will meet next Monday, at the red Iwae ui' Mr. Kelly, 27 Liberty street. ti .o Xt ' U. MacMillan on ('luiri'h stri'it, li:is bCI boulit by 1. Wo.mI, of 1idi. " Misa April " is the way a conteuiporary write:) it. Yen we shall mi April after to-morrow. Main streel, trom Catharine to Huron receiving wliat it has needcd so loog, an excellent coat of ravel. liov. Felch has purchased a lot 7x20 r id, just south of' Harvey Cornwell's, on Ingall's street, for $1,500. An effort is beiog made by Aids. Hutzel and BeMiner to secure the paving of Main street frora Ann to Liberty. The temperance choir from Ypsilanti, f'urnished the music for the Sunday evening meeting at the opera house. ''u: M'uAiigan Central will build two more roo bridaos over the Huron this Minimer, between Dexter and irp.-ilanti. If you want a regal beverage just spell regal backrds. Respectfully subniitted t the red ribbon club for further action. The Congregational society of thia city bas secured sufficient pledges to pay off its $5,000 in lebtednesa when it ehall become due. Company A turned out last Wednesday afternoon in a body to attend the funeral of Uottleib Weitbrecht, who died last Monday inoruiog. The Michigan Central railroad willgrant half-fre rates f'rotii this city to Detroit to people who de-ire to attend the league base ball games this sunimer. The "Land of Nod" operetta at the ¦jier;i house last Friday evening was a suc eess in every way. The house wascrowded and the receipts were upwards of $100. Laat Friday afternoon the accidenta burning of a kettle of tar in the rear 01 i In1 i regory house created some ezcitement for a tiuir, and a large amount of smoke. A i'opious shower would send the grasa up lively, swell the buds and put a green garb on nature in a very short time. It triea har 1 to rain, but doesn't succed very wel!. Our thanks are due the Hon. H. P. Baldwin for a copy of the memorial addressdelivered upon Zachariah Chandler in the senate of the U. S., on January 28th, 1880. The Adrián l'ress man better " look a leedle oud." We notieed an item in the last of liis journal from the ADn Arbor Democrat credited to the Ann Arbor A-IM1-' The house wife can now glory ia baving everything neat and nice for a short time after house-cleaning, but we "speos" it won't be loog before ehe will fiod fly .-.:.; I over everything. The generous people wbo compose the eongrcgations of the various Baptist churches in Detroit have presented the building fund of the Baptist church in tbji ty with $800, cash. If the Ypsilantian will refer toour files it will find that we spoke of the new holiday M Au Arbor day." We didn't give the ¦luinine gender to the first word in the quotation, but used it as an article. The Midden '"wbop around" of the weather, which sent the mercury way op L 'l'e top of the 80's, la.,t Sunday and nonfoj, was rather unexpected and made winter clothing quite unendurable. Sunday is Mayüay, the world over. In sections perhaps, the flowen are are in bloom, and the breezes wafc the fragrance of delicious roses to the great dehghr Bf people'i „oses, but that " haint here." W'h.n tlie writer was a boy the disease going the round here now, and known as "mseola" ur Seraao measles, was called "rwriet ra-h, " anl it was-n't the cause of ny x.iumrnt, whatever, though it made terrible traptioN. A " picked " nine from the west side of Muir, Mr,et were to 'play a game of base ball w.th l like nine from the east side, yesterday afternoon, for a ".set uPl" but the grouuds being in use the fame was postpooed for one week. Tlic ncw city marshal, Thos. Clarken, has been sworn in and enterëd upon duty. His bondsmen are Fred. Rettich and A. A. Terry. The South Lyon Excelsior explains that the pansies spoken of as in blossom in that place on the 29th of Maren, were some that had blootued late in the fall, had been bur iod by the snow, and kopt through. Does it take a botanist to understand that? At a meeting of the Ann Arbor typographical union last Monday evening, O. C. Bacon was chosen president ; Kd. J. Morton, vicepresident ; Oeo. P. Staucb, recording and oorrespondÍDg secretary ; and Casper Kennedy, sergeant-at-arms. Miss Charlotte Brown, a momber of the junior class in the high school, who took part in the recent ezhibition, was presented with a gold ring by her classmates the other day. Her parents are to remove to New Jersey Ibis week and she will accompany them. The members of the Beethoven Gesangverein (a Germán musical) celebrated the first anniversary of their existence as a society last Wednesday evening, in their hall od Huron street, over Besimer's. The program was varied and the entertainment highly enjoyable by those present. The Eaton Rapids Journal has this complitnentary notice ot one of our citizens : Rev. John Alnbaater, of Ann Arbor, gave two most excellent lectures on Tuesday and Wednesday evenlngs of ;thla week at red ribbon hall. Hls subject Tuesdsy evening was Mlchael Angelo." on Wednesday evenlug u iraa --Habyloii and Nineveli." Two more Ilnished lnterestlng and proIHable lecture than th.s.'we have not llstened to in mny a diy. W. A. Tolchard has purchased the house in whioh he resides at No. 57 División St., oi' Mrs. Küzabeth Drake, consideraron $3,000. Mr.. Drake has purchased a lot off of the Mrs. Thayer estáte on Huron street, fur $1,500, and has already made preparación for tho oreeiion of a house thcreon. Mrs. Mary Vail, died quite suddenly at her home in Wenona, 111., on Saturday last, aged 75 years. The deceased was a sister of Mrs. Lorenzo Davis and Mrs. Sophia Hauilin, of Ann Arbor town, and resided for a period of 35 years at Ypsilanti. About eight years ago or so she removed to Illinois. Profesional croakers are claiming great dainage to the fruit erop, to the wheat erop, and to almost every kind of a erop, fcj tliu hard m'nicr, but thio i ¦¦nilQOnly the case at this season of the year, and we believe that when the harvest comes there will be a largor erop gathered than is expected now. It is said that a newspaper man has discovered that the word "spondulix" is not slang term for money. A spondulix is a gold piece, substitute tor coin, used in África, and it is equivalent in value to eight slaves. All right, any way you choose to fix u. "Come down with your slaves," then. An exchange says some good people get terribly worried if a man breaks the commandinents by workiog a Hule on Sunday, but they can loaf around six days of the week and never dream that they are violating adivine command. "Six days shalt thou labor" is just aa imperative as " Re member the Sabbath day to keep it holy." People are complaining of the weather, as usual. They sigh for hot woather now. But when it comes they will groan for "only one breath of fresh air." And then only thinkof "yaller jackets, " the bumblebees, the hornets, mosquitoes, flies, dust, sweat, "90 in the shade," sun 3troke, and, oh, my, oh, my- linger coolness, linger longer. Paralysis, wbich we all know is on the increase, and indeed is increasing to an alarming extent, is censidered by the best scientists of the age to be mainly due to the poisons that wc take in our food and drink. Poisonous adulterations find their way now-adays into every article of food that passes through the handa of the manufacturera. A suspicion of foul play in old Livingston county. The stomach of Mrs. Bertha E. Campbell, of Hartland, Livingston Co., was received by Prof. Rose of the universtty on Saturday, for ezamination for supposed poi.on. And we understand the same isundergoing ihiscrutiny of achcmical examination, with what result we are as yet not able to state. Some of the people of Saline and Ypsilanti and along the line, have been endeavoring to induce the legislature'to repeal the charter of tbe Detroit and Saline plank road company. The case was presented by F. K. Finley, of Ypsilanti, who said the road was not kept in repair, was in bad condition, and that the company illegally took tolls from people attending church and funerals. A very sad accident occurred in the th ward Wednesday, which resulted in the deuth of Roy, a little seven years old son of Thos. Speechley. In endeavering to climb upon the ice wagon of M. Andrus the boy got under the wheels, was run over and instantly killed, his skull being crushed in. As he was an only son the blow is a sad and terrible one to the afflicted parents. Last Monday night, at Millverton, Canada, Miss Maud Liesemer, of Saline, died of brain fever, the age of 1" years. She was visiting friends at that place, and her death was very sudden. The deceased was . oiol.. oC L. J. I.ioao„,„r_ „f thl Wftshtenaw Post, and had been employed in this city as a compositor. She made friends wherever she went, and her family have the sympathy of many friends in their affliction. A lively runaway last Sunday occurred "on the hill" in the 3d ward, a norse belonging to a couple of Saline boys, broke loose from the post to wbich he was hitched, on Chubb street, near the Catholic cemetery, and sailed down .said street at a rapid pace. Coming to the Toledo & Ann Arbor railroad embankinent, in tho rear of Geo. Palmer's, he leaped over the same, smashing the buggy toatoms, but escaped without serious injury. In view of the fact tbat people are daily punnhed for the violation of laws of which :hey are ignorant, would it not be a sensijle thiog for the legislature to provide for the general publiaation of the laws of our state, in at least one paper in every county. lt would not cost much f auv more than the issuing of the great mass of rubbish that is printed and sent to the county clerks of the state for paper rags, and would be an excellent way of familiarizing the people with the laws which govcrn thcm. The Gratiot Journal tells of the terrible "ate of a youDg man who recklessly thought to quote one of our learned professors : Hf.re 'astunner. The teachers have been readlng Prof. Wlnchell's Preadamltes al thelr meetings for the past few weeks and here Ib a limpie sentence speaklng oí the decadence of a type, he says: "lt arlses from a contmuance of dlffisrentlatlon and speclallzatlon and absolegceneeof perlpherul patU beyond the limit of bestadaptati.m to the environment." You tnow how It is. Kld " has quite a pasalon for big words.aml ba tliougut 'twould be a fine ¦nti'iice tolearn and have lt ready to whlHper o hlgglrl.but suinrhiiw the long words gut crouwlse In hlm and klnked and lt reqalred he services of a good ghyslclan to rlght hlm We hve recieved a comtuunication fronJ Chelsea correspondent too late for publi-l catión, in regard to an árdelo publishedl recently in the Daily News of this city.l The writer states that there was no rems-l tance to the opening of s new strect.l but to the grading of an old one whichj had been traveled for 35 years. In refer-l ence to "sleepiness," he thiuks that Chel-I sea comparea favorably with Ann Arbor I for business energy, and as for git-up-and-l git, go-ahead and enterprise, Ann Arbor has nothing to braL of. We learn that the supervisor of Sylvan, I Mr. E. S. Cooper, after completing hisl grand rounds, found only about 8,000 1 bushels of last year's wheat in the hands I of farmers, where it was ezpected thatl there would be at least 100,000 bushels. I The prospects for the coming erop in the] greater portion of Sylvan township, one ofl the farmers in that section tella us, is not4 good. Some of the farmers will plow under a portion of their fields. Contrary to thia opinión, the Chelsea Herald of last week, hd this item : " Our farmers report very I little damage done to the wheat the past I winter. They anticípate of having a large I yield." mi The South Lyon Excelsior has a 1 pondent signing himself " Kicker," who I says in the issue of the 1 9th inst. , 1 ing the Toledo and Ann Arbor K. K.: The Toledo, Aun Arbor, and Northeastern I R. K. Co., are agaln on the war-path, they are I gollcltlng all partles that had prevlously glven I ald to tlie raad In the hiipo of notoe. to now ¦ renew them lor one year. They are surprlsed I to fliul them all nearly to a man ready tn I renew thelr notos, though maiiy of them had I said most emphatlcally that they would notl renew or glve auy thlng again to help thitl roaU, but they generally use thelr better 1 ment and afler conslderlnu that the roau wlll I be lust as valuable to them this gummer, asl last, and that so long as they have not been I atiketl to doublé or add more to thelr notes, I they thlnk they are fortúnate In gettlng the I road by even renewlng thelr old notes. And so I they are, for, Is not thelr Judgment as gootl I dow as lt was one year ago, when they were I wllllng toglve thelr notes for the road. The I ()iiilnny intend to complete the road Just a I sooii as the subscrlptlous are renewed, como I up to the raek and be gentlemen.