Local

Aboutíorty couple enjoyed the Firemen's dance Friday night. A. L. Noble had a fine overcoat stolen f rom off his hall rack, 7ast week, Next Sunday mornlng at 9:30 there will be a Love Feast at tlie il. E. churoh. Tbe School of Music will have ití office open Monday. Teaching is rcsumctl on Tuesday. ____ There were very few callera about town ïiew Years Day and a atill smaller nuinber oí receiverg. One hundred and six tickets were taken In at the door. on Monday erening last, at Company A's iaspectien and hop. The ice-cutters are busy on the river, and Frank Hangsterfer has thirty-five men engftged in putting ice under cover. Mr. C. L. Frenen has left the position of general manager and station agent of the Toledo,Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk road. The office of the Sewing Machine companies which has been run by Mr.Grinell has closed up and Mr. Snell goes to Detroit. A píate glass front is to be put lnto the room recently occupied by the expresa office, and it is to be otherwise improved bef ore the eigar store moves in. The new County Clerk, John J. Robison, lias entered upon the duties of his olllce and haa his son, J. E.RobUon, of the University, to assist him as deputy. Through an error in our list of tax-payers of last week Mr. J. T. Jacobs' taxes were rated at too low a figure. It hould have been four hundred dollars instead of three hundred. Dr. Megan, the late Republican candidate for representativo, of Augusta, gave a large dinner party on New-Year's day. Among the guests were Mrs. J. Webster Childs and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Whiting, of this city. The friends of Dr. Alabaster may be pleased to know that the pew rentáis tliis year are $1,000.00 more tuan last, at the Tabernacle Church. Also at the Curiitmas Festival Mrs. Alabaster was presented with a "Crazy" quilt valued at $50. In the line of amateur theatricals something novel is under contemplation. It is no more nor less than the productiou of a comic opefa by home talent, under the auspices of the Students' Lecturc Association. It will probably be given in June. " Hazel Kirke" is soon to be giveu in this city by one of the Madison Square companies. This play U said to have been given over 2,000 times and as it is to be presented by a company from that theatre it will be one of the events of the season. The Supervisors are waking up to the fact that our jail is in a deplorable condition, and aftervisiting it yesterday morning they have about come to the conclusión that a. new one should be built. They are talklng of the lot east of the eourt house. The physiological and pathological effects of alcohol will be discufed by Dr. Palmer at the University on l'riday evening, January 12. This is the second of the series of scientiflc temperance lectures offered by the University Temperance Association. At the election of trustees of the Methodist church Monday evening there were elected for three years Dr.W. F. Breakey, Henry Osborne and Dr. U'. W. Xichols' Theodore Royer was elected for twó years to fill the vacancy eaused by the death of C. B. Cook. There seems to have been a niisunderstanding in regard to the resignation Regent Cutcheon claims to have sent in, as Otovernor Jerome denies having received any such eommunication. If there is a vacancy now, of course t is for Governor Begole to 11 1 1 u. Dr. Steere's littlo girl had a narrow esape Saturday evening. While carrying acandle her cap caught lire from the ameandinstantlyitbed 1Ubmlt ' head. However, although it quite ha gnWled bef0re doinjf "" . ExPres8 AnTXñ'eTTeorts tha at eone-third more expres' matter wa hand, 1 ..syearduringtheholid aysthan trae „t Tb'8 Leld he Z ?v y " thiS Place but a11 wlem , ,CmPany Was alm06t ovr wtielmed with pareéis. Like Barnum's circus after the performance, Saturday night all the post -office il x tures were folded up and removed bofore llght so those wlio camo down Sumlav morning after, tlieir msil werp qnlte parpriwd to find only il bare room. They went off niystiltcd and fecllng raUivr " sold." The plank road itockholders met Tucaday and elected the followinr Directos: James H. Stevens, K. Mann, J, H. Hieks, O. F. Kash, H. Dtpue, F. K. Mills, X. Sutherland. Their offloera are: Qeo. F. Hice, president ; K. Manu, Mcretary and treasurer; and N. Sutherland, superintendent. The W. C. T. U. invites the public to the secoud leclure in the Lever course, at the Baptist Church, Tuesday evening, January !)Üi, by George W. Bain, of Ken tucky, on "Country, Hotue and Duty." Let Anu Arbor give Mr. Bain a welcome worthy of itself, of the man, and of the cause in which he is engaged. The lecture commencea at S o'clock. We had expected to supplement our article on the postoffice with an electrotype cut of it. To get a photograph we waited patlently for a peep of the sim for two weeks and only succeeded in getting it a moment last Friday morning. We had a tintype sent into Detroit and were promlscd the cut for this week. But alas, "the best laid schemes,1' etc. Late last night we receivod a telegram announcing it conld not bc prepared in time. It may oomc for next weeks Issue. We are plcased to see that our townsraen Will W. Hannan and W. K. Childs have been reappointed to their former positions iu the House at Lansing, the tormer as Enrolling and Kngrossing Olerk, and the latteras Sergeant-at-Arms. They will fill their respective positions with credit to themselves and to the county. Of those from the county who did not get what they most desired were Edward King, the Democratie member, who received liis party vote for Speaker ¦pro tem., and Vï. J. Edwards also received support for Sergeant-at-Arms, but belonged to the wrong side to be elected against Mr. Chllds. After a very sudden and brief illness, Mr. L. D. Hale died of erysipelas Wednesday morning. He was 77 years old, and VUB l.niii In FmaI ... j , ITfl&SH. V Oming to Michigan in 1831), he went into business at Orass Lake, and after over twenty years of active life thetc, in 1861 hc came to Ann Arbor. He for ome time bas been a member of the M. K. church here, and was a trustee until last Monday night, when, having expressed a desire to be relieved frora the dutieu of that office, he was not reëlected. His funeral is Friday morning (to-dny) al 11 o'clock, from the house. We notice in looking over uiany of our neighboring exchanges that in their "personáis" while telling of some studentsbeing home frora Ann Arbor for the holidays, they are apt to get the High School and the Unirersity mixed, and credit them all to the latter institution. For an instance of tlils we might mention the columns of last week' Dexter Sun. We do not refer to this because the High School "suba" ohject to being thus untimely thrust, into the University, but rather to protect that institution, as such articles give the impression that students can get into it at too youngan age. In various patches upon the surface of the ice on the river there has been gooc skating during the past two weeks, and New Years Day these bits of clear ice were crowded with merry skaters. Many were the amusing and surprising new "steps' or rather "glides" suddenly liitroduced by the beginners, but we missed sceing any f the fancy skating whlch was common here three or four years ago. It is to be hoped that before long some enterprising man or boy will undertake to keep the ice from snow and debrU, for in the winter time there is no better appetizer or jastime than a jolly good slide on the shlniny runners. The annual ChristmaB gathenng of the family of Orson Packard met at his residence in Salem, December 23. The historian, Will S. Packard, roported all present except the families of John and Irving Quackenbush, who are sojourniug in Ogemaw county, Midi. Hu also reported three births and one death; no marriages, but very favorable indications for the coming year. After distributing presenta to the amount of $268, consisting of a side-bar buggy, gold and silver ware for the older persons, including a flve-dollar gold piece from Grandfather to each of his children, their wives und husbands, and trinkets for the children, each left, hoping to see " Grandma," who has now boen m invalid for two year?, again next Christraas. The followinï are the topics for the week of prayer : Monday, Jan. 8.- Praise and thnnksgiving. Tuesday, Jan. 9.- Humiliation and confession. Wednesday, Jan. 10.- Pruytr for ftmilies und ftunday-schools. Thursday, Jan. 11.- Pravcr for the Church, and for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Friday, Jan. 11!. - Prayer for nations, for rulers, and for temperance. Satnrday, Jan. 13.- Prayer for missions. Union meetings will be held from 3 te 4 p. M. on Tuesday at the Congregational church, on Wednesday at the Methodisl church, on Thursday al the Baptist church, on Friday at the Presbyterlan church.