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lolanthe, Grand Opera House, Friday e veiling, May 25th. Joe T. Jacobs sold over $5.000 worth of goods last weck. An alarm of flre was made Friday evening by aslightblaze in the lower town. The O'IIara will case has been continu ed over uiitil tlie September term of court. Six more veterans were mustered iti to Welch Post, G. A. E. at tlie meeting Friday eveuing. The Hook and Ladder boys will have theirannualpilgrimage to Whitmore Lafce tlie 22d of June. The memorial service to tlie late Dr. Cocker will be held Sunday eveniiijr before Conimencement. Johnson, the man shot at the jail a week ago last Friday night, isgetting worseand is hardly expected to live. Rev. Wm. George, of Dexter, gavesonie excellent practical thoughts on temperanoe in Cropsey's hall Sunday afternoon. The board of Trustees of the Methodist church Monday night elected Joe T. Jacobs treasurer, vice the late Williara Noble. Company A, as usual, will turn out on Decoration Day. They lmve also accepted an invitation to goto Toledo on thelth of July. The sewer pipe froin the Courieu buildi ng which carries off the waste water to the creek has just been enlarged to a six inch one. In March the highest temperature at the observatory was 57Q, the lowest 4 below, with an average of 26'. There was I inch of rain fall and 10 inches of snow. ¦ In last weeks issue of the Brown County Sentinel, pubüshed at Colurabia, D. T., is a notice that Carril M. Coe is a settler on a quarter section of Dakota soil. While engaged in coupling cars on the Toledo road last week Thursday, a workman named Cominsky was caught between two cars and had a shoulder broken. The sherifl has in jail Alben Vandenberg who was caught near Detroit Saturday with 70 sheep. He was taken on the charge of having stoled them from farmers in Superior. The Iligli School Christian Association is represented this week in the international Y. M. C. A. convention at Milwaukee, by Henry II. Cushing, a membei of t'ie juuior class. On the program of the Detroit conservatory of music concert to be given this evening, we notice the name of Miss J. C. Mahon of this city who is to render a cavatina for the vioün. Tlui city bas pnrehased a new street icraper which n roaking and workimr foads will do the work of a gang of men ' better shape and much quicker. $100 was the amount paid for it. The price of admission to Iolanthe next "day evenins will be : GallerySO cents; general admission, 75 cents,- reserved seatsin parquet and lirst row of dress circ'e, 25 cents extra. On sale Honday. It'the Methodist folks want to know all "boutthemselves, they ought to buy "The ayflower," a paper wbich is to be on sale at the Paper festival this evening. It W'H be an elegant souvenir of the entertainment. The commuuication from Mr. Wynkup tUe Courier of May 4th, in regard to le ' Equalization of Taxes" has attractM considerable attention. and he has rece'ved quite a number of letters from SuI'ervisors in commendation of it. soU]he Old Methodist Parsonage bas been -¦ for $3,000, and a committee consist of Messrs. Jacobs, Breakey and Nicli's was appointed by the trustees -and ewards Monday evening to arrauge for Puichasmg a lot and building a new one. . Tbe co"ft aÖjorned last Friday mornns to go to Delhi to obtiün the testimony 1 some witnesses in the Goodell cuse who f m not C01ne to court. The judge, the om attorneys, the stenographer and tbe Partwa interested went up rad back In ""ggies. The Uoodcll divorce case was on all last week but being unfinished it was shut ofl by the regular term of court. Both parties eviilently desire the divorce, and the fisht is for the care of the cbildren md the aliinciiy. It s uncertain when or how t will le concluded. 'J'hi! topic of conversatlon a round the court house is on the grtat hase-ball game which is soou to come ofl" between the county and city officials. It ia proposed to have it on a Snturday so that school children can have a benelit. The juncture of Spring street and Miller Ave., has been greatly improved by n wide, paved gutter in lieu of the rotten oíd box that has so long beeii au eye-sore to the passers-by. Fouutain street and Miller Ave. will soon be treatod likewise. So inuch for the enterprisingaldeimen of the 3d ward. In 1881 Mr. Brearley of the Detroit Ëveniug News gave 100 Michigan editors a free ride down the St Lawrenee to Montieal. Portland, White Mountaiu and back. Last year the Ohio editors caught it; this year it is for Indiana Journaliste and next year Illinois is to be served the saijie way. Jio wonder the excursión re popular. Frank Lcslie's Illustrated Ncwspape of Muy Bth. has an unusually trood piet ure of the late Dr. B. F. Cocker. Jt i ai-companicd by a sketch of his life. Th Christian Herald of this week will als have a fine large cut of hint with smalle views of the various incidents of his life The sketch in this paper as well as h Leslie's was furnished by Eer. Win George of Dxter. An enjoyable time is sure to bc had this evening by those who attend the Paper Festival at the M. E. church. The young ladies will be dressed in paper costumes of different styles and colors and many pretty and attractive articles made of paper are to be on sale. A large slik autogruph crazy quilt and, spicy literary paper called the "Maytlowér" will bosold. Uefreslnnents will be served. uompareu witu tne average lor tlie montli of April in tlie preceding six years ' measles was eonsiderably more prevalent and interiiiitteut fcver, reinitteiit fever : and diphttieria wcrc less prevaleut during the moiith of April, 1883. For the montli of April, 1SS3, conipared with the average of corres])onding montha In the flve years 1879 - 1883, the temperatura was slightly higher, tlie absolute and relative humidity the same, and the day and nigut ozone less. Mrs. Cockerasked Dr. Kreakey just before she left for Adrián, what lic eliarged for the months ol hard work lie liad done to hclpher husbund. His answer was worthy of the man, and was as follow3 : 'Mrs. Cocker, if your busband had lived I sliould not have presented any bil], and I certainly would not do it now. 1 have made no charge, and my services, suchas they have been are f ree.'' Mrs. Cockerfully appreciating the Doctor's services, sent him last weekby expres?, a very fine gold hnnttngcase watch and chain. The other day one of our merchante received a bundle wrapped np In au old copy of the Peninsular Couricr of the date, October 22, 1803. It gives the Inaugural address of Rev. E. O. Haven, President of the University, and an account of the exercises at the opening of the iiew LawBuilding on the same day, wlicn the dedicatory address was by Prof. T. M. Cooley and the poem by D. Bethunc Dufüeld. The eveninjr addresses were given in the Piesbyterian church by Rev. L. D. Chapin, Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy, and Dr. S. G. Annor, Professor of Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica. There have been minors circulated around town to the effect that the Opera House management was treating the Iolanthecompany veryunfairly in oharging them 50 per cent. of the gross rcceipts. The manager informs us that no company with the exception of the Em.ua Abbott has been plaj'ed this season at less than 20 per cent. Not on]y is " Iolanthe " played for 20 per cent. but they are allowed the use, of the house for ten days for rehearsals, where no other company has ever liad it for more thán one night. Further, he bound himself not to allow any other attraction to play in the city during that period, and under that agreemeut he has already refused to play theCatherineLewis Opera company the 23d. In addilion to this, we are informed Mr. Win. White, the owner of the Opera House, has made the company a present oflïfty dollars. One of those queer, mysterious little matters which usually remain deep below the surface hidden by the blackncss of night is just bubbling to the surface of town gossip. It seems that a certain well knowu student carne in on the Pacific express at half-past eleven the other eveuing. That in itself would not be very strange, but when the depot men saw that he was accompanied by a girl living in Ypsilanti, they at once scented a good sized mouse, and thought somethlng was in the wind. The couple hired a carriage and drove to the house of one of the clergymen of the city, where they remained until the hack called for them and took them back to the depot in time lor the 2.15 Express east. When the train carne along they boarded it and started East. They did not gft off at Ypsilanti, but continued on with the train. As the student has not been scen on our streets since he is probably taking his bridal trip on the Continent, in Canada or perchance in some of the in ces. Editor Coukier : 1 am profountlly :iud sorrowfully iinpressed with the tlionlit that the venerable and thoroughly educated (espccially iu history) editor of the Ypsilanti Ëtentlnel, is gradually passing int that stateof forgetfnlnessand mental decay which oíd age and severo mental labor oftentimes bi-ing to the most profound and learned of men. Witness the following f rom the Sentinel of last week: "Wendell Phillips says, 'the besrtducation in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.' " Then, of course, the harder the traggle, and the poorer the livinf the better tue education. Phillips, hiinself, never stiuggled, and with all liis eloquenceand learuin, waa an inexperieuced fooi in most things that he talked about. Pity that Brooks broke the cane instead of his head. The clamor over the outrage would have been nogreater, and Phillips' power tor farther mischief, would have been stopped." History tells me that it was Mr. Charles Sumner, and not Wendell Phillips, who was mnrderously assaulted by Biilly Brooks. It occurred in the Senate chamber, May 22,(1850. Mr. Stitnner feil to the floor insensible.