Local

. June 1. Slimmer. The trains on the Central will soou be run on Detroit time. The matinee of "Iolauthe" Saturday afternoon wus well attended. The ward and grammar schools gave their pupils a holiday Wednesday. The Iolauthe company will have B reception this at Mr. Mack's. The Democrat and Ypsilanti Sentinel came out on the half-shell last week. The ugly posts and barbed wires have been removed froiu the court-hoiise yard. The Students' Lecture Association netted about 400 on the two reiulitions of their opera. It is reported in Detroit that Dr. Maelean is to move there at the close of the college year. The editors who have been on the High School Index this school year ae to meet for a banquet June 18. Governor Felch giveshis personal reminiscences of Webster and Calhoun, in the Law Lecture room Saturday evening. The club races of the bicycle club on the 13th inst. prornise to be of considerable interest to all lovers of sports and recreations. Among the street impiovements is a stone parement on Huron street at the crossing of Fouith, taking the place of the wooden box. In one of our own city libraries the following note wasenclosed lo a book wliich was returned the other day, " please dont send no more Jibery." Rev. Mr. Sunderland will speak next Sunday evening in the Unitarian church, on "The Keligious Signs of the Times," in reply to Rev. Joseph Cook. A piano-forte recital was given Wednes(Jay evening In the School of Music by Miss Mary Wobd assisted by Miss Jessie Strickland, Messrs. L. F. Schultz and O. B. Cady. Rev. S. Haskell was absent at Saratoga last Sunday attending the Baptist church aiiniversaries, and Prof. Olney supplied lus place in the pulpit both morning and cvening. A few Free Traders pulled themselves together Monday evening in the CouutyClerk's office, and organized a club. John J. Robison was elected President, and Jolm N. Bailey secretary. The people of the Sixth ward want a $1,200 engine house. Tliree-fourths of that amount has been appropriated hut they need four hundred dollars in addit'oii to build a good one. Beneath the seeming quiet of the city last Saturday, Sunday and Monday there was raging a flerce war among several subacription book publishing houses representad here by general agents. The alumni of the High School are to "ave a banquet in connection with their saai exercises Commencement week. ov. Begole and other distinguished men J'ave been invited to respond to toasts. The publishhig house of Waterman, Watki.1s&Co.,allfor.nerlyofAnnArboruipped, last week, fro.n Chicago six tons books for Mieir Pennsylvania trade, and laye as many tons more ready for the cases. The prize contest of the classes in elewtion under Mr. Douglas will probably w"v Place this year in the Opera House VInKtothe poor acoustic properties of J chapei room in the Union school uuilding. Charles Wagner, Geor-e Lee and the "be atended the meeting at Detroit vveane8day) whIch assembled t0 organze state branch of the League of American W i'eelmen. The pre8dent qL Ann ZoJ CleCtCd P-'ientofth. TlieByeraft case was finlslied and giveu bein JUry Tue8day forenoon. After e.ng out severalhoursthey carne inwith judí th f a88aUlt il"d batte' Tlle íence „ ,eC'S1n gaye B'llft "- ofCorr mt f U'e law-the Hoilse Urrectmn forthree monthsand a fineof St ,sssoe p eu Bycr:ift wiis ot ii -tintassomeplperg]lave.aggerted Wt) fear out LownuiHau, Mr. K. li. l'ond. is not making hls hotel in Jackson very popular with his boarderg, tor there la a smaller number iisitle at present than have been for a oní time. It is either that, or beeause the Goveruor is pardon - ing them out fastur than tliey can be put in. The pleasant announeement was made Sunday from the pulpit of the H. K. church that 3Mr. anU Mrs. Godfrey were to give the church enough to enable it to secure the Swift house, No. KS N. state street, for a parsonage to be called the Godfrey parsonage. ArranKenients for this are now bemg coiicluded. Wheat is being brought in rapidly, and the other day, we are infornied by Mr. Keech that he counted twenty teams waiting at one of the milis to be unloadcd. That mili is now making 173 barrels a day and when the other milis complete the improvements now being made thcy will use over 3,000 busliels of wheat a week. The pi soner Johnson, shot at the jail a few weeks ago, died early Saturday morning. Tlie coroner's jury acquitted Fred Wallace of all blame. Upon the post mortein examinatlon being taken it was discovered that tlle ball had gone through the spinal cliord and had lodged in oneof the vertebra, The body was turned over to the medical department. Last Saturday in Jackson a case of considerable importance was decided between Mis. Lucy W. Morgan and the Michigan Central testing the validity of a mortgage foreclosure on SO acres of land lying a lew roda west of tbe round-house at the junction at Jackson. It was decided in Mrs. Morgan's fnror and tlms secures to her land oí quite a considerable valué. We escapee! a cyclone Tuesday afteruoon but there te a liouse in tho second waid which looks as though it liad been struek by one. It did not liave the best reputation in the world, so when i family moved out in the luoriiing the boys deterniined no one else would live in it. At night there was not a wliole light of glass, nor a sash, nor a door nor harclly a clap-board. We iiresume Ihu house wlll be sold for kindltag wood. Among some old books lately seen are a couple of the kind which used to be the delight of the Puritans. One is the " Psaltu-Singer's Pocket Cotnpanion," piiuted in 1758, in Windimll-court, London, for Stanley Crowder, at the Looking Olass. The other is the " Kew Harmony of Slon." Both are come to us through four generations, and show the old fasliioiu'd way of teaching psalmotly. They are the property of Mr. O. B. Church. An interesting case of bigamy has been on the docket this week. A man named John Racer was arrested in Dexter, about a month ago upon the charge of bis wife Na 2- but whom it appears he was not really married to- and bis first wife appearing, the case was so evident tbat the jury were out only a few minutes before bringing hini in guilty. The judge yesteiday sentenced him to State Piison for five years. The Lord Chancellor in the Opera in one of his impromptu verses brought down the house by saying: " I'U go off like a rocket, Forlhave three reslguations right down In my pocket." Tlie propiïetor of the Register evidently thought the hit was on him, for in retaliation in his paper this week lie only gives seven lines of cominent on the play which has been the event of the scason. The joke of it is the lines were meant for some one else than he and Maclean. Too previous, okl man.' We can heartily commend the considerable amount of work being done on the streets this spring. The city as usual at this time of the year, is beginning to look very beautiful, and our streets are as they rightly should be, a source of pride to us. The roads about Boston are usually considered the best in the country, but a gentleman who was there last spring informs us after riding over their famous " sand papered " roads, that these around Ann Arbor are as sinooth and as well kept. Our city fathers are doing good work in this direction. The construction of quite a number of new buildings is under contemplation for this summer's work. Ex-Regent Climie is building on Mnynard, opposite University Hall ; A. L. Noble, on División ; P. L. Parker will erect a new house on his lot on Fifth; Harrison Soule, treasurer of the University, builds on the vacant lot east of the Psi Upsilon house; A. V. Robinson's house on Fifth is rapidly approaching co:ipletion and Hrs. Lucy Morgan is makinar repairs on her home, at the corner of Fifth and Huron, and is adding on a library. These are evidences of solid prospcrily. ?