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The Beethoven Society will give an entertainment next Wednesday evening. grvi ces will be resumed at the Con-atlOnal Church next Sunday raornA well edited paper printed at Palatka, f], was handed U9 recently by G. A Douglass. i t i The offer of H. J. Brown & Co. for furnishing drugs to the university was ccepted. The Historical and Pioneer Society of Washtenaw county will meet in Saline in December. Joh E. Putney, a brick mason of Ypsilanti, íell from a building in that place last week ïhursday, breaking bis neck. Quite a nuinber of students have returned. The examinations began yesterday and will continue until Monday. Rev. J. H. Vincent, of Chautauqua fame, Iectures on " Tlie Best Education " at the Detroit Opera House next Mouday' evening. , . , We learu that Mr. Sessions has declined the office of vice-president of the Prohibition club, and is not a member of the same. Mrs. Mary B. Clay of Hichmond, Kentucky, will talk on Local Option, at the temperance meeting in Cropsey's Hall, at three o'clock p. m., Sunday. Messrs. Southwick and Marble arrived in Dexter, for the first time, forty years ago last Monday. Mr. Southwick died twenty-three years aso. Mr. Marble is elghty-one years old and in good health. At the Hyde Park Exhibitiou of 1851, in London, a novel clock was among the exhibits. It is a tour-handed time piece and may be seen on a small scale iu running order at Mr. Tom's greenhouse. Many of the students in the School of Music who come from abroad desire to secure the use of a piano for a few hours per day. Persons in the city owning instrumei:ts, and desiring to rent thern would do well to see Mr. Cady. The Detroit conference of the M. E. church in session at Flint this week assigned Dr. R. B. Pope to this city, J. A. Mcllwaiü, Chelsea, W. H. Benton, Dexter, A. B. Wood, Manchester, J. C. Wortley, Saline, and I. N. Elwood, Ypsilanti. The friends of C. G. Clark, late postmaster of Ann Arbor, will be glad to learn that he has received a loan on nis Dakota property, and that he has paid the full amount due the United States on the final settlement of his account with the post-offlce department. We are in receipt of the Jamestown raily Capital for Sept. 4, 1883. Accompanying it U I. C. Wade's supplement isïd on the occasion of the recent yisit to 1 ikota of Pres. Villard and party in celebratkm of the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Mr. Wade is quite we'l known here. nother odoriferous story is reported. A gentleman living on, or near North Instreet discovered in his lot last Sunevening a cat similar to those our :1E. B., fell ti with recently. Throwing a stone at hia visitor taking Frencb leave of the premises with a tin can in bis mouth, he hit the can and drove it over the animal' head. It is needless to add that the visitor returned flre. Further interference with the intruder was postponed, but on the following morning can and cat had disappeared. From a DesMoines Daily News recently feceiyed, the following is clipped as of interest to many of our readers : A grocer who is in business less than a thousand miles f rom Dr. Worden's office carne to the Doctor the otlier day fairly dancing with pain, having sliced off his thumb with a meat chopper. The Doctor aslted him where the lost piece was, and was informed that it was in the ineat cutJer. He ran over to the store, got the lost member. sewed it on, and sent the Kroceron his way rejoicing. Strangely nough, it has grown on; and the next time that man cuts off lits thumb he will Put it in his pocket and take it riglit to the doctor. Last week Thursday night perhaps about twelve o'clock two persons got into quarrel near tlie Toledo depot, which fesulted in one's receiving three ugly knife cuts on the left side of the head One of these was so near the left eye that liad It been a very little farther to one side loss of the eye would have been the result. The wounds were dressed by Dr Darling between one and two o'clock in the morning and are now doing nicely. An arrest was made Friday morning but the party in custody was released 01 f100. bail. The trial before Justice Freu auoff was postponed until to-day. It will be remembered that sonie difflculty w&8 had in the High School last June ¦with a Mr. Parker trom Montana wbo became temporarily insane. It was cliargec too, by gome, that the trouble was brough i by the severity of one of the teacher in the school. Word has just reached u that Mr. Parker, who was taken home from the Pontiac asylum by his father was recently gtven special treatment a hot springs near Helena, the result o hich was to bring out the measles. Oi fecovering from the latter a complete re turn of mlnd followed. Theoretically it i taought that when Mr. Parker had a sligh Wack of the measles here they struck in ¦0(1 later produced temporary insanity jj 's certainly a very peculiar case. Mr arker'8 mind being deranged nearly 'oree months. If the view given is cor {¦, the teacher referred to above mus "e exonerated frora all blame.