The Circuit Court

The following cases were disposed o to Wednwday noon: People vs. Jas. Powers. Charged with as símil aml battery with intent to do bodil liarm. Plead guilty of assault. aud battery and sentenced to lonla for tliree inontlis. Appeal of JS. A. Gott vs. Lyman Silverman et al. Case continued ou paymeiit of $10 to piaintiff. People vs. Peter Long. Plead guilty and patd costs, 115.42. People vs. Win. McCoy. Charged with as saalt with intent to do bodily harin. Jur' trial Verdict. People vs. Tlios. Claney. Larceny. Plea o not guilty withdrawn, and oue of gnllty en tered. Sentenced to five days in eouuty jai] Be careful and loek your liencoop nights - f there are aiiy chlokens in it Tliieves arouiul. Tlie long promised, the long looked fo salvation army does not materializo Probably a false alarm. The connty orders drawn now art pay able on (iemand lnstead of after Feb. lst '85, notwitlistanding contrary assertions Wiuans ifc Stafforfl are cleariug up the! swanip land south of the city, and pro pose to be ready for a few acres of celcry next year. Tlie Ann Arbor Courier says to Gov. Be golc: 'Aurevoir. Aujour d'huiroidemainrlen.' Tliis isevidently French, orelse itls Kuglish spelled a la Begole.- Evening News. Hit it the llrst pop. Julia Gibney, relict of tlie late Patrick Gibney, of Noithfield, died Xov. 8d, o old age, benig nearly 83 years old. She liad lived in Northfleld 52 years, and was born in Ireland. Next Thursday evening, Rev. Wm R, Alger wiil lecture at the Unitarian churcli, bis subject being: "Thelnfluence of Poetry In Refining and Enriching the inner Life." The Detroit Eveniug News is res po nsible for the stütpmonr ti.nt l Col. Eldredge agaln announces that he wil never, no never, be a candidate for congress agaln.'' Sensible. If you woukl put the leaves on 3-our compost heap instead of buxning them up, you would lind that they would make the best soit of manure for the garden, or dressing for your lawn, wlien well rotted. "Citizen," in the Courier, takes offense at the denial to Ann Arbor of lock-up privileges at the county jail. claiming the rlght to use that instilutlou under the city charter. Evidently "Citizen" has not sobered off since hls last incarceratiou.- Ypsilantlan. The above is a genuine specimen of the Ypsilantian's style of argument. It Is very convineing- to some people, perhaps. Jlr. Reuben Kempf is to be congratulated on the splendid run he made in this count}'. Alger is looked upon as a good manager bccausc he carried a republican state. Yet we think Mr. Kempf is far anead, as he carried a county by (OG majority wliii'h has a democratie nujorlty of over 1,000.- Cuelsea Herald. L;ist Thursday's Detroit Post givcs an account of the findinar of the body of John Dowd, known as " Sailor Jack," in the woods near Rodney - not far from Hig Rapids- with his throat ent. Whetlier by minder or suicide is not known. The last seen of Dowd he had started for Ann Arbor, where he was supposed to have frlends. Saturday morning last A. M. Bod well, who had been a resident of Ann Arbor for many years, died at his home on Fourth street, of typhoid pneumonía, having been ill but a short time. He was born In New York, was G6 years old at the time of death, and leaves a wife but no children. He carne to Ann Arbor in 1853, and carried on a school seat factory, for some time, and at one time manufactured windmills quite extensively. A contested claim in the estáte of Means Richardson, deceased, of Dexter township, has oceupied the attention of the cominissioners in that estáte for several days during the week at the court-house. James E. Forbes, a son-in-law of the deceased, presented a claim tor $1,500 for serrlcei rende red, wlilcrb was warmly contested by tlie heirs. A large nunibcr of wltnesees were examined, but the decisión of tlie commissioners has not yet been rendered. John Donnelly of Ann Arbor town, died last Monday, of a combination of of dlseases, chlefly deblllty and kidney complaint. The decetised had been a very hard worklng man In his day. He ciimc to Ann Arbor 10 years ago, and was born in County Arimigh, Ireland, in 1823, (il years ago. The funeral services were held tliis forenoon from St.Thomas churcli. There is no trutli in the ruinors respecting the deceased having been poisoned by partaklag of diseased pork or drinking of poisoned water. The followlng, trom the Saline Obierver, puts tlie tliing in the true light: " Uapt. Allen's defeat is a blow ut temperance, and was brouglit ibout by the probibltlon votes. Mr. Allen Ims always heen a lirm advocate of the temperance cause, and has time aiter time ad(lresned the society of Saline, defrayiiig his own expense, and yet at least forty of the membsra of this same society cast a half vote etch for Eldredge as igainst Allen, by yoting for iloshcr. Tbfi is the most ungratufiil act tliat a set of men could do, iind niany of tbow who did it are seriously regrettlng their course at the present time."