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It will soon be time for serenades - by the family-cat. The wheeling is said to be good and the sleighing gritty. This is vacation week, and the youth of our city are having a right smart good time. Ann Arbor town republican caucus March 28th, at the court house, 2 o'clock p. m. Monday morning the county jail had not an occupant. How is that for a moral community? That festive robin has hang his harp on the willows, and gone where the woodbine twineth. That foolish clinic removal business has been emphatically squelched, both in the legislature and the U. of M. The ward caucuses of the republicans will be held in the various wards on Wednesday evening, April 1st. See call. It cost something to run the grocery business in this city. Just the delivery department of twenty stores incurs an expense yearly of $7,000. Rev. R. B. Pope, D. D., of this city, will arrange the program for first week of the annual encampment at Bay View, commencing Tuesday, July 21st. Many years ago in the last week of March our citizens were making their gardens- setting out onions, planting peas - lettuce etc- but that was many years ago. "Some wild geese have gone north," says an exchange. They must have been wild geese, and fool geese, too, to go north such weather as this month has given us. Week before last a St Louis Mo., law student skipped out, leaving many sorrowing friends. This last week a typo did the same thing. Great events always cluster, you see. A recent issue of our esteemed contemporary makes this remarkable statement: "Prof. Baur laid two eggs on the editorial table this week." Well! ahem! Isn't that a little unusual? Some one left a black, knit mitten in our sanctum a few days since. Now if the owner will only bring around the mate to it and leave it here, he will confer a very great favor on our chapped hands. The statement that E. B. Pond, of this city, is to be appointed secretary of the State Board of Charities vice W. J. Baxter, resigned, is denied by that gentleman - who says he is not a candidate for that position. The prohibitionists of Ann Arbor held a caucus at red ribbon hall Saturday afternoon, and nominated Wm. S Bird for supervisor, Lorenzo Davis for clerk, Augustus Isbell for treasurer, and a complete ticket. The county officials, including the judge and stenographer, united in presenting the wife of Janitor Crawford, of the court house, with a $5 ladies' chair, a few day's since, the occasion being her birthday. A republican city convention call will be found in its appropriate place for Thursday evening, April 3d. at the court house, at 7 1/2 o'clock p m. It is not necessary to urge republicans to attend the primaries and send good men. Brigadier General James H. Kidd, the Inspector General of Michigan state troops, has issued his circular informing the companies of state militia when be will make his grand rounds, and set the date for Co. A., at Ann Arbor, Tuesday, April 7th. Next day after election. The new Germania block to be erected by Michael Stabler, on the corner of Washington and Second streets, will be an ornament to the city The plans have been finished by G. B. Schwab, and call for a $16,000 structure. It will bc three stories high, the first two to be used as hotel office and stores, the second for hotel purposes, and the third for a hall and dressing rooms of the German socieites of this city. Saturday afternoon the people of Ann Arbor were shocked to learn of the accidental death of Jacob Staebler, a respected German farmer, about 52 years old, living four miles out on W. Liberty st., in Scio township. Mr. Staebler fell from a load of hay he was drawing, on his farm, and struck the ground in such a manner as to break his neck, causing instant death He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his untimely death. The fire bell rang out an alarm last Thursday afternoon, caused by the burning of a dwelling on High st., owned by Nathaniel H. Carey, and occupied by A. H. Lamond, a cooper in the employ of Swathel, Kyer & Peterson. The fire companies were all out on time, but the flames had got such a start that the building was destroyed. Every particle of furniture and contents was removed, even ti the fire wood in the cellar. There was a policy of $600 insurance upon the building, In one of O. L Matthews' companies; loss estimated at $1,200. Spring is coming, beautiful spring, the season of poets, posies, warbling birds and lovesick swains. Soon, but not half soon enough, green trees, green grass and new paint will greet our vision and daub our clothes. The English sparrow will pick out all the good nesting places about the city and drive the sweet song birds from the sunny south away. The coal stove will be relegated to the dismal recesses of the store room, and the sweet smelling tramp will bloom and blossom and smell in the highest perfection of his art. The sheep will be shorn of its fleece, and the voice of the new lamb bleat in sweet accompaniment to the couple at the old front gate - she swinging to and fro - he breathing honeyed words of how he could climb the highest mountain or overcome the whole world to win one ki - " Come here, Janie, your father wants to see you," shrieks a female but firm voice through the screen door, which the couple will not notice alone shuts out the night air and burglars. End of scene I. The egg market is bracing up for Easter. Spring violets are blooming somewhere - but not here. Ald. Luick is a candidate for re-nomination on the democratic ticket in the 1st ward. Monday Helena A. Peach was granted a divorce from John Peach, in circuit court. The pulpit o( the Unitsrian church will be oorup..d tiy Rev. Mr. Mellen agán iiexi Snndny. Rev K. B. Pope is tr addrcs the Smii'av selmnl union meeting at Milan next Mm.day eveiiin. Thng. Nast to reTcat his University "Ipcture", or wliatcver vnn ni;iy cali it, at opera hmi=, ApHl 25th. The Cochier office ha alro.idy printed 10.000 slips for one randidate, aud 5,000 for a nolher. A rood starter. C. E. Wanner, the Ann st., procer, is to nOPBpy Mrs. Msry K. Fouier house on E Catharine st. in a few dnys. If you have chinfred 5011 r residence yon must re-regUtcr VV dneadiiy, Apii! lst if youdtsiie to vote ut the cotuinff elect ion. Judjre Jotdyn cmne up Monday, left a decisión in iho nasp of Fiirgo vs. The Auiiilor General, and ailjourneil court until t"-morrow. About $31) was cleared by the sr.pial RIKl liopat Knnnryhall last WednesdMy eveninp, wliich was turncd ovtr to cliaritabli purposes. About twenty members of the Odd FelInw fraternitv wout tn Dextcr Mondav, to iittond the fiineral of iheir late brother S. C. Alley of tlmt place. Tlie body of Ed M icomher, foimerly nf tliisrity, was ïrouprlit to Ann Arhor Minil:iv, lor hurll. Hm wn a !P8ident tf Maisli.ll wht-re Lo died of coiisutiiption, iiged 23 year. i ne ciemncrato liave called thelr ward caueiiíes fnr Fiiday evonins nf next week, and their átj ronvention fnr Satnnl.iv eyemnjr. Thu.s makinjr a Sundar jol) lor the printer, The Hnnjpterfer block wlll be extended mi Washington rtrert 33 feet, and fcwn rtnrle" hifrfa Ule coming scason. And then Frank wlll not have any too inuoli room for hi rnpldly increasin;r business. Aaron V. MeAlvay ought to receive a rouslng yule I n thi county wbere he was bnrn ;ind reareti, He was notcd for lili mniillners índ stiift intejrrily, and deserves t lic suffr .fr-8 nf the people of thla eounty revttrdle-s Of party. Haiulolpli Ragen, the sculptor, of whom Ann Arbor feela so proud, lia sent bis s m John Randolph, to ths c'ty toba eduented. He arrived In Ann Atbor Wcdnesdny laat, nnd wlll preparo for tbe nniversity In !!).¦ liiph school. ('onnty Treatuer BHoer ban had n fine new cai' pnt in hl office n wliich to file way the fax rr.ll-i nf thf varinus supervisor' di-iriets The oíd c ise will btnliwml In tlie coauty .ioner'g room in vvhlch i" plMOP ti' 'id ri-lii-. A gno.l tliliig nll ar. luid. John K'Ck & Ci. built the new c se. A crudiUblH Job. Aocimliii' to a weatlier sijrn tliat never fails, vi' Rhall hive n cld, backward -lriiir. The sun cruawd eqimtor la-t Prlday, and the wind on tli it iIht wal (lirectJy nnrlh, all dav. Penpln wbn h ive gone soutli t. st.iy untll warm weatlier. C"Iiicü, iin slay til! sutmner. Aee.ordlnjt to the unnual report In this week 'a FiipppmBt it will he feen that tlif clty paid l.i-t ye Sl.")4 58 tnr CH8 to lljrhi th i:v clck ruwer. Thta y-ar ilu-v are ÜL'litiüi; it ly elei'trieity fnr leu." tll'HI half tllflt aiiKiiMit. Yet siill think electrlclty is nnt as cheap hs jfas. R-jii!r ition boards for tlie difr-ront ward, meet nn W-dnesday, April Ut, at the followlng .l ces : lt wil 1- SurK's shop. 2.1 wurü-John Heinzmann'.s store l wnni - AaiiculttirHl room, court house 4tli wnnl - Klrvnian'H imll. 5ili war.l- Kntclne house. Stu wura -EiiKlne booaa, Alex. .McDonald, who has a peach orchard of 500 trees near the observatory, claim tlial the huds are not only killed, hut the tree 'S well. These ti-pes weie fiiir years nld, and valued nt S5 eacli The blackberry bushes are also killed. This makes a serious loss fnr nur fruit men if the same provea io he seneral. The Bancroft Advertiser and the Howell Republican are each writing enthusiastic articles about the missing link of the T.. A. A & N M. R. R. It is to be hoped that the articles will have the desired effect, and that ere many months pass away Ann Arbor people can go to Owosso and beyond via. Howell and Bancroft. Success to the enterprise. Monthly meeting of the Washtenaw pomological society 4th of April at 2 o'clock p m., in the court house. Topics: reports by committees on fruit packages and transportation, climatology of Michigan by Prof. Mark W. Harrington, the rights of fruit growers by Judge Page, treatment of peach trees after the severe winter by J. Ganzhorn. The right of the state to tax inter-state commerce was decided in the negative Thursday by Judge Joslyn. Some time since a suit was brought by Jas. C. Fargo, president of the Merchant's Dispatch Transportation Co., against Auditor General Stevens, in this circuit, with a view of settling this question so far is this state is concerned. The case will probably be taken to the supreme court, from which it is hoped a decision will be rendered in June. Mr. O. B. Church, who is foreman of the newspaper department of the Courier office, completes his fiftieth year at the case this week, having commenced when a boy of 13, with E. P Gardiner, then the publisher of the Michigan Argus. One-quarter of this time has been spent in this office. Yet his life has been as varied as printer's lives generally are. He has worked in many offices, including the government office at Washington, and to-day receives a pension for disability incurred during the late war as a soldier for the union. He holds his age remarkably well, and seldom ever loses a day from his work. The following list of candidates to be confirmed at the Bethlehem Lutheran church, Rev. Mr. Neuman, pastor, on Palm Sunday, March 29th is taken from the Washtenaw Post : Benj. S Krause, Amalia Kuhnle, Alex F. Wetzel, Ida Henne, Herman F. Mu ler, Caroline Schlee, Wm F Schaeberle, Mina Teufel, Theodore Beck, Bertha Weinmann, Henry T. Schulz, Pauline R. Braun, Karl F A Bruch, Clara Kajuske, Jacob F. Wurth, Gottlieb A Rehfusz, Friederich Radtke, Lydia Stadel, Oscar H. Frank, Anna Maria Eberle, Emil Milzer, Elise Helene Knoll.