Local

1885 is on its last half. No cherries to get ripe this year. There will be a concert i:i Beetliovcn hall, Thursday evening, July 30th. The frescoing of the beautiful lodge room in the masonic templéis being done by Albert Sorg. The teniperancc meeting next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock will bc addressed by M. F. Guinon. .T. W. Bennett has his office with J. F. Lawrencc, and would be pleased to see his friends ia a legal way. The Turners of tuis city will attend a turn-fest to be held at Jackson July 18-21, aecoinpanied by the city band. Several young ladies of the city are acquiring the very eommendable accoraplishmentof ruling horseback. The Bethlehem Lutheran society will hold a picnic for lts Sunday school scholars, in Cook's wooils, to-morrow. Ilarvesting was coinmenced at the county farm last Monday, the lSth. Abont the first in this section. ArborTent K. O. T. Maceubees, will be represente! at the grand lodge, atSaginaw City, August 11, by SM W, Millard. A sign, CO feet long, for John Keek & Co., ornamente the front of thcir store. Oscar Sorg did the job, and it isa neat one. The ladies' library building is progressinjj linely. But will it not cost considerable money to fill In and grade np the lot? Chas. II. Jones, formerly of this city, has been granted a pension, of $4.00 per month, throngh O. L. Matthews, of thia city. The Arm name of C. Kberbach & Co. has been chauged to the "Eberbach Hardware Co.,1' without nnj' cliang of partners. A team belonging to II. Kittredge, got scared at a pattblg eiigine at the T. & A. depot ye8terday, and made things lively for a few minutes. Monday morning a gang of trench diggeis coinmenced work on Liberty Street west, In the 2d ward, and made the dirt fly in a lively manner. Mr. Richards, with the firm of Mack & Sctimid, received au order from one of his old customers Monday, who now resides at Fort Concho, Texa?. Mis. J. F. Nichols bas couimenced the erection of a new dweiling house on the lot recently purchased by her on F. Ingalls street. Z. Sweet does the excavating. Farmers say that better weather for the ripening of wheat we seldom have bad. Warm days and cool nights are just what the cereal needs to bring out a plump nice berry. The high school building ought to have an elevator for the benefit of the teacher?, especlally those who have to go up and down the long flights of staiis so many times a day. Mrs. D. W. Botsford, of Salem, died July 9th, of old age, having reached her 82d year. Mrs. Botsford was one of the oldest pioneers of the county, having come here in ] 8.33, froin New York state. A lot of old furniture belonging to the estáte of the late Charles T. Wilmot, at one time one of the lcading men of the city, was sold off at auction Saturday p. in., on the couit hoase square corner. Yesterday the Young People's Society of the l'resbyteriau church gave a picnic at Whitmore L,akc, and were aecompanied by some young people who were not Presbyterians. All had a jolly good time. The architect of this column lost a diminutive pair of pocket scissors a few days since. If the fiuder would return the same he or she would save said architect many bad words and perhapt betlie means of giving the Couuier readers a betler class of items. Lottie Blythinan, an eight year old started out to see some of the world last Thursday. She flrst went to Adrián, 1 rom there to Ypsilatiti, and finally was heard from this morninr at Brlghton, giving Chief Fall a lively chase before lciirniiig her whereabouts. According to the law in such case made and provided, City Recorder Pond took possession of the justice docket and other papers of the late Jas. McMahon, and in cninpliance with the requestof the friends of the deceased, delivercd the same to .lustice Brennan; wlio, acoording to law, will take care of them until a successor shall be elected, and then turn them over to such guccessor. Washtenaw Ch:ipter I!. A. M., and Fraternity lodge F. & A. M., have made arrangement! to give an excursión to Detroit, and Star Islnnd, July 3Oth. The bout will stop at Belle Isle on the return, or excursionista will be allowed to ride between the city and Belle Isle if they choose so to dó. Tickets for the trip will be sold at $1.25 ; children under 12 and over G years of aj;e, half-price ; under six, free. A eaterer will accompany the excursión and provide lunch for those not dc-Mring to be bothered with a busket. The committee of arrangements consists Jas. L. Stone, Will C. Hollands and C. E. Hiscock, of Fraternity ; W. G. Doty, Z. Roath and W. W. Watts, of the chapter; W. W. Nichols, E. B. Abel, L. C. Goodrich, W. Merithew, M. D Milieu, C. S. Fall,J. 11. Cook, and J. Kluis, atlarge. Tickets can beobtained of my of tliecommitteemen, at Goodyear's, Oslu & Co.'s, Brown's, Granger's or Merrithew's. The young laJies' band liasblown out, we understaod. Miss Katie Muir, of Briglitou, is visiting relatives in the city. Au infant child of James and Margaret McMahon died Monday. Wheat is steady In the market now at 90@92 cents, the latter for the best grade. Atnong the entrics for the Charlotte races is George A. Gilbert's s. g. Spotted Beauty. Postinaster Duffy has had a forcé cleaning tlie plate glass In the P. O. fronts, and scrubbing up the floor. Monday, Hutzel & Co. planted 2,000 feet of pipe and yesterday 2,400 feet- near a half mile. Quick work that. Tlie heavy thunder of the storm that passed around us last night made the loose windows in Ann Arbor houses rattle. A new cross walk is growing across N. State at., at the intersection of E. Catharine. An iniprovenient uiuch needed. Will Hatch has found that pet dog of his lost last winter, and the wag wasn't f rozen ofl'its tail - that was a base canard. Several members of the TpsilantI lodge, I. O. G. Ti came up here last evening and were entertained by their brother and sister templara. Prof. C. II. J. Douglas will teach next yearin Milwaukee, Wis., hayingaccepted a posltion In the public schools there at an advanced remuncration. New sidewalks in front of the house occupied by Jos. Donnelly, on E. Ann and N. Ingalls sts., and one also In front of the Sneu property, on E. Ann st. The Huron cornet band will give a Iawn concert and ice creara festival on Friday evening, July 17, at the residence of E. W. Moore, fifth ward. Everybody cordially invited. Charlie Ilcndrick was out north of the city, in the vicinity of Pleasant Lake, Monday afternoon last, and reporta a heavy hail storm, but it did not appear to damage crops much. In 3ome sections of the county the complaint comes from farmers that the 17-year locusts have nearly ruined the fruit trees. The insect stings the limbs to deposit its eggs, and as its sting is death, erery limb tlius stung dies and drops off. Bishop Gillespie and Rev. Samuel Earp, the new rector of St. Andrew's churcti, held service at the county house, Sunday p. in. at 3 o'clock. Many people from the city were picsent, and the affair was interesting and productivo of good. "Larry" Kihoe and bride, whlle sailing on the placid waters of Whitmoie Lake a few days since, wtre made the victims of a treacherous gust of wind, and were tipped into the water, so ye local i in'onned. Justus Seyborn, tlie man who it is alleged, took possessiou of a horse and buggy at Milan, on the 4th of July without leave, was brought up before Judge Joslyn Monday, plead not guilty, and bail was tixed at $500, but at this writtng not found. The grading of W. Liberty st., 2d ward, from Main st. to the railroad track, is a commendable pieco of work, aud when completed will make the stieet look 100 per cent. botter. It leaves some of tlie stores up quite high thuugli, but very handy to step out and into a carriage from the sidewalk. Will one of our esteemed caiitcmp's please explain the modus operandi, of u stone becoming petrijied, wliioli it states ha bin iliscovi.rml n ilitftrins tb ivill" for the new jail ? Perhaps Prof. Winohell could assist him, or at least refer the matter to the scientilio convention soou to aasemble here. Nelson Booth of Texa?, who is visiting diends here, reports stock raising as prolitable, taking one year with another. Ile has now soine 1,200 sheep got this year 16 cents per pound for unwashed wool, wtiich he saysonly cost 6 cents per pound to grow, this being the expense of feeding the sheep grain in winter. The centennial of the temperance reform is being celebrated this week at Niajjara Falls, and tickets are being sold to that point for half-rates, $6.50 for round trip, good to return within 20 daj's. Green Clay Smith on the 17th, is the big card. President and Miss Cleveland are on tbe program for to-day. The Krause Tanning Co., held its annual meeting a few days since andelected offleers as follows: Directors- John MWheeler, E. Treadwell, Moses Seabolt, Daniel Hiscock, H. Sessions, Wm. Markle and Prof. C. E. Greene. The directors elected as president, John M. Wheeler; vice president, Prof. C. E. Greene; secretary, treasurer and manager, Wm. Markle. Last Friday night burglars broke into Wm. Deninan's house, on E. Liberty st., and in rumaging about, kaocked a lamp chimney off a shelf on to the floor, which made so much noise the would-be thieves got scared and lit out without securing any plunder. The inmates of the house were aroused, but no trace of the depredators could be found, and it will always remain among the mysteries. The latest candidate on the list Is Ben. F. Watts, of this city, who would like to occupy the position of deputy collector of Interna! revenue for this district, an office that collector John B. Molony, of Detroit has the disposal of. Mr. Watts would make a prompt, efficiënt and popular offlcer. Itis understood also tliat W. H. Henderson seeks tlie samo position. Mr. Lafluer, ;i crippled soldier, of Hillsdale is the preaent republican occupant. The Ann Arbor Democratvery kinilly notices the efforta of the present City Kecorder to attend to his duties promptly. From its last issue we quote: "Workmen on the streets have no reason to compluln aboutgettiug their oidcrs, for Recorder Pond has thein ready for delivery the üay following the council meeting. Often heretofore, men Inive been compelied to wait, in some instances for several days, before gettirg their pay." Mr. Wyman has decided to turn the rink into a theater, and will cominence making the changes at once, it is undeistood, so to be ready for the opening season tliis fall. Opera chairs will be proTided for 1,500 persons, and should the demand be suiUcient to warrant it, a gallery will be added capablo of seating 500 more. At least three shows per week will be brought here for whicli bouklug hiis already coininenced. Prices will be put down so that the general public can allbrd to attend. In August, 1882, the council paid over $400 for the compilation, stralghtenlng out, general iixing up of the ordlnances and the publishing of the same. Tuis was a little over two years ago. Now,'. we are told by our city attorney that the ordinances are in a fearful juinble, and but precious few of them are good for anything. In fact, the city wouldn't be safe to commence a legal proeess against any one for violatlon of our ordinances. It really seems strange if this thing is true. It is but recently that the members of the council were informed that it was not necessury to havo things too binding, that ".some things must be left to the common law." Perhaps our ordinances have beeu left to the action of the common law.