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Day
29
Month
August
Year
1873
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Public Domain
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Carps. . _ Circulara. _ Bül-Heads. _- Letter-Heads. - Shipping Tags. „ Printed at the Aeous otlico. __ In the best style and cheap. _ Dou't order elsewhere before calling. _ Satisfaction guaranteed in' every respect. _ The philosopher's stoue : Advertise- in the Abous. __The public schools opened ou Monday last, an(l with full rooms. -Still dry and no encouraging predictions {,.„„! " Old Probabilities." „ Peach and Ice Cream Festival at the Presbvterian Church this (Friday) aveaipg, AuS. 29. ' One of the new enterprises in this city is a Business College." See eard in another column. _ The croquet players are agam plymg their vocation in the northeast corner of the Court House Square. _The Register of Wednesday announced a temperar)' suspension. Cause: an allopathic dose of injunction. _ The Akcius has received a " complimeutirv" card of admissiun to the Kalamazoo Coimty Fair, to be held üctober lat, 2d, 3d, and 4th. A ttiird motion to dissolve the Beal-ChaseAnn Arhor Printing Company injunction is to be hearJ to-day by Judge Crane : or so it is reporteil. _C. H. Millen left for the East yesterday atteraoon. His wife accompanied him and they ril make Saratoga en route, combining pleas" ure witli business. -The Knights Templar of this city are arraning for a raid on Lansing at the time of lsvfug the Capítol Corner Stone- Oct. 2d. Gwinner's Band and a special car are on the - lyumafl. - Our letter f rom our Foreign Correspondent, Mr. J. M. Wheeler, is crowded out this week, by theannuel report of Supt. Perry of our city schools, a document which our local readers wül find of special interest. - The Central Raüroad Superintendent has issued postéis announcing " half f are " on the maiu line and branches tor the coming State Fair at Grand Eapids, Sept. 15-20, inclusive. The Fair wül be a big thing. - Eev. A. E. Baldwin, formerly pastor of the Congregational Church of this city, but now located at Memphis, Tenn., has beeu visiting his old frieuds and parishioners here during the last week, accompanied by his family. - In the list of membors in attendance upon the annnal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, just closed at Portland, Me., we notice the names of Rev. C. H. Brigham, E. C. Seaman, Esq., and Prof. Hai-rington, of this city,- the last named a new membrr. - The frescoing of University Hall has been completed and the stagings removed. Mr. Fassett has done a job that wül bear inspection and criticism. The work of cleaning out is progressing rapiilly, and the carpenters and painters ae also driving business. In a few (lays Steward Bennett will be in condition to give a reception. - The "SunBuruer" put up iu University Hall, on trial, was lighted a few evenings since. It gives a brilliant light, so that manuscript or fine print can be read at the most distant point in the gallery, and fioods the dome and platform. It has 81 burners, arranged in stars or clusters of nine each, with mica reflectors or projectors. - On Saturday evening last Mr. Berry, living ou Miller avenue, saw a snake by the side of the walk in front of the residence of Mrs. Bower. He gave it a blow wlien it made known its species by the lively and cheerful music of its rattles. Berry finished the snake and confiscated the musical appendage to its caudal extremity- six rattles. - Dr. Bunsten, of Brooklyn, N. Y., where h he has been long connected with a hospital for orphans, has engaged to supply the place of Dr. Kager during the coming session of the Medical Department of the University. The place of Dr. Cheever, now absent in Colorado, has not yet been filled, though negotiations are pending with Prof. Armor, who formerly filled the ame chair with great satisfaction to all then connected with the department. - The annual school meeting is to be held on Monday next, for the purpose of making the necessary appropriations, electing three Trustees in place of Messrs. Bach, Donovan, and Porter, and for the transaction of other lega business which may come before it. The polls will open at 10 o'clock A. M., in the Court Room, and close at 2 p. M. The business meeting will take place iminediately thereafter. There ought to be a larger vote polled and a larger turn out than in late years. The political editor of the " sleepiug " or suspended Regisier suggested to us a day or two since that we write and print its eulogium, epitaph, " in memoriam " or what d'ye cali it, and also that it might appropriately commence, "Hush my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed." But as he had forgotteu the other lines of the stanza and our poetical machine is incompetent ï o match the couplet, we have concluded that the following unique and resurrected specimen of pave-yard literatura, having figured on the tomb stone of an infant, deceased aged but a few hours, is equally or more timely and seaonable : " Since I'm so quickly done for, I wonder what I was begun lor." 'There, Judge, that is tlie best we can do in the present harrowed state of our feelings. And i( may be no better than your own Hibemian )uotation : " Not dead but spacheless." -A few days ago Freeman P. Tucker, of SylTn, borrowed the buggy of Parson Holt, of helsea, in whicli he deposited a hive of bees and proceeded on his way. In due time the top of the hive came off, and the bees improved tkeir freedom - with bees as with some people überty is a synonym for license - by vigorously stinging Tucker and his horse. Consequences : a runaway, buggy smashed to kindlings, not an lmpioved countenance for Tucker, and a new uggy bought for the minister. And now- as get the story- Parsou Holt has gone to advjnag his brothers of the cloth having old bug pea to lend them to Tucker or some other ma iu the bee-moving line. An evidence of " tota depravity," that's a fact. Our friend of the Dexter Leader is " sarkas tic" ornothmg. Witness the following para graph from its laat issue : The croquet fevor is raging to a great exten in this conimumty. Some exciting matche ave been played, and there is considerab Me among playera as to which sliall excel. Amencans always do love manly sports, especmusoles086 ar6 calculated to develop the 'l'lie sclioolB at Manchester are to open on tonday next, Sept. lst, with the following teachers: Prmcipal, Prof. C. J. Thorp; Assista-ut, Miss Childs ; Grammar department, Miss Martha Peckins ; Intenncdiate, Miss Norria; 2d nmarj-, Miss Anna Miller; Ut Prinmry, Misa ■Tva Fielcls.

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