Local Brevities

Cakds. - Circulara. _- Bill-Head.. _ Letter-Heads. - Shippmg Tag. _ Printed at the Aequs oflicc. _ In the best stj-le and cheap. _- Don't order elsewhere before ealling. - Satisfaction guaranteed in respect. _ Jfak'e ready for the tax collector. _ For the week the weather has been mild but moist. _If you want to buy holiday goods examine the ABGU8 advertising columns. _ The editor is in training for an article on What I know ahout tax collecting." - Dexter, Chelsen, and Salftie are money order postoffices. Why is Manchester not one ? _Mrs. Nathan Pray, of the Fifth ward, died Sundoy morning, alter on illness of about 36 hours, aged 66 years. - Anadjourned session of the Board of Supervisors is to be heidon Tuesdaynext: to act upon the small-pox claims. -We suggest to the officers arranging for the Xew England Supper, that they provide for a limited amount of " after dinner spouting." - The mother of Dr. and L. B. Kellogg, of the. Fifth ward, feil down the cellar stairs at the residence of the latter named son, on SunJay evening last, and broko an arm. - Our compositor erred last week in the item locating and timing tho tax-gather. Hia hours are trom 9 a. m. to 12, noon, and from 1 to i r h. Place- the store of C. Bliss & Sons. -In the U. S. Circuit Court at Detroit, on Tuesdav last, the motion in behalf of A. W. ('hnse for an injunction against R. A. Beal, ras ordered to stand over until Monday next. - Henry Warren, sentenced to eighteen months in the House of Correction, for shootimj his cousin in Salem, through carelessness and i rast tn scare him " has decamped, forfeiting the $2,000 bail givcu by his father. - We are indebted to the Detroit Tribune Printing Company for a copy of the Michigan ümamcioT 1874; a valuable compend of business and political statistics and other information, aDd wortli two or tliree times the price laked for it, 15 cents. - Xagasaki, one of the Japauese students resident here, - though pimuing his studies undertutors,- was baptized at and received into the M. E. Church od Sunday last. An essay of some length was read to the cougregation, assigning his reasons for the step. - The saw-mill of the Mnhlig Brothers of the this city, lociited in the township of York, was burned on Thursday night of last week. The mili had not been in operation for several days nor had there heen any fire in it, which facts leave little doubt that it was set fire. The mili ma valued at about S22,riOO, and insured m the urn of 81,700. - Whenwe were a " boarding school boy" the steward, when it came his tuin to say grace, was wout to phase it, " We thank Thee, O, Lord, that whüe we are enjoying the blessings of health others are on beds of sickness," whieh we commend to those of our business men and eitizens w-ho are complaining both of hightaxes aiul dall business. All the other towns and cities of tiie State aro " enjoying the same blessings,'' and some of them a little more so. Dr. Holland had a very large audieuce at Uuivereity Hall on Friday evening last. His subject was the " Eiements of Personal Power,' and these eiements hedefined as honestv,will-not won't self-possession, courag ï, earncstness, enthusiasm, magiietism, audfaith: honosty being the substractue and faith the capstoue. And yet vhile puintiug out tho needs and workings of these eiements in building up the individual man, he was forced to acknowledge them - or mest of them - as natural or inborn rather than acquired or to be acquired, in accordance at least, with any set rules. The lecture was fiaely wntten and admirably dehvered, and was Hstened to throughout with interest.