Local Brevities

G.VKD3. Circulara. _ Bill-HeaiR - Letter-Ho:uls. - Shvppiug Tags. - I'rinteil at the Argus office. - In the beat style and CHEAP. - Don't order elsewhere before callfng. - Satisfaction guaranteed in evcry respect - The boys are playing marbles. - Union moetings continuo tobe held. - The booksellers' war again waxes hot. - Yesterday was cloudy, with a little rain. - There appears to be a lull in the postónico tempest. - The prospects are promising f or a good wheat crop. - The annual charter election of Manchester takes place on Monday, March 2d. - The Courier promises to haul the Anous over the coals. Oh, whither shall we flee ? - Quite a nuniber of our masouic citizeu attended the grand hall and festival at Dexter, on Tuesday evening. - On account of the intendcd absence of ProfWatson next year the Sophomores, as well as the Júniora, take astronomy this year. - The February terra of the Circuit Court commeuces on Monday next. Tho calendar contains 120 cases, of which. 10 are criminal and 71 issues of fact. - A horse driven without reins, treading the laliyrinth of the wood teams on Huron St., wal the attraction for boys and grown people last Saturday. - If we had a scientific editor he would probably teil us that the vertebral column of hibernus had sustained a compound fracture of a very aggravated type. - Eemember the Pioneer Picnic, to be given neit Tuesday. Let there be a general turn-out. Keeping alive the county societies guarantees the formation of a State Society. - Eev. C. H. Brigham lectured bcfore the Webster Society at the Law Lecture Room, on Wednesday evening last. His subjqct was, " The Ethics of the Legal Prof ession." - The " irrepressible " Harper, student of the Law Department, was again before Justice Manly on Friday last, and " assessed " $10 and costs. Cause : drunk and disorderly. - We publish tbis week the last of the papers ■ read before the rocent meeting of the Pioneer , Society, by Wol. M. Gregory, of Saline, on " Washtenaw': what it is and what it means." , - The Luick Bros. are getting together material for the erection of a large brick planiug mili on the corner of Fifth and North streets, the premises occupied by Douglass & Mallory. - We cali attention again to tlie lectures to be given by Prof. Morse next Monday and Tuesday evenings, ou the theories of evolution. ïhey will doubtless be iuteresting and profitable. - Absent : the editor of the Aeous, who loft o Slonday for Lansing, to attend the meeting oí the Publishers' Association, since which he has been roaining the northern part of the State. - The number of inmates of the County House has thia year exceeded that of any other year, reaching at one time more than 150. The present fine weather, however marks a decrease. - The examination oí S. M. Webster, late City Treasurer, on the charge of embezzlement, was commenced on Tuesday before Justiee McMahon, continuing through Tuesday and Wednesday, and adjourned to Tuesday, May 5th. - The Junior Hop held at the Gregory House last Friday evening is reported a success in every pirticular. Abont 50 couple were present, the music was excellent, everything passedoH' jileasantly, and the boys paid expenses. - Kev. C. H. Brigham gave on last Suuday evening the ftrst of a course of six Lectures on the Fathcrs of the Latín Church. The lecture for next Sunday eveuing will be on St. Jerome, the Translater of the Latin Bible, the work of Bethlehem. - The persons who committed the recent burglaries have not yet been captured. John Briggs and Thos. Congdon were arrested on Friday last on the charge of being connected with the robberies, but on exaraination before Justiee McMahon were discharged. - Mr. James B. Woodruff, father of Dr. and 1'. D. Voodruff,of this city, died at the residence oí his B on on Monday. Mr. W. had arrived at the good oíd age of 90, and was active and vigorous until quite lately. He had resided in this section of country since 1836. - Harper, the notorious, proposes to make itwann for the Detroit Post. He intends to mstitute a suit for libel, for publishing au item in regard to his last atrest ánd fine. He probably considera his character damaged to the amount of a million dollars or less. -At a meeting held Mast Saturday morning the following editors of the Chronicle were elected for the ensuing year : From the societies, J. C. Knowlton, of Ann Arbor, and L. C. McPiieron, ofDecatur, UI. ; from the independents, J. B. McMahon, of Manchester, and B. C. Keeler, of Chicago. -E. J. Johuson made an assignment last weck to C. H. Richmond, Esq. His assets, howéver, are considerably in excess of his liabilities, and there appears to have been no reason for the assignment, unless it was the fleroeness of credi'ors. His affairs will probably soon be iu goód shape again. - As the time draws near for taking the Senior pictures we may expect to see the youths stroking the upper lip where some day will grow a moustache, which day they hope will arrive before their time comes to sit. Let the youngest t taken last. S. B. Revenaugh does the work again this year. - The intertsting lectures on Physiology givtu by Dr. Ford came to an end with ths last semester. The last day the Professor dissected a fresh brain before a large audience. These lectures have bave been attended by large numbers, and the ladies have at times threatened to outnumber the gentlemen -Prof. Adams will deliver a course of lectures, probably commencing this afternoon, and contmuing on Friday afternoons, upon " Parliamenkry Government in England." The first two will 6 more of a historical than the remainder, which will be descriptive. The lecturea will be held in the Law Lecture Eoom. - On Friday last a man named Gardiner and lus son in attempting to cross the railroad track at the crossing east of the city near the Dor Kellogg place, barely escaped being killed. The wagon was struck by the engine, the occupauta thrown out, and the boy considerably inJured. The wagon was completely used up. - A meeting was held in Detroit on Monday euing last, totake action looking to the formaron of a State Pioneer Society. Prof. Ten Brook, f the University, read an interesting autobiographical sketch, giving some incidents in his life a' a farmer's boy, college student, and editor of ""e ot the first religious ournals ever published in Michigan. - There is always considerable excitement among students when the results of the examiuationa become known. This time the Júniora are indignant. The Professor of Physics, finding a rtmiirkable similarity in the papers presented, tatermined to require a re-examination of upwMd of twenty of the boys, on the ground of cessive "ponying." This caused consternaron in the camp, and what troubles the unfortunates now is how to get out of the muddie m the cheapest manner. We suggest to the Pro. 'essor that it would be better to keep an eye Pen, and not trust too much to the natural repugnance (f) of college students to riding. William Masón, of Webster, a man cmployed by one Boyle, died last week. Drs. Leiter and Smith, of tliis city, made a post morcm examination, and crime to the conclusión that doath resulted from acute inflammation brought on by esternal causes. It is said that Mason stated befare his dcath that lic had been terribly beateu by his employcr. - Professor Morse, in his lectures on Monday and Tuesday evenings of next week, will givc an explanation of the theories of Evolution. While strictly scientific in character, the lectures wilj be within the comprehension of any person of ordinary intelligence, and will bo fully illustrated with blackboard sketches of the kind which attracted so much atteiition when the Professor was here in November. - A curious parchment manuscript was picked up at Jackson several months since, and brought to this city by one of the students and submitted to Dr. Brigham for his opinión as to what it was_ It is in the shape of a strip about four inches in width and several feet long, the characters being cvidently made with great care, and it was illustrated with pictures. Dr. B, pronounced it an Ethiop'ian prayer book, and he intends to study it further. It is well preserved, and how it happened to be at Jackson is a mystery. - Examinations at the University were concluded last week, and on Monday morning the cliapel was crowded with anxious students, waiting to hear the reporte. These returned an unusually large immber of " plucked" ones, the misfortunes being heavy in the modern languages. The slaughter was greatest among the Freshmen. "We think these results show, not that there is a lack of attention to study, but that the instructors are hearing on a little harder. In fact the number of " conditions" among the upper-classmen seem to show that Junior ease and Senior laziness are things of the past.