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Day
5
Month
June
Year
1874
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Cabds. _ Circulare. _- Bill-Heads. Letter-Heads. - Shipping Tags. - Printed at the Arous office. _- In the best style and CHEA.P. - Don't order elsewhere before calling. - The hill at the south end of State street is being cut down. - División street north of Hurón has been finely graveled. - A heavy but needed job of grading has heen done on Spring street. -There are 83 widows in the Fifth and Sixth wards, in a population of 1,361. __ Hot and cool weather have alternated sinc our last weather report ; but with no rain in this immediate vicinity. - And now LL. D. is one of the titles which prove burdensome to Dr. Cocker. lt was conferred by Tictoria College, Canada. - The dry weather is telling severely on wheat, grass and all spring crops hereabouts, rarden sauce and small fruits included. - A. McReynolds and J. Q. A. Sessions, of this city, were admitted to practice in the United States Circuit Court at Detroit on Tuesday. - The boys say that "The Leviathan" on Wednesday was a "big thing." The stroet parade excelled anything before Been on a " show ilay." - Supervisor Brown counts up but 1,361 in his district : the Fifth and Sixth wards. These fimires show a falling off of 359 since.the c-msus of 1870. - Father Lux, of the Catholic Church in Xorthfleld, died on the 29th uit., Friday last. He was' a native ot Hague, Holland, and was 04 years old. _ Stward Bennett is having the broad gravel walk or avenue leading from the street to the main entrance to TJniversity Hall ceraented. A desirable improvement. - The Circuit Court has been at work on the civil calendar during the week, but must take a recess to-morrow, as Judge Crane must open his Jackson term next Monday. - According to the books of the City Recorder several huudred unclaimed dogs are running at large in the streets of our city. Fifty cents each is the legal price for dog scalps. - The Ckronicle wants a vote taken in the University (of professors and students- the ladies to vote separately) ou woman suffrage. lt would regard the result isa" straw." - We let a lady correspondent criticise Dr. Holland's views of woman suffrage in another column. lt is n't our opinión, however, that she has suecossfully parried the Dr's. telling blows. - The wool market cannot be considered fairly opened in thi3 city, though Baeh & Abel vesterday reported having purchased 1,000 pounds, at 38 a 40 cents. Detroit street quotations are 36 a 44 cents. - Theclassof '49 is to hold its quarter-centennial reunión on Tuesday, the 23d inst., the day before Commencement. Dr. Ed. Andrews, of Chicago, ia President, and T. R. Chase, of Cleveland, Ohio (the ever-present), Secretary. - Report has it that the senior ladies were ignored, in fact insulted at the late class supper, and the Chronicle gives character to the report in this sentence : " To say that the ladies of the olass are infatuated with it (the supper) would be a lie." - The Free Press " local " says that after the sddress of Hon. I. M. Crane, on Saturday las at the unveiling of the Fifth ward soldiers' monument, " Kev. E. Frazer made a few remarks," which may be a good joke on Bob, but is ruther rough ou the clergy. - John W. Renwick, of Salem, says that he has lost 45 acres of clover by the freezing and thawing sort o' winter, followed by the dry spring. His usual clip of from 50 to 100 tons of hay will be reduced below 10 tons. He is drilling iu corn for fodder. - The senior glee clul has gone off on a concerting tour of the State. lts inembers are : J. 5 Eichardson, Jas. H. G-lover, H. Thurber, W. H. Wells, L. Maxwell, Jr., Theo. H. Johnston, Herbert A. Thayer, E. C. Hinman, Jno. E. Ensign, and Jas. F. Potter. - On Monday Judge Crane made a decisión (in part) iu the long pending Beal-Chase mjunction suit. The decree will be found in another column, and no doubt many of our readers will find it interesting reading. lt is said that Dr. Chase will take an appeal to the Supreme Court. - Two way freights collided about one mile this side of Dexter Wednesday forenoon, ditching both engines, and wrecking thirteen cars, to the depletion of the company's treasury in the sum of about $75,000. No one was seriously injured, though James Cunningham was somewhat bruised. - The woman suffrage meeting on Saturday evening was rather slimly attended, and the address of the evening is spoken of by the faithful as a weak affair : the speaker excusing himself for his short comings on the ground that it was a one-sided subject, with no chance for an argument. - Dr. A. C Roberts, of the Fort Madison (Iowa) Democrat, stopped over last Sunday in our city, on his way to attend the meeting of the American Medical Association at Detroit. Dr. R. graduated from the Medical Department of the L'niversity in 1863, and is an amateur rather than a professional journalist. - The Chronicle intimates that champagne corks made melodious music at the late senior supper (after the ladies of the class had been dismissed by " delicate " (?) strategy), and that at 2 o'clock a. m., the hour of breaking up some of the boys couldn't walk an ordinary plank. Frank if not commendable. - At the annual meeting of the stockholders oí the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, held on Monday last, the following oflicers were elected: Directora- R. S. Smith, Christian Mack, W. W. Wines, W. D. Harriman, D. Hiscock, and Wm. Deubel. President- VI. S. Smith ; Vice-Preaident-C. Mack ; Secretary- W. D. Harriman. - At the senior class supper, held at Hangiterfer's on Monday evening of last week, it was voted to hold the first class reunión during Commencement week of 1876, - two years henee,- and the following officers were appoint1 for the occasion : President, J. D. Warner ; Secretary, W. H. Wells ; Orator, L. Maxwell Poet, Miss M. D. Sheldon ; with H. R. Patten. gill and Cal. Thomas altérnate orator and poet - John J. Robison was in town on Saturday ast, and reported, among other good things, a rain so heay on the preceding day as to stop his plows and give him a holiday. And then came Ban LeBaron on Tuesday and put iu a claim that Bridgewater enjoyed a bigger rain the saine day than Sharon. How the rural sinners are Wessed. Is there nothing in the Civil Eights WH against such an uuequal distribution oí favors? - We eau beat the current and well-known story of the potato bugs sitting ou the fence and waiting patiently for the coming up of the succulent plants on which they feed and fatten. A citizen told us a few days ago that he dug his holes, dropped the seed, and returning to the firat hill to begin covering found the bugs at work at the pieces in dead earnest. He says if that'a their gaine he won't fight it out with them. C. S.-Emerson, of Bowling Groen, Ohio, a students in Cornell University, at Ithao, N. Y., while bathing in FM Creek öaturday afternoon was drowned. ïhe oody was recovered.

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