Doings Of The Common Council

The Coinmon Council held a regular meeting ön Monday evening. AU the members were present except Aid. "Walker and Eogera. The journal ei last meeting was not read. Petitions were received and disposed of, as follows : For the increase of the saloon Hcense fee to Y200. To special committee of five heretotore appointed. From R. J. Speechly, for permission to erect a teniporary building on the west side of Main street, adjoining Schumacher's store. Granted, subject to the right of the Council to revoke the permission and order removal at any time. From Christian Walker and others, for the extensión of the sidewalk on West Liberty street. To Sidewalk Committee. From Fred. Kirn, for damages sustained by a defectivo bridge. To City Attorney. On motion, Mr. W. H. Besimer addressed the Council, urging a strict enforcement of the ordinances requiring saloons to be closed at 11 o'clock p. M., and on Sunday. Mr. B. claims to obey such ordinances cheerfully, and wants other saloon keepers compelled to obey them. On motion, it was ordered that a special committee of three be appoiuted on the enforcement of the ordinances. Ou motion, the order adopted at the last meeting for laying a walk on Miller Avenue was reconsidered, and on further motion, the Sidewalk Committee was authorized to estabhsh the grade for such walk. The order for a sidewalk on Spring streot was also reconsiderei. Aid. Seabolt, Deubel and Walker were appointed a committee to procure the repair of the Fifth Ward pound. The Marshal was ordered, on motion, to enforce the State law in regard to fast driving over the river bridges within the city. Aid. Ehodes, chairman of the Finance Committee, reported recommending the allowance of certain bilis. Bills allowed, and warrants ordored drawn on the several f unds, as follows : General Fund, $357 50 Geueral Street Fund, 534 96 First Ward " 63 64 Second " " 236 69 Third " " 225 51 Fourth " " 395 9.9 Fifth " " 68 75 Sixth " " 162 82 The bill of J. C. Watson & Co. was referred to the Recorder, to report upon at next meeting ; the bill of Ann Arbor Gas Light Co. (for June), to the Lamp Committee, for investigation ; and the bul of M. Kane, for street work, to Aid. Porter and Smith, for correction. A motion being made to retain Policeman Porter ou the forcé, Aid. Cate moved to amend by limiting the force to three men. Accepted, and lost, by yeas, Aid. Cate, %Grossman, Schmid, Mclntyre, Deubel, and Mayor'; naya, Aid. Wood, Rhodes, Seabolt, Porter, Smith, and Recorder. Adjourned. We are quito coníident tliat every Ypsilantian will aid in keephig good order to-day. We should have favored an ordiuanoe shutting up the saloons on the Fourth. Bat since they are to be open, we.hope that every keeper will be mindful that the credit of his saloon will be at stake, and not sell to men likely to become intoxicated. Let citizens from aoroad aee that we havo an orderly city, one of wliich w.e are proud. - Ypsilanti Commercial. And this af ter Ypsilanti orators have told the people ot Ann Arbor just " how to do it ;" after we have been made to heliere that the traffic was neither tolerated nor winked at in our ncigboriug city ; and after the re-election of Mayor Snyder on the platform of a strict enforcement of the State law, which is as stringent as any " ordinance." What " victims of raisplaced confidence " we have all been ! A Dundee corresiiondent writes us as folio we, under date of July óth : We had a large flre here this morning, about 4 o'clock. Stowell & Paxton's gnst mili bnrned up. It was set on flre all believe, on the flrst floor, above the stones. If it had been wiudy a large part of the town must have gone. Loss about $9,000 ; insurance, 18,000. A üartford man keeps a spade close by his kitchen door, and wnenever a tramp comes along and begs for a dinner, he is requested to earn it by digging four feet square in the garden, but the tramp invariably refuses to pay ' his price. On Friday evening of last week a " Ineaiy " scufile took place in the saloon of HofFsttter Bro., on Main street, betwcen Berthold Stoll i"u(1 Christian (r. Walker. Both carne down on the floor together, and on gettin up Walker complaiiieil of being jarred and was assisted to his home Tiy Christian Beyer and John Hogan. Medical aid was immediately called, but Walker died about 6 o'clock p. M. on Saturday evening. An inquest was held on the 5th by Coroner Breakey, and after hearing Drs. Kapp and Georg, who attended the deceased and made a post mortem examination, and other witnesses, a verdict was rcndered, saying that "Christian G. Walker died on the 4th of Jnly, at 6 r. M., and that the cause of his death was rupture of the intestinos, and general inflammation of tho peritonicum, langs and viscera, said troubles having been produced while in a friendly acuffle with Berthold Stoll, and the jury do exonérate said Berthold Stoll from all blanie or malice, or evil inteut in said affair." It was in proof that Walker had been drinking, but that he had drank nothing at the saloon of Hoffstetter, where the affair occurred. Mr. Walker was a wagon-maker by trade, agod about 32 years, and leaves a widow and two children. He had a policy on his life for $1,000, on which the last premium had not been paid or is in dispute. Geo. E. Sperry, living in Pittsfleld, about three miles from this city, advises us that the wind accompanying the heavy rain of Tuesday evening, approached the magnitude of a tornado. He had some ten acres of timber prostrated - say from 300 to 500 trees torn up by the roots or twisted off from 20 to 30 feet from the ground, some of them severa! feet in diameter. Stephen Mills, on the Saline road, lost 100 loaded peach ♦rees and suffered other damage to small fruite - both from wind and hail. A Mr. Stevens had some of his buildings unroofod, and other damage was done to crops and fences in the vicinity. Two storms seemed to meet at the poiut of greatest destruction. "We hear also of corn and wheat being prostrated In other directious, and of damage to orchards and small fruit plantations. The woes of an An n Arbor lady are thus related in a letter to a friend in Brooklyn N. Y., who made the Brooklyn Union the channel oi their publication : " Such a time as I've had with kitchen girls ! I'vo only had eight since I canie home. One was hired away trom me, and the next got married. Another was shiftless or didn't want to work, but was very pious. She went to Sundayschool after she had been here a week and nevr came back. Number four got married. fiv was colored and was too uutidy to be fitly characterized by written dsscription. The next was an American girl " brought up " as well as any one, so her mother said, and she would like, as far as possible, to be treated as one of thé iamily. She stayed a week. I gave her the usual wages and hired the washing done. All she did was to wash the dishes [with the dish-cloth tied on the end of a stick], and cover the kitchen floor, stove, and table with litter from the last meal. She broke $1.50 worth of dishes, stole six of my best handkerchieis and left town. The seveuth was so dirty that I stuck to everythmg she had touched. I only kept her four days. The last girl came on Thursday and left the next Satuiday night. The work was too hard for her."