Local Brevities

' LBD8. _ Circulan. i - Bill-Hoa.ls. Letter-Heads. - Shippmg Tags. - Printed at the Aeous office. _ In the best style aud cheap. - Don't order elsewhere before calling. Hot days, eool nights, and dry all the time : that's tlie record of the weather for the current week. - Corn is suffering Irom the dry weather, and apples and peache uro reportad shrinking and falling off. _ A J. Sutherland has broken ground for a house, on the lot recently bought by him on State street. - H. C. Davis, of Ypsüanti, Iris been appointed principal of the Dextor Union School for the coming year. _Tho Turners celébrate the armiversary of tbeir organizatiou at tlieir park this evening. Music by Gwinner's Band. _D. F. Smith, of the Cliftou Pouse, Whitmore Lake, has issued cards for a Harvest Hall, to be held Friday evening, August 7th. - J. D. Warner, of the late University graduatiug class (74), has accepted the Superintendency of the Bay City and Portsniouth Street Eailway. - I). M. Fiuley, of this city, says that he has cut twenty acres of wheat on his farm in Scio which will go thirty bushels to the acre. Not a íamine tield. On Weduesday, in the Supreme Court, further return was ordered in the case of Urrin F. (iilbert vs. American Insurance Company, appealed froiu this county. _ The severe drouth is working great mjury to the potato erop : beatiug the bugs in fact. If continued much longer the old song will be in order : " Potatoes they grow small," etc. - Rev. S. W. Dufneld occupied the pulpit of the M. E. Church on Sunday forenoon last. The evening services were omitted, the congregation worshiping at the Presbyterian Church. _To McGregor, Iowa: that's where Theodore H. Johnston, oue of the last University graduating class, is to "put in his time" the uext year, - as Superintendent of Schools, nt $1,400 a year. - In the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, the case of Edmund B. Tyler es. Marcus Peatt el al was decided. Decree below as to Mis. Peatt was reversed and the bili dismissed, with costs ot both oourts. - D. W. Palmer, of Bridgewater, was in town on Saturday last, and reported that the harvestnig of a capital wheat erop had been finished. He also said that the oat erop was au unusually large oue. Other crops premiso well. - Prof. A Wiuchell, formerly of this city and late Chancellor of the Syracuse University, sailed from New York for Liverpool, on Saturday last, en route to join his family at Milan, from which city they will go to Geueva. - John J. Eobison, of Sharon, and J. D. Corey, of Manchester, were in the city on Mondar, and gave us mformation that the farmers in lioth those towns were in good spirits over the bountiful crops 1eing harvested and in prospect. - Kev. L. D. Chapín, of Le Roy, New York, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian Church in this city and afterward a professor in the University, spent the last Sabbath (and two or three daja preceding) ainong his old friends, preachïng to his old cougregation Sunday forenoon. - At the recent session of the American Philological Assoriation at Hartford, Conn., Dr. Brigham oi this city was present, and exhibited an old Ethiopian manuscript, picked up aome months ago at Jackson, aud supposed to be a liturgy. D. Brigham also read a paper on " The Falacha Language of Absyinnia." - The " Patrons of Husbandry " of this county have apppinted a grand " Harvest Festival," to be held in a grove uear the villase of Dexter on the 12th of August, - the exercises (a programme of which has not been furnïshed us) to commence at 11 o'clock a. m. We acknowledge, witü thanks, the receipt of an invitation to be pre6ent. - M. McDougall, Esq., of Bridgewater, made the Aegus office a visit on Tuesday, not in au official capacity, however, armed with summons or writ, but to deposit a ?2 legal tender note ia payment for a year's Aeous in advance : his_ twenty-first year under the admmistration of the present publisher. A good example to imítate. - Prot. D'Ooge, of the University, read a paper at the recent annual meeting of the American Philological Association, at Hartford, Coun., on the " Documents Cited in the Üration of Demosthenes against Ctesiphon on the Crown," and found reasons for iuestioning their genuineness. Prof. D. was eleted a member of the Executive Committee. - Last week we itemized the fact that Instructor Blackburn, of the University, was "monarch of alllsuryey" on Orr's Islaud, off the coast of Maine. Sre are sorry to hear that he has since had two uncomfortable companions - pleurisy and rheumatism, - before whose persecution he has been compelled to desert the haven of rest he had discovered and return home. - Within the last few days a petition has been circulated along State street, and generally signed, asking the Council to abate the races um'sance on that street. Used as a trottmg course the street is for several houjs each day unsafe for ordinary driving, - especially for ladies, - or for children who have a right to cross tlie street which every fast horseman ought to be required to respect. Hie to the Fair grounds with your trotting nags, gentlemen. Prof. Bipley, of Oolumbia, Mo., whose daughter is the subject of the following paragraph clipped from the St. Louis Globe, was formerly Superintendent of the Union School atJackon, and after that a professor in the State Norttal School at Ypsilanti : The great subject of comment is the taking of class honors and the law prize by the female gradúate, Miss Julia Eipley. When she took a Greek prize some years ago, her honor resounded throughout the land, but now that she has taken the valedictory of her class and the first law prize, and bids fair to carry off the Stepheus medal in oratory or eommencoment stage, W admirers,and the advocates of equal female aufïrage, know no bounds for their joy. - - -- -- ■■- - Ou Wednesday morning Franklin Lucas, a colored citizen of this city, received a telegram that lús son William, feil overboard from the steamer Peerless, the evening before, off Sluskegon, and was drowned, his body not being recovered. The Peerless runs in the line from Chicago to Duluth, and Lucas was one of the ■Busicians making regular trips on her. Maj. G. T. Clarke, an experienced Civil Engiueer, gives the Akous readers today an article on " Narrow Gauge Eailroads" It will be lollowed by another on the same subject, wlncli wül be found to have a local interest. We are indebted to Bro. Kimball, of the Tontiac Qazette, Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, for a copy of the neatly printed Premium List of the coming Fair, to be hald at Eaat Saginaw Sept. H-19. Also for a ticket f admission to the Fair and ita privileges. Tho dignity of labor is well exemnlified at the White Mountains. A Dartmouth UUege student, who is to enter the Devmity School at Cambridge, next sunimer, is now " head waiter " at the hotel, wd others from the saine college are porers and servants in the Ammonusuo valey- School teachers, who do not think 'tunladyliketo work, stand behind the ables of the Twin Mountain House, none ol whom but could grace ita parlors at ie conclusión of their toil. On Sunday evening last, about the hour of 11 o'clock, a small soap faetory in this city was partially burned out, which catastrophe waB annouuced in three of the Detroit dalliea of Tuesday morniug, a3 follows ! Tlie Free Press said : S. D. Williams' soap ïactory, a small wooden building on the river bank, was burned Sunday night between eleven and twelve o'clock. Loss, $350; fully insured in the Phcenu of Philadelphia The fire is supposed to have originated from the chimney, although there are suspicions of incendiansm. And the Post : The soap factory of Daniel Milieu, located near the river in the Fifth ward, was partially destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Through the efforta of the Fifth ward fire company the damage was limited to the roof and a portion of the interior of the building. The building and stock were insured for Ï200 and $300, respectively, in the Girard, of Thiladelphia. Tho loss is estimated at Ï600. And the Tribune : I. S. Hillen's soap factory, situated in the Fifth ward, was discovered to be on flre about eleven p. M. on the 29th. The fire company belonging to that ward was soon on hand and succeeded in extinguishiug the fire, not, however, uutil much damage had been done to the building and stock. The loss is mostly covered by iusurance in the Grirard of New York. Now, can any reader teil whose factory was burned, whore it was located, what the loss, or ín what company insured ? The facts are these : The building was owned by Daniel S. Millen; was located in the Fourth (iwt the Fifth) ward, on the flat between the railroad and the river ; was occupied by D. S. Millen & Co., soap manufacturera. Loss on building, Ï200; on contents, Ï150, and fully coveied by insurance in the Girard of Philadelphia. lt was the Fifth ward fire company which came to the rescue and saved the building from total destruction. The firm had shipped out a large tiuantity of soap within a day or two, whicli matenally reduced the loss. Origin of the fire not definitely known. - We are advised that Mr. H. H. Howe, one of the members of the soap firm, met with a serious personal loss and one not covered by the policies of insurance : say, a pair of new overalls and a few other traps and calamities. We bolieve that Harlowe lost his clothes once before, - whilo taking a morning bath in the limpid waters of an Illinois stream. He will be ruined one of these days. But, then we can't say of him (jast yet) as the obituary poet of the Philadelphia Leilger says of a receutly departed boy : " Lay aside the llttle trousen, That our darling used to woar ; He will neveron earth want them. 1 le has climbed the golden stairs." We have the July number of Rounds' Printers Cabinet, a beautifully printed quarterly. In addition to mauy articles of lesser interest to the craft - the haudsomely displayed advertisemeuts not being the least in the list - there is a five page narrative of the recent excursión of the Illinois State Press Association from Chicago to Baltimore, Washington, and Cincinnati. - We also have the July number of The Chicago Specimen, presenting the business and claims of the Chicago Type Foundry (Marder, Luse & Co.,) to the patronage of the craft. - Also, the July Proof-Sheet, an elegant typographical specimen, coming from the foundry of Collins & McLeester, Philadelphia.