Local Affairs
SUBSCRIBE F011 THE AllCiUS. - The county fair begins next Wednesday. - About aeveuty -live persons went to the tute fair trom this city. A new churcli is to be built by the A. M. church Society of Ypsilanti. -Every farmer sliuuld briug something for shíliition at the county fair next week. - A thief extracted íl 50 froto tlie Peninjar mili In Dexter eme uight last week. - Sineiii by all the pupila is the new order il things iu tho ohapel exercisee uf the High chool. - The Uniou School of Ypsilanti com,enced work on Mouday last with a largo atndance. - Prol Muses Coit Tyler will preach at the „agregatirmal Churoh, in Webster, next Sun;lV moruing. - The portly form of Prof. Benyol, of the ormal School, m seen upon our streets on iiturday last. _Nina unhappy ooopU will seek to have ,eir matrimonml bonds untied at the court ow in session. -Prof. Ehaha Jones has returned-to this ity aud located in tlie house of Wm. Terhune n State street. - The State Normal opens next Monday. 'rot'. Ketabrook, the principa!, is rapiilly reiTeriBg froin his sickness. - Sheehan & Co. will occupy the old dining hall ot W. IX Smith on Stnté strest with Gents' BWnishing establisHment. _-A pumpkin weighing fitty-six pounds as on exhibition at T. Taytor'a grooery store at ijaturday. Some pumpkin, that. - The Rev. O ,T. Pernn, the new M. E. astorat Ypsilanti, made :i very favorable imtession on his eongregation last Sunday. - A sltght trost visited some portions of this mnty iu Friday night last, bat it did little unage. Ooru was liurt a littlu in some laces. - The district M. E. Conference of this mnty will be held at the Methodist Church i this city on Tuesday aud Wadneedvy, the Ist and 22d. - The tank in the water tower at the Unirsity is receiving lts hoops ot iion. It will . put to the test to-day or to-nmrrow by being lunped full of water. - J. M. Wheeleraud family start for Europe ext week, to remain one year and a half perups two. They sail direct for Breinen and go ïence to Copenhagen. - Geo. A. (rilbert was the fortúnate man re■rred to last week, iu the appointment as ostal clerk oii the tast mail route. He left jr his work on Monday. - Frederick Donner was badly hurt yestrrlyafternoou by a falllug plank which stiuck im on tho back while hè was ussisting in low9Ig a platform m University Hall. - The Kev. H. F. Belser of Buey rus, Ohio, is aucepted the cali of Zion church in this ty to their pastoiate. He will commeuce his ,bors here about the Ist of ( Ictober. - The church in lower town is uudcigoing ipairs. Ahout one hundred dollars will be pended on it. A few years since an entire tw roof was contributed to it by Dr. Chase. - Mrs. Fitzgerald feil f rom a secoud story iodow of University Hall, on Saturday last, wnthe paveoient below and suffjre.1 severe juries. Fortuuately uo bones were broken. - A match game of base ball was played in ii city on Weduesday afternoou between the nu Arbor aud Ypsiranti uines, resulting in ie victory of the former, the score standing uto 12. - Jas. Toms will make his usual display of ovrers aud plauts at the fair next week, but ili not compete for any of the premiums fered, preferring to leave the field clear for nmteurs. - Rev. Mr. Langcake, of Montr al, will Bcture at the Catholic Church uext Monday veuing, upon the ediicational questioo. The ictare will be free, aiu. the public aru mvited jattend. - Wm. Cousius has bought three lotfl on he corner of South University and Twelfth treets, which he will devote to the raising of llanta. A greenhouse will furnlsh iluwers in iLundance. - Messrs. J. C. KnowUou and V. H. Lane ■eturned to this city on Sunday morning, trom kit business trip West. They report a six ireeks'profit oi f 250 each. Who wouldn't sell the Universal baíh r - Prof. M. C. Tyler has in preparation a survey or history of American literature. The work will be published by (x. P. Putnuin V; Sons, of New York, and will be ready lor the public in a few months. -Prof. John E. Eastwood, of this city le&ves on Monday next for the field of his labora at Bethauy, West Virginia. He occufies the position of professor of natural science iu Bethany College. - The Circuit Court lias been occupied thus fat this week with a slamier suit of Orrin F. Mlbert vs. Philo Fowler. The little " onpleasmtness'' grew out of the buruing, accidental ör otherwise, of au insured )arn. -C. S. Wortley, formerly of the firm of Saunders & Wortley, Ypsiianti, will hereafter occupy the store recently vacated by D. B. Greene. The building has been raised, and baa received a new plate-glass front. - Un Thursday afternoon of last week the little daughter of Jay Roath, aged three aud one-half years, while jumping off a lounge feil aud broke her collar bone. The bone was iet by Dr. Smith and is now doiug well. - Several boxes of glassware for the laboritory were reteived on Wednesday from Berh, This is tlie first supply tliat has ever been hipped directly froui Europe to the Umversi'y. The articles all came on their long journey with perfect safety. - The laboratory and adjoining buildings have outgrowu the capacity of the old boiler which has supplied the steam for heating the buildings and for running the machinery, and two new boilers are being put in, each 'arger than the old oue. More rem bas been provideil to receive them. - lhe ludios ot the Baptist Church have secured tlie privilege of iurnishing meals on Uie fair gi-ouuds durmg the fair next week. Tlie ladies oi the same society furnished the Neals at the saine place last year, and gave excellent satistaction. They shouid receive a liberal patronage. - The miasion at the Catholic Church closed l&st Sunday evening with a lecture by the Rev. Mr. Laugcake. The mission was very success"I aud was attended by large audiencos at each service This week Mr. Langcake is bolding a mission at the church in Nurthfield, wlrich will tenninatc next Sunday evening. - Boys steal nielons occasionally around "ter. They get adniünislied too, of the wickeüness oí' such a course, by the coutents f oíd sliot guns. A charge of rock salt went 'jiog through the nielon patch ot Nicliolas i'au Kiper lutely, and acciilentaüy hit a young American, quite seiïously interiering with his Wrauemeiitá fur sitting dowu tliereafter. - Frank Ulood, of Dexter, had a narrow cape from death on the 9th. He tried the ioolish experiment of bo&rding au expi-ess 'wiu as it canie into the station. Before he Sot throuh with his job he had fallen upon tlie rail in front of the wheels, but tortunatcly j Was swept off by the biakes and his lite saved. - Warner, the clothier, has just opeued a stock uf men' boys', and chihlren's cloth'Og. Buitable for fall and winter. Uu has atao a larga aaeortment of piece goods for merchant Wloring, which he is offering at low ügures. " you wish to secure a good bargaiu iu either ready-made clotbing or a line suit made to order, cali at Wagner's, X,,. 21 Soutli Main rtteet. - The mammoth dry goods and oarpel house of Wines & Worden is filled with oew goods oï every description. Their display of dïeas goods is as fine as was ever seen in the city. Their stock is complete in all lts departmenta, and aU are sure tobe please.l with their pusohuea at that store. - Smith's Hall on State street is nearly oompleted, the boarding hall beiug already in operation. The whole is quite haudsomely eqipped, and ia noteworthy for its conveuienee. A private staircase aud waiting room has heen provided for the special use of ladies who may desire to board there. A formal opening "i the dancing hall will be made to-morrow. A few days since a letter was received by the Recorder, from a gentleman in an eastern city, addressed to the " Chief Engineer of the Ann Arbor Water Works," asking for :i copy of his animal report, together with tlie cost and capacity of the works. The letter was handed over to a propnetor of one of the " liauly " systems to furnish the infornmtion. - The new stock of dry goods of Messrs. Bachifc Abel have mostly arrived aud are being exhibited. The stock is one of the largest aud best ever brought to this city, equal to that of any store in the State. Their stock embraces all the latest styles of dress goods, and is complete in every particular. Their store is well worthy a visit of the en tire community. - The metallurgical rooms at the University, both for practical work and for lectures, are undergoing preparation. The operating room is in the basement of the east wing of the laboratory building, aud is already supplio.l with assay furnaces- two of them for gold and silver- with forges aud pumps, tools, etc. The lecture room is on the Hoor above, and uext to the water tower. Mrs Roswell Moore, who resides on South Main street, slipped and teil from the door step of her residence Saturday atternoon last, breaking her hip boue and otherwise ïujuring hor internally. Dra. Smith and Watson are attendmg physiciaus. Mrs. Moore'a extreme age, "■") years, adds much to the aggravated character of her injuries. She is, however, meudiug very gradually. - That sombre miracls of music, Blind Torn whose performance on the piano is as entertainiug as it is inexplicable, and whose capabilities, or rather gifts, seem to brighten with the lapse of years, is billed tor Hill's Opera House next Tuesday uight, Sept. 21st. The mere anuouncement that he will appear is always suflicieut to insure a tull house iu Ann Arbor. Beserved' seats at Fiske ifc Douglas' book store. - Special arrangements were completed on Wednesday, whereby parties may seud telegrams via. the Western Union Telegraph and the Atlantic cable, írom this city direct to any poiut in Uraat Britam and Ireland. This arrangement reduces the rates to 35 cents a word in curreucy. Heretofore tliey have been more than doublé this amount at a gold standard. This will be good news to many as uo smal 1 number of messages are sent from this office to the " old country." - Auother unfortunate accident occurred at Wm. Noble's plaiuiug mili on Saturday last: John Avmstroug had the third and-lourtU tiugers, and a large portion of his left hand cut away by the kuives iu a plaimng mili. He did uot know that the uuder kuives were running aud so gat his hand too close to theinjin attemptiiig to remove some obstruction from the machine. Mr. Armstrong has worked a plaiug rnill for tweuty-five years, so novices are not the only ones who get injured by macliiuery. - The " corner" on butter which has prevailed for the past ten days has been broken, for a time at least. Good butter is now being procured Irom Western towns by some of our leadiu g groceryinen at pnces that it can be retailed for less than the farmers here are asking for it. This panic is not due to a scarcity. There is plenty of butter in the country, and those farmers who have been holding it back in the hope of getting fabulous pnces will do well to ñiul a market, as the bottom price has not yet probably been reached. - The balloon ascensión of Pedanto on Friday last was a perfect success. Starting from the corner of Fifth streets, he rose gracefully into the air, standing only upon a trapeze bar. After reachiug the height of a quarter of a mile or thereabouts, he performed some daring ieats that elicited expressi&us of wonder aud admiraban from the crowdsof lookersou. The wind carned him in a directiou a little west of south or almost directly toward Saline. After remaining in the air about twenty minutes he begau his desceut, aud fiually landed in an oyen field, having gone about six miles. His ascensions from the fair grouud the last two days of the tair will form a prominent attraction. - The people are looking forward with great expectations to the county fair, which begins uext Wednesday. The arrangements of the committees for a successful exhibition are ampie and iast being completed. Now, let the fanners aud artisans ot the county give their aid by making eutries of such articles as they have for exhibition oê farm producís, ñne stock, dairy producís, agncultural and mechanical industries, choice fruits and flowers. If each would make but a single entry oí the best fruits of their labor, it would make the fair a crawniug success, and be worth more than the inoney and time it takes to see it- A large congregation assembled at the M. E Church Sunday morning to listen to the uew minister, Rev. I. N. Elwood. Although there was a strong prejudice against him at the opening of the service, at its close the tables were completely turned. Upwards of tifty men( some of whom had offered their pews for rent the day bef ore, crowded arouud him and extended their cougratulations. A sermón in that churcli has rarely been hstened to with more attentiou. For some reason the sabbatli school, iollowing the morning service, has iiot been so iully attended ior years. Mr. Elwood came here under very trying circumstances, but lie has already ahown himself raaster of the situation, and wül undoubtedly give excellent satisfaction in his work. We congratúlate the chuich on haviug received his services. - The boy murderer, Lyman Burkhardt, was brought into court at the opening of the session on Wednesday aoon, to auswer to the charge of the murder lie committed. In reply to the question of :' guilty or not guilty," he said promptly, "guilty." When asked further by the Court ' ii he knew what pleading guilty meant, he I phed that he understood it perfectly well. ' Aguin the judge inquired : " Do you really ' oomprehend the enonnity of the cnme you I have committed ?" " I do," he calnily ! swered. His whole beiring and conversation in court were marked by the same oold i terence and heartlessness that have characterizud hun all along. He was ordered by the judge to be returned to pnsiou to await his formal trial, which by the law of tho State must be granted. - The boat club of this city received their first purchase yesterday, in the shape of a fine six-oared, lap-stroke boat. It carne from ïhe Excelsior club at Detroit, and cost the neat little sum of flóO. The boat is forty (eet in length by thirty-six iuches beam width, and it beurs the pleasing name of Dione. It was made by Lashapelle of Detroit. For the present, when not in use, it will occupy one of the comfortable coverings in use by Hangsterfer for his own boats. Not iar in the future is the day when the club will construct a capacious boat house on the race near J. M. Switt's milla. TIih rowing grouuds will extund trom the dam to the railroad bridge up the rivur. The club now numbers a membership of twenty. The trial trip with their new boat w:is made yeuterday. It was found to till tliu bill perfectly. The ofticers of the club are : President, N. B. Cole ; Treasurer, W. Doug1m ; Secretary, C. S. Hiacock ; Captain, R. VV. Corwin. - Mr. Jacobs of the flrra of Joe T. Jacobs & Co. lias returned from the East, and now iollows case after case of the finest stock of clothing, gents' fumiahing goods, hats and caps ever brougbt to Washtenaw county. The reputation of this house bas always been that tliey were the leaders in their line, and evidently the samo good Dame must be maintained during the coming fall and wmter. This flnn domg business on the one price system, sellmg every artiole for just what it is worth, and making no misrepresentations, are not induoed to buy inferior goods as parties whose piices ars uot governed by the quality of the article sold. It is a well established tact that ready-made olothing is improving BVery year in style, quality, and durability, until now it compares very favorably with the best custum wolk and at one third less price. Of course the cheap stuff is not all out ot' the raarket, but square dealing tirms like the above do uot purcliuse it. We guarantee this house a good fall trade. - A remarkable surgical operation was performed on Thursday last by Dr. Frotliingham, apon the neck of Henvy Ortman. It had boen currently reported that at the explosión by which he was so severely injured in his eyes, that glass had penetrated his neck -and lodged tliere and that an operation would be necessary lor its removal. This was not the true state of the case, but a still more frightful condition of things was fouud to exist. Evidently something had peuetrated the carotid artery and allowed the escape of blood to such an exteut that an aneurism, or puisating tumor, was fonmng and increasing in size so rapidly that its thin coat must soon give away to the pressure, and hemorrhage result, which must cause the immediate deatli of the youug man. This sack of blood nad attained the size ot a large orange, and the throbbiugs of the heart could be distinctly feit by a hand placed upon it. To remove this tumor was the only alternative between life and déath, and henee without further delay this uudertakiug was set about. The patiënt was put under the ïufluence of ether and Dr. Frotliingham, assisted by Dr.'s MacLean, Kapp and Oheever and f everal medical students, succeeded in the operation. The aneurism was laid open and the maiu artery secured by ligaturas above and below the cut made by the glass and perniauently closed. The dauger of cutting in such a place may be appreciated by even the unitiated, and the success in such an operation acknowledged by physicians to require the highest degree of suigical skill. Although the young man has been steadily improving Bince, the critical period is probably not yet passed, althongh his physicians have . great contidence in his recovery. But oue other successiul operation of thL kind is on record, and that was performed by Prof. Syme, of Edinburgh, soine years au. Ex-Uov. i elch in JÍUEOPE. - A letter to his imily from Ex-Gov. I'elch, received ou Satrday laot, and dated Aug. 2(ith, contuina ame very interesting accounts of wliat he had een on his journey. The letter was written t Charing-Cross, Lbndon, and we are perïitted to extract the following f rom it: "I njoyed my stay at Eilinburgh very much. 'here is no end to the things to interest one liere. The day before I left, I went up to iterling and visited the old castle there. 'rom the top of it twelve battle h'elds are in all view. The view is one of the most lovely ever saw. Every foot of the ground is highy cultivated, and its present quiet and rural speet would seem little to comport with the dea of the bloody battles it has witnessed. )n these fields kingdoms have been lost and ion. In oue room in the castle three kings rere boru, and hure also the dagger of a king lew one of his nobles and the wiudow is hown through which his body was thrown out ato the ditch below. Here also is to be seen he pulpit from which John Knox preached he coronation sermón of Mary Queen of icots. The place is pointed out in the old cahedra! where the corouation took place. On ny way froxn Ëdinbuxgh we stopped over at delrose and went to Abbotsford and through ir Walter Scott's house, and also went to )ryburgh abbey where he and his family all ie burried. In Melrose abbey the heart of the ;reat Robert Bruce is burried. All these hings it is oí course very iuteresting to see, md I have enjoyed it very much." Mr. ?elch's course in the old country thus far, has een principally as follows: After landing at ueonstown, he proceeded to Cork, and then vent through Dtiblin, Belfast, G-lassgow, EdDburgh, and from theuce to Loudon as reated above. He will retnain abroad at least ill after the middle of Xovember. M. E. Ciiuuch ArpoiNTMENTS. - Thefollowng are the apponitnieuts made for the Aun irbor district of the Detroit Conterence, which :losed its session at Flint last week: Scth Reed, Presiding Eider. Aun ArboT - I. X. Elwood. Augusta - J. B. Russell. Brighton- F. V. Warren. CUelsea - Dan E. Shier. Danrille- C. W. Austin. Dexter- J. C. Wortley. X) xboro - J. E. Diventy. Gvass Lake - John A. Mcllwain. Hunburg - F. E. Pierce. Hunnetta- W. M. Tnggs. 1. sco-D. J. üdell. Lima and North Lake - L. J. Whitcomb. Milan - S. J. Brown. Oikville- E. P. Pifirce. W. Hugadorn. Saline- W. J. Campbell. Salem and Northfleld- J. K. Noble. South Lyons - A. F. Hoyt. L'nadilla- B. F. Pritchard. Waterloo- A. W. Wilson. Ypsilanti- U. J. Perrin and W. Dawe. Liroy - J. H. Caster. Williainstou- H. T. Evans. Howell- Jesse Kilpatrick. W Piurot. Amollé the ministers whose ñames are familiar in this vicinity, we notice W. H. Shier goes to Adrián; E. H. Pilcher is made Presiding Eider of Detroit district; L. R. Fiske remains pastor of the Central, and J. M. Fuller takes charge of the Jefferson Avenue church, Detroit; A. F. Bournes, Presidiug Eider of Flint district ; D. C. Jacokes, Wyandotte . S. 01 emente, Northville; G. H. Field, Manchester ; S. P. Murch, Sharon ; T. C. Gardner, Presiding Eider of Port Huron district, aud J. S. Smart pastor of the Port Hurou church. University Re-Union.- The session of the VT. E. Conference lias brought quite a number f Umvergity men to our city, and it occurred ;o Büine of the boys here that it would be a jood time to have a little gathering of the sons f "Our Alma Mater." So they scurried -ound, and the result was that at 9 o'elock in ;he eveuing, the foHowing found themselves sitting round the iestive board at the Palace Cee Cream Parlors ; Rev. L. E. Fiske, D. D. '66 ; llev. A. J. Bigelow oi '55 ; Rev. E. H' l'ilclier of '69, formerly a Regent ; A. L. Aldrich of '60 ; Rev. Dan R. Shier of '63 ; Rev. I. N. Elwood of '67 ; Rev. Campbell, Rev. A. F. Hoyt, Rev. K. Woodhams of '72 ; Rev. PettittMr. Crampton of '74 ; Arthur G. Bishop, E. M. Thayer, W. F. Clark, H. W. Fairbank of 73 ; Thayer, A. W. Clark, F. A. Cady 0Í '7 i ; Délos Fiill of '75 ; James Buckham of '76. Severa! men of the Conference and also sevei-iii residents of Flint were not present. After the discuasion of the vianda and a deal of pleasant chit-chat, the meeting wa organized by the election of Dr. Pileher, as chairman. We should explain that Dr. I'ilcher is an older man than the date of bis graduation would imply. He was a Regent of the üniversity more than tvventy years ago. In 1868-9 he was pastor of the M. E Chuch in Aim Arbor, and wlnle títere studied medicine and graduated in the Medical Department, whioh was establialied while he was Kegent. Speeches were made by Messrs. Pileher, Fiske, Bigülow, Elwuod and Aldrich, and a very pleasunt hour was passed. The " old boys" forgot tlioir years aml were youug agaiu witli the boys of fewer days. Thtjre are" twulve Univaraity men in tlu; Detroit Coutereuce. - Flint Oiobe.
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