Local Affairs

Sleighs were out yestertlay afternoon. - Not niuch hke baiiny spriug : yesterday's nor'easter. - Rev. Dr. Cocker will give the discourse in University Hall ou Suuday afteenoon next, at 3 o'clock. - Wm. B. Lawitt, of this city, graduated at the recent Commencemont of the Detroit Medical College. -A. beautiful pen picture haugs oonspicuously in Tiew iu the ottica of the Couuty Clerk. Drop m and se it. - On Tuesday Justice McMahon billeted Win Hii, colored, to the House of Correction, Detroit, for 65 days. Appropriating chickens. -Rev. Mr. Brigham will lectura on Suuday evening uext, at the Unitarian Church, on " John Knox and the Koformation in Scotlaud. - Thesuitof Kmne va. Beal (the $30,000 railroad stock subsenption) is set down for April 11, in the United States Circuit Court, Detroit. -We have received a large packago of choice flower and garden seeds iroin James Vick, Rochester's popular and reliable florist and seedsuian. -Dr. E. ïj. Dunster, of this city, lectured laat evening (if thero was no slip) before the Y. M. C. 4. of Battle Creek. Subject : " Spoutaneous Generation." - At a meetiug of the freshman class held on Saturday last, Charlea S. Mitchell was elected Seer in place of James ï. Eaglesfield, who leaves college because ot his health. - Mra. Elizabeth Everest, who has lived in thw city over 40 years, died on l'riday last, aged Tl years. Her funeral was attended from her residence on South División street, ou Sunday afternoon. -Rev. E. H. Chapiu failed to meet his engagement before the Students' Lecture Associatioa on Wednesday eVtning, because of uckue8s, The association has been extremely uiifortunate this seasou. - We regret to hear that Peter H. Abel, of the firm of Bach & Abel, one of the most active and best business men of this city, is very sick with Bright's disease of the kidneys, and that his recovery is despaired of. f222 40 : that was the sum disbursed for the relief of the poor oí the city during the monta of February : First ward, $25 58 ; Secoad, 123 11; ïhird, $36 64; Fourth, tai 82; Fifth, 49 50; Siith, $19 82. -The arresta made by the pólice during February were : druuk and disorderly, 4; keeping saloon -without a license, 2 ; violat"g the Sunaay ordinance, 1 ; robbery, 3 ; violating slaughter-house ordiuance, 1 ; violating kk ordinance, 1 ; total, 12. -Dan Mülen said he was going to send a 'm of his soap to Washington : which would I a waste of raw material for the 8 to 7 of the Bectoral Commission can't be washed white en by Dau's soap, no more than can J . Madison Wolls and his colleagues. -We are indebted to Senator Burleigh for copy of the " revised charter " of this city- a document fearfully and wouderfully contruoted. lts 86 priuted bill pages conceal a heap of cats and no little fun. - Hon. A. J. Sawytr asks us to say to the tizens of this city that he lias sent a large Uuraber of printed copies of the " revised charter " to Mayor K.nne and Recorder Kinttef ot whom they can be procured for exam'ation by all interested. - If the new city charter shall fall by its n weight we greatly fear that our " docks " Wl" be allowed to decay and rot, and that ""y will be scènes ot riot, disorder, and caras?e. And, besides, some poor fellow will W to get the position of doek master. -- A Register "special" reports the inauguJMm of Hayes celobrated at Dexter by the "nnging of bells and the firing of cannon." 1 Prominent citizen of Dexter requests us to laJ' that the ringing and iiriug were in celetiou oi the electiou of Joha Costello as ■resident of the village. - March 3 the city treasurer reported a lalce m hand of 82,343 09, belongmg to the "'lowing funds : general f und, $830 22 ; geu■" street fund, $120 34 ; contingent fund, 7 57; First ward fund, $16 98; Second, 97; Third, $59 50; Fourth,$10 25; Fifth, 0269; Sixth, 258 57; Firemau'sfund,$5 00; "y cemetery fnud, $6 00. fMij. John Tyler, brother of'M. C. ïyler, 'hiscity, has been appomted Collector of U8toms at Buffalo, New York, in which he resided three or four years. The Courier 9m) ay8 " he is not a politician," while the "nmercial AdverUser (Kep.) saya " we do not ate 'o Touch foi hia partiean fidelity." - - -We hare been unable to fiad any warrant for the following item which appeared in the Chronicle of Saturday last: "Toe ' old ' Univerity uien will be saddened to hear of the doath of Mra. Dr. Tappan. Her health for some time hat been poor, and her death recently occurred at the home of heraelf and the Doctor in Switzerland." - A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Washtenaw County Agricultural and Hortioultural Society is to be held at the Court House in this city on Tuesday next, at 11 o'clock a. m., to confer with ofïicera and meraber8 of the Eastorn Michigan Agriciiltural and Mechauical Aasociation, and perfoct a unión of the two societies if deemed advisaldo. - The Recorder's animal report, made to the city Couucil ou Mouday evening last, showed the receipta of the iisca 1 year as ioilows, aside froni the annual tax levy : From Justices of the Feace, $769 85 ; Marshal and witness foes, $26 81 ; from S. M. Webster, ex-city treasuror, dividend, $576 87 ; State liquor tax for 1875, $20 ; State liquor tax for 1876, $3,779 85 ; from saloon licenses under city ordinance, $1,869 75; from other licenses, f 1Ó2 75. Total, $7,198 88. - There are numerotu acts upon the statut book8 of this State which conflict with or " contra vene " the revised charter of this city, but which are quite important and necessary to other cities or the Stite at large, and yet this charter baldly declares: "All acts or parts of acts contravenmg the provisions of this act, or inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed." A little more care in our amateur charter-mongers would be a desirabla quality. - We had prepared quite a lengthy abstract of that portiou of the revised city charter now pending in the Legislatura which creates the new officers and boards and prescribes their duties, but it is crowded out by other matter. If circumstances make it necessary we shall give it place next week. There are sorae desirable provisions and amendments in the new charter, but as a whole it provides complicated, cumbersome, and coatly machinery. - That March Hmb was a short-hved animal : in fact waa al most still born. The truthful inscription on lts little tomb-ston might read : " Died Maroh 2, Aet. 24 hours," and that great and beloved poet, Geo. W. Childs, M. A., would doubtless add this " original " stanza : " Since I'ai so quickly done for I wouder what 1 was beirua lor." If the lion will only emulate the lamb, in his speedy deatli, there wiü be soma compensatioQ or cousolation. - The city charter needs soino amending- not in the way of enlarging the duties of the Common Council, but in providing funda and officers for the support and care of the poer, and m more clearly defining the duties of soine of the executive officars, but the revisad charter for which no one seems to stand sponsor (unless it be the State Treasury and State printer), is justly the laughing stock of every intelligent citizen who has examinad the document, lts compilers are not a success as charter-mongers. - A distinguished citizen, Judge , well, we won't cali hia name, having signad a protest against the passage of the revised city charcharter, afterward expressed a desire to get his namofr. The folio wing proTlsion recouciled him to its multiplied, cumbersome, and expeusive boards and machinery : " The faith and property of the city of Detroit shall romain pledged for the final payment of all bonds issued, and of all moneys borrowed, by ity of, and in accordance vrith this or any otheract of the Legislatura of this State." And would n't other towns and cities also rejoice to have the clauae become law and saddlo their debts upon the city of Detroit ? -Ou Tue8day eveniug, Prof. D'Ooge being unwell and unable to fulñü his engagement before the Ladies' Library Association, at the residence of Judge Cooley, Dr. Ford appeared aa his substituto, aud fur about an hour gave an exceedingly interesting talk ou "The Structure of Boues," illustrating and explaining his remarks by the exhibition of a large number of prepared boues as wel! as by charts. We Tenture to say that his hearers have a better knowledge of what compose the boues of the animal frame than they could have obtaiued by days of reading. Two weeks from Tuesday eveniu?, on March 26, Prof. Tyler, at his resideuce, wil! read portious of Tennyson'B Harold. A fire (which some say was prematurely discovered) came near oonvertiug the venerable and stately Court House in this city ínto a mass of mins on Wednesday. Had the fire broke out at 1 o'clock in the night instead of at that hour in the day time, the admirers of that convenient, beautiful, and costly architectural structure would now go about the streets clothed in sack cloth and ashes. The fire was caused by the burniug of the chimuey in the Sheriff's office, and the wall, ceiliug, aud floor above, shovr the narrow esoape. Prompt action saved the building without great loss, and we are pleas-d to be able to say to the economical taxpayers of the county that the loss is fully covered by insurance in reliable compames. - Seriously, the escape of the building and of the important books and records of the Probate and Treasurer's offices was so narrow that the taxpayers, the property-holders interisted in the preservation of records which could not be duplicated, ought to be atimulated to vote for the pending Court House loan. Senator Burleigh'a bill repealing compulsory saloon and restaurant license clause of sec. 2 title V of the city charter was amended in the House on Tuesday, on motion of Uepresentative Sawyer, by attaching the following proviso, and then unanimoualy passed : And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall ba so coustrued as to prohibit the Common Council of said city from regulating by tax or otherwise the business of dealing iu malt, 8pirituous, or intoxicating liquors. The Sonate unanimously concurred in the amendment. We should judge the proviso superfluous in view of sub-sections three and twenty-three of sec. 2, title IV of the charter. The first public entertainment of the Cliosophis Literary Society, of the High School, will take place on Friday eveuing, March 16. Prof. Wilsey will furnish the music. The following is the prográmale : Oratiou, "Warren Hastings," by W. W. Bradley. Impromptu, O. C. Owen. Debate- Resolved, That scieutific is superior to classical education ; affirmative, F. C. Cole ; uegative, F. L. York. Essay, " The night brings out the stars," Miss Eflie Hyde. Declamation, W. B. Uady. Select Keading, Miss Allie Goodrich. " ürucible," Society paper, A. Cottrell. Multum in parvo : that is the motto of the American Agnculturist, or might well be. The March number is packed with good things i for the tock-grower, farmer and gardener, , fruit-grower and florist. No long, dry, and , pointless discussions or essays, but practical, pithy, compact, coucise, and crisp arsicles and , notas. $1.60 a year, postage prepaid. Orange Judd Company, 245 Broadway, New York. ' The Agriculturist and the Aeöus, $2.65. '