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Day
20
Month
April
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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- See new railroad time-table in this paper. - A new roof haa been put on the sheds of the M, E. Churoh. - Judge Lawronce propoaea to put out 1,600 peach treea this spring. - There is a new comer at the residence of Philip Baoh, - a daughter. - Wheat never looked botter throughout the county than at this time. - The Ypsilanti Beform Club (red ribbon) numbers over 1,000 members. - Tracy W. Koot has formed a partnership with J. M. Willooxson. Card next week. - Flour has " riz " to 19 a barrel, but the price of the Abous still romains at $1.50 a year. - Dr. Douglas advertises two fine pieces of residence property for sale, in this week's Abous. - By order of Judge Harriman, Israel Easty has been committed to the Insane Asylum at Kalamazoo. - The Abous has bono, fide subscriben in eighteen States, two Territories, and the province of Ontario. - The Ypsilanti Musical Union perform The Bohemian Girl " on Thuraday and Friday evenings next. - The Dexter Leader says that all the loases by the late firo hare been adjusted to the satisfaction of all parties. - The High School seniors and júniora are down for a foot-ball match this forenoon, with forty select boys on a sido. - J. M. Wheeler, Esq., is back from his trip to California, but Miss Mary - -Miss Mary no longer - came not with him. -Ypsilanti has a prosperous división of the old order of Sons of Temperance, and it promises to do a good work. - C. W. Case, iormerly of Manchestar, sends }2 for the Abqus : from Mount Idaho, Idaho County, Idaho. Success to him. - The mails now close as follows : Going West, at 10.15 a. m., 4.30 and 6.30 p. m. Going East, at 10 30 a. m. and 4.30 p. m. - Don M. Dickinson, Esq., of Detroit, chairraan of the Democratie State Committee, tarried over the last Sunday in our city. - Hale Bhss, son of Calvin Bhss, now residing in Maywood, 111., visited his old home a few days ago, - accompanied by a bride. - J udge Cooley will go to Baltimore about the first of May, to give a course of lectures on constitutional law in the John Hopkins UniTersity. - The Barrett Dramatic Club has adyertiaeil au entertainment at the Opera House this eveniug, for the boueüt of the University Boat Club. - #f The whangdoodle mourneth," and Pattiaon is hia name : just because 450 electora of Ypsilanti voted for Woodruff for Mayor at the recent election. - Hou, A. J. Sawyer took advantage of a short legislativo recess to spend last Sunday with his family. Hou. E. P. Allen was in town on Monday. - Iu the estáte of John H. Maynard, bankrupt, the final account of B. W. Cheever, asgignee, will be haard at the office of Register Clarke, Detroit, May, 10. - The venerable colored woman, Sojourner who " has come down to us from past generation8"- is announced to lecture at the M. E. Church this evening. - Donatious oí books, magazines, [and papers to the Ked Bibbon Reform Club are now in order. The reading room has a larga number of visitors every evening. - A case oí small-pox is reportad iu the Fiith ward oL Ypsilauti, in the family of Charles Broiden. Precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. - James Owens, the Vermoat wrestler who threw AfaLaoghlin, has cliallenged Jake Martin, of Ypsilanti, and Jake hm acoepted, forgetting the muxim, " a burnt ohild üreads the fire." -The Manchester Enterprise puts it in this wise : " Those who voted agaiust the loan on the Court House question wili have to pay their proportion of the taxcs for its erection jast tha same." - An intalligence office is talked of in connection with the Keform Club room, where laborers can register their nainos, and where employers can mako application for workmen. A good thing. - John ü-eorge Lutz, late Kepublican candidate for Alderman in the Second ward, had & thumb taken off in the machine shop of Luick Bros , on Wednesday atternoon, The whittler did it. - At Tackson on Tuesday Judge Huntington ticketed John Allen, alias " galranized Jack," formerly of this city, to the House of Correction lor one year. Ho stabbed another negro in a fight. - The funeral of Scott Quackenbush, eoniu-law of the late Samuel (i. Sutherland, who died in Detroit on the 13th iust, took place in this city, on Monday forenoon, at the Congregational Uhurch. - Eider Davis, Clerk of the Township of Ann Arbor, has removed the desk, books, papers, &c, of the office from the store of A. M. Eoty to his residence, east of th city on the middle Ypsilanti road.j - David Steere, grandfather of Prof. J. B. Steere, of this city, one of the oldest aettlers of Lena wee County, died at the residence of his sou, near Adrián, on the 8th inst., aged a íew months hort of 91 years. - Tk bond of Luther James securing a 11,000 clock for the tower of the new Court House, if completed within thrree years, was presented to and duly accepted by the Board of Supervisor on Wednesday. - Postmaster Clark adviaes us that on Monday last, after the mails for the day had been dispatched, 295 letters were received from the State street bookstorse. The postoffice is not itspoDiiblo for delays so occasioned. - By order of the Common Council of Ypilanti, 50 reward has been ofiered for the arrest and conviction of the person or p ersom who started incendiary fires in the óth ward of that city on Sunday, April lat, and on Sunday, April 8. - A man who recently embarked in the aloon business in this city, whose rent and üquor-seller's tax aggregate $450, sold the firat week one eight gallon keg of beer : that ud nothing more. The power of tha red ribbon brigade. - That long-looked for rain carne, gently kut continuouBly, during Wednesday, and in lsrger quantities during Wednesday night and Jesterday forenoon. Orsss and whaat have takeu on an improved look, and all vegetation is growing a race. - Notwithstanding the Towuship Board of Aun Arbor was unable, under the law, to appoiut Miss Lizzie Doty Superintendent of Schools, we uaderstand that she is to do the work of the office, - under Superintendent Baur. It will b well done. ■ L ( - The seniors propose to appeal from the Faculty to the Eegeuts concerning the prohibition of dancing at their commencement week reception. As the Regenta have already " tied " on the questiou we can hardly see how the Faculty is to be overruled. - "Loan of a Lover " and "The Two Buzzards" will be played at the Opera House, this eveuiug, by the Barrett Dramatic Club- the Oarrick Club of last year which pjayed so 8uccs3fully for the Ladies' Library Association- tor the benefit of the University Boat Club. - First reports frcm Augusta reporting the lection of Busselt, Democrat, os Supervisor, were ungrounded : at least 3. D. Olcott came UP to the meeting of the Board of Supervisors n Tuesday with his credentials undisputed. This gives the Bspublicans three majority on the Board. - Dr, A. W. Chase and the Ann Arbor Publishing Company have demurred to the declaration of E. A. Baal, in his suit for damagea growing out of the viol&tion of the contract made by Chase not to engage directly or indirectly in the printing business in this State. - Up to yesterday President Angelí had not received that legislativo petition asking for a special session of the Board of Eegents, to do the bidding of the petitioners in certaiu matter8, and the date of the meeting is, therefore, yet uncertain. Can it be that legislativo afterthought is botter than legislativo no thought ? - Protection Fire Company has the following new corps of officors : Foreman, Fred. Sorg ; First Assistant, N. P. Hill ; Kecond Asaistant, John O'Brien ; Third Assistant, George W. Brown ; Secretary, E. W. Snell ; Treasurer, Charles H. Worden ; Steward, James Atkinson ; Wardens, Thaddeus Thompson, Bichard Burns, John Wagner, and Michael Clark. - On Weduesday John W. Whitlark, of Northfield, was taken to the Insana Asylum at Kalamazoo, under the order of Judge Harriman. Beligious excitement is said to be the cause of his insanity, and Juige Harriman was heard to romark - obiter or sotto voce - that if he had attanded the Unitarian Church (with hia brother and the Judge) he would n't have been insane. Draw your owu concluBions aa to the why. - 'The Ladies' Library Association of lanti received $461.90 during the fiscal year, and disbursed $300.73. It has 1,953 volumes in its library, and 2,409 volumes were drawn out duriug the year. The offieers ara : Presidant, Mrs. S. M. Cutehaon ; Vice-President, Míbs Euth Hoppin ; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. E. N. Follett ; Beoording Secretary, Mra. P. Stevens ; Treasurer, Mre. Edmund Hewitt ; Librarían, Miss Delia Compton. - $15,505.85: tkat was the amount of verdict the jury brought in against B. A. Beal, in the Unitad States District Court at Detroit, on Saturday evening last, in the suU brought against him by E. D. Kinue, assignee in bankruptcy of the To'.eclo, Ann Arbor & Northern Bailroad Uompany, for the use of creditors. We have a sort of idea that eight other stockholdera and directors are as deep in the mud as Beal is in the mire, morally, at least, if not legally ; but in an evil day Beal went for " Ben Crime " in his paper, whereupou " Ben " picked his man and went, in turn, for Beal, with the result as recorded. Tit for tat.

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