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Manchester

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Day
15
Month
June
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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Ib has been decided to have a grand celebration in Manchester on the Fourth. Several meetings of citizens hare been held and steps are being taken to mak the affatr a grand success. Dr. Rynd, of Adrián, has been secured as orator of the day. Among the sereral features of the day will be a " Coogress of Nations." Last Sunday afternoon a very larga audience assembled at Goodyear Hall to listen to what R. E, Frazer, of Ann Arbor, might have to say on the subject of Temperance lief orín. Mr. Frazer's remarks were rery practical in their natuie and produced a good impression. He addressed himself to three classes : the liquor seller, the driukiug man and the températe raan, and sho wed that not all the blame for ihe evil of intemperance rests upon the dealer and the drinker, but that the températe people are to be ceusured for their lack ot sympathy and enoouragement towards the reformed drunkard. He claimed that the keynote of all reform is charity. As a result of kis addreas about forty names were obtained to the pledge. The Bed Ribbon Boys.- At a meeting of the Reform Club held on Wednesday evening the t'ollowini; resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That we, the members of the Ann Arbor Reform Club, acknowledge and appreciate with gratetul hearts the labora and assistance heretofore freely bestowed in various ways by the members of the Ladies' Temperance Union of tilia city, and our citizens generally, for the benefit of this club, and we will respectfully and gratöfully accept any assistance the Ladies' Temperance Union, and our citizens generally, may be wilting to render at the coming celebration, by this club, on the 4th of July nezt, of the victory over Kmg (Jeorge the Third, achleved by our forefathers, and our recent victory over King Alcohol. Resolved, That the thanks of this club is hereby tendered to the Barrett Dramatie Club, ot this city, for their very efficiënt and succassful performance, freely tendered for tha benefit of this club, at the Opera House on the evening of the 8th inst., thereby placing the sum of $120 net profit in our treasury. Thh Ciecuit Coubt.- The regular term of the Circuit Court will open on Tuesday nezt, June 19. The calendar numbers 79 cases, divided as follows : Criminal, 12 ; Issues of Fact, 35 ; Imparlance, 9 ; Chancery, lat class, 9 ; 2d class, 1 ; ith class, 13. The case of The Regents of the University vs. Silas H. Douglas, Preston B. Rose, Rice a Beal, et al. stands as number 71. The Mabkets. - Yesterday local daalcrs were paying for grain, produce, etc., as follows; For Wheat, f 1.80al.90 ; Corn, 35c; Oats, 40c; Potatoes, $ 1.25 ; Apples, 75c; Hay, f 9 ; Butter, 13c ; Lard, 12c ; Kggs. 12c ; Strawberries, 8a 10c. - Flour went up again yestorday, at retail, to $5.00 per hundred. - There is n't life enough in tha weol market as yet to furnish a respectable item. Bach & Abel and Mack fc Schmid have bought a few small lots, and yesterday wer offering from 28 to 33c for fine wools. Long wool will command higher figures. As soon as the " rainy season " i over growers will begin to come in. ii - ii The Board of Publio Works of Grand Rápida ha-ring turned Coldbiook Creek into the oity sottling basin as a part of the city water supply, a water user made an examination of that interesting streain and found along its banks, within 150 feet of them, twenty-three privies nine stables, one hog-pen, and one uine inch sewer pipe. The lamber outlook seems brighter. In Chicago there has been an advance in price since the opening of the season of 75 cents per thousand, and is firm. Cargoes meet with a ready sale, and the ptospeots for lumbermen are encouraging. The common qualities are most in (iemand. - Bay City Tribune. Mining operations in this county are generally pretty rauch at a stand-gtill, the minera buiug all busy farming and gardening. They will have the oonsolation of knowing what they raise that way they can eat oí fed, while the copper at its present prioe don't pay to mine. - Ontonagon Miner. The Kalamazoo TeUgraph cautions the public against a man who carries a bracket and claims to be a tra voling agent for a manufacturing firm. Hia operationi in the Big Yillage ihow him to be an uncommonly ihrewd thitf. The Eer. Noah M. "Wells, of Erie, Monroe county, Michigan, i the oldeat gradúate of Union College, New York. Ha entefed in 1804, the first year of the renerable Dr. Nott's presidency. His age is ninetv-five, and e does his c wn correspondence and takos an interest in affairs of Alma Mater. The whole numbei of liquor dealers asaesBed in Lansing thia year is 32 against 27 assessed laat year, and the aggregate tai is $2,960 ngainst $4,205 last year. A. S. Dyckmaa, of Houth Haven, shipped 13,000 baskets of peaohes in 1876, and estimates his erop tha pretent season at 15,000 basketi. Every twig is doing its level best, and about thirty men are employed rem o ving the excess of burden. ' A furious hail storm, acoompanied by sharp lightning, ocourred at Charlotte on Monday afteraoon. The tower of the Fisst Congregational Churoh was 8truck by lightning ; damage light. Hail feil like shot fot about ten minutes. The exports from the port of Port Huron during May amoanted to $1,344,352 in value, the largest for any month sincs the distriot was organized.

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