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Day
23
Month
November
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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- Xext Thurstiay : Thtuiksgiviug and turkey. - The weather : well, you know just how il s 3'oursolf, - spotted. - The fall term of the public schools will close on Wednesday ucxt,- the day beforc Thaiiksgivint,'. _ William Leach, of Ypsilanti, formerly of tliis city, (lied on SimJay tast, of apoplexyi jgod C3 yeara. - C. S. Milieu has gono to New York, and a [tesh arrival of goods may aoon bo found at jlillen & Son'a. - The Alpha Sigma Public of the High School takes place to-moirow evening, with au iuviting programm. - Ou Tuesday afternoon August Oraf and Jlary Binder wece married. The wedding was a large ono and the preseuts numorous and ricli (Jur reading space is just a little encroached upon by advertising, but a liberal-sized " supplement " will f uil y compénsate the rfiader. - Company A w.i3 mjro sueiessful with ilcKee Kinkin aml the D.uiites than witli Zoe. Tha aadience was largo aud the playng excellent. - The Lausing Repubticaii says that James Donovau, of this city, has purchased a stock of goods at North Lansing, of the assiguee of Chas. Wagner. - Mra. Josephine A., wife of Prof. F. H Pease, of Ypsilanti, died on Monday, Nov. 19. JIrs. Pease was the daughter of Levi E. Dolson, Esq , of Detroit. - Madame Chanfrau, who appears as Juliet at the Opera House next ïuesday eveniug, is reputed a beautiful, accomplished, and talenteJ artiste. She is well supported. - Gov. Ashley sees daylight aliead,- in his rsüroad project that is, and says that he will liave the cars running from Toledo to this city before the new Court House is conipleted. (lood for Ashley. - The inmates ot the couuty poor house eat 11,336.87 worth of pork and $803.70 worth of beef during the last fiscal year. Their bill fur flour and breadstuffs v.-us ?940.49, and for groceries, $1,583.76. - George R. Spaulding, who removed from Sharon to Kansas (about 30 miles S3uth of S.iliua) some mouths ago, died Nov. 17, ao3 Hou. J. J. Kobison has gone to bring the widov and children back to Sharon. - One McCourt, oí Northíield, is under ?l,000 bonds to appear before Justice McMahou to-morrow, to answer to a charge of assaulting au old man named Trainor. The assault was an unprovoked and aggravated one. - Baldwin's exposé of spiritualism on Wednesday eveuing had richness in it. He beat the mediums at their own tricks, and the sptritualists swear that he is a medium himself. The sicknes3 of his wife prevented his secoud appearauce last evening. - In our " Supplement " ior this week will be found the conclusión of the thrilliug tale eutitled " Proceedins of ths Board of Supervisors of tiie County of Washtenaw for 1877" We have no doubt that the htterested tax-payer will commit it to inemory. - The walls ot the nciv Court House havo been covered up, the tools stored, and work for the seasou stopped. The basement story gives promise ot a fine looking building. lessrs. McConnick & Sweney, contnictor?, wil! resume work oarly in the spring. - But little business was done at the adjourned meeting of the Common Couucil held on Monday evening last. A sidöwalk or two Vil ordered laid, and the lieense fee to be païd fcy (Jompany A for theatrical entertainments iras íixed at twenty-üve ceuta each. - Superintendent Perry h:is received the Medal and Diploma awarded to the Board of Eilucation of this city by the Centennial Board, for "l'upils Work." Both aro beautiful specimens of art, aud as soon as the diploma is framed we suggest that both diploma and medal be placed on uxhibition in some public place-. - Now that the holidays are at hand and tiie AKOtra readers will be on the look out for something in the line of the beautiful, we take pleasure in bintiug to them that they will do well to look at the chromos, photographs, engravings, frames, &c, of C. H. Winslow, No. 30 East Huron street. Mr. Winslow lias reiitted his establishment - both store and factory- and will bo ready to serve his customers and tho public generally at price3 to suit the times. - The regular term " l'ublic " of the Cliosophic Society of the High School will be held in High School hall on Monday evening next, -Xov. 27, with music by Mr. Wilsey'a quartet ; oration, on "Bepublicanism in France," by S. E. Mcüill ; impromptu, by O. (i. Owen ; distussion of Resolved, That the importation ol Chinameu should bo prohibited, with T. G. Thomas on the afiirmative and T. C. Clayton on the negative ; select j-eading, "American Forest Girl,'' by Miss Ida Cook ; essay, "When my ship comes home," by Miss F. C Goodale , tleclamation, "Sheridan's Eide," by H. M. Pelhara, and the society paper, " Crucible," by J. E. Beal.

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