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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
June
Year
1878
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Public Domain
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- Scio has 232 doga and 221 dog owaers. The ron has benn taifl to the gravel pil 0„ Felch street. - Philo Fowler, nu oíd resideut oí Saline ijied ón the 27th uit. -The Reform Club excursión to Tolede is set down for June 21. -Ee?. W. IL Ryder will address the Ret(irm Club next Suhaaj afternoort. -West Liberty strect. is being reconstruoted to accommodate the rafrr&ad c-rossiug. - The work oL putting on the cornice of the „eiv Court House was corumenced yesterday. -The creditors oí tleorge N. Larue, of Yp(ilsnti, have voted to accept 30 cents on the dollar. - Xo wool hns boen boughi in this niarket. juyers intiinatu that 25 cents will be the opening price. - Delbert Koeler has been appomted special polioe ut tlio M. U. K. depot, to serve without cost to the city. - A greenbaok club has been organizad in Sharou, with Harvey Blaakman as President and Ashley Patlts, Jv., as Secretary. - This county bas 19 patients in the Insaue jsjlum ut KiUamuz.jo, aiul the last quarterry l,ll ior thoir support looted $l,01.3.(iü. - lloport saya that Eandall Sohuyler, so loog in the employ of the M. C. R. is to be ttie airent in this city of the T. ifc A. A. II. - Neither Bridgewater, Frec.luni, Manchos(ur, nor Shucon were represeuted iu the Republiccn County Conveution on Wednesday. - Rev. II. B. l'ope, Hon. A. J. Saw'3'er, aod ]er. D. R. Shier, of Chelsea, were the Decorjtion day orators at tlie Fifth ward cemetery. - At the Council meeting on ilimday eveniug laat the rules of order were so amended as require the Mayor to vote on every roll- Tiie Grangers are to indulge in a basket . picuic on June 12, near E. C. Nordraau's in Üma. Hon. J. Webster Childs is to deliver ï ju address. - Dr. Rominger, of this city. State Geolooist, has established his headquarters for the I suninier at Negaunee, and will geologize in I hut viciuity. - See the revised edilion of A. L. Noble'a ),lvertisenient, and also bis "Gard to the Public" among Business IVotices. Trices are coming down. - To-moiTOW is set down by Justice FrueI aulï for hearing the complaint of Caroliue Obermuller against Henry Peldkamp. Asgault and battery. - A delagatioD frora the Ypsilanti School I Board visited our city last Friday, to take a I ook at the First Vail school house. Thev wint to build one liko it. ! -Secretary Hamilton reriuests U3 to say Ihat it ís expected. the Toledo and Aun Albor líiilroad wili be opened for passenger and treight business next YVednesday. - A culvert 70 feet long- or the whole f ndth of the street -is to be built over Allen's treek on South Main street, the city to pay Í200 and the Plank Road Company f 100. - On Thuradny eveuiug ot last weck - i perliaps Fridity morning - the High School i seniois procured tlie services of the band and I lerenaded Prots. Perry, Pattengill, and Chute. - The Ypsilanti School Board has advertijed for proposuls for furuishing matenals mi putting up their central school building, I stier plans preparad by II. T. Brush & Co., of I Detroit. --Daling May City Marshal Johnson dis. pensed f rom tho poor f und as follows : First ward, $14.89; Second, f 5 88 ; Third, tl4,70 ; Konrft, f83 69 j Fifth, f9.82 ; Sixth, f6.78. Mal, Ï7476. - Ten arrests were matte by the pólice luiiiif; May : For aasault and battery, 1 ; runk and disorderly, .') ; violating saloon orj naneo, 2 ; violating Sunday ordiuance, 1 ; I mitlicious trespass, 1, - Yesterda.y the quarteis of 60 laborers on I the T. & A A. K. wera transferred frora Diradee to this city. They will be fed by the Company in the Iwsement of the Opera House, ind bedded at private houses. - Manchester Enterprise, Muy 30 ■ " Harry, on of Henry Calhoun, of the town of Biidgej water, feil from a wagon ttiis morning, and broke nis leg at the hip. Drs. Lynch and Filmer redueed the fracture."' - On Monday last President A-h!ey carne ; er the T. Sc A. A. R. from Toledo with a passenger coaeh and gave the directora and their families, and other railroid officials, an i ticursion to Toledo in tlie ufternoon, to attend tho Kellogg-Eozc; concert in the evening. -Anthony C. Chapoton and Bob McKinuey : wera arrested in Detroit on Saturday lust, by Sheriff Case, on a charge of peijury in justifjing before Ju'-tiee Beahan r.s sureties for Ihe "contidence" operators. Their examina ion is to take place at Ypsilanti, June 15. -Our former tellow citizen Col. U. B I Grant, now of Hooghton, was recently bitten on the knee by a bull-dog, which sprang upon kim as he was entering a neighbor's barn. He was laid up from the wound for some days, tut at the last adviccs was getting better. - The examinaticu of J. Muiphy, charged with receiving goods stoleu from Krause, as reported in tho Aeous of last week, was conclnded before Justice Frueauff on Monday. He was held for trial at the Circuit Court, J. F. Schuh and A. Koarney going on his boud. - Supervisor Meüuiness, of Scio, has furniahed the Dexter Leader the following figures : Acres of wheat iu 1877, 3,704 ; bushels raised, 88,895 ; average yield per acre, 23 3-4 bus.; acres of corn, 1,377; of oats, 74S; of barley, 212 Acre3 of wheat sowed in 1878, 4,219. - Gen. Silas Casej, one of the old regime of regular army officers, but now on the retited liBt, has been in our city for a week or more, visiting his daughtcr, Mrs. Gen. L. C. Huut. Gen. Casey is the autlior of "Casey's Tactics " so long a standard in military institntions. - The horse of D. L. Godfrey, of Ann Arbor town, became fnghtened in front of P. liach's residence on Main street, on Sunday aiteruoon last, by a lap robe being thrown down, broke his halter, and ran down the street, bteaking one wheel and otherwise damaging tlie carriage. - Justice Beahun has ticketed Edward Eisiuharrtt to the House of Correction, Detroit, ior oue year, in default of paying a finé of ÍJO. Assault and battery. He has given James Dett 90 days at the same faslnonable place of resort, for disorderly conduct. Sentace on a younger brother of Dett suspended - At the annual election election of the Sivings Bauk held on M ,nday the following directora were elected : Christiau Mack, Williara W. Wines, Wüliam D. Harrimnu, William Deubel, Willard B. Smith, Daniel H-scock, ul Rice A. Beal. A directora' meeting was tald in the evening and officers elected : President, Christian ilack : Vice-President, V. Vf. Wines ; Casluer, Charles E. Hiscock. - A fire alarm was souuded about 2 o'clock m. on Saturday last, the bell striking the fitst ward. Tho tiro this time was in the "cond story of S. Sondheim's store on the cast Ma of Main street, adjoining the Savings Bonlt. lts discovery by patrolman Ainsden at so early a stago that it was extinguished fithout the ongine playing upon it, thus sav"'8 unuecessary wetting and damage of goods. A hole about as big as a barrel was burned Ihrough the floor and the cloths beneath it "urued ailj damaged. Mr. Sondheim was inSl'red on stock in the Fire Insurance Associatioii of Philadelphia, and the loss has been Kiusted at $491. Building insured in the oanecticat Fire of Hartford. Company rePiiring damages. Origin of flre not definitely 'oown, but is thought to have been burning in chimney fur soveral daysas there waa no firo in the stove below, the pipe of which ran through the floor, aud no stove in the room. We are glad thaf it was no worse with Sondhoim or his neighbocv - ün Wednesnay i'oreiiooii as llenry Atattliews's hoy whs dfiving liis delivory wagon on Main street, the shatts became detached, and the horse dusbed o ft. At Hurón street he struck on to the sidewntk on the west aide of Maiu fltreet keeping ii pr a biock, knooking over boxes :md soatteriug the jaspers hy in lively style. One uld lady was pulled out of the way justin time to save colHajou. No material injury was done.

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