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Additional local on second page. Couiieil meeting this evening. Court convenes next Tuesday. President Garfleld is recovering. Tlie city i nearly djserted ly sludents. il. H. ITiil was in Cliicago over Sun lay. Tluec prisoiiers spent their Fourth in jail. Extra fine qualily of wool brings 37 cents. A. F. Darrow lias moved ínto lus new house. A secoud saloon nos been opened in Miian. .Mace Long will sjicak in Milan next Sunday. The ilance moaey taken in at Milan foote.l up 70. Chas. Eltúnag, S'io, ent live acres of wheat .luly 4th. The t(rtnperance meetings will close in Afilan thís week. Tnefiday the hol test day tliis slimmer, 94 degreel in the shade. Tlie caves on the court house are being repaired by E. Fleming. Coroner Clark has held scven inquests Kince tlie first of January. S. W. Don-, Manchester, has lost 250 apple trees iu bis oi'cIüumI. Prof. Wilson was n Ypsilanli öunday and spoke to tlie reform club. llanging s too good for tlic man wlio attempted töe president's lite. An aproo 100 years old is the property of Mrs. Pboebe Haat, Sulinc. Track layers are waiting for the iroB to finish tlie road to South Lyon. The new library building is to be locatoil in the centre of the campas. About 240,000 paunds of wool have been purchased here this season . A $:ï)0 tclcscope for the high school was receivtd by express öaturday. An iron fence is to be erectcd in front of the Baptist churcli on Iluron street. A car load of tcinperanceizers went to Milau Buaday to altend the tent meeting. The Saline reform club wil] be addressed next Sunday by Kev. W. II. Shier of Adrián. A scmi-annual dividend of 0 per cent Juis been declared liy the First national bank. D. C. Anderson, of Piltsfield, sold liis 'Wool, S.ÖOO pounds,-to Uach & Abel, last Priday. Mrs. David Thomas, an old settler of Salem, died öaturday of dropsy, aged 71 years. .1. S. Earls, wlio sold his bus to the .Michigan state retreat, Detroit, is having anotlier made. For the next six Sundays the Metuodists :and Presbyterians will hold reiigious services together. The 'jontraetor, Mr. Appleyard, expects to have the scwer completéd by the last of September. Messrs. Ilughs and Ward made tlie old teut in Milan fairly shake with their eloquence last evening. B. 3. Conrad, of the Register, lcft Friilüy on thé Detroit Evening News excurto the White mountains. Master McOmher led the juvenile ba.od Mouday, in the absence ot the regular leader, Prol'. Ilenry Otto. Geo. II. Miles Uas left the Saline Olserver office to accept a position in the office of the Clinton News. Telephonic eonnection will be opened liet ween Ypsilanti and this city in about 10 days, so says the manager. It will cost $3,400 to brace up the dome on the main university building. Work in to commence at nee! Wm. C. Jones, jrraduate of the homeopathie college, will receive bis sheep skin when he is 21 years of age. A. F. Darrow got a einder in his cye l'ndayand had a gerious time until it was removed by Dr. Frothingham. Kcv. Jno. Alabaster discourted Öunday evemng on governroental affairs, and the assassination of president Garfleld. It oost the tax-payers of this county ïi.usto pay theexpense of maintainine lts insane at l'ontiac the last quarter TUe colored people havé secured Oapt Allen R8 orator of the day on the occasion oí their eelebration here August 1. A number of the citizens of the Fiítl ward, had a pleasant surprise party at the rcsidence of Mrs. SlofHet. Tuesday night. We aro unable to answer the question as to how niany tons of i ron have been used 111 bracinu up the new museum building. A special meeting of the regents is to lic held in August to maUu arrangement for letting the contract of the new library building. The Observer wouUl like to have the monej'ed nieu who have been talking about storting another bank here, open oue ia Saline It nppears that the statement going the rodada of the prees that Alian Rhoade, formerly of Saline, had shot n man in Texas, is untrue. From present indications the superintendents of the poor will not tío obliged to borrow much inoney, if any, to get tbrough the year. Geo. Beal was arrested Saturday for assaulting an Englishman. He looked at the boys Monday shooting iire-crackers from the jail Windows. The Aun Arbor baso ballists were not permiUed to show their agility as ball lossers at Milan. The club was ruled out lor certain reasons. Ihe manager of the opera house proposesto favor the citizens with at least Uvo flrstclass entertahiments a week dur ing the next theatncal season. A crazy loon named MeNamsra, was arrested in Washington, Tuesday, for tliieateuing to kill Jas. U. Blaine. lle was locked up for safe keeping. Everett II. Scott a delégate to the American pomologieal society, is in Kalamazoo on business connected with the meeting of the state commissioners. The tin roof covering the toweradjoining liremeu's hall, is goiug to waste for ilie wantjof a linie paint. The council should Jiave it done, if it is not too late A crayon portrait of the assassiu Gittcau, adorna the show window of Buck, the tobacconist. Just above the head of the miscreant is also a rope knolted at one end. The charges preferred by Dr. Maclean against Prof. Franklin and the homeopathie hospital, are in the hands of a special comniittee of the regents for ex amination. Dr. S. A. Jones has commenced an action agaiust Pailey, the Argus man, to recover damages for the publicatiou of a lie in a recent number of his sheet. The suin demanded is $5,000. Bridget Maloy, a sister of Wm. and J. Walsh, of Northfield, and wife of Miehael Maloy, died at the residence of her brothers in Northfield last Friday. She was nearly 40years of age. The gradiiating class, medical departj ment, presentad Prof. P. B. „Rose last week wilh a handsome autograph album, which cuntained the Aune of every gradliftte and ö(i inenibers of the class of '82. Jas. Tolbert, Field & lïunt, J. V. Ilunt, and Wurster & Kern, will receive their pay for material advanced to Wni Beatty, the man who built tlie homeopathie hospital, and the two amphitheaters. Uuring the past school year the smn of $5,157.18 was received for tuition and languages, the second largost, iiucmnt at auytiine in the history of the city, iwcepl in 1878 vvhen $5,219.70 was placed tu the credit of the school fund. The school board are talking of build ing a $00 coal house on the high school grounds to store fuel for the winter, and thus do away with the dirt nrriaiag from throwing coal into the basement of the building. A good arrangement, Bills for a grand cclebration of the emaneipation proclainatioi) and tlie 15th amendment have been posted. The spea kers are Capt Allen, Ypsilanti, TUos. Cressup and Daniel Mills, Detroit, Jno. Fox, Ypsilanti and I). Cramer, this city. The citizens of Ypsilauti are to be treated to the play of "The Big Bonanza" to-morrow, Friday evening. lts ori giiial run at the Fifth Avenue theatre numbered 143 uights, and tho play was high] y complimeuted by the pressof New York. A member of the board of regents informed a Dkmocüat reporter last week, that the articlcs published in this paper on "the new museum building" had opened the eyes of the regent on the neecssity of looking after mattere a little more closely on the campus. Chas. Püwell who was returning home Tuesday night about 11 o'clock, was atlacked by two men on the corner of Pontiac and Brown street, neai the railroad crossmg in the Fifth ward. lic was most brutally beaten. As no attempt was made to rob him he is unable to undorstand why the attack was made. The Fritz brothers, Scio, liave in their possession an ancieut curiosity in the íhape of a Bible priuted in the Germán language, the book being larger, nearly twice the size of Webster's unabridged dictionary. The btble was priuted in 17:2. The family record cominences in 1733. The book is well preserved, and is highly prized by the family. It weighs over 11 pounds. Readers of Mr. Schuyler's "Peter the Great,'' in Scribner will remember the order of that famous reformer requiring Ruseian seamen to be clean-shaven. Tlie present Czar, who seems to have a decid ed dislike for anything which smacks of Western culture, has recinded this rule, and for tho fitst time in two hundred years, beards will be worn by the sailors in the Russian navy. By the upselting of a boat near the flrst roao bridge Monday evening, Fred Graves, of Ypsilanti town, and Miss Elizabeth Murby, of Y'psilanti, were drowned. Miss Clara Hayfey who was in the boat wben the accident occured managed to cl ing to the boat and was saved. An inquest was held on the bodies of Graves and Miss Murby, and a verdict of accidental drowning rendered. Chas. Gitteau, the scoundrel who attempted the life of President Garfield, was the second son of L. W. Gitteau, Who some 40 yeare ago was a partner of the late Wm. S. Maynard of this city. About 10 years ago young Gitteau visitad this city, and was then thought to be crazy. Ileagain paid a visit some seven years later in the role of a Iecturer, and jumped nis bill at the Leonard house. A little Germán boy in the Second ward undertook to crawl through a sewer (train Monday. Lie succeeded very wel! at flrst, but after going a short distance became fastcned and cotild ncither move forward or backward. The alarm was given by some liltle fellows, and a hundred or more persons congregated to render assistance. He vvas finallj' removed from bis uncomfortable position, but uot until several tile liad been broken with an axe. During the months of July and August services -will be suspended as usual at the Unitarian churcli. The Sunday school, however, will be continued through the summer, but will hold its services at lü:dU a. ra., insteaG of at noon. Arrangeraents Iiave been made for two or three special summer classes for adults, and all members of tlie congfegation are invited to attend. Kev. Air. Sunderland expects to spend a part of his vacation in New England. Regent Climie has been appointcd by the commiltee on buildings and grounds to supcrintend the construction of the sewer and oversee the worlc on the muin building of university hall. If the board of regcuts several years ago had employee! a competent man to look after the conI motors, there would have been no botched jobs, and the tbousands of dollars appropriated since to put into the tumble down structures would have been saved to the tax-payers. When the news was received that president Garfield had been shot, excited crowds of people congregated on street corners, and in front of the teleirraph office, all anxious to hear the latest reports The telegrama were eagerly rcad, and during the day expressions of sorrovv could be heard as the news was communicated i'iom one lo another. Demócrata, repub licana, nul green backers, all hail a kinc word to say of the nation's president, and deprecated in the severest terma liis attempted assassination. Ilonorary degrees were conferred by Acting President Frieze last Thursday as follows: Raymond C. Davis, librarían of the university, M. A. ; llandolph Hogers, of Home, Italy, formerly of Ann Arbor, M. A. Aaron V. McAlvuy, of Manistee, 1!. A. ; Prof. Geo. 8. Morris, of Johns Hopklna university, Ph. I). ; Edmund Andrews, professor of the piinciples and practica of surgery in the Chicago Medical College, ]Áj. D.; Pi of. A. B. Palmer, of the Departmeut of Medicine and Surgery, in Michigan university, LL. D. : Prof. L. L. Ford, of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, in Michigan university, hit. D. Commercial: Three weeks ago when in the lot at work, Edward Wilson, (colored) sent liis son John, sixteen years old, to Clarkeville on an errand. The boy went to the house which was loeked, broke in, took an axe and broke open a bureau and took out lifty odd dollars. Who had taken the money Mr. Wilson could not surmise. Constable Sjiemcld is always on the look out and noticed that the boy was flush. He went to his fathcr to see where lie had got the money. In the mean time John had left towu and was heard of at JackBon. Shemeld followed him and arrested him at Lansing. He had ouly two doilars left. His father paid the costs and set the boy at liberty. A meeting of the Washtenaw cotinty pomológica! society was held Saturday. P. L. Page tliought ita very trying year for fruit trees, caused by the very severe winter and cold, dry spring. Many of his peach trees had comnienced to die. S. W. Dorr had lost 250 peach trees, one and two years setting. His conclusión was that a tree which had sutflcient nutríment stood the winter much better than those on pooier soil. He thought more attentiou should bc paid to the seedling peach. For richness of flavor J. Austin Scott was of the opinión that in order to succeedin peach culture more seedlings should beraised. Seedlings from llill's Chili were pre f e rabie. As to apples the farmers couldn't raise too many. There would always be ademandfor dried fruit. One of his orchards would raise a full erop. Prof. Baur was surpnsed that the earliest varieties of peaches, the Early Louisa, the Kives peach did better than later varieties. He thought the Seedling the best for dryinir, and excellent for faniily use. J. D. Baldwin had considerable xpcrience in peach raising. Hill's Chili or hardiness excelled all others. His lnory was that some hearty variety hould bcselected, pits planted and run hrough several geuerations. In speaking ;fcherrieshe thought it nnprofiiable to cultívate choice varieties as they did not eem todo well.