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Additioual local on second page. Tlie town clock ueeds repaiting. This is splendid hnrvest weather. The pipe for the sewer haa arrived. Judge Morris is holding court in 'Monroe The Brighton mail has been discontinued. Ueo. H. Scott will build theeyean.1 ear wanl. The hose boys intend to have a new $100 cart. There is no less than 35 boats on the raill pond. Prof. Wilson will speiul his vacatiou in this place. Farmers complain of a acarcity of harvest hands. The late Thaddeus lïuid is suid to have had 11 wives. Property owners in Ypsiknti rejoice at the low taxes. Louis' Fritz commeuced threshing wheatyesterday. Zenus Sweet has aold his ffus team to a party in Brighton. Take The Democrat- the best local paper in the couuty. Emory Aldrich has been arrested on the charge of burglary. The new tin roof on the opera house will cost Mr. Hill $600. Rev. J. Alabaster preached in the Presbyterian church Sunday. Eugene Ilelber of Saline, shipa leather as f ar east as Boston. The late Joseph Eisele was a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte. B. J. Conrad was pleased with his trip to the VVliite inountaius. The work of remodeling the opera house is progressiug iinely. Thirty new buildings have been put up in Milau the past few months. The funeral of the late Mrs. Deborah O. Farraud was held Satuiday. A monkey wrenchand other tools.were stolen trom F. Wurster Monday. C!. 8. McOmber is talking of going into the d'iig business at Sioux Faüs. P. L. Page is building a frame house un Twelfth streeï, to cost $l,00. Companp A will give their annual ex;ursion to Put-in-Bay August 5. Tue coutrautor has comraenced the work of repairing uuiversity hall. Just seven weeks f rom to-day The Ukmocrat will be three years uld. Ballasting the railroad from this place to South Lyon will soon commeuce. Maud S., the famous trotter, will try to aeat her best time iu Chicago to-day. 8. Wood & Son are furnishiug $800 worth of lumber lor the opera house. Justices Wiuegar and Freuauff seem to je doiug pretty much all the business. The Observer says E. W. Walhco will build four stores on bis lols in Saline. There wiü be morniug services only in ,he Presbyterian church uext Sunday. The streets aDout the universityare béng graveled and put in tip-top suape. Jas. Ariubruster's norse was found by Z. Sweet on tne Houth Ypsilanti road. Win. O'Neill was seut to jail Saturduy ■m a 20 days' sentence tor druukeuess. The president conti ues to improve, and is believed lo be past all danger. The examiuation of the boy Jas . Keuney bas been contiuued until August 1. Justice Winejjar has sentenced Henry A.llnian to Ionia fop 90 days f or larceuy. A brother of C. H. Hichmond has engaged in the hotel business ia Keed City. The Zion Lutheran Sunday school picaic will be held at Kelief park August 4. The foundation for the eye and ear ward will be built by the Walker Brothers. 3SIU9 Ml The question ot a new city hall is being agitated by a nuuiber of business men. J . W. Hamüton bas purchased 20,000 pounds of irou for the Manly & Hainiltou block. A daily mail has been established between this city and Hamburg, Livingston county. A tramp printer was before justice Winegar yesterday on the chai ge of vagrany. Jas. Chase of Milan, was arrested Monday for being intoxicated. Sentence suspended. The city band and reform club talk of giviug an excursiou together about August 10. Policeman Millroan luis recoirered Mrs. E. F Todd's gold walcu. He found it in Detroit. The Misses Goodrich left Monday for a two weeks' visit to Devil's Lake, near Hudson. Ypsilauti is making au effort for a band tournanieut to take place sometime iu August. AH quiet in Wall street. This is sometuing out of the usual line for tho Fifth warders. Prof. Schaiberle, assistant at the observatory, discovered a cornet last Thursday moruiug. . ■! Company A has made arrangements for an excursión to Put-in-Bay the first week in AugUEt. Anotber engine on the T. A. A. & G. T. II. R.makes six n all which the company owns. Patrick Martin has moved an oíd house nlo his lot on Fourth street, and is fixing it up to rent. Geo. Laut Sr., has recovered a judgunent afjainsl E. W. Morgan on default, tor $5,882.72. The dedication of the now Baptist church will not lake place until the lust of September. Donovan Bros., of South Lyon, have purchased a large quautity of wool the past six weeks. A well known wool buyer says there ia not over 25,000 pounds to be niarketed in this vicinity. Andrew Hiller is evidently anxious to return to the work-house, judgiug frora his conduct recently. Patrick O'Riley bas caused the arrest of Jno. Morgan, wlio charges Iiini wilh tho larcony of a shovel. Manager Hill proposes to have ou an average two eutertainmenta a week during the theatrïcal season. It is proposed t pitch the reform club tent on the oíd p vpV. and "ld a meeting Sunday eveniug. The juvenile band give an excursión the27th inst. to Lakeside, stopping for a short time at Put-in Bay. J J. Walker, the dog fancier, shipped two bult terrier pups to Atchinson, Kansas, for which he received $30 . Seth P. Sumner has purchased of Randall Bass, 40 acres on sec 27 Pittsfleld, for which he paid $2,000. A new cornice is to be put up on the north sido uf the opera house and the biick wall is lo be painted. F. P. Bogardus who was in the city Saturday, took i look at the opera house and examined the drawings. E. D. Kinne, counsel for Dr. S. A. Jones, has filed his declaration against the Tramp in that libel suit. The attention of the board of health is called to the filtuy condition of the alley in the rearof the Earl block. Last Salurday a tramp atole a horse from John Fiuuegan, and put out with the steed for parts unknown. Dr. A. W. Chase is out with another card in the Toledo Suuday Journal ou "Conkling and the president." The society which has had rooms m the opera house block for a year or more, has been compelled to move out. O. L. Matthewa has fitted up an office over ltinsey & Seabolt's grocery store, where he can be fouud hereafter. A Spauldiug who went to Kansas City, Mo., some weeks ago, is taking a course in Spaulding's commercial college. F. Kápp paidlue costs, aud the complaiutchargiughim with keepins his sa.oou open July 4th was withdrawn. The democrats of Ohio have nomiuatcd a strong ticket headed by John W. Bookwater, of Spriustield, for governor. The lightning ticket seller with Barnum's circus in one instance we kuow of, made a mistake of $7.50- in his favor. The good work goes on. Bach & Abel and Wm. Allaby are added to the number who are to put down stone sidewalks. The reform club is talking some of pitchiug the tent, and holding temperauce neetings Öuuday afteruoons unlil fall. Aside from the local news, The DemoCKATcontains more reading matter every week than any other paper in the city. I'olicetnan Porter arrested Mary Kuebler yesterday aud she will have her examiuatiou to-day as a disorderly persou. Nothing has b eu done toward putting up a new lamp post on Detroit streel, in pluce of the oue brokeu some .veeks ago. Tlie coutract has not yet been let for the building of the uew UnLarian church, although a nuinber have figured on the o. A uew purifyiug house is being built at the gas house. A uew meter is also to be put in. The iinprovemeuls will cost $3,300. The vigilant boys uot wishing to be out done by other compauies of the lire department, propose to pinchase a uew hose cart. Real estáte business like everything else jusl now is very quiet, but it will probably take a boom after the heated term. The niason work on Mauly & Hainilton's cellar is about completed and will be ready for the carpeuteis in a few days. From a uumber of papers found iu the possession of Alfred Burmingham, his correct name ,is believed to be Chas. II. Hoyt. David Gates, living in the Fifth ward, had his hip injurer and the toas of oae of his feet cut off Mouday by a niowing machine. As there are some 50 persons in tui place who belong to the hay fever brigade, we would suggest that a society be orgauized. Jno. F. Lawreuce, and a party of De troit gentlemen have gone for a trip on the lake.s aud will visit Duluth before they return. If arrangements eau be made, the excursión to be üiven by the reform club and city bund will go lo Detroit via Milan over the Butler ioai. It will require something more than talk to build a city hall- business men must put their shoulder to the wheel aud help the project aloug. Jas. Robbins was before justice Frueauiï Monday on the charge of druukenuess. 11e was let off on coudilion that he would brace up and be a man. The iron for the gap iu the railroad has arrived, and soon the coustrucliou train will be running to South Lyou. Th ree, cheers for the governor. As soon as permissiou is given to lay the tile from the campus to the river, work on the sewer will be commenced and pushed to completion. Juo. N. Fox, Ypsilanti, who is advertised to speak to the colored peoplo at the celebration here August 1, is also billed for Bay City on the same üay. Warner Miller eleeted senator of New York, vice Platt resigned, is not much of a fellow after all. Even the republicana admit he is unflt for the position. Yisitors to Whitmore Lake are entertained at the Lake house, Wm. Graham, proprietor, for $1 per day, which includes the use of boatsand flshing tackle. v The opera house with tho improvements t be made including new scenery and private boxes on each end of the stage, will equal any thcatre in the state. The Daily News will bo enlarged Saturday to a six column paper. The first ssue, Uoweyer, the proprietors say, will je a mammoth sheet of eight pages. The stone gulter on Ann street is being lowered on the side to the road, so w.iter will run into it. The same thinjí sliould be done around the court yard square. An exchange says the correct way is to teil a man you will make a revisud editiou of him It is no longer rcgarded polite to say you will knuck heil out of him. When corouer Clark heard that n. man had been found dead in bed Friday morning, his countenance lighted up with a smile a'. the thought of another inquest. There are some good for nothing lazy fellows who won't work in the harvest field for $2 per day, but prefer to spend their time hanging around the streets. Owen B. Coyle, formerly of California, luit the past twoyears a resident ofNorthfield, died Friday at the age of 67, years of dropsy of the heart. He left no family. The celebration of Emancipation day and the Fifteenth amendment, August 1, by the colored people of this oity, will uudoubtedly cali together a large crowd. Snit has been commenced in the Washtenaw circuit court by Edvfiu P. McOmber against Theodore Taylor, who claims damages in the sum of $10,000 for slander. The Mail says Windy Dick Trevallick, who is a stranger to anything like hard work, recently made a street harangue to a crowd of about 20 green backera in Bay Oity. Falher Fieile who has been absent at Sandwich, Ont., attending a council of the Catholic churcl), returned yesterday, and officiated at the funeral of Mr. Joseph Eisele. E. B. Abel received a new boat by express Saturday. He has not fully decided as to whether he wi'.l take part iu the races at the Diamond Lake regatta July 27 and 28. Andrew DeForest paid $5 and the costs Monday, for striking Miss Robison with an umbrella. The lady is a tenant of Mr. 1. Andrew you shouldu't let your angry passious rise. The Detroit Eveuing News says Rice A. Beal is going to cut oiï his .-igut hand, embalin it and put it in a glass case. He shook hands with Eugene Hale with it the other day. In a supplement to The Ann Arbob Democrat of April 10, 1879, the leading business men and industries, were fully writien up for the flrst time in the history of the city. Catherine Eitning and Elizabeth Kuehnle, Second warders, were before justice Frueauff Friday chargod with being disoiderlies. They sottled the case by payiug $2each. llugbs and Ward will tackle theuuconverted in Saline next Sunday and Monday, and as they are earnest workers they will stir up a betttr temperance sentiment in the community. Frank Miller, who has been in the employ of J. W. Struble for ihe past two years, has gone to Toledo, where he will remain until October whea he will return to Ann Arbor. "We have yet on hand 950 copies of Kendall's Treatise on the Horse.which belong to subscribers of this paper. Those who have received the bonk prououoce it an excellent work. A new dam is to be erected by the Cornwell Bros., at Fosters, the rase leading to their factories and milis arched, and other improveinents made wh ch will require an outlay of $10,000. Morton C. Reeves of Cniwfordsville, liul., lias ren tod a house on the corner of Ingalls and South Umversity avenue. He comes here for the puipose of entering the homeopathie college. Had tiuiteau been a democrat the republicau press would have teemed with abuse ugainst the democratie party, but the issassin is a stalwart, and now it is a horse of a different color. The new engiue house ia Saliue is beiug built through the liberality of Uaveuport & Sou, wlio have also purohased a firc engine. Such gentlemen are a substantial benefit to a place. The time of the excursión to be given by the city band and reform club, has been dcfiuitely fixed for August 9. The city of Detroit is the boat selected, and St. Clair the destinatiou. E. Aldrich, was bound over yesterday to the circuit court to answer to the charge of burglary. Bail was fixed at $500 with twosureties, which he wasunable togive aud was committed to jail. The committee on the celbbration of Emaucipatiou day expect a large number of colored people froin Jackson and other points on the .Michigan Central railroad to take part in the exercises. Mr. Jenny who superintended the manufacture of the Langley electric light machines, is now in the employ of the South Bend compauy. He has also sold nis lamp to this company for $10,000. July is generally a dull month for business men, but then there is no loss without some small gain, as a number of merchantsare spending their leisure moments reading therevised new testament. There seems to be some misunderstauding between the colored people relative to celebraling Emancipation day in this city August 1, andabout 05 it is claimed will go to Wiudsor or Chatam, Canada. Jno. Anderson, my Joe John, is serviug a 65 days' senteuce in the Detroit workhouse where he was sent by juutice Freu aufl for making an assault on Chas. MHler, who was sick in bed at the time. Two tramps givíng their ñames as Chas. Isles aud Jas. Mack, were taken from a Michigan Central freight car Monday night. Sentence suspended providing they would leave the county. They got. There was quite a gathering Suuday afteruoon at the tetnperinee meeting on the lawu at J. II . Hicks' in Lodi. As previously anuouuced, l'rof. Wilson and Hou. Mr. Baxter, of Tecumseh wero the speakers. Wia. Copeland has taken two houses to build ia tliis townsnip, a two story frame 10 x 32 feet and addition 9 x 30 feet tor Isaac Dunn, which will cost $1,200, and one for Martin Kendall just west of the city, to cost $750. Mr. Alvin Wilsey has fitted up teaching rooms iuthe sanie block with his music store, and will receive a liimted nuniber of pupils in vocal music. Voice cul ture and the art of readiug vocal rausic ure Mr. Wilsey's specialties. The Cliarlotte Republican says tlmt Old Peppersass, of the Ypsüanti Sentinel, is an "old fooi who deserves to be duckcd in a cesspool." And the Detroit Evening News adds: "What has the cesspool done that it should be served tbus?" This is the way au exchange puts it - A tom-cat sits upon the shed, And warbles wildly to its mate - "Oh, when the world is gone to bed, I love to sit and mew till late V lint while this torn cat sits and ningi, Up springs a boardermad withhate, Who shootsthat oat to tiddie-8 triugs; He also loved to mutílate. And now Hilan want9 au agricultural Tair. Perhaps the business men of the village can make an arrangement with the managers of the Ypsilanti fair, consolídate and divide the profits - providing Milan is the place selected for the exhibilion. A gentleman rcmarked in the hearing of a reporter a few days ago, that he would like to take Guiteau. strip him and tie him to a tree near Base lake, and lea ve liitn to be stung to death by rnosquitoes. Perhaps the assassin woukl object to such treatment. Yesterday was a busy day for justice Wmegar. Jno. Clark, Ja9. Johnson, and Thos. Patterson, tramps, deraanded a jury trial, and the case is down for 10 day. Elmer Aldrich was up lor burglary, and Burmingham the horse thief, was alo arraigned. Chris. Bach of Chelsca, who tas already served one term at Ionia for stcaling sheep, was arrested Tuesday by constable Imus for the larceny of a horse belonging to Jno. Matthews. He gave bail in the sum of $200 to appear for exainination August 3. Prof. Green, who has had a position offered hira in the Boston school of technicology has concluded to remain herc. The uuiversity isto bo congratulated, for it is through the efforts of this professor that the department of civil engineering has been made what it is. The electric light company will soon be ready for business. The engine and boiler have been placed in position, and a smoke stack erected. The house adjoining the old Baptist church lms been pur chased by the company, and will be occupied by Iheir foreman. Bairy County Deinocrat: Michigan has two commodious insane asylums, and the late legislature appropriated $200,000 for a third one. Uuder democratie rule only one was required. Query : Does Republicanism tend to insanity?" We would refer the editor of -the Democrat to the as - sassin Guiteau. Mr. Lansing B. Howard of Chicago, is announced to lecture before the young men's christian association early in Septembor. His subject will be "The private life of the King of Siam." Mr. Howard will be reniembered as the associate of Col. Hunt of New Orleans, in a private mission to Siam in 1879. It will coat you $1.50 to lake in the excursión given by the juvenile band next Wednesüay- half fare to children under 12 years of age. The excursión will leave here at 7 a. m. The Chief Justice Waite will take the party from Toledo to PutinBay, and Lakeside. Let everybody go and help the band along. Since the last issue of Tue Democbat, the füllowing new names have been added to our subscription list: Wm. Cope land. Jas. W. Allen, Willard Banfield, Michael Clark, Peter A. Dignan, Wm. Fohey, M. H. French, Doe Simonds, A. B. Covert, Geo. B. Dignan, Miss Ella Cumings, Jno. Kecnan, Paul Sipfley; Now is the thne to subscribe for the best local paper in the couuty- Tue üemocrat, It is brim full of uows every week. Demócrata republicans, greenbackeis aiul prohibitionists alike, acknowledge it to be the peoples' paper, and the paper everybody should read if they wish to keep posted in local events. Joseph Eisele, a respecteb Germán citizeii, past 85 years, and for the last 15 years a resident of this city, died Mouday af tornoon of oíd age. He was the father of Anton Eisele, this city, Willibold Eisele, loscio, Livingston county, and Mis. Urace SheSold, Dexter. The funeral was held yesterday, and was largely attended. Paul Schall has an old suramous in his possession which is numbered 160, and dated Oct. 17, 1823. It was made returnable a week later, by E. Swan, cousUble. The summous was agaiust Juo. Halu and n favor of Erekiel Crampton. The par ties tuen resided in Oakland county, and the suit was brought to recover possefsion of land. Henry Alterman is another of tbose sweet-scented fellows who has been living by begging trom house to house, and to make a long story short, he stole an arm chair, and when collaredb y policeraan Porter, was making a bee line for the depot. He didn't take the cars until he went lo Detroit on a 05 days' sentence to the work-house. The thirteenth animal regatta of the northwestern amateur rowing association is to come off at Diamond Lake, in C'ass county, two miles east of Cassopolis, July 27 and 28. The Michigan Central railroad will sell excursión tickets on above dates for one f are for the round top. A big time may be expected as over 20 clubs will attend and take partin the races. Chas. Rhoades was found dead- drunk Saturday afternoon back of the opera house. He was put on a dray and carted to jail. Monday morning justicc Winegar gave him a lècturë on taking too mucli soothing syrup, and the privilege of no ing to Ionia for C months, or leaving the city immediately. When last scen he was making tracks for the Fif th ward for his grip-sack. Mrs. D.eborah O. Farrand wliose funeral was held last Saturday at the Presby terian church, was one of the early pioueers of this county, and one of the original 17 meinbers of the Presbyterian society. Mrs. Farrand was the wife of the hite Hou. lietheul Farrand, the lirst judgo of probate of Washtenaw county, and mother of Dr. O. O. Farrand, Detroit. Her age was 87. The rnembers of the Detroit mutual benefit assoeiation resjding in this couuty, organizad a branch society Saturday evening, and elected offlcers as follows: President, O. M. Martin, Jr. ; secretary, F. Pislorious; treasurer, M. Steeb; trustee, F. Pistorious; M. Bteeb and Jno. Meyer, delegates, who represented the society at a meeting of the state associatiou held in Detroit Monday. J. M. Schaiberle, Prof. Harrington's assistant, discovered a cornet Thursday morning last, and cornmunicated the fact to Prof. Swift of the Rochester observa tory, who telegraphed the following Saturday: ''Have called your cornet. Faint witli a tail. It's route is slow uorthwest. The prize ($200) is yours undoubtedly." This makes the second cornet discovered by Prof. Schaiberle. Tbe Pontiac Gazette says by the fust day of August the T. A. A . & G. T. road will bc ballasted and in fine running order. Messrs. Knapp and Peebles, of South Lyon, are working hard to secure the required subscription and rightof way betweeu this point and Wixom, in order if possible to push the second división along to that point immediately. Every one here seems perfectly willing to have the road stop here. The reform club elected the following offlceislast week for thosix montbs endiog Dec. 81: President, Jno. Scliumacher; vice presidenta, Clias. Boylan, Thos. Kearns, E. A. Spence; secretary, J. B. Saunders ; financial secretary, Jno. Boylan; treasurer, D. J. Fisher; marshals, Wm. Campion, Chas. Hatch; sergeantat arms, C. Schumacher; janitor, Wm. Fisher. The club has some money in tho treasury, and is running along smoothly. One night last week two colored men wearing handcuiïs, vvere seen near tlie residence of a Mr. Garlinghouse in tha tnwn of Ann Arbor. No one knew who they were, and it i9 quite possible they gave some officer the slip when taking thera to Ionia. That the offleer did not make a fuss about it is nothinc; strange, as we have in niiud a Case played on an offleer who feit so chagriued over losing Iris man that he never told of the escape, and it leaked out through his deputy. The best locatiou in the place for a city hall would be on the corner of Main and Ann streets. The property we understand can be bought cheap, and for what the old engine house and grounds adjoining would bring, and wilh the addition of a few thousand dollars, a building could be erected which would be an ornament to the city. Besides, a suitaole place with more room for the use of the ,fire department is necessary, and it is only a question of time bef ore some definite action must be taken. Henry Aprill.who imposed upon a num ber of citizens by asking alms, on the strength of a lame hand vrhich he carried in a sling, succeeded in pocketing mouey enough to buy his wets. It was while under the influence of liquor that he gave himself away by a fight he got into, when he forgot all about his lameuess by handling his fists like an experienced knocker. He went over the road accompanied by policeman Milluian as far as the Detroit work-house, where he will sojourn until it is time to gather walnuts iu the fall. Chas. II. Manly, captain of Company A has notiüed Adj't Gen'l Robertson in reply to a circular issued from headquarters of the commander in chief of the Michigan state militia, hearing date the llth inst. "that after due deliberation he is authorized to say, that while the company would be pleased to be chosen as one of the companies to represent the state military at the Yorktown centennial, and willing to devote their time to the state, the members do not think they should be called upon to defray aiiy portion of the expense and decline to accept the terms of the circular. Thaddeus Burd, who had been engaged in draying lor the past three years, was found dead in bed last Fiiday morning. He was about 70 years of age and formerly lived in Wayuecouuty, nearPlymouth. At oue time he was quite wealthy, bul on account of niisinanagemcnt lost his property and for some years was obliged to get his living by teaming. An inquest was held by coroner Clark. i he post mortem was conducted by Drs. Georg and Breakey. The jury was composed of J. T. Jacobs, W. Porter, I). P. Loomis, H W, Hyatt, M. Seabolt, P. B. Iugalls. As the testimony of the doctors was lo the effect that Bind died from over feeaUag himself a verdict was aceordingly rendered The deceased was a brolher of the late Zenus Burd, and a relativo of Mis. Jas. Cook. The funeral was held Fiiday afternoon. Jeff Davis suys he is not alone opposed to the celebration here on the First of August, but other colored people have taken action agaiust it. It uiay be all right in their way of thinking, but as we understaud it a large majoiity favor the celebration, are bouiid to make it a success, aud so wish it understood. The committee havincr the matter in charge say they were not aware that half a dozen of their race owned the colored people body and britch es, and have given them to understand they can dispense with their wonderful influence, and get up a celebration and have a good tune no matter how much they may do to the contrary. The committee feel warranted in saying they have even at this early day received suffleieut encouragement to insure a tip-top time, and expect a large crowd here on August, 1.