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Additional local on second page. Judge Cooley is in New York. J. E. Beal is visiting in Alpena. Local items are scarce this week. Prof. Pettee has gone to Vermont. The strawberries are about played. Frank Sessions is going to Europe. The coon Bud Dixon is in Canada. Prof. Chas. Galey has been quite ilL Prof. Chas. Dennison is at Petoskey. Regent Duffield was in the city Monday. Dan. F. Flynn had a second sun stroke Monday. Capt. Allen, it is said, is a candidate for congress. Miss Emily Smith haa gone to Detroit on a visit. D. Osborne and wife are visiting in Hamburg. Everything in the shape of meat brings a big price. Gen. Hunt and daughter have gone on a visit east. Prof. John Eastwood left Monday for Cherveloix. Miss Mary F. Chapin is visiting relations in St Johns. L. B. Buchoz ia canavssing for a book in Kalamazoo. Mrs. Adam D. Seyler is visiting relatives in Detroit. Aretus Dtmn and family are visiting [rienda in Ohio. The city band is to have a picnic soon for their benefit. The Kegister office is being moved to the Hamilton block. Brick and stone masons receive $3.50 per day in Lansing. Sullivan's Blonda will appear at the opera house July 25. Isaac Dunn the great wool grower, has oearly 4,000 pounds. The finest span of colts in the city are driven by J. B. Dow. Capt. T. Faulks, agent for the Public Leader, is in the city. The state troops will encamp at Island Lake, near Brighton. Geo. Clarken went Wm. Ball's security in the sum of $200. Many farmers expect to engage haresters for $2 per day. Theiron columns for the new postoffice 3ame f rom Philadlphia. Will Turner, homoeopath, '82, will go o Au Sable to practice. Maggie Schubert, aged four years, died Monday of scarlet fever. W. B. Williams, railroad commissioner, was in the city Tuesday. There bas been rain every Saturday for the past seven weeks. J. G. Krusterer was defeated in hia suit Tuesday before FrueaufF. Mrs. N. M. Schoof will be absent in the east some two months. A brother of S. C. Andrews i here f rom the Sandwich Islands. With the students away the city presents a very quiet appearance. Mrs. J. Cook Clark has gone to Mt Clemens to spend a few weeks. A. Durand is building a brink block in the thriving vülage of Chelsea. Aid. Childs having moved from the sixth ward his seat is now vacant. W. E. Depew has returned from Harrisville on a brief visit to his family. Judge Harriman expects to take hia annual vacation by a trip to Vermont. A. R. Wheeler, M. D., will gpend two months in Chicago before going north. Mrs. Wm. H. McDowell of Cincinnati, is visiting her mother, Mrs. A. B. Hall. The school of nrasic will continue to be on the corner of State and Huron streeta. Miss Louisa Huggins of the Ann Arbor school of music, lef t for Petoskey Monday. Miases Katie and Alice Cramer are visJtingtheirgrandpa Twitchell in Hamburg. O'Hara &, Stabler are purchasing sheep for export. Price from $2.50 to $4 per head. The K. of M. in this state now number over 1,000, and the organization is proapering. Mrs. O. O. Sorg is visiting relativea at Ashland, Pa. She expects to return about Sept. lst. Everybody reads The Democrat because it is best uwpaper published in Ann Arbor. A. V. Eobison & Son will carry the mail to and from the depot during the next year. The Harrison Goodrich house on Washington street has been purchased by A. Dunn. Eev. N. Eastwood and wife will leave the last of the week for the northem part of the state. Ed. Turner of Flint, postoffice inspector, was looking over the office in this city Monday. Supervisor Burch, one of the most popular men of Manchester, was in the city yesterday. Prof. E. C. Franklin and wife will leave in a few days for Indian River, their old camping ground. Geo. Graf of Bridgewater, while engaged at work in a hay field, feil in a fit and soon expired. The Rettich brothers will receive another car load of bottled beer from Müwaukee next week. Miss Rose Barton of fourth Btreet íb visiting freinds in Quincy, 111. She will be absent some weeks. The Ann Arbor Savings bank raakea a flne showing, as will be seen from the publisbed report. A new lamp replaces the old worn out concern on the corner of Miller Avenue. and Spring street. Chas. H. Rorachbacher of the Sotith Lyon Excelsior, paid The Democbat a friendly cali Monday. Wm. Potter left last week for Florence, Marión county, Kansas, where he is engaged in raising cattle. D. Cramer on Saturday sold out his entire intesestin theDundee opera house to J. K. Burnham & Co. B. S. Waite has gone to Lake Superior to see whether he can find a place that suits him to practice law. The aldermen of the fourth ward have commenced working the streets. Alderman Dow overeees the job. Dr. Shurtleff of Partello, Calhoun county, after a week's visit with his pie, retumed home b nday. L. F. Wade has returned from his western trip. He met Messrs. H. K. Hill and M. F. Guiñón at Fargo. The firm of B. K. Ailes & Gritten have disolved. The Gritten Bro.'s will continue the machine business. With only one exception the boot and shoe houses will close at 8 oclock p. m. except on Saturday nights. P. C. Jensen, a gradúate of the department of medicine and surgery, class '82, has gone to Chicago to lócate. Geo. L. Moore, wife and children, and Mrs. Jno. Moore and daughters are at a summer resort on Lake Huron. Fred Besimer has materially improved the appearnace of his new brick block by having it painted and penciled. A city paper gives some one fits for following wonien from place to place about the city. Who can it be. The Northfield farmers are selling their wool in Plymouth- one buyer last week having purchased 38,000 pounds. Circuit conrt commiasioner McKernan will take testimoney Saturday in the diorce case of Jewell aginst Jewell. Dr. A. I. Sawyer of Monroe, has donaed to the homoeopathic college a large umber of pathological speoimens. Artemus D. Graham, son of Wm. Graïam of Whitmore Lake, is working in ie pine woods for $26 per month. Prof. Harrington is happy over the iscovery of a 10 pound cornet which made hü appearance Friday night. It seemed good to see D. C. Fall in the M. E. church choir Sunday evening for the first time in seven years. Mr. Lyman Avery and Miss Lizzie Avery, formerly of this city, were married at Mt. Clemens some weeks ago. Orin R. Halman for 22 years a resident of this city died Tuesday aged 66 years. Funeral this afternoon at two o'clock. C. H. Manly has been re-elected captain of company A. Some 18 members whose time has expired, have reinlisted. Many medical students have already applied for seats. They -wish, evidently to see the celebrated doctors " perform." It only cost $200 to trim the trees in this city and the place looks better ty all odds. In fact it is a great improvementEi-Senator J. Webster Childs of Augusta, expects to be able to leave soon for Montana and Dakota to recupérate. Eev. Wyllys Hall has returned from Ohio, where he attended a reunión of the alumni association of Kenyon college. Willis P. Polhemus, M. D., formerly with Dr. S. B. Parsons, is building up quite a business at Freeport, this state. Mr. Busenback of this township was obliged to shoot a valuable horse which had its legs cut off by a mowing machine. Rev. Dr. Steele will leave the last of the month for Saratoga, N. Y., and vicinity. He will be absent some four months. Chris Kuhn in the employ of the Keek furniture company lost two fingers Monday by running his hand into a planner. Capt. Wm. B. Bichards who is stationed in Texas, is expected here next month to visit his mother, Mrs. Geo. P. Williams. Louis Fasquelle left Tuesday for Petosky, where he has a position for two months as business manager of the school there. Dean & Co. are building a brick ware house 36x65 feet near the Toledo road. The cost will be in the neighborhood of 4,000. Willis Boughton who has edited the Courier since last September will retire this week He will be succeeded by J, E. Beal. Mrs. O. Collier has traveled during the past year over 6,000 miles - in the east as far as New York city, and as far west as Oregon. B. F. Bower made a flying visit to the city Tuesday. He left for Detroit on the 10:35 train and went to Chicago last evening. Frederick Schaiberele, drain commissioner, has resigned. He didn't propose to epend his money without obtaining value seoeived. Ann Arbor is the best wool market in the county. In fact there are only two places, this city and Chelsea, where buyers are in the business. Mal. Green has left Jackson and will temporarily sojourn in East Sagina w. He is still selling paintings and will wind up with a candy sale. The next county fair will be held September 26, 27, 28 and 29. The Caro young ladies band will furnish the music. A great scheme. The democratie county convention to nomínate delegates to the state convention, will be held at the court house Thursday, August 17. The masonic fraternity of this city having been invited by the Milan lodge, will assist in laying the corner stone of the new church next Tuesday. On Saturday, July 22d, the corner stone of the First Presbyterian church of Milan will be laid, under the direction of the masonic fraternity. Professor Cocker will leave, probably the last of this week, for Duluth. He will also visit St. Paul. He expects to be absent some four weeks. The T. A. A. & G. T. B. B. has instruoted the engineers not to run faster than three miles an hour between State street crossing and Miller avenue. Jno. A. Anderhalt was in the cit Satnrday dispersing with a liberal hanc samples of the tobáceo. Chewers pro nounce it an excellent article. There will be no more Sunday temper anee meetings until the reform clnb can make a.rrangements for a hall. They ar nogotiating for the opera house. The Washtenaw county agricultura and horticultural Bociety have borrowec $3,000 to pay off the James mortgage and at a reduced rate of interest. Clarance C. Tice, better known as "Cooney," with A. V. Robinson for the past 13 years, is to engage in business for himself. He will run a hack of his own. Dr. Donald Maclain and family, Mrs Octerlong and Wm. G. Octerlong o Louisville, Ky., have gone to Kingston Ontario. They will be absent six weeks A National Greenback convention for the county of Washtenaw, will be held at the court house in the city of Ann Ar bor, on Thursday, August lOth, 1882, at 11 o'clock, A. m. Arthur Marshal, the architect of the new postoffice, is preparing plans for a fine brick residence for Mr. H. Thorn o Ooldwater; also plans for an engine house in this citv. The will of the late Pauline Hall of Dexter, is to be contested by her step-son, S. C. Hall of Elmira, N. Y. Some $5,000 is envolved. A. Jackson Sawyer appears for the contestant. We see by the Detroit Evening News that Prof. Winchell who went on the excursión, delivered a lecture at the Glen house, White Mountains, on the geneology of the country. D. C. Fall, E. B. Clark, G. M. Monroe I. C. Handy, M. H. Frank, and Fred F Wallace visited their masonic brethern in Saline Tuesday evening. There was work in the third degree. Two detectives were in the city lasi week and took possession of a quantity of thread that Theo. Taylor purchased in Detroit. It seems the thread had been smuggled from Canada. Monday Justice Winegar gave the old woman Gooding three days to shake the dust of the city from her feet. She promised to leave and embraced the officers for their kindness. Ex-Postmaster Clark is quite a fellow in hig new home. He was president of the day on the 4tb, and has also been elected seeretary of the republican committee of Hand county, Dakota. The city band has designated next Wednesday as the time for holding their picnic. Frank Hangstefer is master of ceremonies and what he undertakes will be carried out to the letter. J. G. Kursteser is of the opinión that in a racket with such a man as Kern, he would stand about the same chance that Condón did with the individual who pelted him, Condón. Perhaqs. The ordinance relative to railroads blocking street crossings will be found interesting reading. This ordinance has had a good effect already, as the streets are kept free of obstractions. Eev. Mr. Lewis addressed a lively temperance gathering in Saline Sunday afternoon. Next Sunday he will speak at a lawn meeting, at the residence of Mrs. Gilbert Allen, on Lodi Plains. Prof. Delos Fall of Albion college left for Colorado Monday, where he will spend the summer and gather specimens for the college. Prof. Fall is abrother of D. C. and C. S. Fall of this city. B. J. Conrad, who has been connected with the Register for the past seven years (as manager of the old company) will retire from business next Saturday. He will probably migrate to Dakota. Bud Dixon, colored, and Mrs. Emma Stenele, arrested some days ago on a charge of adultery, have been discharged, there being not sufficient evidence to hold them for trial to the circuit court. Wm. Graham of the Whitmore Lake house, is doing a fine business this summer. No liquore of any kind are sold. He has a large number of boats to accommodate the patrons of his hotel. There was a racket in the Earl block Friday. Old mother Gooding was on the jwar path with several colored persons. Chief Nowland poured oil on the troubled water and there was a calm. A. Stanley Dolan who gradnated from the homoeopathic college last month, has gone to Guilford, N. Y., where he will assume the practice of his preceptor, Dr. R. M. Clark, during his absence west. Thos. Lehaney who assaulted andbadly bruised Thomas Condón with a stone, will have his examination to-morrow. Justice Winegar put him under $500 bonds to insure his appearance for trial. Alderman Dow is doing good work on the streets, and it was needed on several of them. Catherine street from Main to Miller avenue bas been graded, new culverts have been put in, and crossings repaired. Sunday night Thos. Lehaney. the man who hit Thomas Condón with a stone, received a severe thrasbing at the hands of " Shorty," whr works for H. Kitredge. It is claimed that Lehaney attempted to stone Shorty. Mack & Schmid have purchased thus far over 50,000 pounds of wool and the largest clips from the f ollowing persons : Mr. Watling of Ypsilanti; 1,550 pounds, I. N. S. Foster 1,450 pounds, Chas. Stolstimer, 1,200 pounds. P. McKernan has a suit against his sister about the ownership of a $600 mortgage formerly belonging to Mary Ann Martin, deceased. D. Shields of Howell, for complainant, and Cramer, Corbin and Waite for defendant. Prosecuting attorney Whitman was in the city Tuesday. Railroad commission er Williams instructed him to stop the trains on the T., A. A. & G. T. R. R. if the company did not at once fence the way through S. W. Shurtleff 's farm. Johnny Martin the peanut vender, was put in jail Saturday night for disturbing his neighbors. Monday morning policeman Millman, the arresting officer, took him before a justice, who suspended sentence on the beligerent, Martin promising to behave himself in the future. Observer, Saline: A wothless tramp, named Kurtz entered the house of Geo. Meyer, northwest of this place, on the morning of the Fourth, while all the members of the family but a small boy were absent, and took $50 from the bureau drawer, and decamped. Search was immediately made for him but we have not learned the result. Next Wednesday evening is the time for every body to enjoy themselves at the" picnic grounds of Frank Hangstef er. The city band will give an open air concert; the ground and river will be illnminated, a balloon ascensión during the evening, rousing fiireworks, climbing the greasy pole, and Frank's ice cream are a few of the many enjoyments of the evening. When the old depot at Ohelsea was burned down some two years ago, the railroad company filled up the well with sticks of timber. One dark night T. McKone, who keeps the hotel at the above place, went to the depot to meet his wife and by some hook or crook feil into the well and was seriously injured, it is claimed. McKone, through his attorney, A. J. Sawyer, now brings suit for 810,000 damages. The papers were served Monday on station agent Hayes by sheriff Wallace. Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine. One of the leading features of the August number of thjs popular periodical, is the highly interesting commencement of Marion Harland's new serial, " A Good Fellow." Among the other notable contributions are, "Nantucket"; an admirable article by the editor, Rev. Dr. Talnrege, on "Decoration Day - what it is and what it Means"; " Street Singing andits influence on the Eeformantion in Germany"; " Cyprus, Anciont and Modern"; "How the Kough House was Founded by Prayer"; "The Vocal Music of the Ancient Hebrews," by Alfreton Hervey, etc, etc. MacDonald's serial, "Weighed and Wanting," is continued, and there is an excellent story by Ella Bodman Church entitled, " Hope Chestlethwaite'a Trouble." The illustrations are nmneroua and flnely executed. This magazine should find its way into every family.