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Day
23
Month
March
Year
1883
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Public Domain
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O. Mack has one to New York. Law and dental commencement next Wednesday. Abmit six inehes of anow feil Sunday night. J. M. Wilooxson has rented lus house ou División street to J. J. Robiaon. H. O. Davis, ;84, was admitted to the bar laat week. The treasurer of Ypsilanti returnel ouly fifty dollars uncolleotable taxes. Mrs. A. E. Barker, of McGregor, Iowa, is visiting her father, A. W. Ames. James Thomas has rented Mrs. Reedy's house, on Ingalls street. The'fiag of Erin rloated over the Duffy block last Saturday. Bro. Bliss still presides over the destines of the St. James. BeD. Joslyn, the baloonist, is also stadying law. Ann Arbor was flrst lighted by gas on .Monday evening, August 30, 1858. Antón Eiesele is getting out stone for a nuniber of line buildings to be erected this year. Miases Emily and Oarrie Krichbaum, of Kalamazoo, are visiting Miss Eliza Müler. J. M. Swift & Co. propose to improve their mili, in the Fifth ward, at a cost of several thousand dollars. D. Eierstead left, Monday night, for Omaha, to visit his son William, and peets to be gone un til the nrst ot May. Joe T. Jacobs received an order, last weak, for a suit of oiothee, from a party in Leadville, Col. Capt. M. V. Richard, who is stutioned at Fort Concho, Texas, is visiting his mother, Mrs. George Williams. He is accompanied by his wife and child. Sir John Reed, who resided in Dexter and Webster for nearly fifty years, died last Friday of dropsy of the heart, aged 76 years. George Remick, of New Hudson, was visiting his old f riends the first of the ■week. duim íuiÉfiey reaiizu. me biilu ui .$1,200 from his auotion sale. Albert J. Robison, of Sharon, informa us that wheat never looked better in his township. Supervisor Perry, of Sliaron, has been drawn as a United States juror, to report at Detroit, April 3. The business of the American Express company has donbled in the past two years. The senior laws wil] get through with their troubles in a few days, as the examinations take place the latter part of the week. The wire fence on the court house square has about "gone where the woodbine twineth." The literary exercises at the Unitarian ohureh, last evening-, called forth an appreoiative audience. Ouite a nuniber oL neoi)le visited the scène of the accident on the Toledo roed, Sunday. The beautiful morning on Sunday last was succeeded by a very stormy afternoon. The thermometer registered fonrteen degrees below zero last Monday night. The reception at the Methodist parsoriage, Friday evening last, was a very pleasant aifair. Wm. Gwinner conldn't flnd anything else to do, and chopped off one of his fingere. George Buil has been indicted by the Circuit Court for assualt with intent to kill, and found guilty. Dr. Farrand, a prominent physician of Detroit, died Sunday, aged 46 years. He was bom in this county in 1837, and was a son of the late Judge Farrand. Tunis N. Quackenbush, C. C. Warner, John T. Feldkamp, jurors drawn for this term of court, have been excused from serving by Judge Joslyn. Janitor Horton has been interviewed by the building committee, and given to understand that unless he keeps the oourt house and offices clean he will get the "grand bounce." The following additional jurymen were drawn Tuesday : Foster Brown, Ann Arbor town ; Manly Hulbrook, Ypsilanti ; Wm. Mauly, Superior ; Sheldon T. Gridley, Ypsilanti town ; Michael Stabler, Lodi. O. O. Warner was drawn Irom Lodi, but was excused. The committee on public buildings have been around and toned up the janitor Bome. We heard County Clerk Robison say, yesterday, that his office was cleaner than it had been at any time since the first of January. Register bert say the same tking. Mrs. Corbin returned from her visit in Vermont, a short time ago, and expects soon to take ap her residence in Dundee, with her son, who is a prncticing attorney there. ïhe libel suit of Donald Maclean against the Detroit Evening News -will oommence in the Superior eourt next Monday. The best sauerkraut that ever tlckeled the palate of an epicure is dished up by Oscar Wherner, at George Clerken'u sample room. The Demócrata are talkinp of Dr. Georg for mayor. It is aaid, however, he would not accept the nomination. The Chi Phi f raternity will " banquet" at Hangsterfer's Hall, to-morrow (Saturday) evening. Alex. Frazer seema to be the coming man- he is demanded by all classes in Northfield for town treasurer. Four or five hundred studenda of the Umveraity of Michigan went to Detroit last Wednesday to attend the funeral of Dr. Farrand. While C. H. Manly does not seek the nomination for recorder, and will make no effort for ït, if hia friends want him to run he would consent to be a uate. Adam D. Seyler has been improving the appearance of his shoe store by carpeting the front part and adding several new settees. This is March, and it may be spring somewhere, but the bluebirds and robins are not nest-buildingto any considerable extent in this immediate vicinity. Died, Wednesday, Mrs. Johanes Champion, consort of William Champion, aged 47 } ears. Sheleaves behind her a family of nine children to moum her Die loss. The Star lecture burean has gone to considerable expense in securing a lecture from Jas. B. GougL, and the time of his coming has baen flxed for April 3, when he will appear at the Grand opera house. A dramatic recital and festival will be given, this evening, by the young people of the A. M. E. church, on Fourth street. The proceeds to be used for purchasing furniture. One week from Sunday will be Easter, atter which date the pious church member may return to the vain pomp and glory of the world, the flesh and the devil. . Mrs. Ellen Martin died suddenly, Monday, of heart disease, at the age of 71 years. She had been a resident of this survive her. Mrs. Martin was a sister of James McMahon. M. F. Guiuon, the individual who was arrested on the charge of arson and forgery and blackmailing by the Masonic fratemity, ia showed np most magnificently in this week's Begister, by Mrs. M. J. Keynolds. B. F. Gray, law of '84, started for his Missouri home Saturday last, much to the regret of his numerous friends. Bro. Gray is one of those whole-souled fellows that don't care which side of bis cranium his hair is parted ; but he never parts it in the middle. There came very near being another accident on the Toledo road last Friday, and at the same place where Win. Frey was killed ouly a few days before. The track at this spot is said to be blocked lip for sonie distance, and a train liable to be thrown down the embankment. People wonder why the road is not put in good order. That girl that cooks the sauer-krauet that is dished-np by George Clerken, at 9:30 a. m. (Sundays excepted,) is a daisy, and if we were a single man we would trj and induce her to become our cook for the brief period we expect to remain on this terrestrial sphere. The below named gentlemen are candidates on the " Law and Orderite" ticket for aldermen, in their respective wards: First ward- E. B. Lewis; Second ward- Jos. J. Ellis ; Third ward- Thos. Kearnes ; Fourth ward- A. V. Kearney ; Fifth ward- L. B. Kellogg; Sixth ward- P. D. Woodruff and A. F. Martin. C. H. Stone, of Manchester, is the new landlord at the St. James. The bill of fare, the clever clerk, and the much admired dining room help that persided over this holstery during Mr. Beal's administration, will be retained by the present incumbent, and, if possible, imDroved unon. We mean the bill of fare; not the girls. At the Unitanan church, next Sunday( there will be in the morning a special Easter service, for old and young, with commemoration of members of the congregation who have died during the past year, and welcome of new ineinbers joining the church. In the evening, Mr. Sunderland will speak upou "The Church ; its Meaning and Value, as Understood by Unitanans." Why is it that every persou who has old boots, shoes, or arctics to shed, feels that he is not doing his full duty to the city of hifl residence unless he throws these cast-offs iu the street? We counted no less than forty old boots and rubbers, in the middle of the street, the other day, while in quest of obituary notices and a dog fight. There is nothing like ornamentation of this sort to impresa strangers with the real beauty and grandeur of our beautiful little city. There is a genuine sestheticisrn in the sight of old rubbers, and we hope there will be an other ahower of them. " One by one the roses fan. And thus we miss our law, literary and medical friends, as they depart for their future homes. Bro. Gray has "skipped out" for % the wilds of Missouri, and left a vacuüm that will never be filled ; our talwart I1 Virginian is about to depart for his native bilis, and our good looking ohum, of the dental class, B. G. Miller, goes to Grand Rapids to extract molars; while our brilliant little Kepublican friend, Register, will "get away" with a tirst-class I diploma and leaves for his Delaware ï home, and Bro. Lockwood will throw curved balls at a bat for the Albany base ball club, the coming season, and thus ( we are left alone to our feelings and a i few delinquent subscnbers.

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Ann Arbor Democrat