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Now is the time to clsan up. Will Watts was in Fliiit, Wednesday. Water-works are dead in this city for years to come. Teresa Carreno to-morrow evening in university hall. Rev . R. B. Pope lef t Tuesday morning for New Orleans. Mrs. James Deubel of Ypsilanti, was in the city Wednesday. G. Collins will dispose of his household goods at auction, to-morrow. Lewis & Gibson have a case of photos on exhibition in the Cook House. 'The streut sprinkler was out for the first time thie spring, Wednesday morning. Jno. Card, living near Delhi, was run over by the cars, Saturday, and instantly lulled. Hon. C. II . Richmond has returned from his southern trip much improved in health. ü. L. Matthews has received a back pension of $1,000 for Norman D. Gates, üftli ward. The great Forepaugh show will exhibit in this city, at some date between the 8th and 30th of June. A change of ad. for John Keek & Co., attention of housekeepers is called to the same. E. A. Treadway of Grand Rapids, state agent for the Blue Lme, was m the city on Friday last. The house of Robert Speechley of this towQship, was ransacked by tramps, Sunday, who stole some $20. Edward Seykr left for Detroit yesterlay to enter the store of Pingree & Smith, wholesale shoe dealers. Mrs. Senator Kempf, spent Tueeday with her son John at the Michigan military academy at Orchard Lake. Mrs. M. M. Beach of Howell, Mich., spent Monday and Tuesday in this city with her niece, Mrs. Willis Bliss. Eli W. Moore left Monday evening for a trip through Illinois and Wisconsin on business for the agricultural company. A man, attired all in white, created quite a sensation on Fifth-st., Saturday evening, trying to scare women and cb.ildren. Harry Morse and wife, who will soon moye to Dakota, gnve a farewell reception to their friends, on Wednesday eve ning. Home rulers - Wives. It will eost $2,000 to furnish the new masonle temple. Aid. Malony of Detroit, was iu town the ftrst of the week. Hon. Don M. Dickinson of Detroit, wns in the citj Sunday. This will be the busiest season for building in many years. All persous caught spearing üsh this month will bo proseeuted. The repairs to the St. James block will oost something like $3,000. J. S. Earl will raffle off a 100 buggy next Friday evening, May 1. G. Monroe of Grand Island, Nebraska, was in the city over Sunday. Proseeuting attorney, Norris, has removed han family to this city. J. 8. Earl will comencé running a 10c 'bvis about the middle of May. John Pflsterer is building a $2,000 brick home in the second ward. Peter Long has exchanged hia Main street property for a 170 acre farm. Andrew, youngest sou of A. J. Sawyer, feil and broke his arm, Suuday. We are under obligations to George Marsden for recent copies of London papers. Mrs. S. Pettibone of Howel1, sister of E. Terhune of this place, was buried Saturday. John Guien has been elected marshal of Saline village. Ho is just the man for the place. When finished, the masonic temple will be ahead of anything n the state outside of Detroit. Schneider & Almendinger have rented the flouring mili at Delhi and will run the same until sold. Aid. Kearns, chairman of the street committee, will appoint Jno. B. Dow strest commissioner. Hon. T. E. Tarsney, congressman from the Saginaw Valley, spent Sunday with fnends on Second-st. S. Hicks returned from Washing ton, where he had been visitmg the past two months, Saturday . The Chequamegons have been engaged for July and August to play at the Olifton House, in Marquette. Frank Parsons has gone to Chicago to live. He has secured employment in a wholesale grocery house. Frank E. Kandall, the live agent of the D. & C. S.N. Co., spent Saturday with his parents on Spring-st. Fred. Rettich, Jr., will move, next week, into the saloon on Washington st., so long occupied by his father. Uoncert at university hall, to morrow night, on which occasion the great pianiste, Mme. Carreno, will appear. The Chequamegons plaj ed at a recep tion given at the Cornwell mansion in Ypsilauti, on Wednesday evening. Albert Sorg has engaged the services of M, Stimson of Jacksonville, Florida, one of the best sign writers in the county. The Beethoven club, assisted by the Harmonie club, of Jackson, give a concert at Beethoven hall Monday evening next. D. J. lioss sued to recover $1,500 from E. E. Beal, but Judge Joslyn, before whom the case was tried, gave the plaintiff fl.OuO. Wm. Herz, being the lowest bidder, will do the painting and glazing in the Germania block to be erecied by Michael Stabler. By a minhap to the boiler in the Courier building, Friday night, the electrie light was extinguished for something like one hour. W. 8. Beakes, editor and proprietor of the Adrián Evening Record, was in the city over Sunday, at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Jndge Beakes. Boss & Armstrong have purchased the oíd Noble planmg mili property on Depot-st , and are now engaged in making repairs which will cost $1,500. David Wilsey is making improvements on his farm in Pittsfleld . He is building a large hog-house, henry and comhouse, costing in all some $700. A number of our physicians will take advantage of the low railroad rates and will attend the meeting of the American medical association at New Orleans. . A freight train ran off the track below the rirst rairoad bridge, Sunday after noon, on account of the breaking of an axle under the tender, and ten cara were wrecked. White's grand opera house is the most popular resort in Detroit. When in the city do not fail to visit it. Sawyer's Goorgia Minstrels and "Only a Womau's Heart," are the attractions there this week. Saturday night, bet ween the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock, Fred Root was initiated into the myteries of Diamond Dustena lodge. Öome üfteen of the bretliren were present and Fred was put through in lively order. Samuel Weil of Chicago, visited his old friends in this city the last of the week, for flrst time in 15 years. He was astoninhed at the number of improvements that have been made since he was a resident of Ann Arbor. If you have business in Cleveland, O., make a pleasure trip of it and go via Detroit with on of the elegant steamers of the Detroit and Cleveland steamnav igation company. The round trip between here and Cleveland will oost you only about $5.50. The following item from the Detroit Evening News will be of interest to many of our citizens : "Robert E. Frazer, the well-known Jackson lawyer and republican politician, will remove his law practice to Detroit on May 1 and becomc the senior member of the flrm of Frazer, Barbour & Rexford." The New York Times says " the more Mme. Carreno is lieard the more evident it is that this accomplished artiste is a pianiste of rare ability. She always plays with force, yet with feminine grace. Her reading is technically accurate, but modified by taste and sentiment and is almost beyond criticism." Every fire department should have an aimual parade for the purpose of inspecting the apparatus and equipments of the several companies. It is thus that an interest is kept up not only among the companies themselves, but on the part of the citizens in behalf of the department. - Firemen's Herald. It would be well for the Ann Arbor flre department to heed this advice. The Hurón cornet band of Ann Arbor is the latest. E. B. Freer of Lima, is the latest appointee as deputy-shenff. Mrs. Dr. Breakey apent the forepart of the week witli frienda in Detroit. It is runiored that Dr. A. W. Chase is seriously ill at his homo in Toledo, O. Mrs. O. E. Smith, nee Mies Miss Belle Earl of Detroit, is a guest at the house of W. A.. Hatch, jr. The Ohequaniegon will give a social hop at armory hall, Thursday evening. The boys also contémplate the purchase of new unifojms. John Kenipf, cadet at the M. M. A, at Orchard Lake, is we.iring the medal for the highest number of merits in school for the past ïnonth. The citizens of the second, third, fourth and fifth wards will never vote to bond the city to gratify a few nabods in the flrst and sixth wards. Jno. Thompson, a lad of 12 years, was taken to the Lansing reform school, Satday, by Chief Fall, for stealing a revolver froni a student's room. Progressive billiards was played at Bliss & Bliss' billiard hall, on Friday last, for an opera glass. Z. H. Blair, a junior medie, was the winner. The burning of Chas. Schleicher's child Saturday was the result of an accident, and not the cruelty of the father, as published in some of the papers. On Monday, April 6, 1,375 of the zens voted in favor of water works, and now comes eight nice men of the council who say they shall not be oonstucted. On Monday, April 30, at 2 o'clock p. m. sharp, 60 acres of Catholic church farm of Northüeld, will be sold to the higljest bidder. The sale will take place on the prcmises. The May meeting of the pomologioal society will be omitted on account of the pressure of work . A strawberry exhibit will be one of the principal features of the June session. The people of the third, fourth, second and fifth wards have plenty of pure water, and it will be a long time before they will vote to saddle a debt of $150,000 on themselves.' The Savings bank pay four per cent. and take four per cent. on over draf ts. They being the highest bidder the school funds will be depoBited for the coming year in the above bank. That tuis is to be a lively Scason for business is evident from the fact that Albert Sorg, the painter, has 10 men at work and as many more competent hands can secure employment by calling on him at once. Bandall & Burhnam have on exhibition a lot of the finest and most beautiful water color paintings. This enterpria.ing flrm is deserving of great credit for giving our citizens such frequent opportunities to see the c'ioicest works of art. A committee from the board of education, consisting of W. D. Harriman, L. Gruner, J. T. Jacobs and A. L. Doty, went to Toledo, Tuesday, to examine the heating appanitus in some of the schools of the above place, with a view of adopting the system here. Michael Stabler will sell all of his stock, machinery and personal property at public auction on Thursday, April 30, on the premises, eight miles west of Ann Arbor and six miles south ,of Dexter, near the Scio shurch. This Will be one of the largest sales ever held in Washtenaw county, and it will amply pay those in want oí stock or machinery to be present. The school examiners met in fcSuline, Friday, aud awarded certificates to the following teachers: Olive L. Wheelock, Clinton; Allie Isabelle, Jennie Lindsley, Fritz Lelinrron, Addie Slayton, Flora Briggs, all of Saline ; Josie Olmton, of Pinckney; Henry Wilson, Chelsea; Nettie Mc VI uilen, York; Maggie rieming, Olean A. Vaughan, Dexter; Libbie L. Curtís, Frank Wheeler, Manchester.