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Day
18
Month
March
Year
1887
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" Davil's Auction" to-night. 1 A crernatory is to be built in Detroit . c David Henning was in the oity Saturday. , The " Devüs Auction," to-night at the ( Grand. B. O. Scaddon of Oester, was awarded a pension. Fnday. , Jas. Kain ot Northfleld, now reoeives i $8 por moath pension. The Ann Arbor quurtette gires a oon' eert m Ghelsea to-night. Cramer U boastiug tbat he nominated f Landon (or oirouit judge. ' There will be no more sohool in Dei! ter until next September. K. V. Smith of Lyons, contémplate , making this oity his home. Miss Eilith Munson has been visiting , Miss A. C. Olark of SalineJerome Minnis is building an addition to his residence in the third ward. ( The state weather signal service is car i ried on seven Michigan railroads. Jas. M. Chidister has been made ceiver of the Ypsilanti sanitarium. The Episcopal burial service was raad ' at the funeral of Henry Ward Beeoher. ' Mre. Dr. Jenniuijs of Detroit, has been visitmg her fatüer, ex Gov. Felch. Riiss Worden of Green Oak, visited her sister, Mrs. Wm. Stevens, ihis week. Paris Ban field is talked ot for aldertnan on the republican ticket, third ward. ] Mrs. H. W. Hinsdale of Evanston, 111., pent last week with friends in this oity. i St. Andrew's ohapel has been i ally improved by new stained glass win : dows. The west Miohigan prees association will be held at Munistee, oommenoing June 21. The remains of Elias Parsons have been consigned to the pic kling vat at the university. Mr. Edmund Olanoy, jr.,of Northfleld, lectured in Mt. Pleasant Sunday evening, on lemperance. A new dweiling house is to be erected on the corner ot North Ingalls and Catherine streets. J. Al. Stafford bas the refusal of the lot on the corner of North Ingalls and Lawrence streets. Ex-senator Thurman says that President Cleveland is a man of courage, cooluess and wisdom. Col. Robert Scott, brother iu-law of the lite Mrs. Gen. Uunt, died in Washington, D. 0., last week. Mrs. G. Brandenburg and family, are vigitnu' her mother, Mrs. W. M. Hweeney of Washington street. Jno. F. Lawr. nee and Jas Imus planted 40,1)00 brook trout in the strtams about Ann Arbor, last week. Dr. Spinney, who has been in oharge of the sanitarium at Alma, will have oharge ot the Ypslanti sanitarium. Mr. Edmund Clancy, jr., of Northfleld, will deliver a lectura on temperance, tomorrow evening, in Webster town hall. The young demócrata of the third ward are talking senously of nomiuating Edward Clancy, sen., for alderman. Geo C. Bain of Keutucky, the silvertougued orator, will discuss prohibition at the opera house, to morrow evening. Herman Dancer has gone to Cleveland, where he has a lucrativo position. The Germán newspaper offices here will miss him. ' Members of the Ypsilanti school board have been looking up the heating and ventilating ot some ot onr sohool buildings. Geo. Leonard left Monday for Illinois, where he has a contract for building fence on the 1 olcdo, St. Louis and Texas rond. Thpre is to be a meeting of the build ing and loan associations to-morrow eve ning. The two societies hope to join issues. A memorial window is being placed in the ohapel of 8t. Luke's, Ypsilanti, in honor of tl.e late reotor, Rev. John A. Wilson. Mrs. S. Culvt-r, who has been pending the winW with her sou in Mason, has been visitmg friends in this city the past week. Prcf. F. H. Pease of tbe Ypsilanti state normal schooi, was marned last Thursday, to .Miss Abbie J. Hnnter of Kalamazoo . The library of congress, our national library, oontains 570,0iW volumes, 20.0.JO pampUlets, and is the sixth largest library in the world. W. W. Bliss was granted a pension, Monday. Regitration day Wednesday .March, 30. See notice. Mrs. Israel Hall is visiting rolatives in the tast. A. C. t larke waa elected vill wje president of Saline, Mouday. Mre. John Mavnard, who has been seriously ill, is slowly recovering. Charley Gibson has moved into the old Malloy house, on Millor avonue. E. B. Pond spent Snndar win his sons, 1. K. and Allen Pond, in Chicago. Bishop Hume was in the city Monday, ou business couuected wth the Hobart guild. Jno. Schumacher's store is undergoing itnprovements. P. Hmes is doing the painting. Wm. Merkle has resigned the supermtendency of the Ann Arbor tanning company. Edwin Allen Dunn and Julia G. Heibeek were married, Feb. 12, by Justice Frueauff. Bev. Hawks and wife of Detroit, bave been the guesta of .Mrs. Wm. Stevens, tbis week. The democratie oitv convention and ward cauouses will probably ba called next week. Acoordiug to present indications, the opening of navigation is liable to occur by April 1. Mrs. Jas Clenients is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ida Wheat, of Leav. nworth, Kan. Meeting of the pomological society tomorrow afteruoon. Important questions tur (liepiiaHicin In auotlier column will be found b ohange of advertiaement for O. O. Sorg, fresooer and decorator. Mrs. L. Hoban baa rented her store on Ann street, to Detroit parties, who wül open a furniture faotory. A large nnmber of eight seers wpnt down to the Tolado depot, Tuesday, to see Modjeska's private car. Inspeotor Newberger of the poatoffioe department, was in the oity vv'ednesday. We will have free deiivery. It is expeoted that there will be more maple sugar made this spring tliau theré bas be -n for the past few years. The body of the young Jad, Willie Kay, who wa drowned laat Saturday, at Delhi, was rooovered on Sunday. " The Devil's Auotion," this evenin? at the Grand. The play is immense and there are 63 people in the company. Swathol. Kyer & Peterson have been overhauling their flounng milis. They have put in two sets of doublé rollers. Traman Buell died at theloniacounty house last week, and Iris body waf consisrned to the uuiversity medical college The Two Sams are selling oods at trreat bargains. üall and s -e for yourselvea. See ohange of ad. in tlris week's paper. Xaver Zachmanu is fiiing over the stor he recently purohased of Anton Eisele, on Detroit streef into a model market. Fourteen meu are now employed by O. O. Sorg La--t week he took contraéis tor doing 8700 worth of work for parties in Rnlinrt. L. W. Wallace, formerly a banker of this mty, died in New York, Mondar. The remains were brought to .Detroit for interment . A United States geological surveying party will visit the upper península, the coming (sutumer, to investígate coppermining distriots. E. A. Phillipg left Monday for Toledo, where he has a Üne pupition in a raüroad office. Hts many friends uere will be pleased to learn of nis good luok. The well-known clothing establish ment of J. T. Jacobs & Co., have au anuounoement in to-day's paper, whioh it will pay tbose in want of clothing to reed. Judge O. B. Orant of Marquette, will stand for re-election, and no candida te will be nominated against him. Mr. Grant is a son-in-law of ex-governor b'eloh. O. O. 8org will complete his job of fresooing and decorating at the new M. 0. depot, to-morrow, and the company will move into the building Snnlay night. "Chuck" Martin was genteneed to state' prison for flve years, for burglary, and his ohums, Cruin and Bell, for four years and one year respeotively, by. Judge Joslyn, Monday. The bodies of Mrs. Asa Milliman and children, of Burr Oak, who were found drowned in a oistern, some weeks ago have been c-xhumed and sent to this oity for examination. It is supposed to be a case of murder. The autopsy proved to a oase of drowning. C. E Bresler of Detroit, has sent to Berlín a beautiful rug of Michigan racooon skins as a gift to Kaiser William upon his ninetieth birthday, which occurs on the 22d inst. A letter of oongratulation accompanien the rug, which is six by nine feet in size and contains niDe skins. H. C. Waldron, who has been a respon sible clerk in the secretary of state's office for several years, has shipped his household goods to St. Paul, which city he expects to make his future home. He will eagage in railroad building m the west - Lansing Journal. Henry was at one time a citzen of Ann Arbor. .Tnr. TlnríT. whn han hftAn pticjutiI in the boot aud shoe business for a nuniber of years, will soon add a f uil line of car pets, from the very fiuest manufactured to the cheaper grades. In anotber column he tells the readers of The Democrat wbat he proposes doing, and they can rest assured that ha will do jast as he advertises. All sons of veterans, over 18 years of age, are invited to meet at the oourt house, Saturdav evening, 7:30 looal time, to organize a oamp Come prepara! to eign application to charter; to give name. age, birth place, resideuce, date of father's entry into service, date of discharge and cause, name and number of O. A. B. post, ït belonging to one. The saloonkeepers and brewers met Tuesday eveniug, in Beethoven hall to perfect arrangements for csrryinz on the campaign. E. üesterliu was elected chairman, Pred. Rettiuh, jr , s cretary, and H. Hardinghaus, treasurer. Committees were appointed to present a line of action, to be reportad at a meeting Sunday afterooon at 2 o'clnck. Docaldson & Meyers are to changa their plans tor an addition to the high school, to suit the school board. If satisfactory and the building can be put up for the amount of the appropriation, they will draw pay for their plans. Tlttira noo a livaiv QAUmn nt flia nnm_ mittee on building recently, and from tiie oud conversation overheard, there conl In't have been very smooth eaihntf. Ttie state military board bas adopter a rule requiring tbat the state militia of ficers shall be 9leoted for a term not iess than one year nor mors than three. 'J'liis will necessitate new elections in all the régimen is except the Fourth, whose of ficers were chosen recently. The First regiment will hold its election at Jack son, the Becond at Grand Bapids an the Third at East Saginaw, all on March 30.- Lansing Journal The April numbcr of Peterson's Maga zine opens with a fine steel-engraving "The Waif," followed by theusnal hand pome double-size fashion-plate. It con tains, also, two very pretty designs in colore, for fanoy-work, numeróos fash ion-deeigns giving tbe latest spring styles, a subjeqt alwuvs interesting to the ladies. lts interesting Htories, work table desizns, recipes for oooking, anc other articles make this a very handsoni number.and fully sustainsits wellknown reputation as the cheapest and bist o the ladies' magazines. It ought to be taken by everv woman. Terms: Two Dollars a year, with great deduotions t clubs. Address Oharles J. Peterson, 'V) Chcetnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Wilson & Bankin's minstrels appear at the opera house next Mondny evening. The man-iage of Frank títeven and Miiiuie ülp of this city, whicu occurred some time ago, has just been made public. President Adanis of Cornetl university, lecturas tbis evening, in university hall, on "The Drift of Civilization." He takos the place of Bagan. Bev. Dr. Byder held services at the Congregatioual churoh in Webster, Sunday afternoon. A large number were received into the clmrcü. Two barns in the southern part of the city, on Hill etrefit, burned down lasi Friday morning. Tuey were owned by Messrs. Stohl and Seyfred. Bev. Dr. Earp, by request, repeated nis sermón, " What has Christianity done for modern civilization," last bunday evening, to a large congregation. Mr. O. H. Millen has rented his house on JSast Huron sheet, anct will spend a good deal of the suinmer with his daughter, Mrs. Giles Lewis, of Hyde Park, III. The Detroit ball olub ia in Maoon, Ga., doing preparatory vork prior to the open ing of the league seasou. The club consista of eighteen good men, who start with the determination of winning the the pennant. , An exchange says that Ooi. Burleigh, the star of the Clio dramatic com pany, expresses the opinión that the coming dramatist of this country is W. ). Bates, the present hssooiated press gent at Út. Paul, Mimi. In Mondy's Free Press there was a .ne illustration of Ann Arbor's new epot. It is an ornament to the oity. Now, the T., A. A. & N. M. By sliould juild one, as the building knowu as the 'oledo depot, is a disgrace. Bev. J. T. Sunderland delivered a disoourse, öunday morning, on "Henry Vard Beecher- his hfe, his work, and lis influence." In the evening Mrs. 8un erland gave a short address on " The rigin of some of the more important jooka of the Bi ble." Miss Francés E. Willard, president of ie National W. 0. T. U., issued an adress calling on the local unions throughut the country to observe Tuesday, larch 29, from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m , as day of special prayer for the tempernoe cause in Miohigan. Hon. Jno. B. Finoh of Nebraska adressed an appreoiative audience, Saturny night, at the opera house, on the rohibitury amendment. The Huron corlet band discoursed a number of popuirs airs, much to the enjoyment of the ie coldwater men present. L. C. Bisdon, a highly respected citien of this oity died suddenly Tuesday, f neuralgia of the lieart. The deceased eaves a wife and two married daughers. Mr. Bisdon was a prominent cuiahts templar, and one of the oldest Vlasons in the couuty. The funeral will e held at the Episcopal churoh, Sunday fternoou, at half-past two o'olock. Henry, Ward Beeoiier eaid, years ago: I never had any sympathy with the pisoopal prayer, ' From suelden death eliver us.' When I go I pray I may o swiftly, like a fallinb' star; go in the mdst of my usefulness, and not be haiued iu a living death, a burilen to myeelf and the friends I love." Mr. ieejher's prayer was answereJ, as he nly lived three daysafter he was striekn down.

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