Local

A lawyer's brief Is very long, And Mr. White is black, A min Is dry when he In green. And when he'u Ught he's slack ; A Ure 18 bot when it is coaled, A lamp Is heavy though it's ligtit, A snoe is bought wben lt la soled, A mau can see when out of slgiit. The old pioneer Cook house will sooii be no more forever. Amy Roper, of Green Oak, wanta a divorce frorn Wm. II. Roper, of Northtteld. The Informal opening of the opera house occurs Sept. Gth, with a "Barre! of Money." The street car ga-ij; of workmeu are now tearing up tliu carth on the corner opposlte the Courier office. It is proposed to change the name of Ann st., between División and State sts., to ''Queen Anne Place." A steiim power merry-go-round is now taking the children's nickels. Located cor. Washington and Fourth st. The state department has reduced the apple erop of this county as compared with average years to 15 per cent. This is said to be the champion county of the state for catching horse thievcs A feather in the cp for Sheriff Dwyer. Tlie Ferguaoii Road Cart nine are to play a match game with the llubotes, of (irund Uapids, at Reed's Lnke, on Monday next. We heard a party a day or two slnce discussing a proposition to camp out on the beach of the city water works reservoir for a lew days lisliing. AmonK those who left Detroit on tlie bicycle trip to Niágara FalU last Monday were Wm. Frank, Jr., Wm. Arnold, Jr., Robert Staebler and Hemy Ridley, of this city. The Michigan Furniture factory are putting In a new dry kiln, a very fine aflair. that costs a clean $1,000. It is built upon a new plan, aud will niaterially aid in the work of tlie factory. Mr. Platt tells us that tlie company which proposes to put iu the electric railroad between this city and Ypsllantl agre e thut the outside limit shall be 20 cents for the round trip, or ten cents each way. The annual school mertinjt occurs oue week trom next Mondny, Sept. lst. The retiring trustees ure L. Gruiier, J. T. Jacobs and Dr. W. B. Smitli, nll of whom are good men, aiul make excellent trustees. Tbere Is quite a hustling for bouses, and strangers are coming into the city daily in search of living places. The demand for smaller houses and more moderate rents is one that ought to be considered by our capitalists. The T., A. A. & N. M. R. R. have in contemplation a $100,000 irou bridge over the Huron river here. The new bridge to be a straight one, and not curve as the present one does. A new bridjje may, possibly, save the company iuuch more than $100,000. Chas. Taylor, who was sent to the Pontiac asylum some inonths ago for his queer actlons at Judge Cooley's house, escaped froin the asylum last Wednesday, and before being recaptured injured a farmer who atteropted to intercept lam, quite severely. If our streeta were to be paved witb. illver there would be people here wbo would kick to have the pavement gold ; while others would elévate their pedal eztremities to have them paved with lead. Surely the American people- some of them- are a race of kiokers. Saturday p. m. there were two alarnis of lire. The iirst one was the oíd Weil building again, directly after dinner. The next alarm was about 2 o'clock, and was caused by the catching on flre of a lot of straw and rubbish in the rear of Adam's bazar, on S. Main st. Among the deeds In Register Seerey's office is one conveying to the South Lyon & Northern Railroad Co. the branch of the T., A. A. & N. M. E. R. ruiming from Ann Arborto Soutli Lyon, tor $140, 000. The new company is not known in this section. It is feared that the new company may go into bankruptcy and then there will le no service on the roaü. The following figures give the work of the letter carriers for the past month : Keglstered letters delivercd.... 100 Letters "„ ■■■■ ]{ ünd, 3d, and 4th class matter " .... W.if Local letters collected.... l,0Lj Mail " '■SJ föm' po818 ■ " . 2nd, S1, and 4th claas raatier " .... WU Total vx-2" The eighth annual meet of the state wheelmen took place in Detroit last Sulurday. Ann Arbor división was represented by Chas. VV. Wagner and J. E. Bea!. The latter told the boys of his tour of Europe on hls wheel. and together with H. M. Bnow, of Detroit, H. M. Watrous and G. W. Smitli, was elected a representative to tbe Niágara lall's conventiou this week. The city rallway company in its inJunction suits will be represeuted by A. J. Sawyer. As the newspapcrs have already decided the law In the case Judge Kinne will have but llttle to do in the matter. Prof. Thompson is flrm in the belief that he can prevent the railway company trom laying its track on Forest avenue- or alley as they now claim it to be- and is willing lo wager a peck of peaches on that outcome. lhe people generally do not believe in obstructing the road, but are anxious to see it in running order. Mathias Sekofa, of the 5th ward, dled Tnesday a. m., aged 74 years. EUie L&ne sues for a divorce from Henry C. Lane, both of Ypsilanti. Wïïl Kennedy now wrltes his love letters on a single l;ft hand type writer. A cigar store is to be started on State street by Don McDonald of YTpsilanti. Kev. Mr. Pott, or Xew York City, lilled the pulpit of St. Andrew's church last Sunday. Prof. Perry returns to-day from a visit with old filends at Otsego, ÏÏT. Y., the home of his boyhood. At the meeting at Cropsey's hall next Sunday at 3 p. m. Mr. Bird wlll speak and answer some queations. A.J. Sawyer is home to stay.has stopped fiabing.and is ready to attend to business. He wants a stenographer, too. Dexter Leader : "H. A. Williams is removing to Ann Arbor this week. II. A. is the kind of a citizen it hurts a town to lose." M. F. Case, H. D. Plutt, Wm. Campbell, and James Webb are delegates from Pittiiield to the republican convention to-morrow. There have been, 38,708 bushels of wlieat marketed in thls county duriDg the past month, and 523,951 bushels sluce the first of August last. J. J. Parsliall thiuks he wlll have 1,500 or 2,000 bushelsof peaches this year, and he sa.ys he will be perfectly Batlsfied witU $3 or $3.50 per bushei, for the selecta. Geo. Apftl wns not seen on Tuesday al the store of A. L. Noble where he is enfi.iged. Ujon inquiry we learn thut he Is home tending the lately arrived wee baby glrl. The contract for building the new chaticel for St. Andrew's church has been let to D. J. Ross. Work will commence at once. It is to be completed by November lst. A quict, lazy raiu; one of few drops nnd slow descensión carne to us in a very acceptable manner Sunday morning, just In time to scare people out of going to church, however. The following are the de'egates from Sylvan towuship to the convention tomorrow: Wm. Judión, W. J. Knapp, Geo. H. Kempf, Jas. L. Gilbett, Arthur W. Chapman, II. M. Woods, Amlrew M. Mortron. Win. Bush, of Aun Arbor town has just threslied 237JL bushels of old fashoned Clawson wheat from scveii acres, averagiug ncarly 34 bushels to the acre. He also had a lield ot red wheat that averaged 25 bushels to the acre. In the Detroit Athletic Club's tourney at Detroit last Satuaday, Harry M. Jewett, of this city, broke the record in a hop, step and jump, scoring 44 ft. 8 in. Jewett once made -JS ft. 8 in., in this city, but never rcceived credit therefor. It will be interesting for some of our readers to learn that Ben Cable, lit. '76, who in his college days here was a noted runner and general all around athlete and liustler, bas been nominateri for congress by the democrats of the eleventh Illinois district. W. J. Colgrove has been transferred to the run on the Toledo, Ann Arbor & N. I. R. R., between Toledo and the end of the road, Copcmish. This inakes It very convenient for Mr. Coljfrove, who now will rctain his residence here n Ann Arbor, where he desires to live. We understand that araong the names mentioned Tor congress on the democratie ticket, Is that of Louis J. Liesemer, editor of the Washtenaw Post. Louis is a hustler and would make a polished and good congressman, but a república slands ia the way. Come over, Louis. Fishermen at the lakes are mystifled by the dylng otTof a lárice number of whiteilsli in Base lake. The ïlsh ure uearly all large ones. ï'hey came to the eurface ïavlntr but llttle lifi", and after a few feeble struggles are dead. ïliere Is noapparent reaaon for thl. At flrst it was thought tliat someone was ustng dynamlte cartrldees In the water bat ag none of the other nsli are effVcted the theory has falten through. Can any of our readers solve the mystery?- Deiter Leader. The mystery is plain enough to people here. You see Hon. A. J. Sawyer visited Base Lake a few days since, and those lisli heaid liim teil soine of bis piscatoria] prize prevarications. A sad event during the week passed wils the death on Thursday last, from consumption, of Teilehi Takeishi, a junior medical student from Oita, Japan. He roomed at Mr. Button's, No. 21 Jefferson s t., from whose resKience the funeral services were held on Saturdiiy lust, the remains being interred in Forest Hill cemetcry. Messrs. T. Iriye and G. Tanaka desire to have the thanka of the Japanese students here tendered to the mnny people, wlio so kindly cared for Mr. Takeshi in hls last sickoess. Florus S. Finley gives the following notice in the last Ypsllanti Commercial : "The Pioneer Association of Washtenaw meet8 Wednesday, Scpt. 3, at Nordmun's grove in Lima. Arrangements have been made wlth the Michigan Central to have the train which goes west through Ypsllanti at 10:22 a. m. stop at the grove, to allow passengers to get off and the evening train will stop there and take them on. This is a great concesslon on the part of the railroad company, and it Is expected, a large number of Pioneers trom Ypsilauti will atteud the meeting." At the Southern Industry exhibit at the Waehtenaw county fair, to be held Sept. 3üth, Oct. lat, 2d, and 3d, at Ann Arbor, you will be able to see cotton growiug in full stock ; figs, as they grow upon the flg trees; rice, as it grows in the fields of the Carolinas; peanuts, as they are taken from the ground in Virginia; the product of turpentine, and stills from Georgia; carpeta mude from leavesof the pine, and the various kinds of wool of the south. There will also be skown a great number of precious mlnerals, medical herbs, plante and barks of the forests, wild nuts and many otker producís of the forest, field and garden. A live alligator from Florida will be among the exhibitf. Photographs showing the advancement of the colored race during the past twenty-flve years; also photographs of southern scènes, and many other interesting tliings. Make your arraugeiueiite to go and see it. Dr. W. B. Sinitli, was on the North 8hore Limited that niet with such an accident at Augusta, about midway between liattle Creek and Kalamazoo, last Friday. The train was coming east and had been signalled to go throujjk. But someone had blundered, and a switch liad been left open by a freight train which had passed through, allowing the flyer to pluDge into the center of a freight train bound west then standing on a side track. After the accident the Doctor observed the bufft car on firt, :uid he immediately organized u pail and bucket brigade and put that out. Then he went to where tiie smashed up engine was turned bottom slde up and assisted in digging out the tirema and engineer, the latter of whom was allve when rescued, but dld not survive but a few hours. The Dr. tells us that is the third smashup he has been in and that he has no desire to repoat the incidente as they are too tlirilling, altogether. Tliere was also on the train a brother of Prof. Kelsey of tliis city, Fred F. Kelsey, of New York City and also Chas. Vaughan, of the Cth ws'rd.