Local

In effect February Uh, 1891. Leave Ypsilanti at 7 :30, 9 :00, 10 :30, a. m., and 32 :4b, 2 :20, 4 :00, 5 : 10, 7 :20, 9 :00, 10 :30, p. m. Leave Ann Arbor, from Court House, ftt 7:55, 9:25, 10:55, a.m., and 1:10, 2:50, 4:30, 6:10, 7:50, ■9:25, 10:55, p. ni. 8DNDAT TIME. Leave Ypsilanti, at 1:00, 2:40, 4:25, 6:05, 7:45, -9:20, p. m. Leave Ann Arbor, from Court House, at 1 :30, 3 :10, 4 :55, 6 :35, 8 :10, 9 :50. p. m . Care run on City Time. Coupon tickets, 10 cents, entitles passenger to a continouu ride ■over both roads. Kor sitie by couductors ou all treetcars. The Concordia is the name of a new singing society here. Snnday 1,000 passengers were carried over the Ypsi-Ann motor line. The democratie cuunty convention will meet at the court house next Thursdayto-morrow. The St. Railway will soon go to work at their extensión on Packard st. if this weather holde. Couuty Treasurer Brenm is having his -office carpeteil with i handsouie new pattern of oil-cloth. James Burk, of Dundee, has been serving five days in juil for vagrancy, ent by Justce Butts. The B. M. Q's will go to Dexter Thurs■day evening and furnish music for the lecture of Bishop Foley. The meeting of the Schoolmaster's Club announced for Feb. 21st has been postponed one week, until Feb. 28th. The play known as the Confedérate Spy, will probably be presented at the opera house in the near future by the S. f V. The fewer public sparring matches, or prize flghts held in Ann Arbor, the better it will be for the good name of our ■city. Thos. J. Keech bas been cbosen chairman of tbe board of trustees of the Congregational church, Chas. W. Wagner secretary, and Miss P. A. Noble, treasurer. The flag on the Courier office and the one on the Court house have been placed t half-mast for several days because f Gen. Sherman's death. On Friday, Feb. 27th, an all day session f the Waehtenaw Farmers' Association will be held in Ann Arbor. Arrangelaents are being perfected for the meeting by the proper officials. Officer Chas. Schott has charge of the stone gang at the new yards, and if the tramps don't tend to their business, they will get Schott, that's all. There will be no services at the Presbyterian and some other churches next Sabbath evening, so that church goers can attend the Bible Institute of Prof. Harper of Yale, at University Hall. A social club, consisting of eight of our business men and their wives, ha been formed to teach each other how to play whist, etc. The first meeting was had last evening at Ed. Kberbach's and was a success. Local Editor Frueauft' of the Evening Times, has been reporting the doings of the checker club with great regularity iuring the past week. Next week we learn that he will turn his attention to the poker clubs ! ! Fred. S. Schaible, by his attorneys, Lehman Bros. & Cavanaugh, have entered suit against the Mich. Southern R. R. Co. for injuries received by him while running a freight train, while near Manchester last summer. Next Sunday is the 159th anniversary of George Washington. At St. Antlrew's church a collection will be taken up for the purpose of forming an endowment fund to support the Episcopal church near Mount Vernon, whére Washington and his family nttended service. Contributions should be liandh1 to Elizabeth Rathbone. Win. II. Kordes, of the 5th word, died on Saturday last, aged upwards of 86 years. Chri8tian Mast will pound stone for thirty days at the county jail for drunkennness. Sentenced by Justice Pond. Wm. Campbell, E. F. Mills and Bidney W. Clarkaon were installed as new elders in the Presbyterian chureh last Sunday. Go away from home to learn the news. The Chelsea Herald states that "the railway between Ann Arbor and Ypsilantihas been sold for $80,000!" Who to? Philip Bach has made a contract to to put in a new front in the store occupied by Bach, Abel & Co. The plans were drafted by I. K. Pond, architect, Chicago. The Tribune of Sunday, says under the head of Congregational chureh news, "The Ann Arbor ladies netted $500 bya recent fair." That fair was held during the first of December, '90. High license, the proper treatment of the drink evil, to be presented at the gospel teinperance meeting at Cropsey's hall next Sunday at 3 o'clock, p. m. by J. C. French of Eaton Rapids. The weather during last week was simply superb. What more any summer resort would want it would be hard to teil. Don't go to Florida, but come to Michigan, sí quaeris health resort amcenam circumspice. To the question "Has wheat, during January suffered injury from any cause?" six correspondents from this couuty answered yes, and eleven no ; eighteen agree that the ground has not been well covered with snow, and all report the depth of snow at 0. The Good Templara' social last Saturday evening is said to have been a success. A large gathering was entertained by the program, and afterward paid their respeets to the dining-room, where oysters were in waiting. It was one of the most pleasant affairs ever held by the Good Templars. This time there is no mistake in the announcement. Albert Mann, of the flrm of Mann Bros., druggists on South Main st., was married on Wednesday evening last, to Miss Ida K. Binder, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Binder, of the 2d ward, Rev. Max Heim officiating. Theywill reside at No. 20 E. Madison street. The Courier extends congratulations. According to the State department Washtenaw county has 7,179.25 acres of land planted to apple orchards from which 101,063 bushels were raised in 1889, and 45,224 bushels sold. There are also 225.87 acres planted to peach orchards, yielding in 1889 2,196 bushels, of which 1,985 bushels were marketed. The value of apples and peaches sold during 1889 was $20,099.55. The state department must be short on correspondents here, or else the fruit growers greatly overestimate their yield. It is certain that the yields above are underestimated. Saturday the gentlemen interested in forming a company niet at Judge Harriman's office and completed the organization of the Ann Arbor Butter and Cheese Factory. The following are the board of directors : President, R. S. Barnes ; vice president, Thomas Blake ; secretary and treasurer, Dr. W. B. Smith; Fred Braun, Henry Cornwell. The capital stock is $5,500, all of which is taken. The location of the factory will probably be in Ann Arbor town near Dr. W. B. Smith's farm, down the Huron river. It is expected that the company will erect buildings at once. The council met Monday evening and adopted a resolution calling upon the Board of Public Works to report to the council the probable cost of a stone crusher. A coinmittee consisting of the mayor, city attorney and president of the council, was appointed to see that the charter amendments go safely through the legislature. A resolution to have the council room re-carpeted and the walls frescoed was passed, then reconsidered and laid on the table, after which a resolution to flud out the cost, even of such a proceeding was voted down. An ordinance relative to disorderly houses was given a first reading. The A. A. St. Railway Company filed an acceptance of the ordinance extending their lines. Thomas H. Moore, a young man about 22 years old and unmarried, was drowned at Geddes last Thursday morning. It seems that young Moore, accompanied by Edward Hicks and his sister were fishing on the river, through the ice. Moore started to cross the river but was warned by Hicks that it was dangerous. To this warning he paid no attention, and soon after the ice broke and let him into the water. Hicks went to the rescue and the ice proved treacherous with him also. But Hicks held on to the epear and striking the bottoin of the river with it used it for a brace to hold on to. Moore also held on for a time, but was too benumbed to retain his grasp until aid could reach them, for which Miss Hicks went as soon as the accident happened. Assistance came just in time to rescue young Hicks, and he is now slowly recovering from the ordeal through which he went. Funeral services were held Saturday from the residence of Mrs. llicks at Geddes, for Mr. Moore, Rev. A. S. Carman conducting the same. This is another sad sacrifice of human life that the treacherous Huron claims all too frequently. W. L. Marqeardi has moved his office in the Masonic block one door west and fitted it up nicely. A popcorn stand bas been erected adjoining Gil. Snow's livery atable on the south. A Lansing man is the investor. Ampie arrangements for a good time are being made for the farmers' institute to be held at the Court house in this city all day of Friday Feb. 2"th. Every farmer and his wife are invited. James Morwick, for many years a resident of this city, and well known here, died at the residence of his son in Syracuse, N. Y., last Saturday, aged nearly 84 years. He was bom in Orkney Island, Scotland, iu 1807, carne to America in 1832 and to Ann Arbor in 1860. He was an architect and builder, and St. Andrew's church and the residences of Judge Cooley and the late Dr. Palmer, were planued and built by him. According to the erop report the value of the cherries, pears and pluma sold in this county during 1889 was only $554. There were 407 bushels of strawberries sold that year for $1.095, and of other berries $1,950 worth. This couuty isalsoput down for hut 3,300 lbs. of grapes, valued at $87. The market value of garden products sold is only placed at $2,155. These figures must be inaccurate. There are single fruit and garden farms that could give better figures than this total amount. The Saline correspondent of the Hausfreund had this among its items in the last issue : The local merchants are buying up more butter, eggs and other farm products than the many neighboring places. Their own goods they sell at the lowest prices, and therefore the working of the McKinley bill is not feit at all. What the correspondent means is that the results of the McKinley bill are feit. Take away the McKinley bill and let Canadian eggs and farm produce in free and then see whether there would be such a good market or not. Lorrin Mills, known to the people of this city as Deacon Mills died at the home of his daughter, in Manhattan, Kansas, on February llth, aged 86 years. Deceased was born in Connecticut, and carne to Ann Arbor as early as 1827. For nearly 40 years he served as a deacon in the Congregational church of this city, for about nineteen years he was the superintendent of the Sunday school, and for many years the leader of the choir. Mr. Mills opened the first tailor shop in the city, and at that time the first shop of the kind west of Detroit. He erected the first house in the city on the sfte now occupied by the store of Koch & Henne. One of the events of his life was being a member of the reception committee that welcomed General LaFayette to this country. He was a man of exceptionally pure character and of loveable disposition, makiug him respected by every one who knew him. A few months since he was a visitor here in the ctiy, and the strength and vigor displayed by hirn was quite noticeable for a man of his years. The remains were brought to this city and funeral services held at the Congregational church Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, a. m., af ter which interment took place at Forest Hill cemetery. We have been asked why we did not write up the governor's ball at Detroit. The fact is, such a thing would be impossible. The beauty of that great hall with its elabórate decorations, its myriads of brilliant and artistically arranged electric lights, its thousands of festoons of different colored bunting, harmonized to please the eye, pendant f rom the ceilings, and the draperies about the side walls and galleries, taken together with the rnoving multitude within it, heightened into splendor when to the sweet strains of music the handsomely adorned ladies in their exquisite and many tinted costumes, went circling over the canvas covered floor by the side of gallant gentlemen clothed in black with white neckties, white shirt fronts, white kids and swallow-tailed coats, completed a scène beyond description. We looked in vain for Jeffersonian simplicity. It wasn't there. The only gentlemen in the vast concourse present dressed in plain black suits were ex-Gov. Luce and our humble self - both republicans. Even the venerable ex-Gov. Begole was togged out with a spike-tail and its accompaniments. Some of the ladies wore costumes made by Worth of Paris, and said to have cost all the way from $1.000 to $2,500. The diamonds worn were wonderfully brilliant, one lady having these gems adorning her person the value of which it is said would make a good sized fortune for almost any person in Ann Arbor. It was an event that caused much pleasure to the participants and a scène that will dweil in one's inemory for a long time.