West Point

On Thiirsday, the 27th day of August, 1891, at 9 a. na., in the court house, (Supervisors' room,) in the City of Adrián, there will be held a competitive examination of candidates for appointment to a Cadetship in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Each candidate for appointment must be a resident of the district composed of the counties of Monroe, Lenawee, Hillsdale and Washtenaw; unmarried; between seventeen and twenty-two years of age ; at least five feet high ; free from any infectious disorder, deformity, disease or infirmity, wbich might render him unfit for military service ; and must submit to a rigid physical examination by some competent physician, whom I shall hereafter appoint, with two other gentlemen, to act as a Board of Examiners, and be examined in arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, reading, writing and orthography. Special attention will be given to natural ability, and manifest aptitude for acquiring and applying knowledge, rather than mere scholastic finish and readiness of answpr. Dated atChelsea, Mich., Aug. 4, A. 1). L891. JAMES K. GORMAN, M. C. Second District. Union services at the Presbyterian church next Sunday evening. Begging tramps have again become an intolerable nuisance in Ann Arbor. We wonder at the luxuriaut growths of vegetation in the tropics, but we cannot be more surprised, when we tind right here in Aun Arbor sunnowers growing ten feet high in three nionths, with leaves one and one-half feet in length and sixteen inches in width. Some boys carelessly nsinu' matches, set fire to the grass and brush in a field at the headof Hiscock st reet last Friday aftemoon, which spread pretty close to the housea on the stn'or. Ir caused considerable alarm and the fire department was notified. The head of the department went up to investígate, but a few pails of water and some green brush had done all that was neceasary. Too mucb care cannot be taken to guard against Buch dangers in these dry times. Mis. A. Tice, of the third ward, met with a slight but painful accident last week. While standing on the corner of Felch and Fountain streete talkingwith two other neighbors, at about nine o'clock ín the evening, a stone or piece or iron was thrown striking her upon the top of the head and making quite a cut. Dr. Morton took a stich in the wound, and aside from considerable pain and the fright, it did not end seriously. Where the stone came from and the reasou forits throwingis not known, or whether it was accidentally or intentionally thrown. Earlier in the evening two Germans living on the corner, while intoxicated had an altercation with a crowd of boys who were making disturbance in the vicinity, but why this rock should have been thrown in the rnanner stated is unexplained.