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The robins are slnging - bleSsed harbingers of spring. President Watts has a new bulldog. Assessor O'Hearn vill please make a note oí this. The council proceedinge in this issue are interesting reading, to Ann Arbor citizens especially. There was no Hom in the atmosphere last Thursday, sure siga oí a late spring. Io you hear it ? Eleven oandidates were admitted ito the Presbyterian church last Sunday. Two students and one lady were baptlsed. Social and tea by the ladtes of the Presbyterian eliurcli, Thursday at 6 o'elock p. m. A liearty welcome to all. A meeting oí the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at Harris Hall to-morrow niight. A full attendance is requested. The llarugari Manuerchor gave a very enjoyable concert Thursday evening last, the same being opened by aai address by the president, John Mayer. Th-ere Is a sang of young hoodlums, who hang about the corner of N. Main and Cathariue sts., Sundays eapecially, who need the attention oí the pólice. Thos. Jones, conneeted with the Bowdlsh & Matteson burglary and who shot Ofiicer Peterson, wad sentenced this aftei-noon to 20 years In State pvison. Irving Jones was givem four years. Ilenry Dose, of the 3d ward, aged 26 years, died Sunday of consumption. The new Germán paper, The Neu Washtenaw Post will be bom tomorrow. In obedience to instructions Assessor O'Hearn has moved lato the elegant new quarters provided for him by the city fathers. Tlie cro'cuses, the tulips and the hyacinths have all peeped up their heads and a few waran and pleasant days will bring blossoms. Mrs. T. C. Trueblood will assist the Ann Arbor Banjo & Guitar Club in their entertainment to be given in th opera house, March 29. Rev. Charles E. Perktos, of Iowa City, Iowa, will preach next Sunday morning and evening at the Unitarian church, in exchange with Mr. Sunderland. The Courier presse3 helped t o launch the New Washtenaw Post into the sea of journalism, Just as it did its former namesake. May it be as prospero us. "If we can't dance or go to the theatre, what can we young people do - play pedro ?" will be the question answered in the lecture next Sunday evrning at the M. E. church. The, city treiisurer had o. balance on hand March lst, at the Ann Arbor Sayings Bank, al $45,723.93. This includes $541.52 interest whicli the Ann Arbor Savings Bank has pa id the city for the use of the city funds irom the past three moinths. Marslial "Whecler is attempting to enforce the orclinance relative to disüguring the aesthetic and a.rtistic telephone, telegraph, electric light and electric railroad posts oï the city st.peets with hand bilis. That'-s a step in the right direction. Reinhold Wolter, a young man a bout 22 years of age, whose home was in Ypsilanti, was killed at the II. C. passenger station in this city last Saturday ereiiing, while attempting to jump f rom a freight train. His body was hoi-ribly mutilated. Frlends claimed the remains and took them home Sunday. Under the auspices of the M. E. Sunday School, on Thursday, to-morrow evening, Mr. 8ilos Farmer, of Detroit, will give "A Tour Through Llagulstia or Wit and Wisdoau in WordB," at the M. E. church. "Whereever Mr. Farmer has delivered thls lecture throughout the state, the audiinces have been delighted. The admtesion is ten cents-. Farland., the banjoist, was dubbed "The Paderewski of the Banjo" at Toronto recently. The title was not suggested by any superïïuous growth of hair, but entirely by lus wonderful woirk on the banjo whieh is said to be even more astonishing than the skill of liis illustrious namesake, on the piano. He will be at the Opera House March 29th. Severa! teachers were greatly disappointed last Thursday by understandiug that there was to be a special examination for teachers at the court house on that date. It bad been published wrong in same city paper, that eaused the mistake. A number of disappointed ones liad come a distance of several miles through the mud and slush, and consequently were in no extremely happy frame of mind. At the charter election held at Dexter Mondar, the following officials were chosen : President - John Y. N. Gregory. Recorder - Jota W. Barley. Treasurer - Jay Keith. Trusteen- A . E. Phelps, Chas. H. Stajinard, John Tuffs. Assessors - John L. Smith, Geo. Alley. All the offlcers are republican except Mr. Gxegory for president, who liad spven majority. In column a correspondent has a coiiiimuaication about the necessity far Ann Arbor to look out lor the future, to get miare people here so that any decrease in the number of students ma y not be feit. The coinmunication gives food for tbOTight. "When we see Muskegon selling $100,000 of bomde for impvovïnent purposes it shows the tendency of the times and the competition we are having. That city without any of the natural or educational advantages of Ann Arbor, is rapidly going ahead, getting nianufacturers and new citizens. So are many other cities. We must not lag behind. White all the schools of music in the country are falling off in attendamc this yi-dv, the Aun Arbor one is gaining. This shows the good advantages liere for such a school and Uiat its success is assured. Plans are already on toot for its enlargeanent. A number of o-ur citizens intcrested in the success of the school of music have secured an option upon the Prof. Winchell property, on N. University avenue, and are now attempting to raise $7,000 íor a partial payment thereon. If they do tliis the School of Music diroctors have a g-reed to assume the balance of the cost of the property, and to erect thereoa ás soon as the demands warrant, a structure to be used for t Ho school. The 'in erprise of these enthusiasts is to be commended. The Aun Arbor Water Co. is to have au office in HutzeJ & ('o's store. Hangsterfer has on exhibition at liis store some iine cakes of ice 12 inches thick. Mrs. Grace Field, of No. 32 N. Fifth ave., (lied last Wednesday of erysipclas, aged 65 years. Funeral was lield Saturday p. m. Remember Hou. Jolin J. Ingalls, at Univer.slty Hall Friday evening, ilarch 9lh. He will have something to say worth hearing. Fot the past year the Ann Arbor Savings Bank has paid the city $1,258.31 for interest upon deposits. Quite a handsome little sum. Last Tliursday morniiig Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Joerndt, of Gott Street, iöXuid their little daughter Mary, ageJ 11 years, dead in bed. She had been an invalid for a long time. A Iree entertainment is to be given to-iuorrow, Tliursday evening, ander the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., at their rooms, No. 12 E. Washington st. Pi-of. Stevens will give a number of stereoptieon views, and a malo quartette will furnish musicThe first lecture in the Wesleyan Guild lecture course is to be given Mnrcli 25th, by Henry "Wade Itogers, LL. D., president of the Northwestern University. The many friends of tliat gentleman here in Ann Arbor who will desire to hear him will make the seatiing oapacity oï the M. E. churcli iaiadequate. Iï you do not believe this just try it once, and be convinced : "Two drops of spirits of camphor on your tooth brusli will give your mouth thefi-eshest, cleanest feellng Imaginable, will make your guma rosy and absolutely prevent anything like cold sores or affection oí your tongue." Since tlïe death of Truant Officer Thad. Thompson, the number of lads who hang about the corners and in the posto'ftóe and other places, has been growing. A good truant officer with power to act is a necessity and the sooner one is appointed and commences to act, the betterfor the town and the boys, also. iliii. Gierman, the woman who was murdered by burglars last week in Scoileld, Monroe oounty. Avas acousin of Wm. Gerstner of this city. Her husband was town treasurer, and the burglars were after tli money he had in the house, and in order to obtain it they killed his wife and shot him. Tliey secured some $700 or $800. On Saturday, Maren 17, at 8 p. m.. in McMillan Hall, Prof. Jas. H. Cralg, Ph. D., oí the Uni-versity, -will dellver a lecture upan ''The Hebre w Propliet and Prophecy." And on Sumiay evening Man-h IS, in the Presbyterian church, another lecture upom "The Fourth Gospel, Who wrote it ?" To which the public are all eordiaJly inviteil. Prof. A. 0. Mcfiiffert, D. D., of Union Theo'.ogicnl Beminary, New York, is to deliver a series of free lectures beïore the Tnppan Assoelation, havIng tor bis subject "The Apostolic Age." The ïirst three lectures are to be given in McMillan Hall on Vriday Mar. 0, at 8 p. m., Saturday Mar. 10, at 8 p. m., Sunday March 11, at 3 p. m., while the fourth will be given in the Pi-e.-byterian church at 7:30 p. m., of the same day. Some talk was occasioneel in the city last evening by Deputy United States Marshal Wallace levying on over 40,000 acres in Washtenaw county to satisfy a judgment of George Lant, sr.. of Evansville, Ind., igainst the ...state of Elijah W. Morgan. All the lands covered by the deeds of Morgan and wife to Franklin L. Parker and Morgan to Lucy W. Morgan, his wife, are included. This covers a large amount of Ann Arbor property, included among which are Eaid to be the post office and üie residences of Charles R. Whitman, Profs. Otis C. Johnson and Calvin Thomas. The real point at issue is the good faith of the transfers of the land and in any case the large estates of Lucy W. Morgan and Franklin L. Parker will protect' innocent purchasers. The chief inconvenience will be the cloud upÖn so many titles which will rest on these properties for a long time unless the present owners should club together, file a bilí in chancery and test 1he matter The original judgment, taken in 1S73, was about $10,000. Last year the inde-ment was revived in the United