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Our City's Expenses - The following table shows what was paid out in the various city funds, the sewers excepted, for the twelve uionths previousto June lst, 1895, the date upon which City Treasurer Manly assumed the duties of his office, and from which his reports date. As his yearly report only covers ten months the other two months have been added to make the expenses for the year : Contingent fund . $14,259 27 Street " - 13,708 59 Fire " 7,359 55 Pólice " 3,480 45 Poor " 2.272 24 Bridge, culvert, etc, fund 5,582 33 Soldiersltelieffund 08 88 City Cemetery " 151 50 Water " 5,935 75 $53,058 50 If the $5,000 for building sites and $3,360 for university bonds, all regular city expenses are added to the above $53,058.56 we have a grand total of $61,418.56. The following table shows the expenditures, sewer fund excepted of the year previous, from May 31st 1894, to May 31st 1895. The two are giveu for comparison if anyone cares to compare them : Contingent fund $14,093 11 Street " 6,599 71 Fire " 6.393 18 Pólice " 3,106 28 Poor " 2,195 85 Bridge, culvert, etc. fund 6,632 12 Soldiers Relief fund 420 20 City Cemetery ■' „ ll(i 50 Water " 5,060 25 $45,219 20 By this table it will be seen that the expenditures of. the past year for these regular city funds were $7,842.34 in excess of the year '93-94, and adding the $5,000 for city building site there was $12,842.34 more expended than for any previous year. So that the critici sms of some of our citizens that the past year has been an expensive one for Aun Arbor taxpayers certainly have a foundation on which to rest. The following table, taken froin City Treasurer Manly's report, shows the total receipts of his office from May 31st '95 to March 31st '96. State S Co. tax $23,490 21 School " 35,415 90 City funds & " 63,352 85 Sewer acct 50,112 86 University aid fund 3,360 00 $178,231 83 The figures below, also taken from his report, shows the city monies coming into his hands, and the source from whence thev came : City tax collected 834,496 88 Reed of Ex-City Treasurer 18,650 36 " from County " 1,304 50 " City Clerk 307 18 " Poud- Justice 28 00 ■ Gibson " 15 30 ' " Manly- City Cemetery - 30 00 " Peterson Chief of Pólice 94 10 ' Slpley-Fire Dept - 1 25 " Soldiers Relief tax ::i7 83 ' Penalty tax 590 70 " Plus of roll 9 00 " Sidewalk tax 112 82 " Plus of sewer roll 383 0" ■' ' fall " 68 Hl " Interest A. A Savings Bank- 281 10 State ' " - 1,644 87 City building sites 5,ÜOÜ 00 The amount of money received on account of sewers was $50,112.86. and the amount expended on the same account was $43,662.39. Uncle Sam's Business in Ann ArborPostmaster Beakes is of the opinión that the business of the Ann Arbor post office for the present year will show a handsome increase over that of last year. The receipts at the postpffice for April were $3,052.04, an increase over April of last year of 12 per cent. There were over 400 registered letters and packages sent out during April from the Ann Arbor postoffice, which beats any month in the history of the office except last December, and represents what the office formerly sent off in an entire quarter. It is altogether probable that in the point of registered matter this office for the past month will stand third in the state, Detroit and Grand Rapids alone being aliead of it. Some of the letter boxes about the city having become too small to hold all the mail that came to thein, all such have been replaced with larger and better boxes. The new ones have better and safer lids, and are painted red, a color more easily distingnished from a distance thanthat of the old ones. Six entirely new boxes were placed at corners where they were needed. The new boxes are located as follows : at the corners of Main and William st. Cor. E. Washington and Fourth ave. Cor. N. Thayer and Kingsley sts. Cor. S. Thayer and E. Washingtonsts. Cor. Fourteenth and Belser sts. Cor. Fourth st and W. Jefferson st. And one to replace a box destroyed by a runaway some months ago, at the corner of Spring st. and Miller ave. This is the flrst time Thayer st., from the campus north has ever had a letter box. After Thirty-Two Years - An act was passed by congress Mar. 3d, 1803, providing for the presentation of medals oí honor to smcli öfficers, noDiiommlsKioned officers and private-; as ditinguished thems.-lves iu battle, and on Friday last Patrick Irwin, of tliis city, received such a medal. It is home tihe less prized because it has taken a third of a centnwy in reacliing Üiim. The assistant secretary of war, in awarding this medal on behalf of the "War Department at Washington, D. G, says : "This first lieutenant, in a charge by the 14th Michigan Infantry against the entreotiched enemy, was the first man over the lin eof works of the enemy, and demanded a surrender ; upon which the Confedérate commamler. Brigadier General Govan, Burrendered his command, sword and belt to said Irwin." This was at Jonesboro, Ga., Sept. lst, 18G4. Patrick Irwin enlisted as a private in the 14th Mich. volunteer infantry, and served during the war. For acts of toravery he was promoted from time to time, and when he came home after the war was over, he had the Btraps of a captain upon his shoulders. It is needless itcJ add that Capt. Irwin is prooid of the medal, and that all of his G. A. R. comrades, together with the citizems of Aam Arhor in general, are proud of Capt. Irwin. Republican District Convention - The republicana for the 2d congressional district assemMed at the court house in this city on Thursday last to elect two delegates and two alternates to the repuWican nationaj coavention to ba held at St. Louis Juv# 16th. Harry A. Conant, ahairman of th congressional district committee, called the eonvention to order at 12:00 o'clock- a most unseasonable and unreasonable hour, by the way - and Hon. Burton Parker, of Monroe, was called upon to tatoe the chair, upoa taking which he'anade a short, sharp republican speech having the right Sort of a ring to it. Hon. Henry Stofflet, of "Wayne, was diosen secretary, and tHon. H. A. Conant of Monroe, and Ir. A. W. Smith of Lenawee, tellers. The usual comimittees were appointed and ceremonies gone through with even to tne fewearing in of the officers. The real business of the meeting being the election of two delegates to St. Louis, the business was proceeded with. ' 1 Dr. J. M. Colyer, a very easy and graoeful speaker, presented the name of Hon. John T, Hurst, of Wyandotte, Wayne coumty, and nO was elected uuanimously without a ballot. The name of Hon. E. P. Allen, of Ypsilanti, was presented for the second delégate and elected in like ma ner. Capt. Allen 'then gave the convention a few words of encouraging republicanism, McKinleyism, recipro(Continued on 8th page.) EÏPENSES INCREASING. (Coutinued from flrst page.) cityism, etc, all of which were received with cheers. Chas. A. Blair, of Jackson. and Henry C. Smitli, of Adrián, were chosen alternates. A new congressional district committee was chosen as follows : Harry A. Conant, Monroe, cliairman ; Albert Stiles, Jackson ; Alfred Wheeler, iLenawee ; Dr. J. M. CoUyer, "VVayne ; E. F. Johnson, M'ashtenaw. The comniittee on resolutions then reported tlie following, whic hwere adopted unaniinously : "The repuiblicans of the 2d congressioaal district of Michigan, assembled in convention, do (hereby reaffirm our allegiance to títe principies of the republican party as set forth in the national platform adopted at the National convention in 1892. "We believe that -the United States Bhall use both feold and silver as rnoney and 'e re opposed to any legislation "wliich gives preference to either metal. "Bealizing thnt the issue in tne next campaign wüi le whether American industries slia,H be protected iu preference to those of foreign countries and recognizing as the campaign of protection and reciprocity that peerless statesman of Ohio, the Honorable WUllam JIcKinley, we do ïierety request our delegates to the national convention to vote for him as long as his name shall remain before the convention." They'll Have To Hustle, Sure- A correspondent of Wie Daily Times signing himself "Repuiblican," and under tlie headlng oï "A. Predictio-n," says this : "It is conceded lthat all our county officers will 1e re.nominated wlth perhaps the exception ói register of deeds. In that ase Daniel O'Keefe will uindioubtedly receive the nomination and Hon. fWirt Newkirk of Dexter, judge of probated. Should the Tepublicans thus put into the fiels suci a ticket it n-ill make the democrats üiustle to defeat it and necessa,rily anake ttiem put up men whom the public has confidence in so that iu any event we will have good county officers, just as it ëhould be." There's no quetion about the pre'diction. Th democrats will liave to hustle lively to keep in sight of the republican nominees, let alone defeating any f tnem.