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See notice for the republican city caucuses in another column. The public schools of this city, will not commence uutil Monday Sept. 14. There was a slight frost in some localities Tuesday morning, but not much harm done. Rev. Lawrence T. Cole, of this city, officiated at St. Mary's chapel, Grass Lake, last Sunday. The republicans of Pittsfield will hold their caucus on Friday evening, Sept. 11, at the town house. Mr. Manley, now of Sioux City Iowa, a law of the class of '92, was in the city a short time during the past week. Hon. H. Wirt Newkirk will speak at Emery on Saturday evening, Sept. 5, 1S96, and answer the silver arguments of the campaign. E. J. Ottaway has been promoted to the city night editorship of the Detroit Free Press. His friends here all clap their hands and applaud. On Monday last the Michigan Furniture works resumed operations again, after having been shut down for some three weeks, making repairs. There will be a caucus at the couit house to-morrow, Thursday evening, to put in nomination three school trustees for the election next Monday. lt may be encouraging to know that applications for admission to the University and to the University School of Music are greater tlian ever before. It makes people of this county very tired when tliey read the papers of other towns booming their county fair. What's the matter with Washtenaw? is the question asked on all sides. If you can not afford any of the high priced lecture courses this year, the Y. M. C. A. comes to you with a high priced lot of entertainments at a very low price for the course - only $1.00. It is understood that Col. B. M. Thompson will accept of the challenge of Mr. Tarsney and answer the so-called arguments made by himself and Mr. Baker, on the court house square last Friday night. The Col. cando it. R. L. McElroy, of London, Ohio, will be called to the M. E. pulpit the coming year, the Bishop having given his consent to the transfer. Rev. McElroy is & youns; man. of about 37, and has taken the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from Ohio Wesleyan, and D. D. from Boston School of Theology, and Ph. D. from the Boston School of Arts. He comes highly recommended. Jus. Ë. Harkine now walks on a new Boor at liis store. Eugene D aily of this city bas been granted an original pension. Tlie State Fair will be beid at Grand. Rápida Sept. 7 to 11, inclusive. All aboard . Tlie animal road race beretofore given by tlie Wolverine Cycle Club will be declared off tbis year. Allen A. Kent, of Forest ave., is the only G. A. Li. who bas gone to St. Paul to tlie national meeting. Win. Walsh, of Aun Arbor, was calling on friends here Tuesday. - Milan Leader. Wonder what Bill is after now? The Y. M. 0. A. nigbt school will conimence on or about Oct. lst. The outlook is good for a large attendance tliis year. Miss Lisia A'anValkenburg returned lust week froni Xew York state where she bas been spending the sumrner witb relativas and friends. Frank E. Kellogg, Jr., of the Franklin House, Ann Arbor, bas accepted a situation as clerk at '-The Auderson" hotel. - Wayne Keview. The next regular meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be held on Thursday Sept. 10, at three o'clock, in the P. O. block. Mr. (i. G. Stimson will give the address at the Young Men's Christian Association next Sunday afternoon. Subject: "Industry : Duty and JEteivard." A teacher's certifícate oí the first grade, belouging to Donovan, was picked up on S. State st. yesterday, and ruay bc obtaiued at Maynard and Co. 's store. The alarm of tire wliich called out the departinent Sunday, was at Xo. 9 E. University aye. The flamea had got a good start upstairs, and some $300 damage was done. Cause unkiiown. Miss Cynthia A. Sager of this city, bas made the Y. M. C. A. a present of about 80 volumes of bound books. This makes a fine nucleus for what the association needs very much, a library. The ladies who have in charge the first tea social for St. Andrew's parish, for Thursday evening, Sept. 10, are very' anxious that all the people of tlie parish, with all their friends, should be present. They want to start the year off right. Dr. Frank Bournes, medie '96, has been appointed to the chair of Pathology, Histology and Bacteriology in the Southern Medical College at Atlanta, Ga., and leaves therefor shortly. He has been Dr. Darling's assistant for a year or two. During the last week Mis. E. L. Blunt has entertained her son Dr. C. L. Blunt from Sioux City, Iowa, also Mrs. Charles Seeley, of Grand Rapids, a classmate, whom she had not seen for 36 years, since their graduation day in 1860 at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, Mass. Ed. Cole, the areonaut, formerly, of this city, was drowned at Toledo last Sunday. He made an ascensión from Lake Side Park, in company with Miss Carmo. The balloon was taken over the lake into which they descended. She was rescued but he was drowned. That the people may know something of the benefit of a republican administration of county affairs, here is one little item that tells the story. On one piece of property in this city the county taxes for 1892 were $70.50; in 1893, $79.90; in 1894, $47.00; in 1895, $39.95; and in 1896 it will be probably less than $30.00. Is this not encouraging to keep rights on with republican officials ? Prof. Arthur G. Hall, instructor in Mathematics in the University was rnarried on Weduesday evening last, to Miss Octavia R. Stiling, at the home of her mother, in Detroit. Rev. Mr. Frisbee, assisted by Rev. L. P. Jocelyn, of St. Andrew's Parish this city, performed the ceremony. Matthew Stiling acted acted as best man and Miss Frisbee as bridesmaid. The couple came at once to this city, where their home was ready for occupancy. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Esslinger celebrated the silver anniversary of their wedding on Saturday. Among the guests present were Caspar Jacob and family, of Sharon ; Fred Tag and family, of Clinton ; Wm. Stein and family, of Adrián ; Christian Schlegel and family, of Bridge water; Mrs. Fred Graf and children, of Bridgewater; Fred Schlezel and family, and C. Esslinger and family, of this city. Rev. J. Speckmann made a speech, which was well received. Mr. and Mrs. Esslinger were the recipients of many handsome' presents. Of the many candidates for the office of register of deeds, perhaps no one is better known in the county than Wm. K. Childs, of this city, he having lived in Augusta, Ypsilanti, Pittsfield and Ann Arbor. For the past nine years lie has been secteary and treasurer of the Washtenaw Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which has a membership of about 3,000 in the county. This gives liim a very wide acquaintance and a host of friends, so that there is no fear of his election if he secures the nomination. He is not putting anything in the way of the other candidates, who are all his warm personal friends, but will leave it all to the convention, to do what seems to be best. Rev. Henry Tatlock, rector of St. Andrew's parish, who bas been absent for several weeks in Xew York City and vicinity, arrived home Monday evening. Geo. W. Axtell has exchanged bis Howell residence for Ann Arbor property. Mrs. Axtell and son, Ford, will go to Ann Arbor soon, and the latter wil enter the U. of M. - Howell Republican Win. Walsh sold one of those labor saving corn harvesters to A. F. Smith of Pittsfield yesterday, and there were about 75 people on hand to see it stari on its work this morning. Noah was the first man to advertise He advertised the flood and it came through all right. The fellows who laughed at the advertising got drowned, and it served them just right. Ever since Noah's time the advertiser bas been prospering, while the other fellow has been swallowed up in the flood of disaster" The macadanizing of the bloek on N. Fourth ave., from E. Ann. st. to Catharine st., is being well done, there is no question about it, but the horde oi bosses that started in seem to have thinned out somewhat. What's the matter with Street & AValker's gang? Have they struck something too heavy for them ? Chas. ,T. Gardner, who resided on Miller ave., died on Tuesday morning at about 6 :30, of sinoker's cáncer, havin{ been ill for some weeks. Mr. Gardner was 57 years of age last March. He had lived in this city for many years being engaged in the business of carpeutry. He leaves a wife and severa' daughters. Funeral services are being held from the residence this afternoon at three o'clock. The person who has any music in bis or her soul ought to take the Song Journal of Detroit. It is a beauty in an artistic sense, each month, besides being filled full of music, musical literature, and musical news of great interest One article in the September issue, thai on the "Origin and Import of the Negro Slave Melodies," by Mrs. Maggie Porter-Cole, one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, is worth doublé the price of the publication for the year. When one insures buildings from loss by fire he wants to be insured in a strong company, and should be acquainted with the standing of the various cornpanies. A conservative insurance company is the best and safest. This point is iiot given enough consideration by insurers, and they should compare the business of the companies. The handiest thing in this line is a little book called "Fire Insurance in Michigan for Ten Years," published annually by F. H. Leavenworth Pub. Co., Detroit, which gives the list of companies allowed to do business in this state, and their business resul ts for each year. It can be secured of the publishers for fifty cents, and is a valuable book to have by any property owner. The "salt of the earth" is often referred to as one of the best things given to man, and here are enumerated a few things that salt is good for : Salt puts out fire in a chimuey. Salt in the oven under baking tins will prevent their scorching on the bottom. Salt and vinegar will remove stains from tea cups. Salt and soda are excellent for bee sting and spider bite. Salt thrown on soot which has fallen on the carpet will remove stain. Salt when put on ink, when freshly spilled on the carpet, will help to remove the spot. Salt in whitewash rnakes it stick. Salt when thrown on a coal fire when low wil] revive it. Salt used in sweeping keeps out moths. Salt and water, in weak solution applied to the eyelids, when tired or over-taxed will give almost instant relief. In a letter recently received by Dr. Byan from his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Copeland, of Ann Arbor, sbe tells many things of interest, which one does not get in books of travel. She writes from Paris that they are seeiug the city with Cook guides, though they are not in any of bis regular parties. She and Dr. Copeland like London and the English far better than Paris and the French with the exception of the cooking, which is far better in France. They visited Blenheim Castle, the home of the "Countess of Marlborough," a magnificent estáte of 300,000 acres, and in the stables and house alone 300 servants are employed. Hawarden Castle, Mr. Gladstone's home, was visited also, and found to be as full of charrn for them as for other travelers. After goingfrom Paris to Switzerland, Dr. and Mrs. Copeland will go up the Rhine, sailing for Montreal on September 18. - Ypsilanti Commercial. When our friend of the Post gets cornered he denies thinirs. Last week in trying to defend his fellow anarchist Altgeld he said "the story tliat Gov. Altgeld made contracta with his tenants th at they mustpay in gold has been exploded long ago." We thought he would fall into that blunder, or some other writer who says things he does not know about would deny it, so last month, when the editor of the Courier was in Chicago he took pains to go into the TTnity block and ask one of the tenants whom he kuew to show bis lease. It was brought out and read aloud to several who were present. We read it, and saw the rein this clause that the rent was "payable in standard gold coin of the United States." Altgeld admits it and he does not want his friends to deny it, for it makes it all the more prominent. Thiuk of the hypocrisy and baseness of a man who will compel such a clause of his teuants, and then advocate f ree silver, so as to make them pay in a kind of money which would be driven out of sight and be at a big premium. Bro. Daneer, what do you think of Oscar Neebe, the pardoned anarchist, leaving his family and running away with another man's wife? Perhaps you will thiuk your readers don't read the Cliicago papers and you can fooi them by denying that. The people know that was a rotten act for Anarchist Altgeld to pardon out the anarchist murderers of the Haymarket policemen, after they had been fairly tried by several courts and condemned. Vermont has long been considered a never failing barometer from which to predict the national election. She holds her state election the lst of September, and when she gives less than 20,000 republican majority the country is sure to go democratie ; if over 20,000 the country will go republican. At the election Tuesday full returns aive the entire republican ticket over 30,000 majority. So from that we can judge of the result in November. Hurrah for Vermout !