The City

Subscribers to the Register who wish to take advantage of the free mail delivery, should leave their street address at this office. Read the new ad. of the Two Sams. James J. Stafford has been granted a pension. Don't forget the meeting in the council room this evening. Gil. Snow is located for a few days at Robison's livery barn. Ilenry Cornwell is building acother cottage at his pulp mili. Teachers' ezamination in the court house, Friday August 27. The common council will bold a meeting next Monday evening. It is none too early to begin making preparations for the fall fair. A stock company has been orgamzed at South Lyon to bore for gas. Eev, W. W. Ramsay will preach at Bay View next Sunday morning. Wines & Worden have a new advertisement in this issue of The Register. The Ypsilanti races are fairly well patronized by Aon Arbor people this week. M. P. Vogel has opened a meat market on East Huron-st, nezt to Caspar Rinsey 's. Up to July 29th O. M. Martin had buried 100 persons, since January 1, 1887. Prof. J. M. Schaeberle, has accepted a position at the Lick observatory, of California. Company A. started for camp Wednesday morning, on a special train, fifty strong. Mayor Smith has been elected a director of the new Peninsular savings bank in Detroit. Aid. Seabolt is putting in a four-horse power water motor in his laundry to run his polishers. H. W. Hayes is spending all his spare time breaking a very fine three-year-old Pathfinder colt. The M. C. R. R. company will extend their track this fall around Cornwell's dam to the water works. Street commissioner Dow has been doing some good work on the corner of Main and North-sta. Burglars entered the residence of A. H. Holmes, in the sixthjward, Monday night, and stole a silver watch. O. L. Waller, is the name of a young attorney, admitted to the Washtenaw county bar last Thursday. Some miserable villain, or villains, cut down several nice shade trees, on north Main-it, Tuesday evening. The eighth recital of the summer school of music will be given at eight o'clock, thii evening, in Hobart Hall. Two thinga which our exchanges agree upon : That they want rain and that every dog ought to be muzzled. The relatives of Fred Rettich, jr., assembled at Recreation Park, SundBy, and celebrated Lis thirtieth birthday. Albert Sorg has concluded to grind bis own paint, and for that purpose is putting in a four-horse power water-motor. The lawn party given by Miss Elmer Mills, Pittsfield, laat Thursday evening, was much enjoyed by those present. Dr. Arndt informa us that he is able to attend to hig practice again, and has opened an office over the Firat National bank. The appearance of a coal advertisement in this week's issue of The Register we trust will have a cooling effect on our readers. Services will begin next Sunday in the Presbyterian chureh. The pulpit will be occupied for two Sabbaths by Rev E W Childs. ' ' ' ' Remember the Sunday-school excursión next Tuesday, and go and take your family ; or if you haven't got a family, take your girl. Wm. H. Mclntyre bought the building he has so long occupied on Huron-st, Monday, from Joseph Donnelly. Consideration, $5,350. This hot weather makes lotg of business for the ice dealers. Tbirty-four tons a day is the amount consumed by the people ofAnnArbor. C. H. J. Douglas, formerly teacher of elocution in the Ann Arbor High SchooL was married a few days ago to an estimable lady at Norwich, Conn. Those who intend to witness the game of base-ball in Detroit, next Tuesday, between the Detroit and Washington club? should go od the excursión. The village of Milan is not very large, butbas lots of enterprise. It has just raised a bonus of $500 for a gentleman who will build a grain elevator there. .It is intimated that the reason one of the teachers in the High School was not re-engaged was because she is about to take up the study of dentistry. At a meeting of the prohibitionists held in Cropsey's hall Wednesday evening it was decided not to take the advance step towards organizing for a local option campaign. The Toledo and Ann Arbor railway will run an excursión train to IslandLake Sunday morning, for the benefit of those who may wish to Tisit the state troops. The train will leave Ann Arbor at 9:30 a. m and will arrive at the Lake at 10:30 Á. m! Fa'e for the round trip will be onlv 75 cents. ■ Do you want to see manufactories started in Arm Arbor ? If so, atteud the meeting in the council room this evening, and eneourage the matter by your presence. About fifty colored people wentto Manhattan Beach, Monday, to celébrate emancipation day, and about a dezen went to Battle Cretk, for the same purpose, the day following. M. M. Seabolt has reconsídered his resignation as alderman of the Fourth ward, and will continue to perform the duties of that office, provided the counoil will not accept his resignation. During encarepment of the state troops Norman C. Conger, in charge of the government signal service at Lansing, will give signal service instructioas to a corps detailed for the purpose. Married, in Ypsilanti, August 2nd, by Rev. Samuel D. Breed, of Ann Arbor, Mr. Nile9 C. Peterson, of Bay City, and Miss Rachel M. Whipple, at the residence ot the bride's mother, on Huron-st. Miss Cla-a Schrader died at the residence of her parants on Ncrth Second-st, last Wednesday, aged ''l years, of consumption. The funeral was held in the Bethlehem church Saturday afternoon. If the energy and enterprise which our friend, E. E. Leiand, is displaying, is any criterion, the annual picnic of the farmers of Washtenaw, Wayne, Oakland and Livingston counties, at Whitmore Lake, Saturday, Aug. 20, will be a grand euccess. ïwo loTely new songs just issued : "Where have they laid my darling?" ong and chorus, by W. A. Ogder; also, " DarliDg, I will come again," song and chorus, by Geo. W. Persley. Price of each 35 cents. Ign. Fischer, pubüsher, Toledo, Ohio. Benjamin Green, an old pioneer of the township of Stockbridge, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Bennett Green, last Friday, July 29th, aged 71. The funeral was held at the North Stockbridge church, July 31st. He leaves a wife and thirteen children to mourn for him. C. H. Howard, the fellow arrested last week for uttering a forged check, fixed up matters, and was then taken into court where he plead guilty. He was bound over to the circuit court for trial and his bail fixed at $200, which was furnished by a relative. This is probably the last of him. The Browns went up to Chelsea, Tuesday, to play ball, aud came back covered all over with defeat. The game was called at the end of the sixth innings, the score standing 10 to 6 in favor of the Chelsea sluggers. Our catcher broke his forefinger in the first innings, and this is the way the defeat is explained. Last Thursday evening, a paity of young people gathered at Mr: Burchfield's home, on Miller avenue, and passed a pleasant evening. Master Chas. Seabslt favored them with some of his song?, with piano accompaniment by one of the young ladies, and E. L. Moore furnished some fine music on the guitar. The annual after-barvest festival of the Southern Waehtenaw and Norvell Farmers' Clubs will occur at the Sand Lake House, tormerly Adama, on the north eide of Sand Lake, on Thureday, August 4th. Dinner will be furnished at the hotel at 35 cents a ticket. An addrees is hoped for from one whom all will be glad to hear. The Echo, the wekly edition of the Detroit Evening News, the Cleveland Press, the Cincinnati Post and the Evening Chronicle, of St. Louis, Mo., is a large eight page paper. It is under the management of W. J. Davenny, which is a guarantee that it will be kept in the front rank of metropolitan weekly newspapers. The Washtenaw county Teachers' Institute will be held in the chapel of the High School, in this city, commencing Monday, August 15, continuing through the entire week. An interesting programme is being arranged, whion will appear in these colnmns next week. Prof. Barbour, of the Ypsilanti normal school, will conduct ït. Wm. H. Burleson died at his residence in this city, Friday morning, of congestión of the brain, after a short illness. He had been in the candy and fruit butiness five years. The funeral occurred Sunday afternoon in the Masonic Temple, haring been a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was a knight of the Maccabees, which will give his family $2,000. Alfred James and Aggie, ohildren of W. F. Bird, left home, on Saturday, to spend their annual vacation with their grandfather and friends in Unadilla. While the boys were bathing in the lake on Monday, Alfred B., the oldest son, was drowned'. He would have been r.ineteen years old the following day. The grandest eulogy ever paid to mortal, is his: a noble, Christian youth. There will only be three more recitals by the Fummer school of music. The eighth of this series will be given this evening, the ninth will be given next Monday evening, and the last one next Wednesday. They will all be given in Hobart Hall, and ebould be better patrón - ized than those heretofore given. They are certainly deserving of a large sudience, and we earnestly hope our readers will attend them. As G. F. Hanson and Matthew Duke were riding under the Toledo & Ann Arbor railroad bridge, Snnday afternoon tbeir horse beeame frightened at a train of cars, and in holding the horse back, one of the linea broke, causing the animal to run. After running a short distance the buggy was upset and the ocoupants thrown out, Mr. Duke being considerably bruised about the face. The buggy will be taken to the shop to be rebuilt. Lansing Republican: Tasas Kaski a Japanese student at Ann Arbor, who has been spending part of his vacation in Lansing, has had considerable difflculty in finding his trunk. He has " telegraphed all over de State to get um," for some time, and this morniogTie "getum." Half an hour after a smiling Jap, gitting contentedly on a trunk and riding on a dray passed up Washtenaw avenue. Tasas don't let "um" get away again if be knows it. The parties who propose establishingan engine and boiler works in Ann Arbor, arrived in the city Wednesday, and have been looking the ground over and talking with the business men. A meeting of the Business Men's Association will be held in the council room this evening t: take action on the matter. It is hoped that every member will attend the meeting and impresa upon these gentlemen the advantage of locating in this city. Mrs. Abraham Sawyer, mother of Hon. A. J. Sawyer, of this city, died at the residence of her grand-daughter, Mrs. C. D. Allen, in Chelsea, last Thursday morning, at tíie ripe oíd age of 91 years. Deceased had been a member of the Baptist church for 48 years, and had been a resident of this county since 1807. The funeral services were held in the Bapt st church, in Cbelsea, Saturday afternoon, a large concourse of relatives and friends following the remains to their last resting place. The will of the late Mr. Chambers was read in the probate court, Monda v. Aft er dividing $2,400 among twelve relatives, in sums varying from $100 to $500. she gives to St. Andrew's church the sum of $500, as an endowment fund, the interest ol which is to be applied annually on the rector's salary. The rest of the estáte is bequeathed to the Diocese of Western Michigan, to be used for missions, to be entirely under the control of Bishop Gillespie, who is appointed executor without bonds. The estáte is valued at about $10,000. The edilor of the Sault Ste Marie Democrat is a " boomer." Here is his latest concernine; the boom t the Soo : Mary had a Hule lot, and thought ehe'd better sell ; she placed it on the raarket, and the way that lot did - well, it sold four times within a week, and every time t went, the lucky man who bought it cleared ninety-nine per cent. "What makestown lots go flying so ?" the eager buyers cry. "The Sault is on a boom, you know," the agents do reply. And so the owners mark them up, yet buyers do not squeal, but run impatiently about for fear they'll lose a deal. Manchester Enterprise : The farmers' third annual picnic will be held at Wampler's Lake, Friday, August 12, 1887. Mr. Moore has arranged to have sports, conBisting of a sail boat race for prizes of $5, $3 and $2, also a running race. The Manchester cornet band will turnish music, and in the evening there will be a dance, with music by Hunt's orchestra of seven pieces. Bill for the dance, including supper and horse attendance, ia $1.25, so that all can go. The grove will be free to all, so those who wish can carry their lunch. Mr. Moore always entertains his guests in good style, and they will receive a pleasant receDtion and a jrood time can be ei ioyed by a'lL The Sunday schools of this city will give their second annual excursión to Detroit, next Tuesday. The train will leave Ann Arbor, from the Michigan Central depot, at 7:30 a. m., standard time, for Detroit, where the beautiful steamer Sappho will be in waiting to give the excursionists a sixty mile ride up the river to Lake Erie. Their excursión last year was a decided success, and there is no doubt that the one to be given next week will be equally guccessfuï. Ticket may be procured at A. L. Noble's, Moore'g drug store, Brown's drug store, G-oodyear's drug store, Doty fe Feiner's, Andrews & Witherby'g, First National Bank, Moore's book store, and Calkin's drug store, for $ 1 for adulta and 50 cents for children. Lovers of music should avail themselves of the last three recitals at Hobart HalL This Thursday evening, the instrumental compositions will consist entirely of Chopin's works, and the vocal will be contralto solo of modern composers, by Miss Joslyn. On Monday, modern compositions for the piano will be played, and on Thursday of next -week the Detroit Philharmonic Quartet of etringed instrument will give the clostng programme of the series. Miss Wood and Mr. Yunk play the Gade Sonata for piano and violin, and Mieg Carathers, with the Quartet, give Sohumann's Quintet for piano and stringg. The Philharmonies will give one number by themselves, and altogether no guch programme can be heard again before next winter. All who have been present at the previouB recitals express great interest and delight, especially the latter programmee. A meeting of the Business Men's Association was held in the council room Tuesday evening. On taking the chair President Kyer thanked the association for the honor confered on him by eleoting him president. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read by Secretary Frueauff, H. J. Brown, chairman of the committee on capsule faotory, reported that the required amount of stock had been subscribed, and all that remained to do now was for the stockholders to hold a meeting and perfect their organization. A letter was read_ from a firm who wan ted to start a machine shop some place where there was a good field for such a concern. Many questions were asked in the letter about an opening in Ann Arbor, its location, etc. The correspouding secretary was instructed to communicate with the gentlemen and inform them of the location and natural facilities Ann Arbor offered such a factory, and to aacertain how much would be required to induce them to locate here.