The City

As Rn extra inducement for people to get married we make the following offer: To the couple in each township and city in the county who get married first under the new marriage law, we will send a oopy of The Register for one year, free. In order to avoid any mistake notiee of marriage, endorsedby the officiating clergyman, ehould be sent to this office as soon as the ceremony is performed. Supervisors will meet üctober lOtb. Circuit court convenes next Tuesday. Have you read what Bach & Abel say about Plushes ? Emanuel Mann has been conficed to nis bed the past week. F. Pistorius has moved his office into Judge Kinne's office. Eli Perkins will lecture in Ypsilanti next Tuesday eveniner. Delos King, of Whitmore Lake, is clerking for Fred Schleieher. W. G. Roberts is the State-st agent for the Ann Aibor 'team laundry. Mr. and Mr=. Frederick Schmid celebrated their silver wedding the 16th. Everybody will come 10 the fair nexc week to see and hear Gov. Luce. Dr. Chailes Howell, of Alpen a, has opened an office in the St. James block. You ought to read Bach & Abel's change of ad. Richmond & Treadwell will make an exhibit of furniture at the fair next week. Wm. Merithew has moved his billiard tables to the vacant store next to Saxton's saloon. An auction sale cf stock will be held on the fair ground, on Thursday, at nine o'clock. Therewill be no services in Zion church Sunday next on account of the absence of the pastor. E. B. Abel has a colt which is not yet four weeks old and for which he has been offered $500. Burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the residence of M. Seabolt, Tuesday night. Ida R. Bringham was granted a divorce from Geo. A. D. Bringham, in circuit court, Alonday. Burglars entered the office of the Ferdon Lumber Co. Sunday night, and stole a couple of dollars. The Ánn Arbor Steam Laundry is attracting large crowds of people to see the machinery work. The " Two Sams " have replaced the old tables on which their clothing was piled, with new ones. School chila.-en will be admitted to the fair next Thur.-Jav for 10 cents. Come and see the little folks. J. G-. Schippacassee caught a flying squirrel in front of his store, Sunday evening ; quite a rare thing to do. Willie Zebbes, colored, fooled with a revolver Sunday - didn't know it was loaded - hole through right hand. Supervisor Braun, of Ann Arbor town, has been drawn as a juror for the present term of the United States caurt, at Detroit. Clothes line thieves are abroad in the land. Mr?. Kahoe, of the Fourth ward, bad several garments stolen a few evenings ago. The firm of Barclay & Reeves ha? been dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Barclay retiring, white Mr. Reeves will continue the business. Cards are out annonncing the marriage of Miss Ella Hangsterfer to Dr. J. C. Stevens, dent, '87, on Wednesday evening, October 12. Gotleib Luick lost the second finger on his right hand and had the others severely cut, Monday morning, on the machinery in his planing mili. As it is probable that the four-year-old doublé team race will not be filled at the races next week, the management contémplate calling a four-year-old single race. New telephones this week: Williams' grocery on State-st, No. 136; Andrews' bookstoro, on Statest, No. 118, three rings; Prof. D'Ooge, No. 30 ; Delta Tau Delta. John Reynolds will be tried in Justice Poud,8 court, next Monday, charged with keepiog his saloon open on Sunday, Sept. 18. Officer Gidley is the complaining witness. Emma A. Fellows has filled a bilí in chancery asking the court to sever the ties which legally bind her to Greo. Fellows. Desertion and failure to support are alleged. Among those who applied to the county clerk Wedne8day for marriage licences was Allen Pierce, a colored man, of Ypsilanti, who wanted to wed Jane Elizabeth Warren, of the same place. Miss Katie M. Miller, daughter of the late Hon. John F. Miller, of this city, died in Detroit, Sept. 19, of diphtheria, aged 17 years. The remains were brought to this city last Wednesday and interred in Forest Hill cemetery. Mrs. Christian Schmidand daughter, left Saturday to visitfriends in Chicego. From their they will go to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where they will spend two weeks with her son John. On their way home they will stop at Battle Creek and Marshall. A bright, nealthy little boy about three years old, wants a home in some kind family. He wants to see you at Mrs. Wm. Fisher's, No. 5 North University-ave. He will take sunshine and happiness into any home where he may go. Russell Godfrey, the great corn man, on the south Ypsilanti road, has sent Thjs Register sample stalks of one hill of his Dent corn that measures IO feet high and bear seven large ears. Now corn meal pudding stands between this concern and " nothing to eat." The calendar of the October term of the Washtenaw county circuit court shows the following number of cases on the dooket : Criminal, 8 ; issues of fact, 45 ; imparlance, G; chancery, first class, 11; chancery, third clags, 1 ; chancery, fourth clasB, 7 ; total, 78. Invitations are out announcing the approaching marriage of Mr. Louis J. Fasq ut lle to Miss Ethel Rowan, of Petoskey, to take place at the home of the bride's parents, Oct. 6. Mr. Fasquelle has a host of friends in this city who will extend their heartiest congratulations. Paul Tessmer, jr., was tried bef ore a jury in Justice Pond's court, Monday, on a charge of cruelty to a dog. After beiüg out for three hours the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The complaining witness was C. W. Mellore, who alleged that the defendant hit hia dog and broke one of its legs. Query : Why do some of our churches deern i t necessary to place one or more brilliant lights on or about the pulpit, thus rendering it tiresome, in Bome instances painful, for the eye to look for any ength of time towards the speaker ? If the lights are necessary, let them be shaded to the audience. The new marriage law took effect Tuesday, but there was no rush at the clerk's office to see who should get the first certifícate. One person only applied for a license, and that was Fred B. Gilletf, aged 22, of York, who will soon lead to the matrimonial altar Miss Lottie Inmao, aged 16, of the same township. The Ypsilantian is issuing a daily odition this week on account of the fair. The fiist number contained a review of Ypsilanti's industries and numerous pen pictures of different points of interest, in Ypsilanti, by old pioneers. The enterprise cf the publishers is very commendable which we have no doubt wil! be appreciated by their numerous patrons.. The "sportsman" who wantonly kills our song birds ought to be prosecuted. Kill the sparrows, if you must kill something. Sparrows, rough little fellows, are said to make excellent eating in pies. - Courier. Yes, spare, oh, spare the robins ! It would take "forty-'leven" to make one boarding-house pie. - Enterprise: Half that number suffices at our boarding house. Invitations have been issued announcing the wedding of Mr. E. C. Spring and M'ss Emma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Heinrich, to take place at the residence of the bride's parents, on Fifth-st, next Wednesday evening. Rev. Mr. Belser will perform the ceremony. The young couple will leave the same evening for a two weeks' visit to the groom's parents in Hamburg, ünt. Mr. F. N. Scott and Miss Isadore Thompson, both graduates of the University in the literary class of '84, were married last Monday afiernoon at the home of the bride's parents in East Saginaw, in tne presenceof a small company of friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have gone to housekeeping at No. 11 Tappanst, where they will be accessible to their friends alter October 20. Mr. Scott has the position of assistant librarían in the University library for the coming year. The county board of school examiners met in the probate office again Tuesday to organize, but failed to perfect their organization. The board as now constituted consists of Geo. S. Wheeler, of Salem, A. Lodeman, of Ypsilanti, and M. J. Lehman, of Chelsea. Under the new law the board shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be the Judge of Probate, and two members to be slected by the chairmen of the various towuship boards. The question arises with the old board, who shall retire ? It leis between Lodeman and Lehman. The former was elected one year ago to fill a vacancy, and the latter was elected a few weeks ago before the new law went into effect. The matter has been referred to Attorney General Taggart for his opinión. The inspectora of the county jail have filed their report with the county clerk, for the four months ending September 15, 1887. They report everything in firstclass condition, and request that a cement bottom be put in the basement of the resident portion of the building. From it we gather the following statistics : That during the four months precediDg fuoh examinaron there had been confined at different times thirty-eight perjons, charged with the following offense : Larceny, 8 ; drunk and disorderly, 15, of which two were females ; disorderly, 6, of which 1 was a female ; and 1 ech on the following charges : Insane, defaulter, embezzlement, forgery, suspicion of arson, burglary, wife beating, assault, vagrancy. Tota', 38. " Oh, you'd be surprised to know how many of the boys who are going to school bere board themselves. They get their bread at the bakery and buy their butter and canned goods at the groceries, and have a pretty good living without much trouble at a very moderate expense," were the words a State-st grocer uttered as he was showing a customer the great quantity of meats, fish and fruits contained in the fine display of neatly labeled tin cans on his shelves. " Yes, its quite different from what it was when I was a student here twenty fiveyearsago," rerponded the other. "We couldn't get any canned fruit then. I had an economical streak one winter and thought I could board myself, but I soon found it very dry living. I couldn't find any ready-made victuals at the stores, except crackers and cheese and bolognasausage, and I got pretty sick of keeping single entry boarding house after a very limited experience." Among the new school laws reeen tly adopted by the legislature, and taking effect this month, is a clause which provides " that any girl between the ages of 10 and 17 years, or boy between the ages of 10 and 16 years, who shall run away or willfully absent himself or herself from the school he or she is attending, or from any house, office, shop, farm or other place where such person islegitimately employed to labor, or ehall frequent saloons or other places where intoxicating liquors are for sale, or shall be found lounging upon the public street, or public places of any city or village, against the command of his or her parents or guardián, or shall without the permission of his or her guardián, attend any public dance, skating rink, or show, shall be deemed a truant and disorderly person, and upon conviction shall be sentenced, if a boy, to the reform 6chool at Lansing, until 17 years of age, and if a girl, to the reform school for girls at Adrián, nntil 21 years of age." This stringent enactment will doubt!es have the effect of inducing many a youthful recreant to watch his p's and q'g.