The City

1 you have anything to sell, or to rent; f you have lost any valuable thing ; if you lavefovnd any valuable thing ; i you want rooms, board, work, or anything under the un, adverlise it in the " Want' column of 'he Register. The Ann Arbor steam laundry will open next Monday. Frank Corsley ; drunk ; Mareh 1" ; Jusioe Pond ; 20 days. John Britton, of the Third ward, died tfarch 18, of dropsy. Read Mr. Bird's Umbrella" in this number of The Register. Lewis Abate, oí the Fifth ward, died his morning, aged 66. R. D. Snidecar, of Ypsilanti, is now a ensioner of Uncle Sam. The state encampment will be at Maoknac, and Co. A goes July 19. The Germán Bethlehem church will ïave a confirmation next Sunday. Monday Morning Jacob Weidlich's examiaation was postponed to April 9. Don't fail to secure one of Reinhold's cnite-sharpeners when the agent calis. Mary Willis, wife of Caleb Willis, of the ?ourth ward, died March 18, at the age of 79. , Delhi lodge, I. O. G. T., entertained bout 17 Ann Arbor G. T.'s last Wednesday evening. Edward C, son of John and Catherine Hanning, of the third ward, died March i5 at the age of 10 yeara. Emanuel Wagner, the grocery man, has a pretty little steam engine to turn his eanut-cooking appartua. Clara M. Schneider, an eight-month's old daughter of Gottlieb Schneider, of First-st, died last Friday of croup. Rev. S. Haskell will reside in Detroit, after April 1, and will be engagedin editorial work on the Christian Herald. Naomia Hill, daughter of S. and A. Hill, of the sixth ward, died March 19, at the age of 9 years, of typhoid pneumonía. Catherine M. McMahon died yesterday of diphtheria, aged 8 years. This is the third child in the famity that-has died of diphtheria. Masiah Ragan. of Ann Arbor township, died March 1H, aged 83 years. The 'uneral occurred Tuesday at the North3eld church. - John Dowdigan takes Fred J. Belser's ilace in the First National bank as bookieeper, and W. J. Finnegan takes Mr. Dowdigan 's place. Ernery Hurst is chaiged with stenling a iat from The Two Sam?, March 17, and Justice Frueauff has bound him over to the circuit court for trial. Mayor Smith was kept in southeastern New York from Monday night to Thursday noon of last week by the enow-drifts in that benighted country. The Demócrata of NorthBeld township will hold their caucus for the fpring election, Monday, March 26, at Walsh's corners, at 1 o'clock p. m. Ernest Krueger is soon to occupy three 5ne rooms on the third floor over Brown's drug store. A hole has been cut in the roof, and sky lights put in. Tobiaa Holmes will have an auction sale on the farm he recently sold, four and onehalf miles west of Ann Arbor on the Dexter road, April 3, at I p. in. John McDertcott, ol Northfield, died March 19, at the age of 64 years, of asthma. The funeral occurred yesterday at St. Thomas' church in Am Arbor. William Hayden was tried for assault and battery on Rudolf Graf, March 15, before Justice Frueauff, and convicted, and has appealed it to the circuit court. Joseph Martin, who haa been with J. Muehlig for nearly 15 years, on Saturday went to work in Mr. Haller's furniture store, the old stand of Kich & Haller. Sid W. Millard, Chas. M. King, and H. D. Merithew received their commissions f rom Gov. Luce, on Tuesday, as captain, firat affd eecond lieutenants respectively of Co. A. A. W. Hamilton Btarted for Florida last Monday evening, to bring back James Reynolds who is very sick. Young Reynolds is a son of Mrs. Helen A. Reynolds, of Washington-sL The Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan has resumed the regular sahedule of time frora Farwell to Cadillac, the snow and ice having given up possession of the road bed for the time being. The third party prohibitionists held a "love feaBt" last Thursday evening in Cropsey's hall, and tonight they hold a city convention. Capt. Janes is mentioned as their candidato for mayor. Prol. C. W. Carman, of Ann Arbor, who occupies a responsible poeition in the Grand Rapidg high school, lectured before the Kent Seiemific Instituto of that city, March 16, on "The astronomer and bis instruments." On Tuesday, a deed of the Cook house property was recorded in the register of deed's office. The new owner is Sampson B. Oulton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who paid $35,000 to the heirs ot Samuel Hutchin son, the former owners. The pension department will not recognize a guardián for Christian Hideloff, the pauper at the county house wbo draws a pension of $8 per roonth There ought to be some way to make that $8 per month contribnte to the old man's support or comfort Messrs. Steffey & Servië, formerly of Dayton, Ohio, have purcliased the new steam lanndry in the Wtlsey bl ck, 23 S. Fourth-st, and after refitting it thorouuhly will open it for business next Mondsy. They promise the best work in the city and guarsntee satisfRCtion. The Knighta of Mxccabees now have a hall by themselves. It in over A. D. Seyler's shoe store, and is nicely fitu-d up Heretof ore they have ued the O Ifi FöIlow hall for their mpetings. The Knihi8 of Maccabees have 76 memherR in Aim Arbor now, and are getting strong. Joel W. ITamilton. of Ann Arbor, will be married this evenins; to Miss Annie Herdman, of Zanesville, 0., and the couple will leave for Deining, New Mexico, at once. The bride Í9 a sister of Dr. W. J. Herdman, of Ann Arbor. Dr. Herdman and lamily were at the wedding in Zanesville. The Detroit Free Press of Tuesday last pays : "At Farwell op Saturday morning John Fowler, an unmarried man about 30 years old, was struck by a falling tree which he had cut, rebounding, and falally injured, dying Saturday eveniug. His home was Ann Arbor, where bis parents reside." Hobart Guild has atrarged for a series of special sermons for the spring. Dean Gray, of the Episcopalian theological seminary'at Cimbridge, will be here April 8; Bishop Harns the evening of May 13 ; Bishop Perry, of Iowa, May 18; and Dr. W. R. Huntington, of Grace church, New York city, on the third Sunday in June. On Tuesday, Mr. Bent, of Northfield, a man 60 yearg of age, was cutting wood with a portable sawing apparatus, when by gome accident he was thrown agaicst the paw. His arm was cut off just above the elbow, and the flesh and muscles bady torn. Dr. Breakay of Ann Arbor, and Dr. Elias Stnith, of Whitmore Lake, amputated tbe arm below the shoulder. The Sons of Veterans met last Saturday eening and last evenÍDg in the G. A. R. room, for organization. The camp wa9 named the H. S. Dean camp, after Ooi. Dean, of Ann Arbor. The officers elected are as follows: Captain, J. W. Stanton ; first lieutenant, E E. Hallett ; second lieutenant, F. A. Gardner; camp council, Messrs. St. Clair, Stone, and Seynjour. Wasbtenaw chapter, R. A. M., Monday evenicg, conferred the Ruyal Arch degree npon Col. J. M. Wilijoxson, Seward Cramer, and C. W. Wagner. About 25 companiong from Ypsilanti were present, among whom were P. W. Carpenter, 0. E. Samson, H. R. Scoville, J. C. Bemiss, Dr. F. K. O wen, Charles Ferrier, and A. S. Turnbull. Mr. Lovejoy, of Manchester, and others, were present. Mayor Smith wants it dislinctly understood that he could not possiblv accept the office of mayor next year. This last year he held the office and attended every meeting of the common council at conbiderable sacrifice, which the salary of $1 per year will not make good. During the coming year his business will cali him from the city a great deal. He will have to be in Iowa six weeks. Tomorrow, Friday evening, at the opera-house, there will be bene5t to Ida Van Cortland, when she will appear as Mercy Merrick in the favorife emotional play, The New Magdalene, dramatized trom Wilkie Collins' story of the same name. Saturday afternoon, at 2:30, grand family matinee, when the charming comedy drama, in four acts, entitled " Caught in the Web," will be presented. The Register is in receipt of the proceedings of the Forestry convention held, not long ago, in Grand Rapids. Those interested iu that subject should write to the secretary of the State Board of Aeri culture, Agricultural College, Mich, for this pamphlet. Washtenaw county took part in the proceeding-i of the convent:on. L. D. Watkins, of Manchester, read a paper, and a letter from J. Austin Scott, of Ann Arbor, also appears in the printed proceeding8. TJnity Club programine Monday evening was introduced by a talk by Mrs. Sunderland on the masterpiece of Titian, 'The A8sumption." Then followed an excellent discussion of the life and work of Goethe - particularly nis work as a novelist - bv León J. Richardson. The Wit and Wisdom Budget read by Miss Gregg coDcluded the literary part of the programme. Not less interesting was the last part of the evening which consisted of an old-fashioned "sugaring-off," the mo9t prominent features of which were huge dishes of maple tugar and appreciative partakers. Thomas Jones, a colored barber who workR for Symonds in Ann Arbor, met with a serious accident in Tpnlanti, Saturday evening laet. He lives in Ypsilanti and went home every Saturday night. It was his custom to jump on and off the Saturday evening freight train when it was in motion. He would wait till the freight train was going up grade near Ypsilanti and then jump off nearest to bis home. This" time his overcoat was caught by the car in some way, asd he was thrown under the car. A part of his foot was cut off and his knee and hip were seriously hurt. Dr. Joseph Howell died at the home of his daughter in Mason township, Lenawee county, on Sunday, at the age of 86. He was the father of Jmige Andrew Howell, the compiler of Howell's StatuteR, who is himelf dangerously sick with pneumonía; he was the father of Dr. Howell, of Ann Arbor; Edward Howell, a Lenawee county farmer; Dr. George Howell, of Tecumseh, a rnember of the legislature; David Howell, superintendent of the Lansing schools ; and of two daughters. The deceased carne to Michigan in 1831, and practiced medicine in Tecumseh 40 years. He was a member of Michigan's örst consti'utinnal convpntion.