The City

The days began to shorten with las Saturday. Herman Hutzel has bought the old Jewett homestead. It is estimated there are two thousam stracgers in the city. Samuel Krause is building a fine residence in the second ward. Wtt Wheeler, on Washington-st lost a $150 norse last week by distemper. The new addition to the T. & A. A depot is up, and being rapidly enclosed The proprietors of the capsule factory have not yet decided to continue business Pond lilies are all the craze, and boys can be seen selling them on every corner Prof. Henry C. Adams left for California, to-day, where he will stay two months. Chief Sipley took Frank Clark, tramp, to the house of correction, Monday, foi 60 days. The officers of the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias meet with the lodge here, Monday night. The social of the Geddes Sunday school, Friday night, at D. L. Godfrey's, was a grand success. Arthur N. Hart, of Port Huron, and Miss Minnie L.Miley, of this city, were married last night. A. E. Jennings, on Tuesday, secured $500 for Newberry hall from James McMillan, of Detroit Next week The Ekgister will print a communication from Dr. Wooldridge on the great subject of poverty. The demand for boqueta this week put pink roses up to $3 per dozen. Many were obtained from Chicago. Thomas Birkett now owns both flouring milis in Dexter, having come into possession of the "Dexter Mills" last week. That vacant store in the Maynard block on Ann-st will be occupied by M. E. Johnson, of Jackson, Mich., with drygoods. Gottlieb Schneider, of the "Central Mills," and Nelson Kyer, of the "City Mills," attended the Miller's state convention at Lansing, yesterday. Carpenter's Union will have another open meeting in their hall, over Stimson's store on Main-st, on July 6, to be addressed by H. W. Newkirt Barnum exhibits at Toledo, Saturday. Rates from Ann Arbor and return, $1.90, including admission to the circus. Train will be held until show is over. Co. A. leave for Lansing, next Tuesday night, on a special over the T. & A. A. Any one wishing to accompany them can do so for one fare for rouiid trip. Arthur Powers, of the tramp species, stole a lot of clothing from the residence of Charles Clark, near the observatory, Tuesday, and now languishes in jail. Prof. Knowlton and Evart Scott returned from their rorthern fishing trip, Friday. They report a big time- some big fish. The rest of the party returned yesterday. Supt. Ashley, of the T. & A. A., with a party of friends, passed north Tuesday, in a special. They spent yesterday at Whitmore, returning to Toledo in the evening. The Charles Edwardsjsent up for being drunk last week, was not our Charley Edwards of the opera house, who was never known to take anything stronger than hydrant water. While HarryMiller and Migg;Fahner were returningjfrom Whitmore, Sunday, they had one ofthe hind wheels of their buggy smashed by drunken fellows who tried to drive byjthem. F. L. Parker, received a telegram Tuesday night from San Jacinto, Cal, to the effect that his son William, who left here about a.year ago, was not expected tolive, being ill with brain fever. John Haarer is raising his building on West Liberty-st, preparatory to moving it to the second ward, where it will be used as a dweiling. A new 3-story brick block will be erected on the site. The attendants in the Dniversitv library for the next year have been appointed and are as followe : At delivery desk, W. G. Adams ; east seminary room, Y. Ono ; west seminary room, A. H. Hopkins. The "City" and "Central" flouring milis have recently purchased between them 5,000 bushels of Washington territory wheat as an experiment. Mr. Allmendinger says it is far ahead of Michigan wheat Rev. R. A. Lewis, (colored) of Washington, D. C, has been here for some time in the interest of a church soon to be erected for the colored people here. It will stand on the corner of Pontiac and Fifth-st and will be 30x10 feet The job of rebuilding the store now occupied by "The Two Sama" has been let by Judge Cheever to John Walz. The store will be 110 feet deep and two Btories high. It will have a handsome new front and is to be completed by Sept. 1. The board of trustees of the Students' Christian association has planned a western trip for Mr. Jenninge, which he wil! make in July, visiting St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, and Omaha, Des Moines Duluth, Minneapohs, St. Paul and other cities. Martin Halier, the furniture man, has designed and constructed a table intended for work in chemistry, which was sent to the educational department of the Centennial exposición at Cincinnati. The table was pronounced by competent men a very practical and convenient piece of furniture. The children connected with the sewing school will be given a picnic in Mr. Tom's floral garden, next Wednesday afternoon, July 3d. Friends interested in the school will please send in donations to Miss Brown, Tuesday forenoon, or send to the lawn on Miller avenue in the afternoon. Lorrin Mills, who came to Ann Arbor, in 1828, liviug here a number of years, but now a resident of Manhattan, Kan., is in the city, shaking hands with old acquaintances. Rev. A. S. Carman, of the Baptist church, begins a íour weeks' vacation next Monday, and will spend most of the time at Northport, Mich. During nis absence the Baptists will unite with the Congregationalists in church services. Dr. H. E. Arndt is at Niágara Fulls, attending the American Institute of Homceopathy. He is chairman of the bureau of materia medica. This is a permanent committee and involves peculiar responsibilities. He will be absent until the last of this week. Last Sunday, Prof. G-oold spoke in the Unitarian pulpit. It was the first time he had publicly identifled himself with that denomination. He has resigned his position in Olivet college to enter the Unitarian ministry. He is a young man of great earnestness and love of truth, and of more than ordinary ability. Co. A leaves for Lansiog, next Tuesday, at 5:30 p. m , on the T. A. A. & N. M. R. R., where they wili spend the 4th. The full lst regiment M. S. T., is expected there, and Col. E. Bowen will have charge of them. The company will have a special coach, and citizens can go for the same price - one fare tor the round trip. An amusing incident happened during the exercises in University hall, Tuesday morning. A do went up onto the stage and made himself familiar with the surroundings. When the orchestra started up, he raised his nose sky ward, and joined in the music on high C. Cheers rent the air and the dog and his solo bought down the house. While William Russell and wife were out riding, Tuesday aftemoon, a wheel of the carriage came off, frightening the horse, which ran down Washington-st, turned into Mainst, throwing Mr. and Mra, Russell out when nearly in front of Hangsterfer's. Neither was severely injured, but the carriage was badly damaged. The rig belonged to John Thompson. The Political science association of the University has made arrangements for a couree of six lectures to be given during the next school year. These lectures will treat of the American constitution in the Federal and in the State courts, and will be delivered by prominent jurists of this country. Stanley Matthews, T. M. Cooley, D. H. Chamberlain, ex-governor of South Carolina, Henry Hitchcock of St. Louis, have signified their readiness to lecture in this course. The Pharmic alumni met yesterday. An interesting event of this meeting was the presentation to the alumni association of a fine oil painting of Prof. H. B. Parsons, deceased, of New York. Thig was paid for by subscription. About$100 were leftafterpaying for the picture, which were sent as a present to Mr. Parsons' little daughter. Mrs. Parsons also presented the alumni with all her husbands' library and records of chemical experimenta, which are very valuable. The officers of last year hold over. The committee on fruit exohange, apoointed by the fruit-growers' meeting, neld last Saturday, to draw an agreement oy wbich growers and shippers of fruit unite in cheaper shipment and a better distribution and sale of fruit, will present this written agreement at the monthly meeting of the Washtenaw pomological society on July 7, in the basement of the court house, at 3 o'clock p. m. The agreement will be circulated during this and next week, and one copy will be found at L. Gruner's shoe store. The following delegates were present at the state Prohibition Convention this week from Washtenaw county : J D Shullz, Wtn. S. McFall, J. B. Lorel, Augusta; B. J. Conrad, E. C. McAllaster, Wm. Salyer, Ann Arbor ; 3. H. Kimeff Frank Stratton, J. E. Pulver, G. L. Foote, Ypsilanti ; Jos. Doan, W. B. Thompson, Salem ; George Hathaway, Charles Cobb, A. Wardell, York; G. W. Merrill, E 01saver, Webster ; J. R. Lemon. C. M. Felows, James Perrin, íáharon ; R. C. Reeves, Scio; J. B. Laraway, Northfield; IJ. Baldwin, Lima. They do say that our worthy townsman, Joe. T. Jacobs, became so excited during one of the ballots at Chicago that he erked off nis seersucker and swung it jvildly about his head. In doing so he 'orgot that the pockets were filled with jedigrees of blooded Holstein stock, handbills telling where to buy the cheapest ïlothing in the United States, letters on ïow ''I might have become a senator," and the like, and that the sight of the locuments floating through the air neary caused a stampede in the convention as they thought at first sight, they were telegrams from Blaine saying he would accept the nomination. Last Thursday night, about 10 o'clock, the fire bells and a big volume of black smoke attracted a large crowd to the alley n the rear of Robinson's livery stable on ?ourth-8t. Fire was pouring out of the )rick grain and hay barn on the east side of the alley, and the wooden bridge connected the two barns across the alley was a mass of flames. The hose carts were rompt, and in two minutes all visible fire was extinguished, but it was sometime beore the smoldoring fire in the hay and itraw could be subdued. No cause known or the fire. It seems to be pretty well settled that with half a show, our fire boys can paralyze a fire in no time. Saturday night while everybody was in suspense over tbe situation at Chicago, i few of our monied men, thinking to sreak the dead-lock, squandered a quarter on the following telegram to Bob Frazer: 'Ann Arbor, June 23d. R. E. Frazer ttepubliean Convention : The people demand that the Michigan delegation use every means in their power to nomínate Toseph T. Jacobs, of this city, for President, (signed) Cramer & Co. In a few moment8 this answer carne: "Michigan casis 20 votes for Alger and G for Jacobs. 3is chance is good. E. E. Frazer." Wild cheers rent the air, and aratiücation meetng was being arranged, when it leaked ut that the whole thing was a put up job o head off Blaine, and that Joe was not a candidate.