The City

Huckleberries are in market at 15 cents per quart. A little cliap two weeks old gladdens the home of John Kempf. Third ward Harrison and Morton club now numbera 50 member. John Miller was fined $5.35 by Justice Frutauff, Saturday, for druokenness. Remember the Republican county convention next Tuesday, at the court house. The Michipan State Normal School Register containing announcements for 188-9, is received. Three Italians discaursed sweet mugic from two violins and a harp, on our streets Thursday night. The 22d annual national encampmentof the G. A. R., will be held at Columbus, Ohio, 8ept. 10 to 19. Cur dogs are becoming as numerous as tparrows in the city. What's the matter with haviDg a dog pcund? Next Sunday morningRev. Dr. Ramsay will preach on "Moral Beauty," and in the evening on "Christian Heroism." The American express co-npany ghipped 200 bushels of berries Monday, the largest day's shipment of the year. Ann Arbor lodge, I. O. Gh T., No. 320 will give a lawn social tomorrow (Friday) evening, at Jas. Toms' floral garden. Thirty-six writsof replevin have been issued by County cleik Howlett thus far againat the Cordary stock, Ypsilanti. The University laborers are laying walks on the eouth pide of the grounds between the new buildings aDd the main building. The cut stone work on the high school will cost $1500 and the contract ha? been let to John Biumgardner, manager of Eisele's marble works. The busines9 men's meeting lacked a few of a quorum. Tuesday uight, and will meet in the council room next Tuesday night, at 7:30 sharp. Allmendinger & Schneider's fruit works were put into operation last Saturday and are now evaporating fruit at the rate of 30 bushels per day. While accompanying the bicyclers to Ypsilanti, Tuesday, Chas. Davison, of the Courier press room, feil from his machÏDe, breaking bia left wrist. W. C. Latson, of Webster township, had his left hand caught in the gearing of his binder, last Friday, badly lacerating it, but breaking no bones. Those two Ann Arbor ladies who ran a wheelbarrow race at Whitmore Uke one day last week, will raca as:ainst time at the county fair this fall, The D. K. E. society will erect a society house this slimmer, contracts for the work having been let. It will cost abaut $12,000 and will be of stone. Ben Chamberlain, a former lypo in The Register office for two yearn, and later of Ypsilanti, was married recenüy at Newark, N. J., to Miss Janet Cunningham. E Bilbee's horse circled around a post in front of Ru8sell'8 candy store, two or three times Friday afterooon, and demolished one front wheel of the buggy to which it was hitched. Julius Weinberg, of Scio township, brought the first new wheat of the geason to Allmendinger & Schneider's mili, Monday, receiving 80 cents therefor. It was plump and weighed 60 los to the bushel. The Columbus base ball club, 15 strong, stopped off here Tuesday for dinner, and to see the hub of Michigan. Tüey took the exprees for Kalamazoo in the afterternoon, at wh:ch place they played ball yesterday. Eberbach & Son have in their show windows three fine microscopes just received frotn Geneva, Switzerlend. Two costing $'250 and $100 respectively, are for the University, the other being tor a Grand Rápida party. The perspective view of the new store being built by Judge Cheever for Blitz & Langsdorf, shows it to be one of the handsomest stores in the city. John Baumgardner has the contract for $250 worth of cut stone for the building. The fire committee had the engine out Friday night and pumped out a cistern behind Schlanderer'a bottling works, and of all the smells 1 As the water ran down Washington-st, people held their noses, or turned to some other street. Somebody had ihrown a coach-dog into the cistern. A. V. Robison is the proud possessor of a Harrison button ol 1840, showing the log-cabin and eider barrel, it being one of geveral from a coat vorn by his father at that time, and which was sent to him by his brother, I. M. Robison, of Manchester. Mr. Robison says he wouldc't take a farm for it. Last Saturday, while Harry, a young son of E. G. Herbert, 43 División st, was fooling with an oíd broken revolver, in company with some lads of his own age, the weapon was discharged, the ball entering the left hand, lodging near the wrist, from which place it was extracted by Dr. Darling. Stephen Merrihew, of Superior, has filed a bilí of divorce asking separation from his wife, Candace Merrihew. They were tnarried in 1855, and he charges her with cruelty and desertion. She having refused for over two years to perform the duties of a wife, he feels that he might as well be divorced de jure as defacto. Aaron Parsons, formerly a well known resident of Ann Arbor, died at Moravia, N. Y., July 17, oL heart-disease, aged 70 years. He was for many years telegraph operator and depot agent at this place tor the M. C. R. R. Hisremains were brought to Yp-ilanti for interment. He leaves a widow and two daughters, both marned. The Supreme court has sustained the judgmentof the circuit court in the case of S. G. Miller vs. the Ypsilanti Paper Co., excepting in the amount of judgment, which is reduced f'rom $2,000 to $1,500. The main point contended for by Mr. Miller was the removal of the flash boards f'rom defendant'8 dam. In this he was sustained . Postmaster Duffy has a project on hand in the way of printed schedules showing at what time mail must be deposit ed in the mail boxes to be collected for the next out-going mail. These will be pasted on every box, and will certainly be a great convenience. He also persuaded the department to furuish him printed statements for general distribution, showing the opening andclosing of mails, postoffice hours and such other information as will be of interest to the public. Tiie Register has announced before that arrangeinents have been made by the Political Science association of the Uoiversity to have a course of lectures delivered here this winter, by such eminent jurists as Hon. Stanley Matthew., Hon. T. AI. Cooley, Hon. D. H. Chamberlain of New York city, and Hon. Henry Hitchcock, of St. L juis, Mo. These lectures will be of an interesting character, and will treat of the various interpretations of the 1 different articles of the Consiitution ot the United States, by the Federal courts of the country. List Friday, while Fred Wyman, a stonemason, was blasting rock, some three miles out ot the city, a charge of powder that he was tampicg prematurely exploded, rilling his face and right hand full of powder, burning his hand so that the skin came off from a portion of it. A small piece of steel was blown into the pupil of the eye, but Dr. McLachlan who attended 5iim does not think it will irjure it permanently. _____ Monday night, about 2 o'clock, a daughter of James A. Herbert, 28 Maynard-st, was awakened by a noise under hsr window, and on looking out, saw a man endeavoring to gain eutrance to the house oí W.K. Childsinthenextyard. The noise she made at the window attracted the attention of the would-be burglar, and pulling his hat down over his face hn slunk away. Air. Herbert made an examinaiion of the premises and found his barn door open but nothing missing, and no ore about. _______