The City

A ccw boiler ia Luick Bros. planing mi. Mr?. Wm. Nobio, of C dherine st, sprained her ankle on M r.day. Mary J. Fletcher, ot Superior, Mich., died Jan. 3, at the age of 81. The infant child ol George Grow, of the Third ward, died on Sunday. The Dew briiiee acros the Huron at Geddes was fini-hed last Friday. Prof. J. B. 8'eere will cpeak at Oropscy'9 hall next Snnday at 3 n. m. One thousand eight hundred and thirtyfivs student in thn U. of M. now. Clarisa D., wife of N. A. Piudden, of North S ate s., died Jan G. ot dropsy. Tweniy-one persons becnae merabers of the Presbytenan church, last Sunday. Prof. Pettie ana John Allen have been elected trustees of the Unitarian church for three yeara. Harkin3 and Granger entertainment will be given at Chelsea Jan. 25, and in Ann Arbor Jan. 2(i. Rev. J. M. Gelaton will conduct a youcg people's Bible class in the Presbyterian church heresfter. The Washtenaw agricuiturl society will elect department 6uperintendents and a marshal tuday at 2 p. m. Karriet W., widow ot Pascal Mason, died Jac 8, aged 81. The funeral is today at the residence, on Pontiac-st. Maria Schtflldr, of Freedom, wauts a divcrce (rom Karl Schtfflr. Tney were married in 1870, and have four children. David Malloy and Mis Nellie Moe were married at the Catholic chupe!, tliis morning. Their home will be in Graad Kapids. Mrs. John Schaible, of Lodi, died Sunday noon, aged 67 years. Tne faniily is well known in the couDty. She leaves five ohildren. Sawyer & Knowlton aro nttorueys for the Fnends, aud Chas. II. Whitman for thd company, in the oelebrated Electric eugar renuing case. Dr. J. F. lïörry, associate editor of the Mteh. ChrUtian Advocate of Detroit, will ü 11 üie M. E cliurch pulpit uext Sunday moriiiQg and evetiing. John Hopkins; assault and battery on hia wife; prou-ised JuaicePond he wouldu't do 80 again and wuuldn't get drunk agaio, and was let off with aligLt fine. Three students returned from Pennsylvania, Saturday eveninp, nd walked straight to Toofany's restaurant for gup per. They are sorrowful but wiser. The M chigan furniture campany took an inveutory, Jan. 1, and found ïUelf in a good coudilion. It talks of erecting a new and larger building on ita present 6ite. Washtenaw lodge, No. 9, I. O. O. F., will give a social once in three weeks during the remainder oí the wiater, aud the flrst one will occur next VTednesday evenng- John D. Waters drunk in Street. Jan. 5; an old soldier, he said, and was in the Sjlciier'a home in Grand Rapids till fall; and wanted to get back ; 10 daysin jail by Justice Pond. One citizen wishes the proper committee on street crossingV to take a look at ihemjustnow. Ou Sunday and Mouday one miht as well walk in the middle of the road as on the cros walks. The Ann Arbur Teraperance Union elected the following offioer?, lant Saturday evening: President, Charles Bjylan; vice president, Harmon C. St. Clan; secrntary, John Schumacher; treasurer, E. B. Lewis. The annual meetine; ot the Presbyterian society was held Mouday, and A. W. Hamilton acd Wm. Oimpbell were elected trustees for three years ; and Gea. Moore to BH ihe unexpired term oL Proi. Byron Y. Cheever Company A, on Monday evening elect ed meuibers of the board of directors as folio ws: John C. Fii-cher, Paul Tes-meir, Sam Henne, Wellington Tate, and W. V. Armstrong. A committee was appointed for the company's annunl tna?querade, Feb. 22. There was an alarm of fire at 6 o'clock la-t evening, and ooe au hour later. The first was a liule blaze around the chimney of a house occupied by Mra. Sto'l, just be yond the city limits on Huron st., and the second was caused by a chimney bluzing in the sixih ward. Rev. J. T. Sandeiland will preach in Ch'cago, next Sunday, Mm. Sunderland supplying bis pla e. Probably oa the tollowiog tíunday, Mr. Sunderland will begin a series of sermons snggested by the novel, Robert Blmere. Over 400 copies of that bock have been eold in Ann Arbor. A freight train on the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan road partsd, Jan. 8, in the middle while clitnbing up the heavy grade ju-t east ot Ann Arbur. A freight train tollowing crashed into the cars roll ing buck down the (rade, and it resulted in wrecking the engine and several cars. The engineer and fireman saved themselves by jumping. The members oL the Unlversity Dramatic club are diligently at work preparing two plays, whieh will be presented to the Ann Arbor public on the 25th of the present month. The modern drama, "Time Tries All," and the farce, "A Storm in a Tea-cup," will constilute the program for tbat tvening. Prof. de Pont, the director of the club, is drilling the members, and expects to give the public a rare treat in the way ot amateur thea'ricals. I will do you a favor if you wish, my business frieud. I am going all over the city and county into about 1200 residences and into six hundred more outside of the couniy, and I will teil the people in those homes whatever message you may intrust with me. You may want some of them to cali and see what you have to feil, or you may want some of their pork or potatoes or apples or eggs, and I'll teil them so if you wish. Tour most obedient servtnt, "The Register." The high school Oraega offieers were elected yesterday, as follows: Mneing editor, Harry Randall; business editor, Elrner E. Beal ; members of boird, Misse Viva D"ffy, Alice Cramer, Csrrie M. Sperry, El'a M. Bennett, Ina M. Ticknor, and Cha?. Bowen, H. H. Walker, E. J. Dennen. The Shakespeare club espects to complete its work upon the "Merchant of Venice" at its next regular meeting on Sn'urday evening. A. nunuber of essays will be read in adiiition to a general review of the entire play. The study ol the Merchant of Venice proved the most mteresting of the course thus far. The club wül next take up the tiagedy of "King Lear." The wife of Conrad Krapf, of Jefferson st., difd very suddenly ysterday moroing. Mr. Krapt waa in Saainaw. The housemaid went inio Mrs. Krapf's room early in the moruing to lignt a fire, and found that lady apparently comfortable; but when she went to cali her for breakfast she found Mrs. K. lying on the floor. Dr. II. O. Allen was called, and found her dead. A University student wished to caDvass for The Rkgfter on cornmission reontly, hoping in that way to eke out his pocket mouey a lutle. After a day or two he returned, and when asked what luck he had had, replied : "I can't make any money canvasHng for TnE Rkgiter. I sttrted out in the Sixth ward south of the University and called at thirty houses and out of the thirty found twenty-four where it was already taken. I don't see any wealth in that." It is seldom that a good newspaper becomes too popular, but this fact indícales that such a thing might happen. At the rate new tuhscribers have been coming in lately it wil soon have the other iix out of every thirty in the county. Mrs. Sunderland will speak at the Unitarian church next Sunday morning, giving the first of a feries of three roorning sermons upon "The Foundations of Rligion." Ia the evening the Clianning G-uiid will hold its nexi public merting. There will be music, readings, paper?. Tlie subject for addresses and ir:qu ry will be "The Bible." The anuual meeting and supper of thj Unitarian society will be held in the social rooms of the church, Monday evening, January 14. After the supper, report9 will be read from the various departments and aclivities of the church - from the pastor, the trustee?, Unity Ciub, the Sunday School, the Channir.g Guild, the King'a Daughters, the Ladies' Union, the Library, etc. In an article in the Michigan Christian Advocate of Jan. 5, Rev. W. W. Ramsay, of Detroit, says : " Three years ago an organization was formed by the Methodists of Ann Arbor, whose purpose was to bring the students into closer relation to the ohurch, and to direct their thoughts and mould their lives according to Cnristian principies, and at the same time return tnem in the church of their f'athers. This society has receijt'y been re-organized under the name of 'The Wesleyan euild,' of the University of Michigan. Some of the Methodist, of Ann Arbor, have generously pluced a fund at the disposal of the guild, to enable it to provide a couríe of' lectures t-imilar to those bove mentioned. It is evident Hint the Methodists there should beaf.i-ted n this enter - prise by their bretbren througtiout the state." Prof. Henry C. Adams, the Statistician oí' the Interstate Commerce C jmmission, arrived home from Washington. Monday Isst. He was acoompanied by Fiederick S. Hubbard, Judge Cooley's private fecretary, who will rnmain at home about a month RS8isting the professor in some statiï-tical work regarding the railway business. Mr. Hubbard says that Capiain Allen, our genial representative, is gaining in strength and popularity with each week of service in the house. The other day he complHtely vanquished Gen. Wheeler, of Alabaiua, in a good natured but forcihle speech, where party politics were dealt with by both sidee. The captain is proving him-elf a ready and effective debaier, his voice being so powerful as to command instant atteniion. He also ha9 the happy faculty of winning his points without making enemies. He is universally liked by all.