The City

Wm. Hayden on Geddes ave., is very sick. __ The Chequamegons have telephone No. 1. A. B. Wood, of Ann Arbor, has been granted a pa' ent on a t-'Dt. Schairer fe Millen will move their goods to the rink next Monday night. The students' chrisüan afsociation have daily meetings this week at 7 p. m. Wm. Kretlow; drur.k on Sunday ; paid money lur it Vfor Jiistice Fiueauff. A service of sacred song will be held ii the M. E. churcn Sunday eveniDg. The Chautanqua circle will meet with Miss Julia R ys next Tuesday evening. Chas. Spoor has been conSned to hia house several days by sickneB?, but is now better. ' Mary, wife of the late Charles Cornell, of Lodi ownship, died March 10, at the age of 49. _ The friends of Mxs. Wbitney whose chilrlren have had varioloid, have raised a puise of $100 tor he-. William Fisuher, of No. 5 N. Universily ave., died thia morning very tuddenly. He was 70 yenrs old. Ann Arbor lodge No. 27, A. O. ü. W., will dedícate their new hll in the Fant!e block on the evening of March 21. Pasterer & Gakle, clothiers on W. Liberty st., have dissolved partnership, and Mr. Pfisterer remains in the business. The Ann Arbor lodge No. 320, I. O. GT., will give an open lodge and entertainment at Cropsey's hall, nexl Tuesday evening. The Washtenaw Mutual Fire lusurance company decided oq Tueaday to reincorpórate and recrganize ior 30 y ears from Dec. 31, next. The high school vacation has been postponed till the week beginning April 12, (o correspond with the university spring vacation. Rev. J. Mills Gelston will give a series of sermcns on "Heaven," and the firat one will be next Sunday evening on "Heaven as a place." The postraaster has arranged that the postal clerk8 on the M. C. and T. A. A. shsll r.ollect letters from the letter boxes at the stations. Last night a meeting was held in Ypsilanti toconsider the ndvisability of organizing a carpenters' unión. It was attended by W. J. Colgrove and W. E. Howe, of Ann Arbor. Miohael Staebler has a email machine shop back of the Germania house, where he keeps iwo men employed in repairing and job work generally. It hts been running severnl wpek. Next Sunday, Prof. H. H. Barber, ofMeadville, Pa, will occuppy the Unilaiian pulpit both morning and evening. Morning subject, "A helpful church;" evening subject, " Rational conversión." Bishop Newnnu's address before the Wesleyan gui:d, Monday night, on "ChrUtianity and Agnostieistn," was interestirg and eloquent, and the music ry Miss Winchell and Miss Jacobs was much enjoyei. ■ Next Monday evening at the Unity Club, Dr. Brewer will givs a talk on Thomas Hood and Robert Buchanan: their views on the sunny side of London life. There will lso be a paper on the Univerfcity of Camhridpe. Golden Rule lodgf, F. and A. M., will go en masse, next Monday, to Detroit, where in the evening tney will exeroplify the work of the third degree, on the invitatio"n of Ashley lodge of that city. There will be a special train. J. L. Babcock is talking of converting an a?re of ground at corner of South Main and William sts. into a public park for the use of Ann Arbor. Pethaps if he does the city will relent on that hule matter of $2,000 or so a year for taxes. Wm, A. Haten has resigned hia position with Sehairer & Millen. He has been a clerk in tbat store 25 years. Miss Mattie Huddy, the cashier for the firm, will aet 8 clerk for a few weeks, and Miss Allie Tolchard will take her place during that linie. The Lucy W. S. Morgan estáte ia engaged in a Irw suit in Walertown, N. Y., and Judge Kinne is there as attortey and as one of ihe executors of the estáte. The suit is brought by a sister of Mr. Morgan to recover about $40,000 worth of property. Elizabeth Frazer, of Port Huron, Mich., aged 86 year?, died March 5, and the remains were brought to Ann Arbor March 7, for burial. Two sons were at the funeral, one of whom was Allen H. Fraser, a young lawyer of Detroit and a gradúate of the U. of M.. ht. class 1881. City Treasurer Moore settled with County Treasurer Brenm last week, and returned $2 989 48 as uncollectable, of whch $2,627 31 was personal tax, and $351.70 real estáte. Of this amount the personal tax on the Luther James estáte, which is now being contested, is $2,108.78. Darius S. Wood, aged 81 yeara, died on Monday, and the funeral occurred thig forenoon at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. A. R. Hammond, wherethe deceased was living at the time of his death. He has been a resident of Lodi and Ann Arbor city 55 years, coming from Connecticut According to New York dispatches, the mysterioua secret chamber of the late Prof. Friend's electrio eugar refinery received a visit on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. R. Whitman, of Ann Arbor, were of the party. The whole building waa CBrefully inspected, and photographs were taken of the machinery. One Ihwyer detected dark stains on the floor which, when examined by a magnifying glass, proved to be blood, and it waa guggested that blood was used in manipulatine; the sugar. The place has not been disturbed since last December, when the sancümonious Howard fled to Michigan. E. H. Morgan hns abandoned his preserve anii pickling business on S. S:ate-ft., nd this rnorning lef t for Chicago with his family and ba.'gge. Hirtim Bi.kom, an old gentleman of Spart, Kent o untv, died on Sunday from be result of a L11, nd the lemains were brouphi to Ann Arhor at 9:40 last. evenins. He wss a brother-in law of G H. RhoóVs, of Ann Aibor, to vrhose lioufo the remains were taken. The funeral cccuned this moming, atd the burial took place at the 5:h ward cemi-tery. J. S. Mann, 01 Ann Arbor town was raairie.d on Feb. 20. to Mrs. Lihbie Srmllny, ol Bndgewatt-r. The Clinton Local says that tlie inatriage, which took place at, the rei-idence of the biide's brolher, Chrisiian Sailey, of Biidgewater, had among the guests Mr. aud Mrs. Peter Kihpaugh, Wiil Richmond and motber, Mr. and Mr. C. F. Clark, and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bartlett. The lectora Monday evening befcre the Tappan Hall as-oeintion, was by Rev. Howard Diffield, D. D., the third in a series upon the Enghsh Bible. The speaker treated with great skill the things left out of the Bible, which, he SRid, any man without divine riitection would have been eure to put in. That thee omis-ions were not through ignorance, was ro'tited out. How are they to be acccunted foi ? Tne speaker urged that the only answer is that the Bible is inspired. John Gr. Hoffstetter died at his home, 25 vVtst Liberty st., at 10 minutes bel'ore five oYlock this morning. He was born in E:zingen, Wartenberpr, Gernaany, in 1813, fcnd came to America in 1844. At'ter spending a few yoars in Long L-lund and in Massa 'husetts, he carne to Ann Arbor about 40 years ago. A bout eight years ago he retired from the grocery business, which he carried on here fifteen years. He leaves a wifeand four children. The children are John C. Hoflste.tter, L. S. & M. 8. tcket agent at Kalamazoo, Mr Fied. Maser, of Ann Arbor town, Mis Leca M. and Miss Lou. J. Hoffstetter, of Ann Arbor city. Tue funeral will occur Siturday forenoon at the residence. Monday nigbt, the remains of C. M. VatiGiefOQ reached Ann Arbor from Texa, and on Tuesday occurred the funeral, nnder the auspices of the Odd Fellows. Mr. VanGieson had been in Texas about a year at the time of his death. He was born in Patersm, N J., in 1807, and came to Ann Arbor in 1843, where, untill 1857, he engaged in the boot and shoe trade. In 1857 he removed to a farm in York township. Iu 1849 be married a sister of A. H. Roys, ol Ann Arbor, and two daughters and Sve so-s were born to them. One of the daughters, Mrs. John Limborn, resides near Ypsilanli. Three sons reide in, Missouri, one of whom, Aaron VanGieson, of Monett, Mo., accompanied the remains of his father to Ann Arbor. Frederick Wagner, oí the firm of Wagner B others, carriage makers, of Ann Arbor, died ou Tuefdav of typhoid fever after a siokness of 17 dnys. The funeral will occur to-morrow at 2 p. m. at the residence on Siuth Second st., and at Zion's church of which the deceased was a trustee. The deceased leaves a wife butno children, his only child having died a few years 8go. Mr. Wngner was born in Lima township Oet. 7, 1849. About 22 years ago he came to Ann Arbor and learned the carriage trade. For 10 or 12 years he and his brother Wil i im have made carriages, and the business they have established by their skill and ir.du8try is a credit to Ann Arbor. The fam'ly to which he beionged is a large one. He was a nephewof Miphael Staebler, ol Ann Arbor. Eroanuel Wagner, the grocer, is a brother. Jjseph Wagner, another brother, lives near Ann Arbor. Three other brothers are farmers in Scio, and the parents still live on the old homeBtead. 5 A bout flve weeks ago ? orno poker tables were taken oq a search warrant from a room over Reynold's saloon and from the Frauküu house. One of them was kept for a time by Jutiue Pond in his office of justiee, and many are the pleasantries it has been the subject of at the E-qiire's expense, who, however, stood it all with great good nature On Monday, however, the proceedings about that poker tabl went too far for even Justiae Pond's well known hmiable disposilion, and there was wrath, hot and heavy. Attorney John W. Bennett had an execution against Charles O. Brush, who was Mipposed to be the owner of the table. The execution was placed in the hands of a constable, wlio visited the justice's office and casuall mentioned that he levied on that table. The justiee warned him not to touch it and he dido't. But one morning when the justice reachf-d his office the table was gone. Justiee Pond threatened to have the paities arrested for larceny : there are no new developments in the case yet. Justice Frueauff also had a couple of poker tables keeping till he could condemn them and have them destroyed, and he has taken the precaution to hide them from constables' eyes.