The City

A n,éw carpet has been laid in the cour room. Company A will give an excursión nex month. James B. Saunders - happy papa - gir - 11} Iba- Tuesday. _ George W. Bullis has been granted a patent on a refrigerator. The Cook House is receiving a coat o somber-colored red paint. The wild west show which was here Saturday, was a poor affair. Golden Rule lodge will hold a meeting at the masonic temple this evening. Mra. Mary Campell Wells, wife of Prof. W. P. Wells, died at Detroit, Tuesday. The city band cleared just $50 from their excursión to Detroit last Thursday. The annual picnic of the Zion Sunday school will be held at Relief park, Aug. 8. A public inspection of company A will be held at their arrnory next Monday evening. _ J. M. Swift & Co. are tearing up the bridge over the race in front of their mili and will build a new one. Dr. F. K. O ren, of Ypsilanti, has been appointed, by the president, to a place on the county pension board, Dr. Batwell retiring. Ann Arbor Lodge I. O. G. T., will hold a lawn ice cream social at the residence of Miss Thurer, No. 7 Maynard-st, Friday evening. The county treasurer collected $178.12 delinquent taxes during the quarter ending Jane. 30. Ann Arbor receives $58.91 of this amount. Evart H. Scott rather go fishing than work. He made three trips after the finny tribe last week and returned loaded with fish each time. The store on the corner of State and Williams-sts has been rented by Mrs. Mabel Keith, of Jackson, who will put in s stock oí ladies' supplieg. A pleasant hop was given by the members of the D. K. E. fraternity who are in the city, Saturday night, at their handsome new house on Siate-st. David Goldthwait Coolidge, a recent gradúate of the medical department, has registered with the county clerk and will practice his profesión in this city. Master Waldo Bach claims to be the champion young fisherman : He caught six fine bass at Whitmore Lake, one day ast week, while his father was catchiDg one. The weekly 3 o'clock Suaday afternoon meeting in Cropsey's hall will be conducted next Sunday, July 21, by the ladies of the W. C. T. U. All are cordially invited to attend. MiBses Anna and May Wilsey are winning fame as fishers at Whitmore Lake. They each caught bass weighing nearly ïve pounds each, besidea many of smaller dimecsions, Tuesday. . Charles H. Kline, of this city, ha been expecting the appointment of deputy colector of internal revenue for this district, sut the office has been given to W. E Watfion, of Bancroft. Saturday was a bad day for the milkmen. Walter Lathrop's horses managed ;o demolish his milk-wagon in the mornng, and Charlee Rose had his carriage damaged in the afternoon. A floe gray colt and side bar buggy were stolen from the barn of Cornweil Bros., at Fosters, Tuesday night. They offer $100 reward for the return of the jroperty and conviction of the thieves. The case of Daniel Coi against Frederck Chester, which was tried at the last ;erm of the circuit court and decided in avor of the defendant, has been appealed to the supreme court on a writ of error. That brilliant little paper, the Durand Express, has just entered upon its second year. T. R. Chapín, a former Ann Arbor 3oy, is the editor and in a single year he ias placed his paper well to the front in ournalistic circles. The medical committee of the regents nspected the various sites offered for the new hospita!, Tuesday afternoon. All of :he sites were so suitable and pleasant that it was hard for them to make up their minds which to recommend. The fifth annual reunión and encampment of the G. A. R. of south-eagtern Michigan will be held at Jackson, July 23-26. Welch Post has decided to attend the encampment and will leave here on the morning of the 24 th. The case of Andrew Deguire vs. Worthy L. and Hobart D. Churchill has been changed from the Alpena circuit court to the Washtenaw circuit court for trial, the udge of the former court having been employed as an attorney in the case. A change has been mude in the signal system of the Michigan weather service, one new flap;, white and blue in parallel bars, having been added. This new flag signifies local rain or snow when displayed, and is for use in this state only. A number of local capitalists stand ready to ask for a franchise to build a street railway in this city in case the present company fails to do ao within the specified time. Ann Arbor is bound to have street cars running within a year at the fartherest. Rev. Samuel Earp sent his resignation to the vestry of St. Andrews church, last Thursday. The board of vestrymen held a meeting Saturday and accepted the resignation, to date from Nov. 10. In the meantime they are on the lookout for a new rector. Prof. Steere shi'pped a fruit bat, which measured four feet from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other, to Prof. Cook, of Lansing, Monday. He also pent a sloth and two East Indian birdg. The collectioD, with others which will follow, will be placed in the museum at the Agricultural College. A delightful six-o'clock tea was given by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bech to about fifty oftheir friends last Thursday. There is no more sociable and capable hostess in the city than Mrc Bach and her pleasant home is well adapted for such occasions. The Register has secured the contract for printing the report of the meeting of the American Pomological Society for 1889, a volume containing 200 large pages, coming into competition with firins at New York, Grand Èapids, Kalamazoo, and Des Moines, Iowa. Michael Laubengayer, a Germán working for C. Eberbach, was before Justice Pond, last Friday, charged with being drunk. As he was an old offender the justice fined him $20 and $5.20 costs, which he paid although he thought the charges were a little high. A youDg ladies chorus hag just been organized in this city under the direction of Prof. Colgrove. They held their first meeting at the residence of Mrs. Dr. Hartley, last Friday evening, when the different offieers of the society were chosen with Miss Minnie M. Davis as pianist. Among the sites for the oew hospital, the one offered by the Mann and Fischer estates appeared to meet with the most favor with the regents, except that it is a little too far away from the campus. It is a tract of 11 acres at the head of West st, just north of the toll-gate, and the owners offered to present it to the state for hospital grounds. At the meeting of the Michigan Press Association held at Grand fiapids last week, the 'ollowing offieers were elected : Perry F. Powers, of Cadillac, president ; C. T. Fairfield, of Eaton Rapids, vicepresident; Fred Slocum, of Caro, secretary; AI. H. Miller, of Chesaning, treasurer. The next meeting of the association will be held at Saginaw. Ernest Kreuger, the photographer, left the city Saturday night and it is supposed that he will not return, he being financially ruiced. On Monday, Huizel & Co. took posession of nis photograph gallery, on a chattel mortgage and attachment. There are three mortgages on the gallery, aggregating $1500, and numerous other debts around the city which are not secured. While in Washington recently, J. RMiner rented a house that will acoomodate 37 persons, for the use of Ann Arbor Commandery, K. T., while they are in that city this fall. So many of the knights have already signifled their intention of going with the commandery on this trip, that it was necessary to telegraph to Washington yesterday and secure quarters for 20 more. Prof. George N. Carman, Ht '81,formery of this city, has been appointed superintendent of schools at St. Paul, Minn., at a salary of $S,000 per year. Prof. Carman ïas been connected with the schools at irooklyn, N. Y., for several years past, efore that time having been principal of ,he Yp8lanti high 8chool. He is eminenty fitted for the position which he has jast accepted, and his appointment is a high compliment to bia ability. Ypsilanti is lighted by night with 79 electric lamps, which are run at an expense of 11 cents per lamp, or $8.69 per Dight for the whole illumination. Evilently it is not a boodle arrangement. - )etroit Journal. The contract of Ana Arbor with the Thompson-Houston comany expires with the present year and it might be well for the council to investiate the lighting question thoroughly beore making another contract. The preeot rates are about 43 cents per night for each light and 40 cents per night for each extra light. This is r.early four times as much as it costs Ypsilanti and a little less han doublé the amount that Jackson pays, he lights in the latter place coeting .24 ents per light per night aüd running all night. ___ __ Joseph DeMott, of Ypsilanti, wa9 bound over for trial in the circuit court on the :harge of selling liquor without a license, y Justice Butts, last Thursday. The case 8 a peculiar one and the probability is bat it will never come to trial. It s claimed that DeMott owed John Muehig, of this city, a email bill which the later went to collect, but without success. Juehlig then claimed tobesick and asked or whiskey, which was given him from a bottle. DeMott does not keep a saloon nd refused to accept pay, but Snally did ake 15 cents. Complaint was immediatey made against him and he was arrested. 'he case appears to be brought merely to orce payment on a bill and it is quite ikely that the prosecuting attorney, havng learned the facts, wiU not push the ase. Marshal Walst' thought he saw $1000" within his grasp Tuesday afternoon, but it quickly vanished. While standiog on the treet he was handed a telegram purportng to be from the chief of pólice at Chiago, asking him to arrest Charles Mitchell nd "Pony" Moore, who, according to the dispatch. had left Chicago at 10:30 in the norning and would pass through Ann Arbor at 5:45 in the afternoon. The marhall was greatly excited for a time. He ook a couple of deputy sheriffs into his confldence and they agreed to divide the eward. The officers were at the train, iut Mitchell and Moore were safe in New York before that time. They explained hat they just went down to see a friend off, but Walsh is on the lookout to catch rohn J. Robieon doing something so that ie can "run him in," ag the marshal claims hat the ex-county clerk put up the job on uva.