The City

Mail Carrier Blum sports a new mail bag. A telephone has been placed in the store of Mrs. Eeith on State-gt. Editor Sukey, of the Housefriend, celebrated his 3 Ut birthday yesterday. The scholars of the Zion Sunday school are holding a picnic at Belief park this afternoon. Editor Liesemer has procured a new safe and placed it in the editorial rooms of the Post. The 27th annual commencement exerciies of the Michigan Agricultural College will be held Aug. 18-20. Justice Buttg genteneed Zeo Spoor to the county jail for 30 days, last Friday, for being drunk and disorderly. Officer Peterson took Cornelius Gillespie, an old resident of the sixth ward, back to the Fontiac asylum, Saturday. Suit has been brought against Paul Christman by his father to recover the title to the store Ko. 38 S. Main-st. A number of members of the Northfield Catholic churcü have presented the priest, Fr. Goldrink, with a fine horse. The graduates and for m er students of the U. of M., at Allegan are making an effort to organizo an alumni asaociation there. Catherine Courtneyhas been grantedan injunction restraioing William, James and Felix Courtney from disposing of their property. A masquerade party is to be given at the Clifton House, Whitmore Lake, tomorrow evening. A number of Ann Arbor boys expect to be present. Wm. J. Larmour and Abraham Cohen were tried before Justice Pond, last Friday, for assaulting Anthony Burke. They were convictedand paid $5 fine and costa. Charles S. Fall has been appointed eg a substitute in the railway mail service. He left yesterday morning to make his first trip, from Detroit to Fort Gratiot and return. James Toma had a fine exhibit of gooseberries at the pomological meeting, Saturday. Four varieties were shown, Hovey's Seedlirjg, Industry, Rosa' Early and Whitesmitb. Eugene Hines was arrested Tuesday night for stealing a brush from O. O. Sorg. Juatiee Butts will hold the examination on Monday. Hines furnished $100 bonds to be present. The Ladies Foreign Miseionary Society of the Presbyterian church will hold a meeting at the residence of Miss Smith, corner of State and Liberty-sts, tomorrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The executive committee having ia charge the farmers' picnic to be given this year, met on Saturday and decided to hold the picnic at Whitmore Lake, on the last day of this month. Conrad Neuman, who stabbed a man at Mancheeter neveral months ago and then fled, returned to that piase Friday and gave himself up. He was bound over to the circuit court for trial. Company A started for the annual encampment at Gognac Lake, on the 10.25 train yesterday morning. Thers were 54 brave soldiere from Ann Arbor on baard when the train palled out Henry Frank was before Jugtice Pond, Tuesday morning, charged with keeping hie saloon open last Sunday. He waived examination and was bound over to the circuit court for trial. In the grand parade at the triennial conclave of Knights Templare to be held at Washington, Oct. 8, Ann Arbor Commandery has been assigned to the fourth place in the seventh división. Two changes are contemplated by the newspapers of this city. The Argus is figuring upon movinginto the opera house block, and the Democrat will move to quarters over J. T. Jacobs & Co's store. Miss Alta Parker, book-keeper at Wines & Worden's, was the recipiënt of a useful and ornamental present from admiring friende, at the store yesterday, the presentation epeech being made by C. E. Mutschel. _ Wagner & Co., are improving the inside of their store on Main-st, by putting in a fine open stairway leading to the second story. The second floor will be used for the overcoat and merchant tailoring departments. The long-watched-for hose wagon arrived last Friday, and it is a model. The firemen are proud to be able to ride on a fine cart, after being obliged to riek their lives on drays, wood-wagons and farmwagons for the past two months. On Tuesday, the union Sunday School excursión was a grand success. Fourteen car8 were loaded and 837 tickets were iold. The day was fine and everybody enjoyed the trip. The profits on the excursión will be nearly $150, which will be divided among the four Sunday Schools. Ann Arbor contributed about 150 to the excursión on the T. & A. A. road to Presque Isle, last Sunday. The crowd returning Sunday night was not quite so large, as J. R. Bach, J. J. Quarry, Gus. Brehm, Mei. Blise and Greo. Mathews did not catch the boat in time and were obliged to spend the night at Toledo. John J. Comstock, of Chicago, and Miss Julia K. Bell, of this city, were married last Thursday evening, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bell, the bride's parents. Mr. Comstock is a gradúate of the U. of M. and is now engaged in the hardware business at Chicago, where the couple will make their future home. The Jenny Electric Light Co., made a " strong 1 " bid for lighting the city. When a oompany really desiree to secure a contract, it is not customary to bid seyeral thousand dollars higher than has been paid for the same work. Was it a job to shut out legitímate competition and keep the price of lighting up 1 Superintendent of the Poor Mason took a little two-year old boy, known as Willie Gates, to tbe Public School at Coldwater, yesterday, by order of the judge of probate. The little fellow was found on a doorstep in Ypsilanti about two years ago, and taken by Supt. Green to the county poor house where he has lived gince. The Boarn of School Inspectora of this county met at the court house, Tuesday, for the purpose of electing a member of the Board of School Examiners. Daniel E. Hoy, of Scio, was choeen chairman. But one ballot was neccessary to decide upon the examiner, Arthur Brown receiving 13 votes, and George 8. Wheeler three votes. At a meeting of the executiva committee of the County Pioneer Society, held last Saturday, a committee consisting of P. Bacb, H. D. Platt, Wm. P. GroveB, Fred. Braun, E. E. Leiand, Elam Worden, J. Nowlaud and J. J. Parshall was appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the nest annual meeting. Tbe committee will report at a meeting to be held nezt Saturday. Tbe school inspectora made a good selection in chosing Arthur Brown as one of the extminers. The choice puts some young blood into the board, and besides, Arthur's former ezperience as a teacher and his well-known regard for school marm's, make him peculiarly fitted for the position. We congratúlate him upon having seeured the place, which has been the summit of his ambition. There is some doubt now whether the new addition to tbe High School will be ready for use on Oct. ] or not, although the contract called for its completion by Aug. 1. By a clause in the contract the contractor forfeits $25 per day for every day after that time. This might be a good way to even up on the building, as its cost now amounts to $28,800 although the taxpayers only voted $24,000 for it. Rev. ühss. A. Militzer, pastor of the Germán M. E. ohurch in Ann Arbor, has a novel way of raising figs in his garden. He has five trees, which are kept in the house in the winter and plantee! in the garden in the spring. Before frost comes he takes them up, puts them in tubs and houses them till the next season, and than traijsplants them again. The oldest tree is six years old, and is fruiting finely this season. On last Sunday evening, D.-. George W. Lacea and Miss Ada L. Upson were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's mother, on Monroe-st, the Rev. Dr. Studley officiating. The announcement was a surprise to many of the friends of both. Dr. Lacea has been resident physician at the University hospital for two years past The bride is well and favorably known here also. The young couple will settle at Saginaw. One of our wealthy farmers living just north of the city, developed atrait in making a settlement with one of bis men last week that would account for big possessing so much of this world's goods. The farmer and hit hired man had had some words and the man was about to leave. Among other items charged against the man by the wealthy farmer wa two ients for matches usad in lighting cigarettet. Such thrift should not go unrewarded. Rev. Dr. Steele has been supplyiog the Presbyterin church of San José, Cal., for four months, beginning with the tkird sabbath in April. The pastor, who has been absent for a year, returns about the last ot August. Mrs. Steele and Fannie are boarding with the Dr. at the Nucleus hotel. They report very large congregations, especially of vieitors who are drawn to the place by the invigorating climate and the maoy attractions of the famous Santa Clara valley. Among the attractions of the coming State Fair will be a splendid exhibition, by the Northern Pacific Railroad, of the products and minerals along the line of that great through route. The people of Michigan will thus have a rare opportunity of comparing the products of Michigan with those of Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Washington and Oregon. And we believe that it will result favorably to our own State which has sent tens of thousands to people those distant States. A meeting of the board of managers of the Washtenaw Agricultural and Horticultura! Society was held at the court house last Saturday afternoon. The special business of the meeting was to hit upon some plan so that the dates for the fair would not conflict with those of neighboring societies. After some discuseion the dates for holding the fair in this city were changed to Sept. 17, 18, 19 and 20, one week earlier than the original dates.' T. J. Keech and Col. H. S. Dean were appointed to make arrangements with the railroads to give excursión rates durine the fair. 6 On Monday, James Guest, of Dexter, carne to this city and procured a license to marry Etta Showers, of the same place. When asked by the county clerk what hie occupation was, he promptly responded, "a loafer," and his actions proved that during his 50 years on earth he had become an expert at the business. He is probably the only man living who bas taken an oath that he is a loafer, and his honesty is really to be commended. About six o'clock in the evening, Guest and his affianced appeared before Justice Butts and were married. Since Cornell Bros', fine horse was stoled on July 17, Chas. Stoup, superintendent of the pulp mili, has been hunting for some trace of the horse or thief. On Friday he returned. having located the horse, but as the animal was dead and buried, all Stoup brought back was the shoes. The horse had been traded to a farmer named Callaghan who lived eight miles from Farma. A day or two after the trade, the horse was taken sick and died from the effects of over driving. Stoup opened the grave and identified the horee. The thief was described as a short red-faced man, about 25 years old, with sandy mustasche. Ex-county clerk Robison carne over from Ann Arbor, two weeks ago, to see how things were proeressing on the farm and finding the wheat ready to be drawn and stacked mentioned it to the manager who acknowledged the fact but said he was short of help that day. The worthy ex-mayor allowed that he was equal to the occasion, and they set to work. We must sdmit that they made business ache, for a while, but the ex supervisor' hands began to wear blisters, as large as tea eaucers and at the expiration of the third half day the ex-state legislator was reminded of some pressing business, demanding bis attention, at the county seat and he tbrew up the job. - Manchester Enterprise. How does this agree with the story of the gentlemen from this city, who returned home sooner than expected, telling about how he had " bushed " all the hands on the farm and was obliged to do nearly all the work alone. The carelessness and recklessness of Ann Arbor hackmen is proverbial. They always wait until the last minute before starting for a train and then run their horses to get there on time, sometimes not being able to get to the depot in time to gire passengere a chance to board the, train. Dr. Fred. Weir was the victim of misplaced confidence Monday evening. He waited at his house for a back that had beenordered until a couple of minutes before the train was due and then concluded to run to the depot. By a superhuman effort he reached the depot just as the train was pulling out, but the hack that he had ordered did not arrive until several minutes later.