The City

The wrather s more win'fr like todry. Jtl-n H. Gran-, 'TG, .f Manotee, id a visitor in this city. The Pinckr.cy Dispaich (-taited its 8ih year of prosperity last w(ek. A pleasnt social was given by ihe Hobait Guilii lest Fiiday even Capt. Jlin McGilvray has t-stablished a Hack line iu. conm ctiou wi.h lus livery business. The township board ot Sjío liaa extended Ihe time 01 the payment of tases until Feb. 22. "La grippe" is on the decline aniong the citizens, but ihe tudents are now catching it. A. P. Ferguson bas just turned out a fine, new delivery wagon for the Eberbach Hardware Co. Miss Emma Hayley is suffering fiom a badly jammed hand which she caugbt in a door Monday moming. Justice Butts has suspended senteoce on Robert Butler for stealing a baby carriage of Walter J. Bell. The fix additional electriclights ordered by the council are being placed in position and will be running this week. The strong wind on Sunday night and Monday rnorning played havoc with the bill-boards and ignsabout the city. Invitatior.s are out for a reception to be given by Mrs. A. F. Gay, at her residence to-morrow afiernoon, frotn four to six. The Universi'.y road wagon manufac'.ured by A. P. Ferguson has become very popular and he now has 300 under construction. The temperance meeting at Cropsey's hall next Sunday alternoon, will be ad dressed by W. II. Nichols of Salt Lake City. At a meeting of the directors of the Michigan Furniture Co. held Friday evening, a dividend of six per cent. was declared. Rev. W. H. Davis of Detroit, will occupy the pulpit of the Congregational church next Sunday, in exchange with the pastor. The case of Mark T. Bussey vs. Hiram RThompeonhas been changed from the Jackson circuit and will be heard by Judge Kinne. This evening the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church will give another of their popular aDd enjoyablesocials at the church parlor?. The case against Tessmer, Andrea and others lor assaulting Wm. Feldbaeser rocentlv, was adjourned for a week by Justice Pond, Monday. An engine and 11 freight cars were thrown from the track on the Michigan Central, west of this city, this morning. A broken rail was the cause. Tbe Schiller council of the Royal Arcanum will install its newly elected offlcers this eveninR. It also bas some intereeting initation work to peiform. The Ladies' Charitable Union have received ninety winter caps and fourteen hats from Joe T. Jacobs & Co., to be dist'ibuted among the poor of the city. Mrs. Christina "VVogner, wife of John Wagner, died at her home on the corner of Second nnd Wahington-sts, Friday, oí cid age. The funeral was held Monday. The unpaid taxes still amount to nearly $20,000. This must be paid to the city treasurer beiore February 1, as the last day of grace endg with the present month. The K. O. T. M. lodge is one of the most successful organizations in the city. They are holding meetings weekly, and last month 13 members were added to the roll. James Murry was drunk on the street last Friday and was placad in jail. On Saturday, Justice ISutts sentenced him to jail for 15 days to give him a chance to sober off. Tappan training course opensnext Mcndey evening at 7:30 p. m. in what wasformerly the "School of Music." Subject: The "Apostolic Church," by J. M. Barkley of Detroit. Five persons have been gent to the insane asylum by the judge of probate within the past two weeks. It must be that this open winter is having a bad effect on our people. E. A. Phillips, city solioitiog agent at Toledo for the Toledo, Colümbus & Cincinnati raihvay, sends the compliments of he season to The Register with subscnption for acother year. Emil A. Nordman, a well known and wealthy farmer of Pittsfield township, died Saturday of cáncer, aged G3 years. The remains were placed in Forest Hill cemetery Tuesday afternoorj. Several revolver shots alarmed the neighborhood of S. Thayer and Washington sts, Sunday evening. An intoxicated man who was hunting for n evil-doer was the cause. Nobidy hurt. The Ann Arbor Savings Bank has issued a neat, erasable pocket memorandum and calendar for 1890, which is being supplied to their customers. This is one of the neatest advertuiiie echemes yet. The bill the Detroit House of Correction for keeping Washtenaw county prisoners for the quarter ending Dec. .11, 1889, was but $50 07. Only five prisoners were sent from this county during that time. William W. Johnson (deceased) has been granted an original invalid pension. Jennie C, widow of Paul McDowell, and Anna J., widow of Wm. M. Johnson, have been altowed original widcw's claimp. This cjunty has the honor of being the birih pla. e ot one of the members of the btard ot supervisors of Ingham ccuntv, John V. Uifford, ael 52 weieht 155 pi.u: ds. Alfrti Hutzel of Pittsfield township, lett lor Cuic-ngo, Saturday night, to Sli an engagement aa expert chemist with a largH steel nianufactnring compsny. He graduut-d frotn ihe Univer;i'y two years ago. I) ' uy Paters in arrastíd Cileb Krause, Tiifs!i'. olí l-.f e arpe ol ussauUing his wift. na placed in obnrge of 8n cffic r yesteidny, ui.dertacding bemg tliat lie iluiuld lave Ü.e plaoa and not return i-. Dr. J 'Cob Wile of Laporte, ld, sjient seyeral days tt.ia week with rela'ives in the city. H.i leturned home Tuesday, together with his wife, who has beea visitiog her father, A Hammond, for several weeks. The Unity Club program for next Monday evening consistí of a pnper, "From Joppa to Jerusalem " by Prof. M. E. Cooley ; recitation, " The Conlessional, " by U'm L'iey McGee; a talk by Prof. Laogley and mu?ic. George Moore, a former Ann Arbor boy, who hN beea employed in the pres?roomof Pmke, Davia & Co., Detroit, for geveral years past, has returned to the city nd taken charge ot the press room of The Regitek office. The bill of the Bastera Michigan asyium aeainst Washtenaw county for (he maintenance of irsane patients for the quarter ending Dec. 31, nmounts to $817.23. Nineteen pitients were there from this county during the quarter. Frederick Wan!, of the First ward, was sent to the Pont ac asyluin by Judge Babbitt, Friday. His insanity was caused by a sunetroke a number of years ago, and recently he has become violent, threatening to kill his wife and several other people. The Peninsular Paper Company of Ann Arbor suflered a $5 000 Iofs by fire last Monday. - Souih Lyon Picket. Ann Arbor has tuffered a bigger loss than tbis, by not havig the Peninsular milis here instead of at Ypsilanti, where they are Ijcated. The Western Union telegraph office now offer an accotnmadation to the pub lic which ha3 been needed for years. The office will be open from 7:30 a. m. to 10:30 p. m., local time. The ehange was made Monday and aiuther opera'.or ha? been added to the forcé. The fine horses, carriages, piano and sewral o' her anieles belonging to Mrs. Olive E. Friend, of' Eleciric Sugar fame, were sold at Milan, Satuidiy, by deputy sheriff Peterson, to patisfy a chattel mortgage given to her attorneys, Messrs. Sawyer & Knowlton. Chas. W. Wagner received a letter from Edmund Buckley, lit. '84, who is now a missionary in Japan, ordering a dozen pair of socks to be sent to that far away Ae. He said that he had traveled in neaily every country in Europe and Asia 8nce graduating. Moses Ssabolt had an oppcriunity to deliver a strong antitobacco lecture to a young boy from the country whom he caught stealing a plug of tobáceo from hU store Tuesday. The boy would rather take aix months in prison than to set another such lecture. Provisión has been made for a series of Sunday evening addresses before the Young Peoples' Society of the Congregational church, the first of which will be delivered next Sunday evening by Rev. W. H. Davis of Detroit. Theme, "The Law of Spiritual Conquest." The marriage is announced at Los Angeles., Cal , on Den. 31. of Mrs. Mary J. Webster and A. J. Yiele. The bride was for many years a resident of this city, being a daughter of A. J. DeForest, and has been visiting her eister, Mrs. R. W. Ellis, at Los Angeles, for several months past. A boy cboir is to be organized at St. Andrew's church. The matter has been referred to a committoe of the vestry, and the unanimom opinión is that the choir fhould be organized. A number of changes are contemplated in the arrangement of the church if the choir is orgauized. J. T. Jacobs receiyed yesterday from Gen. II. A. Alger, a souvenir of the banquet which wcs given at Detroit to Hon. f. W. Palmer before his departure for Spain last April. It is a handsome, bound volume containing the addreeses, the menu and everytbing connected with the occasion. Judge Claudius B. G-rant will begin his duties as justice of the supreme court at Lning to-day. Mre. Grant will come down from Marquette in a few days. The couple will summer in the North and after that mske their home in Lansing for the justice's term of ten years. - Tribune, January 8. Mr?. Minerva Flint died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Chas. S. Ftll, on W. Huron-st, Monday morning, sged 73 years. Her death wis caused directly by influenza, she being so weak and aged that ehe did not rally from the effects of the diseaae. The deceased was an old resident of this city, and had spent the larger portion of her life here. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, the remaics being interred in the Lower Town cemetery. On Monday a man of respectable appearance went to the Toledo & Ann Arbor depot and purchased a ticket for a point in Kentucky, offering in payment a check on one of our local banks. The agent informed him that he must be identified before he would take the check. The man claimed that he W8s a professor in the university and had been for over thirty years, and thought that was identification enough. Mr. Huzlewood told him that he did not know this to be eo, and refused to take the check, the man then becoming very mad and leaving to go by some other route where they were not so particular. Telephoning to Secretary Wade brought forth the fact that none of the fcul'y were goipg away, and the man was -eyidcndji fraud. ■ ■■- ■■ ... . Entertainment at the opera hous have Wn scarce during the past two months. Manager Sawyer has had the time nearly all booked, but it has been cancelled on account of a general breaking up of the theatrical companies. The poor shows have had a hard season, only the very best being able to ru'l through. The Fraternal Mjstic Circle, of Columbus, Ohio, en order mainlained principally for its insurance as well as its social feat ures, and whbh has a branch orgnnization ia tlña citv, has a wonderfully liglit death rate for 1889, reaching an verage of only 1 1 per 1000 member. This is the fifth yeir of its existence. lts management ñus been remarkably good. Geo. Sweet, late telegraph operator at the T. & A. A. depot here, has ascended to the dignified positioa ol passenjer conductor on the C. Gr. J. & M. roid, and has charge of the Battle Creek express, making his first trip west in bis new position Wednesday evening. - Dindee Reporter. More ejood luck for an Ann Arbor boy. A S'.a'e Prohibition Cnterence is to be held in Pnilharmonic Huil, Detroit, conimercing at 9 a. m. February 11. Papers are to be read by the following well known prohibitiotiists: Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, M. J. Fanning, Prof. Samuel Dickie, Rev. John Russell and Richard Trevellick. The gathering will also be addressed by Hon. Ex Gov. John P. St, John of Kansas, and others. The clothing firms are engaged in a little friendly warfnre at present by which our citizens will be benefited. Each firm offers a different scheme for the public good. Noble give? away every tourth sale of like amount, JacoDs & Co. offer several handsome and expensive presents, the Two Sams give a quarteroff on everyeverything and Wagner & Co. are giving a rebate ot 25 per cent in cash. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Firi-t National Bank was held Tuesday, the following directora being reelec:ed: Philip Bach, Clms. H. Richmond, Edward Treadweü, J. M. Wheeler, Edward Kinne, Alpheu9 Felch, lienry Cornwell, Wm. McCreery, and James Clement. The directora met vesterday moming and re el :ted Chas. II. Richmond, president; and Philip Bich, viee-president. The Adrián eltctric streel car line, which i ahout two and a huif miles long carried 40,156 pasergers durirjg the first ihreo months it was ia operation. The popuUtion oE the town is about 10 000, which qives Manotee, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Escanaba. Au Sable, Oscods, Ish peming, and Negaunee and Ilio other towns that are hoping for tliis kind oí' a road somellnng to figure on. - Evtning News. Charhs Taylor, the colored man who threatened the lives of Judge Cooley and his famüy with a shot gun last Thursday sfternoon, was adjudged insace by Judge Babbilt, Friday morning, and comraitted to the Pontiac asylum, where he was taken by deputy sheriff Peterson that same day. Taylor had forrnerly worked for Judge Caoley and was laboiing under the impression that his honesty was doubted by Judge Cooley and his family. Ann Arbor Cantón, Patriarchs Militant, gave a public inf.pection and review at the armory last evening, the icspeotion being conducted by Maj. II. Soule, general of this división of the order. The members of the cantón have gjined a remarkable proficiency in drill during the short time they have been drilling, and the exhi bition last evening was greatly enjoyed by the vieitors. A party wag given at I. O. O. F. hall at the conclusión of the drill. Rriv. Mr. Sunderland will begin next Sunday evening a short series of sermons upon Mr. Moody and hia teachings. Hi first discourse will be upon "The Gord and the Evil of Mr. Moody's Work." This Will be followed by discourses upon his theology, his treatment of the bible, and a candid inquiry as to whether it is not such views of religión and the bible as Mr. Moody and the revivalisis preaoh, that is the main cause of Ingersollism in this country. The board of director of company A, met Monday eveninc and organized for the year. The civil officers elected were: George Dengler- President. Wellington President. Wm. F. Armstrong- Secretary S. W. Millard- Treasurer. The non-commissioned officers elected for the year were as fol'ows; Wm. F. Armstrong, lst Sergeant. Wellingion Tate, 2nd " Paul Tessmer, 8rd " Charles Bailey, 4th " Herman Waltere, 6th " Herman Kim, lst Corporal. Frank Feiner, 2nd Louis Noli, 3rd " Herben Manlj 4th " Jacob Gwinner, 6th " Robert Ross 6th Albert Iinus, 7th " John St Clair, 8th Alvin St Clair, Quartermaster. Lonis Hoelzle, Color Sergeant. The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan railroad will prove a boon to the Northern part of the state, since the line has been opened through to Frankfort. This give the T. & A. A. the best north and south line in the state, running through all kinds of country and drawing from all the different resources. What is nosv needed is a route into Detroit, giving an outle' in that direction. By building a road from Ann Arbor to Detroit, or from Ann Arbor to Belleville, to connect with the Wabash, would not be very expensive, and even f ir cal travel this line would soon py. The people of Ann Arbor have the most kindly feeling for this road and it would obtain a large ghare of the patronage. The project ot building a new line is being earnestly diseussed. Ypsilanti is urging the matter, and it is now time that our citizens were taking an interest in urging the T. & A. A. company to build this line.