The City

The Foley guild gives a hop tomorrow night. B. J. Wade has been appointed deputy sheriff. Mr. Caroline Cotant has secured a pension. The desks in the county clerk's office have been repaired. The G. A. E. post attends the funeral of Comrade Amsden to-day. The county treasurer has paid out $26.91 in sparrow orders since January 1. Henry Dancer, of Chelsea, has taken a position as clerk in the store of Schairer & Millen. Eight couples from Ann Arbor attended a surprise party at Saline, Tuesday night. Dr. and Mrs. Tyler celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary on Saturrlay last. E. E. Calkins will entertain his Sunday schooi claes tomorrow at his residence on Willard-st. A. N. Brown, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, well known to Ann Arbor people, has started the South Bend Daily Post. Gilbert Blisshas resigned his position as regulator of the court house clockand B. F. Watts will perform those duties in the future. The new stone pile has been located by the supervisors in the yard of H. Kittredge, just across the street from the county jail. The ice is ten inches thick on Whitmore Lake, and the Ann Arbor railroad is making proparations for cutting large quantities of it. Hose cart noS.brilliantly painted and well equipped, has been completed by the manufacturera. Ann Arbor will pay about $500 for it. Judge Peck has dismissed the bill of injunction secured by the heirs of the Nichols estáte against the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti railway. Amelia, wife of the late GarrettCox,of the fifth ward,diedonSundaylast. The funeral took place Tuesday from the African Methodist church. The temperance meeting in Cropsey's hall next Sunday afternoon will be under the auspices of the Good Templars. W. S. Palmer will be the speaker. A social will be given to the members and friends of the Disciples' church at the residence of A. E. Jennings, 27 E. Ann-st, on Friday evening, January 16. Miss Franc Baker, Conference Secretary of the W. M. F. society, will address a public meeting at the Methodist E. church next Sunday evening at 7.30 p. IC George Unseld, a carpenter and a stranger, couldnot withstand thetempttations of Gambrinus'and gotdrunk the other day. He may now be found at the county jail. The meeting of the fair association, held on Thursday last, was a very interestingone. The superintendent reported that $3,761,42 was expended on the grounds last year. The Ypsilantians who attended the Knight Templar gathering on Tuesday night did not get home as soon as they expected. The motor did not wait for them long enough. Charles Cole, an employé in theCornwell Pulp Mills, suffered 'a severe accident Tuesday night. His hand was crushed in the machinery and will probably have to be amputated. Mrs. Martha F. Stebbins has by special appropriation received a pension. Her husband was a volunteer surgeon in the army and died of fever not long after entering the service. Prof. Gatchell will give an entertainment, a week from tomorrow night, which will beof the nature of an exposé of mind-reading. Theproceeds will be given to the gymnasium. Miss Blanche Haydon, of Decatur, Mich., who graduated from the Ann Arbot high school a few years ago, took an overdose of chloral on Saturday night and died the following day, Yesterday morning the Ann Arbor street railway company put on a special car marked "Ypsilanti" which is to make connections with the inter-urban line. It will wait at the junction for all trains. Philip Bach, C. H. Kichmond, Henry Cornwelt, Alpheus„Felch, J.M. Wheeler E. D. Kinne, E. Treadwell, William McCreery and James Clements have been eleoted directors of the First National Bank. Burglars broke into the store of H. A. Neuhoff, early Monday morning and atole a number of revolvers, razors and knives. They forced an entrance by prying open a back window. The value of the goods taken was about $100. Hon. Chps. R. Whitman of this city has been appointed state railroa.d commissioner. Mr. Whitman is one of the ablest lawyers in the state and is wellfitted to discharge the duties of the office. Governor Winans could not have done better. The Ypsilanti Underwear Company has filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk. The capital stock is $50,000, comprising 5,000 shares, of which Joseph Meyers, of Chicago, holds all but twenty. The nompany will manufacture underwear and knit'goods. Minnie M.Easton, of Lima township, on Monday last died at the home of her sister, Mre. W. W Wadhams, of laryngitic and tonsilitis. She was twentyeight years of age. Her remains were taken to Lima, and the funeral services took place yesterday mornng. Miss Easton was a sister of C. H. Easton. James Toms, of the third ward, asks permission of the city council to cut down the lofty poplar trees which shade Miller-ave in front of his premises He also requeats that the Miller-ave water table be opened to the mili race, as formerly, instead of ending at the corner of Chapin-st, as is now the case. John Krans has been ailmitted to citizenship. Circuit court reconvenid on Monday morning. Large crowtls are riding on the interurban railroad The case of Jacob Staffin vs. Thomas Jensou has been conti nued without cost to either party. Next week The Registee will have somethirgo say about theapproaching city election. Wilhemina N'iederer has secured a divorce frora her husband on the ground of extreme cruelty. Judge Kinne has srranted a divorce to Mrs Amy Roper. Her husband is to pay her alimony and all the costs of the judicial proceedinc. The Forest Hill Cemetery board this morning elected the following officers: President, J. Austin Scott; vice president, J. M. Wheeler; clerk and treasurer, E. B Pond. John Woolsey, of Ypsilanti, while walking on the Toledo road near the high bridge Tuesday morning, was thrown down the embankment and suffered severe injuries. J. T. Jacobs returned yesterday afternoon from Washington, where he met with the Indian commissioners. He thinks that the talk of many people about starving the Indians to death is mere gush. The whole trouble is due to a lot of crazy savages. The school board met on Tuesday eyening, passed the usual number of bilis, added one hour to the work of Mr. Eagan in the high school, authorized Prof. Leutwein to divide his time between the hiirh school and second ward school, and transacted other routine business. From January 26 to January 30, James Kay Applebee, of Boston, the eminent Shakspearian lecturer, will deliver a course of five lectures before the Unity club on Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Lear. Mr. Applebee is one of the greatest lecturers of the age and should draw full houses. The following officers of the Knights of Pvthias were installed last night, Gilbert Bliss being presiding oflicer: J. L. Rose, C. C; Fred Barker, V. C; Emil Baur, P.; J. Looker, M. of Ex.; J. H. Ottley. K. of R. S. and M. of S.; Frank Feiner, M. of A. Degrees were conferred on two candidates and four peiitions were received. The Ann Arbor Courier looks like an entirely new sheet since its change during the holiday vacation. In addition to other things, the paper has been enlarged to eight pages, making it the largest weekly in the city.- ChronicleArgonaut. You are misinformed, boys. The Register is larger by one column and the Argu is exactly the same size. Both representatives from this county have good places on Speaker Wachtel's committees. Mr. Gregory is chairman of the committee on insurance and a member of the drainage and deaf and dumb committees. Mr. Lowden is chairman of the ways and means committee and a member of the northern insane asylum, library and prison committees. The Rev. F. W. Gunsaulus, a noted Chicago preacher of the Congregational faith, wiil speak in University hall on the evening of January 22. His subject is"AChapter in the History of Liberty." Joseph Cook says of him: "Not since I heard Wendell Phillips on Daniel O'Connell have I heard a lecture which equals in elegance and eloquence Dr. Gunsaulus, lectures on Savonarola and John Hampden." The new officers or the Huron Council No. 402 National Union were installed on Tuesday evening. They are as follows: President, F. G. Novy; vicepresident, L. P. Hall; speaker, S. W Beakes; medical examiner, Dr. D. A MacLachlan; secretary.John Baumgartner; financial secretary, C. W. Wagner treasurer, W. R. Price; chaplain, J. W.' Johnson; ex-president, Geo. Haller. Prof. Trueblood was initiated into the society. At the Unity Club next Monday night, January 19, Prof. S. F. Peckham, of Providence, R. I, will read a paper on "The Origin and History of Petroleum," with illustrations. In addition something novel wíll be presented before the club. It is to be an "Operetta," entitled "II Jacobi, or the Poironed Peanut," in charge of the Misses Eddy. Great preparations have been made for this operetta, and something very interesting is expected. Rev. J. T. Sunderland will begin next Sunday evening a series of four Lectures on "Visita to Famous Places in theOld World." His subjects will be: 1. A Visit to the Home of the Pilgrim Fathers in Holland. 2. A Visit to the Home of Calvin, Servetus, and Rousseau, in Switzerland. 3. A Sunday in the English Lake Región, at the Home of Wordsworth. 4. Sundays in London, Services in St. Paul's; Hearing Stopford Brooke, Spurgeon and Canon Liddon. Mrs. Nelson Cole, a former resident of this city, died at Fort Madison, lowa, on Tuesday last. The remains will reach Ann Arbor this evening, and will be interred in the Forest Hill cemetery to-morrow morning, the funeral service of the Episcopal church being read at the residence of Alpheus Felch. Mrs. Cole was ninety-one yearsold. She came to Ann Arbor in 1850 and reinalned here till about ten years ago. She is the mother of Alanson B. and Benjamin F. Cole, of this city. It may not be generally known that a free reading room is open at the Unitarian church every Sunday afternoon from 2 to ü o'clock. Besides a large and excellent library of books the reading room is supplied abundantly with all of the latest periodicals, Buch as the Century, the Atlantic, Scribner's, North American Review, the Arena, Forum, the Sanitarian, Old and New Testament Student, the Ethical Record, the Nation, the Literary Digest, the Andover Review, the Voice, the Philanthropist, Religio-Philosophical Jonrnal, Lend a Hand, Spirit and Life, and the best Uuitarian, Universalist, JewJ8h, Quaker and liberal orthodox weeklies.