The City

A. L. Xoble was in Detroit yesterday. There are about 700 pupils in the high school. J. H. Cutting left, Sunday morning, for Boston. Pile-drivingontheSwiftmill dam will soofl com menee, The case against Adolf J. Diehl lias been discontinued. Tlie HO of $10.08 was paid for sparrow scalps last week. In the case of George Aprill vfcHeary Krause judgment has been entered in favor of the plaintiff. A. P. Ferguson went lo Lansing, Tuesday, on business. F. W. Buss will erect a house on West Second-st, this spring. llarrison Soule went to Lansing Tuesday morning on business. Electric lights have been placed in the store of Koch & Henne. There is considerable talk of nominatng a citizens' ticket this spring. EailwayCommissionerWhitmanwent ;o Lansing on business, Tuesday. Between seventy and eighty men are now employed at the agricultural works. Frederick Kalmbach, an old resident of the fifth ward, was buried on Friday last. t The next state encampment of the Michigan Grand Army will be held in this city. The lavatories at the high school have aeen reconstructed and are no longer offeneive. H. Kichards will buildthree new residences next spring, on the old fair jrounds. A meeting of the State Arbeiter Verein will be held in this city on June 9, 10 and 11. Mayor Manly went to Grand Kapids Tuesday on business connected with the Soldier's Home. The county treasurer received, during the month of February, $37,701.03 and disbursed $4,458.19. S. S. Bütz, who has been seriously ill for several weekS with pneumonía, is now out of danger. Congressman Allen has kindly sent The Register a large government map of the United States. Maggie, wife of Jas. McKernan, of Northfield, died Monday last. She was thirty-aeven years old. Charles O'Conor, of Northfield, and Joseph Ashley, of this city, will spar at Hangsterfer's hall tonight. Company A will be inspected next Tuesday night by H. B. Lathrop, inspector general of the state. Work on the old cemetery has been temporarily suspended. The number of bodies thus far removed is 637. Wheat is being inarketed freely at the milis. Some óf it weighs as much as sixty-two pounds to the bushel. AU books belonging to the Ladies' Library Association must be presented at the library on or before March 14. The Huron Valley Building and Loan Association, although in existence only six months, has lent $3,400 to borrowers. Another ílowing well has been drilled at the water works. The company expects to strike still another. The total amount of delinquent state and county taxes reported to Treasurer Brehm is 8201.17. Last year it was $264,46. Ypsilanti failed to collect $443.73 of her taxes, of which $233.90 was real estáte, $185.83 personal and $24.00 dog tax. There is some prospect of the Michigan Furniture company erecting a large factöry on the site of the refrigerator works. On Friday the juries brought in verdiets of no cause of action in the cases of David Ehnis vs. Abraham Deubel and of Cordary vs. Goodman. Frederick Mayer, of Port Huron, spent Sunday in the Hotel Dwyer. The night before he had imbibed very freely. The county paid his board bill. The play, " Soldiere of the Union," given by the Sons of Veterans on Thurday and Friday evenings was enjoyed by all who attended. It was repeated at Saline last night. Catherine Black, of Northfield, died on Sunday of pneumonía. She was seventy years old. Her funeral took place at ten o'clock Tuesday morning. Her remains were taken to Chicago. Mrs.Catherine Farley, of riorth Fourthave, died on Tuesday of dropsy of the heart. f-She was iifty-two years old, and leaves two daughters. The funeral was held át St. Thomas' churoh this morning. Single tickets to the choral union concert can be procured only by those who hold season tickets. Seventy-iive cents will be charged for this concert. $1 for the Boston Symphony, and seventy-five cents for the final concert. Irwin Jones, the negro vvhostole some articles from the Beta Theta Pi house several weeks ago, was tried before Justice Buttsyesterday and sentenced to jai! for thirty days. Ti e Universiiy SenBte adopted, last Mondar, a fitting memorial on the late Profet-eor Wells, Which, on account of the presa of matter, cannot be printed n 'l'in; Register UU next week. Said :i prominent democrat, wben asked what he thonght about tin; proposed citizens' movecoent: "DoesCim. Millman favor il? Don't know 'i Well, I'm afra.nl Uiere is no hope for it, then." A masa meeting will be held by Carpentera uaioo, No. 8Ó. at their hall, -r7 South Main-st, on Saturday evenniL' next. All Iradestnen and laborers are Invited. ïhe subject for discussion will be a fchort work day. Veeder B. Payne has been appointed to make allotments of lands to the Sac and Fox Indians. Mr. Payne formerly resided in this city but is now in Indian Territory. He has two daughters in the Ann Arbor high school. The case of Kate L. Moore vs. Wilfred B. Thompson, in which $5,000 is claimed for slander and false imprisonment, has occupied the attention of the circuit court since Monday. Large crowds have attended the trial. At the meeting of the Golden Rule lodge, Thursday evening, eighteen new candidates were voted in, Threeof these were initiated on Friday, ten on Monday, and the remaining five will ride the goat tomorrow evening. On Thursday the case of Sarah A. Colé vs. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway was continued over the term. In Eliza H. Cordary ve. Joseph Goodman arguments were completed and the charge of the court was delivered. The case of William Judson vs. OrvilleGorton was settled, each party paying his own costs. The school board, at their meeting Tuesday evening, allowed bilis ainounting, in the aggregate, to $313.11, permitted the junior class in the high school to hold a social in the hall and referred the matter of introducing the studv of trigonometry to the committee on text-books. The city treaaurer has collected all the taxes levied except $562.15, distributed as follows: Real estáte, $125.86; personal, $499.50; sidewalks, $15.40; real estáte rejected, $47.25. The total amount of the taxes collected was $82,241.90; of which $12,363.48 was for state and county, $33,344 for schools, and $36,534.42 for general municipal purposes. The balance on hand with the city treasurer, March 1, was $11,878.75, as against $10,793.62 at the same time last year. The two huts which stand on the old brlck yard near Hill-st serve as a rendezvous for a number of the young men of this city. It is said that they are in the habitof insulting women and drinking large quantities of lager. Two of them, last Sunday evening, attempted to piek a fight with Chris. Weinmann, who lives in that vicinity. They succeeded, but both of them are now laid up for repairs. The neighbors threaten to clean out the huts unless the authorities take action. On Monday the case of L. M. Stevens vs. H. S. Dean et al. was discontinued by stipulation. The case of John G. Koch vs. Martha Seeger was discontinued without costs. The judge directed the jury to bring in a verdict disallowing the appeal of Sarah A. Cole (from the decisión of the court which disallowed the claim of L. Winans in the estáte of Mary E. Winans) but granted the appellant until the first day of the next term of court to prepare and serve a bil! of exceptions. The case of Johanna Gregory vs. the Western Union Mutual Society of the United States was continued over the term. The saloon of Millman & McNally was the scène of a disgraceful and almost fatal melee on Friday evening last. Keuben Miller, of Pittsfield, who is taking some special work in the dental department, got into an altercation and, it is said, drew a knife. He was hustled out of the saloon and was followed by a negro named John Robison. The quarrel was then renewed, and Robison finally picked up a large stone which he threw at Miller, crushing in his noee and knocking out several of his teeth. Miller was taken to the University hospital where he still lies. Robison was arrested and sent to jail. The annual junior exhibition will be held this evening in High School hall. The programme is as follows: " The Results of Arctic Exploration," David E. Carman,LBerrien Springs; " Echoes," Gertrude M. Case, South Lyon; "Some Strange Prophecies," Theresa A. Gru'ne, Ann Arbor; " Forestry a National Necessity." Conrad Georg, Ann Arbor; " Bores," Mabelle Halleck, Ann Arbor; " A Piece of Patchwork," Eunice A. Janes, Ann Arbor; " What OurBoulders Teach," ICdson R. Sunderland, Ann Arbor; " A Peculiar People," Emma C. Klais, Ann Arbor; "The Holy Vehme," Johanna Neuinann, Ann Arbor; " The Man who Knows More than the Captain," Bessie B. Stevens, Ann Arbor; "Castle Garden," TheodoreC. Williams, Stockbridge.