The City

Sparrow orders last week amou nted to $909. Mrs. Prof. Hempl, baby girl, Wednesday nooD. About 900 tickets to Detroit were sold Tuesday morning. New flooring is being laid in the chemical laburatory. Herman Krug is building a $1,150 house on west First-st. Mack & Schmid are building a $900 house on west Second-st. Prof. C. E. Greene bas been inspecting the Jackson water works. The Good Templars installed their new officers, Monday night. Frank Feiner has moved into his new house on east University-ave. Henry Otto is building a new house on south Fifth-ave, to cost $1,700. Rev. A. S. Carman is now located at the new parsonage, 29 east Ann-st. Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, of Washtenawave, will soon erect a $3,000 house. J. W. Alexander, of Webster, has filed bonds as justice of the peace. Emil Baur shipped the first pears of the season to Saginaw, last Friday. George Baur is erecting a residence on south Fourth-ave. Cost, $1,500. The motor line carried over 15,200 passengers during the month of July. Oíd Company A will have its first full dress inspoction next Monday night. The examination of W. J. Clark took place Friday. Continued till August 13. Frank Kapp has just completed a new house on west Second-st, worth $1,050. Adolph Glatzel's naw house on west First-st is about finished. It has cost 82,800. Delinquent saloon-keepers have paid in $1,890 since the prosecutions ccmmenced. A large bay window wil) be placed on the second story of Mack & Schmid's building. Mr. and Mrs. August Tessmer, of west Third-st, mourn the loss of a girl seven weeks oíd. Mrs. Esther Andrews is building an addition to her house on Liberty-st, which will cost $500. Considerable wheat is being marketed this week. Millers say that they never saw wheat of so good quality. The Ann Arbor Light Infantry expect to fit up a reception room on the second floor of the Hangsterfer block. The new house of Mrs. A. L. Behr on south Fourth-ave is nearly completed. It will cost about $3,200. The " Nations in War, Dance and Song" will be given by the members of the Ann Arbor Light Infantry sonie time in October. The city pólice made twenty-nine arreste during July : Disorderly, 2 ; vagrant, 2; drunk, 14; larceny,9; violating city ordinane, 2. Jno. Hagan, of Ann Arbor town, brought in 2,200 pounds of wool.yesterday morning, which he sold for twentjsix cents a pound. The city clerk's report for July showed, Keceipts, including balance on hand, $8,052.80; disbursements,$6,076.83; balance, $2,370.48. The Rev. Prof. Daniel Irion, inspector of the theological school at Elmhurat, Dl., preached at Bethlehem church Sunday night. Joseph Clinton, Michael Kuebler, and Richard Kearns, jr., the three watermelon héroes last arrested,appear before Justice Pond today. William Snowden, a colored resident of Ypsilanti, made himself a nuisance Monday night. He was fined the next morning for being drunk. C. R. Whitman is expected home this morning. Upon his arrival, the bids for constructing the new buildings on the campus will be opened. About sixty-five of the old veterans marched down to the depot Tuesday morning, with music and colors, and there took the train for Detroit. County School Commissioner Cavanaugh delivered an addressTuesday before the teacherB' institute at Dexter, on the progresa of the schools in "Wafihtenaw. During July poor relief to the amount of $56.38 was granted, distributed as follows: First ward, $5.35; second, $3.70; third, $18.88; fourth, $14.91; fifth, 12 04; sixth, $1.50: Theremainingeveningunion servio for August will be held as follows: August 9, Baptist church ; Augag) L8 Presbyterian church ; August '2:'., M i dist church. Capt. C. H. Manly has again take his residence in this city. Hie ment of the Soldiers' Home trou quite effect uully disposes of cl) against liirn. A change is being made in the hospital. The seats in the aaaphithe will face tbe north instead of tinand in the north end a large pi. window will be placed. A dancing party in honor of Dr. C. E. Burchfield, of Grand Rapids, was given Friday evening at the residence of W. G. Burehfield. Ten couples were preeent. President J. B. Angelí wiites from Lomion that he is enjoying his visit very mucb. He rots to Gerrnany immediately. He experts to sai] for America on Sent. 2 Mre. AlbertBlacps was thrown out of her carriage, Thursday aiternoon. on Detroit-st and :-everely bruised. The horse berame frighteued, backing the carriage into au electriccar. The Maccabees of Arbor Tent No. 296 are requested to asseroble at their tent, Tuesday, August 11, at 7 a. m. They will be eECorted by the band to the depot, where they leave for Jackson. The bids already received for building the high echool sewer exceed the $700 appropriated for that purpose. Further bids wil] be received at the board meetiDg next Tuesday evening. Miss Anna Clinton, of the Singer sewing machine office, has received from the managers at Toledo a fourteen carat gold ring, which was awarded to the lady making the best report of business. P. W. Carpenter was elected senior warden at the meeting of the Aun Arbor Commandery Knights Templar on Tuesday evening. The vacancy was caused by the removal of G. W. Millen from the rit. A woman and her daughter indulged in a street fight, Tuesday, near the crossing of the Toledo track on Main-st. Words flew lively, a knife was drawn and one woman chased the other for a long distance. The city has been visited by quite a number of G. A. R. men from the encampment today and yesterday. One of these, while on his way to the Toledo depot, pointed to the court house and asked if that was the medical college. At a meeting of the Ann Arbor township board, Monday afternoon, MessrsA. A. Crozier, J. J. Parehall and J. C. Shenck were appointed commissioners to examine peach trees and ascertain whether they are troubled by the disease of yellows. Miss Lillian De Forest, daughter of Mrs. David De Forest, died on Monday of consumption. She was thirty-three years oíd and a great favorite among her friends. Rev. Henry Tatlock conducted funeral services at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. C. H. Thayer, formerly choir master of the Episcopal church in Helena, Mont., will on Sept. lst take charge of the organ and vested choir of St. Andrew's church. He is now in the city. Mr. Thayer has made the training of vested choirs a specialty. The finance committee of the council audited last month bilis amounting to $3,888.38, classified as follows: Contingen fund, $875.69; street, $1,387.80; fire, $1,382.84; pólice, $191.25; poor, $50.80. Supplementary report- Jacobus & Son, for building sidewalk around old cemetery, $256.57; The board of directors of the Washtenaw Mutual Fire Insurance Company adjusted further losses on Thursday. They were the following i F. H. Sweetland, Sylvan, barn with contents, $1,508.67; T. J. Halloek, York, same, $193.93; James Monahan, Ypsilanti town, $18; Mary Rabbit, Dexter, $21. A gentleman from Chelsea, filled with a little too much whiskey, boasted, Monday night, that he could make way with one of tLe mail bags at the depot, without being seen. He succeeded in doing so, but, when he carried it into the car, the theft was detected and the mail bag was taken away from him. He was not arrested. Mrs. Louisa Sackett bas given to the First Presbyterian church, of this city, an organ, which is now being built by Farrand & Votey, of Detroit. Itwill be ready for use by the first of January. This will be a $4,üC0 instrument and equal to any in the city. Farrand & Votey havejust finished the memorial organ for the First Presbyterian church of Detroit, which is pronouuced to be one of the fineat organs in the west. Hiram Holmes, brother of A. H. Holmes, of this city, is spending a few days heré. Mr. Holmes is one of the old pioneers of Washtenaw county. He came to Ann Arbor in 1850, and kept a book store until 1855. He is at present living in Washington city. He has not been here dnce 1863. Mr. Heimes says that he can scarcely realize the many great changes which have taken place since the '50's. Outside of Washington, he thinks Ann Arbor has grown to be the most beautiful city in the country. " A Jackson party, consisting of Mayor Weatherwax, Aldermen S. H. Carroll, A. M. Tinker, J. H. Mitchell nd .T. W. . 1). S. Smith and G. W. Carter, l of public workp, and .;ulont H. F. Beau ■ ïksand fire departmeut of i'hursday last. They were id the city in carriagi-b, rode care and flnally took a ili on the motor. In the exhibities was given b ij lirfl depar' e well pleased with '■. in cities.