The City

Workmen are grading the grounds o Newberry Hall. Farmers are complaining on accoun of the scarcity of help. vRev. J. T. Sunderland preached ii Bloomington, 111., Sunday. Ray Gooch, aged six years, (lied on Monday morning of diphtheria. Thad. Thompson has been appointec truant officer. Badboys, look out. The Ann Arbor Guitar and Banjo club play at the Gatholic fair tonight. I. The Chequamtgons played last nigh ior the Duff Opera Company in Ypsi lanti. The waterworks improveinems this year will aunount to between $7,000 ant $8,000. The butter and cheese company ia paying eighty-five cents per hiindrec for milk. The second house on Packard-st built by D. F. Schairer this season has been commenced. The Business Men's Quartette sing this evening at the Methodist church and the rink. Tomorrow evenicg at the rink, Junius E. Beal will formally present a flag to SI Thomas' sohooL . H. D. Dodeley has shipped between 1000 and 1,200 barrels of apples from Ann Arbor this f all. A. W. Ames reports that the expresa business this fall is much larger than it has ever been before. Mrs. Daniel Mayer, mother of David Mayer, formerly of Mayer & Overbeck, died on Friday last in Lima. Rev. John Faltón, D. D., will deliver the Baldwin course of lectures before the HobartGuild this year. Geo. Laubengayer appeared before Justice Pond, Monday, charged with being drunk on the streete. He was fined. Emil Baur received eigbt varieties of strawberries from tbe Michigan Agricultural College for thepurpose of experimentation. Work on the superstructura of A. E. Shaw's new residence on the old fair grounds has commenced. The building will cost $3,500. Mrs. J. J. West died on Saturday last at the age of forty-five. Her funeral, Tuesday, at the Second Baptist church was attended by rnany of her friende. Louis Liesemer has written for the Detroit News a story entitled, "In a Madhouse; or the Story of an Ivory Bracelet. Afewchapters from thelife of an Ann Arbor student." John Schmidt on October 11 killed some chickens belonging to Philip Blum. Schmidt appeared before Justice Pond.Monday, and was bound over to the circuit court, $200 in bail being demanded. During the concert by the Gesang Verein Lyra at the rink, Monday evening, the platform on the west side gave way, creating a good deal of laughter and consternation, without Djuringany one. Geo Haas, a farmer living in Ann Aroor town, died Sunday evening of inflammation of the bowels. He leaves a wife and eight children. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday by Kev. Max Hein. Mrs. Thos. C. Trueblood will read George Elliot's masterpiece, " Silas Marner,"at the high school hall, onFriday evening of this week. Miss Cole and Mrs. Edwards will give several musical numbers. The opening lecture on the wit and ïumor of the Bible by Rev. Camden M. Cobnrn attended a large audience at the Methodist church Sunday evening. Oriental and modern wit were very aptly compared. Henrietta M. Toolidge, wife of J. T. Coolidge, died on Thursday last at Waterloo, Iowa. Her remains were brought to thia city Sunday and interred in Forest Hill cemetery. She was sixty-six years of age. During the temporary absence of the 'amily, Sunday evening, some practical oker went into the residence of D. C. Fall and piled the furnitnre of three rooms in one large heap. The perperator must have been a student at some ime. The contract for building the new Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan jridge over the Huron in this city has been let to the Smith Bridge Company, of Toledo. The bridge will consist of five steel spans and the foundations as 'ar as the water's edge will be made of cement The under truss will be used. Work on the structure will commence within a few days. The monthly meeting of the Horticultnral Society will be held in the court houBe, on Saturday, November 7, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The following iopics will be discussed : 'Which is our best fruit marketT1' and, 'Is the growing of vegetables and fruits overdone in Washtenaw county V The committee on vegetables, fruit and flower exhibits will report. John Fred Wolf bas been admitted to citizenship. N. J. Esterbrook wil! build a new house on Cherry-st. The cooking school opene at Harris Hall next Tuesday evening. The First A frican Methodist Episcopal church has been incorporated. It is thought that the receipts of the Cathoiic fair will exceed $2,000. D. G. Inverarity, of Seattle, has joined the Banjo and Guitar club. Rev.W. H.Davis, of Detroit, preached in the Congregational churcb, Sunday. Adecreeof divorce was granted Friday toMrs. OliverCushman.of Chelsea. Wn. Vogel and wife are very proud of a little son which arrived a few day ago. j_ Allen Shelden on Saturday secured a judgment of $4,288 by default against Jabez Dowler. Miss B. A. Perkins, of Salem, sends The Register a potato weighing two and one half pounds. Edward Duffy was in Jackson Tuesday conferringwith his fellowmembers of the prison commission. A divorce was granted to Mrs. Corydon M. Jersey, Saturday, on the ground of extreme cruelty, neglect, etc. Mrs. J. H. Cutting was called to Bath, N. H., this morning, by the sudden death of her father, William Southard. George Clarken has purchased of the Ann Arbor Organ Company a Lyon & tlealey doublé action harp, which is valued at $700. The Congregational club of Eastern "Michigan met in Detroit Tuesday. Dr. Angelí, Prof. D'Ooge and Robert Campell, of this city, were present. The Junior Guild of the Methodist Sunday school will give a musical evening this week, at the usual time and place. The exercises will begin at ' o'clock. The old organ in the Presbyterian church has been sent away. The new nstrument, presented by Mrs. H. Sacked. is being manufactured in Detroit. It will cost $4000. A detail from the Light Infantry of his city has been permanently assigned o hospital work. Accordingly a few of the men will drill weekly with tretchers, splints, cotton, etc, instead of muskets. The directors of the cemetery associaion met yesterday morning, expressed atisfaction with the work of the presilent during the past year and directed ,he water committee to drive a well in ome suitable place. ('ailotta Medaris, danghter of Mrs. j. L. Medaris, while playing on the porch of E. A. Spence Friday, feil and iroke her arm near the elbow. This ia he third time within a comparati vely hort period that this arm has been roken. Pursuant to orders from Marshal Muray, six immates of a disreputable reort in the fifth ward, known as the 'farm", left the city Tuesday night. The proprietress, ''Mate" Shaefer.was at hat time too ill to go, but will notbe alowed to remain long. The mayor and marshal seem determinad to suppresa all such placea. T. Dwight Townsend, an old deaf and umb gentleman, who has been a ámiliar figure on our streets for a nutnber of years, died suddenly of ïeart disease, Tuesday morning, at the esidence of Christian Schumacher. He rouaed the family at four o'clock and ived only a few hours after. He was a eculiar man, but very intelligent. His nephew, of Pitteburg, Pg., has taken harge of tin rinaine. The Ladies' Library Association extend thanks to Prof. Stanley, Mrs. Buckley and Mr. Bi'bie for the concert at the Congregational church, Saturday evening. Through the kindness of Mr. Stanley the concert was given to assist the ladies in removing a debt upon their building. Unity Club is out for the eeason with a program of more than ordinary interest. It consists of papers and lectures by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Col. Sylvester Larned, of Detroit; Eev. Charles Fluhrer, of Grand Kapids; Rev. Camden M. Coburn, Drs. Vaughn, Mack, Martin and Jones; Profs. Adams, Dewey, Walter, DePont and Freer; Messrs. Winkler, Hussey, Levi and Whitman; Judge Harriman, Mrs. L. H. Stone, Misses Whitman and Goldthwaite; Messrs. Janette and Fassett. Besides papers by these eminent people, there are half a dozen evenings devoted to music, art and the drama. These entertainments will be, as usual, given on Monday evenings. But in one particular the club will deviate from its usual course; tickets for the entire season will be sold for one dollar, while the admission price for those who have not these tickets has been put at fifteen cents, except in the case of Mrs. Livermore and Col. Larned, when it will be twenty-fiye cents.