The City

Circuit court adjourned on Saturday. Misa Lou Atnsden, of Ypsilanti, is clerking for Mack & Schmid. A boy waB born to Mí. and Mrs. ChriBtian Koch on Saturday las!. Mrs. Margaret Alabaster is erecting & new residence on South State-st. E. E. Ford, a student, has joined the Ann Arbor Banjo and Guitar club. Kdward Duffy left for Lansing and Ionia, yesterday, on prison business. The rooms of the Wolverine Cyclers arebeing repaired and re-furnished. A. R. Hammond will soon build a fine residence in the Sheehan addition. Schaible & Allmand have started a saloon in the oíd Detroit house on South F&urth-av _ The high school began using the eewer on Friday last. It worked very eatisfactorily. The National Loan and Investment company, of Detroit, is placing considerable stock in this city. Mrs. John Tice died on Friday evening last, at her residence on Hiscock-st. She was seventy-eight yearsold. The Auu Arbor Frnit and Vinegar company have put in a Kamsey pump, with wbich they will forcé eider into tanks. Dr. W. W. Nichols has harvested this year 3,000 bushels of apples, between 500 and 600 of pears and nearly 2,600 of peaches. F. A. Randall, of the fifth ward, died on Friday last at the age of seventynine. He had been suffering from paralysis. W. D. Adams and Mrs. C. S. Millen have purchased lots on the old fair grounds and will erect new houses in the near future. Bethlehem church, for the first time in its history, is supplied with ushers, W. G. Henne and Emanuel Spring acting in that capacity. The annual address before the young people of the Presbyterian church will be delivered next Sunday evening by Eev. A. F. Bruske, of Alma college. When Christian Lutz, a farmer, was driving along Detroitet Thursday afternoon, hishorses becamefrightened and threw liiin out, breaking tbree ribs. The Washtenaw Mutual Fire Insurance company will meet tomorrow in the court house. All who have not paid assessmenls will be suspended. F. Wagner, of the fifth ward, has purchased a portion of the lot on south Main-st belonging to George E. Apfel and will soon erect a brick building. The Ladies' Hive of the Maccabees will organize next week. TJpwards of thirty names have been handed in. They will have the use of Maccabee Hall. Hallowe'en night wasunusually quiet this year, only a few harmless pranks being committed. A forcé of eleven men had been sworn in by the city authorities to preserve order. The finance committee of the city council audited bilis, during October, amounting to $2,623.40: contingent fund, $950,72; street, $812.33; fire, $518.29; pólice, $177,00; poor, $165.06. The marshal last month made thirteen arrests : fi ve for druukenness, three for vagrancy, two for assault and battery, two for vioïating city ordinance, one for keeping open saloon after hours. J. E. Harkins, of North Main-st, was awakened at three o'clock Saturday morning by the raising of a window from the outside. The would-be burglartook flight, leaving his hat behind in his haste. H. A. P. Carter, minister from the Hawaian Islands to the United States, died in New York on Sunday morning. His son, Chas. L. Carter, it will be remembered, was married to Miss Mary H. Scott, danghter of J. Austin Scott, of this city. The n orth bound passenger train on the Toledo road Saturday morning narrowly escaped a wreek. The rails near Leiand had spread for a considerable distance. The elowness with which the train was running alone prevented serioua accident. Word was received Saturday that the supreme court has denied the motion for a re-hearing brought by the defendants in the case. of the Nichols estáte vs. the Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti Street Railway Company. The decree will be returned by the court today. The Washtenaw Teachers' Ássociation will meet in Ypsilanti, Friday evening, December 4, and continue in seesion throngh the following dayf State Superintendent Fitch will be preáent and deliver an address. ExCongressman Allen also will probably speak. We might write columns about the Choral Tnion concerts lor this season- we will Bimply state that the society offers sis magnificent concerts, costing nearly $4,000, for $2.00 a ticket. See program of first concert, November 13, in next week's Register. In the meanüme, buy your ticket. Orville W. Sage is building a new house on Hifrh-st. G. W. Weeks has shippèd a carload of potatoes to Dak ota. Ten new houses have been erected in the fifth ward this year. Tbe enrollment of the high school up to Friday night was 647. Aid. Kitson is building a new honse on Forest-ave for A. A. Kent. Miss Mattie Harriman expects to start a paintiug class in Ypsilanti. M. M. Steffey mored into his new honse on Washington-st, Saturday last. The Agricultural works have an order from Seattle for a carload of hay presses. Red neckties, are going out of style. The clothiers say that blue will soon be the proper thirg. The Michigan Central derrick is pieking up the stone near the bridges recently built in this vicinity. The high school is now receiving daily weataer reports from Washington. The first carne on Friday last. Wheat is bringing from ninety to ninety-three cents this week. The market is not very brisk at present. Mrs. Emma Butler, of Lawrence-sti expects to erect a house on South Statest, just north of the athletic grounds. The directors of the Ann Arbor Fruit and Vinegar Company have decided to erect a frame storage building, 40x51 feet in size. Freedom has a boy who bids fair to become a giant. His name is Fritz. He is only tbirteen years oíd and wears a 44 overcoat. Thelocal Grand Army men arealready making preparations for the state encampment, which is to be held in this city next April. The Ann Arbor Debating Club will meet tomorrow evening in the African Methodist church. An interesting program will be given. Ed. F. Treanor is writing up Ann Arbor for a pamphlet which is being prepared by the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan railway. MrB. W. P. Ewing, of Cleveland, delivered her first lecture on cooking at Hobart Hall Monday afternoon. The school is now in progress. On Monday the 11 ::;0 train south and the 5:05 train north on the Toledo road began carrying mail. This makes two daily mails in each direction. Shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday, B. F. Watts was taken with a stroke of apoplexy and was carried home in a hack. He is much better today. Eight men were initiated by the Wolverine Cyclers, Tuesday evening. Sixteen applications have been presented within the past two weeks. Mrs. T. B. Knapp, of Howell, grand superintendent of the Juvenile Temple I. O. G. T., wil! lecture in the Baptist church, on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 15. There are now twelve members of the Chequamegon orchestra. Five or six others are on probation. The boys are practicing on some of Haydn's symphonies. Oliver S. Warner, a prominent farmer I of Pittsfield, died on Monday of paraly sis. He carne to this country from New York state fifty-four years ago. He was seventy-seven years of age. During the month of October the poor commissioner expended $73.00 in poor relief, distributed as follows: First ward, $9.59; second,$6.77; third $24.38; fourth, $10.10; fifth, $15,54; sixth, $6.62. Five battered up rugby players on the Butler team filed into the orBce of Dr. D. M. Tyler, Saturday evening. Bandages, stitches and poultices - in short everything but a svw - were required to give them a presentable appearance. The ladies of the Church of Christ are requeflted to meet at ? o'clock this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. S. A. Moran, 22 south Fifth-ave, for the purpose of organizing a local auxiliary of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions. An exhibition of chrysanthemums will be held next Saturday in the court house, under the auspices of the Horticultural Society. During the following week James Toms will display chrysanthemums in his greenhouse on Millerave, free of charge. B. F. Bennett, of Superior, passed away on Tuesday morning in the 59th year of his age. He was familiarly known to his friends as "Doe." He carne to this county at an early day and has been very prominent in all public movements. Mr. Bennett was a bachelor and lived on his farm with two sisters. A unique concert is promised for next Monday evening, in the audience room of the Congregational church. Blind Boone, a musical prodigy, rendering on the piano classical and popular music equally well, will at that time display his marvelous gifts. The concert will consist of vocal as well as instrumental music. He will be assisted by Miss Stella May, a rich contralto. Boone promises to repeat any instrumental piece given by any of our best pianists. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Johnsoni & boy. Washtenaw Lodge No. 9, 1. 0. ü. F., will hold initiation tomorrow night. The Arena debating society of the high school will decide tomorrow evening whether free coinage is a good thing for the country. Dr. V. C. Vaughn delivered an interesting lecture before the Unity Club, Monday night, in which he showed the benefits which science has conferred upon mankind. Hutzel & Company have purchased the old Fuller bomestead, between the Keek block and B. F. Schumacher's store. It is rumored that they will erect a flne triple-front three-story building. The case against Henry Forshee et al., of Salem, charged with resistingan execution levied by Deputy-SheriffPeterson, was on trial before Justice Pond Tuesday. Examination will be continued next Wednesday. St. Thomas Hall, now in procese of construction, will be made a better structure than was at first planned. The outside walls will be brick instead of frame, and the total cost will reach $5,000. The hall will have a seating capacity of 800. Wm.M.White has decided to plat the old Hill farm. The property lies at the corner of Packard and Hill-sts. and comprises some twenty-six or twenty-seven acres of fine rolling ground. Thayer-st, will betïontinued on to the Hamilton, Kose & Sheehan addition. The regular literary meeting of the Unitv club will be held next Monday evening. The program will consist of a paper on Egypt.with particular reference to the pyramids and ancient tombs, by Mrs. L. H. Stone, of Kalamazoo, and a paper entitled,"Three Years inMexico," by Philip R. Whittnan. Isabella F. Watts, of Lyndon, has filed a bilí for divorce against her husband, Parmenus W. Watts, charging him with extreme cruelty, neglect, etc. They were married in 1S83, and Mrs. Watts claims that her husband has re fueed to eupply.her with clothing and bas treated her disrespectfully in the preser.ee of her step children.