The City

Vale uiir. Very few sparrowe are being killed this montb. E. B. Hall bas moved into his new liouse on Hlll-gt. A new 100-horse power marine boiler forthe Courier office has been set iip tliis week. Wheat baa laken a tunible. It was quoted yefcterday afternoon at from 88 to 90 centn. The Order of the Temple will be conferred upon George Vanderwalker next Wednesdiiy evening. Michael Trainer, of Whitmore Lake, was arrested Tuesday night for being drunk. One day in jail. Kiigene Koch, formerly with Mack & -vliiiiid, has taken a position n the store of Wagner & Company. The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti ehapters of lioyal Arch Masons went to Detroit ast evening in a special train. Fraternity Lodge F. and A. M. will go to Detroit Tuesday eyening for the iurpose of conferring a degree upon a candidato. Prof. Délos Fall, of Albion, delivers a paper be fore the University Chemical Society tonigbt. He is a brother of Messrs. D. C.and C.S. Fall, of this city, The members of the Ann Arbor Sportsmen's club had great luck at Zukey lake last week, killing over eighty quails and many rabbits within two days. At a special term of court held Tues. day, Judge Kinne granted a decree and order for sale to the complainant in the case of Ann Brundage vs. Fred .T. Bartlett, et al. The formal opening of the new hospital will not take place till the middle ofJanuary. The building will not be entirely ready for occupancy until the liolidays. The fair gi ven bythe members of the Second Baptist church, Thursday evening, was very successfnl. To W. N. Henderson, the largest contributor, was awarded the prize chair. The Waehtenaw Mutual Fire Insurance Company has been unusually fortúnate this fall, havingbeen called upon, sinoe the first of September, to pay out for fire losses only about 8100. The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held in Harris Hall át 3 p. m. next Thursday, December 10. Allladies holding mite boxes for the temperance temple are requested to bring them. : Oteeningo lodse, No. 295, 1. O. O. F., bas elected thefollowing officers: Noble Grand, John F. Ferguson; Tice-grand, James II. Ottley; R. S., Lawrence J. Damm; F. S., John Wahr; Treas., C. L. Dow. The Excelsior chapter of Ypsilanti, Tuesday evening, conferred the Royal Arch degree of Masonry upon tliree candidates in the Ann Arbor hall. They perform a similar office in Detroit this week. Mrs. Malvina J.McNeal.wife of J.McNeal died at her home in the sixth ward on Tuesday morning. The cause of her death was cáncer. She was tifty-five years old and had recent ! y moved here from Red Key, Ind. A lamp exploded last week in the residence of Anthony Burke, of Northfield. The dames were with diffieulty subdued. A similar catastrophe took place about the same time in the house of Robert Campbell in Pittsfield. Sqaawbuck oil. "Iftlk about rabbits! Wiiy , sir, I have killed just forty-four in my own back yard," said M. M. Steffey, the other day. "And quails, too, are becoming so numerous that even they venture into the city. Tbis ia a great season for huntera, I teil yoa. Fact !" Erneet Dieterle met with a painful accident, Monday morning, in the hardware store of the Eberbach Company. A trap door on which he stepped gave way and he feil from the second to the first floor. HU shoulder was dislocated and one of the bones in his arm wasbroken. The lecture by Col. Sylvester Lamed in the Unitarian church, Monday night. was a delightful sketch of life in Washington as it was in the days of Calhoun, Clay and Webster. Through rolatives Mr. Lamed has learned many anecdotes which he introduces in his loctiif es with good effect. The docket for the December term of court contains eighty-three case, of which nine are criminal. There are two rape cases, one for violation of liquor law, one for assault, three for forgery, one, against John Schmid, for killing birds, and the old embezzlement case against Zina T. King. There are four divorce cases on the docket. A ladies' guitar and banjo club, consisting of Misses Alta Tarker, Hattie Long, Birdie Bliss, and May Bowen, guitar, and Miss Maniie Hiñe, mandolín; the Mieses Anna B. snd .T. May Wilsey, banjo, has been organized. The club is improving rapidly under the direction of Prof. Henry Haug, of Detroit. Kehearsals are held at Wilsey's music atore, on Tne?day and Fridayi of each week. Jad ge Kinne held court in Monroe Tuesday ImI. Welch Poet G. A. R. will elect officers on Friday, December 11. The time table of tlie Toledo road will be ehanged on Sunday next. i'he "Clemenceau Case" will be given ai the opera honse toiiigh. Four new houses will be ereeted on Grand View addition next sprinjr. Frank Munger, of NorlhfielJ, paid $1 line and costs, Saturday. He had been druuk. The Catholic Mutual Benefit Association will elect offioerR on Ttiesday evening next. Di[.htberia on Friday last caused the dealh of the little son of George Vinkle, of Hill-st. Mr. Marlette, of Kast Huron-at, wlio iias boen dauaerously ill for gome time, is no1 improving. TheKnights of Maccabees will nominate officers tomorrow nigbt. The election will be held on the lSth. Mrs. Florentino Balfranz died on Thursday last at her home on Spring-st. Funeral services were held Sunday. F. Stofflet complains that he bas recently lost Cfteen out of thirty chickens through the depredations of thieves. A beginners' class in Shorthand will be organized at the School of Shorthand, 20 So. Statest, at 7 o'clock this evening. The Sons of Veterans will eive an entertainment this evening in the G. A. Iï. and Odd Fellows' hall. A good program will be renderïd. The Anti Arbor Brick and TileCompany bas disposed of an entire kiln of brick to one party. The Leiand clay was used In its manufacture. Prof. H. C. Adams will deüver a course of lectures on political economy in the University Kxtension course at Detroit, beginning about January 1, John Woolcock, father of Airs. Veder Armstrong, died in this city on Saturday last at the age ot sixty-eight. Hia remains were ljken to Longwood, Ont., for interinent. A meeting of the Military Order of the Loyal Legión will be held today at the Bancroft House in Saginaw. Col. U.S. Dean, Dr. V. F. Breakey, J. T. Jacobs and II. Soule will probably attend. The directora of the Aun Arbor & Ypsilanti Street Railway CompaDy met Tuesday evening and decided to raise the fare from ten to fifteen cents. The cotnpany carried 14,000 passengers last month. Kdward Duffy will meet at Detroit today with the board of priaon ïnspectors, whicb assembles for the purpose of auditing the accounts of the various penal and reformatory institutiorm of the state. Washtenaw Lodge No. 9, 1. O. O. F., elected the following officers on Friday last: C. S. Elmer, N. G.; II. Schlimmer, V. G.; J. Vanee, recordiDg secretary, II. Richards, permanent .ecretsry; M. Staebler, treasurer. The annual exhibition of the Ann Arbor Art club will be held at the ladies' library on the Oth, lOth and llth of December. A email admission fee will be charged and daiuty souvenirs for Chrietmas will be on sale. Work will begin immediately on the new Toledo bridge over the Huron. The pilee and stones are already here and about fifty men have been employed. The structure will cost from $25,000 to $30,000. It will probably take all winter to finish it. The twenty-iirst annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society is being held this week in Eaton Ilapids. The subject most generally disoussed is the exhibit of horticulture in the world'sfair. From this county W. F. Bird, A. A. Crozier and E. H. Scott are in attendance. The Gesangverein Lyra gave a concert Thursday evening, in the A. O. U. W. hall which was highly appreciated by the many present. The Ann Arbor Banjo and Guitar club and Zither club furnished severai numbers on the program. Solos were rendered by Misses E. Hazard and A. Lutz, and a quartette by Mrs. R. H. Kempf and the Mistes Lutz, Hazzard and Wahr. Mrs. Mary Livermore will give a lecture before Unity club on Saturday evening, next, December 5, at 8 o'clock in the Unitarian church. Her subject is: Columbus and the Discovery of America. On the following Monday evening, December 7, Judge Harriman will give a paper on Marcus Aurelios which will occupy a part of the evening, the rest being devoted to a light drama. There will also be some muaic. v The erection of a new opera house is being agitated, and some of the business men have already been approached. In order to insure the financial success of the undertaking it is proposed that boxes be rented for the season to various college fraternities. For $40,000 a good opera house could be put up, or for severai thousand dollars the present structnre could be enlarged, renovated and improved. E'ther project would be heartily welcomed by both residente and studente. The follownij: ihe program to be given tin evening tiy the Som of Veterans-: Opening sddreM, R. C. Kern; music, Long Family, Instrument]; address, Julias Gojj.irr,; matic, Williara O. Thomas; remarks ior gooi.1 of the order, Jlr. Myei; masie, Calathumpian Band; recltatloti, G. V. Johnston; music. mixed qaartett; recitation, Bermuda, E. E. Hallet; musii-, Good N'ight, quartette; -impromptu toaste, responscs fiom O. A. K. The light fanttic toe tripping concliules the program for the evening.