The City

Change in the time card of the T. & A. A. railroad. A court of Foresten has been organized in this city. "A wet May makes plenty of hay" say the prophets. Dina E. Robinson has received an increase of pension. The recent showers have greatly improved vegetatioo. Miss Emma Juch, the great soprano Binger, is ill at the Cook House. The Ann Arborroad now runs trains as f ar north as Zukey Lake Sundays. A number of children in the sixth ward are seriously ill with scarlet fover. John Ffisterer has given the front of his store on Liberty-st. a now coat of pain. Fraternity Lodge F. & A. M. will have work on the 2d degree tomorrow evening. The Prohibitionists will hold their county convention in the court house tomorrow. It is rumored that Geo. Niethammer a resident of the Northside, hung hin [ self last evening. 1 The Harvard team defeated the U. of M. base ball team by a score of 7 to 5 yesterday. __ Peter Shulters, formerly a resident of this city, died at Holly Saturday. He was 70 years of age. Four tramps were taken before Justice Bennett on Saturday and given 15 days in the county jail. In the replevin suit of Joe Clay vs. Jack Loney, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the complainant. Now that the bloom has fallen from the fruit trees, it can be seen that the prospect lor a large erop of fruit of all kinds is very flattering. Germán Day will be celebrated this year by the German-Americans of the city and county in Chelsea, August 9th. The annual meeting of the County pioneer society is announced to be held June 13th in the M. E. ohurch in Ypsilanti. Solemn requiem services were held in St. Thomas' church at 8 o'clock Saturday morning for the late Henry Clements. During the tive years of its existence over $25,000 has been spent by the Choral Union for concerts alone, not counting the incidentals. Monday eleven vagrants were tried in Justice Bennett's and Justice Pond's offices. The ranks of the anemployed are growing larger daily. Rev. J. W. Bradshaw was elected one of the trustees of the State Congregational Association, which held its annual meeting in Kalamazoo last week. During the severe rain storm last Thursday evening, Porter Hinckley, living west of Ypsilanti, lost a valuable mare valued at $500. It was struck by lightning. . The rain storm which swept over the i'ity Thursday nigbt did much damage to shade trees. Fences were blown down umi M-veral buildings toppled over on the Northside. The livingston Ilitll says that Erastus White, a biography writer f rom Ann Arbor, was at Unadilla a few days ago, sketching events in the military career of Union veteran. Mrs. Sunderland will speak nextSunday at her noon Bible Class in the Unitarian church on "Hypnotism as throwing light on spiritualism and certain Religious Phenomena. " Children who have been selling tickets for W. It. C. entertainments, have no authority for doing so, as children are not given tickets to sell for any entertainment given by the corps. The next social of the Unity Club will occnr next Monday evening. It is hoped that all persons interested in the club and its work will be present. A pleasing program may be expec;ed. Senior lits at the University of the male tribe are rather chary about wraring cap and gown, because the professional studsnts guy them so, but the co-eds say they are just lovely. Prosecuting attorney Kearney has sent notices to all of the saloon keepers of the city, forbidding their selling liquor to certain persons, under penalty of the law, who are considered drunkards. "The Credulity of Unbclievers" will be the topic of the lecture next Sunday evening in the M. E. Church. This will be the first of a series of lectures by Dr. Cobern on "Skepticism and the Bible." The T. , A. A. & N. M. Ry. has given notice that owing to the short supply oi fuel coal freight trains north will run only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, south Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. A large acreage of corn and oats has been planted and sown in this county. Now if Cleveland will let the farmer alone and the Coxeyites remain away, the prospects for large crops will be encouraging. Rev. W. L. Tedrow and family have returned to the city after several weeks' absence. During his stay, Mr. Tedrow preaehed a sermón before his former congregation in Constantine, which he served for nearly ten years. Sons of Veterans ai.d comrades of the Grand Arniy who contémplate attending the state encampment of the Sons at Three Rivera, will notice the change in date. Instead of June 19, 20 and 21, it is changed to June 2G, 27 and' 28. . The Civil Service Commission at Washington has ordered that an exaniination be held in this city on Saturday May 2t, 1894, coinmencing at 9 o"clock a. m., for the grades of clerks and carriers in the city postoffice. Only citizens of the United States can be examined. The age limitations are as follows: For carrier, not under 21 nor over 40; all ether positions, riot under 18 yearf. It is said that Gov. Ashley is practically out of the Ann Arbor road. Within a few years he held over $3,000.000 of the stock of the road, and today is credited with but 100 shares, a paltry $10,000 stock. When J. M. Ashley, Jr., was squeezed last year in Wall street, the Ashleys lost their holdings almost entire and sineo then have not held sufficent interest in the road to give them any influence in its management. The Washington correspondent of the Detroit Free Press telegraphed tha paper yesterday that Charles Fletcher had been confirmed by the senate ab postmaster of Ann Arbor. Of course this is a mistake. Wait for the eighth grand June festival to be given in the opera house on Thursday evening, June Tth, by St Thomas' conservatory of music. Re served seats without extra charge at Watts' jewelry store next Saturday morning. Monday morning the employés of the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank could no unlook the door, which leads into the bank. A hole had to be dug through the cellar and a hole cut through the floor. The door was then opened from the inside. Miss Gertrude Buck (Unitarian) o the senior class of the U. of M. wil preach in Union church Sunday morn ing and evening. Subject in morning "A God of Theology, ora God of Life?' Evening, "The Religious Experience o aSkeptic. " Miss Buck isa daughtei Judge Buck, of Kalamazoo. - Milan Leader. Itev. T. Sunderland was in attendance upon the annual meetings of the West ern Unitarian Conference and the UVstern Unitarian Sunday School Society at Chicago last week. He reat a paper before the tonner upon "Relig ious Work Among University Stu dents, " and one before the latter upon "The One Topic System of Sunday School Instrueüon." A concert and dramatic entertain ment, under the direction of A. S Houghton, choirmaster and organist will be given in Harris Hall Saturday evening, May 26, at 7 :30 P. M. Master Gerald Brown, Miss Belle Maxon, C. W. Mellor, Frank M. Bacon, Geo. C Steventor, J. Austin Bucknal,Karl Har riman.Miss D. Zera Thomson andother will take part in the entertainment. Adjutant and Mrs. McAbefl, from Detroit, of the Salvation Army wil speak at the Methodist church nex Sunday morning and will address a unión meeting at the Congregationa church at 3 o'clock in the afternoon They have been Salvation Army officer for ten years in various large cities o America, as far west as the Pacific coast, spending five years in California Their work in Detroit for the past 18 months has been of very successfu character, and during this perioc have presented the army in all the leading churches in that city. Mrs Agatha Helber died at her home No 63 E. Washington-st , Friday last of heart disease. She was 71 years of age and came to Ann Arbor in 1854 with her husband, Dr. Christian Helber Three children survive her, Eugene Helber, of the Neue Washtenaw Post Mrs. John Burg-, of this city, and Mrs Geo. Johnson, oi Lodi. The fuñera services were held from the house Sun day afternoon. The deceased was a sincere Christian and took great interest in church work. She was an active member of the Germán M. E. church of this city, which will miss her much. J. M. Ashley, Sr., has begun suit against the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railroad Co., asking judgment against the company in the sum of $332,000 with interest that will bring the total up to almost $400,000. The petition recites in detail the facts that lead up to the filing of the suit. It alleges that in December, 1891, a committee of the directors of the Ann Arbor road was appointed to audit the accounts of J. M. Ashley, who was then president of the road. This committee went through the accounts of Mr. Ashley and found due to him from the company $305,000 on account of unpaid salary, rolling stock purchased by him for the road out of his private account.