Local Brevities

Will Root is with M. D. Adams at the bazaar. Ed . Kuebler has a new Expert col umbia bicycle. Dean & Co. have put in large new píate glass Windows. The Methodist strawberry festival came off last evening. A. L. Noble has purcha3ed a typical little Indian pony for nis children. The Agricultural and Horticultural society have raised $350 of the $700they owe. The.second day of the fair this year will be free to children under 12 years of age. S. A. Moran will run the chances of jreaking nis neck on a new Champion bicycle. The pension examining board ot surgeons for this district meet next Tuesday. A new sidewalk has been laid in Tont of Mctall's second hand store on ?ourth street. C. L. Denmon, who has been very ill with inflammatory rheumatism, is slowly recovering. Jacob Lentz, of Lodi, has purchased a bieycle to take advantage of the good roads in Lodi. Mr. E. Clancy, of the fourth ward, who feil and broke one of his ribs last week, is recovering. Rey. Dr. Ramsay wiü preach a prohibition sermón next Sunday evening, entitled rum and ruin. The high school nine play a base ball game in Manchester to-morrow with he nine at that place. Jacobus fc Son are building a house :or Mr. John Seieler, on Maynard treet just off of Main. C. H. Gibson has rented the Devaney itore on Huron street and will move lis barber shop into it. Editor Chilson, of the South Lyou 'icket, came over the other day to get an American Champion bicycle. The Haines Bros. concert grand piano placed in Hobart Hall bv -Lew Clement on trial, has been accepted. The remains of Mrs. Mary Woodruff were brought here from Detroit, Wednesday, for burial in Forest Hill cemeery. The colored Baptist society have troken ground for a church edtfice, on he corner of Fourth and Pontiac treets. Joe Folhemus will be appointed the xtra letter carrier for this city. The new substitute carrier has not yet been elected . There was a very large attendance at he dance given by the Ann Arbor City band in Germania hall last Friday evening. Koch & Henne have something to say n another column concerning their new stock of furniture, which has just arrived. Lawyer Thompson is now an eider of .he Evangelist Mission, which conveiied at Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday ie 23rd. Tliere will be uo meeting of Golden ïule LodgeF.and A. M., Friday night, as cálled, on account of the Dundee visitation. Charles F. Bates, of Lima, has been endered the positiou of farmer at a Jakota Indian agency. The salary is j75a mcmth. The Ann Arbor town board of review will be in session in the basement of he court house Monday and Tuesday of next week. Charles T. Parshall of Ann Arbor own bas the finest strawberry bed in bis section, it is claimed by those that ought to know. The mam street base ball nine has aranged to play a game of base ball in ilancliester, decoration day, with the Manchester mne. Heinzmann & Laubengayer's new wheat elevator is being raised this week. The contract calis for completion by June 20. Andrew Eenschler, of the flrst ward, ell from a wagon while going to the Jrawford flre, Tuesday last, and broüe lis arm below the elbow. D. Loomis, H. Hawkins, J. L. Stone and Fred Besimer returned Tuesday from a two week's sojourn at the Strawberry club house. Grossman & Schlenker have the contract for covering the roof and sides of Heinzmann & Laubengayer's wheat elevator with corrugated iron. . Mrs. Fairchild, mother of the late Stephen Fairchild and of Mrs. George Greville, died in Detroit and was buried VVednesday, in Ypsilanti. Mrs. Elizabeth McKeever, formerly of Ann Arbor, died in Detroit, May 16, aged 5S years and was buried in the Northfield cemetery last Fnday. Washtenaw Chapter, R. A. M., will visit Mt. Vernon Chapter of Dundee this evening where they will confer the Royal Arch, returning about midnight Rev. Andrew Brcwa, step father of Prof . C. M. Gayley, of this city, died at Iron Mountain, May 14. The remains were brought here for interment. The local officers were on the lookout Saturday for the twcr tramps, one with blue overalls, who were accused of stealing four razors and $60 in money in Hamburg. Lew Stevens, for this past two years ffith Southard, has purchased the barber shop of A. Moore, at No. 2 East Huron street. Mr. Moore will remove to Detroit. Among thé new features for thp Washtenaw Agricultura} and Horticultural fair this fa)l will be a pony race for boys, aud a farmer's race, free to all farmer's horses; Last Monday, Caspar Rinsey receivec a crate of tomatoes and cucumbers from H. O. Clark's Florida garden Cucumbers eight cents each, tomatoes dfteen cents per pound. Cramer & Corbin have commenced a suit against Wm. H. Siegfried and his bondsmen, of Tecumseh, for $5,000 for selling liquor to one Wade Richardson, which ït is claimed caused his death. The dead lock in the Ypsilanti council for city clerk was broken last Monday evening, Frank Joslyn, Esq., béng re-elected clerk by a vote of 9 to 1. The deadlock on marshal atill continúes. Mrs. Ellen A. Fox, wife ot Charles Fox, of the Fourth ward, died May 17, of consumption, aged 23 years, 4 months and 25 days. Funeral was held last Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church. D. Knapp, of the Sanborn map and publishing Co., has been in the city this week making a map of the business )ortion of the citv and the public buildngs in the interest of the nre companes. Mrs. Prudence West, wife of the late John West, died at her residence on jiberty street Monday, May 21, of pneumonía, aged 79 yeiirs. The fuïeral was held at the house Wednesday afternoon. The fire alarm rang Wednesday mornng. The fire pro ved to be in the ritehen of Thos. Flowers' house on Cwelfth street. It was extinguished with a tew pails of water before much lamage was done. The fair grounds will be open to all who subscribe to raise the debt of the ociety from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m., each lay, excepting Sunday, to exercise heirhorses. Tickets can be secured of the general superintendent. Walter Toop, the State street baker, las rented the A. E. Hall property on síorth Main street, and fltted ït up for a bakery. He has given the place a genral overhauling,papering and painting, and everything looks neat and clean The Ann Arbor Browns are béng reorganized for the season, and are pen to challenge from any amateur lub in Michigan. Chas. Kline will probablj manage the boys, to whom ommunications may be addressed. Miss Baessler, who teaches in District No. 15, Fractional, Ann Arbor and Scio, on the Dexter road , is earning igh praise from tbose who are aware f the great advancement being made jy the young scholars under her charge. The Wrought Iron Bridge Co., of 3anton, Ohio, was the lowest of eleven bidders for the bridge to be built by the own over the Huron at Geddesburg. 'his is the same firm that built the ridge on the Whitmore Lake road. Their bid was $2,000. William Bush sold 14 Shorpshire atnbs, to be taken to Green Oak, mounting to S240. F. B. and C. Jraun sold seven lambs to be taken ,o the same place to the amount of 105. Mr. Bush has been offered $95 'or two ewes which he refused. Mrs. L. C. Bisdom will build a new ;3,5'J0 resi.ience on her lot on the orner of Fourth and Liberty streets. bhe has sold the house now on the lot o M. C. Feterson, who has purchased vvo lots in the second ward and will emove the house to them. Ït will be divided and will make two houses. Theflre alarm on Tuesday was cause d y the burning of the barn and outïouses btlonging to David Crawford, of the fourth ward, just inside the city imits. The contents of the barn was a total loss, They were cleaning house and all their bedding was in the barn. The meeting to organize a humane ociety in this city last Friday evening adjourned until 7:30 o'clock next Tuesday eyening at Firemen's hall. The comrnitteeon organization is ready to reort and a f uil attendance is requested. adi3s especially are iuvited to be preent. The University Frohibition olub are laning for a grand ratification meetug on the return of the Washtenaw and University delegates to the National convention of the college boys and of -he party. Dr. 1. K. Funk, edilor of he Voice of N. Y. City, will be the speaker. William S. Ross died of heart disease, Tuesday night. He had re;ired in apparently Iris usual health and passed away while sleeping. He was sixty-two years, flve months and twenty-threë days old. The uneral services will bè held this morning. J. T. Jacobs lmying so!d nis farm vvo and one halt miles from Ann Albor, on the south Ypsilanti road, is selling off his stock, farm implements, etc, at private sale. He will not holrl an auction. Cali at the store of J. T. lacobs & Co., or at the farm at once or bargains. Miss Mary A. Everest died Friday afternoon, of general deDility, after a ong illness. She was fifty-two years of age. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from her brother's, iVm. B. Everest's residence, on South División street, and were conducted by Rev. Dr. 's Ramsay and Haskell. The last meeting of the Tuesday 31ub for the season was held this week Mrs. Jaycox was re-elected president and Miss Condón secretary. The sessions ofthe club will be resumed in October next, and the same course which has made the club so popular this year, will be continued. Miss Lottie A. Sage, daughter of James R. Sage, of the third ward, died Monday, the 21st of typhoid f ever, aged is years, 2 months and 11 days. She was a favorite among her acquaintances and her death is a sad blow to her parents. Funeral services were held at her home,Wednesday afternoon. "The Indian Summer Time." A beautiful song and chorus, by Will L Thompson, author of Gathering Shells on the Sea Shore, Come Where the Lilies Bloom, etc, etc. It is one of the prettiest songs ever published; any music dealer will mail it for 40 cents. Published by W. L. Thompson & Co., East Liverpool, Ohio. The Michigan Central railroad will sell land excursión tickets at one fare for the round trip on March 20th, April 3rd and 24th, May 8th and 22nd, June 5th and 19th, 1888, to points in the States of Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska Kansas, Arkansas. Texas and New Mexico, tickets limit id to 30 days from date of sale. Will also on March fth Ai ril 9th aDd 23rd, 1888, sell rounatrip tickets at one fare to a large number of points in the South, south of the Ohio river and Bowling Green. Xy., tickeiB limite d to 30 days from the date of sale To-morrow evening tbe Chequamegon Orchestra will give a vocal and instrumental concert at the Saline opera house, with Mr. E.N. Bilbie, aa solo violinist; Mr. Meade Vestal, cornet Soloist; Mr. 11. E. Drake trombone soloist; and Mr. James E. Harkins, character vocalist. The lovers of good mnsic will notbe disappointed witti the orchestra. Rev. H. J . Lewis, of East Saginaw, has been in thé city a few days this week for the purpose of effecting au organization of independent colored voléis. Mr. Lewis is meeting with jood success in organizing clubs and hinks that two thousand out of the seven thousand colored voters in the State will identifj themselves with ;he mgvernent. Since our report last week the followng liquor dealers of Ann Arbor have paid the 500 tax: F. F. Reimold, Ludwig Walz and Millman & McNally. The following have paid the S3UO tax: Adolph Kemper and Geo. A. VVeideïch. John Terns of Ypsilanti has paid S500 and Geo. O. Kichel S300. The total amount paid in the county treasury up to yesterday noon was $23,260, of which 10,930 was from Ann Arbor city. The monthly meeting of the Pomoogical society will be held in the ment of the court house it 2 o'clock p. m . , June 2d. The topics for discussion will be: Fruit prospects from present : appearances; the uses of small ' iruits; berry pickers; does it pay ! to dry and preserve fruit; creamery; question box. Full report of committee on fruit exchange, exhibit of fruit and flowers. Shippers of fruit esDecially invited. ! Last Monday night Mr. C. L. Tuomey, of Ann Arbor Town, was awakened by the barking of dogs in his pasture. On calling his hired man and investigating, they discovered three dogs chasing and killing his sheep. The dogs ran away at Mr. Tuomey's approach,but as it was bright moonlight he thinks he knows the dogs and says they were from the city. He found some 20 sheep killed and several badly injured. Justice of the peace, J. D. Williams made an nppraisal and put in a claim against the town for $94. Lambert Dresselhouse died at his home in Freedom, at six o'clock last Thursday evening, May 17th. He had been ill for about nine months, and at the last passed away without a struggle. During his long illness he had been tenderly cared for by the loving hands of his children. Mr. Dresselhouse was sixty-two years old. He was a man hignly respected by those who knew him, a good neighbor and an indulgent father He left eight children, four sons and four daughters. His wife, Mrs. Dresselhouse, preceded him over the river of death by thirteen years. The funeral sevices were held on Sun; day afternoon and were largely attended. Rev. Mr. Vaulkner spoke to the triends in Germán, and Fresiding Eider Copley, of Monroe, in Eoglish. The remaina were taken to the Rowe cemetery for interment.