Local Brevities

W. W. Douglas is talkins: of removing his business to Oscoda. Rev Dr Ramsay speaks on usefullness and happiness next Sunday evening- Mrs. Joseph Donnelly is attending the prohibition convention at Indianapolis. Many new stone cross walks have been put in about the city during the past week. The last hop the season to be given by M, C. Sheehan takes place to-morrow night. Dr. J. C. Wood is repainting his residence, on the corner of Fourth and Packard streets. Remember the gymnasium minstrels to-night. The most fun in weeks on tap at the opera house, Twenty-nine Royal Arch Masons went to Dundee last Fridar evening and had a royal good time. Miss Emma Butler died Tuesday in this city, aged 22 years. The funeral services were held yesterday. Miss Cora Pulcipher takes the place in the telephone exchange from which Miss Katie McGuire resigns. The excavation for the cellars of the new bnck stores to be erected on State street has been commenced. The Main street base ball nine defeated the Manchester nine last Wednesday by a score of 6 to 3. Owners of property on North Fourth street should look at their sidewalks to 8ee If they are in proper condition. M. C. Peterson is moving the house on the corner of Fourth and Washington streets, he purchased last week of Mrs. Risdon. Mrs. íüsdon. Burglars enterf d J. W. Maynard's house, on División street, last Friday evening, but did no harm except to irighten the girl. Sheriff E Walsh wears a new white hat. F. Kempf , of Northüeld. thought his ïorse could outtrot the sheriff 's horse. Henee the new white hat. Frank Campion has signed with the Mansfields, in the tri-state league for f75 a month for four months. He leaves ior his new position to-day. A 1,200 poand steer was 3tolen f rom J. F. Lawrence, Esq., last Saturday night. It was too f at to travel f ast and possibly has already been partly eaten. A little child of Mrs. Anton Eisele was knocked down by a horse on the crossing by the Arlington house yesterday afternoon. Fortunately it escaped injury. A tramp, giving his name as Peter Miller, had his arm broken last Sunday night by being struck by a train, near Geddes. He was taken to the county house for treatment. In the circuit court last Friday the case of John F. Coon vs. Milton S. Rice et al, for an accounting was referred to E. F. Goodrich and the court then adourned until yesterday. Henry Schlicht, of Bridgewatsr township, was thrown from his wagon last Saturday, while going down hill,by the lumber upon the wagon sliding forward, and was instantly killed. Mary E. Crump. the little daughter of A. Crump, of the fifth ward, died Monday, of consumption, aged seven years and three months. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon. The Gym Minstrels have billed the town in gorgeous style. Their programme is said to be excruciatingly funny, The participants are well known students and the house should be crowded. Thirty-seven tickets were sold at the Toledo depot for the prohi bition convention in Indianapolis. They went in a car with a label "prohibition cranks'' and with badges bearing the same device. T. X". Kayne, formerly manager of the Egan truss company, of this city, and well known as an expert in his line, leaves about June lOth for Cnicago, where he has organized the Chicago truss company. Those desiiïng to attend the St. Louis convention next week can. obtain one fare for the round trip from the Toledo and Ann Arbor railroad. Reclining chairs will be furnished from Toledo free to all passengers. Mrs. Miranda M. Sperry died last Sunday of pneumonia, at the residence of her son, John Sperry, on the Saline road, aged 76 years, 6 months and 29 days. The funeral services were held Tuesday morning from the house. The Farmers and Mechanic's bank changed cashiers yesterday,. County treasurer Fred Belser succeeding V. A. Tolchafd. A careful examination of the conditon of the bank, shows it to be in a prosperous fluancial condition. The Webstors teacher's institute, which meets on the last Saturday of every month, will hold an interesting meeting at the Webster Congregational church to-morrow. A general invitation is extended to all the teachers in the county. Mr. W. B. McCreery has rented the Hoban building on Ann street, now occupied by Webb as a furniture store. He will open up July 15 with a large stock of groceries, crockery, etc. His son-in-law, Philip Stimson,of Saginaw, will clerk for him. The American Koad Machine Co., for which M. Staebler is the Washtenaw agent, has commenced suit for infringment of patents against the Western Reversible Machine and all persons are warned by the company against purchasing the Western Reversible. Hon. John P. St. John, of Kansas, will speak at the grand prohibition ratification meeting to-morrow (Saturday) evening. The Washtenaw delegation to the Indianapolis convention will have returned and considerable enthusiam will flnd vent at the meeting. Mrs. Eliza Bennett, of Ypsilanti, has flled a bilí in the circuit court asking for a divorce f rom Esek W . Bennett on the ground ot desertion since March, 1880. She sets forth that he has not since that time supported either her or her children nor has she seen him since that time. Mr. L. P. Goodrich, of Ypsilanti, has been engaged to take in short-hand. Mrs. Ormiston Chants lectures in the Unitarian church next Sunday. The woman's club, of Chicago, propose to publish Mrs. Chants lectures, delivered in this country, in a volume, to be sold in aid of a charity. George Newall DePuy died Monday of jaundice. He was an old Ann Arbor printer, having learned his trade with .Dr. Chase at the Courier office. He was thirty-four yetrs old. The funeral services were held Wednesday morning from the residence of hir mother on Maynard street. At St. Andrews church last Wednesday evening, Miss Kate Francés Celle, sister of Mrs. George S. Morris, and Dr. Arthur A. Boyer, of New York City, were married by Rev. Samuel Earp. A reception for the bridal couple was given after the marriage ceremony at the residence of Prof. Morris. The A. O. U. W. and the Ann Arbor city band decided Wednesday night to celébrate the fourth of July by a grand picnic at Relief Park. The following efficiënt committee was appointed to make appropriate preparations: Gottlieb Luick, G. Haller, C. Rinsey, J. Harrer, J . Heinzmann, H. Otto and F. Graf. the Ann Arbor Dramatic club will give an entertainment abüut June 16, for the benefit of the Catholic school. The play will be Robert Emmet, the Limerick Boy. The cast óf characters will be filled by J. E. Harkins, J. Willis, J. E. Duffy, L. C. Boyle, M. Sheehan, G. W. Greening, G. Parker, Miss Nellie Hoban and Miss unie O'Brien. Lillian Pond, the oldest daughter of George Pond, local editor of the Ann Arbor Courier, died yesterday afternoon of consumption. She was a bright jittle girl, nine years of age and had been ill for some months. The funeral services will be held this evening at 8p. m. from the house and the remains will be taken to Flint. Mr. Pond has the sympathy of many friends. Moses Seabolt, the well-known grocer and chief of the öre department, was married May 20th. in Hay Spring, Nebraska, to Julia A, Hasbrook, formerly of Marshall. The bridal couple arrived in this city Monday night. Mr. Seabolt's numerous friends in the city will congratúlate him upon the surprise he has given them. Mr, and Mrs, Seabolt were serenaded on the evening of their return. Many of our farmer readers will remember the head of Mills Bros. Halstein Fresian heard of cattle, Tritomias Mercedes Clifden, exhibited at the county fair last f all. It may interest them that the sire of this buil, sold for $2.050 at an auction sale ia Iowa last week, while his gran dam sold for $1,775, and his grand sire for 51,175 at the same sale. A six month old cal f of Tritmoia, the gardam, sold for $1,375. This giyes some idea of the value of some of the blooded stock of the Holstein tresian variety. Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, of London, England, the noted reformer and Orator, will speak at the Unitarian church next Sunday morning and evening. Morning subject, "The Ide.il Life." Evening subject, "Religious and Philanthrophic work in London." Mrs. Chant is undoubtedly the ablest and most popular woman speaker of England, as she is one of the most eminent in religious, temperance, reformatory and philanthrophic work. She has been sueaking for the last three months in Washington, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago and other large cities and has everywhere crowded the largest churches and other auditoriums. A lady writing from Chicago says: "No one individual, many of us believe, has ever made such an impression for good on Chicago as has Mrs. Ormiston Chant. Her eloquence is heart-thrilling. Over tMro thousand listened to her in central music hall, hundreds standing and the silence was breathless." The high school nine will go to Detroit to-morrow to play the high schoo' nine there. A return game will probably be played here the following Saturday.