Local

llttveyou got your divorce yet?" is the lutest. Thero wasn't evou a figlit l:ist election diiy- Friilay. Bom, to Mr. and Mrs. Win. Rayer, of the U vard, ¦ boy, Friday. The roail to success these days lies not through the gate of peuuriousness. Weloh Post G. A. R. left thls morning for the Adrián cncampmeiit, o special train. Peuchcs selling at $1.50 er Imslel on the streets to-day, tiie fruit being raised at Ypsilanti. Tour last chance for an excursión to Detroit on Wednesday, Sopt. 7th. Belter tuke it in, liadn't you ? Couipany A received ttieir pay Monda? night for tlie state encampment, tlie pay roll amounting to f500. If "compllmentary" tickets to fairs would help out, the average editor would be In ¦ glorious condition these days. A game of ball between tlie Sunflowers and Yankees rwnlted In a score of 18 to 7 for the happy Sonflowers, yesterday. The editor of the Argus did not vote on the $5,000 question last Friday. ITe lost the great opportunity of a life-time. The Odd Fellows and Masons meet tonight at the Masonic Temple talk up the excursión which oceurs next Wednesday. The new building of Peter Carey's on Detroit street, at the corner of the street leading to the depot has been commenced. Adrián plays the Ann Arbor Browns on tlie fair grounds on Tuesday Sept. fitli. Get your bats ready. Adrián must be knocked out - or tlie umpire. Florence A. Goodyear of Ann Arbor has filed a bilí for divorce agaiust her luisband Charles Goodyear, on the ground of desertion and non-support. Dr. Ratnsay tilled the pulpit of the M. E. Church last Bands; a. m , and iu the evening preached tor the union service, which was held at the Baptist church. The Enterprise thinks th.it if we do strike gas in Ann Aibor, inducements will have to be offered manufacturéis to lócate liere just the same as at present. The county fair authorities are wide awake this year miking arrangpinents. They dont propose to raM nntll tlie l:ist day in the aftertioon bot will bavt things ready on time. Rev. Vm. Galpin supplied the pulpit of Si. Aiulrew's Church duriug the absence of the lector, last Sunday, and there have been many woids of for his rmon on that occasion. Schools comraence next Monday. Dust those books up, boys. Parents will have to dust around and have a niee little sum saved up, for the new books the chlldren must have will cost a heap. Two fmaie residente of Miller ave. had a "discussion wid sticks" and stove pokeis Friday a. m. in the alley in the rear of the Coürieu offie. The fur flew, gome blood, but no broken bones. The Ypsilantian editor who attended ihe Farmer' Pícalo at Whltmon Lakc had as awful time getting home, and the way he carves np tlie T. & A. A. E. R. authorities would cause a shiver to crawl down the spine of an Alaska walrus. Ida K. Brigham, of this city, u hose namecame into some publicity last winter in the Uolvertlty hospital troables, has applied for a divorce from her husband Qeo. A. D. Brigham, a rwldent f Bottot, Mam. Tlie cause being cruelty and neglect to support. It is understood that Pliilip Bach will serve an injnnction on the proper authorities to prevent the opening ot Second St., from Williiiin tO ÏT, JetTvnOU St.,and also to restrain the T., A. A. & N. M. R. R. Co. trom building a depot in the rear of his residence. Thcre are many hair-brained scbemes propasad to rid the city of the $5,000 voted last Friday. Tlie people need not bc alarmed, there will be no expenditure of the fund without full publieity, and the business men of Ann Arbor ought to have the best Interest! of the city at heart i f any class has. It Is rumored that a new clothing Arm bas been orgaolzed ander the name of Winans& Lindenschmidt, and the place of business to be the store vacited by Tuomey Bros. These two gentlemen, Nile8 H. Winans and John I,indenchmldt are well known to our eitizens. and well liked, also. A railing is being built between the sidewalk and the caniage way of the Pontiac st. bridge and tpproaehet thereto. This is an iinprovement tliat will be appreeiated by those coinpelled to use the bridge, as it bas been positively dangcrous. Now let the hirh board fence on the east side of the bridge be cut down to four feet. A good story is told of an old fellow who was upou his dcath bed, and who had made all preparations to leave this world. Turuing to a friend at his bedside he remarked. "I have made peace with my Maker and am ready to die but I would like to live ten years on one account.1' "What'a that ?" eagerly asked his friend. "Just to said the dying hero, "how mean tliey could get on peach baskets.'" It is a fact, notorious all over the state, that if a tramp, thief or general crook can only get into Washtenaw county he is safe from prosecutlon, and this is getting to be almost as great a rendezvous for that class of hiunanity as Canada is for the rascáis who default and go there to live on tbeir ill-gotten gains. No justlce in thls county dure issue a warrant for the arrest of a trump, thict' or any other sort of a villain without firstobtaining perrnissinn. Wlmt kiodof jutloe is that I How long are the people going to be overrun with trampa and blacklegs, and submit to t ? More toan one old friend of liev. Win. Galpin who knew and respected liim durlnc his four years at the Univer.-ity, will le glad to welcome biin back to our city agaln, where he comes to take charge of Hobart Guil.l Hall. The followliife from the Brlghton Citizen, gives bis intention: "Rev. Wm. Galpin has accepted the positlon as curator in llobart Hall Ann Arbor, and left for that city Mon 4ay last. He will remove bis famlly Hbout the middle of uext month. Hfl ha mule hosts of friemls. in Livingston county during his brief residence her and lus deportare will be greutly re gretted. His sermons have proved him t( oe a logical and dcep tliinker. He wil sooi) preaeh his farewell sermons to ai tne Episcopal missions in this county." W. G. Snow's livcry linrn is going op ¦apidly. Buildings are gettlng quite thick on tbe campus. It is too late for cat tails, lmt golden rod s in its prime. A hop at the rink by the Casino Club Priday evening. Tuomey Uros, have moved out, learing he city last Saturday. The lawn mowers, after a long rest, mve commeneed business again. Jas. Thompson was sent tojall for ten lays last Thursday for being drunk. Palnt and ealcimiue improve the looks of Wlnes & Worden's store. The öth wnM Bthing club went out to iush lake yesterday on a pisratorlal U edition. Fanny R Whecler was granted a divoree from Win. A. Wheeler by Judgc 'oslyn yesterday. R. E. Costello is to open a steam laaniry In Wilsey's new bloek on Fourth st , n about two weeks. Probably the house whieh attracts the nost attentiou just now is that of Mr. vempf on X. lngalls st. TheSo.Lyon Pickct says thut uWard li.rker is visiting at Ann Arbor." AVe ïave many Hard Waikcrs. James A. Garrity of this city has been granted a dlvorce from Mattie Garrity, on he ground of tlesertion, etc. The contraetors will have to ru-li hings to get the new buildings on the ampus ready for use tliis fall. It is estimated by some that the peach rop in Ann Arbor and immediate vicinity ' vill reach 50,000 bu.-hels, whleb is alittle : igh perhaps. Miss Hattie Ailes, will teaeh school in Cnkhvater this 6eason, having been aplolntcd preceptress of the high school, ice Miss Pruden resigned. One by one tbe summer sojoiirners are eturning home. As one was heard to ( emark the other day: "I teil yon borne ; s about the best place after all." Tbe secretary's office at the university ; ias been very mueh improved with new ! naple floor, new ash desks, etc. It is much lighter and handsomer than . ore. , The last and best occurs next Wednesay, and $1 " pays for the round trip. fou better sn. It will be a long time hebre the excursión season rolls around gain. There are 1,200 men at work on the xtension of the T. A A. A. R. It. beween Farwell and tbe Muskegon river, vhere they will have 1,000,000 yards of with to remove. There were a score or more of conractors at the university Monday anxouslj- awaiting the result of the bids. 'hey all went away looking down their io?e, exeept one. Monthly pomológico] meeting Sept. 3d t 2 p. in., in basement of court house. 'eaches, pears, grpe.=, traDsportation ounty and state fiiirs and other imporant topics will be dlaeoMed. Shippers of ruit espccially invited. Iïegents Grosvernor and Shearer loated tlie HW lahoratory of hygiëne ifoeday, placing it eastof the mechanica! aboratory and north of the dental college. 'he etevatlon for the new building shows quite a large :.nd tasty structure. A colored man by the name of Benuett, vho lives just north of ihe T., & A. A' iridsre on X. Main t , pot to quarrelling with bis white wlña last Sunday p. in., vlicn fhe liit him on tlie head with a eer bottle. knockini; hini senseless fora ime - but he recovered. The Ann Arbor Demoerat celebrated ts ninth anniversary last Friday. It is ïeedless to say that the Demoerat gets hcre evcry week with a budget of locáis bat gladtlens the eyes of its reader?, and gives It a reputation second to no other ns a netos paper. May it live long and pros jer. If our citizens who make a practico of mrntQg up the leaves and debris from around thi ir premises would have them ïurued in the forenoon tbey would eon'er a favor upon theinselves mi) thelr ïeighbors. For to attempt to sliep lights with the air heavy with BDloke, is a tedlOIU thlng to do. Coal hasjumped up 50 cents per ton, 0.50 being now clinrged for stove and nut, and $6.2.' for furnace. The eastern combination of mine owners and rail'Oad orporations have a tight grip on the icople thl NHOH, and lf we keep warm his winter it will make us sweat to earn the inonc-y to buy the coal. The reunión of Custfr'sold cavalry brigade occurs at Vlcksburg on Sept. 20tb, 21stand22d. Aid. Kearns and Herman Krapf of this city contémplate attending. J. Q. A. Sessions, J. E. Sumner, N. H. Wlnana, Fred Schlanderer, Sana Gregory and others were members of that brigade which ineluded the lst, üth, Glh and 7th Micli. cavalry rcj;iinciits. Mr. Kearna can I have some h r-eshoes for quoits?" askcd a small boy of our 3d ward alderman yesterday. "Can't spare any my bo}r," was the reply." What a manía for quolt pitching," continucd the alderman. "I had a lot of old shoes ïere and commeneed giving them away o the boys until it bas got lo be a rcruar nuisance. I have probably given nway a bushei basket f uil, but the supply s gone now." Col. John L. Burleigh, formcrly of this city, openeil the Union Square Theatre In New York City, Monday nlght with iiis new play "One Against Many.'' The (,'olonel made a grand success in "Clio '' last ycar, ard now ranks aniong the stars of the stage. He will play a month'i engagement at the Union ind Uien go upon tlie roed ngain. The Coloncl's many friends In this city will be plcased to learn ol bis growlng suc'l'o-dav the tirst car load of peaehes goes from Anu Arbor to Detroit. The express trains west from Detroit will hereafter beai some of the Ann Arbor peaehes to our retail merchants fur home consumption. Thus business is made lor the coininission mcrchiuit?, and the rallrOHdt - don't you see? And il makel business tor our citizens who have to pay fni tin -¦ cuniiniísions and t rcitilils it tbey want the peaches. " r.u can just bet there willbe an injunction servtü on the eomnion council to prevent the spreading of the. $0,000 llpoh tlie city t-ix rolls," said I). Cramcr yc-leidiiy. "It is time tbisexpenditureofpiblii funds Illegally was stopped." "Wh wil serve the injunction?" weasked. "A nuni ber of us, all solld citizens you bet," an theu he left us. Well, "bieb is lifu!' Tliere are thOM who commence kicking in their eradles, and keep it up tinlil tiic get loto their cofflni. There are tnoM who, were tbey nabend into this tubla nary sphere withasilver spoon in thci mouth, would siiimll lor a gold one. I is time to liml out wliether tlie "old fogy element will run the town or whethe it will not. Just as cood a lawyer a there is in the state of Michigan snys ttll the tax is legal.