Local And Other Brevities

- Tlie F;ir at Ypsilantl s to be continued dorlng to-day. - Oor Reporter has wrltten op the late Countv Pa!r n another column. - A Fair is betng helrt?at Clielsea. ComroenceO yesu-rday aml closed to-day. - Tlie 3tat tnx apporttoned to tlils comity tor the cuireot year Is $41,498 80, an !ncre:tso of $8,647.50 over the taxof last ycar. - The rallroad risiiit oí wny damage asscssmcnt Jury took unother tnni at U this lyeek, aud on Wednesday awarded $400 to Mr. H. Hortos, of Plttsfleld. - Personal mattei beyond our contra] preventoil Da from risltlog Fpsllantl nml tlie Falr of tlic Enslorn Michiffan Agrien! tural Society on Wcdnesday, as we had promlsed ouiself the pleosnre o' dol ig. - Zack Ch.vxdi.kk and Henuy Walpkon' addresfled the "loil' in the Opera House on JMouday evening last. The house Ws vrell-fllled, and the speakers - well, Zack ranted and stormed and swure as us nal, and WaIiDBOh blgufoluted as Ia hls wont. Don't thlnk the laHhfnl feit very mueli elated with tlt o performance. - Tlic Iaw and Medical Departuients o! the University oponed on Tucsday. Up to yesterday uoon 272 studenls in tlie Medical Department liad reglstered wlth the Bteward and pald thelr admission fee or term tax, and 848 Law Stodeots. .These iiuinbers are an lacrease on the corre 9pondIng date for last year, and Indícate very full departuients. - Tliat bal'oan ascensión on Friday was noi cntireiy a success. The balloonist, by aid of considerable HíUng, ascended two or tliree times as hirh as a tftll man could reach, maktng a linal liirht Ín Bai.dwi.n's orchard followed by a erowd wlio made up for their disappointinent by an gpple bombardment. The balloonist attrlbutcd hls Ini I it re to the poor qiiality of his gas; we thought it owlng to lack In quautlty. The following letter, which explains itself, has boen handed us with a request to publisb. The County Cornniittee will probably "set on" Mr. Muuray's caso in due seasen, and the result ot' tho inquest will bo annonnoed in due soason, jiieantime, weregretilr. MüEEAT'S with■d ra wal : Salem, 'Washtenaw Couxty, ) September 30, 1K72. j Ij tlie Democratie County Committee: I hereby tender my deolination as one of the Coroner uandidates nonainated at tho late convontion for tho County of Wushtenaw. In duiiig this I would state that I huvu held the office with no benefit to ïnyself or the community. I live in tho extienie part ot the Coauty, where tli ■ coniuunity lo not generally deñre or ■wiiut the services of a Coroner, and the noinination could bo more advantageously located in soiuo city or village where there would bo a greater demand tor his services. P. C. Murray. The "Straight' or Bourbon Con veniion at Jaekson, on tho 27th, uit , was a 41 big thiug." There wore almoêt "deleigatea " enough present to iill the places on the proposed ticket, with ei-Mayor AVheatoN, ' Judgo " Burt, and " Bill. ■Ci.ahk" ns cbief buglera Hon. Wm M Ferry was Doniioated for Governor ; CHARLES WOODBTJFF, of the Ypsilanti Hentinel, for Lieutenant Governor ; and, their ñames aro already written on the ecroll of fauie, so it is unnecessary to record them.