Local Affairs

- Oíd pnpers for sale at the Aequs office. - The Common Couneil will meet in regular monthly session on Monday evening next. - The brick-layers coinmenced work iu the court luiu.se tronches on Mouday afternoon last. - Judge of Probate Harriman returned froni his visit to Vermont ou the 24th and is now on duty. - Company A's excursión to Put-in-Bay on Tuesday numbered about 250. An eujoyable time is reported. - The ladies having secured nearly tbe requisite amouut of money have ordered that flag for Company A. - September has an r in it, and it will tlierefore be in order to commeuce oyster eating on and after to-morrow. - Dr. W. J. Herdman has gone. to Nashville, Tenn., to attend the meeting of the National Teachers' Association. - The Ypsilanti city schoul district got dog taxes duriug the school year just closed amounting to f133. Under what law ? - Au ice-cream festival is to be held this evening in the rooms of the Reform Club, for the benefit of the juvenile temperance union. - In rain did we seareh the columns of the Ypsilanti Senlmel for Aug. 2'2. Wo could u't find a word of 'plaiut about the new oourt house. Better luck next tima. - Prof. Estabrook, Bellows, MoLouth, Lodeman, and Vrooman, of Ypsilanti, attended the recent session of the State Teaahers' In. stitnte ; also N. A. Richards, of Dextei. - Our Manchester correspondent says that lightuing struck a Hepublican pole at Napoleon, Jackson County, ou the afternoou of the 28th init., and thinks it an ominous sign. - The rain-storm of Tuesday eveniug last was almost a unprecodented one, and woe unto the poor fellow who was caught out in the down-pouring torrents. We were ane of them. - Hon. A. J. Sawyer arrived home from that Upper Península excursión on Wednesday night, pleased with the ho.pitable reception given the party, but not at all onamored with the country. - Prof. Olney of the University, and Superintendent Perry and Prot. Nichols of the city schools, were iu attendauce upon the serrion of the State Teachers' Instituto held at Lansiug last week. - Prof. J. F Schaeberle, one of the most popular teache, 3 of instrumental music in our city, lias taken up his resideuce at Lititz, Pa., having been appointed professor of music in the old Moravian College there. - Mrs. Phebe Valentino, widow of the late John Valentino, of Webster, died on the 27th iuat., aged 86 yeara. She had resided in Webster over 40 years, haviug removed to that township ïrom Genesee County, N. Y. - The baru of Joseph McGruiness, in tha town of Dexter, was struck by lightniug on Tuesday afternoon. Several parties had taken shelter in it but no one was seriously injured, aud fortunately the barn was uot set on flre. - An Ypsilanti telegram to the Free Press, dated Aug. 25, said : " Benjamin Etnerick and his wife were severely injured this eveniug by beiug thrown from a buggy. The horae becaine frighteued by a boat on the river." -The public schools opened on Monday with all the teachers and a large number of pupila in attondance. Up to yesterday the uumber of uon-rsident scholars registered in the High School was largely in excess of the sama date last year. - That eclipse of the moon, set dowu for Thursday evening of lust week, was a complete iailure in this vicinity, owing to an uutimely and severe rain storm, But there was a beautiíu.1 rainbow at so late an hour as betweeu eight aud uine o'clock. - Albert J. Volland, oï this city, who graduated from the Univei-sity in l7ü, has been appointed to a positiou iu the Normal School at Platville, Wis. Chas. B. Cochrane, of the class of 1877, also of this city, goes to Oseoda, Mich., as principal of tho public school. -Messrs. Boyd, Eisdon, Sorg, Í. N. Gott, M. Fleming, M. J. Noyes, George Sutton, and other raembers of the Aun Aarbor Commandery of Knights Templar went to Cleveland on Monday, with the Jackson Commandery, to particípate in the great gathering of the order. - A Mr. Allen, from Calhouu County, has purchased the lot and part of a house ou the corner of Jefferson and Mayuard streets, and ground has airead y been broken for tha mam or front part, and Mr. Hammond and his as8istants will soou ma ka a whole house out of it. Good. - Last Sunday Emma P. Graf, aged 40, and her daughter Henrietta, aged 8 years, were Imried. Both died of typhoid fevor. By the death of Mrs. Graf a large family of children is left uiotherle88. Two more children of Mr. Graf died of the same disease on Wednesday morning,- a girl of 15 years, and a boy about six weeks old. - The hst of enter tainmenta before tha Students' Lecture Association for the coming seasoo contaius the names of Phillips, Ingersoll, Murray, Conkling, Swing, and the Whitney Concert Party (formerly the Smith-Whitney Concert Party) most of which have been formally engaged. The courae will coutain other equaüy good talent, and caunot iail to merit the most liberal patronage of the people of Ann Arbor and vicinity. - Rev. L. R. Fisk and wife celebrated their silver wedding, at the Tabernacle Church, Detroit, on Wednesday evening. As Lewis and we were boys together, - and tho proceeds of one and the same horse having paid his board bill white preparing for college, and our board bill while our education was being " fini'hod off," - we regret that we could not accept Uie invitation to paiticipate in the festivitios of the happy occasion. The many friends of Mr. Fisk in this city will thank us for extendmg their congratulations. - A prediction made in the Arqus when the present pnblisher was not its publisher or reponsible for its utterances, that it " had more subscribers thau the Register had or ever woulu have," seems so to rankle and tester in 'lie breasts of our neighbors acrosa the square, that it is only fair to say for their relief that the then publishers probably woulda't have put their foot in it had they kuown that the üeijister was to be issued at 50 cents a year r a high-pnced agent paid to travel around the country and give it away. - During the heavy thunder storm of Monlay evening last the barn of Christian Pfeifle, 'ti the town of Superior, was struck by lightmg and burned, together with most of its contenta, inoludiug several hundred bushels of wheat and oats ; also the straw stacks adjoiniug. The light was so bright that the fire alarm waa soundêd and the engmos got out and startod for the sixth ward, ia the eastern portion of which it was suppoaed to be. Mr. Pfeifle had an insurauce of SóóO on barn and $1,500 on contenta (but two-thirds of personal losspayable) iu the VVashtenaw Mutual,- the company's flrst loss in four months, except a stack of wheat. - If the Register growlers and elanderera would condescend to give their names to the public, the public could judge for "self of their special interest in the schools, of their qualiñcationa aa critics, and of 'he importauce which should attach to their ravings. The editorial indorsement is not a tithe the recommendation their own names ""gU be. Even the large taxpayer the Register admiringly holds up to the public gaze (aud a moderate oue may eaaily have paid more 'n a series of twenty or thirty yeara, more or JS8, thau we are wortli, without aggregating a very heavy sum either), might Jiave his au"ous sufficiently expoaed by giving hia name 'o the public.