Local Affairs

See the new advertisement of llach A: Abel. - I'each liiuls how the color. The Thir(í ward school is to have u fourth teacher. - Easter Sunday approaehes, - April 21. Hsrvest your eggs. - Freedoru is to hiva a new town hall : so tliö voters decidod at the late eloctiou. - We ure mdehted to Frank Felcli tor another package ot San Francisco papers. - Architect Bunting has been in town severnl days looking over the vvork on the Court House. _ At the late election in Ypsilauti the pioposed appiopriation to iww tire engine was deïeated. - A short horse is soon ourried:" the Council niet on Wednesday eveuing last and „djourned. - The Ypsilanti Commercial: " The Light i.iuard Band luis lirokeu np. Jealousy was the jiriucipal canse." - Smith's wood team raii away on Sato ir day atteruoon, hut duln't succeed in doing any fjeat uniount of dainae. - Mr. Kelsey, of York, informa ns that the railroad bridge across the river at Müan will be completed to-morrow. - Rev. Thomas VV. Merrill, a resident of tliiscity as long ago as 182!), diod at Latísíug ou the 8th inst., aged 7tí years. - The Couocil is to meet next Monday eteniug. Candidatos for Treasurer, Marshal, Attoruey, etc, please "man the guns." - Lizzie Uicketts, living in the Fourth wwd, step-daughter of Capt. Chaffee, feil trom ifeuce on Monday last and broke an arm. - The building of that new brick stable in the rer of Cook's Hotel is to be oommenced at ouce. Hoffstetter & Honi do the niason work. - Frank S. Lansin, late of thia city, has engaged in general merchaudise business at Ltjroy, Ingham Co., in partnership with H. S. Hatch. - Owing to the ram-stoim of Tuesday last the large force of assistant superintendente on thaCourt House were thrown out of a job for the day. - Mrs. Ellsworth.widow of the late Frederich Ellsworth, died in this city on the 8th iust, aged 80 years. She was a native of lïoscowen, New Hampshire. - Jefferson Warner, for many years residing adjoiuiug tliia city, died in York on the 6th nat., at the residence of a daughter, Mrs. S. Clark, aged (Í) years. - Marshal Johnson reports bnt ó nrrostw iii March: 1 for assult vvith intent to kill, 2 for sssault and battery, 1 drank and disordorly, J for disorderly couduct and indecent language. At the last meeting ot the old Council Aid. iQott moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Recorder for their proinptness and fidelity m guarding the interest of the city dunng tlio year. Carried unauimously, - Messers Rogers & Hutch are juist abont coaipleting a steam Ëouring mili at Chelsea. Tworun of stones will soon be in motion and atbird will be put in as business inoreases. Chelsea bas long needeil such a mili. - On Wedncsday Judge Haniinan made au order semdin lioswell aud Levi Audrews, of Sylvau, two (riiifat fcoys aged 9 and 11, to the State PubSïe ehOÉ at üoklwater, rilling the only two va i&neie in the pilota assignett to this county. - That City Directory which S. 1). Allen commeuced canvassing for is to be enlarged to a County Directory, Mr. F. II. Pray baving purclwsed the interest of Mr. Allen and lijs partner, retainiug Allen to canvass this city tnd Ypsilanti. - The Ettterjtrixt' says that an eel eight uiches long has been c-iught m l'almer's ditcfa m flfiridgewater, - one of last year's planting Hlsothat D. W. Palmer and Wm. Hsnko deprosited .84,1)00 white fisn tïy in th lake at Pv'Mior Eaisiü on the 2d lust. - Or. 'W. 3. Calvert, of Jaekson, and Prof. ( 'liarles (iratohell, ot the Homeopathie Medical College, liiave purchised the Mineral Spring House, on Mainii street, also the residence of Mr. W. W. -Whedon on the same street, and we understa-fcu .will fit up the Spring House ior the receptipn of a large number of patients. Mr. L. H. Hopkins, of the New YorklDatly Uraphte is ou a píoíessional visit to our city. He proposes to wnte tap its business and business men for the jourual he lepresents, and the article will be iltu#trated by views of our inblic buildings, etc. Keep ai eye out for the Graphic. -Col. Withiiigton has issued a geEtal orJer convening a court martial at Ypsilanti, April 20, to try uch persons as may ik brought before it. The court will conslst of Lieut. W. B. Kay, of this city; Lieut. C. N. Webb, of Ypsilanti, and Lieut. Elmer Brown ís Judge Advocate. - At the annual meeting ot the tire departimeot held last Saturday afternoon the follow:ing officers were elected : Chief Engineer, 'Charles B. Davison ; lst Assistant, Fred. Siptey; 2d Asshtant, Newton Felch ; Secretary, H.B. Dodsley; Treasurer, Charles H. Worden ; Steward,, ƒ ames Atkinson. - &t tthe sjjnual meeting of the Anu Arbor Scientific A.se(iQif.tion held on Saturday evening last, the foilo,:ng ofiicers were elected : President, Prof. J. W. Langley ; VicePrwident, Prof. Willia, H. Pettee, Secretary, Miss Lou. M. Reed ; ï'reasurer, Prof. C. K. Wead ; Censors, Prof. ,C. H. Stowell aud Byron M. Cheever. - A postal from a Texiis subscnber, L. CNoble, dated April 2, saya: "John Hanglin, master mechanic of thu Texas Paciíic Railroad, at Marshall, died this morning. He was íormerly from Ann Arbor and has some brothera ín Michigan. He leaves a wife and three childreu, - two daughtftrs and one son, - all married." - The followiñg buoK iíiive reuently beun added to the Ladies' Librar: Schliemiuin'a Mycenaj, Cesnola's CypruB, Charios ítnd Mary Lamb's Poetry for Children, Ueorge Elliot's Brother Jacob and The Liíted Veil, Domestic Kxplosives, Miss Warner's Kingdom of Judah, Frothiugham's Life ot Gerrit Smith, Life and Aims of Thoreau, Iteal Folk, Rebecca Haidin Davis' A Law unto Herselt', Mirage, and Síwoomb's Popular Astionomy.