Local Affairs
- The public schools of this city will open on Monday, August 26.
- Owen & Co., of Louisville, Ky., have the job of plastering the Court House.
- Mr. Porter is acting as chief of police during the absence of Marshal Johnson.
- L. S. Lerch and wife celebrated the first anniversary of their marriage last evening.
- A union Sunday SchooI excursion from Saline to Brooklyn is to be given August 27.
- The contractors for the Ypsilanti school building are drawing on this city for masons.
- Field & Hunt are piping the new Court House for gas. That pipe laying will cost $400.
- James M. Willcoxson has been appointed by the school board to take the annual school caucus.
- The Ladies' Library will be opened for the giving out of books on Saturday of next week, August 24.
- Supt. Perry has returned from his summer trip to his old home, and reports himself ready for duty.
- Abram Van Riper, a forty years resident of Dexter, died on the evening of the 6th inst., aged 82 years.
- Judge Harriman has gone to Vermont to visit his aged parents. Will be absent the most of the month.
- Henry Redner, an old resident of Ypsilanti, and one of the pioneers of this county, died on Wednesday.
- Mrs. Mary Clements, wife of James Clements, of Dixboro, where she has resided since 1839, died a few days ago.
- The excursión of Vigtlant Fire Conipauy to Toledo, on Sunday last, numbered about 300. Eight coaches carried them. - The millers at Ypsilanti complaiu of low water : so says a Post and Tribune itemizer. Anu Arbor millers make no such plaint. - The Xational Greeuback Convention is to be held on Tiursiai, August 22, instead of Tuesday as advertised iu the Aköus. - The G-rauger warchouse at Chelsea was dedicated on Waduesday by a harvest festival. Hju. J. Webster Childs gave an addiess. - Hiram Swift, au old resident of Ypsilanti, died on Satuiday night last. Mrs. M. L. Shutts, wife oí Supervisor Shutts, died on Sunday. - John Vau Camp played the part of a deaf and duiub beggar and got caught at it. J ustice Beuhan gave Uim a year in the Detroit H;use ot Correction. Mrs. Helber, of Saline, has purchased of C. H. Kichtnond, a lot in the rear of his resideiice and routing Washington street, and has comm uced building a house thereou. - The contract has been let for putting up a tjlegraph line along the Toledo and Aun Albor Railroad, - the work to be done immediately. - lu the sVrm ot Wednesday afternocn lightniug struck the residence ol Thomas W'ilkiuson at Uhelsea, also entered the teh - graph office. - A Graniniar Sc.iool grade will be translerred to the First ward building instead of to the f'ourth ward building as heretofore aranged. - Ir. W. B. Lewitt, recently married in Detioit, where he has been in the Marine Hospital for two years, removes to San Francisco, to engage in practice with his father.
- Jacob F. Somers, a son-in-law of Lambert Dresselhouse, of Freedom, was drowned in Bessey Lake, in the township of Norvell, Jackson county, on the morning of August 4, while bathing. He was 27 years old.
- J. M. Wheelnr and daughter medítate auother trip to Europe, with a design to spend the coming winter in southorn ltaly. Date of departure not ñxed. - Au Ypsilanti baker has been complained af for sellmg bread ou Sunday, jilead guilty, aud paid Í8 fine aud costs. Over which the Sunday beer sellers give a broad griu. -John Gibney, of Northfield, came iuto the city on Sunday last, aud while around town eomebody uuknown unhitched his horse, proceeded to get iuto his buggy, and departed. - The Vigilant Fire Company excursión train to Toledo (last Sunday naoniing) killed a cow at the State street erossicg. An old colored mau named Lamiera was the owner. - That excursión ot Oompauy A to Toledo and Put-in-Bay is now defiuitely set down for Weduesday next, August 21. Fare for the round trip, 11.65. Childreu under twelve years, 85 cents. - The Manchester Enterprise learns from Elisha Freer, of Sharon, that 38 1-2 acres of Clawson wheat has yielded him 1,622 bushels, or over 42 bushels to the acre, with four loads of rakiugs yet to be threshed. - Saline Standard: " Mrs John üordou took an overdose of morphine at her home in the Forbea neighborhood, about üve miles southwest of thia place, on Tuesday morning at 3 o'clook, and died at 9 m." - Miss Mary L. Martyn will succeed Miss Carne Caawell (married) as principal of the Fifth ward school. A successor to Miss Martyn iu the Third ward school has not yet been appointed. - Hon. R.WapIes, of Xew Urleaus, La., formorly United States District Attoruey uuder President Lincoln, has removed to this city. WfTï reside in the Hooper house, Xorth State street - George Kingsley, of Paola, Kansas, son of Hon. James Kingsley, of this city, gave us a cali on Tuesday. He reporta the Kansas crops unusually fine, Kansas business fair, but Kansas politics decidedly mixed. - At YpsilanH on Tuesday morning, George Tyler, of Detroit, and Miss Mary Hewitt, daughter of Edmund Hewitt, were married and immediately left for Europe. Both design to pursue the study of music at Naples. - Delaney & Hill have remove the o'd building south of the Polhemus stable to the rear of the lot and will build a new and large shop, - the Council having given them permission for a wooden building within the fire hmits. - The Ypeilanti people dou't seem iucliued to shell out very liberally to secure a Y at the erossiug of the Toledo and Ann Arbor and the Detroit, Hillsdale and Southvrestern roadf. Perhaps tliey thiuk that Gov. Ashley will put ït in and theu beg them to reap the proh'ts of lieight competition. - Jolm Maroney, of Northüeld, was before ludge Harriman on Saturday for the purpose ï huving his sanlty inquired into. Without mcluding the case, aud to give the physicians t ime to investígate it, his friends took him to the County Aaylum for safe keeping. - During the rain storm VVeduesday eveniug the lightning played fantastio trieks at the office of the Judge of Probate and Sheriff, entering on the conneoting telephone wire and speakiug tube and brilliantly illuminating the room. Probate Clerlc Doty didn't like the odor and sought the open air. - Ho wantod Owen, the barbor, to givo hini some mouey, but Owen wouldn't and ao he ' assaulted uwen with a club. Poüceman Arasden arrested hini, Justice Beahun gave him a card of adnmsiou to the Detroit House ot Correction for one yar, and Sheriff Case took him dowu there on Monday lust. Göorge Lawreuce was his name, and he was old and gray headed.
- On Tuesday, Aug. 13, Sarles C. Edwards, who was engaged in repairing a condemned bridge across the Saline River at Milan, drove upon it with a wagon loaded with a pile driver. The bridge gave way and horses, wagon, etc, went to the bottom of the river. Mr. Edwards was severely, and it was feared fatally, injured, while the horses escaped unhurt.
- The Michigan Wire Basket Compauy, fonnerly operating at Ida, Monroo County, has reuted the store of Campbell & Eberhardt on Main street, and commenced manufaeturiDg hero. The conipauy is sanguine that it will be able to employ a largo ioroe of men and ftnd a ready market for all its goods, which appear to U8 to be flrst cla?s. We wish it success. - The Building Comiuittee Jiud auother seseion on Monday, but those l'urniture plans and bids not having come from Grand Rapids another two weeks' adjournmont was made. Does self-respect, the iuterests of the county, or the righta of prompt bidders warrant so miieh delay ? Tíio committee seems moro anxious to have Orantl Bapids manufacturen) bid than Uiose manufacturera aro to bid. - Wlieat is. oomiag iu lively. Largo quantities ave beiug takeu at the Central depot and by the millers, nnd Mesan Treadvrel! & Osborn at the T. and A. A. depot are also buyiug about thrae car lomls a day. They sa}' they are ettiiis wheat irom tho vicinity of Chelsea, a straw tl.at shows the auperiority of Aun Arbor as a wheat market. u quote wheat this (ThursdayJ iltecnoou at 98 a Ï1.02. - Wheat thrashing is iirogressing all throagh the county, and f rom all direotious reports come of large yields. It is safe to put the average jiold in the county at as high a figure as 24 bushels to the acre, and woll postei farmer claim au average of from'S to 30 bushels. Tha quality, however, is conceded to be a shade Iowor than last yuar, the kernel beint; a little shrunken. At this data oíd wheat btiugs about o cents more a busliel thiiu new. - On Saturday last Judge Kingsley, whose aerious iltness at (Jorunna the Aeol's had reported, w:is brought to this city, &nd taken to the residance of his daughter, Mrs. C. A Chapín. The family phyBician, Dr. Backus, was called, wlio iiivnounced his rifjht leg dead from gangrena, with the disease extendini?. and advised that amputation was the only salvation. The case was tunied over to Dr. Maoloan, who, assisted his brotiier, Alex. Maclean and Dr. North, made n tuojessiul amputation on Sunduy, takiug tlia iimb olï just above the knee. The operatiou was alao witnessed by Dr. Wells and Dr. Georg. Judge Kiugsley bore th operaticn well and on Wednesday, Dr Maclean tells us, was iiujuiriug for the papers, desiriug to kuow both the general and local netrs, and more espeoially what was siid about htm. The muuy friendü of Judge Kingsley are hoping lor lus recovery, tuough his age, over ü'2, is to conceded to be against him. In his favor, however, is a stroug constitutiou, and the fiattering ïact that so lar tlie Bhock has proved less thau was anticipated.