Local Affairs

- Next Sunday afternoon the Reform Club will be addressed by students. - Mouday'a New York dailiea were recoived yesterday noon,- 48 hours late. - Eev. J. M. Richmond, of Ypsilanti, has lost two children by scarlet fever. - Vigilaut Fire Company No 2 give a bal at the Armory uext Tuesday eveuiug. - Thauks : to Edward Duffy for a fiue and fat young turkey for our Christmas dinner. - Judge Harriman is wrestling with chilla : and this with the mercury hoveriug just about zero. - L. J. Liesemer, of the ëahue Standard, gave the Aequs offiot a cali yesterday aiternoori. - An adjourned session of the Board of Supervisor is to be held uext Thursday, uary 2. - Mr.. Clark, of Saline, the new County Clerk, has appointed L. F. Wade, a young lawyer oí this city, deputy. - Dr. Theodore A. Felch, oldest son of Gov. Felch, who resides at Deadwood, Dakota Tcrritory, is at home on a visit. - The Townsend Family Dramatic Com. pany appear. at the Opera House next Wednesday eveuing, and continue four nights. - Ovving to the general blockade ot the railroads on Alouday and Tuosday, "Christmas packages" were detained all along the line. - J. C. Knowlton has been taken into partnership by A. J. Sawyer. Jerry will run the office the coming three mouths while Sawyer mus the Legislature. - A " Subscriber" would be pleased to have the Supervisors order the weather-vanes on the new Court House so regulated that theywi1! teil the truth about the wind. - The new couuty officers - Cleik, Treasurer, Prosecutiug attorney, Circuit Court Commissioners, Corouers, aud Surveyor- will enter ou duty on Wednesday uext. - The streets of this city were exceedingly dull on Christnias day, and nothing ludicated tliat ït was the feast day of the year. Charge it to the extreme cold which prevailed. - On Chrlstuias day Sheriff Case was tho rocipient of a maguificidnt gold watch - a. Waltham with all the "modern improvements" - from his deputies. Who would u't be a sheriff f - While in our city last week the Modjeska company stopped at Cook's Hotel, and the landlord osserts without qualifícation that it was the bost behaved theatrical compauy he ever entertained. - At the Eed Ribbon prize dance on Tuesday eveuing prizes were awarded to Carrie Williams and Williom Wansic as the best waltzers, and to Lizzie Lang and Kit. Matthews for best square dancers. - Nip and Tuok: that is the name of the successful coinedy to be played at the Opera House next Monday evening, by the Hany Webber Company. The company and play each have au excellent reputation. - The printer who made up our first paga mistook .Christmas for Xew Year's day and prematurely changed the number of the volume. Vol. XXXIV will begin .January 3 1879. Now is the tini9 to pay for it. - We understand that an effort will be made at the meeting of the Executive Committee oí the Wasiitenaw County Agricultural and Horticultural Society to be held in this city to-moriow, to estabhsh a system of mouthly meetings for the discussiou of agricuitural subjects. Such meetings may be made productive of much good. - Messrs. Keating & Bryant, of this city, announce the issue about January lo, of a new nionthly magaziue, the Phyfician and Surgeon. V. C. Vaughan, of the Medical Department, ■Bill be mauaging editor ; Profs. Palmer, Macle:iu, Langley, and Dr. Groff, of Pennsylvania, assistant editors ; and Drs. Duuster, North, Ayres; Prescott, A. C. Maclean, and Harriet V. Bills, regular contributors. Ï2 a year. - Modjeska had a large audience ou Thursday evening of last week at the Opera House. We did n't form the highest opinión of the play of the evening, Öamille, but the actingof Modjeska was perfect. Herconception of the part, hor success fn reudoring, nud her graceful nioveineuts, combined to win the admiratio of her hearers. She was also well supported,- much better so than the average star of the troupes which 20 through the country . - Our thermometer said zero at 7 o'clock on Monday morniug, and on Tuesday at the same hour 2 dugs. below were recorded ; but the biting wind which prevalled all day made a poor fellow who was compelled to face it thiuk thst the mercury was down to 20. It was the roughest day of the winter, and we don't hanker after a rougher one. Christmas morning 6 above was the measure, and yesterday the weather was quite mild again, with the wind from the South and more suow in prospect. - Dexter Leader, Dec. 20 : "A railroad meeting will be held at Pinckney on Friday, Dec. 27, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of cousidering the propriety of extending the Toledo and Ann Arbor Railroad from Ann Arbor to Howell, by way of Dexter, Dover and Pinckney. All persons mterested in the building of said road are requested to be preaent, and particularly the farmers living along the proposed line of said road are expected to attend, as it is of the utmost importance to them. The city of Aun Arbor is especially desired, and the villages of Howell, Dover and Dexter are requested to sond delegates to this meeting." - The snow storm which was inauguratcd ou Friday night last culmiuated in the drifts made my the heavy wiuds of Monday uight and Tuesday. From East and West and North and South come stories of delayed traius. On Tuesday and Wednesday the M. C. E. K. held nearly all their freight trains, and the passenger traius were more or less behind irom Monday morning until yesterday, when they commenced beiug on time. The Toledo and Aun Arbor road suftered more. Fewer trains beiug on the road the drifts accumulated in the cuttings so that 110 trains could be worked through either way on either Tuesday or Wednesday. The train south on Tuesday got ouly to the gravel road- seven miles, aud the oue north carne as far as Alexis. The dnf ts in the cuttings this side of Milan were from six to ten feet deep and a passage had to be shoveled out for several miles. Tuesday a baggage car was broken and on Wednesday a passenger car had a platform pulled off. Yesterday trains got through both ways, but a little behind time, and to-day regular time will probably be made.