The County

- Milan furnishes Toledo people with milk. - Now uniforms for Manchester's brass band have arrived. - Dexter has a prosperous lodge of the American order of united workmen. - Ypsilanti talks of a town clock to be put in the tower of its new school building. - Ezra B. Norris is Manchester's newly appointed village attorney. Ben. Conklin, clerk. - Ezra Smith has removed from Milan to Ann Arbor and engaged with the T. and A. A. Co. - Messrs. Gates and Little master mechanics, are making estimates of the cost of a new residence for Hon. Samuel Post of Ypsilanti. - The particulars of the second fatal casualty in this county last week, by which a young man lost his life by drowning, are given in our Bridgewater letter. - Samuel Aulcliff of Manchester, attempted suicide on the 21th by cutting his throat with a razor. He was prevented by his hired man, who was cut about the hands. - The aggregate claims against the firm of A. P. Wood & Co. of Saline, amount to about $1,800, of which Beatty, Fitzsimmons & Co., held $116.25 and closed them up with an execution. - On Wednesday night of last week tho barn of Byron Kuhl of Sharon burned, consuming its contents excepting sheep and one horse. Loss estimated at $1,500. Insured in tho Washtenaw German Co. - G. D. Kies of Clinton has set out 3,000 young fruit trees on his farm in Bridgewater, and the woodchucks are making such ravages among them, that he is paying a bounty of ten cents on every woodchuck killed. - Monday morning a young man named Miller had his hand cut up by a circular saw while employed in sawing wood on a farm just north of Ypsilanti. Two fingers were completely severed and two more so nearly that amputation will be necessary. - Early on Thursday morning of last week, C. K. Chapman, a freight brakeman, was instantly killed on the Michigan Central Railroad, near Chelsea, by falling between two cars when the train was in motion. He was a married man, and resided on Congress street, Detroit. - Tho next regular meeting of the Washtenaw County Pioneer Society will be held at Ypsilanti June i. The selection and furnishing of a room for the society in the new Court House will bo considered, and other questions of special interest to the society. A general attendance is requested. - Many Ypsilanti people growl - apparently with good reasons - at the Michigan Central railroad engineers, who take fiendish delight in blowing their steam whistles and easing up their safety valves in that city. Tho whistle business in particular has grown to be an intolerable nuisance there. At the close of the school year in Manchester, six ladies and four gentlemen will graduate. Thereafter the public school will be conducted by the following persons: Principal, Prof. Robinson; Assistant, Prof. C. F. Field ; Miss Minnie Hunt will be retained in the Grammar Room, Miss Alta Colwell in the Intermediate, Miss Alice Richmond in the Second Primary, and Miss A. E. Sheckell in the First Primary. Miss Frank Simmins of Sharon, an 'invalid, has made a inini?,turo villa complete, with its furnituro, from piano down to the cookstove in the oellar kitchen, together with its surrounding grounds, trees and shrubbery, covering a epaeo about equal to tho surface of an ordinary diningtablo. Considering that the wholeisformedof paper, card-board, bits of wood and wax, with no other tools but a penknife and pair of scissors, the result shows no ordinary ingonuity and patienco. - An accident Tuosday of last weck at the Ypsilanti Paper Company's upper inill, by whicli Frank Jens lost a thumb, has been followed by several moro in tbc samo establishment. C. C. Vrooman, wlio took bis place, caught bis hand in a calendering machine, smashing two fingers, Saturduy afternoon. Saturday evening, it is said, olthough inquines have failed to substantiate it anothcr employee was hurt, and Sunday Mr. Cliamberlain, a ïnillwright employed thero, was kuockcd down and scverely hurt by a falliug plank. - Tho nccidcnr, whiuh causod tli death of Mis. Todd is dctailed by ou Northfiold correspondent. - Joseph Wugner of Suio has deedei 120 acioa of tho oíd Nowland farm loca tod ia Scio to his son John G. - Mr. and Mrs. John C. Taylor o Chclsea, lately celebrated tho 14th nn niversary of nriitriuionial lifo. - Boys took ftll the fish, including lake tSupurior trout frora tho private pond of John Gilbert of Ypsilanti. - C. S. W. Baldwin of Ypsilanti, los a dress coat from his state room on boiird stoamor en routo from Cleveland to Detroit. - Elbert Tato, salesman for several yeara in Cüntou, will horoafter smile across the counter of J. H. Miller in Manchester. - Erasuius Iogan of Manchester, has roceived a pension certifícate allowing liim $2.00 per month from June 18G5, about 14 yoars. It was for woands leceived in battlo. - A large meeting was held at Lapliara's Corners in Salem, on Sunday aftornoon. Michael Panning of Ohio addressed the audionco. ïwonty-three signatures were obtuin.1.