The County

- Easter Sunday is two days distant. - -Manchester's Bchodl closes to-day f(?r a weeks vaoation. - The will of Cyrus T. Stevens, late of Manchester, wlll be contested. - Republican oounty convention is called iei meet in thia city on Wednesday, May 12, at 11 a. m. - Miss Louisa Iteuger is enfí'iged to teach a Germán school for two months in Silver Lako district In Freedom. - Tlie Tpsilanti Commercial lias improved in il local features very much since Mr. PaUisou resurued its management - J. M. Weeks of Dundee lias formed partnership with his brother in Ypsilanti, and wifl tro there soon to commence business. - "We are requested to state that the republicana of Ann Arbor township will meet at tlie eourt house to-morrow at 2 p.M., to make township nominations. - One of the largest gatheringa of the kind knowii in the history of the eounty was draws together on Monday at a public vendue oí' Nelson ]3ooth of Pittslïeld. - (iilhert Allen of Lodi, nncle of Mrs. E. B. Pond of this city, diedon the 17th. instant, affcer :. Bevere illness extending througli several months. He was one of the oldest settlers of the township. - Aspiriiig pedagognea will meet for examination by town superintendents as follows: Liiua, Lima Center, to-day; Scio, Dexter, to-morrow; Webster, School house 5To. 8 near Herman Williams, to-morrow. Manchester, chester viltyge, to-morrow. - Tlio Entsrprise asserts that the trustees of MaricJiester village in refusing to comply witb tlie law providing for publicationoí an animal ltemized statement of S&ances, ieaves the inference "that tliey we afraid to have the people know to what extravagance they have been." The board of trustees weremainly Greenbadkers. - ïhe committpfi nppointed at tlie last meeting of the county Pioneer Society to take measures for publi6hing a history of the county, met in this city on the 2'!d instant, and made preliminary arrangement s with i ir. Abbott, compiler and publisher of the history of Kalamazoo county, for publication of the history of Washtenaw county. Tlie matter will probably be fully settled at a meeting of the committee to be held in this city on the 6t.h of April. - W. II. Davenport & Son of Saline write as follpws to the Adrián Daily Times: Nowthat the Detroit, Hillsdale & S. W. has been purchased by moneyed partios, arnong which are the Great Western 11. 11. company of Canada, and owners of the Eel Itiver railroad, they have determined to build an extensión of the D. II. & S. W. f rom Ypsilanti into Detroit, and the new manager has assured our people that tlie cars will be run into Detroit on the new road by Julylst. Itis their intention to make it a tnrough line from Detroit to Chicago, also in connection with the Great Western Of Canada. Xow will it notbe agoodthingto have the Adrián and Saline railroad built? It seems as though parties might bo found who will complete it. Tlie right of way and grading for a considerable way is secured. It would seem as though it might beapaying investment, and certainly would give your people a direct outlet to Detroi and would be a beneíit to us. Can not is be done?