County And Vicinity

Additional County news on third page. Foxes abound to tlie north of Grass Lake. The semi-annual session of the tri-state medical society was opened at Hudson on Tuesday last. Philip Bluin, of Bridgewater, and Miss Emma Kramer, of Manchester, were married on the 2)th uit. The Masons of Tecumseh exempliiled the third degree for the Manchester brethren on Tuesday evening. L. 1'. Lawrence, of Sharon, has sold twenty of his thoroughbred merino sheep to Z. A. Hartsuff, of Unadilla. Mrs. Mickley, au Adrián lady aged 78 years, has just completed a , patchwork quilt containing 1,610 separate pieces. The wife of Gen. Parkhurst, of Coldwater, has fallen heir to half a million dollars. The Argus tenders its profound sympathy. Tecumseh people are still rolling measles as a sweet morsel under their longues. Ridgeley, of the News, pretends he has it and is laying off. - Adrián Press. An evening paper christened the Telegram, has been launched upon the journalistic sea at Adrián, by Messrs. Redfield & Putnam. It is independent in politics. We wish it success. The Manchester Enterprise says that an iron bucket weighing about sixty pounds feil twenty-five feet and struck squarely on the head of a Bridgeport man, but, strange tö say, he was not hurt. Many Britton farmers went to Tecumseh with wheat the past week, but in consequence of the Bills failure were unable to find a sale for it, so brought it home to await further developments. - News. One of our sportsmen informs us that it is his belief that quail did not breed last spring, that the quail are all old. He bases his opinión j on their uniform size and the wáy I they act. - Manchester Enterprise, i Congressman Jas. S. Gorman has purchased L. D. Loomis' property on East Midcïle street, and wiil take possession of the same in the near uture. Mr. Loomis will move his family to Jackson. - Chelsea Herald. Chelsea hustlcrs and Vint Cpwden of Grass Lake are ga the ring up butter, eggs, geese, turkeys, game and fowls of unceíftain age to supply the demands for the near holidays. Pretty tough old roosters some of them for the Chelsea folks. The frame residence of Jacob Laemmle, six miles west of Manchester, was burned Sunday night, with all its contents. Mr. L. and his wife were severely burned while sa ving their children, and the mother may not survive her injuries. Marión Case, of Cambridge, Lenawee county, is bailing and shipping hay, claiming there is more money in it than feeding it to stock, and that he can keep his land in better shape with phosphate than with manure, and at a much less cost. Thanksgiving dinner at the home of J. J. Roblison, in Sharon, was participated in by nearly all of his children and grandchildren, including cadet officer John K. Robison, of U. S. S., Chicago, and George F. Robison and family, of Detroit. Mort Raymond, of Sharon, marketed some very nice fat hogs at this place last Saturday. One fine specimen weighed upwards of 400 pounds. He received S5.00 per hundred for the lot. - Grass Lake News. Eighteen years ago last Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1874, S. C. Stacy bought the Herald printing office and took possession the same day. Providence permitting, he is likely to run the business eighteen years longer. - Tecumseh Herald. A weasel destroyed a dozen chickens a few nights since, belonging to V. H. Smith, of Grass Lake. The weasel retired to some quiet retreat to masticate his meal, but left no directions as to his whereabouts, and the farmer is chewing the cudof anger. The cornet didn't cornet, in the way of smashing the earth to any great extent last Sunday night. The way astronomers tangled up matters regarding the celestial tramp proves conclusively that they are still in the A. B, C, of the astronomical science. - Grass Lake News. Samuel Miller and party, wlio went to the woods of northern Michgon the first of November to hunt, have returned home. They bagged tuur deer while away. This kind of gaine appears to ,be scarcer than usual in the quarter where this party hunted. - Grass Lake News. A mysterious episode happened at North Grass Lake a fewdaysago. A man in a gray overcoat was seen running after a top buggy, and as he ran fired live fchots into it with a 32calibre revolver. Nobody seems to be able to solve the mystery, and so far as known 110 one was hurt. Milán needs a good hotel - one that will accommodate from fifty to one hundred guests. As a lodging place traveling men shun Milan as they would apestilehce. A big patronage could be built up here with a good hotel run by a landlord who understands his business. - Leader. Fr. Kennedy, assistant .pastor of SS. Peter and Paul 's cathedral, has been appointed to take charge of St. Johft's church in this city, while Father DeBever will have charge of St. Aloysius' church in Detroit during the absence of its pastor, Rev. Ernest Van Dyke, in Europe. - Ypsiiautian. Parsons & Hobart shipped &■ double-decked car of hogs to Detroit last Saturday night. Five cents per pound were paid for the porkers in the market here. This firm have a thousand bushels of first quality hand-picked beans in their warehouse all sacked and ready for shipI ment. - Grass Lake News. Mr. Ball, of North Grass Lake, has 13 quail left out of 40 and says he will prosecute the man that shoots another one of them. He has lost two cats and offers $2 5 reward for their return. He's in hard luck, lost ii is quails and cats, cut his finger, wore out his hat and lost another one on' the election. Justice Bogardus' court was occupied last Saturday with the suit of Jesse Hewens against Geo. N. Hammond, of Augusta, for the value of 17 sheep killed by dogs. The jury thought Hammond's dog was not guilty. B. M. Thompson, of Ann Arbor, was counsel for plaintiff, and A. J. Sawyer for defendant. - Ypsilantian. A barn beloging to Jas. Myres, of Napoleon, was consumed last week. It was filled with hay, all of whicli was destroyed, as well as a McCormick binder, also two stacKS of marsh hay, one stack of straw and some corn. .ft was hard work only that saved the house. The loss is quite heavy, and the insurance small. - Grass Lake News. . W. Holt is putting a machine in the roller milis that will clean the wheat as fast as it is unloaded and place it in the hopper to be weighed. The farmer can then have the screenings and foul stuff to take home with him. The machine will be capable of cleaning 600 bushels of wheat per hour. - Manchester Enterprise. Preddie liarrett, who feil down the elevator shaft at the woolen mili in Clinton on the toth inst., died i Wednesday evening of last week. A postmortem examination was held and it was found that the skull was cracked on the under side nearly three inches in length, and the brain injured in several places. Mrs. Jacob Perrin, mother of Rev. O. J. Perrin, formerly pastor of the Methodist church in this city, died from a paralytic stroke, Tuesday, Nov.22, at her home in Manchester, aged 90 years. Mr. and Mrs. Perrin carne to Michigan from Steuben county, N. Y., in 1840, and were among the first pioneers of this section. - Ypsilantian . llere is a pointer for Washtenaw county justices. Justice Parkman, of 1 Mason, the other day sentenced a j chronic drunk to 90 days in the De- troit House of Correction, with the alternative of a term of treatmentin the Iveeley Institute. The fellow had been over the road before, and he didn't hesitate a minute in choosing the golden cure. Why not try it here ? - Ypsilantian. Öne of Joe Lowry's little boys broke through the ice on the middle pond several days ago, and the other boy caught him by the coat and kept him from sinking until Fred Haschley could bring boards which he placed upon the ice upon whlch he walked and dragged the boy out. - Manchester Enterprise. A prominent Congregationalist prophesies that before another month rolls round their society here will have a regularly installed pastor. The News hopes the prophecy will come true, and the new divine will have gospel muscle enough to' collar and throw all the sin in this burg and bring all derelicts up to the high standard which makes the editorial professionin this town like a city set on a hill. - Grass Lake News. A well-known landscape gardener writes: Don't disfigure your lawn with a ' coat of coarse barn manure. Instead, make an application of dry hard wood ashes, that will at the first rainfall, howéver slight, fall down in and among the spires of grass, forever out of sight. The application will be easier, the cost less, while the effect will be equally productive of a thick green turf, and without the unsightly covering of stable manure. The signs all point to a mild winter, according to a Coldwater observer. He has been taking note of things and says that snipes have gone south later than usual, that woodcocks are still moulting, rattlesnakes are still crawling over the huckleberry bushes, and that coons are poor as crows. These he says are infallible signs of a niild warm j winter. When a coon is poor in the latter part of September it means that he does not intend to take his customary long nap through the winter months, but that he expects to be able to skin around as usual and gather his daily provender as he needs it. The coon is an intelligent animal and does not waste his energies in gathering up stores of fat when unnecessary.