County And Vicinity

The river at Manchester is frozer nearly to the bottom. Neariy all the North Stockbridgi farmers are drawing logs. The mercury has been down to 2c degrees below zero at Plymouth. The Congregationalists of Chelsea talk of erecting a new church. The county clerk of Washtenaw issued 372 marriage licenses in 1892. There are six cases of scarlet fevei in the family of Mr. Gall, in Freedom. The proposed new Presbyterian chürch in Ypsilanti will cost $50,000 at least. Mrs. Perry, of Sharon, has sold her farm to a Saline man named Schaible. On account of the high price of wood at Grass Lake, many are burning soft coal. Ice sixteen inches thick has been cut at Ypsilanti and shipped to parties in Wayne. George Staver, a well known Michigan Central engineer, died at Chelsea last week. Ezra C. Robison, of Saline, has sold his farm of 140 acres to Chas. F. Gross, at $75 per acre. Rev. C. B. Case and Miss Lena Blinn are conducting a series of revival meetings at Mooreville. Rev. Mr. Shier, of Sharon, has gone to California for his health, and is not expected back until June. Chelsea's new orchestra will give the cantata "Snow White," before a home audience in the near future. The Stockbridge Foultry and Pet Stock Association will hold their annual exhibition February 22 and 23Wni. Rentschler, of Bridgewater, lost a horse, last week, valued at #140, from inflammation of the lungs. Mr. Symers, owner of what is known as the Schulte farm, in Sharou, intends to move out west in the spring. A new lodge of the I. O. G. T. has been organized at Saline, and is doing good work in "rescuing the perishing. " There is an occasional millionaire in our town. He can be detected at the meat market ordering pork. - Dexter Leader. The Chelsea Herald says that the best decorative artistin this countrv is Jack Frost, and vz think the Herald is right. The Washtenaw Mutual Fire Jnsurance Co. has 2,55o members, or thereabouts, and is in a prosperous financial condition. A donation party for the benefit of Rev. Mr. Jennings, of Whitmore Lake, was held at the Lake House last Thursday evening. Mrs. George J. Ament, the wife of a prominent Ypsilanti business man, died of consumption, Monday evening, aged 39 years. The Baptist of Grass Lake have extended a cali to Rev. F. O. Dickey, of Charlotte, with a good prospect of his acceptance. Whilequail throughout the county are being decimated by pot-hunters, the bluejays are unmolested and are very numerous and noisy. Miss Ada Svvift, of Battle Creek, a student at the Normal school, Ypsilanti, died on Monday, of heart disease. She was 23 years old. Clark Cornwell, of Ypsilani, has been afflicted for some time with a series of abscesses. At one time he was in a very serious condition, but is now on the way to recovery. Frank Mallow, of GsassLake, has been in the employ of the Michigan Central, as a sectioa hand and section boss for twenty-five years. Mrs. S. O. Hadley, of Lyndon, is SUffering greatly from cáncer, and is gradually failing. Her friends entertain no hope her recovery. The remains of Harry Fleming, a convict who died at the state prison two weeks ago, and who had no friends to claim his body, vvere sent to the medical department of the University for scientific purposes. It may thus be that he will be of more use in death than he was in life. A young girl belonging to Challes Feldkamp, near Bridgewater, fell Saturday evening, January 14, and broke an arm. Dr. Nichols was called and soon had the'fracture cared for, and the patiënt comfortable. Strange to say this same girl fell and broke the same arm last June. - Saline Observer. Frank, the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Sereno Bassett, died at his home in Lodi, Tuesday morning of last week. He was one of of seven brothers who had all but one reached the age of manhood. Hiseducation was obtainedfrom the Saline school, where he graduated in 1881, and is the first of his class to f all. He was 29 years old. Rep. Kline, of Ann Arbor, is the first to come to the front with a bilí providing for capital punishment. His bilí provides that persons convicted of murder in the first degree shall, Upon a vote of not less than nine to three of the jury conviting, be sentenced to hang, all hangings to take place in the prison yard at Jackson. - Chelsea Herald. Not receiving sufhcient food from his master, a dog belonging to Charles Avery, of Bridgewater, last week made an effort to satisfy his hunger by masticating a portion of the leg of Brad Way, of the same place. Brad thinks the good ftesh thus appropriated should be paid for, and has accordingly entered suit for damages before Justice Webb, of Saline. Won't it seem quite business like to be set in between two competing lines of railroad? The old L. S. & M. S.; just north of our village, and the new doublé track, B. D. & C. A. L., on the south, when we are hopeful of being able to get out of lo'.vn and back inside of twentyfour hours without' driving to some m-ighboring town to take a train. - Saline Observer. Another year is folded away in the dim cloister of time. Every heart the world over, knows what it has brought foi good or il 1, balm or bitterness. The record of oneyear's work, hopes, plans, and ambitions of our real heart joys and sorrows, mistakes, wrong doings, lost friendships - ah, there are some bitter regrets for them - and the pages are blurred with tears. - Stockbridge Sun. Probably the most beautiful meteoric display that has ever been seen in this section, occurred at about 7:05 o'clock Tuesday evening, January 17. The meteorwas very large and when at an angle 45 degrees in the western heavens, it broke into several pieces and disappeared. For a moment it was as light as day, and of that peculiar shade of light given by an are electric light. - Plymouth Mail. Martin Cook, who lives 3 miles northwest of Grass Lake, met with quite a painful mishap Sunday morning, January 15. While untying a horse in his stable the animal jerked back and the hitching rope being entwined about his right index finger the flesh was stripped clean from the bone from below the first joint. It is not probable that the bone will ever be clothed with tissue again. Tesumseh seems bound to have another bank to replace the Bills concern. .Albert Mills, C. E. Williams, and Albert Brewer are endeavoring to organize a company. Should they be unsuccessful, Frank ' Daty and Philip Depew, of . ing, will start a bank there. Either would be a state bank. Speculators : are offering 60 to 75 cents on the dollar to Bills bank creditors, with ' no sellers. sunday morning, January 15, a track walker discovered a broken rail 011 the Lake Shore road about tliree-quarters of a mile east of Cadmus. At 7:30 Robert Patterson, of Adrián, and a gang of section men removed the broken rail and were putting in a new one when a freight train carne thundering along and, of course, as soon as the engine struck the rail, which was not spiked down, off it went and with it 14 cars, most of which were reduced to kindling wood. Five head of cattle, ten of sheep and ten hogs were killed and others were crippled and lay suffering in the freezing air. Had the trackman put out bis flags and signáis before he went to work, the accident would have been averted. The freight train was behind time, and it is said the trackmen did not know when it might be expected. - Manchester Knterprise. Plans have been projected for the organization in Michigan of the new order known as the Industrial Legión. An organizer will be appointed for each eounty and a lodge instïtuted in every school district. All votersjwomen and boys between 14 and 21 years, are eligible to membership, and must on being admitted pledge their support to the cause of the People's party. - Livingston Democrat. The newspapers are publishing a notice to the effect that Herman Woods, of Chelsea, is in possession of $7,500 which belongs to one J. Dunning whose whereabouts he does not know, and which amount he seems anxious to get off his hands in order to close up an estáte. Send it over here right away. The Enterprise has a large number of subscribers who will testify that we have been dunning for severa] years at least and have not yet found occasion to cease. - Mancheste Enterprise. A handsome Scotch granite mon ument was erected on the Eddy anc Warren lots in Oakwood cemetery Tuesday. The structure is from th Peter Head quarries of Scotland the base being a combination o rustic and broad hammer work wit! polished name panel, the die is al jolished with matted border, anc ;he cap is of broad hammer work with polished sides. The job was :urnished by John Baumgardner of Ann Arbor, who has a reputation for Duttinc un some very fine work