County And Vicinity

COUNTY AND VICINITY. Germán Day, August 24, will be celebrated at Saline this year. Luther Palmer is rebuilding his dam on the Huron river at Dexter. Manchester has a farmer who sports a brilliant diamond in his shirt front. Huckleberries on the marshes around Chelsea, it is said, will be numerous. W. F. Riemenschneider, of Chelsea, is building a cottage at Cavanaugh Lake. Saline is getting up with the times. The council has built a heavy cement crosswalk. Dexter is so proud of its new clerk that the Dexter Leader takes a column to talk about it. Chicken thieves made havoc in Charles Carpenter's chicken house at Birkett, a few nights since. Flower thieves have been desecrating the Manchester cemetery by stealing flowers and plants. The. wind in Sharon recently unroofed William Kulenkamp's barn and tore up a number of trees. The colored people of Ypsilanti are making great preparations for the celebration of Emancipation Day, August ist. Poles have been placed on the Ann Arbor and Dexter road for the long distance telephone between Detroit and Kalamazoo. Albert S. Hayden has been appointed treasurer of York to take the place of Joseph Gauntlett, who I resigned to take the postmastership. The Manchester brewery team recently made things lively by running away and smashing the wagon, dumping out the driver and the beer. John Peer, of South Lyon, was injured in the hay field last Wednesday by being thrown from his wagon, breaking his wrist and dislocating his shoulder. Mrs. W. H. Henion died in Manchester, July 12, aged thirty-six years. She was a most estimable lady and leaves a husband and several small children. Chelsea young men take such pride in their fast horses and in taking nobody's dust that it has been found necessary to cali their attention to the ordinance against fast driving. Grass Lake has a society called the "Busy Fairies."- Chelsea Herald. We would like to see them. - Manchester Enterprise. If they allowed idlers around they would soon 1 have to change their name. j James Abrams, a well to do farmer living near Brighton, committed . suicide last week by shooting himself, while deranged. His death was instantaneous. He was fifty years oíd, and was wortli $20,000. The Spring Arbor farmers' club [ is wrestling with thequestion, "How and when to dispose of a fortune?' If anybody hereabouts is going down with cramps over this query, w would say to them: First get you fortune; get it all in money if you can; then come around and see us - Grass Lake News. The Chelsea schools last yea cost 18,682.89, including $3,220.38 for bonds and interest. Theamoun paid for teacher's salaries wa $3,670. The direct tax levy thi year is $5,800, or $700 less than last year. There is only $2,100 needed next year to pay up the in debtedness and interest. The Manchester Enterprise, to show how healthy Manchester is says: "Among the old gentlemen of the village and township are Andrew Bailey, aged 86; Elijah Carr, 84; Fred Valentine, 83; Lorenzo Coon, 82; Wm. Baxter, 82; James Hendershot, 81; E. M. Tracy, 83; John Smally, 88; A. S. Perry, 83; Thomas Green, 86; and Charles Clark, 83. Blessed with unusual graces of person and weighted down with amiability, we sent in our application for membership to the society of "Busy Fairies." We were black)alled on the ground of onion eatng and habitual carelessness in our out-ensemble. Thus is another blow struck at American liberty, and unless the masses rise in their might and put down such intolerance, our beloved country is doomed o destruction. - Grass Lake News. A good story is told of a young girl in a neighboring town who recently found a lot of letters written by her father to her mother before they were married. The daughter read them to her mother, pretending they were of recent date, and substituting her own name for that of her mother, and the name of a young man well known to both of them, for her father's. The mother is very much disgusted, and has forbidden her daughter to have anything to do with a young man who would write such nonsense and sickening stuff. - Dexter News. On Sunday morning about five o'clock two freights tried the old I scheme of trying to pass on the same track, and made a very bad failure of it. The orders had been to pass at Milan, but were changed to pass here. The train from the west was slowing down to go on the siding; the engineer of the west bound train got his orders mixed in some way, and was puiling right through for Milan. They met between the Whittaker and Fuller crossings, smashing both engines and six or seven cars, strewing the ground with salt, vinegar, tobáceo, etc. The, crews saved themselves by jumping. The wreek was cleared away so that trains were running again by four o'ciock. A large crowd from the country round about were here to view the wreek. - Whittaker Correspondence. Jonas Marsh, of Delhi Mills, was in Dexter, Monday, with his oldtime hustle and push, notwithstanding his eighty-two years of life. The old gentleman was halted in his hurry long enough to recite the scènes of nearly sixty years ago, when, a young man of twenty-three, he feasted his eyes on the wild deer, turkey, etc, of this then wooded country. He also spent time in a hurried way to express regret that he didn't see his chances for specuIating in land around that old log hotel that stood nearly opposite where the court house now stands in Ann Arbor. With all his desire to keep things moving, he was spellbound for a few minutes over memories of the past, but said, as he made a lunge for his buggy, and his face lit up with a smile. "Say, 111 come again, 'and we'll have some fun talking over these things." A couple of amusing cases of absent-mindedness came under our notice this week, in which the laugh was placed upon a couple of well cnown men in great shape. In the first a good-natured citizen whose Jrominent characteristics are his ove for smoking and his keen appreciation of a ioke. missed his nine. Of course he at once thought that ome of the boys had appropriated t, and he promptly demanded it. 3e was considerably mystified at he hearty laugh that aróse, but was peedily enlightened by some one emarking, "By., your pipe is in 'our mouth." But this is hardly 'in it" with the story told on the jood old Baptist brothor who came nto town early Sunday morning to do some trading, and did not find ut what day of the week it was ntil he had sold his produce and one for his mail. A bad Case of orgetfulness, sure. - Dexter News. The unprecedented cyclone of April 12 last, which swept with devastating results the picturesque and pmgressive city of Ypsilanti, razed to the ground a portion of thehandsome hotel property known as the Hawkins. The property was then as it always has been, the leading hotel of the city and one of the leading hotels of southern Michigan. To-day the enterprising proprietor of the property, Mr. A. L. Nowlan, is far advanced in the work of rebuilding and reappointing the structure. The new Hawkins will be in every way a better property than its predecessor, and will be the peer of any western hotel of its proportions. It will be a threestory, fireproof structure, steam heated, electric lighted, with perfect sanitary appointments. It will contain 76 rooms, single and en suite, and have the finest bathrooms, barber shop and bar outside of the city of Detroit. The dining hall will have the same style of tile flooring with all other appartments on the ground floor. The interior of the lower floor will be done in steel paneling. It is exnected all renairs