Adrian Press Washtenawisms

L. J. Damm, an Ann Arbor saloonist, has taken a partner, and the same Damm business will go on, at the old stand. "See you later, Honey," mused the Chicago baggage thief as he walked ofi with the grip and clean shirts of Prof. Honey, of Dexter. According to the assessor's valuation, Chclsea ought to sell for $475,800, exclusive of the stunning new caps just purchased by the band. The Ann Arbor Argus prints exeditor - and present county treasurer - Suekey's Fourth of July address. It is a fine patriotic effort and a literary gem. In Ypsilanti, last week, a barn was struck by lightning and burned. A saloon was struck but not burned. Herein groweth up a moral puzzle that is enough to drive a prohibitionist to the bottle. Three Ann Arbor masons feil from a scaffold last week. They pooled their injuries, one selecting a broken rib, another exterior bruises, and the third took his out in being scared the worst in his life. The regular staff of the Ann Arbor Courier being away last week, on the Michigan Press "brindle" W. W. Watts, a democrat, did the editorialin'. Of course he had to come to the surface occasionally, for a fresh supply of democratie air. J. F. Boughton, who lately worked Dexter and Ypsilanti, for a loan and investment company, is in jail at the latter place, accused of false representations. The prisoner claims he only carried out the company's instructions, and is feeling quite unpleasant. Ex-governor Winans is not all there is of Hamburg. Wm. Ball of that place has been appointed by Gov. Rich as delégate to the World's Agriculturiai Congress which will be held at Chicago, in October. Ball knows citrons from watermelons, without plugging. A recent freight wreek near VVhittaker, bestrewed the ground with salt, vinegar and tobáceo, the last being an excellent "pay streak" for chewers in that locality, who were soon strung along on the fence, like pigeons in pokeberry time, swearing between squirts, about the carelessness of railroads. After twelve years, as a Manchester magistrate, during which period he allowed not the scales of justice to vary the breadth of a hair (except he touched them with the downy hand of mercy when evidence stood with equal counter-poise,) Justice S. H. Perkins retired, with a goldheaded cane, presented him by the citizens, July 4th.