County And Vicinity

Hamburg is talking of a creamery and cheese factory. Valentine Bros. have been shipping sheep to Texas. Geo. Gilí has removed from Superior to Ypsilanti city. The Salem band has blossomed out with new head gear. D. W. Duffield is teaching the Torrey school in Augusta. Dr. Tweedale, of Salem, lost his best horse last week. It broke its leg. Mrs. Elizabeth Curry died in Ypsilanti last Friday, aged forty-eight years. Will Thayer, of Salem, has an appointment in the U. S. fish hatchery in Alpena. A traveling man who missed a train in Dexter, last week, hoofed it to Ann Arbor. The Southern Washtenaw Farmers' Club will meet at Fairhaven, in Sharon, October 6. Rev. Frank Bloomfield, of Metamora, is the new pastor of the Congregational church in Dexter. Miss Una Corbett, daughter of Joseph Corbett of Whittaker, died September 17, of consumption, aged 19 years. Arthur Hopkins, of Milan, was shot in the foot the other day by his hired man. It was an accident but all the same -ft hurt. Rev. H. R. Williams preached his farewell sermón in Clinton, last Sunday. He goes to Richmond, where he has accepted a cali. A night blooming cereus has just blossomed at the residence of D. Nissly, of Saline, the flower being nine inches in circumference. Miss Carrie Benham, of Ypsilanti town, was marriedto Sherman Cook, of Urania, at the home of the bride's parents, last week Wednesday. W. H. Arnold and George A. Peters arrived in Washtenaw county in 1826, Mrs. S. W. Dexter carne in June, 1827, and Morrell Goodrich in September, 1827. Clinton is to have a strong lecture course this year, including Wendling, Dr. Hedley and the Temple Qüartette, of Boston, and other f ntertainments, all for $1. Some one has been robbing the wood pile of the editor of the Dexter Leader. The only peculiar feature about this item is the fact that an editor has any wood pile at al in these hard times. Dexter is looking up a proposec factory which promises to do a bus iness of $30,000 the first year. The company wants a bonus of two acres of land and a two-story building 30x100 feet and the loan of $10,000 Abram V. Bouck died in Superior, September 11, on the farm on which hehad livedsixty-three years. He was seventy-eight years of age, was born in New York and came to Michigan with his father in 1830. He leaves seven children. Herman, the eldest son of Matthias Rentchler, who has been in failing health for nearly a year, died of consumption last Thursday evening. A short service was held at the house 011 Sunday morning, after which the procession proceeded to Freedom, where Rev. Irion preached the regular sermón. The remains were then buried in Freedom cemetery. - Saline Observer. The people of Scio village were shocked on Tuesday morning by the announcement that Samuel Curlett, of that place, was found dead in his bed on the preceding night. The deceased was thirty-one years of age, and for the past twenty years has been subject to epileptic fits, caused by an injury to the brain during boyhood, and his death is supposed to have taken place during one of these convulsions. The funeral services were held in St. Joseph's church yesterday morning, Rev. Fr. Fleming officiating. - Dex. ter Leader. J. J. Robison drove over to the burning swamp in Freedom last Friday afternoon. While inspecting the devastation he became lost and wandered about for some hours. He never fully realized the meaning of desolation until that night. No answering voice replied to his repeated cries; the wind moaned and howled among the dead branches; the rain blew in gusts about his slight form; the night owl screeched and flapped his wings as he circled above him, adding to the gruesomeness of the scène. He finally found the guidance of a fence, which led him to the road, and footsore and weary he at last reached home between two and three o'clock Saturday morning. Returning at dawn they found his faithful horse still standing, and he viewed the scènes of the night before as one who had