County And Vicinity

Ice boats were out on Cavanangh Lake last week. The Saline Methodist considered the saloons at their meeting last Sunday evening. Mrá. Lydia B Haight died at her home near Saline November 2ö, aged eiguty-two years. It tukes fifteen letters to spell a Chlsea grocer's surname. The alphabet is nearly exhausted. The Methodist church in Chelsea is to be thoroughly overhauled and reno■vated, after the recent flre. Ebenezer Harmon, father of landlord Harmon, of Saline, died November 26, having reached the good oíd age of eiglity-four. Alonzo Biddle, who was born in Saline forty-nye years ago, died at nis home in Raisin township, Leuawee county. November 12. The Ypsilanti Sentinel has enlarged to eight pages and gives a large amount of inieresting reading matter, lt still stands as sentinel on the watch tour looking for sonie head to crack. Surpiise parties got a set back in Milan last week. A crowd of yuung people had arranged to surprise Miss Julia Pulcher. They all went to her house but Miss Pulcher was not at home that night. Joseoh Repp, the tailor arreated last week for burning tlie Stockbridge depot, was taken trom the Mason jaii and brought to Stock bridge tor examination. Friday night, tliere being no jail in Stockbndge, Repp was locked in an upper room at the hotel. Ilis clothing was taken f rom hini. Saturday morning when a cleputy went to Repp's room he'found the prisoner had escaped by letting himself down f rom a back windovv witli a rope made of bed clothing. The only clothing Repp had when he left the hotel was a blanket and a pair of socks. Repp was accused of burning the depot and stealing $75 worth of cloth consigned to him C. O. D. lt is believed he was aided in lus escape by friends. Every effort is being ruide to effect Repp's capture.' - Detroit Journal. Acertain building lot in this town has been the scène of more hard labor wasted than any other equal área oí land in this county, we have no doubt. Five times has stone been brought to this most desirable lot, for it is certain that, then, with the next purchaser would coune a team to remove the stone, and soon another load would come to take its place. And so the act has been repeated until no interest would be aroused now in that neighborhood should it be ascertained that a Vaiiderbilt had purcliased the property to use for building purposes. The last purchaser did not go so far as to draw nis stone, but the house piomised tor this winter is still a dream and a myth. No explanation offered thus far seems probable lor this curious reticence on the part of purchasers to build unlesstlie "gliosts" whoattempted to frighten our good people last spring frequented this lot too much, a thing they certainly did somewhat. This croes far ahead of a haunted house,