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The boiler of a threshing engine exploded near Jackson, on the 6th and threw fire all over the barn yard of Ira Palen. Loss in barns, sheds, grain and harness, $2,000. Legrand Buel, of Holley, a gradúate of Yarnall, has gone to Pontiac, a raving whiskey lunatic. The gold cure didn't save him. Here is another chance for sermons on the demonetization of silver. As if to mock the incarnation of justice, thieves last week claaned the poultry coop of Justice Vendegrift, of Adrián, as bare as a jaybird in moulting time. It is a plain uncomplicated case of contempt of court. When Ed Kefuss, of Hudson, took his gold watch out of his vest where he left it hanging the other day, the watch was not there. The chain was left but the time piece was a "golden slipper." A thief has it. Geo. W. Bell and a carriage collided at Pontiac last week. No damage to the carriage, but the Bell was badly cracked and the fragments gathered up void of sensibility. The Bell will not be put to use till the shoulder mends. Commissioner Starrett has been improving the looks of the roadside by cutting the - Clinton Local. It is singular that no cut of this man has appeared in any of the papers. He is probably the only street commissioner in the entire congressional district liable to indictment on a charge like that. Democrats made large proraise of "free raw material." - Lapeer Clarion. Well, we furnished it, to fill the places of republicans, and it worked up into splendid congressmen. If the senate were as sensible as the house, the country would before now have been well on the way out of the slough of McKinleyism. The Monroe Democrat denounces with vehemence the blasphemous declaration of Rev. Myron Reed, of Denver, (formerly of Hudson, Lenawee county), that the Saviour was an anarchist, adding that from the information it has at hand, our Lord was "anything but an anarchist." This declaration of the Democrat will do much to dispel the belief so general, regarding the biblelessness of Monroe. Monroe has become a tramps' trysting place, a beggars' bivouac and a peddlers' paradise and the town is getting very tired of them. It seems as though the people were unreasonable about one thing however. They kick because the tramps bathe in the river, and say that in ttaeir bathing suits they are not pretty. This is the first accusing , evidence ever discovered to prove a 1 tramp guilty of bathing. The Loon Lake correspondent of the Pontiac Post says: "Unintentionally we cast a little slur upon George Chamberlain having a dog that had been killing sheep, when the truth is that the dog had never killed a sheep that anyone knew of, but George had a suspicion that he might and so he killed the dog." This is remarkable and furnishing the first known instance in which a dog owner ever suspected his dog of killing sheep. Our genial editorial triend, Jerome J. Wóod, of the Hudson Republican, is so absorbed and interested in the plan to send Grant Fellows to Washington that he headed his report of the county republican gathering at Adrián last Saturday, "congressional convention. - Morenci Observer. Don't doubt it a1 all, for some weeks ago he returned home late one evening from a Fellows conference in such an abstracted state of mind that he put his wet umbrella in bed with his wife and stood himself behind the door. Mrs. Americüs Smith recently died in lorna county, aged 66 years. In a sketch of Mrs. Smith, written by her daughter, Mrs. E. C. Town, and printed in the Hudson Gazette, Mrs. Town, speakingof her mother's patriotism, says concerning her brother who was in the hard-fought battle of Stone River: "When he feil, terribly wounded, and the rumor carne floating home, a friend - trying to break the news gently - said to his mother, 'What would be the worst thing you could hear from Sylvester?' 'Well,' said she, 'the worst tning I could hear would be that he had deserted'." Here is a pretty muil! The Northville Record says: "Last week the Ann Arbor Courier credits a limberger cheese' item to the Saline Observer and the 'catch on' item to the Chelsea Standard. The Argus credited the latter to the Dexter Leader. Both items were entirely originally in the Record, several weeks ago. The Courier anc Argus are usually very careful in giving proper credit. Both papers have so much worth copying each week that they would not have noticed a little thing like this,but with the Record it is different." The Argus regrets lts blunderous share in robbing the Record of its Limburger cheese. The offense is rank and smells to heaven.