Washtenawisms

Dexter parish picnic at Pinckney, August 15th. Grand Lady Maccabee celebration at Saline, tomorrow. Go! An iron bridee with stone abutments will be built by the Lake Shore at Manchester. The Presbyterian Sunday-school of Ypsilanti will hold a basket picnic at Cross' grove, next Friday. Mrs. Michael Goltz, of Lodi, died Wednesday, last week. She was aged 62 years and a native of Germany. Thirty out of thirty-eight protected sneep owned by Andrew Pinconnin, of Waterloo, were torn by dogs, and ten killed last week. Frank Sherwood, the thresher, informs us that wheat is turning out from 20 to 28 bushels to the acre.- Manchester Enterprise. The Chelsea thief is abroad with nocturnal ubiquity in Sharon township, blossoming like the night blooming cereus, every night. Mr. C. C. Jarvis, of Dexter, is preparing to build an elabórate summer cottage. The lady will have to hustle to get any good of it, this season. Chelsea can pay her taxes to the Marshal Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Town hall. He wili go gunning tor delinquents as soon as the gaine season opens. Eichard Coe, of near Urania, harvested this season sixteen acres of alsike clover seed and four rattle snakes, which yielded about four and one-half bushels per acre. The Kingsley Milling company, of Manchester have made sotne needed repairs on their dam site and it is not profane to remark that it is now a dam site better for the repairs. Prof. Samuel Osborn, of Sharon, has returued f rom Manistee. While tliere he was exposed to and became infected with a tnalignaut type of lawn tennis f e ver. Ilis friends"fear the worst. Tred Paul, who was scalped by a threshing machine at Saline, is still living and may get well. He thinks of pegging a piece of buffalo skin on the places where the hair won't grow again. Two men mean enough to rob a grave and sell the corpse for halfprice, plundered several houses along the Aun Arbor road, near Plymouth recently, while the people were absent at a funeral. There was a Sunday balloon ascensión at Wacnpler's lake, Sunday last week. The deacon who stood up ín his wagon, outside the fair ground fence. to see a horse race, did not hesitate to gaze on the sky-scraping Sabbath breaker St. Mary's church, of Manchester, vvill soon be removed to a new and better lot. The migration of the ediftce will take place in a few days. The stone foundation is being laid, and Fr. Terne's saith, "Upon this rock will I build my church." A. McMillan, of Bay City, a former proprietor of the Dexter Leader isa democratie aspirant for congress in the lOth district. If this cjities oft' well for the oíd Leader man. the Argus will watch with interest the flight of his present successor. The new drop curtain of the Manchester Arbeiter, presents a scène on the river Jlüine. If the scène exhibits any more "rhind" tlien some of the travelling "anides" who impose on the public as "show companies," it is indeed a rnost thrilling representation. Ui Ling, the slant-eyed mongolian who operates a laundry at Ypsilanti, ís not concerned about the resulta of the Japo-Chinese war. He "don't give dlam" and says "Let em fight. China got plenty men." And he whsIi two dozen col'ee And he charge a half a dollee. While Ilarry Minthorn.of Ypsilanti, and a lady who was ridmg with nina were near Plymouth, last week, some liornets carne out of their house by the roadside and made themselves acquabited with the horse. The carriage and its occupants will require considerable repairs. Dow and Iluckins, who expect this year to carry the state for the prohibition ticket, will sing and talk at Chelsea, Thursday evening. The prohibition party is the only party that sings as cheerf ully and hopefully from the grave as from the mountain peak of a living triumph. An old turtle with an authenticated age of 150 years and a speculatiye age of 50 years more, has just died at Colombo, Calyon. This moss grown reminiscence outdates most of his species who sit around in the county town stores grumbling about the cost of public improvements. Maidens who find veils warm luxuries this weather are sighing for the patter of the rain drops upon the dusty highways. - Chelsea Standard. The Argus trusts this is not the beginning of an Infirmity that will land its excellent contemporary among the fire weeds and honeysuckles of fall poetry. Deferid him, ye gods ! Wal ter, Dennison, of Ypsilanti, now travelingin Europe, recently made the toilsome ascent of Mt. Vesuvius and af ter accomplishing it feit like the Irishman who kissed his tall wife - that it was diffieult to reach the mouth of the cráter. He caught a glirapse of the interior and inhaled the breath of the Inferno "Ann Arbor saloons must have imported a peculiarly malignant brand ot whisky, of which Sam and Jacob Sindlinger, farmers of Scio, partook freely last Saturday." The gross insinuation inclosed in the foregoing quotationa emanates from that base sheet, the Commercial. It is now learned that the Ginslingers filled up on Ypsilanti law and order "stub-andtwist" before coming to Ann Arbor. "The Ann Arb'or Qrgan Co., last week shipped six organs to Sjuth Afdea. This enterprising firm seem to fiad sale for their goods be times ever so close.1' - Saline Observer. Times are looser over there than here. The daughters of the Zulu chiefs are not running their fathers in debt for four styles of bonnets and gowns a year. Their clothing consists almost vvholly of brass ear-rings. They spend their 'pocket-money" (this is metaphorical, ror they have "no pockets of course) in the purchase of Ann Arbor organs and thereby prove their good taste and gradual emergence from barbarism. Miss Juliette Jackson and Charles Tenney, of Ypsilanti. will date their golden wedding, August 8, 1956. The state grand lodge of colored Odd Fellows will be held in Ypsilanti next year. It will be black inen's day at Ypsilanti. John Browu Post, of Detroit, sends 2 to the ladies' soldiers1 monument fund at Ypsilanti. The soul of Üld John keeps on the move. Adam Francisco, an old soldier of Dexter, has mustered to the last roll caü of the Grand Army. His death occurred Saturday of last week. According to the Standard, thehorse blocks of Ohelsea are put to a use never intended by the designer, and the paper adds: "The pale moon tells the tale in this case, and uot the 'little bird": Our gray squash bug bas rinished his job. Tiie suuiuier and winter squashes are all dead, iu spite of assiduous attention bestowed upon the vile spelling creatures four times a day. - Ypsilanti Commercial. A lady over 88 years of age, has cliallenged the North Lake correspondent of fie Chelsea News to a swini across the lake, "the proceeds to be devoted to go to the benetit of cleanliuess." Is it possible the scribe is sucli a dirty fellow V The dray team of VVray Graham, ff Manchester, last week, neglecting the strict iujiinction of the owner, to "proceed with cautiou,1' ran away scattering '-free lumber" all over the Corporation. The team was not hurt but the dray received fatal injuries. A Populist open air meeting will be held in Dexter on the evening of August 18th While it is not yet announced that the meeting will be addressed by our esWmed friend, Mr. Peters, he will be there and speak or the meeting will be a failure. Mr. Peters is the Populist party. Mansüeld Davenport, of Mooreville, and Misa Eva Ward, of MUan, were married last Weduesday evening. What was the matter that this Moorevillian, turning his back upon the pretty home girls, sought a foreign allianceV The more villain, he!- that is, the home girls think so. That "one-wheeled bicycle" is again loose in the brain of Freemont Pattison, of Ypsilauti, and coursing over its convolutions like a, car ot juggernaut over a corduroy bridge. Mr. Pattisoti's invention shows progress, but is not yet wliolly reliable for a man whose iegs are too short to reach from his body to Lhe ground. This notice appears iu the Saline Observer: "To the chicken owners of McKay street whose stock are contintinually eating and destroying fruit and vegetables tor others, we would say that such has becotne too great an annoyance to be put up with any longer, and if the same are not taken care of and kept at hoine.a warm reception will hereafier greet thetn." The big county ditch along the Bridgewater line will have a width of 29 feet at the surface and a dip of 12 feet. An indignation meeting of rattleanakes has been called to protest against the canal, and if the job goes ou, it will be at the peril of the contrHctors' legs. The diteh should be expected to yield a handsome supply ol mastodonbones. which no family .sliould be without. Stanton Rowell, past comniander of Carpenter Tost, formeiiy in Cady's grocery l-iere and later in an Ann Arbor grocery, lias been on a soldier's homestead in Houghton county forthe 'last four yèars. He was olïered $S,000 for bis claiai two yeara ago, when it was thought to have valuabl mineral deposita, hut held it at $12,000, and could not now, we understand, sell it for $1,000.- Ypsilanti Commercial. The Argus has always heretofore looked upon the Manchester Enterprise as an intentionally veracious newspaper; but when it declares that Manchester cats "will beat a Methodist conference in paralyzing the supply of spring chickens.'" we turn away with a feeling of sadness to shed a silent tear over the decadence of truth in an age of boasted h'delity to principie. "The Ypsüantian is pretty hot under the collar this week, and the Democrats of the district are suspected of sprinkling pepper in the neck of our neighbor's sweater." - Ypsilanti Commercial. The democrat8 had nothing to do with it. The Sawyer men had the pepper bx. In f act it was wholly dne to the influence of this democratie literary bureau that Editor Osband did not tear down the court hou3e and piek his teeth with the splinters. liold thieves in Superior had the gall to steal a load of hay of Bert Snidecor, and then stop him in the road to enquire the way to Emew. Assisted by his father and hired man. Bert pursued the thieves and recovered the hay, nor knew he till afterwwd that In one of their wagons was hidden a quantity of his stove wood- which he had hallowed and consecrated with the sweat of his brow- and a lot of his oats.. Honest fellows! they had obeyed the command of scripture, "watch and prey." It makes sad the heart of the Dexter Leader man to walk through the cold clammy corridors of the Península mili, dismantled of its machinery, musty with time's mutations and peopled with the ghosts of better days. The editor once worked in that mili and it prospered. But he had to leave it and get a newspaper and a wife and two babies. And now the oíd mili is forsaken and lone ; the best of its days it has seen; but when it has fallen and mouldered away, its memory will Ie green. Phew! how a fine fliïht of faacy pulls the tuck out of one! Our valued county contemporary, the Saline Observer, has a way of lighting the gloom of misfortune's cave thati9(ïelightful. For instance: "The pretty, fat, plump, shiuy tomato worm has made its appearance." "The S. S. picnic, Wednesday, was fairly well attend'ed and much enjoyed, especially by the little folks. During the afternoon Fletcher Schaffer. a little son of Coon Schaffer, was kicked by a horse. which was the only mar upon the day's pleasure." In the same cheerful strain, the friends of a dear deceased niight be comforted with the announcement that "the funeral was a grand success," and that "the corpse created a most favorable impression.1 It is the Observer's salubrious view of life that makes it a welcome exlohange. The Manchester Enterprise is 1 fornied by the W. C. T. ü. that "there ! seems to be a growing interest among the ladies in the line of temperance." All who have the cause of temperance at heait, will rejoice that the ladies down there are "bracing up." Now comes the said Manchester band and gives the court to understand and be informed that if the said cotnmon council will not allow them the use of a room in the city hall, in wliich to víbrate the atmosphere with their ; atmospheric vibrators, why, then the common council can take their old "lioly of holies" and use it for a Josa i house; and the next time tiie band S[ives a "tree concert" oa the streec ït will be for "spot cash," At Chelsea, last Thursday night, the couduits of an air brake on a Michigan Central freight train suddenly parted. The effect of this was to set the brakes. and so suddenly was this done that Conductor Richardson was pitched over the stove of the way car and slammed around in a way thwt broke two of his nbs. A fellow who was stealing a ride had bis toilet bad i y i mussed, and was thought tor,, a while I to be permanentiy separated trom his , breatli. He wassubsequently ! ized, however. and bids fair to becouie in time a first-class tramp. A citizen of Saline who is entirely j unacquainted with Mr. Nesmith, the great cloud-liue electric lailway constructor, the other day innocently askert the Ubserver what had becoine of Saline's electric railroad. We would answer that we know Mr. Nesmith, and that he is exceedingly caref ui about leaving his railroad exposed to all kinds of weather. On damp days when it looks like rain he winds it up on a hose reel and runs it under the shed. In clear weather, however, it can be seen with the aid of a telescope. Point the glass alotig the southern sky. It is an "air-line."' j See it?