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After some experience, Lambertville has arrived at the conclusión ihat "the drunkenness anddebauchery exhibited in the community is a' flagrant disgrace and a curse to j humanity." Then why does not ' Lambertville quit drinking ? The Chelsea fair opens on the 6th and closes on the i2th. It should receive a general patronage. The special features will be numerous and choice. On the loth the various persons who will be elected to congress in this district next November will be there and speak. The counter moves of oratory will roll high, and meet, and surge, and swirl, and a malestrom of political debate will be formed that will swallow up and destroy political heresies and only truth and democracy shall override the rocks and live to be pointed to by the admiring multitude as examples of " the survival of the fittest." At all events go to the fair and see whether it will turn out as we say. Owen Abbott, of Clayton,has been named by the Democrats of the second representative district of Lenawee county. If he is elected they can'tbribe Abbott out of standing by I bis convictions - nor bluff him either. He has a muscular way of standing by his convictions. Once when constable he tried to serve a summons on a man who fled over the county line. Did Abbott abandon thechase? Not much. Hepursued; overtook his man on the railroad, promptly knocked him down, and dragged him half insensible back into Lenawee county, where he pulled out the summons and served it. He paid a fine tor assault and battery, but he cared nothing for that. You can trust Abbott. He should be elected. R. F. Bailey, aged 92, died last week near Carleton, having lived in that community over 60 years. He had witnessed its change from the wildness of savagery to the waving fields of civilization, and feit, hke dld Simeón, that he could "depart in peace." The oíd gentleman had many friends. Editor Stacy, of the Tecumseh Herald, has secured a panoramic show and may lecture and exhibit this season. He may be correct in parts of his lecture, but when he points his wand to the Apostle Paul and relates that worthy's experience in Egypt, and his escape from temptation in the house of Potipher we contest the accuracy of his biblical lore. William Coleman, of Rea, has a team concerning which he deposes and swears that he left them hitched to a farm roller and went to the house for a lunch, and returning found the horses in motion, having rolled half an acre during his' absence, going back and forth as regularly and accurately as though driven by their owner. Heretofore Rea has not been thought of as a locality likely to furnish a substitute for the Orion snake monster, but she will hereafter enter into the calcuiation. Tle Saline chemistry class has been making a qualitative analysis of the water of the various wells in the town, and the scholars are surprised. B the aid of the microscope they have discovered, so far, one hadeosaurus; one megatherium; sea serpent 300 feet long; bi-section of a parallelogram; dinosaur; Peruvian ramphorynchus and another "cus," supposed to be related to the man ape who spells arithmetic with a final "k" and "tizic" with a "pea aich tea aich," to the entire subversión of all the laws of fonetics. The business of "Lover's Lane" or "Fighting Alley" at Dundee has been bankrupted by the introduction of the electric light. In that romanticjquarte rmany a troth has been plighted - and broken - many a lover's kiss implanted on lips ruby with paint. There many quarrels have adjusted but more noses "busted," sometimes on general principies, often on no principies and oftener on account of the green eyed wild-cat of jealousy, influenced by the tiger that crouches at the bottoiu of the black bottle. But the electric light has come, the trysting place of quandam lovers and fighting plug-uglies has gone out of commission.