Washtenawisms

Tlie fine poiiits oí the smal] pos l'right at Manchester are the vaccine "points". Delhi K. ü. T. M. wil! switch their lieels iu Uw air ia tlir mazy whirl oí the dance, üct. 26th. Ypsilantiaus are in i row about thé ■t'wer fund, and much sewer gas is escaping through the newspapers. William Kneip, of Ypsilanti, died very suddenly receutly. He had been i 11 but was supposed to be recoveriug. Engineer Wilson, of Ypsilanti town, whose wife died some weeks ugo, is now bereaved oí the little one she lef t lieliind. Young men and boys at Ypsilant are getting ready for the juli or a line' ly disturblng the meetings of the Sal' viition army. With the prompt care taken of the small-pox case three miles from Manchester village, it is not likely that the village will sulfer from it. J. .). I'aishall.of Geddes, hadhusked o busbels of pears and left them in baskets, Thieves got the wliole ; and setting the whole, it was not a nartial theft. Mis. L. O. Iiawkins, of Ypsilanti, has a rare and extensive collection of Mexican curios, as she calis it; but visitors, who have seen this collection, pronounce it a veritable museum. A defective flue in the chimney of Oeo. (Jomor, of Ypsilanti, traitorously lelivered the house over to fire, last week. An insurance and some of the contents of the house were saved. Last Friday, at Ypsilanti, a vicious dog snatched a mouthful out of a child owned by Frank Showerman. The marshal notilïed the owner that the dog must die. He is probably dead. Altogether, dogs have eaten up -11 sheep of the flock of John Tracy, of Manchester, this season; yet there is not a man within seven leagues of there who owns a sheep-killing dog- not one. The tidy housewives of the county are now in thü inidst of house cleanhig, and distracted husbands take their cokl meals at tables loaded with old bottlps, and sleep around on the window sills. John Honestine, of Saline, was nev er real "hom inad" till the other day. ■when a cow in the street spied his open gate and with lier tail in the ait sailed through and ate and destroyed all his cabbage. F. F. Tucker, of Saline, recently sold 20 young pigs which weighed 5,HX) pounds, or 250 pounds each. The Saline Observer says: "Ln this production he fed wheat largely, causing it to met him about 78 cents per bushel." John Stanton, of Webster is willing to subscribe to an aflidavit that he has this year raised 700 bushels of carrots from 1Í acres of ground. It makes the republfcan state committee carroty haii-ed to hear of a success like that rider a democratie administration. An article in the Saline Observer is Ji.-:rled "Vest-Pocket Electricity!" V i.y, that's pietty near coat-pocket Heet ri city. It was that blamed stuff tliat made the Rich meeting cei'sus takeis see a thousand persons at the Ann Arbpr rink. lour pocket electricity is a great multiplier. Concerní ng John Denmmond ïodd, Who has undertaken the rugged contractof accomplislwng a reform at i on at Willis, the JDexter Leader remarks that "if he doesn't succeed in knoeking the devil out of the natives of that community it wou't be his fault." Remarks like that tend to throw a dampness over the meeting. The Chelsea Herald, speaking of aj?riculture, prophesies that as soon as it is realized that a talented farmer lias just as good a chance to rise as thase of other professions, there will be a rush for the fields. Yes sir, there will. And every basswood root that hits a boy's shin when he is plovving will be a sttoke for greatness. oys, the basswood root is your best friend. Show yonr shins. W. W. Phillips, of Ypsilanti, has a grape vine, wluch during the past season grew 22 feet, without special encouragement or hope of reward. It wore the grapes all off, dragging them around and no particular benefit carne f it, other than to make a record. It now challenges any other grape vine in Ypsilanti or Ann Arbor, to a growing match next summer, and is willing to "stake" its entire fruit on the result. i iré, at the rear of the Occidental hotel, at Ypsilanti, Monday afternoon of last week, called out the fire department. The origin of the flie is not known but it is supposed that one of Capt. Schuh's sky-rockets sent up in Jerusalem, came down there. Mr. Schuh's rocketa are llying around so thick in Augusta that Mr. Dansingtwrg sits astride his roof nights, with ;i pail of water. Somehmv people get terribly frightened when tliey hear that there is a case of small-pox in the land, but most physicians say that they would rather tend small-pox than an epidemie of diDhtheria, measles or Bcarlet fever.- Manchester Enterprise. Yes, and people who have had 'em say that small-pox is delightful- mere recreation, in fact, compared with a corn on the toe, or the unrest of a political caulidate. Small-pox is just nothing at At the recent meeting of the Webster Farmers' Club, discussion took' a partisan range on the subject: "What ought the farmers to do in view of the prevailing droughts and low pricesV" Geo. W. Merrill would irrígate and hadn't lost his cud even though times were hard. Amos Phelps advised reading the bible more. Geo. A. Peters would raise not only crops, but men and women of sense who would make a proper use of the faculties God gave them. Some were for Paul, some for Appollis, some for Cephus and none agreed. If it will quiet'the colic of the Sntinel to know that the Argus pretenda no defense of the term "altuost killed t baby" for "narrowly missed a baby'", it is hereby informed that the construction of the baby item was erroneous. The Sentinel, however, defends ate paragraph. "Mr. and Mis. James Masrtin are visiting Ais parenta". and iisks what was wrong with it. Well if "Mr. and Mis. Martin" are of the masculine geuder, nothing; otherwise, everytliing, and they are entitled to rescue, along with the Argus' baby. W trust the squall is over. G-round for a new (Temían hoM.se lias been broken at Dexter. The Adrián district RÏ. E. revival conference will be held in Milán on the 80th and 81st. A cat had the bravado to appear voluntarily before the Saline chemistry class last week. and narrowly escaped catalepsy as a "cliuic." Mrs. Mary E. Onderkirk, of York, died Monday last week, af ter a brief illness. She was the only surviviug daughter of Otliine Goodhig. Henry Wilson. of Manchester, lias had his reliance upon the milk of human kindness impaired by a thie; who stole oue of his cows, last week. Dr. L. D. Coombs has stined up the three principal founders of the Keele. institute, lormerly located iu Ypsilanti witli a $50,000 dam age snit in Jietroit. Thifl isenough to throw the defendants intothe delirium tremeua. The Baptist young people oi Moorevillewill give a doughnut social tomorro w eveiiing. Doughnut forget tlie date. Bad burglars are burglarizing stores, reoidences and pedestrians in neighboring towus. Milan folks, look out for them!- Milan Leader. Yes: entertain only the good burglars. Wilson it Sons, of Milan, have completed a $500 buckwheat cake outfit, U is thought the Milanese will be able to scratch through the winter. There will be a box social at Charles Kent's, Thursday eveuing, Oct. 25th, for the benelit of the jarutor of the church.- Cone Correspondence Milan Leader. The Argus regrets the decadence of vital piety at Cone. It doesn't seem quite right to replenish the treasury of the church with a "boxirig'1 match. Nowboys, e;etyourjack-lights ready. -Enterprise. And select your bonusmen, for the game warden'a eyeball is on you Miss Lydia Seckinger. at the Manchester evaporator, paired a bushel of apples, told au admiring suitor '"no," and did up her back hair, in l'our minutes. Baby, superintendent of Bandford's creamery, is in quarautine and the butler machine is shut down tor the present. A dandelion blossom is attracting attention at Manchester. Nothing strange to see a dozen or more dandy "lions" in a flock. oerling the iris iu Ann Arbor. A young man of Manchester was missing so long the other evening- having gone to seek the cows- that the people turned out and slopped around with lanterns in a swamp, looking f or him. The search was successful, as the cows had not eaten him. In the animal elephant hunt in Sharon last week- Elmer Bowers and Merrit Birch captains- the Iatter's party prevailed. The higliest one man exploit was 10-50, by George Walker, with George Raymond a close second at 935. James McGregor, of Ypsilanti, attended a Uaikworth meeting in the evening and was a tather in the morniBg. Itisevents like this that talk for Mr. Barkwortli and prove his theory that the baby industries of this county can run without a protective tariff. Pickpockets did a right "fair" business at Chelsea. A cemeut walk is beiug laid in front of the Chelsea M. E. church. Wlien the sleet comes next winter, it will be only those whose feet are shod with the gospel who will be sure of a footing there. And yet it is said that "sinners stand ou slippery places." The Presbyterian experience social at Ypsilanti, last week, cleared up $48; $18.50 being entrance money, and there was $29.50 worth of casli êxperi enees, which lacking $2 wipes out the Sunday school piano debt. Speaking of the eider made by Chelsea farmers, the Standard tickíes imagination's taste by remarking:"Eacu apple has in it a good fat worm to give the eider body' and a 'delicious' Haver." Kev. C. 8. Bullock. of Saline, having fought the good iight, with the footpads who beset his way. while euroute for home one night recently, on a '-tiepass," has received an appointment to the charge of home missionary work of the Presbyterian society in this state. Geo. Damon, of Ypsilanti, succeeds him as president of the county ühristian Endeavor Union. jLuieves recemiy iroke into the cellar of A. B. Skinner, of Chelsea. ate up a lot of good grub and carried avvay bread, butter, fruit and milk. It seems as though the republican speakers were carrying their side of the campaign to extremes. Mrs. Seymour Seae.v, of Hillsdule, visited her parents in Lima last week, making the entire distance of 57 miles on her wheel and getting there in eiglit hours. What would have been thought of that wben "granny was a girl?" A young people's entertainment course, as good as they have anywhere, l.as been uranged for Chelsea. At the last meeting of the Chelsea council. the claim of Carrie Esterle, for 82,000 damages from a defective sidowalk, waa presented. Two stroug men lifted the claim and referred it to the committee on claims, after which each sat down and recovered his breath with a fan. Dr. Conkling, of Cassopolis, once of Manchester, who was missing flve or six weeks, and thougbt to have been murdered, is at home again and claims to have been abducted from his office by negroes and kept all the while in out-of-the-way places in the woods and elsewhere, but was flnally released and walking out of the woods found himself in Cincinnati. How strange this story runs! Reference to a new opera house for Ypsilanti has becomesoold a chestnut that the Argus almost feels like apologizing to its readers for repeating the Dffense; and it does so now only with the assurance that if the scheme now "on the boards"' fails to "give down'' 10 further mention will hereafter ever 3e made of the subject. Mr. Nowlin ïas purchased the opera house site and sold to E. R. Beal 50 feet of the Tont of theground,andUeal willbuild stores with a twelve-foot passage beween them to the opera house- if milt. Mr. Nowlin proposes a stock company capitalized at $1-5,000, to build j he opera house at the end of the I tores. ïlnngs are looking in favor of i he scheme. Hiram Seaver, south of Ypsilanti, raises r rood crop of corn, runnine I about l.oici kerneis to the ear. Kainy weatker knocked out "The Sntmy Side of a Soldier's Life vbyMr Barkley, at Ypsiianti, last week. It was repeated iiist evening. I 1 There is said to be a towu in Michigan (but u's not Dexter) where they , won t nmke eider on Saturday for fear - that it will work on 8nnday. Dexter Leader. Past: 'anthere whipped ; lm barre! of c:der for " worfeine" bunCold-blooded Barkaam by th Ypsilantian: The Ann Arbor Uourier lias started daily. In answer to the question, "Wlial is his motive?" it lias been Buggested that it is au efïort to reduce liis iucorne below the taxing point. íí tii;.; [s the motive he will probabij noi be disnppointed. The pioneer diahes owned by Mrs. J. VViiiHi-d Babbitt. of Ï'p3ilanti, were on exhibitioii e icli afternooii of last week, atan admission oí 10 cents each, for the benefit ol i he monument fund, and each person wlio sHw tbemwaa glad of having the opportuuity to do so bef ore haviag lus iraii uionument lettèred. The Czar of Bussia is in a verv critica! condition, and the whcile worhl has its ear burtMied over the dóor-kiiob of the imperi-tl palace, listening for his last breath. Being the Czar it is avful : Mike O'Fiüiinigan's boy- drat his uglycarcass- feil oft' a wheeibarrow in Bridgewater, and broke his dam leg. Served hiui ritcht. At a New Enjfland supper of the L. O. T. M.. it Dexter, last week, costumes of interest on the occasion were those of Mrs. Chase and Mrs 8. Newkirk and which were worn by the wife of President Fillmore at Washington. II. W. Xewkirk. it is said, was around showing one of the tracks of Columbus, and trying to prove by its hieröglyphics hat he was a republican, b ut la ! it didn't work.