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The Cbelsea refcrm club is out ot dcbt, j ana a lime m me ihmii; io .spare. The blockarie in wheat is shutting down I on trade here to a considerable ex tont. Thero continúes to be a good deal ofl sicknets about lierc but not many deaths. The Sunday schools are filling up as I usual now that the holidays are neir at I hand. üur ladics are seriously c ntem plat ing I anothcr leap year ball. What village can I boast of ruore enterprising ladies than ours? I Another pioneer gone. Dr. Abraip N. I VanTyne, of this village, died at Lis I dence last Tbursday, aged 82 years and 10 I days. He leaves a large fauiily and hosts I ot'warm friends to mourn his losf. MANOHKSTEa. From the Knlcrpnse. The new vault at Oak Grove cemetery is I coiupleted, and the town board cali the job I a good odc. A private lotter from llev. J. li. Gilman I who is located at Macomb, III., announces I that he will vif.it Manchester in January. There has been over 100,000 pounds of II dried apples taken in by the nierchants of] this villaje, this fmll, and the ¦upj.ly nol I exhausted vet. ('lias. M. Fellows and CoOob Dorr, ofl Sharon, returned home from Verniont on I Saturday morning. Iorr bought cight and I Kellows 60 line aheep. The "rapnet" is the name of' a new I dance. It is said to bfl a mixture of I can, hoe-down and haggiug, and raoks ¦ I liddler all to pieoea to keep up. V. K. Pcok, of thii town, and Charles! Robinon, ol' Gran Laks, lef't here on II d;iy hist lor JackeoDville, Florida, Where { thcy will speud the winter. Napoleon ttoilishaabeenftdjtttled uwaoc, and sent to the counly huuse, where he will remain until there is an oppofinnwyte get hiiu in the l'ontiae asylum, as that insiitution is full, and For the present nf i more patiënt 8 oaa be receivcd. SAI.1NK. I-rom thr ( Hm J'ctcr Kanouao has uhipped another car I load of hogs. Alioul 36 icholars altend the Herman I school ÍQ thU villaje. I'rof. Shephcrd informa M that things 1 are moving off smoothly at the chool, and I that thcre ia a very large attendance this I winter; also tbat the sehuul is gruwing il every day. A moveiuent is on f'oot onkinir toward I the pardon of Geo. Cook. A petition is 1 being eirculated, and many of our citizens I have alrcady signed it ; also tbe jury I (excepting one, who is in Missouri) the I prosecuting attoroey and his a-sistant, the I sheriff and turukey. Judge Huntington I has not, as yet, .signed it, but wo presume I he will as soon as it is presented.