County Items

From the Herald. One hundred and ninety-üve teacher' certincates have been granted by the county board of school examinéis thia year. A singular turnip hns been left at the Bank Drug Store by Jas. T. Little. It has Uve perfect tops but one single root. It is about seven inches in diameter, and nearly square. Several days a pro we were shown the oldest relies we ever seen. They are the property of Mr. and Mis. Leander Tichenon, the most striking of the two is a cow that gives milk, and is 91 years old,- it is a a small cream pitcher in the form of a The other is a teapot whose age is estimated at 150 years. DKXTER. From the Leader. Albert E. Cook, brother of Prof. C. A. Cook will preside over the scholars at the Arnold school-house. A young man from a neighboring county says "Pinckney" is too inslgnificant a name for our tliriving village, and stiggests "Livingston'1 as a more appropriate cognomen. Wouldn't it be we): for our "village dads" so give the suggestion a thought ? MANCHESTER. Wlien a horse ran away Wednesday it struck Thomas Moran, wlio was engaged in wheeling a barroK', and knocked him over, injnriiii; him in a way likely to be fatal, From tho Enterprise. Telephone business has boomed tliis week. We learn that Thomas J. Fanell has purehased the Goodyear House of Uncle Joe. McMahon, paying between $8,000 and $9,000, turning in bis propcrty in the north part of the village as part payment. SALINE. From the Observer. Christ Geugartj' takes the medal for raising fine cabbage. He bas grown over 1,000 fine head of the same tliis season. A. A. Wood shipped two carloads of sheep to Kansas last week. Frank Tower was guardián over the sheep on the trip. Dr. H. R. Watson has bought the 80 acres of land of Wm. Mead ij'iDg one mile northwest of this villaje, in Lodi township. The doctor is putting in drain tile and improving the place genral'.y. The ministerial Institute of his district of the M. E. church was held in this village on Tuesday and Wednesday. About twenty ministers were in attendance, and good wholesome questions weit; ably discussed and tulked upon. YPSILANTI. From the Ypsilantian. The Central depot islo be remodeled, the ticket office enlarged and the whole building painted inside and out. John Terns and Andrew Witmire have joined in the establishment of a new cifrar manufactory, and commence business with half a dozen hands. From the Commercial. AVe notice from a late number of the Chicago Tribune that our former citizen Major Cicero Newell made a fine show ot a band of Sioux Indians from the upper Brule in Chicago on tlieir way to Washington, when Congress meets in Decomber. Thursday evening the Jackson Express (on the Michigan Central K. Ii. ) going west at full speed, ran into several freight cars at the Peninsular Paper Mills. The entire train was ditched, but muaculous as it may seem no one was buit save the enffineer Chas. Wallington, who was souiewhat scalded. Another well. Mr. Geo. Moorman and Clark Cornwell proprietors of the mineral bata house, are putting down another mineral well on the flats in the rear of their bath house. Estimated cost $3000. Hope it will prove a success. It is surprMng that. the Depot capitalitists do not pitch in and utillze the Follet House.