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1 lie State t armera7 instante, concluctei by Prof R. C. Carpenter of the State Aliciiltural College, vvill be lield Tuesdav and Wednesday, Jannary 22d and 230, 188 1, at Clielsea, Micfa. Afternoon anc evenlng sessionsare to belield, aml i veij e&tertaíning program has been arrangcd President C. II. Wines and his various assistavts in office will doubtless make the jrathering a gruid success. Au urgent in vltation is extended to all. DEXTEU. At four o'clock yesterday moriiing Dexter lost one of hcr liouses built sotnc fifty yeais ago of timber taken from her streets. The house was occupied by Dr Wright, and was built by Dr. Amos {Jray, who is still a resident of Dexter The fire caugbt l'rom a stove. The goods were probably covered in full by iusurance. ï'rom the Leader. 7 Two Dexter boys are talking of' enli&ting in the United States army, and exnect to ero to Detroit this week. Ha ij ürooks cut down Dr. Wrio-bt'ggJ "n j'J" tied.it om the rail ing „f g$LS g Hotel. Hetl.en took the Doctorïs hc .i'sö HU.Icutter and went to l'niekney, V ére e was urested by constable Jal Ka „„ ex, mimi' '" l'le "o vüs eA.rniue.l before Juütk.e fne on 7 ,ionext l,W"ft,Ij0U.Ul1 verfor trial ' tSw sos,r mt Ke"i8st1"MANCHESTER. esutl! of tlie lissa' A Case )' tlrst paiil message' senC over the ti r ,ione line was by IBarvay I ;jackman oharon. Contrary to espeatu tions, the .rilling communlty hav beem good patrons of the telephone. We received a letter ftiomi "Öam Kirchhofer, of Kansas City, a fewr %days ago In which he says that Blind iioo ne is advertised to play in the west. IBoone must huve recovered liis reason.. AT XKV. Frena the Observer. ThaSanford boys, ex-9a)in-eites now in Dakota, gathered duxing the past summer nul fall trom the broad prairies of the teiritory a little over thirty tons of buffalo bones, whieli were sold to St.Louis parties for f 10 per ton, for fertilizing purposes. A Saline naturalist, in attempting to warm tlie ears of a frozen wasp over a lamp, discovered that the tail of the insect thawed out tirst, and worked with a rapidity that was astonishing, as the profaiiity of the naturalist proved, who held the insect by the tail while tlms experiment ing. CffiUiMli From the Ypsilantian. Miss Jennie Martin of Manistee, while spending her holiday vacation with her mother, Mrs. Crombie ofthis city, had her shopping-bag, which contained her return ticket, $:JO in money, and valnnble papers taken. Thieves broke into the residence of J. J. Stephenson on Congress st. Now Year's eve, and capturcd about f 30. They broke into a back window and gained an entrance to a sleeping room, took a small bank eontaining the money, a purse, and a diiinb watch. From the Con meraal. Therc were 834 holiday tickets sold at the j[. C. K. K. Passenger agent Datnon runs a SUCCeggful campaign cvciy time. Mr. E. Samson while requesting a change of aclvertisement infoims us that the lst of Januaiy, 1884, he commenced with yio. I, again in prescriptions, baving reacbed ten thousand the last of December the iiccunnilations of the last few y ears.