County Items

Augusta' s W. F. M. S. bas 22 merabcrs; J K. Bradford, of Milán, has rvturned 'rom Kansas. John Jacobs and " Chiib " Dentón of Milán, llave goiie toXebiaska. The Observer observes tliat streef liimps would beabont the thing for Saline Saline apiarists sell nice bee made mney, toinb and all, for 16t'ts. per Ib. Geo. VV. Mangur and Miss Clara Redman, both of Alilan, were married on the 12th iust. Ciias. H. Lemmon, of Dexfer, accidentally cut an usjly ash in hls toot while chopping reeeutly. Mra. Jay Ererett, of Chelsea is being visited by her eister, Mis. C. S. Watkins of Lisbon, Dakota. Luther Phelps, of Saline, luis boujrht a farm in Tnsoola county, and reiuorep thereto witli bis family. F. M. Baker, of Sharon, has Ieasrd bis farm at the hollow, and jjoes to Illinois in the hope of better health. The loekup is completed, paint, chitnney, and all. Kow briug on your disturbéis of the pèace.- Milan Leader. MK-w Ella Presley, of Dexter, wlio bas heen visit i uti friends in Ingham connty for some time bas returned home. It is reported ttut there are 36 fusión as liirauts fur the one litt le posto f tice at Saline. Oh, how hungry they must bo. Mr. and Mrs A. M. Clark of Saline, are in the nothero pait of the state visiling friends, tvhera they expect to ;tay for some time. Mr. Jas. Hagan is to teacb the winter term ofiCdool in the Ri}(ga' district, Svlvan. Miss Irene Everett bas just closed the fall term. Ilev. W. H Tompkins unlted Wm. H. Wnaley and Miss Nellie King, all of Milan, in the bomlsof inatriinoiiy, on Tliuisdiiy the 13th inst. A proposltlnn is being considered to start a república'' paper at Ypsilanti. Of coiirse tlie Ypsilaiitian that repreODt ueither party, kicks. The boys must bave hád a high old time S.iturday night for a neijrlibor' s:iys they ' spewvd" on liis roof. Longnecked fellows, eli! - Enteiprlse. To-morrow Mr. Orín Stair, late of the Saline Obanrver, is to be manied to Miss Florence Johnson, ut the reiidenoe of the bride's parents, in Lodi. Mrs. McElwaine attended the Woman's Foreiirii Missionarv S ciety at Adrián last Wednesday, representing the Chclsea so ciety, whion has 24members. Rt-v. Frank E. Arnold. of Ypsilanti. performed the eeremonv Noy. 12th, that made George W. Holmes of 8io, uurt Mi-o Nellie Thrasher, of Dextei' man and wife. Edgar Alexander brought to this ofiice lust Wednesday afteriioon a buncli of nearly ripe red rasp lerries whlch he pickt'd in the g.mlen thatday. Will wonders never cease? - Clu-lsea Herakl. The free Slipper givcn at the Ypsilanti house last Saturday evening was a nice one and appreciated by a large number wbo ftccepted the a;enerosity of the host Mr. Geo. W. E lis. - Commercial. Ann Arbor tovnship, the home of many distingnished and learned men, and the seat of one of the three srieatest colleges in the country, still pays a bonus on woodchuck scalps. - Milan Journal. The pioposition to build an iron bridge over the Huron at Tuttlc's, was caniedat the late eliction. The amount voted on was $4,000. A good bridge lias been needed tor a long time at this point. - Ypsilanti Commercial. Mis. Horace Case s sufferlug with blood poison. Having tinished some paiut-ingshe washed the brush and having a ,-light scratch on her linger she was poisoned by the paint, and we learn that she li ' lost the usc of one arm. - Manchester Enterprise. tin inert, of the Chelsea Hcrald, has been threatened with a coat of tar and feathers " by one of Chelsea's highly (?) respected (?) men" (?) if he doesn't stop talking temperance - and he burla at the fí'llow a red hot defiance. Thal's right. This is a free country, and the press is as yet unmuzzled. Supervisor Gregory succeeded in reducing th total valuntiun of property of Sclo towushipfrom $80 000 to $4U,0UO by the board of equalizatlou -Dexter Leader. Isn't Hiere some mistake? According to the equalization table the total real and personal valuation of Scio was$l."15,4.ïO, and the cqualized valuation wasSl. 700,000. A differeuceof $44,550, but a raise instead of beiug lovvered 50 per cent. One of oiircitizeiis was asked by a farmer the olher clay how rouch a cord of good dry stove wood was wortti if piled up in g.ind shape, to whieh the citizen replied Chut it would niake some difference in wliat locality t was plled. He Bttid thal n hls neiühborhood there would have to be allowed a discount of fifty percent, foi fhrinkage.- Mllan Leader. The Detroit Eventug News of a recent issue, had tlie t'ollowlng notice of a fonner well knpwn and highly esteemed citizen of Dcxter villaifc Dr. Gray was a woitliy citizcn and a food man, wlioin everybody rcspected who knew: "Tlie death or Dr. Amos Giay at Elk Kaids, on the 2Oth uit., (Iemands mora than a puttns tem. Dr. Gray was born in Townsend Vt., Feb. 20, Í804. He carne to Dexter, .Wich . In August 1832 wliere he began the practice of mèlic!ne and ontinued to reside in the same place over 50 years. Iüs Imsiness extended over the larger portior Of VVashteuaw, Livingston, Inghiim anc J.ickson countics. His Ufe w:is to a reinarkable degree chuniclerized by untailing ge ïerositv anti benevcilence. Mort ihan2ü persons now occii)yinK useful po sitions in Ilfe have been received into hh hume circle nnd assiíted in obtaining ai education. lie was :i piiysician whom ueither storm, distance nor the inability of his palients to remunérate him ever detened trom renderliig his l)est service ; a gtauncb democrat and a life-lonr member of the Episcopal chuich, the clergy o whicli were always welcome at his fireside and who rarely went away emptv-haniled Althougli snrrounded witli tering frlend a-id retatlves and evcry comfort of life, he re:ilized that his iniesion on earth wa t-nded, and passed peacefully and cheer fnlly to hiseternal rest at the good old agt of 81 years."