County And Vicinity

A HiH-al al Jolin [fwifl's 11 Sitaron. Jan. lst. Public nbaiml of ijiiwn Ksthei a slinc Kriday, Jan. lst. Oeo. Straus?, ni Obelaos has jjone to Florida, lookiiig for heulth. Manchester's cornet band'niasijuerade's Jan. lfit, al (oo'lyear's hall. Krv. l);m R. .Shier, of Sharou, liad $56 ïiven liiin iu a doualiou recently. Tlie Dexter Mcthodists took in $44 at a recent donaüon at the parsonage. Tho Dexter CongregatioHalists eontributed$83 tor home niissions Bunday wi-ek. Chistmas there was a tainily gathering of itbnat ."( persona al (í. J. Crowell's ia Chelsea. Salim'.s board of trnde does a lively buíiness now-a-days, principally in roller ranea. - Observer. Pittsfield repoits having sutstrown her rood business, and its townsliip treasurer reporte laxes coming in very alowly. W. K. Boyden recently purcbased of H. I'iicls of Webater, a ycarling tlelfer tor wliicli he pald Í200, Bluoded stock pay's farmers. B. N. Rouse packerl and headcd 64 barrelsof flour ready forshipping, in .' Iiouih, one lay last wock. 1110 barrels is coiim!redan areraya day's work.- Haline Observer. I.. M. Thorn is quite un extensiva breeder ot raney ponltry, liis specialty being IV, iiioiit.h Rocks. He hs hens weighing 12 pounds. He reports afine sale the past Mj.isoii - Saline Observer. Chas. Johnson, of Dakota, is in che neighborbood Lrying to raice funda to pay the tuxfs u din farm there, having had his wheal nll bnrned by prairie fires. He issiok wrltb rhenmatitm. flelp him who an. - North Lake eor. Dexter Leader. K ren the poor hens can wo longer eujoy llie monopoly of the ejfg business. Au eaatern film is now inauufacturlng eggs that eaunot be dUtinguishcd from the original lien fruit. Tliis rather dlscounts the waoden nutmeg business. - S. L. Excelsior. Ed. Featherly of Whittnoie Lake has sotó his farm tu Michael Xeveritt for $1,450. BU. will return with bis wite to California uhout April lst. He has heeu offered a salary of $600, board and expenses, annnally whlch he considers better tbau farniing. - Excelsior. It is a discouraging fact to us, rich peopie, that Oíd Sum Woo.ster. has outrun Vamlerliilt in the raco for long life, by many yeais. The editor of the Citizen will htiicetorth eease lo put his trust for loiijfevity in the great riches he is to rev'r doto '¦'' ií'ui, ami win depend in future for length of duys on the hutnble virt'.iisíit ti-uiperance, frngality, new milk and aelearoonscience. - Biighton Cilizn. The followlng are the ofHcers of Curpenter post . . R of Chelsea, for the coming vear: Coru., T. K. Wooil; S. V. Con., J. F. Harringtoii; J. V. Com., E. L. Negus; -¦!:., K Hanimond; chaplain. Bey 11. M. Gallup; Q. X., G. J.Crowell; Officer of tbe doy, J. F. Waltrous; Offlcer of the ruiird, H. F. üilbcrt ; adjutant, Aug. Neuberger: Delégate to State Enoampment. Rey. II. M. Gallup: altérnate, Richard Wh.illan. The Manchester Enterprise hite the sidewalk repair question exactl}r : "By order of the streel committee or one one eUe John Merithew has been repairing(') the sidewalks. His manner of doing lt u;is to n ai I ii piece of plank over the crack or hole in the walk thereby utaking a stuoiblinx block, and in sume mstances, inaking Un' walk more dangerous to pcdustrians tlian it was. Such botch work is a disgr.ire to the villagc and we think should an accident ccur that the village woukl hardly be relieved from rtsponsibility." The M. E. church has undergoneextenslvechapges within i few weeks. The seáis hare been bo arranyed as to leave au ai;-lc nixl each uall and one in tho mlddleof the house, the whole floor bas been oarprted, a new pulpit and uow pulpit turniluic have buen put upon the platform, the (loors have been so Imngf ai to swinjt out according to ihe law of this State, :ind the whole bas been varnishcd anew. When tlie seats arecudhioned :ind the spiie paiuted, it will be the mant beautl ful iind atliacti.ve church in Chelsoa. - Hervid. DKATH OK CA1T. J. B. AHMS. Krom the Dpxter Leader. IHcd. at the residenoe of his od, in tbe luwutnip "f Websier, December 17, 185, JfUUei oOWdOln Arms, ia the B6lb year of bil age. Mr Arms was bom In South Deerfleld, Mu-.s,, in 1801, and was married to Clarisa S. Sinitli in 1827; emigrated to Webster in 1834, and located on sections 4 and 9, wbere, with the exceptlon of the last flve or m years, he has sílice resided. HU deata seversanother of the few rematning links in the chain thatconnects the patt with its toil, depiivations, hardships and innnasroi wllb the present. Of the sturdy pioneers who broke the stillness of the pnmeval forests, and made the " wilderne.-s to blosaoin as the rose." he was one of the few who bas survived. In his dissolutlon we are reminded that suon tbe last one shall have passed to the otherside, with only the landmaiksspared.or reared by ilicir hands, lelt to us to recall their memories. For the lust 50 years his life has bniMi olosely ailied and ideutified with '.lic pbytlcal chiinges, mental, moral and ( 'liii-iian in Iva nre inent of our community, Kiriag not only the buoyant irength of lila young manhood to all questions of l'iibiir interest, but ilown to " life'a latest ( lii-mg yeai " kept paoe with the onward march, yielijng only to the inevitable Miminons. "It isenougb; come tip liighi'i." TtlOUgh adei-rendant of the old New Enjfland stock, InberiUaf all the indomitiililc will of his ancestors, he secms to have ilropped out the austerities, and liyed in an atmosphere of geniality. No misfortune could be so gTMt, no disappointment so bitter, but be could nae superior to lts mallgD liiflueuoe, and ditwern through tbc rlft in the cloud its silver linlng. Witb urga social cnpacities, a very retentive memory and Uren powrrs of observation, he was the nou! and life ot whatever society he entered. His youth was almost pi ri ii 1 1 ia I, euabliug hiiu to enter into and eiijoy with B BeU ilnmst child-like the joys and hopes of the youug. He was a rare companion to thcaged, ïwiving incidcuts of earliêr years, niusing the liatener tolive ni't ayain portions ol' the paBt. To tbe middlc-iiged he was an invaluable friend, and to the youth an Idol of ïffoction. Iu business his word was a bond; iu politics, a8 Ion;; as the party existed, a whig, then a republican - but not a pariisan in an oftn-ivi' settse, He was averse to holding ofllce though otten tendered it. During the rebellion, by giviug to liiti country two ons as defenders, be proved hlmself a patriot of the noblest order. Witb regard to his inner life, in ita relntionship to the great problcms of the hcreafter, wc can only say tliat wlille not profesed ('liristian according to the tetiets of tlic risible churches, he alviayg manifeated un abldïng tai t h in Ihe teuchiugs of the Stiviour, r reverence for the word and acts that proclatmed him as onn who feil he had reripougibilities bcyond (hc present. His paieagc tlirough the dark rslley was silcnt and peaceful. Tlie funeral whh held nt the Webster Conrregational cliurch, Suntlay, Uec. JOth, Rev. V. .Tunes offleiatiu. A Uic coafrreation was present topay la=r respecta to big mortal remaios.