County And Vicinity

Circuit court for this countyconimences Oet. 5. The Detroit Pretbytery meet at Milan to-day. Will the growera of Bohemtan oats please report protitg? Lima'g township library U to have n adüitloii of new buokg. Frank Sleator is teaching school in the Httdgon district this fall. The Texas ponies liave beeu visiting at Milan wilh few purchasers. F. V. Sinith is said to be coui pleting one of the finest houses in Sliaron. Dan Muiray, of Miln, sold one of nis horses at tlie Vpsilauti fair for $200. The Toung Meii't Republlcan Club of Ypsilanti is a booming organlzation. The last teachers examinations will be held at Dexter on the 26th of Nov. next. Emery M. Fletchcrof Chelsea and Mis Ella Hathaway of Sylvan, uiarried Sept. löth. The Enterprise says the improvcmentg in Bharon Hnllow thll year will renen $4,000. Miss Lyra Hatch, of Cheleen, has pone to Ullvtit to complete tlie last year of hor course. Mr. Kirkwood, of Sliaron. has moved into his tiiie new house- J. 1). Field bulklcr. The young dancers of Lima have an organization kuown to fame as the Y. P. O. L. Society. A Chelsea hunter shot Usquirrelsin one day last week, iind he whs onlv a Shaver at that. It. S. Copeland, of Dexter will enter the homeopathie departmeut of the university as a student this fall. The Echo thinks Chelsea the healthiest place in the county, and doctors there are said to be very despondent. Grandma Oilbert has returned to Cholsea to tiued a home with her sous, J. L and II. J. Gilhert.- Chelsea Herald. Milan is pretty well fixed- we have four or live practicing physiciang, tliree drug stores, anü two undertakers. - Leader. The Ladles' Library will be open every Saturday, from :i o'clock to t p. m., froiii Sept. lst, 1880, to March lat, 1887.- Dexter Leader. This is the time of the yearto plant advertisements. The country is fertile, and the yield will be enormous if the serd is not sown too late. - Milan Leader. There is a rumor afloatthat Rev. Chas. H. Pattison of the Ypsl. Commercial, is ■ candldate for senator on some ticket. The truth of the rumor we cannot verity. Washtenaw county has three prohibition organs saysthe Dexter Leader. Trille off brother, you forget the Argus and Democrat of ihls city and the Bentinel of Ypsilanti. On of the largest tomatoes of the season was laid on our table last Monday by Dr. Walker. It tneasiires lñ luches in circumference and weighs 1% pounds. - Dexter Leader. Was it a hen that laid it ? If you want us to vote for tome of tho candidates, keep their plctures out of the papers. What kindof ageneration of babies will the next bc, do you suppose, if such faces are constantly presented to the mothersV - Ypsi. Sentinel. After Oct. lst a ten cent delivery stamp will secure immediate delivery of a letter ut any pestofflee in tlie United States, withiu a distance of a tuile aroucd from the postoftice. Hours of delivery in Chelsea from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. - Echo. Prosecutingattorney Salsbury is looking after the fusión tunees at Manchester today. Those fences seem to demand a good deal of attentlou in the Washtenaw eounty direction. - Adnan Times. Yes, and bars to put up too.- Manchester Enterprise. The citizens of Manchester subscribed ■ guarantee fund of $600, to effect the sale of the Washtenaw flourlng milis to parties who would push the business, and consider they made a good bargain at that. Wide awake citizens over at Manchester. The Enterprise was favored wiah calis last Thursday from Messrs. Harper, of Saline, Dr. McLaughlln, of Mooreville, L. J. Liesemer, of the Washtenaw Post, and W. Q. Doty, of Ann Arbor. - Manchester Enterprise. What in the world could have been the matter ? Mark Whitman last week caugut a pickerel In the Iluron river, above the Lowell dam, that weighed fourteen pounds and fourteen ounces, and measured oyer thrce feet in length. This is said to be the largest fish caught here, aud Mr. Whitman t'ouud him a troublesome customer to pull out with a hook and line. - Ypsilantian. The election for congress this fall in this district will settlu a question far higlter and greater than ihe personal qualirications of either Mr. Salsbury or Mr. Allen. It will settle whether the second district of Michigan will send a man to Washington to sumí in caucus with the triends or the enemics of the nat ion. Salsbury will caucus with ex-reuels, who form the largc uiajority of his party in the house of represeutatives. Allen would be on the other side. - Adrinn Times. We steppcd into the rink a few days ago to see how they were progressiug with their apple evaporating business, and fouud theni busy at work putting ia anothor evaporator. They took In over 1200 bushels of apples last I riday aud liave had so roucb fruit offered that they find it necessary to increase their capacity for evaporating. Their machinury for paring, coriii}:, slicing, etc., are of the latest pau terns, and tho hands are learnlng to use them ijnite fktllfully. - Manchester Enterprise. John M. Sweet, a young farmer until recently residing in York township, bas Üed to parta uuknown.leaviug behind him a young wife and debts amounting to aböut $1,000. It is gaid that Mr. Sweet took with him $300 or $400 in cash, and that lus crodilors were not pressing him. It is thought that there may have aislad soine cause for hissudden departure other than thatof liuaucial troubles. Thehouseliold Rood and other personal property left buhind by Mr. Sweet have been attachcd by crêditors and will be sold at auction next Saturday. - Ypsilmitian. Ring tlic Ml softly, theru's crapu on his hut. Listen to the Dexter Leader; "The 'chestnut bell'of couiincroe is an invention tlmt sensible people unite in anathematir.ing. It is pretty gcuerally conceded that a m;iu who will deliberately and with nialice aforethought, attach a chestnut bell to his vest and go bout seeking whom he may rintt it on, is one whout it would be base flattery to cali imbecile. Thespectaele of a ful! grown and apparently initelligent man [xirchasing a chegtnut bell is one to tnake a man weep to see the depths of idloev to which adult liiiuiaiiity may descend."