County And Vicinity

Not a eetebratlon in YVüslitonaw oonnty July 4th. .lust wak untll 1888. The M. E. society of Sotitli Lyon eleared $0.") trom a lunch counter on the 4th. Tlie So. Lyon Picket got. out a red. white and blue edition for the Fourth of July. Will W. Warren, of Dexter, has gone to Dansville, 111., to take a clerkship In a drug store. The Day Express going east wlll liereafter stop at Dexter to let off passengers at 5.08 p. in. standard time. - Leader. Tlie wheat harvest has been pretty generally cotnpleted, and the grain that was left by insects lias been secured in excellent condition. The harvest Is several days carlier thun usual. W. K. Allen isourassistant, and wc hope the people wlll interest themselves as niiich in givlng him Information as tlnv did 1 1 is predecessor. That 8 the way to make a live local paper. - Dexter Leader. Lewis Yager, of Lima, feil from a hay etack last Thursday, .-triking liead foremost, and broke liis collar bone and injnred his neck; onlyon account of thlckness he would have broke it.- Chelsea Herald. J. O. Thompson, formerly the able local of the Dexter Leader has gone to Alpena to accept a similar posltion on the Alpena Pioneer. He isa live, wideawake quill slinger, and may good tortune be his. A boy in the southeru part of Saline township paid$14 fora shotgun last spring and, up to date, lie has secured f13 in bounty on the woodchuck scalps he ' ged, to so say nothingol the f uu. A verv useful kind of a boy. Jas. L. Gilbert spent the 4th hera with his family. He has been gone for several weeks in the wool business, and has been all through Michigan, Indiana, etc., buying wool. He left Tuesday, and is still on the road. - Chclsca Herald. The conunencement exereises and university seml-centennlal wereof sueh a nature and success as to glve Ana Arbor a great boom, and publish her lar and near as oue of Micliigan's fairest and most successful citles. and the oenter of her educational system. - Dexler Leader. The horse chestnut cure tor rheumatism has been knocked silly by a Grand Kapids man. He lias carried a chestnut in his pocket for two years, and says he never siiM'itimI so in his lite as he has during that time. He says the alleged cure is a chestnut indeed. - So. Lyon Picket. An effort is belng made to raise by subscription a fund to pay for concerts on our streets, un Saturday eveninirs by the cornet band. We hope it will prove successlul, as it would draw many people in from the country to hear the music, and as a matter of course they would do their trading here. - Saline Observer. A letter signed " A Dakotian " comes from Aluyville, that territory, enclosing the following: " A Nortli Dakota paper says: Gopher tails are a currency for the face value of the county bounty. Newspapers take thera on subscrlption, merchants for goods, and they occasionally find thelr way into the contribution basket at church." Up to date 7,000,000 trade dollars have been redeemed at par under thelaw passed last winter. Tht-se were chiefly held by the bankers of the country, who paid about S0 cents for them. Their protits therefore, which carne out of the pockets of the people, amouuted to (1,400,000 on this little transactlon, perpetrated by means of a wise and discrimiuaUng democratie congress. In the list of graduates in the law department of the university last week, we noüced the name of Thomas I). Kearney Esq ,whose admission to the bar we chronicled reeently. Mr. Kearney was a brilliant student, has hosts ot friends wuerever he is known, and we predict for him merited success in the nncieut profession of tlie law. We felicítate the legal gentleman on thesucce8sful completiou of hls studies. - Chelsea Herald. The Dexter Leader publislies a list of heavy-weight-cltizens of that locality, as follow8: "Augustus Wilsey, 350; John Moore, 288; Wm. Kilts, 287; Felix Dunlavey, 275; Castilc Curtis, 271; .1. Dunlany, 270; Joe Slaginnls, 270; J. D. Bennett, 250; John Bell, 245; Ueo. Phelps. 245- total 2,751 lbs. Weight of man and wlfe: John Moore, 288; Mrs. John Moore, 290- total 578. It will be Been f rum this that the average weight of each of the ten men is 275 110 pouuds. iVowsomc of you big men in our neighboring towns, let's hear from you." Ex-Governor Blair is a man of niauy speeches. He has lived in Michigan 46 years and during that time has delivered orations on 44 differentindependence days. On some of those days he has spoken twice, uo doubt making 50 addresses he bas given on July 4. If they are all as good at the one given here last Mouday we wish he might livo to give f0 more of thom. Those speeches would tnake an excellent epitome of our political history daring an intensely interestlng period. The ex-governor is öü yeurs of ge but vigorous still. - Plnckney Dispateh. An Indiana farmer, who told bis boys to burn evcry bumble hees' nest they found on the farm, and was coinplninlng at the failnre of hls dover seed erop, was surprlsed when Maurice TbotnptOB, the naturalist, said: "Thnt is why your dover secd fails you. Uumble bees make your dover seed." It Is a fact that a strong nest of bumble bees In a big dover field is worth twi'iity dollars to the owner: for these insects are the chief agents in fertilizing tlie blossoms, tbereby iusuritig a heavy erop of seed. In Australia there are no bumble boes of our kind, and they could not raise oiover wed there until they imported some. At this season of the year tlie annoyanee caused to animáis by flies and raoscjuitoes often amounts to positivo ngony, and, at times, it is sufflclent to prevent stock eatinj cnough to keepthem In gooS condition. The animáis will stand in water, or pass the greater part of the day In the shade, rather than exposé themselves to thesunshine, goingout only when driven by hunger. At all times a good feed of graai is benefici&l to stock, but is especially so when flies are annoying, eince it will do mucli to prevent shrinkage of flesli and milk. The Scientific American says horses and milch cows may be protecteil, in a measure, by wiping them all over wlth a sponge dipped In soap sud?, in which a llttle carbolic acid has been