County And Vicinity

Three maidens sat upon the fence And soulful made the nlglit air hum : Among t hem only was two cents Wltti wüicu to buy three qulds of gum. There are 104 Btudents at Ypsl's business college. Ohelseaites are troubled witli eolds and fevers tueso days. The Lodge of I. O. G. T's at Milán lias passed intoa meinory. The county SunOav School Couvention convenes in Ypsilanti to-day. Chas, and Wm. Gaautlett, of Milan, are visiting in Lexitigton, Ky. Now that Ieap year is heie, gentlemen ure orgauizing uuti-corset societies. M. J. Lehman of Chelsea went to Francisco the other day, with San left off. Mts. Will Pavis has gone from Milan to Almeda, Kan., to join her husbaiid. Bro. Smith of the Leader asks: "U'liat is lt, and How is it Played?"' Give it up. You teil. The Eastern Alichi;aii Poultry Associatio'i is to give a week's exliibítion at Ypsilanti Feb. G to 11. Mr. and Mrs. Orin Parsons were given i geiuiiiie surprise by frlends at their fine Saline home, last week. Allen Bugg left Saline for Detroit lust week Monday. Saline haying lost her iingg can't brag very big. Rev. II. Scott Roblee, of Mimieapoüs, Slinn., has been called to the Cougregational churcli at Cliclsea. Orrin Burkhart of Lima has a 3-year ld colt wliich weighs 1,385 lbs , and anotlier wliieh weighs but 590 lbs. We attempted to make a synopsis of he weather report from the State amihlet for January, but it all blew iway. Prof. Sill of the Normal School, told he Sallnletica all nbout '.-IJcio'" 1 t hrtëty evening. It was a line web he pun tor them. V. H. Burnham and wife who removed from Milan to Tower City,Dako,ta a few ears since, lost their eight year oíd son vitli croup, recently. Farmers are busy drawing lofs to Stockbridge from Bunkerhill and Inhnm thousand feet. - Stockbridge Sun. Olds & Biicon of York, lost a Holstien lieifer recently with hcart disease. The animáis name was Washtcnaw Girl and valued at $200.- Saline Obseryer. The Suline Manufacturing Co. has chosen the following directors lor the enuing year year: D. F. Reever, A. J. Varren, C. Burkhart, A. J. Klein, C. 'edele, Geo. Schumacher, Bernhardt 'eepe. The Courier wanU an electric railway etween Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti - Saine Obseryer. Hardly. The people vant the road, the Courier can get long very well with the present means f coramunication. A stock company with $10,000 capital s being fornied here for the purpose of ïanufacturing church seats, and furnshings. We understand that one half f the stock has nlready been gubscribed. 'hat's the way to do it - South I,yon 'icket. At the annual meeting of the short lorn cattle breeders of Southern Michian, at Jnckson, last Thursday, W. E. loyden, ot Delhi, was elected president; 5. A. Coman, of Grass Lake, treasurer; nd Wm. Uall, of Hamburg, meniber of leexecutive coinmlttce. Dennis and Glover are engaged in makng the patterns for an upnght engine, which will be manufactured by the Ann Arbor engine works. The fact of the ob being given to our home m&chinists, liowsthat they are considered lirst-elass workmen. - Saline Observer. Twelve out of 26 milis andelevators in lis county reported the sale of 24,760 mshets of wheat during December, and 62, 122 bushels slnce Aug. lst last. Why an not the state department receive nore complete returns. A better showng than 13 out ot 26 milis and elevators ught to be made for this county. Ansther proiif that it always pays to dvertlse comes from Ontario county, íew York. A music teacher hnd her usiness card printed in one of the ountry papers. It was seen by a former over out west, and tic hunted her up, xplained his absence of twenty years nd more, and they were married. According to the January erop report t cost the farmers of this county $36.68 er acre to grow the corn erop last year, vith a yield of 36.68 bushels per acre, ïakiiig the corn cost 31 cents per bushei f ear?. Not profitable. The hay erop ost $7.09 per acre with a yield of 1 30 ons per acre, mukiiig the hay cost $5.45 er ton. John J. liobison galbered some wild inotliy giass seed on the way up n the Hocky mountains, last Auust, which he wlll sow with the expecation of having it ripen much earlier ïan our timothy does. If he succeeds myiog time may coine earlier and a beter quiility of hay may be harvested. - lauchesler Enterprise. Township Treasurer E. K. Field, of reen Ouk, hnd evtry dollar of the taxes ii that township collected on Fridiiy nlijht last and returned his roll to the county treasurer Saturday moruing. An excellent showing, botli for the proniptuessof Green Oak taxpayers and tor the tlioronhiiess of Mr. F. as a taz gatherer. - IJrighton Citizen, Jan. 27. An eastern hou3ekecpcr says: "To me an oíd brnom is the greatest blessing. Take an axe and cut the end of the knol) square off just outside the binding. Now stand the banale down by the doorstep so a strap of tin or leather can be nailed ii round nnd throngh it, and we have the very best boot cleaner imaginable, when we otherwise would go into tlie liouse with mud and dirt without end upon tliem. Tliis wilt save much hard work washing floors." Only four short weeks ago we chronicled the happy wedding of Geo. B. Hodge of Le Sueer, Minn., aud Miss Matle Champion of this city; and now, when the honeymoon lias scarcelv waned in the heavens, it is our painful'duty to relate that a great coldness has already come between them. At any rate, a letter recelved from Hrs. Hodge by her mother, Mrs. Champion, of this city, states that the thermometer there registered 46 degrees below zero last week. If that isn't a great coldness we don't know what is. - Ypsilanti Commercial. The young people of the Presbyterian church have organized an auxlliary society, to be known as The Helping Hand Society. The following are the offlcers: President, E. A. Heynolds; vice-president, Mrs. E. O. Leonard; secretary, Wilmer Butler; treasurer, Charles Steidle; working committee, A. B. Smith, Alva W. Ueynolds, Miss Leatie Olcott, Miss Gracia McGregor, Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Leonard. The present object of the society is to raise funds to carpet the church and paper or otherwise decórate the walls and celling. - Milan Leader. The cost of the oat erop is iigured for this county as follows : Per acre for plowing $1.47; fitting forseed afterplowing84c. ; fertilizingpurchased .04c; barnyard nianure spread on the fields 13c. ; seed 66c; drilling 37c; harvesting $1 13; stacking 79c; threshing $1.80; marketing 72c; interest at 7 per cent. $4.09; insurance .059; taxes 33c, repairs 63c. ; makincr total cost $I3.G6. The credits are: Value of straw per acre $1.86; the rental value of dweiling 57c; net cost of graln per acre $11.23; average yleld per acre 35.04. Costofgrain ner bushei SQ.312. The Jlanchester EnUrpiise has this new story ot cunine peculiarities: We have often wondered why some doge cry or howl when they hear a belt ringing, a hom blowing, etc. Nate Schmid's dog will always cry when he dears the Germán Lutheran church bells, Mike Brenuer's dog wlll cry when lie hears the hotel heil and other dogs will take on fearfully when they hear the band play or a horn blow. Some people explain that the sound affects the nerves and gives the dog pain, but we can scarcely believe it, as we have known a dog to ruu out upon the hotel steps and begin to bark as soon as he saw the landlord take the bell in hand. J. H. Kings. ley's valuable hunter seems so fond of music that he visita Haeussler's drug store two or three times a week to hear Fred Martty play upon the mouth organ, and he will wag hls tail and frlsk about in great glee as soon as he sees Martty take up the instrument, and when he begins playing the dog will elévate his nose and begin the peculiar and sometióles not unpleasant crying noise as loog as the music continúes. At his home in this city, Liberty P. Beach, another of the pioneers of Mich.j aged 86 years. He was born in Massachusetts in 1802, and moved thence to New York, and then to Michigan in '36, settling in Superior, where he resided till 1851, and then carne to this city and entered into business with Mr. Buck, on Congress street. Soon after, the whole block from Hewitt & Champion's to Huron street, was swept by flre, in which Mr. Beach lost heavily. He resumed business, however, and continued for some time, but llnally went to Medina, Midi., where he reinained seventeen years. For the past thirteen years he had llved in this city. Mrs. Beach survive?, being well along in years. In early lite he united with the M. E. church and had been a consistent and faithful member since that time. His flrst wife was Hannah Oaylord, and his eecond was Mrs. Mary Ann Norris, whose flrst. liusband was the brother of Mark Norrig, father of L. D. Norris. Thus one after another ot the old land marks drop from among us, atid soon there will be few to gather at the animal reuuions. Though they may pass away the memory of their heroic deeds and life of self-denlal and sacritice will be treasured by those who shall succeed to the blessings they have been mainly instrumental in bestowinz.