Vicinity

- tiattle tJreek entertained 170 trampa n December. - A party from Adrián and Tecumseh will start for Florida, Jan. 21. - Battle Creek is excited over the question of who shall be postmaster. - Judge of Probate, Hon. Chas. Dickey of Calhoun county, died Sunday evening. - A great anti-seoret society convention was to have been held at Adrián last week, but it flattened out too thin to be visible. - The Calhoun County Farmers' Mutual fire insurance company has a membership of 2,475, and has an insurance of $6,115,540 on farm buildings in that county. - The Suprema Court has granted a now trial to Marvin D. Palmer and George H. Carver, the two white wire clothes line dealers who wero each genteneed to fivo years in State Prison, from Adrián in December, 1877. - C. E. and Barton Hough, the Adrian men convicted of grain crookedness, and yet in jail at Adrián, their sentence of thirty days expiring the 16th. It is said that the wife of C. R. Hough is endeavoring to raise the money to pay her husband's fine, and is sanguine of success. It is thought by some that Barton will " work out" his fine.