County

- Two cases of scarlet fever in Hilan. - A Germán ball at Goodyear Hall Manchester, on the evening of Feb. 3 - Milán aspires to inoorporation But she can't come in, for the want ol fifteen more souls. - Martin Eckrish of Ypsilanti, paid $5 and costs for the fun of assaulting and battering a fellow-citizen. - A stray dog entered the sheep yard of Lyman Lakeof Moorevilleand wounded eleven sheep, six of wuich had to be killed. - There are one hundred and sixty paupers in the poor house, the expense of caring for whom in feeding andclothing is f 1.48 per each. - The colored body deserted and left on the step9 of the Coon House in Ypsilanti a few weeks ago, was buried on Monday of last week. - Hirom Allen, employed in Follmora & Soovill's saw mili at Ypsilanti is laid up with a broken ankle, injured by beiiiir ciitaiitrlod iu a chain. - Mrs. Andrew M. Van Tasselof Denfou's, and the little daughter of Mr. Hiram Markham of August, ware buried on Wednesday of last week. - George L. Unterkircher of Manchester, charged uith stealing $20 from a safe in a saloon in that village was tried and discharged by Justice Goodyear. - High fever and general prostration prevented Miss Couthoi from fulfilling on engagement to give readings, in Ypsilanti on Wednesday evening of last week. - The collapse of that barofaced swindle, the Ponn Yan Mystery, atruckseveral Ypsilanti people $3 each. And right upon the heels of the Shupe newspaper fraud - Several complaints have been made against owners of fast horses in Ypsilanti for driving at a speed damgerous to the safety of pedestrians, thereby violating a city ordinance. - The case of John Presler vs. Chas. Uollins of Ypsilauti assault and battery, has been discontinued, asettlementhaving been arrived at by the aggrieved and the aggressor. - The masquerade ball given by the Ypsilanti city band on Thursday eveuing of last week put many dollars in the treasury. About two hundred maskers, two-thirds ladies. - The Commercial believes theneedsof Ypsilanti justify the building of an opera house, and suggests a stock coinpany be raised on the basis of $12,000 with shares at $25. - Follmore & Scoville of Ypsilanti have bought about 400,000 feet of logs this season. The most of them were whitewood, and the price varied from f4 to $12 per thousand. - The remaina of Mrs. Judge Kellogg, one of the pioneers of Sharon, were brought from Miasouri nd interred beside those of her husband in Sharon Center Church cemetery. - New officers of Ypsilanti Gas Co., President, D. L. Quirk ; Secretary and Treasurer, I. N. Conklin ; Directors, D. L. ftuirk, I. N. Conklin, C. King. The annual dividend is seven per cent. - Henry Moore of Ypsilanti was badly injured by a barrel of oider, which he wasattempting to move into a cellar on Saturday, rolling upon him. One of his lega was crushed in a ahockingmanner. - A pioneer of Saline township, Artemus D. Sumner, died at his residence in Saline village, Jan 13, aged 60 years. 44 years a resident, a leading citizen, honored and useful member of M. E. nTi il rnll - Urania is a new postoffice and station, the flrst out of the oity on the Toledo and Ann Arbor railroad. Peter Cook has been appointed postmaster. The mail beginning with Feb. 1, for Urania will hereaf ter close at 12:30 r. M., instead of early in the forenoon as heretofore. - Mr. and Mrs. Saunders of Mount Fleasant, Ia., had a sad termination to to their visit at the residenoe of the lady's father, John 8. Jenness of Ypsilanti. A little daughter, Genevieve, was attacked with soarlet fever, andwascarried hoine a oorpse, the disease proTing fatal Suuday. - Saturday last while the family of Erwin Peck of Ypsilanti were attending the funoral of a deceased cbild, Peter Aikin, Mrs. Peck's father, who had been ailing for some time, passedaway. Thus in a few short weeks, three of the family have been taken - the aged father, a sister of Mrs. Peck and the little ohild. - "Uramer, Frueauff & Corbin" won the case of "Summers va. Wayne & Mouroe Farmers Mutual Ins. Co." The point involved being of interest to farmers to wit. Whether if the Company received the assessment for 1877 they could refuse to pay the loss in 1878 on the ground that the asseSBmént for 1875 and 6 was not paid. - It was reported on the street, Thursday, that the present proprietors of the Lee-Teel-Patent-Farm-Gate had sent into Detroit the names of sixteen Ypsilanti persons who were to besuedinthe United States Court. Atuong the ñames were those of Messrs. J. Evarts Smith, Dr. Bennett, and P.. C. Sherwood.- Ypnilanti Commercial. - The Leonard Fruit Co., locted nt Milán manufactured during the past season over 20,000 bushels of apples into dried fruit, whioh they ship to various points in the United States and Canada. They are now packing dried pumpkin, for 8hipment. The company are doing a large amount of feed grinding for farmers in the surrouuding country. - At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Etstem Michigan Agricultural and Mechanical Society, held at the office of C. & F. Joslin of Ypsilanti on Thursday of last week, the special Coinmittea on Grounds reported that they had leased the fair grounds for 1879, at a cost of $300. The fair will be held either the iirst or the second week after the State Fair, probably the first week. - Zaohariah Shaw, an old resident at Ypsilanti, died on Friday last. - Youths and misses of Ypsilanti enjoy bi-weekly dances atoneresidence or another. - Mrs. Wm. Davis, of York deeded her property to her children, taking back a life lease. Cutting her fire-wood on the premises, her children obtained an injunction, claiming that she was destroying valuable timber. Then she told her grand children, Marshall Ayers and Geo. Davis, to cut tome, and they have been arrested tor maliciou8 trespass. - Major George C. Hopper, paymaster of the Michigan Central and all its branches, states that it takes him two weeks to make his trip over the lines, every uionth, and in 90 doing he travels about 1,400 miles. He now pays more than ó.OOO men, employees of the oompany, monthly, and disbursed this last trip the modest sum of f220,000, over f 200,000 of which was to employees for salaries and wages. During tho past fiye years he has paid over $14,000,000 in cash, himself, froin the pay car. - Prince Bennett, one of the prominent citizens of Ypsilanti and at the time Superintendent of tho City Poor, died Sunday evening, of erysipelas, i'rom which he had suffered for some time. The deceased was well and favorably known and in public as well ag private life, held the ïnerited eateem of all. A prominent and faithful member of the Democratie party his death will prove a great loss to it. Expressions of sympathy for his bereaved wife are many, and the announoement of the fatal termination of his illnesB hascaused afeeling of gloom to overspread the city.