Vicinity

- Williams the Pineknev wcsol buyor took In 122,000 Iba. - Battle Creek ia terribly agitated over teachers' salaries. - Mrs. Amanda Newton of Coldwater, was found dead in li(r room. - Di'. II. A. Paddock, un University gradúate has located in Battle Creek. - Killsdale college wil] ba glad to di;pose of a few nioie LL. D's tor $1UOO each. - About 300,000 lbs.of wool have been marketud at Fiint thissuasou. AtFlushiog, 50,000. - C. B.Gray, a well-known resident of Battle Ci enk, was atricken witkparalysis on friddy last. - It is Mtimatéd at Port Huron that the methodist society isfmancially ruined in consequenco of the disaster to its meeting house. - DibbleandStoneof Marshall opened their gates Saturday to well disposed obildren to como and eat thfir till of strawberries. - Adiian received the news of the drowning of the two Hinckley girls at Jackson with heartfelt sorrow. Their old home was at Adrián. - Kev. W. II. Utley, of the Pontiau church and its atteudant troubles, is to preach for the Stanton'congregatioualists at a salary of f 1,200. - It is thought that. -52,000 will not cover the loss, by Monroe voDlVat the Tolovii_ iKtiüLci uy uettmu; on tlicir lavorite Sho-wae-cae-mettes. - On the 4th, the MissShearer, whose in jury at Grass Lake was noticed in the last issue of this paper, had a rocket strike and pass through her cheek into her ruoutb. - Unitud States Senator Ben HUI of Georgia has consented todeliver the address tvt the lonia county fair next fall if be can possibly get away f rom his official duties. - Joseph S. Pierson, a pioneer of Onondaga, died on tho '29th of June, aged 59 yeare, He had an operation performod upon his e}'es at Ann A.rbor, hdlammation followed, reached the braiu, and fatal results followed. - Andreiv ij. Keefer of Hillsdale, desiring to have some kind of a household püt for the children to play with, receivd by exprsss a live alligator from Florida, measuriuK 12 feet in length. - No family liaving children should try to do without one of these douile and interesting creaturea. - A span of horses bitched to a reaper on the David Henning's farm at Wnite's Station, becanio frightened and ran away. Ono of Mr. Htmning's hired men, who was drivmg the team, had liis leg fractured and was otherwise badly injured. The rea per was badly demoKshed before the horses could be brought to a stop. - The editor of the Kalamazoo democratie papar excusos kimself for being seen in a procession that welcomed Congressraan Buirows home, by saying; " In common with the people we were pleased whon congress adjurned, and helped to welcomo Mr. Burrows to urivnte . . lr.ncriess todo the people harm." - There was a state con vontion of county clerks held at. Jackson last week. - They adopted a schedulo of fees which litigan ts may pay insteadof thestatutory tees, if they choose. They further resolved that lawyers must reform and stop dead-beating their way - in other words, pay their bilis in advance orbe required to p"ay full statutory rates. ■- Our neighboring cily, Hillsdale has göne crazy over the victories aohieved byits oarsmen at tho Saratoga regatta, winning all the trial heats of tbe fouroared race. The personnel of the crew comprising C. N. Terwilliger, bow and captain, is by occupation a clerk in a boob store; No, 2, John D. "VVilson, is a clerb in his father's dry-goods store; Ko.3, Lewi? F. Beckhardt, is a clerk in his father's grocery store, and the stroke, E. B. Van Valkenburgh, is aclerkin the post-ofüce. The crew have been in active training sinco June 1, adopting the "go as you p'.ease" diet. In practice they pull a 4i stroke, increasing with a spurt, The crew rowed togethcr this spring for the first time.