Washtenaw County Newspaper Talk

W. C. Ayers has Bold his hotel property in Milnn, to Nelson Hice. H. C. Markham and wife, visited Qeo. K. Williams, in Milan, last week Three members of the Saline union school, will enter the high school hereHiram Lighthall, of Chelsea, has purchased the business of Lighthall & Stagan. Among the list of pensioners published Baturday, is one to Wm. G. Oardner, of Ypsilanti. Frank Jones of Saline, wears a pemijar smile, probably from the fact that ie is a daddy. The II. E. church personage at Dtater was destroyed by lire last Saturday. Loss f1,000; insurance, $900. A horse owned bv Senator Gorman, of Lyndon, ran away last week, and the cart to which it was attached, wrecked. The Arbeiter picnic, in Saline, Wednesday, drew a big crowd, many persons attending from this city and vicinity. A fine time is reported. J. E. Smith, of Ypsilanti, and Wm. iailii, of Bridgewater, have recently Jurchased several fine woo rams, for shipment to Salt Lake city. Jas. Robison, M. J. Sheehan and other Ann Arbor boys, helped to wait on the crowd at the Clifton house durag the big rush, Saturday, and a rush t was. The following teachers have been apointed to teach in the union school, at Jaline the coming year: C. L. Blodgett, 4iss Minnie R. DePuy, Miss Ida Webb, áiss Ida Burroughs, Miss Mattie McKinon, and Mrs. A. G. Lawrence. Wm. Turner, living in Dexter townhip, is 8'J years old. His wife, who ïas shared hfe's sunshine and shadows with him for 67 years, is 87 years old. ?hey have spent the greater part of heir married life on their farm near Tour Mile Lake. -Leader. Master Wilhe Stebbins, of East Milan while riding on a car used at Lewis, saw mili, by some meaos got his leg ander ihe car while iu motion, and as a result ïad both bones of Lis lejr broken just bove the ankle and sostamed some ther injuries about the foot. Dr. chuyler was summoned and adjusted ;he broken bones. Oue victim ot the terrible railroad ocident near Chatsworth, 111., was 'rederick D. Weinett, formerly a resient of this village, where he was rought up. His funeral was held Sunay at 4 . m. He was 50 yeara old and mves a wife and four ohildren. A aughter was with Mr. Weinett in the mashup, and although seriously inand, will recover.- Saline Observer. A well authenticated case of the efficay of prayer as a curative of the illa iucient to humanity exists in the pereon )f our f ello w townaman, Mr. Warren ïeynolds, who suddenly received his hearing while prayinjf at camp meeting ne duy last week. Por a nuraber of rears he has been quite deaf, and his many friends rejoice with him in the estoration of this faculty which, like 11 good, we recognize as coming "from bove."- Milan Leader. Dr. Mark Finley, well-known to many esidents of Ypsilanti, has accepted the osition of demonstrator of operativo dentistry in Columbia University, ü. C . - Hon. E. P. Allen and wife returned rom their sojurn on the lake shore Triday last. The Captain has severa! ngagements to exhibit himself at miltary reumons and agricultural fairs uring the present and coming months, and in the meantime will have the pleasure of replying to seven hundred ommunications, more or leas, from his ear constituents that have accumulated .uring his brief absence.- Ypsilantian. Mr. Southard, the tonsorial artist bas ett the lake and returned to Ann Arbor. While here he did an extensivo business, nd also gained many friends who deeply egret the departure of such an enter rising gentleman.- Jones, the barber, ias a curiosity in the shape of a three egged, four-footed chicken. It ia six months old, and looks like an ordinary hick with the exception that where the ail ought to grow a leg sprouts out and rom this growa a pair of fully developed eet. The bird is apparently healthy, ,nd grows rapidly. As a dime museum reak she may prove quite an attraction, ut as a Üyer she is n. g. as her steering apparatus ia decidedly oflf its whack.- Picket. Wm. V. Douglas & Co, of Ann Aror, have opened a atock of clothing in ke store lately occupied by J. H. Miller te Co. - Praise your town, don't run it Iowd. Stand by your manufactories, ourshopsand stores; thy are the bone. and sinew of your municipal structnre jtaDd by your schools and churches; hey are the hope of your future. Stand )y your press; it is the tireless sentinel nat guards your intereets. Stand by hem all the time, and patronize them. - )ne of our exchanges published an account of a preacher out west who announced that there would a horso trot after service in his back lot. We saw a short "spurt" on excbange place last 3unday afternoon between two of our 'brothers." - George Jedele, son of Godry Jedele, of Freedom, was shot in the shoulder on Sunday, by accident. - .Man chester Enterprise. The second annual fair of the Western Washtenaw county and Eastern Jackson county agricultural society will be held at Chelsea, September 27-30.- Two uautiful statues, one of St. Patrick, apostle of Ireland, the other of St, Bonface, apostle of Germany, have been received, and placed in the niches ïuended for them in the high altar of St. Mary's church. The altar is now finished and is one of the finest in the diocese. The statues were imported f rom Paris, ind came from the celebrated factory of F roe Robert of that city. It would cer;ainly repay any of our readers to nspect these beautiful works of art. St. Mary's church under the wise admiuistration of its present rector, is rapidly becoming the beautiful house of God and home of religión. An extensión of the organ gallery is also contemplated by the pastor. We felicitate the leople of St. Mary's on the co-operation and appreciatiou they are showing in the work of their parish. - Herald. About the middle of July Messrs. A. D. Jackson and A. B. Smith, First street, commenced sinking n partnership well on the line between their respective lots ernploying Messrs. Hallock & lleoh to do the work. After passing through the flrst bed of quicksand, wbich in this vioinity is from eight to ten feet below the surtace, they struck a layer of clay which continued to the depth of 61 feet, when another bed of quicksand was struck; this quicksand bed pro ved to be 53 feet thick, and last Fnday afternoon the tools went into a bed of gravel at a depth of 114 feet; at this point water rosu to wit h n 17 or 18 feet of the surface. Evidences of gas also made its appearance with the water. The tube, a 4-inch gas pipe, was kept pumped out, and the more ït was puraped, the more gas came which when a lighted matuh was thrown into the pump, would give a loud puff. Saturday night the gas was lighted in the i-inch pipe anc blazed up several feet, and wonld burn from a few minutes to over an hour Considering that the gas comes up through nearly a hundred feet of water it is supposed that considerable of ït is stowed away under the village of Milan and now that the excitement is again aroused it has been proposed to raise a fuud for experimental purposes, auc see what caD be done to utilizo tui bidden treasure. The gas continúes t come forth, and hundreds of peopl have visited it; to see Milan, or an portion of it, lighted by gas would b indeed quite a curiosity. - Milán. A woman may not be able to suarpei a pencil or throw scones at a hen, b.ii she can pack more articlea into a trun' than a mau can in a one-horse wagon. Why was the örst day of Adam's lil the' langest ever knowu? Because i Uád no Eva