Clipped And Stolen

It is said that an epidemie of black diphtheria is raging in Wright townhip. Hillsdale eounty. The !". s. lish hatchery.at Northville ïas managed to gather together about even and one-half million eggs, and are still aftei more. Kniest Steinmeyer, a cadet at the Michigan Mülitary Academy, dropped lead from liis saddle during cavalry drill one day last week. Congressman-elect Smith will endeavor to secure a public building tor Pontiac. We wish him success, and ïope he may get the next one after Ann Arbor. Mayor X. s. ISoynton of Port Huron, president of the National Fraternal Congress, now in session at Louisville, Ky.. today wired home that he had succeeded in inducing that body to hold its next uuruaJ session in that city. Miss Julia Serviss, who returned from Ann Arbor two weeks ago, is mnroving from the effects of the surgical operation. and is slowly regainïng the use of her arm, which for a ;ime has bet'ii useless.- Farmington Enterprise. There are sixteen farmers' clubs in Jackson county, all members of the state association in good standing. The secretary and treasurer of the state association is B. F. Peckham of Parma, a wide awake, rushing farmer. - Grass Lake Newsi The lirooklyn Exponent quotes Con gressman Spaulding as saying that no postmasters in this district will be dis:urbed till their time bas expired, and that postoflice pluma shall go to those who have earned their reward by hard work for the party. Frank J. Billman has been sentenced by Judge Kinne at Monroe, to one year in the house of correctiun for criminal assault upon a 13 year old girl. An effort was made to have sentence suspended because he was drunk at the time of committing the offense. Robert Ilanna, a member of the Southfleld Convenanter church, which forbids its members to vote because our constitution does not mention "God Almighty as the ruler of all natious," voted for the lirst time in America ;t the presidential election, thus breaking the most stringent rule of the Convenanter discipline.- Holly Independent. The village of Xorthville hal a special act of the legislature under date of 1881, compelling the township to build all bridges inside the village. but no-.v, when a test case comes iip, legal -advice claims that the ineorporation act of 1895 renders the special act void. A bridge on one of the village streets which was washed out laat July has been in contention betwesn the village and township boards since ás to whose duty it was to reconstruct it. The village now gives up the ftght and the suft'ering public will be appeased. ]{ev. Francis Perci val, pastor of the Baptist church at Dundee for the past eight months,and claiming to be a converted Catholic prie.st, has lef t for fields Linknown with a heavy cloud hanging over bis head. Mr. Percival'8 trouble was lirst made known Sunday when Wm. Shay, better known here as Wil liam Gregory, accused him of being too intímate with bis (Shay's) wife, who isa member of bis church. This caused some trouble at the Sunday evening service, as the members of the church demanded an investigation. - Mr. Percival claimed he was willing to have one Tuesday, and Mr. Shay held off' the arrest until then. Tuesday carne and no pastor showed up, but it was learned that he had packed his trunk and driven to Petersbiug, where he boarded a train for Chicago. A subscription paper was circulated to obtain means for Mrs. Percival to leave town. Mrs. Shay has also left town.