Vicinity

A Pontiac barber was arrested a few days ago for shaving a mun on Sunday. -Prof. Jolm Richards, of near Albion ías been fined $G and costs for " correctng" a soholar. Soveral Albion peopln wcro very sick on Saturday froin eating cheeae that was n a condition unfit for use. Frank Woodworth of Unadilla Liivingston county, has been held for riul on a charge of seduction. Tecumsoh has added nine and a half acres to her cemetery. The doctors over there understand their business. Joseph Andrews chargod with having "gone through " a book and jewelry store in Lansing is held for trial. Two Albion college students havo aeou suspended for going to see Grant without first getting permission to go. . Hou. Lysander Woodward of Eochester, a well-kuown eitizen of Oakland Couuty, is hopelessly ill of consuroption. The state land comuiissioner ig considering schemes for reclaiming the big "Lee inarsh" of 6,000 acres near Marshall. - Insanity prompted Kick Van Fleet, a farmar residing three miles froin Jerome, Hillsdale County, to suicide with a razor. - Harley Pew has been arrested in Cleveland for horso stealing in Eawsonville, Wayne county. The horse was recovered aleo. -Prof. Saddler of Leoni last week received as a mark of the appreciation of the community for his educational efforts a donation of f 100. - An M. E. chnrch has recently been aedicated at Prospect Hill, Woodstock townsliip, Lenawee county. It cost $1,650, and ia paid for. - Joseph Swan of Quincy, recently marketed three pigs whose united weight was 2,085 pounda. The weight of the beaviest one was 855 pounds. St. Mary's hospital of Detroit, erected at a cost of $50,000 and owned by the sisters of charity, was formally opened on Priday by Bishop Borgess. Edward Cleveland of Addison, Lenaweo county, has been fined $35 and costs and sent to jail 10 days for Sunday saloonism. He has appealed to the circuit. fm, Frost of Atlas, Genesee County, while attempting to fasten a buil in bis stall one day laat week, was gored so badly that death ensued in an hour. He was fifty yeara of age. -James O'Brien, a young man living in Redford, Wayne County, hung himself on the 19th. He had had diffioulty with hia father, who had interfered with his work whero he had hired out, he being a minor. -Sensible at last. Busan B. Anthony, after a long life of agitation in behalf of the ballot and other claimed rights for woman, is lecturing in adjoining towns on "Woman wants bread, and not the ballot." Mr. Rasely of Marshall, who shot a man named Jennings, while laboring uider the idea that Jennings was an orohard robber, has compromised with said Jennings. The amount he paid to stay proceedings is a profound secret. - George ïtossell and Myron Tucker, two sweet-scented shrubs of Mt. Ciernen ts, met in a saloon lastSaiurday night una nuttiua uu uia arol o-"b and sinashing each other. Tucker was stabbed and Koasell had an arm broken. - About a year ago Aaron T. Collier, then residing at or near Dearborn, Wayne County, deserted his family, consisting of a wife and several small children, and went to Portland, where it is alleged that he feil ia with s woman named Overhalser, with whom he soon struok up an unlawful intimacy. He is now in Ionia jail on this account. - George Bobson of Eives for abandoning a child, taking an illegitimate child away from its mother, a paramour of his, he being a married man, and leaving it on a door step, was sentenced to one year and a half in state prison, by a Jackson court. Also Orville Updyke of Grass Lake, larceny from a dweiling, being under 16, was sent to the reform school. -The tri-state (Michigan. Ohio, Indiana) teachers' association will hold its uext session at Toledo on Saturday, Dec. 1. Prof. E. Olney of Michigan sity, president of the association, win deliver an address on " what the public achool can do and what it cannot do;" Prof. J; Estabrook of the state normal school will open the discussion of a paper on the study of elocution in the public schools," and Prof. C. N. Jones of Ann Arbor will present a paper on " teaching algebra." Some miscreant undertook to butoher a span of horses belonging to Alonzo Mills of Clinton. An attempt was made to sever the jugular vein of one of the horses, two gashes several inches in length being cut, but fortunately they were struck one on each side of the vein. An eft'ort was made to strike the heart of the other horse, and a gash seven inches deep was cut in the shoulder. No clue has been obtained as yet of the wretch who committed the deed. In the city of Monroe there are i.;_tr H,ree salon"" --n with tViTBo oatceptions, all selling distilled as vvoii as malt liquora under a beer license. This widely practiced evasion of tbe law deprives the city of $6,500, one-third of the entire city tax. An association of sixty citizens haa been formed who in tend to collect the extra tax or the differcnce between $200 for a full license and f63 for a beer Hoense. The association appeal througli the local papers, to the illegal venderá to pay without recourse to law. If they refuse, it is proposed to prosecute, the association having bound the members in writing to enforco the law.