Press enter after choosing selection

Vicinity

Vicinity image
Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
February
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

- Deerfield 8 growing. - Deerfield want a G. A. R. post. - Clinton proposes to enl&rge borsrlf. - Monroe is going to havo $10,000 waterworks. - A Blaino clnb was orgamzed at Coldwator on Monday evoning. - Alarge numberofpeoploin andabout Pontiac have the westoru fever. - Sixty copies of the Ufe of Chandler wero sold in Pontiac in two weeks. - Ten hundred and fií'ty valentinos passod through the Cold water post office last Saturday. - Tho number of Valentines which pasaed through the Lansing postoffice this year wss 1,397. - The Toledo Sunday Journal quotes Gov. Croawell as sayingthat he wouid "never marry a widow." - Detroit, Lansing, Jackson and Grand Rápida all wish to be tho bcouo of the commiug state conventums. - Elizabeth Ingold and MiohaelKouf of Riga served ten days in jail lately for selling beer on Sunday. - 800 signers to tho plodge in Morenci, but Col. Love declares he will not leave until 1200 are secured. The Adrián Times thinks "Blaino and Washbiirne" would read well at Ihe head of the republioan national ticket. - Tho average cost per day for the table fare of prisoners confined in the Ionia houso of oorrection is 8 1-2 cents apiece. - Mr Stiff runs the oity milis at Ionia, but he daro not go to Ann Arbor while the medical college is in seseion, all the same. - Adrián Timos. - The postmaster at Jaclcson has reoeived orders to put the free dehvery system in operation March 1. Thorewill be 40 colleotion-boxes and five carriers. - Rev. A. H. Fletcher, several years ago pastor of the Congregational church at Pontiac, died recently at Armada, Macomb county, frotn acongestivechill. - Mr. Daniel Porson, who had lived iu Livingston county 43 years, and Mrs. C. W. Burwell of Genoa, who had lived -there 44 years, died last weok, the one 80, the other 73. - Wm. A. Ilarrington, a printer of Grasa Lake, is one of the heirs of Ilon. John Biiabin, of Pennsylvania, who recently died in Ncwark, N. J., and left a fortune of $400,000. - The Ionia people have organizad a stock compiny drivitig park association, and propose to get into the Detroit and Grand liapids circuit and hang up $6,000 In premiums. - How long will our sex put up with abuse froin women ? A Mrs. Gerd of Royal Oak has been sent to the house of correction for licking her husband. - Vindicated at last, ain't we? - Tried and found guilty of charging Daniel Edwards of Lansing with "well grounded suspicions of ballot-box stuffing" Otis Pulier of the Ingham oounty News was fined $25. Appeals. - A littfo boy 11 yeats of age, living with Mr. "VVilcox in Sherwood, bas whittled ovit with a kuife a perfect fiddle whioh gives forth as sweet music as can ba produced upon many high pricod violinp. - The noxt meeting of the fri-state (Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana) teachers' assooiftiiou wiU beleid atToledo,Mn.roh G. President Angelí of Michigan university will delivor an address on " the rofiex infiuence of tbo teacher's work. " - Farmers are losing great numbers of chickens by an unknown diseaso, in Oakland County. Fat fowls will get weak and fall down aud die. One man near Clydo lost eighty in afewdays.ten or twelve dying in twonty-four hours. - The Adrián Times says it isestiniated that three-fiftha of the wheat and one-half of the oats of Lenawee Co. are already marketed. Oats are being brought in frealy at present, but wheat on hand is being held for better prices. The stingiest man we have heard of lately lives not far from this city. He keeps a hand bellows to blow his fire, and he has become so saving that he corks up his bellows when throughusing it, so as not to loso any wind. - Pontiac Gazetto. - Aaron Abbot of Cly ton pload guilty to the charge of dÍ3turbiug a Baptiat church meetin'. In revenge Abbot has bad the pastor, Eev. H. P. Wilson arrosted on charge of illegally inarrying a couple, based on the fact that, having been deposed from the rninistry by a council, he has not been re-instated. At the I. O. O.F. grand lodge meeting at Lvising, Tuesday, Grand Treasurer Ben Vernor, of Detroit, reported tbat he had received during the year $10,164.51, and disbursed $11,407.04, leaving a balance on hand of f!, 757. 50. Grand Secretary Whituey reported that the net gain of membership during the year was 107. -The Coldwater Reporter say9 that the judgtnent for $9,500 rendered by the supremo oourt ga;, nboit n. arorrison and in favor of the grand lodge of I. O. O. P. of Michigan, was in effect a judgumnt against Daniel H. Hawley of Sturgis, one of Morrison's bondsuien, a man over 65 years old, who is now a wanderer on the facoof theearth.stripped of every dollar, through the treachery of a friend. The Jackscn Citizon has made the discovery that " when a country lad first comes to the city be uses the very profane expres&ion, 'Gaul darn it,' with reckíess ease. A3 the refluement of inetropolitanism begins to take hold of his speech, he ïnildly says, ' By durn,' and when he reaches the lavender trowsers, drab overcoat, and eye-glass etage of culture, he twirls his little wisp of a cañe in his fingers and murmura, 'Aw! dem it."1 The Lenawe e circuit court, after a year of non-action, bas been opened by Judge Cooley, Tuere is an immense amount of business on hand in tho way of criminal affairg and ordinary quarrels to be settled, but the cases of Armstrong, Lawrence and Sizer, charged with ruanslaughtering the victimg of the Adrián granel stand disaster, will attract the most attention. Sizer pleadod not guilty Tuesday, and the otherj were given a week in which to plead. It will be reuiembered that Sizer made the plans for the deadfall, Armstrong built it, and Lawrence owned it.

Article

Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus