Vicinity

- Ponüar' has i Blaine club. -The Hillsdales have a new fniiroared Shell, and wiü shive hard to retaiii the championship awarded to them at Saratoga. -On Thursday evening oflast week Messrs. Pentecost and Stebbins closed their season of evangelical labora in Detroit whi rethey have been chgaged since Jan. 4. -Pope, of the Exchange hotel, at Clinton, who teft th:it village 8 1'evv weeks ago, taysteriouslv and under a Houd. is said to be working at carpentering in Ilillsdale, vinder the name of Putnam. - "A Batüe Creek bábe," says the Eevening News "had a screw driver, tack hammer, and a gold watch to ilay with. When the fun begaii the watch was worth $175, but ils valué rapidly depreciated." - Scveral prominent residents of Lenaawee couuty dièd during last week: Norton Baker, aged 70, of the town of Adrián; John Yeddir, of the same town, aged 73, ■;:■ Weieome Teacbout, of Adrian, aged 67. - A committee of citizens ha ving visited the Calhoun county jail unite in a letter to tlie Marshall Statesman, in prononncing it a standing disgrace - indicted as a nuisanee by a grand jury several years ago. -The Jackson papers suppressed details of the Laroungie-Patterson scandal on the groimd that "families are not benefitted by reading in their home paper articles which would be suppressed by law, as obscene, if given in book form. -The conncíl of Jackson has fixed the salaries of some of their oificers as follówa: Recorder, $1100; attorney, $800; physician $400; Street Commis-sioner,$800: treaenrer, $600; foui supervisors. Ï932; lamp-lighter, S700; assess or, ?löi). - Bev. Father Maeg, just before hia departure from Monroe, was presented by the girls of St. Mary'a academy with a gold ehain. Children of a school pre-1 sented him with an album. Bev. Father Nevin succeeded the" reverend gen-tleman. - A culting affray took place in Jackson on Saturday by vvhich Wm. Hart-man, an exconvict received a severe cut in the shoulder, another in the cheek, and had "nis right hand nearly severed in an attempt to wrest the knife from isailant, Wm. Hartwickt Theparties are a hard lot. - Jotah DeCamp, once a resident of Henrietta, now of Bunker HUI, on the eleventh nst.. was gurprised by hia children, "theix co;isins, their úneles, and their aunts," on the occasion of hia sixty-six birthday. Mr. DeCamp waa born in Oneida county, N. Y.; carne to Michigan in L836 with his father, Abram Decamp, who still resides in the ïownsliip of Webster, Washtenaw countvv aged ninety-one years.- Jackson Citizen. - CoUhvater Republican: A young lady from Óhio arrived in the city last Saturday, on a visit to a well-knowa widower, who had been paying liis addresses, in writing, to the fair Ohioan, The parties had never met, and she came, we u ■ ' tolook over the gentleman and his estáte with a view to matrimony, and the acquaintance tlms romántica 11 y begun may termínate in a happy and suecessful i-.sue.