Vicinity

- To-day Ciids tlie fouf daya races at Ydriuiii - There Vill bfi a fiiööMln'S tiuiniiilont at Battle Creek on July 81 - Georsre Western isa oí Adrián dived ncétoorúúch,añd carne to the suriacc i orpse. -Clinton having no license a loral oker seeded the main street the other day. - Mrs. Oeorge RchUniaciier of Wateroo was badly bitteii by a rattlenake ast week. - A Moilíoe Sabbath scliool süperin.endent sol ! tickets to Banvum's circus n ('ommission. - Pive hands and ilVe militnvy COmlanios are advertisèa to be present at Clintdn Juljr '!. -The state Ponlological society holds ts Btrawberry meeting at Battle Creek, June 10, 17 auil 18, - A very sensitive rrlan George'Wartes of Dündee ïrlust be to declare his vife had three other husbands. - The assessed valuation of the township of Ilolly is $830,000 - but ono ouldn't buy it for that figure. - One thousand five hundred peoplo can get upon the granel stand at tTie ?ontiac race, ground, if they want to. - At ári Erie ciiurch trastee meeting, a few nights ago, a truly good tjTlstee ind the Chilfch sexton liad an argument whicb ended in fisticüffs. -A ten-cent cocüáriut cost a stnrdy granger $' recently. líe accidentíilly dropped one, and then stood snit rather ;han pay for it. - Ionia Sentinel. - On Tuesday Jimmy, eldest son of J. J. Dixon, of Dundee, was drowned while swimming in the Rlver Raisln, near the railroad bridge at Dundee. - Two tramps at Port Hurón threatened to burn sonle buildings, on beiug refused money. Tliey were sentenced to the Ionia house of coi'rection for one year. -Tile Flint Journal lias abandonad its experiment as a quarto, and resuméd its four-page from, atthe same time reducing the subscripto on from f ICO to $1 a year. -A cablegram from líar.iy A.Conant, Consul to Xaples, received by a friend at Monroe, aimounces his safe arrival with his family at tlieir destination on Wednesday the 26th inst. - Andrew Riddle of Oceola, Livingston county, has a horse 34 years oíd which has done a heavy season's work at plowing, and the "Democrat says is ready for tlie summer campaign. - Adam Miller, who resides east of Pontiac, síipped from a load of hay a few days ago, feil in front of the wheels and the load passed over his body. He was fearfully crushed, and there is but little hope of his recovery. - An axe flew off the handle while Mrs. Frank Pocklington, of Kidgewnv, was splitting a piëce of board anï struêk her in the' face straight up .and down. Her nose, a faultless specimen, was completely open,ed to the world. - W. II. Butler of Thetford, Gcneseo' Co., givesthis record of a four-year oíd Durham cow: "Uuring the 200 days from October 21st. 1879, to May 10, 1880, Mrs. Butler made from the milk of this cow alone, 282 lbs. and 16 ounces of butter, af ter setting aside milk for the use of thefamilyof two persons, besides occasional company and some hired help."' - Ilubeft Levoy, one of the poutiry lifters at Erie, who was acquitted, was re-arrested on charge of tbreatening to burn barns. He was placed onder $500 bonds to keep the peace, and failing to get fchein, went to jail, where lie will remain for six months, unless his friendft secure his release. Levoy is the leading lawyer of Eiie, and claims that this prosecution is caused by those who are jealous of his legal abilities. - It is important to read carefully the conditions of your insurance policies. In consequence of discovery of alleged discrepancies between representatu.ns of agenta and language of policies when received from tbeèContinental Insurance Co., of 2ï. Y., about thirty policy holders representing insurance to the amount of 50,000, and premiums, in cash and notes, to the amount of $"00, met an agent of the Company at Flint and demandeda surrenderof their policies, upon the terms set forth in the policies themselves. - The Deerfield fiecord containing an advertisement couched in the usual language forbidding anybody to trust his (Thorp's) wife on his account. Mrsi T. replies, with the folltfwing: ': I leifc for a good cause- on account of cruelty to me and my children. The bed I left was my own. And, as far as board, he never provided a meal, or anything to1 make a meal out of, for me or my fainily. Any one acquainted with hhn would know thathe would pay no debtfl of my contracting, or his own either, of greater valué than a load of chips. I hereby wam Mr. Thorp to keep off my premises as I have just purchased a raw-hide. - A man named Serowle met with a severe accident in the Town of Summerfleld, Monroe Co., on Thursday, in this curious way: He was engaged' in moving the tronie of a tree from the' line of a fence whichhewas building, and was using as a lever tlie body of a. sapling which he had borno down witlv his weight nearïy to the ground, and had partially moved ono end of tlie log.' when his dog, ehasing' a bird or sqttlrrel , dashed between his legs and threw him? off his feet. The lever sprang upwards' and threw the man sevcal feet into the' fork ofanotlrer tree near by, where h& becamfe securely fasteiied, aiïd' was ouly released by some member of his family who was attracted to the spot by loud and continuous barking by the dog. Kis leg was badly sprained anti liis body bruised seN'crely.