Dexter Department

- Satuiday wasaquiei dayai Dcxter. -II: bëgun in real eafne: t. iberi Deviney is theguest oí ías. T. Ho -Severa! Dexterltes dancedat Pinckney FJ - A li.iuc(,:-1 and liuglish club wiU Koon lc orgarilied -o. 'Vuil started Mofaday forti weeks' tour "round Petoskey. - ('lias. Criek has retnrned tó his old home at South Bend, Ind. -The M. C. R. H. employees at Dexter took recreation Monday. -Car! Green and Jas. Byeraft effected a telegrapb change Tuesday: - A number of out people were at Whitmore Lake Friday evening. - Rev. Chas. Rielley, D. D., of Detroit, is the gueat of Fr. Slattery. -Miss Mollie McGuiness of Eaton Rapids, was visiting her relativos last v, eek. - Mrs. Dr. Ilowell was slightly lnjured by a fall from ahammock oae day Last week. - Notwilhstanding the saloons were closed, beiter was overloaáed with drunks Monday. -Mr. T. McXamara, C. S. d.,leftfor Detroit. Toledo ;md Cincinnati reHpectively, Tuesday. -One of our landlords beWails the loss of a customer, (a book agent) and- one weeks' board bill. - A pleasant party asscmbled at lsland Lake, Lima, Saturday, and hada merry time boating and rishing. -Rev. J. C. Wortley of Iludson, and formeriy of the M. E. church hefe, revisited the scènes of his past labora last week. -Harvest hands are scarce, and farmers are offering large wages as inducenii'iits. A good si.ed boy eau cominand at least $2.00 per day. -Mrs. Case, wife of Deacon Caso, died Friday at their residence in Lima. The fuñera] took place from the Baptist church Bunday last. - lïev. Fr. Slattery left Tuesday for Detroit. He will shortly go to Long Branch for a months' recreation and improvement of his health. -The 11. R. club have appointed B. J. Langdon committee on music, Bev. C. A. Clark committee on entertainments, and voted an appropriation of $10 for campaign fond. - A daugbter of Mr. Krause of Webster, was fooling with apietol Monday, and by its unexpected and impromptu discharge lost afinger. The old story i ' didnt know twas loaded." - There was a line picnic at Silver Lake Saturday last, and as usual attracted a large crowd. Bowery üaneing, Pinckney band, and all kinds of sport, made the day pass pleasantly as possible. -Lew Hoffman and the band have parted company, not mutually however, for valiant Lew was loth to leave, but charges of horse power persuasión were brouttht to bear on his nobler qualities and- Lew has sorrowfully departed, and the band smile sareastieally. -Mrs. Elizabeth ('arthy, a respectable old lady living with R. Phalen, in Dexter township, died Thursday, July Ist, at the advanced age of 78. The funeral, which was nnusually large, took place Saturday from St. Joseph church, Fr. Slattery officiating. - Huron Ledge Ne. 80 I. O. O. F., held inatallatlon of officera for the ensuing half year at Masonic hall Monday evening. The following are the newly installed: N. G., Stephen C. Alley; V. G., William C. Clark; R. Pivf. U. A. Cook; Treas., Norman A. Phelps. -The teachers for the various departments of our public school are nearly all engaged. The following will act in tliat capacity for the ensuing year : Prof. C. A. Cook, principal ; Miss J. A. Ward, preceptress ; Miss Emily Palmer, grammar department; , assistent; Miss Lena Guerin, intermedíate department; Miss Kate Conlon, primary department; Miss Julia Coe, ward school. -The Greenbackers are very naturally mad, but it being a mild degree of lunacy, no one is foolish enough for an instant to entertain any thoughts of it assuming an epidémica! form, and as no one contradicts the glowing biographical sketches of their candidates they can do naught but keep their party organs weU lilledwith this gush. Peraaps the nomination of prohtbition Neal Dowby tbc temperen.lers.will give them renewed vigor as they can now contest for thlrd place. -James Hoy, a respectable young gentleman of Webster, was seriously, if not fatally inj'ired while loading hay in a barn on his fathers farm Saturday. A pulley suspended from the barn roof by a rope thro' which arope passed drawLngnp aliay fork loaded with hay, gave way by dint of pressure froni the fork. falling, struck him on the back of the head fracturing his skull. Dr. Taylor was summoned and dressed the wound. He was carried honre and Dr. Maclean sent for, wlio accompanied by his brother, soon arrived, and did their utmost to relieve him. He may recover. - Our republican frietids wlio have made themselves oonspicuous by implicating Hancock in the Surratt case, wil] probably i'eel remorseful and ehagrined when they learn that the mud they have so unsparingly hurled at him has spattered their candidato in a most ungrötei'nl manner, They flred bomb-Bhells which rebounding with doublé force exploded within their own stronghold, and becoming alarmed their gnnners are silent 1 And well they may', for although Hancock but did lüsdutyasa man and a soldier in obeying a mand, Gen. Jame A. Garfleld was a member of thelooard that condeinncd .Mis. Burratt to death. - The piize pigeoo slioot Monday attracted quite a crowd to the farm of ('has. Bates, about ií miles west of Dexter. Owing to the non-fuliillineni of a promise of 200 pigeons, the slioot had tobelimlted toten participantB. The shooting at best, was the poorest by om' shootists in sonie time, the reason for ihis being the use oí' too flne shot, as nearly all tlie birds were hit but waddled twtside the boundary, and, while they were in reality killed, they (lid not count. Flistemoney was dividid on a tie between .1. McXamaia, W. V. Waite and .las. Guest, killing eight birds each out of ten. 2d wasdivided between Ham ReesO, Mr. Chase and John Dixon. 8d, Tip Ball. 4th, F. Bleator. First money in the glass bal! match in the afternoon was divided by J. McN amara and Sam Heese. i'd, taken by Wm. Cairas. 8od i excellent shooting was done at llie bal] match, the lowest score being seven baila.; tmm