The County

- Manchester village foóts np 1,156 inhnliitants. - JLr !5. Osboni luis purchased the McGets xiinn in Sharon. -Dr. Wright of Chelsea takes a horseback ride daily for his liealth. - The Suuday Schools of Augusta are expectinga roüsing picnic af ter harvst. - The Peninsular Paper ('o., of Ypsilanti is erecting a three-story brick warehouse 40x100. - Twelveyears succesaivoly a teacher, Mrs. Florence Russell o!' Manchester will n 'W enjoy a years vacajion. - Adam Deeket, Dextfr'fi popular mercliant tailor is in Detroit impr ni himsèlï in putting under tuilion of one of the most fashionable tailors i,i that city. -Mr. and Mis. Mat Blosser of the Manchester Enterprise spent.kki! week at Klinger's lake in St. Jos. coimty, inveigling the tinny tribe iiom their home. -F. G. Russell, attorney for the M. C. R. R. was i 11 Chelsea the othor day, the guest of lawyer Turn Buil, to arrange for the building of a new depot in that village. - There is a beautiful map of Dexter village in the office of Mr. S. L. Honey, drawn by Charlie Manley of Ann Arbor. We understand the council is going to purchase it. It will cost $50.- Leader. - Rev. A. T. Plersoa, of Detroit, is expected to lecture in the Presbyterian church of Augusta on the evening of July 19th. Subject: "Mary Sion, or the New Departure in Female Education." No collcction. -Dr. M. D. Halsoy is in Ypsilanti orgauizing a stock company for the purpose of buying and utilizing grain damaged by water, as well as the manufacture of new and Improved grain and malt-drying machinery of wbich he is patentee, - ïwo very large loads of wool were delivered at Chelsea. The largest, 3200 fes., grown by Backus Bros. of Webster ünvnship sold for 34 cents and a S10 bilí, was purchased by Messrs. Kempf and Judson. The other 31-50 fts. grown by Mr. Ilulbert of Sharon, puchased by üilbert and Crowell. -A very enjoyable picnic "vvas held in the woods of Mr. Rice, on the south bank of the river Raisin, a lïttle west of the IIollow, by the schools of Sharon Hill, Clara Baker, teacher; and district Np. 6, Lizzie Whitely, teacher, being the close of their school terms, when a beautiful tabla was spread, followed by recitations and music. -The Btorms of late particularly those of ííunday were the severest that ever visited this county. Three-fonrüis of the wheat erop having been cut the damage to it was not so great as it would otherwise have been. A Lodi farmer states that some of his erop has grown, but not enough of it to cause mucli damage. Corn and oats suffered greatly by the rain and wind. Fences were washed away, small brooks were swollen to many times their natural size and Sunday night many large areas of ground were entirely under water. -From a printed slip received from the office of the secretary of state we learn there were 30,010,803 bushels of wheat raised in Michigan in 1879 bushëls'pef "acre. That in Washtenaw county 1,448,325 bushels were harvested from fió,G94 acres, an average of 22.05 bushels per acre. And that in Majr, 1880, 71 ,581 aereiudeiratatL t.n thin naicii. Threc Louuties nuly in the state, viz: Ionia, Clinton and Calhoim, raised more wheat than Washtenaw in 1879. Ionii and Clinton only excelled us in number of bushels per acre. - The Butler railroad is booming. Subcontracts are let. J. Webster Childs is busy moving his seven barns on" the track. He bas been praying for a long time for a railroad, and when his prayer was answered, it carne a little to close. It remindsusof the colored manwho prayed for potatoes, and was one day answered by his young master, who got upon the cabin with the produce. When the petition went up the potatoes came down on the colored man'shead. Jumping up, hecried: " ï'ank de Lor'; bat nex't time let 'cm down a leetle easier." J. W.'s response now is, " Don't come quite so close next time."- Cor. Ypsilantian. -Prof. Istabrook late of the normal school left on Siturday for Olivt, Eaton county, Where lie will fissume the presidency of the college located there, conducted umler care of congregationalists and presfcyterians. This college was located in 844 in a wilderness by Rev. J.J. Shipherd, one of the founders of Oberlin college and is 27 miles from Lansing. In 1848 a charter was granted but without power of conferring degrees; but in 1859 that privilege was ïranted. It hls had three presidenta; Revs. M. AV. lUirfield, Xathan J. Morrison and Hoiatio Q. Butterfield, inaugurated in 1S76, whom Mr. Estabrook succeeds. It las about two hundred studente abouteciually dividedsexually, and twelve teaihers. -On the 3d instant the people of Lima cclebratefl our national anniversary by a picaic at Parker's Grove. There was qiice alargeattendance, and all seemed to enjoy themselves immensely. At 1 o'clockthe ladiesspiciul a very tuuntit'ul dinner. After Hou. Samson Parker, President of the Day annonoeö that the exercises woukl b opened bymnsic by the c'ioir. After singing prsyer was offered by Eev Mr. Schenk, aul W. E. Depew of this village then delivered an address appropriate to the occalion. After the clos ■ of the address a committee was appointed consistingof Edward Xordman, Milton AVhüaker, and Sarason Parker of Lima, and Charles W. Traman, II. Baldwtn and II. Pilrce of Sylvan, to arranffe por a Harvest Picnic foï the townsliijis of Lima and Sylvan. Mr. Colton Wines then entertained the company for a time with mnsic an l the exercises