Dexter Department

-Chas. Stebbins isa M.r. !;.!{. brakeman. - The band expect a new leader thia - Henry Stebbins is dangerously ill again. - Dexter rej ublicans aro silent, very silent. -Jas. 8. Gorman is out of town on business. -The Episcopal church is undetgoin; repairs. - As hiirh as s:;. 50 was offered for harvost hanf. -Hice Wtieeler oí' Kalamazooisvisiting his father. - David Lynch la section foreman ftt Fargo, Dakota. - Simday Scliool social at the Episcopal parsonage last Thursday. - Work wil! shortly commeiice on the new graiii bridge at the, depot. -John T. Forchue sprained his ankle while batbing Tuesday evening. -Adam Deckert was learning fashionable cuts at Detroit last week. - Ossian D. Allen and wife of Detroit were visiting at Dexter last week. - Mrs. Ben Sutton was seriously injured by sunstrokeat Jackson Saturday. - Store olerks (male) Indulge in a ten o'clock bath at the " dam" nearly every evéning. - A party of M. E. Snnday school girls had a fine picnic at 4-mile-lake Wédnesday. - Tlie much expeeted racket between rival farm ing factions did not occur Saturday nigfat. - The storm Saturday night was tcrrific abont Dexter, and much damage was donp to wtaeat and hay. - Rev. Mr. Gay of Chelsea will occupy tlie U. 11. hall stage next Suiiday evening and agitate temperance. - Jas.IIoy, the young man whose scull was fracturad, contrary to the most sanguine expectations, is slowly recovering. -John IT. Forth better known as " John the Fourth" sustained severe injuries by falling from a cherry tree a few days ago. -The M.C. tl.R. wiH pay Geo. VInkle $16 for exterminating a small sized bovine of the female persuasión, a conple weeks ago. - Some maliciouB scamp for wliom ianging wouW be a luxury, poisoned two valuable cows belonging to "Wm. Stevens last Friday. - The Detroit Jíews generously gives Dexter a population of 868. Our census enumerator gives us 1,008, of course the enumerator is wrong. -Mr. Alian Arm stront; and Miss Mand Moore both of Dexter, were nnited in matrimony at Santa Fe, Arizona a couple of weeks ago. - Itev. Fr. Slattery left for Coney [sland for a months recreation Monday last. Rev. Fr. VanWaterschoot will oficíate at St. Joseph's church during his absence. - C. S. Gregory has pnrehased and received a beautiful Italian marble monument, from an Indiana firm. It adds greatly to the appearance of the old cemetery. - When tito . hpiv bj:i3aa..; .,íií-íu 'rom farmers' wagons, Dexter will lave the best accommodations as a grain market for miles aronnd. - Miss Jessie,daughter of Dr. Palmer, lv-Líiict ti, o Poninoiiln .. . il 1 .. . i'. 1 1 from the feace Simriay evening bresk ing both bones of her arm below the elbow. Dr. Ilowell set the broken bones. - One of draymnn Tubh"s mnles succumbeil to the oppressive heat or - something else, last week, and now "quietly sleeps under the sod." The business men " chipped in" and purehased him another. -Frank Evarts retnrned to Dexter last Thnrsday after about six Weeks absence in Fargo, Dakota. Frank, like snme more, stoutly asserted when leaving, " 2io more Dexter for me" and like the rest, was very glad to return to that "abominable" place agaln. - Death's doins: - Mrs. Julia JVIonaglian who lived near Pt Joeepba hurch, died Saturday after a lingering llness of 6 months, at the age of 46.- The funeral was from 8t. Joseph's hnrch nn Mflfl!" Mrf Wp.hh. wife of Richard AVebb at his residenco at Sorfh Lake, Wednesday the 7tli. Fun ral was from North Lake church Friday. William Wheeler of Dexter towii died BUddenly at his residence Monday evening. The funeral was from St Joseph's ehurch Wednesday. Fr. Van Waterschoot of Northfield ofliciated. - Cows running at large are a nuisance, but what the city fathers propöse no one individual should try to dispose of. Sometimes these bovines stray up the " plank road" a short distance where a well-knowñ gentleman, ever on the alert for such prey, and seemingly solicitous for their welfare, quietly gathers them in, This man's enterprise to produce a supply of the fllthy lucre when flnancially emban-asgfid is truíy wonderful, for when the owner comes heisolïeredhiscow's f reedom bv wav of inducement to fork over a required amouiit wliich lie generally loes. Bat thP wrong ín.-m's oattle were enciosed Saturday, and a constable )pening the bars let them out. Now i snit for damaes doiie the nattle will je immediately commenced in court. - A correspondent, " C. A. C. " writing to the Grand Bapids Lever, ünburdening his sorrowful heart in ïegard ;o demooracy " excluding Red Ribbon voters,'f and inviting the "beer and whisky men" by the adoption of "sumptuary laws at Cineinnati." " C. A. C; " is careful not to be explicit as to time of adoption and by whom. All this he contimieSj " pitted against teniperance.' It would be a curiosity to know where the " C, A. C. received silch wonderfill information? Continuíng, he eloquently appeals to the re publieans " for information, " Wishing to know what gilt-edged ihdueements tfaey wil! offer-" O. A. C. if perhaps- to use his logic in their lost catise. - Are not " C A. C's. " views a little in- consistent with most of the R. il. peöple, who, believing in no Othet, liave hominated a pfohibitíon ticket of their öwn, and mean to elect it- if they can? Or does " C. A. C. " represent the R. E. péopli iiHÜviduiilly, collectively orotherwise? If so, we will aceept his composition for what it is- windy and bombastic.