The County

-The Butler road offers 35 cents for oak, 25 for black ash ties. - Demoerats of Manchester are aboui to form a Hancock and English club. - Dissatisfied witta theeensus returns Ypsilantians propose a private enurneratioH. - There is little doubt but that the Ypsilanti Commercial favors Childs for congress. - The vvhortleberry marsh, in Pittsfield, has supplied the public with over a hundred bushels of berries. -Messrs. John G. Mead, .1. D. Williams, S. W. Shurtleff and W. A. Miller are Arm Arbor town's delegates to the republican county convention. All for Childs. - A stomach pump prevented Charles Babcock, head waiter at the Park Hotel in Monroe, formerly of Manchester in this county, from getting out of this world at present. - Geo. W. Doty has been presented with an abstract of his property,in t'iis village, all neatly framed, compiled by Chas. II. Manly, of Ann Arbor.- Manchester Enterprise. - Iliram Thompson, whose death occurred on the 16th instant, after an IIIness of about ten weeks, carne to Michigan in 1830 on horseback from Maine to Ohio, and settled in Augusta. - William Werheim of Manchester, late gradúate of a Missouri college, was ordained a clergyman on Sunday last at the Lutheran church in the above village. Kevs. Haass of Detroit and Neuinann of Ann Arbor were present. - In a fight near the Ypsilanti postoffice Saturday night a colored man named Parker shot at a man named Henson for a slight offense. The latter followed the former assaulting him. Botli were arrested. Nobody hurt. -Gav. Croswell is disinclined to remove Justice Skinner of Ypsilanti, although he plead guilty to charges of drunkenness preferred against him. He intimates that Skinner having been elected by the people he is not disposed to interfere with the judgment of those persons who by their votes placed him in office. Of such ia the peculiar stuff tlie governor of this state is composed. Let as be thankful his administration is drawing to a close. - P. F. Blosser was badly burned Monday morning at Manchester while attempting to flll a gasoline stove. There was a fire in another stove in the same room, and some of the gasoline being spilled on it caused that in the tank to ignite. Blosser's arma and hands were so badly burned that the skin rubs off clear to the shoulder. He is also badly burned about the head: but notwithstanding succeeded in dragging the stove out of the house in time to save the building from burning. -Mr. Edgar enunciates the gospel as well as edits the Dexter Leader. On Sunday thelSthhe occupied the Baptist church pulpit, and the congregation being small, he read the people of his village a lecture in the succeeding issue of his paper. He remarks: "The citizens of Dexter seem very generally to be getting out of the habit of going to meeting, or did they never get into it? We would suggest that the churches be moved into the country, they don't seem to be needed in town, and we notice that the country people, notwithstanding it is their busy season, are very regular in their attendance." - An important meeting of prominent Democrats of Ypsilanti took place Friday night, at which, after voting not to postpone.organization, a Hancock and English Club of fifty members, officered by the following efficiënt Democrats, was effected: President, Edgar Bogardus; vice-presidents, Chauncey Joslin, Joseph Kitchen, W. C. Stevens, W. M. Roberts, Parmenio Davis; secretary. Frank Joslin; treasurer, F. J. Swaine; executive committee- lst ward, J. "Villard Babbitt, F. P. Bogardus, Frank Joslin; 2d ward, Charles R. Whitman, AlbertStuck, W. H. Hawkins; 3d ward, Bernard Kirk, James H. McKinstry, H. D. Martin; 4th ward, F. J. Swaine, Stephen Hutchinson, Clarence Tinker; 5th ward, L. Z. Foerster, Raphael Kopp, Jacob ïerns. A committee was formed to secure additional ñames, as no notice had been given of the meeting. Among the signers to the club were many of the most prominent business men, in fact, nearly all of them. - While John Ellsworth of Eittsfield, was stacking wheat last Friday, having one team hitched to the mowing machine to mow while the wheat was being hauled to the stack, his'wif e thought she would mow around for the novelty of it. Taking a seat on the mower she took her little girl (five years old) on her lap and started the team. All went well until she had driven about half way around the field, when one wheel went suddenly into a hole, which caused a sudden tilt and threw Mrs. Ellsworth and little daughter off in front of the knives. The team went about sixteen f eet before they stopped. Mrs. E's dress was literally cut to pieces. The dress entangled the gear and finally clogged the knives and stopped the team. The little girl had one flnger cut off and one limb cut badly. One foot was under the knives when the team stopped. - Airs. E. was also badly cut, but she managed to get the little girl out from under the knife and carry her to the house (about half a mile) and fainted after getting into the house. There were hopes of the recovery of both at last accounts. - Ypsilantian. - Monrtay afternoon, about 6 o'clock, while "W. B. Snith, who lives three miles from Ypsilanti, on the Rawsonville road, with a hired hand, was working in a comfleld, he noticed a storm coming up, and started for the house. The boy with him rode the horse he had been driving before the cultivator, and Ihusgot ahead of his employer, who took a short cut throngh a field of oat?. As he did not reach the house, search was made for him, and he was found dead, faco down, on the oat field. He had been struck by lightning. His liat was demolisherl, nothing being left but the rim, and pieces were found yards away. His clothing was stripped from him and torn to tatters, while his boots were ripped down and ruined. The body showed not a single mark, and the only evidence of his violent death is the destruction of his apparel, and the indention in the ground mado by his falling body. Tuesday morning after a heavy shower, the marks of the body were plainly seen in a depression of two or three inches in the sandy BOil. Mr. Srnith had lived in Michigan twelve or thirteen years, having come from New York at that time. He leaves a wife and five adult children, by a f ormer wife. He was considered in good circumstances, and 68 years old. - Mrs, Mary Stollsteimer of Scio, was buried on "VVednesday. Dlsease, apoplexy; age, -50. - About eighty Manchesteritea improved excursión rates to Detroit last week Thursday. - Tlie fourth qnarterly meeting of the Augusta charge will be held at Mooreville next Sunday. Preachiug at t()i a, M. W. II. Shieri P. È., officiates. -The republlcan meeting at Man chester on Saturday eVening was practically a failure. Robert E. Frazer failed to appear, on account of sickness, and when Mr. Sawyer beheld tlie slim audience, he, too, was inclined to be sick. This opening of the campaign by onr opponpnts, almost a failure, does not augur well for their prospects locally in November.