The County

- Bastera Michigan fait atïpsüantl, Sept. 2í-áii -Snmnel StaBy and family litivf "ieft Ypsilahü for Poutiac. _Wm. Pi Ilanke, formerly oí Hiver Raisin, is a residen: of Lea 'ville; -TI. J. Everett of Shftío l presen ted Iris daugtater witii 1 1 casii at hef latfe marriage. - Tliere was a plumc vuuruay or uie sabbath school in the Faiichild district in Sliaron. -Mrs. Mary T. Iluntomf Sharon hïffl tronc to Pakota to visit a brother, Wllliam Selfe. -Mr. and Mrs. .T. P. Wond and Mrs. Alva Freer of Chelsea, are in the eatt visiting friends. - Grange picnic at Whitmore 1a1ce tomorrow. Rev. Mr. Alabasterwillpreach at the lake on Sunday. - Wood Bros., of Chelsea have pur chased and shipped 1200 bushels of whortleberries this season. -Francia I,. Wheeler formerly of Chelsea, was married August 5.to Mlw Kitty Knight of Sumner Co.. Kansas. -The Peninsular Gaslight company of Ypsilanti have secured the contrae! for lichting the naptha gas larnps in Detroit. - Mrs. Oscar Blivins of Manchester feil down a stainvay. sustaining a sevei e sprain upon the left arm and some severe brnises. - Fred, aged 10 years, son of George Poucher of Bridgewater, drove the tenm that pulled tlie reaper that cut 6.5 acres of wheat. - Tn seven bours, Foster Bros., planed a tubular well 45 feet deep and got 2-5 feet of water, upon the ground of Mr. B. Parker of Chelsea. -The remains of the late Lew is L. James of Dexteï were removed to Williamsburg, Mass., in care of Thomas Sears of Chelsea, for interment. -Miss LibV)ie Foster resigned her po:;ition as clerk in the dry goods store of Tuomey Bros., of Chelsea and engaged with a house in Jackson, - X. M. Gorsuch of Austin, Texas, purchased in the vicinity of Manchester three e;vr loada of sheep which he took with him to the Lone Star state. - Another of the Ypsilanti Rosehud colonista has returned wel] satisfied that a Michigan mechanic who can get work here has noneed to go to the f ar west. -Tommy Ttempsel went to Mancnester, imbibed too freely, and feil from the Goodyear house steps brjaking a bone in his left arm and bruising his hice. - Joe O'Neil a laborintr man on a farm west of Manchester village was near a tree struck by itghtnmg, receivinsí only a shock himself from Jove's bolts. -The Manchester and Franklin mers' Club will hold their second anuual picnic in Captain Davis' grove 3i miles west of Clinton, on Saturday, August 28, 1880. J. Webster Cliilds and C. E. Mickley are expected to address the meeting. -We learn fiom Mr. Sterling of Detroit surveyor-in-charge of the división of the Butler road, between Adrián and Wayne county line, that the road i3 graded from Milán to BelleVille ready for the ties, and that rapid progresa is being made over the en tire route, - Dcputy-sheriff Case of Manchester arrested Mrs. Mary Silus on the 14th instant, on a charge of bigamy preferred by James Douglass of Sharon. Porties re colored. The prisoner was brought to this city and lodgcd in jail to await exa:nination set down for yesterday - Durinp the storm of Thursday evening of tast week lightning struck atree, the -fluid passing downward anri killing three cows owned by Kart Al her, a poor man, resident of Northfield. On the same night Mr. Shewitt of Superior, residüii! on the Leoiiard farm lost tvvo liuins and two stacks of oats by fire, the resvilt of lightning. Tvvo stacks of wheat weresaved. - Deputy Sheriff W allace of Saline, was in town last Monday, riding in a two-wheeled chair which was presented to Governor Cass fifty years ago by General Brady, of Detroit. It is still in invul Rimdition and is the easiest riding vehicle on the road. Being nearly all made of wood and having leather springB, it is very light, wcighing only littleorer 1-50 pounds.- Clinton News-At the cauciis held in Nortlifield on Tuesday ovei' sixty demoerats were present. Messrs. Hascal Laraway, Nathan L. Button and Edmond Clancy were chosen delegates to atteñd the representative district convention when called. A petition eirculated for the formation of a Hancock and English club received íifty-four signatures. A meeting to organize a club will be held at Walsh's Corners on Monday, Sapt. 13, at 6 p. M. - About six o'clock onTuesday evenlng oi' last week Inwyer Riggs, with his brotlier-in-law and daoghter, drove into Joe Weaver's bani togetoutof the rain. Llghtning struck tlie south end of the barn knocking Mr.Bigga and one of tlie horses down, and setting the barn on lire, whicb was destroyed with this year's erop of hay and wheat and one hundred bushels of ald wheat. Insmed in the Washtenaw Mutual. Mr. Riggs and the horse received only a slight shock and vvere all right in a few minutas. -A bright light was seen in the north Juring the storm Wednesday night. It pro ved to be the barns of George Tliompson near Frain's lake. Four barns and their contenta with tlie exception of the live stock were entirely consumed. Thefann wasbeing worked on shares by Mr. Sc-hults. The barns and grain belonging to Thompson was insured, but the part belonging to Schutts had no insurance. It provea the oldadage'l'rociastiiiation is a thief of time." Schutts had made up his mind to insure his wheat, but had failed to do so. Two stacks of wheat were harmed. -