The County

-President Fisk of Albion College vVill ópen the Saline lecture coürseDec. 22i - Senator-elect Rose of Sharon i-aised 108 bashels of corn to the acre this season. -Miss Josie Drury of Ypsilanti has been coinpelled to close her school at Ludington on account of diptheria. -The records show that 365 deaths and 829births occurred in thiscounty in 18Ï9. 80 f ar in 1880, 250 marriages have been recorded. - Oa Friday night a horse and buggy were stolen from Ypsilanti. $25 reward is olïered for return of property; 575 for apprehension of thief. - There being no room at Pontiac, Napoleon ITollis, son ot a Manchester wagon maker, lately adjudged insane, ; has been taken to the connty house. - Cloth swlndlers may be perambulating this county in search of vietims. The Evenlng News report them after apeculative farmers in vicinity of Portland. - John Taylor, towtiihip treasnrer of Northfield, ttill be at the store of Wm. Mctntyre, in this city, to receive taxes on Saturday, Dcc. li and on Saturday, Dec. 18, - The. new principal of the Normal school Dr. MacVicar'seata the, boys and girls together, Whei'eaS heretofore ladies 8at on the south, stentlemen on the . north sidas. -Mr. Charles E. King of ïpsilantl i 'accompanied by Mr. Frank Whitney of j Chicago, is making an extended tour through the southern states and west" efii territories. - Tlie residence of A. G. Lawrence near Saline, which was burhed last week, tooit fire from a stove pipe in the second story, and was insured for $600 - The21st concert of the Ypsilanti musical ünion under direction of Profs. Pease and Hewitt, will be given at the Ypsilanti opera house this evening. Amortg other noted singers taking part is Mrs. E. Allen of Ann Arbor. - Two lots located in ShowertnarrS and Compton's addition to the city of Ypsilanti, and mortgaged by Josiati Newell foï about $700 were bid in at foreclosure sale on Tuesday for $784,50, by mortgagee William B. Clark -The yoüngest son of ex-supervisot LeBaron of Bridgewater was standing in front of a stove on a recent morning when an older brother jarred the coffee pot from the stoven scalding the little fellows f eet so badly that ftesheame off With hls átockings, --The followïng teachers are etnployed the current winter in Jíorthñeld: VValsh's Corners, John H. ïïawley. Whitmore Lake, Mr. Kin?. Wall's school house, Eügeüe T. Gibney. Vanatta district, Miss Boyle. Barney Keenan district, Miss Moore. riintoft's district, P. 8 Purtell. - William L. Whitnor Of Manchester has been engaged as traVeiing peddler of tin ware and groceries by S. L. Yost of Ypsilanti. Mailing to rnáke feturn for goods sold he was arresfced. convict ed, and sent to jail thirty days. Deputy sheriff Shemeld escorted the prisoner to nis new quartets on Tuesdey. -The Commercial states that the iTpsilanti paper mili flre originated in the rag room f rom the ignitiou of a match. Estimated loss 85,000, fully covered by insurance. the day following the ñre the owners, Messrs. Corn wells employed forty men clearing away the debris for re-building - Within H miles of Mooroville, it is reported there is an old man, poorly clotlied, and who lives in the woods, lyine on the tcround bv the side of a fire during the coldest nighta Witn no cover but the sky and no bed but mothei earth. He subsista on fööd begged of neighbors, and holds the poor-house in súch detestation, says he will die there before he becomes a county pauper. --In speaking of the resignation of Justice Skinner of Ypsilanti.who af ter pledgirtg lunlself to discontinue the use of liquor, was elected b? those Who believed reformation would be permanent, the Commercial draws the following very sensible conclusión: "One thing is evident to the patent observar; it won't do to take a man up and put him in an important position because of a brief reformation. He must be summered and wintered." -Richard Williams whose death is announced undef the regular head carne to Michigan in 1829, and settled five miles south of what now ia Ypsilanti. Then it was neaily all a wilderness. The town was then located on what was known aa Woodruff's Grove, and consisted of two log stores, out of which he purchased goods. He raised a family of nine, six sona and three daughters, all of whom lived to grow up, and be settled in life bef ore death entered the family. -In a "farewell" tendered by the residents of Potsdam, Jf. Y., to Dr. MacVicar where he was principal of theÏNOrmal school, prior to assuraing charge of a similar institution at YpsU lanti,he said, amongotherthings: "The question then naturally arises why do I go? It is not a matter of my seeking. [ was written to some months ago. To tliat I replied. Another letter came. To that I said no. I went to the Thou= sand Island Park to attend the educational gathering. There I met the State Superintendent of Michigan. lie carne, as I was afterward infofmed, td look over men. He asked me to go to Mich igan and examine the field; I went and found eVerything upön a most excellent foundation. The buildings are of a superior order, Well adapted to the work for which they were intended.- Provisión for the school is íricorporatea in the constitution of the state." -On Saturday Nov, 27, Mr. Wm. Ilaiike of River Haisin, loaded his wagon with empty floui barrels at Martiny's cooper shop in thia Village, and prepared to drive off. líís little son Stood on the ground, holding the Unes, arïd when about to hand thetn t3 his f athef , the hoTses started. The lad was nnable to hold them and !Hs compelled to let ro the lifles When the horses starled to run. When the team had reached Freese's corner they weregoi tig at full speed, and ran astride of a shade tree, tearing their harnesses o2 and throwing Mr. Hanke violently aguinst the tree. The bystanders at first thouffht he was killed, but on the arrival of Dr. A. F, Tuttle, it was found that his injuries consUted of an ugly scalp wound, a slight concussion of the brain, a badly bruised hip and other minor bumps and bruiaes. He was taken to Sturm's harneas shop, where hia wounds were dressed, and on Sunday he was removed to hls home.- Clinton News. ttext quartefly meeting of the Pioneer society will be held In Dexter in Maren. -Samuel Haytnond of Sharon, 8i years of age, hUsked350büshels of corh this f all. -The Southern Washtenaw milis at Manchester run right alotig on the Sabbathi - Wm. Davïs of York aged 82 years, and Mrs. tngrftham of York, aged 68, were married Nov. 28. - Discussions at the Pioneer meeting in YpSilanti lat week were more than lively - angry and very persona'. - Two terms sergeant-at-arms of the house of representativos, Wm. K. Childs of Pittsfleld is a candidate for a third term. --V.Tt.Peck of Manchester and Chan. Robison of Orass Lake Ieft Saturday for Jacksonville, Fla., to Spend the winter. - Havingleft his bed and board, B W. TorapkinS of Ypsilantl forbids any one to tvust his Wife Elizabeth on hi account. -The Manchester Enterprise say farmers won't draw Wood as long a they have wheat to draw and can ge $1 per bushel. Who blames them? -The township of Ann Arbor ha recently built a new bridge across the mili race at Geddes at an expense of one hundred dollars. Ilenry Stoup was the builder. - George Johnson of Lodi brought . Süit against David Mager for damages arising t'iom running into nis buggy on the Lodi gravel road, before Justice Forbes of Saline. A jury awarded him $55 judgment and $10 costs. --Emily wifeof Wra. Marken of Lodi, died Dec. 1, of abseess, at the age of 57. Shc was bom in Stiffolk coünty, Eng26 years. She leaves üVe chilüren, two daughters and three sons, viz: Lizzie Sutfin of St, Johns, Catherine Iiarrisou of Niles, Frederick, Wiiliatn and Austin residents of Lodi