Vicinity

- Clerk Wiggins of Adrián was presentad by his wife with a 32-ounce girl. -Detroit butchers are enterprising. They drive the stock they kill through the streets as an advertisement. -The Jackson Patriot complainsthat insulta to ladies walking alone on the streets of Jaokson are of frequent occurrence. -Samuel T. Marsh, one of the oldest seUlcrs of the township of Columbia, Jackson county, died of paralysis Saturday, agedG9. - The iludson Post is calling loudly on the republican county committee to pay its indet}tedness or show up where the money went to. -Congressman Willetts lias managed to have his usual appropriation of 5,000 for flxing up the mouth of the Baisin river at Monroe placed among the mates agaui. -Last week four convicts employed in the Jackson prison coal mine attempted to escape by crawling up the air shaft. They were discovered and driven back. -Long Lowlee, a Chinese laundryman of Adrián, has expressed to the clerk of Lenawee county his intention of becoming a f ull-fledged citizen of the United States. -Miss Lizze Baughman,16 years of age, white skating Saturday evoning at the park, at Albion, feil on the ice, broke one of her arms and knocked two of her teeth out. - The debt on the congregational church at Fredonia, Calhoun county, was paid off by a big rabbit shooting match, in wlüch 40 men participated and the losers paid for a supper for all hands. - The Marshall Statesman goes bacK into the hands of the managers of the Lewis estáte, and Will R. Lewis will take charge of its publication. Mr. O. C. Tompkins will be engaged as editor for a time. - The Albion Mirror agrees to the proposition to make ü. 8. Grant a captain-general. and adds: " Then stick a peacock's feather in his coat-tail, and ; he will strut himself to death in less than six months." - Several apples as large as black walnuts have been laid on our table from the garden of Mrs. W. P. Gale,tho iro..o k- er v.i-.onmiwl after the ursa while the firstcrop wasgrowing. - roe Commercial. -II. tí. Mathiaa of Adrián has been arrested charged with refillinpold cigar boxes, the stamps on whicli had been preserved intact, with cigars manufactured by himself, and jelling them to dealers, thus savingt'.ie cost oí stamps, - 60 cents on each 1(0 cigars. -The people of Sperryville, Lenawee county, celebrated the golden wedding of David Swift and wife, whose supply of the world's goods was exceedingly liniited, by taking them wood, clothing, provisions, and money, sufficient to keep them in comfort for many months. -In the circuit court at Adrián, üec. 8, young Watts was sentenced to eighteen months imprisoument for robbing the grave of Mr. Marlott. Norton, his confedérate, was given one year in Ionia. Simmons, the Tecumseh wife beater, plead guilty of assault with Intent to kill his wife, and was sentenceJ to two years in state prison.