County And Vicinity

Next week Monday Dexter liolds her charter election. l'inckney holds a. charter election one week from next Monday. Over at Manchester the boys are beginning to catch bassin the river. The libraryof the Saline Snnday scliool hns received u number of new books. Mi-s. E. E. Conklin, ajred SI, dled 8t her home iti Chelsea on tlie lOtli inst. The Manchester Knlghts of Honor mado $50 by a masquerade hall reeen tly. The Herald says that there will bc considerable building in Chelsea thls seaaon. The editor of the Stockbridge Sun mourns that he only received two Valentines. Frank Forncr, of Chelsen, misses the end of one of liis liugers. C.iuse: feed nutter. The Dexter high school scholars are dissecting cats now-a-days tor tlie benefit of science. Lucien B. Klef, of Ypsilanti, dled Feb. 10, aged 7Í) years. A former resident of li.ncliester. Sleel is being destributed along the Hoc of the new doublé track iroui Dexter to Jaekson. Acopy of the iisue of Dec, 5, 1889, is wantod by tlie Stockbridge Sun to complete its liles. The U. S. llug was lloated from the Muitehester school liouse Süturday for tlie ürst time. Apronuncing match" is now indnlged in weekly by the scholnrs la thn Mmchester schools. Mi Bessie Daley, heretofore tlie Dexter P. O. clerk, is now to teach at the Ulodgetc school in Webster. Mr. H. H.Beebe, a sister of .T. E. and A. Durmxl. of ClUiUeu, wbere she once lived, dfed in Brooklyn, N. Y., recently, aged 33. The next meeting of the Saline Farmer's Club will be hll at Gllbert Hurd's on Friday, March Uth. A full attendauce is requested. The roads still continue .-ilmost impassable in many sections, and in conscquence Ihe wlieels ol' trude are considerably blocked.- Observer. The Enterprise wants a fl:igman stationed at the Ann Arbor t., railroad crossing, and the council demands tlie same thing at Manchester. A house on the Clawson farm. Superior, was destroyed by fire Wednesday at'ternoon. Hoise Inuurad, and contenta belon;lng to tlie tenant Mr. liicliardson, saved. One day last week Miss Juno Todd, of Wbitmore Leke, took an ounce of laudanum by mistake. It catne near being ii. i i„ ■;;otk-p. but she was flnally saved. " John F. Nestcll has been appointo;! postmaster at Manchester, vice G. W. Doty, wliose term had expired. Tlie change will take place probably about Mareh Ist. Jacob Peer broke open mot her drug store one day last week. He unearthed 8even skunks.- So. Lyon Picket. Probably no one desires to be tlie peer of Jacob in tliat business. J. F. Sanders, a well-known clothing mercbant at Ypsilanti, and a resident there for the past 30 year?, dropped dead of heart disease Saturdny. He leaves a widow and two daughters. A tramp last week stole iome jewelry and other valuables f rom a Clinton man' s house. The owner followed Mr. tramp, overtook hlm. gave him a sound thrashing and sent him on his journey. Mr. Arnold Prndden has applied for a patent for a new fence wuich he has invented.. The fence has some good points In its favor, and no doubt will become a favorite wlth the farmers.- Chelsea Herald. lt must be that Pinckney is a very healthy place to live in, as there has not been one burial in the protestant cemetry. and but. one in the catholic cemetery dnrlng the whole of the past winter. - Dispatch. The next meeting of tlie grande is to held at E. B. Freer'?, Lima, Saturday, Feb. 28tu. The question to be discussed is this: "Wby do not farmers inake moncy now as they did twenty years ugo, and if not why not?" It is a sad statement, but tnie, neverthelefs, tliat out of Suline's numerous population, there is only about half a dozen parents who have ever been seen inside the school room. Much interest the people tke in the welfare of the school.- High School column in Observer. Vasked a patrón of industry what object it was for a farmer to belong to tliat order. AVell, he said, the psitrons are to have binder twltie this year for less than ever before, for one thing. Lust year the lowest price was 16 cents, this year to "patrons" it will be less than 12 cents. - Manchester Enterprise. E. X. Bisscl, a prominent sheep man of Vermont, is here buy'inii shoep for faroff Australia. A. A. Wood is assisting hlm in picking them up and the flocks of several of our prominent breeders are contributing to tlie number, none of which we will miiki' mention of next week. Verily the fame of Washtenaw's stook breeders, is getting almost worldwidc. - Observer. If a gray-liiiircil woman of fifty, in moderately respeetable ttire, 3 put off the cnrs in this city beeause she can't pay ber fare any fintlier: f phe almost iinmediately receives i telegram urclug her to come home on the next train because her Inisband is clylng, and if she tearfully and in a desperately loud voice announces that she is golng to walk home 100 miles, you let her walk. She and her confedérate, who sends the telegram, have worked the dying htnArand racket in half a dozen Michigan towns at a net prolit, it is figurcd, of f 15 n duy.- South Lyon Picket. Tlie Washtennw Agriciiltural Society has at last settled the new fair ground problem. The old fair giound lias been exchanged for thn saine nmnber of acres of land sonth of "VVoll t., ovvned by Mrs. Israel Hall. Mrs. Hall also gives the assoclation $7,000, which will pay the present Indebtedness of tlie nssociation, for morlng the buildings, erecting fences and putting the new grounds iuto shape. This will enable the society to start out with jilowing prospects and we sincerely hope its future will bc more prosperous than the past few years. The eutlre county should turn In and boom the new order of things." - Dexter Leader. H. C. Oregory had a lively encouuter with a tramp at nis residence last Tuesday morning. Ilis trampshlp called and solicited a breakfast, which was cheerfully given liim. One or two dellcacies havinj? been oinitted from his bill of fare, he requested to be supplied, and on belng politely refused, waxed so wrath and abunive that H. C. grabbed a stove poker and ' laid liiin " out. It made the fellow 'tire" for a time, bul be finally re:ilizd tbat he liad made a blunder and sneakcd away. He received just what he and many of his ilk deserve, and we would advïse all, on the sliilitest provocation, to follow Mr. Gregory's example. These fcllow.s have a lesson to lenrn, and tbe sooner they learn it the better for the country. -