County And Vicinity

In most pnrts of this county liay is an excellent erop. Ketnpf Bros. of Chclsea aro having a fine new bank building erected. The Northvllle Record issued n red, white and blue supplement last week. Cook Palmer, of Bridgewater, took in over 16,000 lbs. of wool in oue day last week. Sophie, a dauchter of Mra J. G. Moyers, of Lodi, aged 19 years, died June 22.1, Of brain f e ver. Tecumseh has a new table facto ry, in whtch it expects that lifty men will soon be employed. It is said that the ceraetery qnestloa al Saline, though not dead remaina in a coma tose state. They burned onc of their citizens in effigy at Brighton recently because he was accused of mlsuslng bis wife. Mrs. John W. VanCleve, of Tpsllantl, was seriously f not fatally injured by a run away team lastSunday a. m. The Young Ladies' Society of the Lutheran cliurch at Saline, have added to the comfort of their house of worship by putting new blinds upon the same. Mike O'IIarre is busy buying wool in this vicinity for Mack & Schmid, Ann Arbor, and bas nlready contracted for about 15,000 pounds. - Saline Observer. On June 20th Mrs. Elizi Clark Shaw, wife of Kobert Sliaw. of Saline, died at their home in that place, aged 80 years. Her husband and six chiidreu survive her. Perhaps it hasn't been goort corn weather for the past few (laysl The warm sim and coplous Rhowera have made thal cereal grow at an astonlsULllg rate. The Germán woikinumen have be.en putting in good timp ctefininjc up the grove, graveling thediivrs, siuking n weïl and getting things in order lor the picnic on the 4th. - Enterprise. Prof. A. Sagor Hall, formerly of Saline, was married June IStIi to Miss May Brady, nleee of Dr. Hopkins, president of the Woman'a Collfge at Baïtlraore, Md., where Prof. II. lilis a cha.fr. W. I'. tiambktn has liouglit, ground and sold 100 bushela of feed dn ring the past weck, be8ldea dolng custoui wotk and keeping four or tive hands busy turuinjr broom handles. - Milán Leader, Livingston county has 214,992 acres of improved land, 109,778 acicsoi unimproved land within iu borders, inaking a total of 324,770 acres. Thiá is divided into 2,800 farms, au Kveruge if' 115 90 acres to the farm. The wool market is vcry quiet,buyew do not seem to be as anxious to buy now as they did before the price dropped. Xot over 30,000 ponnd" lmve biun tukcn in here and not 50,000 have been purcdasctl by our loeal dealers. - Enterprise. Why will thf! people be duped by such miserable humbujrs as travel from lo.vn to town "doctorlng," etc? - Manchester Enterprise. For the same reason probably that there are ahvays plenty to inveít in the skin ga:nes of tin: travel ing street corner gambler. The heirs of the late Aibley Parks demand of the trustees nf the Sharon M. E. cliurch possession of the parsonage, given by Mr. Parks to the Conijrpgational society in 1848, and transferral to the M. E. 8oe.ety some 30 years ago. Thero will be a light over it. Speaking about stumps reminds us of one tl. at, L. S. Hnlbert took out on bis farm In Slmron. He said it was ns large as a gmall house and that the roote were as lnrg! as a barrel, and the hole In the groiind was big enough to pet a good sized barn over.- Manchester Enterprise. Miss Tillie Mutochel of the state Normal school, class of '90, has accepted the posltion of preoeptress of the Iludson high school for the ensuing yer, at a salary of $450. Miss Mutschel is well and bly known in this vicinity, and tbe patrons of the HiuUon high school are to be tíongratulated vpon securing lier as pre oeptress. - Cbelaea Herald. The Union block book vender very innocently gave the Lake Shore bra:ich a "dif" a few eveningi since. Bidding was not as biisk as lie wished and he retnarked that sbould he put up the Lake Shore branch he wonldn't get over a 25c bid, to wkicli some unappreelative wretch in the audience eaid, ' you bet you wouldn't' and another fellow over in the corner groaned, amen.- Saline Observer. NorthvHle proposna to have a big blow out next Friday orthe Hecord is mistaken: " Pour caunons, two 20-pounders, one 15poundcr and one 10-pounder, have been secured and placed on the grounds ready tor rfctltfh, and ïou had better bet your bottoni dollar - f you have one, that there won't be much sleep after the flrst gun is fired, and for once ye late risers wlll have to be up and doing." Mrs. Martha D. Gilbert, wife of James L. (iilbert, Esq., of Chelsea, whose death on Tuesday, June 17, we noted, was born Oec. 15, 1835, ,ind was married to Mr. Gilbert, Nov. 18, 18.5'J, and had lived in Chelsea the greater part of lier life. She was adevoutmeraberofthe M. E.cliurcli, and a noble, pure Chnstlan woman. Slie leaves a husbund and one dausrhter, Mury E., to niourn the loss of a faithful wife and dutitul mother. Her reinains wei placed In Oak Grove cemetery. Chelsea, hy the side of two little baby boys who had gone before her. WOOL. The market cnntinups dull and business Isdrdjtfrlnji, botll in local and eastern markets. Tbere is a fcellnffof uncertainty in the trade which restricts purchascs by manufacturera to the lowest possible limitó. There is no doubt that manufacturera in the present pusltion of all'.iirs are holding bacK ju-t :is mach as possible so as to depcesa pri(.-ei. The uucxpeeted detiTinination of many growera to get a fair price tor their wool, nul to hohl It untll they did, Iia9 been met by all kinds of schemes to lower values and weaken those who are holding their clips. Thus we see every trade journal yelllng lliemselves hoarse to conviuce the growers that thoy are holding their wool too high; that manufacturera can do better by laying stilt, or purchaslng forelgn stook; that the McKinley bilí will not be passed in time to do any good this season; that wool abroad is declining so that itcan soon be broiight into the country at i profit after payins full duty, etc, etc. There is gome truth in these assertioiip, but it Is cousiderubly mixed up witli what is not true. There is no doubt that manufacturera expect an advance in wool If the McKioley bill passes In its present sliape, and that purchasos made upon tlie present basis of values may be a line thing later in the season. We expected, when the season opened that there would be a wide varlance of opinión between sellors and buyers, for the latter would naturally wish to make up for thelr losses of a year ago, and tliat a sluw market would result. If the House will now push througrh that tariff liül we shall soon see a different tone ia the wool trade. The London wool Bales which opened a few days ago, showed a decline in price as compared with the sales of April and May, Australian merinoes decllned f rom 7}L to 10 per cent., seoured sliowing the greatest falling ofl". Oros3 breeds were 5 per cent. lower and Cape 10 per cent. lower. L itest reporta, however, say there Is a large attendance of buyers, sharp competition, and the decline in values arrested, although the loss has not been regained. Buyera are represented as purchasing freely at current prices, and tb la may result in values advanclng to their former level. altliough we can hardly expect tbat. - Michigan Farmer.