Mr. Worden Agrees To Find A Purchaser For That Railroad

Ank Akisor, Micli., July 13, 1SÍ)O. Ion. James M. ASHLEY: Deak Sir :- Tour fuvor of July lat luly reccive'l. I also notice tlie same 18 mblishcO in the Ann Arbor Coüribk of luly !)h. 1 11 reply willsay trom conver. utions liad with yonr petitiouers I am of lic opinión they will Iibvo no ditliculty in proving the amount they h:ivo paid In aul f the conatruction of your railroad. Tou say, "The cotnpany will sell tlie South Lyon branch at a prlce of whlch none ought to complain, who estiinutes its valueashighly asyou (I) do, viz : we will accept in cah what the rails are worth and the propcrty that gocs with t." The valuc of the ril3 is what they would biing for old iron less what it would cost to tnke thcm up and transport ttaetn, and the property that goes with them c:m je of no vkIuc if what yon set np in your jetltlon is trae, v'z : That the road is uiiremuneratlre and Chat you are and have )een fol gome vi ars opcratin it at a loss. I liad uot thought of goln into railroad ing; but if you want to unload and get rid of tlie expense of operating the South Lyon branch, I will undertake to lind you a purchaser, if you will makc me a deflnite offer, and it is onc that I can entertain. Of course the otter must be with the understanding that the South Lyon branch must bo relleved froni the mortgage wlilofa is on the road. Yours truly, E. S. Worden. Hev. S. T. Morris who has been employed as pastor of the Congregational church at Dcxter, has removed his family thereto, and commonced liis labors last Sundity. Tlie managers of tlie Washtenaw Co. AsrrictiHiiral & Ilorticultural Associution wlll meet at the court home Friday, July 25tb, at 10 oclock a. m., on important business. Prof. H. A. Walker, the new principal of the Dexter high school, is to occupy the refidence vacated by H. A. Williams and family, in that villase. Mr. Williams will remove to Ann Arbor for permanent residence at that time. Awful noisy at E. F. Mills & Co's, 'cause they are layln(T a new flior. The old floor whlch was taken np had done service for 25 years, and was not very bad either. Tt was of ash and srrew in the days of good timber, probably. Officer Petorson went down to Ypsllanti Monday eveninji and fennred the city until ibont ? o'clock the next morninjr, nntil he found the man Iip was after. He brnngbt up one John Atchinson, chared with takine a liorce and biiircy that belonged to another man, Walter J. Scott.of Snlem. The ri; had been traded for other property. The storm Monday was a very heavy one north of this city, and some four miles out the hail stones were very larze, and what is peculiar were of different shapes, some being very irregular in form, otliers In the shape of cubes, and so on. At the farm of Mr. Camp, in the northeastern pnrt of the county. tlie hall stones were so Inrge and so plentiful that oorn, wheat, and otlier farm crops were terribly cut and beatón down. Mr (ftinp'? dauffhter scraped up a pnilful of the ioe chunks and used them with excellent siiccess in freezing iee-cream for the family.