County And Vicinity

Manchester longeth for a plckle facto ry. Farmer's picnic Aug. 23, at Whitmore Lake. The creamery and cheese factory at Saline appears to have "chcesed IL" A farmer's picnic Í8 to be held at Wampler's Lake next Friday, the 22d. Nelson Rice has leased the BabcocK hotel at Milan, and wilt noiv run botli housea there. The condition of corn in this county according to the August erop report is 09 per cent; potatoes 67 per cent. It seems a dull week when the Washtenaw county sheriff doesn't run in a horso thief. - South Lyon Picket. The population of Stockbridge townsliip is given as 1,279. The village numbers a little more than 500.- Stockbridge Sun. The per cent of summer fallow in this county with average years is 98, the condition of uieadows 73, and clover 87 per cent. The school houses are being opened up, aired dusted and in sorao instances cleaned and repaired, ready for the fall terra. The state deDartment estimates tlie average yield of wheat in this county at 15 bushels per acre, and oats at 32 bushels per acre. Tho whoat erop in this viciulty is yielding beyond the farmers' expectations, and is also of au excellent quality.- Chelsea Herald. A. D. Uciinett has leased lus interest in the Pinckney Dispatch to liis brother, and goes to Mt. Pleasant. That place is a gainer and Pinckney a loser. The "bic hcail" is a disease attneking the horses at Bridgewater and vicinity. The animáis must be syiupathlzlng with their drivers a little, you know. The school house and grounds are being overhauled and cleaned up ready for school agatn. How about that new school house?- Chelsea Herald. Eev. Frank Arnold, of Ypsilanti, bas accepted a unanimous cali trom the Baptist cliurch of Tecumseh and will begin bis ministerial duties the tirst of September next. David Ileselsehwerdt, of Sylvan, threshed for A. Hitcheock, in ten and one-half hours 1,321 bushels of wheat and oats, and set the machine Ihree times. -Herald. The G. A. R. hall at Milan bas had a new carpet furnished for it by the Wouiau's Relict Corps, and now the walls and ceilings are to be decorated, and thing8 generally slicked up. The Ilighland vineearand pickle works llave a capacity of 18,000 to 20,(100 barrels of vinegar and 8,000 to 12,000 barrels of pickles. The average value of Ihe cucuinper erop to the producer is $00 per acre. Elcction boards in the varioiis townships will do well to remember that the new election law goes into eiVect this fall and that they must provide booths for the yters one for every flfty votes or fraction tliercof. Walled Lake takes its name f rom a wall found on one of lts shores some 0 to 8 feet wide, apparently laid by human hands- by a prehistorie race, themound builders.- South Lyon Picket. "VVhat's the matter with the beavers? The population of S ilem as given by Bnumerator F. C. Wheeler is as follows : Salem township, 1,183, which in 1880 whs 1192. in:iklnga decrease ol 9 in populatloo in 10 years. Salem village 148. Lapham's Corners 30. Pebbles' Corners 27. Eugene Fontaine, the invitor of the Fontaine locomotive, was in the city Tuesday to inspect the 17 new time signáis, of bis invention, which the Michigan Central is putting up between this city and Dexter. - Ypsilanti Commercial. Over $112,000 in claims have been presented to the commissioners against the Weinmeister estáte at Howell. It is believed that the creditors of the deceased banker may get 15 cents on the dollar, or they may uot get a red. - Brighton Citizen. Lust Wednesday a train on the Ypsilanti branch of the Lake Shore road struck a carriage at Fay's crossing, containing Mrs. Coder, the wife of the station agent at Norvell and little fouryears-old daughter. The cliild was instantly killed and themother it is thought fatal li1 injured. Sidney C. Allen, formerly a Milan boy, and lately graduated from the Ann Arbor ligh school, has captured the positiou of book-keeper tor a large Wholesale and reuil house at Ottuinwa, Iowa. Milan boys get to the front If they have got the "stuff' in thetn, otherwise they don't Sid bas our best wishes for hls future success. Leader. Dexter is not an original package town, but listen to this from the Leader: "A large niassasauga, wearing nine rattles, was killed by the ruilroad men on the depot platform at this station last Tliursday night Ilis snakeship was "stone blind," but nevertheless mlght have done considerable damage if he had not been diapatched when he 'was. Not a pleaeaut travelling companion, certainly. Editor Sohermerhorn, of the Hudson Gazette, and Editress Clough, of the lirooklyn Exponent, went down in a mine together, up north, while on the recent editorial jaunt. They were the only two members of the large party wbo had the temerlty tomake the descent. There was no parson In attendance, and they came back to the upper strata again as free and untrammeled as ever. - Adrián Press. Lust week a couple of sharpers were about here selling sil ver plated ware. They would sell a set which they claimed was wortu $10 for $5, besides""giTing the purchaser an order for a dress pattern on the dry goods store which they claimed would soon open up In Brighton. It Is uaelees to state that the whole thing is a fraud, and that several farmers were taken in. Moral - Deal with your home merchants. - Brighton Citizen. A. A. Wood is about the busiest man in LodL He bas bought in this state and Ohio, neaily 1,200 fine wool rams, which he is now getting together and shipping to Texas. Ou Monday he shlpped two carloads from this station in charge of hls brother George and Lutlier Phelps, of Caro, who carne down to take the trip. Two more cars will be shippcd in a few days and the balance as fust as he can get them together. - Saline Observer. B, 8. Greenwood of Howell, formerly T. fc A. A. station agent for Dundee, has displayed bis inventive genius by the Invention of an adjustable and convertible child's seat and bundle carrier, to bo attacbed to safety bicycles. The apparatus Is attachcd to the bicycle over the ward wheel directly in front of the rider, and will prove a great convenience to riders who de9ire to take young cliildren on tlie trip, or who have a number of paekages to carry, Tlie Saline Observer takes the census returns wltli due modesty: "It will be seen oy tte figures that Saline township li.is made a surprising gain, it being over 800. The populatiou of the villiage is iiivcn at 1,502, but we fear thts is a mistake - its to good to be true - though soine think the figures none to high if our Lodi, Pittsneld and "Barnagatt" annex are included, as they of course should be, tliough not in the Corporation. We sliall awHit later developinents with interest. Il we have a town of 1,500 people we want to know it, and sliall crow accordingly." At the RcpublicaD caucus forthe townsliip of York, held August 12th, the following gentlemen were elected delegates to the county convention to be held at Ann Arbor August 21st to elect delegates to tlie sute and congresslonal convention?: Peter Cook, Samuel Chapín, John W. Blakeslee, Charles M. Blackiner, Frank Trussell, Eugene 11. Ford, Austin W. Dexter. The following gentlemen were elected to the county convention, yet to be called, to nomiuate county ofttcers: George F. Richards, Emmett F. Pyle, Jerome B. Lsshier, Judson W. Wheelock, John Cook, Walter Kanou3e, Theodore Josenhans. Mr. John McDougall reports the followlng snake story and vouches for its truth: L:ist Saturday, up in Superior, four lítele girls, the oldest not over thirteen, found in the highway, a rattler, two and a half feet long, with eight rattles. Kothing daunted, the girls just went for that snake and flnally killed it, bringing home the rattles In triumph. Will the Pittsfleld man, who reported a snake with seven rattles, please stand aside while the girls take the blue ribbon ? The liltle heroines were Nellie and Lucy McDougall, and Stella and Alta Filkins. - Ypsilantian. The Howell Kepublican in writlng up Hamburg reaideuts has the following : "O. F. Qrisson, a native of the village, has a large farm of 240 acres near the Huron river. His father, George G. Grisson, carne from Hamburg, Qermany, and settled in the township in 1837. The logs In the firsc house were not laid tight enough to prevent the wolves looking through the cracks and casting meditativo glances witliin. In October 1873, the father went back to Gormany and died tliere last December. O. F. Grisson Is the only representative left of a family of three boys and one girl. The stock on the farm is much above the average run. Aflock of 85 high grade shcep averaged 1% pounds. The horses are of ttie Glyde and Percheron strains, with one line Regulator two years old. The owner prides himself on the fact that during the last 17 years his cows, with only one or two exceptions, have sold for not less than $50 eacu." PITTSFIKLD. Onion pulüng bas commenced on the big marsh. Paul Carr is visitlng friends in Jackson county. Vegetation was greatly refreshed by the rains of last Sabbath. Mrs. Sidney Rathfon is entertalning her mother, Mrs. Holden, of Detroit. Wellington Tate, of Ann Arbor, was the guest of 'htacousln, Miss Estella Tate, Saturday. The Ladie's Aid Society will meet the flrdt Thursday in September with Mrs. Frank Stephens. Miss E. Phillips spent a part of last week at Ypsilanti with her cousin Mr. Dr. Bonesteel, who is very il!. Mra. P. Harwood who has been m:iking an extended vlsit at Adrián and Detroit, returned last Wednesday. Harrison Harwood and family and Mr. and Mrs. Bradish, all of Adrián, visited the Harwood family last week. Miss Nsttle Evans, of Ypsilanti, grand daughter of Mrs. P. Harwood and formerly a teacher of district No. 5, was married Thursday to Dr. Lamb, of Republic. The wedding was largely attended by relatives and friends of tuis town.