County And Vicinity

The charter election of Wayne occurs on Monday, Mach 17. A motor line between Dundee and Monroe is now being talked up. The Saline river overflowed its banks, and acted bad generally, last week. Rev. D. H. Conway, of Chelsea, received $57.GO by a donation, last week. The electric light companies are after Manchester for street lighting purposes. W. H. Whitmarah talks strongly of building a new brick block at Milan this suinrner. Lima has no contingent fund any more - but it has a memberof theiegislature, all right. About 200 people have been converted during the protracted meetings at Milan this winter. James Vescelius has retired from the fina of Hinkley & Vescelius, cigar manufacturera at Milan. Hinkley will run the business alone hereafter. The Masonic party at Manchester Friday evening was attended by about 70 people, and was very pleasant. Patriotic services, appropriate to AVashington'8 Birthday, were held at the Saline M. E. churoh last Sunday evening. Miss Sadie L. Coe, an estimable and popular young lady of Milan, was married Feb. 18th to Edward M. Weston, of Minneapolis, Minn. Conrad Lehn, of Manchester, died last Friday morning. He had been a merchant there since ia54, and as a business man was greatly respected. A. G. Mclntyre has purchased the tiraber on twenty acres of land west of Mooreville and has eight teams busy drawing logs to his mili.- Milán Leader. The winter thus far has been very favorable to fruit in this state and it is belieyed the peach belt of Michigan will give a largor yield than ever before. Elwood Biddle will remove to Sanilac connty April lst, and will sell his farm implements at auction Mareh lOth, on the Chas. Ellis farm, five miles south of Saline. It is stated that a new church will be built at Rogers' Corners, the result of a split in the eongregation of the Lutheran church soine time ago.- Chelsea Herald. Dundee has selected what is known as the Rawson site for its agricultural fair, paying $1,500 for twenty acres, and now proposes to show this section how to have a fair. The Dearborn correspondent of the Plymoth Mail has five good-sized items in the issue of Feb. 20th, four of which were about fights. Dearborn must be a pugilistic town. W. H. Sweet, of Ypsilanti, gave a banquet last Thursday evening at the Occidental hotel, to the dry goods and clothing merchants of Ypsilanti, and a very pleasant time was the result. J. L. Newkirk, a gentleman who reeen tly started a paper at Munith, has graduated into theology and has become a minister. A newspaper office afiords the necessary training for the pulpit. - Jackson Star. Messrs. Smith of Jackson and Plummer of Saginaw are to build a four-story roller process mili with a capacitv of 100 barrels per day at South Lyon, providing the people of that place raise $1,500 and give them a site. One would think that was a sight to give them. At about 1 o'clock Friday a. m., last fire destroyed the blacksmith shop of John Reddaway, and Goodman's second hand store on Congress st., east, i psilanti. Reddaway's loss was about $1,000 with $400 insurance, and Goodman's, about $2,000 with $1,600 insurance. The regular annual meeting of the Chelsea Recreation Park Association was held at the town hall Sáturday, and the following directora were elected for the year: C. H. Kempf, H. Boyd, Frank Staffan, H. S. Holmes, William Judson, Geo. Turnbull and Jas. Taylor - Herald. A. A. Wood, of Saline, attended the annual meeting of the Sheep Breeder's and Wool Grower's Association at Jackson last Thursday and Friday. He read au excellent paper entitled : "Is it Profitable for the Average Farmer to Keep Registered Sheep?" You can depend upon it that it is. A hat have become of our old f rieuds (?) who were wont to remernber us with their "oomps" on the 14th of February ? Have they gone so far into the región of forgetfulness as to take no lmgering look behind ? Do they, while reveling on the sunshine of new loves have no thought of their old ones?- Stockbridge Sun. They have all fadeti and gone. But their memory is all right. Wait until you hit them once in the Sun. Our village is building a lock-up, and this is causing a good deal of outside comment, and well it may, for a soberer community or one better behaved than Stockbridge is hard to find. ïlie question is, what are we going to do with a lock-up? We don't need one once a year, but then it is like a dose of physic and when needed it is needed bad. It is to be hoped that there may be one cell at least, litted up in prineely style for high muck a mucks," when they get a hule off the perpendicular." It would be too huiuiliating to lodge them with coinmon tramps, vagrants, etc- Stockbridge Sun. Now labor on the farm meaus the same as labor in the shop. In either case it is a direct expense. The man who performs it must be paid for it and the man who hires it must do the paymg. But in the case of the farmer the same man is often the employer and the employed. He works for hnnself, and must look to himself for his pay. If he works faithfully and directa his work wiflely he may secure large returns If he idlea away liis time, or misdirects his work, he will receive but little. The labor is equivalent to money and it is as unwise to waste, or poorly invest the one as it is the other. Our readers will remember that in October of last year Miss Maggie, fourteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Thomas Jackson, was accidentally shot with a spent riñe ball, the bullet entering the left arm at the elbow. The wound was probed but the leaden messenger could not be located. The wound nealedand everything was apparently getting along all right until recently the young lady has complained of severe paing in that arm. She was brought over to town Monday moming and had the bullet cut out; it was found deeply imbeded in the fleshy muscles below the elbow.- Milan Leader. Piekert, the man who sold tea in Detroit last summer at a dollar a can and then "gave away $10 bilis and diamonc jewejry" with tlie sume, was arrestec for violating the law. He skipped the city and forfeited his bonds. A few weeks ago tie was located in the Eas and a detective sent aftei him, and a an expense ol nearly $300 he was brought li.ick t" stand trial. It is saic that tin Proaecuting Attorney made an appeal in Iiih behalf for leniency aud he was lel off with a fine of $219. Tlip law I s ! ei n uuiintained, but at tlit ex : ' ie tux ïiavers instead of the ei ■