County And Vicinity

Dundee is to have three or four telephonesputin connecting business houses with the depot. John Schleh recently sold to Mike O'Hara 127 fat sheep tliat averaged 123 Ibs. each, and brought him $859. They were shipped at Saline. Ypsilanti township electors will vote again upon the proposition to build a town hall whioh they voted down last spring. It is getting to be a neeeseity. The Enterprise says that thé price of that paper has not been raised beeause of the McKinley bill, but is not, as some Of its subscribers appear to think, on the free list. A horse thief being confined in the Monroe Co. jail over night took a stick, pried off his cell door and dug out through the side of the building. They want a new jail in that eounty. If you see the advertisement of a fellow who lives by liis wits - that is, by fraud - announcing that for the trilling urn of thirty cents he will send 160 sitíeles of household use, keep your thirty cents. You can get the 160 artacles at the grocery for a nickle. It's half a paper of pins. - Ex. W. II. Whitmarsh's new brick block is now assured. The new structure will take up the space now occupied by his grocery, Holcomb's feed Rtore and ehurtz's meat market, and will be three toriee high. Work will be commenced the latter part of April or the first part of May. - Milan Leader. Miss Eunice Lambie has purchased the Barton House lot, and will build theron, two handsome new residences. The remains of the Barton House, and the barn, will be sold at auction, and the pnrehaser is to move them away by April 18th. One by one the unsightly corners of Ypsilanti are mproved. - Ypsilanti Commercial. George Van Blarcum is on deck for congratulations. Married ? No. Got a pension ? Na, But he has got what he has been flshing for ever since he was defeated for constable a year ago, and that's doing better than many a longer headed politician does. He has just been appointed deputy sheriff, and there isn't a rail fence in the township that he can't jump over. George is again solid with the York democracy as in days of yore. - Milan Leader. In what manner, Te ask in all candor, can a couimunity be more añiicted than by the dead-beat : They are tho worst raaws to-day with which the business world has to contend. Many and many an honest man has been driven to the wall and ruined by their deception and trickery. There are two kinds of dead-beats, the society beat and sneak dead-beat. The society beat is the fellow who is prowling around with some new "dodge" and he usually come underthe head of "for the benefit of soand-so, all expenses paid and the ladies sell tickets." The sneak beat is the fellow who"will pay you next week," and never pays at