County And Vicinity

Farmers' picnic at AVhitinore I.ake Aug. 29tli. First annual fair at Dundee Sept. 8 to 11 inclusive. The Ypsilanti fair is to be held Sept 15 to 18 inclusive. County fair at Ann Arbor Aug. 30, 31 and Oct. 1, and 2. The Lutheran Sunday School of Chelsea, are to picnic at Cavanaugh Lake to day. There will be two balloon asoensions and parachute drops at the Ypsilant fair. It is the general opinión that the lasi G. A. R. encainpment held at Detroii was the best one ever held. Martin J. King and Edna N. Aldrich, of Saline, were married last Wednesday, Rev. T. G. Potter officiating. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Saline M. E. church hold a social at the house of Mrs. J. W. Huil Friday evening. G. J. Nissly, of the Saline poultry farm, has a large number of apricot trees in bearing this year for the flrst timo. The entertainment given by the W. R. C, of Ypsilanti recently was a success. Maj. Hendershot is a success as a drummer. Ed. Schairer, of Saline, bas been given a silver tea set vaJued at $120, for sending in the best list of worde to an eastern publication. A Howell saloonist bas been arrested for not removing his curtains from thé windows on Sunday, so that the barmay be seen from the outside. - Mail. Horse thieves are operating about Ypsilanti and Augusta. They better look out. This is a bad county, for Sheriff Dwyer is a terror to horse thii A parasite called longu torqushadabori is said to be killing sheep in manv parts of the state. Well if that wouldn't kill sheep we would like to hear of the iniiual with a name that would kül ;hem. There are a number of old cats that are in the habit of greasing their throats with some of our best Plymouth rock ■hickens and we wish the boys would et the sparrows fiy and shoot the cats - Manchester Enterprise. Ypsilanti saloon keepers, as well as Jiose of other towns, it seems, thought they could seü whisky on a beerlicense, nut are being hauled up to settle with heoffended law. Perhaps they thought ;he bill loweriug the whisky license ,o the beer standard, went through according to contract- but it didn't. - YptUantian. Thej' are having a regular "picnic" with rattlesnakes about Brighton nowi-days, It is a poor day when they lon't kill eight or ten. A party while laying killed eight one day and fifteen ;he next. The Misses Granday killed iveone day. Henry Whipple and J-.u-'.ï ïolloway while near there along the. iuron last week killed one. Too poor to take a home paper. Well bat is a distressing condition. Buy a ïeu, feed her with crumbs and waste rom the kitchen and she will lay eggs enough to pay a year's subscription ; hen work her up inpot-pie and she will pay the first cost, so the paper will be clear proflt. Repeat this process year after year and yon will see how easy it s to pay for your home paper.- Belding 3anner. All day long Monday, the slander suit etween Lillie A. Kilíenbeck, plaintiff, and Charles M. Smart, defendant, both of Augusta, dragged out its weary course n Justice Bogardus' court. Itwas the second trial, the jury failing to agree on he trial last week. The verdict Monlav, was "guilty," and Mr. Smart was fined $10 and costs $92.00. Thus it seems that the "perfect law of liberty" mplies that a man shall not fail to jridle his tongue. - Ypsilantian. The (t. A. R. boys turned out well this veek to attend tiie national encampnent at Detroit, many of them taking heir families with them. The boys eemed to feel quite an interest in the natter as it would afford them an opporunity of meeting many old comradee hat "they had not seen for many yeara uid many of them since the war, and to hose uiucli comfort was anticipated. Lgain some took, to a certain degree, inother view of it, that it would be to iiiiiiy of them who stood side by side luring many hard and bloody conflicts heir last meeting, and that the good ve shake at the encampmenl meaut are well. - Saline Observer. Sam Josenhans, who was one of the ommittee appointed by the council to obtain plans and specifications for the new Ctuvert near the Lutheran church, )resented to that body a very carefully jrepared drawing Monday evening. Thé lan is to run but the one stream of wa;er across the street, and that to run diagonally. By so doing the entire corner an be covered and instead of having wo bridges, and open ditches, all may )e made smooth and safe. As it now s, it is the most dangerous place inside ;he village limits. It is sornetimes said -hat Sam is toe free with others money, jut he is a pretty good alderman just he same, and is, as a rule, always ready or a good improvement and down on a oor one, regardless of friend or foe. - Saline Observer. Miss Grace M. Smith, of Saline, wil] fill the ppeition of preeeptress of thp Manchester lii_rii school for the coming year. We have heard teil about cattle in hillv countriea having long legs ou one sido and short ones on the other, to allow thein to graze on the hillsides but we never saw a wagon witli bij wheels on one side and little ones on the other until last week. And the queer part of it is that the owner did not know about the peeuliarity until tohl about it, tliough lie had been teaming about town for sevoral days. - Enterïrise. On the closing day of the 25th annual encampment of the G. A. B., at Detroit, Captain John Palmer was elected the uew Commander-in-Chief, to sueceed Colonel Veazey. Corporal Tanner, of New York, placed Palmer in nomination and this was seconded by Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The candidate who was also favored by Ohio's choice, S. H. Horst, carried the election with a large majority of votes. Captain Palmer was born on Staten Island, March 22, 1842. He has a splendid war record. On September 10, 1861, he enlisted in the 91st New York Volunteers and remained with bis regiment until it was mnstered out July 3, 1865, and took part in all its engagements. At the battle of Five Forks he was seriously injured. Since the war he has been engaged at liis profession, fresco painter and decorator, in Albany, N. Y. The new state capítol has been entirely decorated by Captain Palmer.