County And Vicinity

The Brighton fair occnrs Oct. 3d to 6th inclusive. The niimber of i-hildren of school age in Manchester is 414. There was an enrollment of 142 pupils at the Bo. Lyon schools the iirst day. M. Boyd, of Cheteea, is to build a tew briek store adjoining his present one next spring. Dr. John Lee has been elected trustee of the Dexter school district to MK-eeed himself. i The Record very sensibly advisee its merchante to close their stores at 8 o'clock p. m. Phelps & Ball, of Dexter, are to bring their trotting stallion Regalia to the coun-ty fair. The Portage Lake Club of Dexter, rare eoon to have a sail boat, built foy Jay Peatt, oí Dexter. By a -vote of 148 yes to 49 no, the ('lintonites decided to have electrlc lights in their village. Sensible. A misstoto festival wlll be held next Suraday in the Germán Lutheran church at Dexter.- Daily Times. Piety Hill, Dexter ralsed a 10 1-2 foot gun flower tliis year, with 52 blossomg aml any quantity of buds. The Y. P. S. C. E. will give a social at the htome of W. J. Knapp, at Chelsea, Friday evening. September 16th. Mrs. Hall, oí East Putnam, near Pinckney, is 90 years old, but more kittenish now than half tlie girlrt !oí the day. Tlie editor of the So. Lyon Picket is preparing for cold weather. He wants sotme ono to bring iiiin 100 corda of wood on subscription. The largest clip of this year's wool was shorn by I. R. Hunter. It weiffhel 4,293 poundiS. and was the product of 573 shcop.- So. Lyon Picket. Edward Cole, of Ann Arbor, who made a balloon ascensión at Jackson IMbnday aftemoon, ca me down on John Allen fai-tu in Lima.- Clielsea Herald. The trea.surcr of the Dexter school district reported receipts for the year ending Sept. lst. $4,ö3C.8.3. Expenditures, $4,168.79, leaving a balance 5f $468.04. The expenses of the Manchester ehools laet year was $4,001.66, and the balance on hand is $1,585.13. Next year's expenses are estimated at $5,713.63. Oards are out announcing the marriage of Will Clark, of Lyndon, to Miss Alice Bortle, of Saline, to take place at the latter place, Wednesday, Scptemlier 14th.--ClH'lsea Standard. The Ann Arlmr CouHer, The New York Tribune. One year. $1. In adxance. There te anl to be just one lone boy iln the Ypsilnnti high school Junior class. Wonder if be will be troubled any by the many briglit eyes lcTonging to the other members of the clase? TVe are pleascd to guate tliat Mrs. 'lias. Oon, who lias beca unable to -p'ak aloud for the past four montliH, in eonsequence o( a tlu-oat trooble, refrained her voice very middenly on Monday morniiiir la.st while peaking to a friend.- Enterprise. A sewing machine aent tied his horse in one of the main gtreets of IMnikney one day last week, and went awayfora few momento. The pony became frigbtened at the death-like btlllneaa with wliicli he was envelnp■ed, brchk' his tie strap and ran ieven miles liefore he was captured.- Dexter News. Parents whose cliildren expeet to attend school this year hould recogim" the advantn;e of havlng them begin with the school year. It plac os on an equal standing with their class-mates at the beginning of the p-ear and avoidis a great deal o trouble (er both pupil and teachers - Dexter News. School oponed Monday with a g-ood ly number of sch'olars in attenflance We are ini'ormvd that a larger num ber of foreign pupils are enrolled tliih year than ever before in the history uf the school, and the number wil probably be inereased as the lame o this school contiimes to extend throughout the country.- Chelsea Standard. If some of our bicycle riders who doublé themselves up like jack knivos when they ride, knew how extrémela ridiculous thèy appeared they would brace up. It will do well enough ii a race, but tor pteasure riding, not ooly Is it ueeleas and unprepossessing but, judged from a physical stand point, must certainly be detrinienta to healtli.- Northville Record. The Ypsilanti public schools open ed Monday, nearly all the rooms be ing filled to overflowinig. The high echool has many new stndents and fs flooirishing finely. The high school room' has been quite nicely decorated durinjï tbe summer. The resignaties of Misri (Iray, who bas been connected: with the high school for 13 years. i much regrett?d. Miss Catharine Sumner, of Toledo, talces her piare. The followin.ir are the democratie delégate from Scio township: County convention- John Costello, Patrick Fitzsimmons, Geo. W. Pratt. Chris. Iirenner, Edward Jlooi-e. Michael mer, Wm, 1!usk, Pntrk-k Tuomey. Reprc-cntative eonvention- David Almcndinger, Emanuel Jedele, Wm. Aprill, .T. V. X. (iregory, Fred Laubengayer, Geo. E. Moore, Charles Stebblns, Dan E. Hoey. Candidutes wïll please take notice. "Almost very farmer boy and girl is ntoop-fihoulUered," says a Cincinnati physician. "I have of ten been at a loss to account for it, but a few days ago. a solution of why it i.s truck me. Farmers' children all weer broad-brimmed straw Iiats in eoummer, and as thee blow off easily they are continually holding their heads down so as to brlng the wind directly on the top. This position of the head becomes habitual, and jro where you will you wlll eee farmers' children holding thelr heads eo." While you are cussiny your neighbor and swearing that an angil could mot get alonig with him, jirat stop for a moment and consider that you you a, long ways from being an angel; seeond, that he may have equally valid reasionB for disliking you; third, that it takes two to get up a quarrel; iourth, that every spat that you have with your neighbior lowers you In the esteem of the commuDlty; fifth, that you are making a blamed fooi of yourself and ought to 18 sent to the idiotie asylum for treatment.- ('helson Herald. Fortune is indeed a fickle froildese. But a short time previous to his dèath it will be remembered that the Late laaac Burponghs, of Ham7urR, became heir to about $90,000 throuigh the death ot a brother. Soon after this Mr. Burrougfts was taken siek and betere he was allowed to enoy hifi fortune, he too died. The irst installraent of the money m-iv■d at Hamburp mi the very night that Jlr. Burroughs died. The estnte is now in the probate court here, the i'irst hearhip: bcing liold last Friday.- livingston Democrat. Forty-eight houre paissed after the burninK of Frank Siieffold's building, iat week, belore Mr. Sheffold became ware of t.he faet, and then only vhen lie beheld the ashes wlth his o-wn eyes. Tlie building was nicely 'inishod and fuxnlehed as a home. The oks was an execeedingly heavy one, as it wias the los of not only a omiortable home, but a nicely arranged wwrkshop besidee, with a set of tools vhioh were the accumulation of eai. Sixty dollars in money was a-lso burned, leaving Mr. Slieffold euitled to, and we believe he has. the ympathy of all.- Sir- The question has been asked hrough the New York World, "W'hat ïas President Harrison done íor the negro'.'" I desire to answer through our esteemed journal that President Harrison mul proved himself to be lie negrro's eteadtaet and unfalterlng rieml. When the Blair l)ill was beore the senate President Harrison vas eager for it to pass that he might ivake It a law by hle Blgnature. When he great flght was made to paeg the federa] Electlow bill to give the oeg■o protectlon In the so-u.th. the demoratio party iought it with all the self prewervation and with all the energy of dispair. buit it made no difei-e-nce t'o President Hnri-ison. He aerer ilinclKid. He Bfetfod at the end vhere he stood In the beginning, enhuBlaetloally for the protectlon of every citizen ol the nation. Demorats of the north Kaid if the presilent did not recede from liis gteadaet positiou he wouJd not carry a Ingle northern state; demoerats of he KOuth threatened to retalíate by ftfustng to appropriate money for he World'a Pair. He stood apon the gi-onnd he had taben, and nnfurled he republican baiiner there, and callel on all loyal republicana to sustain ïim. In tli" matter of apportionments to office this administration had dont more tor the negro than any of it predeee8ors. We never had a eo' red auditor of the treaaury nor í colored auditor of the general lam office uut il they obtaiued oifice linde President Harrtson. Nor have fcher ever betore been so many colored mei holding oiflce as now. lleíore lie lx ceme president, General Harrison pro fesed an earnest deeire to ee jus tice done the negro, and since he ha. been president, in public and in priva t by liis oourse ou the great measures that tile negro voter.s were most in terested in, as ty the liberal recognl tion he lias jivcn us. Benjamin Har rleon has won the esteein and a higl place in the warm hearts of a people who are naturally republican and wlw are solidly and enthusiastically 90 for Indlana'e gifted son. Uenjamin Harrison, and New York's diplomat, Whitelaw field, in the mighty strugele of '92.