County And Vicinity

The Plymouth fair last week was a big success. Win. Heller died at his home in Saline, Sept. 26, aged 66 years. The Saline base ball club brags about beating the Dixboro club 13 to 12. At Chelsea arrangements for the celebration of Columbus Day are nearly Gomplete. There is to be a W. C. T. U. convention at Manchester on the 6th and 7th of October. Mrs. Pearson, of Stony Creek, was quite seriously injured recently by falling down stairs. Perry F. Trowbridge has been appointed instructor in the Normal in Prof. Putnam's department. H. L. Cope is president and Harry Kies is secretarv of a newly organized athletic club at Manchester. A new 800-pound-bell was placed in the tower of the Lutheran church here this week. - Chelsea Standard. The Follett house at Ypsilanti has been rented by New York parties and will be opened again in a few weeks. The evergreen trees in the high school yard at Ypsilanti have been cut down, making the school rooms niuch lighter. The village council of Stockbridge tax pool tables $100 per year and require thein to quit business at 8 o'clock p. m. Mis. Polly Tallman has removed from Colorado to Chelsea, recently. There are some pretty tall boys up at Chelsea, too. Supervisor Burtless, of Manchester, once had a gold watch, but it is now lost, strayed or stolen, he don't know which. It is said that the Stockbridge girls are so modest that they won't walk across a potatoe field because the potatoes have eyes. - Plymouth Mail. We think it quite impossible for any stranger to come into our pleasant village without being quite favorably impressed with the enterprise of its inhabitants from the neat and tidy appearance of so many of its newly painted buildings, newly repaired walks and the good condition of its streete and thoroughfares.- Chelsea Herald. Supt. Whitney, of Ypsilanti, has given j notice that all" smoking, dice shaking and gambling "on or off the school grounds, before orafter school," by the pupils must be stopped, and the Gommercial says that the order ought to be i rigidly enïorced. In driving into Saline last Friday the lirst thing that attraoted our attention was their beautiful school building, trom the top of whioh waved proudly in the morning breeze, thatflagof ill flags, the glorious stripes and stars. Long may it wave ! - Enterprise. Chas. Chamberlain of Webster left on Monday morning for New York City wliere 'he will continue his studies in art. Excellent results may be expected from the cultivation of the unusual ability in that line Which Charles possesses. He began his work in an art school in Detroit last year.- Dexter News. The three little children of Mr. Ed. Hawkins, of Superior township, -vvere playing on the porch of the house when a íattlesnake made his appearance among tliem and struck the baby, of lo raonths, on the miildle finger. The child ivas taken to Dr. Lemen, of this city, and treated, and is now pronounced out of danger.- Ypsilanti Commercial. The G. A. R. company returned this week ladened with relies from the deadly battle fields of the south, among them was a magnolia stalk picked from the garden of Mrs. Van Lien, at Richmond, Va. Mrs. Van Lieu is the lady worthy of a life pension for liberating several of the union boys from Libby prison by secreting them in her cellar till they could make their escape.- South Lyon Excelsior. The people who have putforth an address in behalf of the Jeff Davis movement, speak of the " ineffable valor and devotion of the most heroic soldier the world ever saw," all of whioh sounds very nice. J. A. Palmer, of this place, who had Davis under guard the first twenty-four hours after he was captured while trying to get away dressed in "petticoats," does not speak very highly of his "ineffable valor." - Chelsea Standard. A strange and fatal accident occarred at the home of Mr. and Mr.. David Due, on Prospect street last Saturday evening, by which their little son, aged about one year, lost his life. The parents were absent for the evening, and the oldest child, in whose care the other children were left, carried the water pail into the sleeping room and set it in front of the bed in which the baby was. In some way the little one feil out of bed and struck head first in this pail of water, and was drowned.- Ypsilanti Commercial. And it carne to pass that a certain widower took a certain widow out for a ride, and when they were seated ready for a start the said widower laid his pipe down in the bottom of the buggy. Well, there was some fire in said pipe, and after about a mile had been traversed the lady thought things were getting pretty warm about her feet, and upon investigation they found that said pipe had set fire to the lady's dress, and it was so badly burned that it was necessary to return for repairs. Put your pipe in your pocket next time, John. - Milan Leader. Kimble & Schmid have torn down the old foundry building. The machine shop will be dismantled, a new foundation put under it and new siding and a new roof put on. They talk now of extending the flume through the building and by setting the wheel at the east end of the building expect to get two or three feet more fall than they liad before, thus making a very fine water power of it. They have now absolute control of the power and have begun drawing material for the dam. lt would not be a bad scheme for our people to give tliem a lift.- Manchester Enterprise. The Sylvan Center postoffice Washtenaw, has "busted," for want of business. Liabilities: Ten per cent. of salary, for republican campaign purposes and responsibility for carrying the town, under penalty of dismissal. Assetts: One stove leveled up with brieks (account of broken leg;) box of sawdust with nicotine discoloration ; printed sign, "Don't spit on the stove." Besides the foregoing are some withered expectations of future greatness, never to be realized, and a dozen blank sheets for making out quarterly reports. The postinaster thinks hc will engage in some active business. - Adrián Press. G. W. Hitchcock, drayman, picked up a sealed telegraph envelope from the floor of the waiting-room of the depot one day last week, on which there was no address, and on opening it was astonished to find two $20 bilis. He "laid low" and awaited developments. Tlie next dav agent Debenham conflded to him that he had lost $40 and was in a very discouraged mood. He had searched the office higti and low, ransacked his house from cellar to garret, made a raid on the bank- but without avail. The last joke had been on Hitchcoek- the mud turtle affair - so Hitchcock let Deb sweat awhile and then told him about his find. Deb was so tickled they carne near having a onesided hugging match right then and there. As Debenham had been so rattled over his loss that he could eat no dinner, and Hitchcock had been so busy he had had no time to get his dinñer, they both adjourned to Stevens' hotel and dined at the aaent's expense. They're even now.-