County And Vicinity

Charter election of l)pxtfr vülage next Monday. Xinp persons joined tlie M. E. church at Chelsea on probation last Sünday. A new and excellent atlas of Livingston county will soon be published. The Dnndee Ledger is making things lmm and is hustling for sncceSs. Tlie Union. Savings Bank at Manchester lias moved into its new quarters. Tlie new village law requises twentv instead of ten days to gain a residence, as antier the oíd law. Duriug the past year forty-two of tlie Livingston county pioneers have been taken away by death. Rev. J. Hnntington, for a number of years pastor of the Baptist ehurch at Milan, died at his liome in Plymouth, Feb. 23. ihe town board of Dnndee have appointed a commission to extermínate the yellows in peaclies and black knot in pluma. The EnterprLse wou ld like to have some of the capitalista of that village ereet ïsojne new eottag-es tliere this summer. James Hendershott, of Manchester, died Feb. 20, aged a bomt 80 years. He had lived in the vicinity of Manolie.ster since 1838. Mrs. Ajih Oujiningliajn, of Scio village, died Feb. 20. nged 69 years. She had llved m the cotmty .since 1855, and was a native of Ireland. Oeo. Wackenhut, of Ralein, liad his barns and considerable lire stock bu rnod up last Tuesday niglit. The loss ie about $400, iusured in the German Mutual Ins. Oo-. A score of Aan Arbor and Ypsilanti people dined with Mr. and Mis. M. S. Cook last Friday amd celebrated the birthdays of Mrs. Cook aaid Peter Cai-penter of Ypeilaatl, eacli of wham were remembered with a handsome and vahiable birthday gift.- Dexter Leader. , A man may vvear a futí beard for sanitary reasons; he may sliave and wear a smootli face for cleanliness' sake ; but no man shaves a part of his face and cherishes a mustache or goatee for any otlier reason than personal vanity. Sliave smooth or go hairy. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. Sour grapes. The editor of the Sentiuel cannot raise either a goatee or a mustache. - Chelsea Standard. Chas. Cooley has received liis appointinent as postinaster at Iron Creek. Amona the list of ñames he sent in was that of Spike, his bulldog's name, and tilia one it was decided by the ment to use, so the postoffice at Iron Creek will be ealíed Spike. It luis not been decided definitely as to the route, but it s thought that the mail will be brought to Reynold's Corners and the Evans Lake carriers bring it here. - Clinton Local. ïhe editora of the Fenton Independent and Northville Record are vieing with each other in publishing original prescriptions to relieve l hei r readers from pain and sufferiug. Here is the Independen t 's latest: "The Northville Record says that a nutmeg, suspended on a piece of commou string near the breast ïud next to the skin, will afford instant relief from neuralgia. Try it, and if not successful, this one will doit: Suspend yourself by the neck with a good stroug rope, and remain suspended for twenty minutes. Yon will never be troubled with further neuralgic attacks." Died, Wednesday afternoon, Fel. 27, at her home in York township, three miles north of this village, Nancy, wife of Robert Rainey, aged 86 yearg, 11 months and i'4 days. She was boni in Antrim county, Ireland, and carne to America in 1852, settling in New York state. She was there married to Robert Rainey, who survives her. ïliey carne to Michigan about the year 1S58, locating at Macon, Lenawee county, and iu 1SG4 they carne to York township, where they have lived since. She was i member of the York Baptist church, vbere the funeral was held to-day; sernon by Kev. J. Ward Stone, pastor of