County And Vicinity

A box social ab I'.. Ku'hl's, Shetron, eeently claared íi $10 Mil. .T. I!. Oriic te foreman ot the ncw bOse ompiniy formed fit Chelsca. The Jj. C. B. ñire tf give an exhiition soon at the Lima town hall. Thpre were 179 coaples mnrried n TJvtogston coimty during IKíMí. Charles Fullpv, who üved at Willis-, diod Tlmrsday lasf, aged SO years. The youniï peoplc of Lima are moylnsr the ska ilnií and slelgh ríding. Mano hes tor lias a pond that is oovered with a coat 10 luches thic.k. Tlif average farmer is now haulirag wood for eummer's use, or logs to th mili. The Good Templars of Dexter liare leased the G. A. U. Hall for their meetings. Ma nchpster's schools celebrated Mlchlgian'8 birthday Ín right roya] ffood shape. The great ice houses at Zukey and Islam! Irakés, Hamburg Junction, are now being filled. The revival meetings at Chelsea are daling a good work, and many converts are beiirag secured. The Chequamegion orchestra of Ann Arhor wlH furntsh the music for the Itexter Maccabee ball Feb. 19. It Is stated that W111 Drake wiH return before long and take charge of hls mother's farm tai Sylran. The WUllng Wwkers Society of Dexter, -wlll be entertalned at the home of Mrs. Jay Smlbh to-day. It was so cold In Manchester that K froze up Bro. Blosser's news items and he Tirites red hot ones, too ! Miss Anna Doane of Dexter vlUage, Ís attemdimg the State Ncwmal School at Ypsilantl for the balance of the year. There wlll be a box social at Herman Ortbring's 5n Freedom, on FrlIay erenimg, Feb. 5, for the beneíH of Rt. John's churcli. Mts. Belle Cnoarkln has been appototed to the vacancy ln ttie Dexter schools caused by the reslgnation of Mfes Myrta Bostwick. Arthnr Scoffleld, of Superior, has filed a bilí for divorce agatost hls ■n-ífe, Jemile Sooffield, charglng her ■wlth desertion and adultery. rossrs. B. J. Howlett, Geo. Staffan and Jul'ius Klein were initiated into the mysteries of the Blks at Ann Arbor, Thursday last.- Clielsea Standard. On the ooldest night of the recent oold spell, a lot of Manchesterites went to the home of Air. and Mrs. Joslah Sloat, Sharon,. and gave them a jolly house wann-ing. Those who have subscrilbed to the Chelsea Soldlers' Moriiiment fund are requested to leave the same witii J. A. Palmer as eoon as possible. Settlement must be completed by MJay lst. : , M. Topplng of Plaimfleld has just sold twenty-one hoprs. Ninteen of tbem tlpped the scales at 7,000 lbs. and tbe entlre lot brought the sum of $263. They were fed almost entlrcly on refuse beaiis. Abou 30 ödd Fellows with theix ■n-ivei 'and families from Dexter, went to Öenry Koch's elegant farm home, in Beto, just east of the village last Frtday night, and had one of the finest times of their lives. The Drovers' Journal says foreign borse buyers are maktng thelr appearance at Chicago lm large numbers wnid there is no doubt that our really owl horsee will meet a strong and growing demand from abroad. The sohaol district of Itexter village iseued $12,000 worth of bands Frlday, to take np bonds issued in '87 to pay for the building of the new school building. These bonds wlll all be pald inslde of ten years. The Dexter Diivtng Club has arranged for a serles of blanket races on the mili prvnd in that place, the first of which was on the program for yesterday. Horses ïrom Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Chelsea compete in the spart. , The Editor of the Pin'ckney Dlspatch is still unable to be around and we are afrald that if in, does not soon get better he wlll forget how to get out a paper. - Pinckney Diepatch. That editor knows how to Becure a g.ood subetltute anyway. Li. C. Palmer has reslgned the office of express agen at Howell to take charge of the basket works at this place. Preparatlons are belmg made to run the works full blast thls season and with the changes that have been made in machlnery it Is expected that the output wlll be larger than ever. - Dexter Leader. Saline will come into the county conventlon this eprlng wlth a solld delegation, asking the nomination ol Prof. We N. IJster as county commissloner of schools.- Ann Arbor Courier. Mr. Lister is a non of Mrs. R. J. Gardner, of Plaimfleld, and hifi eroiis frlends over there would rejoice o hear not omly of hi nomination, but of Iris electioja also.- Stockbridge Snn. Grapes should be trimmed mow, in February, white the weather is oold. If they are trimmed in the spring they wlll bleed ; that is, sap will rua from the eaids of the shoots that have been ent and tie vtoes wiU be weakened. Ii ctit now these ends will be healed by the time sap begins to flow, and the liability of damage wlll be reduced. The Enterprise tries to smudge us wit.h this item : "John Staebler, or Johnny, smoker,' as lie Is often called, feil into the pond while working1 on the ice Tuesd'ay. John Senger, who was next. to him, caught him by the coat and hauled him out so quickly tfiuat Johnmy's pipe ,vas not exülnigTiiehed, and be kept o-n enaoktag as th'ough nothing had aappened." The Dexter Leaider is nncé more alvoeating the question of opening ■svhiat is known as the south vond, through to the territorial road, a distance of one müle, thus sa-ing the farmers who live beyond just four miles in oomtog and going to the willage. It ís a desirable thing for Dcxter's business interests, as it wotild cali many to the place who now go elsewhere. It is thought that the raad could be made at triflIng expense. All ït needs is a leader to take holl and push it. The riichest man in the world is, or ought to be 'Bro. Garitón, of the Grass lake News. Thirty years ago hie let a íarmer liave eight chickens to doublé every year. The other day be thought it was about tilme to have a settlement. The matter was figured up and it was found that Carleton had 17,179,867,264 chickens coming, and he saya taey are warth at least 30 cents each. Figure this up aJid Carleton owns th whole United States, or $5,153,960,179.20. Carleton says he has four living witnesses Ho the transactkai, and all he lias to d(o now is to collect the debt. Chas. H. Greeaman writes to the Ypsilanti Commercial, from Whittaker, this : '-It is also to be hoped that the next time the people of Augusta have occasion to have a man, or men, or touglis, arrested, they willl take them somewhere besides Ann Arbor. There have been tvvo jury trials in Justice Fond's eourt, and on both occasions they have disagreed, and iï the thtag is continued they will keep oa diisagreeing until 11 the creatures that infest the vicinity oí' a Justice's Oourt can have a whack at the case at the expense of the county." Theou'gh Rain and Mud. Grner.al Horacc Porter draws the following picture of the war time expcitcTices in lii.s ''CampiaigElng wlth G-rant," in the February Century . Th" continu; 1 rali wis mos' dl heartpnin-sy. On May 16 G-rant wro+e to BDalieck : "Wc have had five days' ■ï.Lmmst constant rain, without any prospect yet of its clearing iip. Tlie roada haye now bocnme so Impassalble. that ambulances with wounded mon can no íorager run befcween heve and Fredericksburg. All oöenetve operationa must aecessarily cease until we can. have twenty-four hours of dry weather. The army Is In tlie best of spirits, and feels the' greatest confidence in ultímate success. The element alone have suspended bostiiltles." In tilie "Wildemess the army had to struggle against flre and dust ; now It hiad to coTitend wlth rain and mud. An ordlnary rain, lasting for a day or two, does not embarrass troops ; bnt whien the storm continúes for a week it bpcomes one of the most serious obstacles In a campaign. The men can secure no proper shelter and m comfortable rest ; their clothlng has no chance to dry ; and a tramp of a lew miles througïi the tenacious mud requires as much exertion as an ordlmary day's mare!'. Tonts become aaturatd and wedghted wlth water, and draft animáis have increased load-s, and heavier roads over whlch bo hanl them. Dry wood can not be found ; cooklng becomes dlfficult; the .men's spirits are effected by the loom, and even the most bouyant matures become üisheartened. It ia much worse ïor an army actlng on the offensive, for ft has more marchinjE? to do, belng compelled to move princtpally on ext-erlor Unes. Staff-offieers had to labor day and night durlmg the present campalgn Iin makfng reconnaissances and in cross-questionlng natives, deserters, prlsoners, and fugltive negroes, in an attempt to secure data for the purpose of constructing local maps from day to day. As soon as these were fintehed they were distributed to the eubordfaiate commander Greal confusión aróse from the dupllcatiom of the names of houses ani farms. Either ïamily names were particularly scarce In that section o the state, or else the people were united by close tles of relationship and country cousins abounded to a obnfU'Stng extent. Po many farmhouses in some of the localities were occupled by people of the same name thnt. when certaln farms were desk; nated in orders, serious errors arose at times from mistaklng one place for another. 9 Coffee Drunkards. Coffee drunkenness Is one of the latest dangers which doctors abroad are ralsimg their voices against. Dr Mendel, of Berlin, has pubÜBhed a cllnlcal study, which is the most thorough yet made, as he had a com muindty bf coffee drinkers under his oanistant observatdon, the worklng women In and abont Essen. He found many of these women consnmed over a ponnd of coffee a week The leadlng eymptoms of the Hls that afflicted them were pro fownd depresslon of spirits and frequent headaches, with insomnia. strong doee of coffee would relieve tbem for a time, then the ailment would return. The muscles became weak and trembling, and the hands trembled when at rest. The vic tims suffered so seriously they dared mot abandon the drdnking of coffee for fear of death.- New Crusade. At North Yamhill, Ore., the Labo Exchange will buy 500 cords of wood and set the members at work cutting it up for stoves. Sheepmen of Gillman County, Ore. are appealing to tlie Legislature for th opening of the Cascade Reserve fo grazing purposes.