Around The County

David S. Humphrev, of Lodi, died on Monday at the age of 45. There will be an examination ol teachers in Ypsilanti March 29. Andrew Lindenschmidt, of Saline, was made a citizen of the U. S. yesterday in the circuit court. John H. Boynton, M.D., a doctor of the eclectic persuasión, has settled at Lima Center to practice medicine, coming from Jackson, Mich. He ia a gradúate of the Physio-Medical College, in Cincinnati, O. Saline elected officers last week as follows: President, Samuel D. Van Duzer ; trustees (two years), Frank E. Jones, Martin F. King, AVilliam M. Brainarc!; trustees (one year to fill vacancy), Anson Harmon, Lewis Sturro; clerk, Lyman Kilbv; assessor, Myron Webb ; treasurer, Orton M. Kelsey ; Street commissioner, Major D. Wallace ; constable, Fredrick Jerry. In the Manchester charter election, last week, there was a square flght between the " Law and Order " and the " Union " tickets, and the " Law and Order " people were beaten. The following were elected: Amariah Conklin, president : George Nisle, Joseph Kraemer, John Wisner, trustees; Frederick O. Martty, clerk ; George J. Hseussler, treasurer; Franklin M. Sherwood, street commissioner ; N. S. Cae, assessor ; George Miller, constable. The auction sale of Wm, Howard's live stock and perishable property, held at Milan Tuesday, brought $436.50, exclusive of eight tons of hay, which brought $5.50 per ton, and 400 pounds of corn sold at nineteen cents per bushel. The stock went exceedingly cheap. For instance, a Jersey cal f, which Mrs. Howard a short time ago bought for $50, sold for $8, and a pure blooded Durham buil was thoughtto be worth only $16, and the remainder of the stock ín proportion. The sale was held by order of the court in the matter of the Electric Sugar Company vs. Wm. E. Howard. Crop Report. In the southern counties where eighty-five per cent of the wheat crop of the State is grown, the ground was not suffioiently well covered with snow during February to afford entire protection to the wheat plant. The higher and more exposed parts of the fields . were generally bare. Fortythree per . cent of the reports from this section show that the ground was not well covered, and thirty-one per cent show that the plant was injured. The average depth of snow on March 1 in the southern counties was three and two-tenths inches, but by the third the show was nearly all gone. In Lunsing there has been a "freeze " and a "thaw" every day except one from the first to the tenih of the month. In the central and northern counties the wheat plant has been so well protected that it is uninjured. Reports have been received of the quantity of wheat marketed by farmers during the month of February at 454 elevators and milis. Of these 385 are in the southern four tiers of counties, which is 65 per cent, and 53 are in the fifth and sixth tiers of counties, which is 46 per cent of the whole number in these sections respectively. The total number of bushe's reported marketed is 1,123,028, as compared with 467,507 bush Is reported marketed at the same number of elevators and milis in January. Of the total amount reported marketed in February 308,042 bushel? were marketed in the first or southera tier of counties; 267,500 bushels in the second tier: 205,806 bushels in the third tier ; 271,190 bushels in the fourth tier ;- (55,663 bushels in the fifth and sixth tiers; and 4,827 bushels in the northern counties. At 93 elevators and milis, or 20 per cent of the whole number from which reports have been received, there was no wheat marketed during the month. The total number of bushels of wheat reported marketed in the seven months August-February is 12,286,265, or about 52 per cent of the crop of 1888. The number of bushels reported marketed in the same months of 1887-8 was 8,848,992, or 39 per cent of the crop of 1887. In 18S7-8 reports were received from about 50 per cent, and in 1888 9 from about 76 per cent of the elevators and milis in the southern fonr tiers of counties. Saline. Arthur Rouse was home over Sunday. Mrs. Eugene Helber is on the sick list. Ed. Berdan, of Chicago, is home on a yisit. What has become of our Musical Union? Miss Vesta Mills is home from Ann Arbor. Frank Clark has recovered from bis recent illness. A. K. Rouse and wife were Ann Arbor visitors, Saturday. Ed. Isbell and wife, of Jackson, visited their parents, last Friday. Mrs. J. Ottmar died very suddenly on Monday morning, it is supposed, of rheumatism of the heart. Miss Katie Wilsey, of Lansing, is spending a short time with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Benton, of Lodi Plains. Milan. The M. E. church is nearing coinpletion. The village was full of people on Tuesday after the Howard sheriff sale. Shade trees - one at least, a foot in diameter - have been moved ín Milan I to get them nearer the proper line. In a case instituted here against parties for running gamblinghells.the marshal withdrew the complaints upon the arrested party agreeing to behave hiinself. In a former case the marshal found much fault with prosecuting attorney for not pushine the matter as he thought he should. When the marshal made the arrest he claiined to have sufficient evidence to convict. Why then did he withdraw the complaint upon condition that the arrested party pay the costs? If all rumore are true the gang could do this and have a good boodle left. If this is the parting salute, of what good isa tem perance official? It has grown to be a common saying in Milan that crimináis surrounded by the false garb of respectability go scot free, while those with the liquor habit fastened upon them are salted and their families, who at best are but poorly L provided for, are robbed by fine money 1 under the plea of vindicating the law. Dexler. Mrs. Eagen and little daughter were thrown from their carriage, on Tuesday morning, near the depot, and their horse took the carriage on doublé quick time up town. But little damage was done yet it waa a narrow escape. Nioholas VanRiper has sold his house and lot in Fowlerville, and will move back to his old township of Webster in the early summer. Nicholas pro poses to go into a brand-new house, anc Dan Sackett and Henry Booth propose it shall be a good one, as they are do ing the work. Chelsea. Wm. R. Purchase has gone to Ann Arbor to reside. Miss Nettie Hoover is setting type in the Standard office. Wm. Emmert will issue the first num berofthe Chelsea Standard toinorrow C.H.Kempf has been afflicted severe1)- with rheumatism, but is now improving. Dr. Slrangways, with wife and child will board with Mrs. H. Winans, on Main-st. Mrs. Henry Lammes, of Waterloo near Francisco, died last week Thurs day, aged 65 years. Mrs. M. J. Noyes has gone to New Haven on account of the severe illness of her sister, Mrs. Harriet Nye. Geo. Foster has left the Keush house on Summit-st., and moved into W. R Purchase's house on Orchard-st. The Catholics celebrated St. Patrick's day at the town hall last Monday evening. The program consisted of severa songs and au address by Rev. A. McKeon, D. D., of Canada. Three acres of the old Doe. Downer place have been added to the old Chelsea cemetery plat ; and the Catholics have purchased seven acres more of the same farm for the same purpose. G. J. Crowell and E. L. Negus attended the department encampment o] the G. A. R. last week at Bay City, and Mr. Negus was chosen delégate to the national encampment, that meets at Milwaukee next September. "It never raina but it pours." For about a year past Chelsea has had only two physiciaii8, but within the past two weeks four new ones have come totown. All right; Chelsea is ready for them. Ten acres have.recently been added to her cemetery. Lodl. Ed. Hummel is again running his saw mili. Mr and Mrs. Fred Markins and Miss Perry visited Washington during the inauguration. Their loss by fire last Thursday did not prevent Mr. and Mrs. JamesStevens from giving a very elegant reception to a few friends on Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. David Van Gieson, whose pleasant home was destroyed by fire last week, are comfortably settled in a tenant house on the farm. Pittsfirld. Mrs. Miles West, of Detroit, was the guest of Mrs. Henry DePue this week. H. Moses will have an auction sale of farm property next Wednesday orThursday. The Chelsea well drivers afterdriving 208 feet for G. L. Warner, abandoned the job. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore, of Mooreville, spent last Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sperry. The most cordial congratulations of Mr. and Mrs. Henry DePue are extended to the fifty or more friends who so successfully and happily surprised them on Tuesday evening last. Harry Roper, who has been employed by the Mills brothers three years ; John Mair, who has been during the past year with Henry DePue, and Wm. Tayïor and Engene Sticklemayo, started Monday last for Portland, Oregon. Wbilmore I.ake. Pat. Grogan will build a new house. The ice is disappearing from the lake very rapidly. The winter term of school will close on Friday of next week. Fred S. Homer attended a hop at Plymouth last Friday evening. A social in the interests of the M. E. church at H. Spiegelberg's, tomorrow evening. The lake is unusually low this week, and unless we have some very heavy rains it will be considerably lower in a few monthp. V. R. Stiles, operator, has severed his connection with the T. & A. A. at Howell junction, and will "strike out" for Portland, Ore., in a few weeks. Rey. R D. Robinson preached a very striking sermón to the young ladies last Sunday evening, and will talk tg the young people about their reading, next Sabbatfa. A young man doing business here sella "tonic" and is arrested and fined over and over again. But a high-toned saloonkeeper from Ann Arbor can come here on big days and sell the clear old 'be joyful" so freely that our streets are adorned with disgraceful fights, and several persons look as though they had been started through sausage grinders and then pulled out. Of course this is all right. The big law-breakers cannot be detected, but the little ones must suffer. Serve them all alike. Webster. Frank Lomas visited friends in Jackson last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. II. Scadin will return to Benzonia, where Mr. Scadin has a posilion in a store. Mr. Burnham, who has been sick for about three nionths, is slowly iuaprovng, but is yet unable to be around the bouse. The Y. P. S. C. E. will giva a augar social at the residence of Rev. G. E. Lincoln, next Wednesday evening, March 27. The Farmers' club will give a "public" at the Congregationalchuich Saturiay eveuing. Amongtheexercisea will oe'a lecture by Hon. Wm. Ball. Emcry. Mísr Carrie Renwick was in town saturday. Church next Sunday at 10:30 a. m. instead of 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Watkins and daughter Belle, spent Sunday at Geo. Pfeifle's. A. Martin, of New Boston, was the ;uest of H. W. Robinson Saturday and lunday. Tpsllnntl. Prof. R. W. Putnam to occupy the Wilson house on Cross-at. Hon. E. P. Allen and wife returned Trom Washington, Saturday. The Normal lecture course ended with a sacred cantata given by the Normal choir assisted by the Sappho club and Detroit talent. It is rumored that Prof. Pease and family will take up a residence in Detroit, Frank Showerman has purchaaed the Gibson Smith property on ilamilton-st, for $850. Ypsilanti hasanew military company, called the Independent Rifles, with 30 members. Cleary's Business College cleared about $25 from the Nye & Riley entertainment. Mrs. Edwin Uhl, of Grand Rapid, has been here looking over the Follett property, which will soon be occupied by David Uhl as soon as he leaves his farm. The Women's Foreign missionary society of the Presbyterian church held their 20th annual meeting last Friday, p. in. A thank offering of $86 was received. Miss Weed read a very interesting report of their twenty years' work. In all about $9,000 has been raised during these years.