Around The County.

At Saline $1.5 per barrel is being paid for winterapplee. The Plymouth Mail is now two years old and prospering. Nellie, wife of Wm. Parsons, died Sept. 8, aged 31 years. A fruit evaporating factory has been established at Saline. D. Nissly of Saline has sliipped a cargo of fall apples already. The Chelsea fair next week Wednesday Thursday and Friday. The Chelsea folks think that the sparrows are decreasing in numbers. Sneak thieves have been raiding houses with open windows at Ypsilanti. The children of school age in Manchester are pot as nunierous this year as. last. -eprice of the Livingston Herald has been raised from 50 to 75 cents per year. Lee & Klingman of Dexter had a píate glass in front of their store broken recently. The colored children increased and the white children decreased at Ypsilanti, according to the school census. At the last meeting of the year 22 pèople ffere receiyed in the Ypsilanti M. E. church on probation, In Livingston county many farmers are building silos in which to preserve feed in green stage for their stock, The high eobool at Dexter ia ♦- ■ inc --■ ' ...acl j loreign studente, about $12 being already paid in by non-residents Dexter Leader: "A number of ou dramatic people are getting themselve in shape to put on a play about the toid dleof nextmonth." C. S. Stanley of Rawsonville was born September 9, 1815, and on his last anni vereary his friends gave him a big re minder of the event. A new hardware and agricultura store has been opened up at Dexter by David Waite, a retired and well-4od farmer of that locality. The editor of lhe Dexter Leader ha been sitting up nights to witness th blooming of moon flowers, and appears to like the job first rate. W. A. Bailey, who for a number o years has been working on the Wayn Review, assumed control and manage ment of the paper last week. Prof. J. M. B. Sill, of the State Nor mal school, conducted the Episcopa service at the opera house, Saline, las Sunday. The Michigan Wheelmen are to mee in Ypeilanti for their annual tourna ment. A road race around the triangle will be had in the afternoon Friday. Richard Cogger says he has sold $5' worth of plums from six trees this sea son, eave several bushels away and the trees hang full vet. Next.- South Lyon Picket. The veterans have been spending their pension money this week. Mos of them made good use of it. but we arO afrilifl thfirfi srp cmnf who Hid not - Leader. Married- Wednesday Sept. llth, 1889' at Howell, by Rev. Jesse Kilpatric-k at the M. E. church, Mr. Arthur W. Bennett, of Green Oak, to Miss Mattie Crescent, of Ann Arbor. Chelsea Herald: "The Chinese Village company will appear at the town hall Sept. 24, together with a great exhibition of Chinese wondersand curiosities. Don't fail to see them." B. J. Appleton, who lived about five miles east of Pinckney, was killed one day last week, by being thrown from his wagon. He was intoxicated and his team ran away from him. School began Monday with R. MacDonald as Principal, Miss Nettie Sayles in the Intermedíate and Miss Ilattie Rhodes in the Primary. A fair attendance is reported.- Stockbridge Sun. Saline Observer : "Prof. Hendershot inform8 us that the number of pupils enrolled in our school is 216, of which 96 are in the primary departments, 89 in the intermedíate and lil in the high school." The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of "accidental death"in the caee of Frank Fisk, of Marión, Livingston county, who was found dead on the road leading to his home. Foul play was suspected. Pinckney Dispatch : " School commenced last Monday morning with a large attendance. The prospecta are good for a larger attendance during the coming yearthan there has been during any previous term. An election to authorize council to bond the city for $50,000 additional to extend the water works system will be held at the council hall, Monday, Sept. 23. Registration board will meet Saturday preceding.- Ypsilantian. A game of base ball between the Pinckney and Dexter nines, on the grounds of the latter, reBulted in a score of 8 to 6 in favor of Dexter, and now Dexter claims the championship of the world. What say the Chelsea boys to that? ' South Lyon Excelsior :" John and Torn Marshall expect to start for Lansing to-morrow, from there they leave for their Kansas homes in a few days. The boys are well pleased with their thrifty and températe state, where, they say prohibition is well protected." Ypsilanti Sentinel: "The old paper mili pump having given out, a new temporary pump has been put in at a a cost of over $1,000. A considerable part of what remains of the river is sent back now, and splattered in the streets to show that we have water works." Saline Observen " Early pedestrians on baturday morning saw a sight in front the Wallace block, which was suggestive of a terrible tragedy, a large pool ot blood being found on the sidewalk The corpse of a cat, a little further down the street, however explained the mvstery." J Ypsilantian: " The Ypsilanti Savines Bank is after Kev. Samuel Earp to whom ït loaned the sum of $0 500 on certain securities which is deemed sufficient. It comnienced suit for pay ment lastlnday which we trust will reveal aome of the mysterious financial operations of the reverend gentleman if it does not put him in limbo." A new school of about 40 pupils was organized Monday In the south store of the opera house block. The pupils are an overflow from the fourth and fifth grades of the other buildings. Miss Cora Monroe. a former gradúate of the high school, was employed as teacher. - Howell Republican. When the engine house was built the tovver was not made high enough for the hose to hang in and several feet has always laid on the floor. The tower is to be raised 10 feet. It will not only be more convenient but will add much to the looks of the squatty-looking building.- South Lyon Picket. The weekly weather erop bulletin issued last Skturday gives the average total rainfall for the past seven days as 0.07 inches. which is 0.70 inches Deiow tne average. Sunshine largely in excess and injurious to crops, 6uch as corn, potatoes and pastures, except in the counties of the Grand Traverse region that received the heavy rainfall of jast week. Seeding has progressed rapidly in the southern counties and some early sown wheat in Washtenawcounty is jjow above ground and growing slowSaline peopie ever lend a helping hand to the unfortunate and aftiicted. During the past week a subscription paper has been circulated and $54 raised to enable Thomas Eccles to procure treatment for a cáncer, which for some months haa been eating its way into his lip. Week before last he visited a renowned cáncer doctor at Adrián, who would guarantee a cure, but who first wanted a deposit of $50 made in his favor- a sum which Mr. E. had not at his disposal, henee the subscription paper. He jsat present un4ei"BDg treatment at Adrián,- Qbserver. The weather ...„na for the past seven days were unfavorable to corn and potatoes on account of dryness, but the local and general rains of the latter part of the week have gone far to improve these crops, while the pastures have been greatly improved by rain. Corn, potatoes and pastures have probably been reduced in yield on account of the recent drought, and somo of the corn in the southeast portion of the state is being cut. The rains have put the ground in condition for fall seeding, . and the plowing and seeding will now progresa rapidly. - Belleville Enterprise. Ypsilanti Sentinel: So far as we have heard the free schoolbook law was voted down by a large majority wherever a vote was taken. As the law has not been generally published it is probable that in raany districts in was not noticed. We do not know what demand there was for it before the legislature, but it was certainly received with very little favor by the peuple. In Saline the question was voted down by a large majority. In Manchester by some 8 or 9 to 80; in the Willis district, 24 to nothing; at Dentón by a large majority; in short it looks as i f this part of the more than six month's work of the law makers is effectually repudiated. During the past week business prospects have been looking up in Dexter to the extent that the man who said the town was dead has packed his grip and gone over to Pinckney to hate himself to death. True, we are not the most lively set of people on earth, but the statement that we are " clean dead" can not be qualified. Among the new business houses we record a new Hardware store, tailor shop and meat and produce market, with a good prospect of othere which we cannot at this writing make public. The public is glad to welcome you, gentlemen, and if there are more who desire to embark in trade here,inbehalf of the public we say come