Around The County

Dexter baa a scarlet fever scare on hand. The Germán school at Chelsea opened last week. A Sunriay school convention is to be held at South I.yon Friday and Saturday. The Ypsilanli Light Guarda now give a hop at their armory each Friday evening. The bnckyard at Howell has been closed and the machinery removed, lt didn't payPinckney now has a homoeopathic phyeician, E. F. Shaw of Dauville having located there. Jobn Kisby and family have removed from Salem to Hamburg, where he will engage in the manufacture of wagons. W Wallace of Saline now carries his riíhtarm in a elinthe resultof having it RtniRk bv a horae that he was leading. The Michigan Central company is making a number of fine iinprovements around the depot grounds at Ypsilauti. The Rcholars of the Dexter schools have raised $19 for the pur pose of floating the stars and strips above the school house. 8. N. Whitcomb, one of the old pioneen of Pinckney, was found dead in bed on the morning of Oct. 80, aged 85 year&. The Saline Workingmen's Society is honnd lo protect ite property. A six foot fence is to be built around the park which it owns. , The masonry for Üie tower at the Ypsilanti water works has been coinpleted, and the steel tank is now being placed in position. The ladies of the Methodist church at Chelsea are to give a musical and literary entertainment at the town hall to-morrow evening. The social event of last week at Saline was the marriage of S. W. Chandler and Mrs. Ida Donaldson, which occurred ou Wednesday evening. The Dundee band is erecting : a "Temple of Music" in tl. at place. The location secured isagood one- bet ween a mili and a cheese factory. The mili at Brighton is recemng a namber of m proveniente, the most important one being the addition of a new machine for steaming wheat. The Germán school at Saline opened Monday, nd owing to the increased number of scholars, a lady teacher has been employed to assist Rev. Lederer. Marshall J. Pease of Ypsilanti has accepted an offer of $10 per Sunday to hll the position of tenor in the choir at the Episcopal church in Orane, t. J. The walls for the new Livingston county court house at Howell are neary finished, and the outline of the building shows a handsome edifice. John C Stedman, one of the oldest pioneersofünadilla, died iu that vilfage.Oct. 21,aged nearly 84 yeare He hd lived in that townshipsince 1844. The supervisors of Monroe county hve become eatisfied that the buijding bow used for county jail w a dilapidated and unsafe concern, and are making arrangement to replace it witn a nw one. "Cold weather is eoming on and we would like that wood that you promised m on Bubscription," is the way the Belleville Enterprise puts it to its euboribers. Mrs. George Kosier died of typhoid fe?er at Dexter, Oct. 30, aged 60 years. 8he was well known about the county and had resided in Dexter and Webster for man y years. The "Umatüla Indians" have been holding forth at Saline, and now the nights are made hideous in that place bythe boys trying to imiUte the yell of the redmen. The dedication of the new Methodist parsonage at South Lyon was to have been held yesterday, and the crowning eent was to have been a chicleen pie social in the evening. The Sentinel claims that the well lor the Ypsilanti water works Ups a vem that supplies a number of wells in thut city, and that the smaller wells are drying up as a consequence. David Haverehaw will carry the mail from the depot to the 8outh Lyon postofflce during the ensuing year, Uncle Sam agreeing to pay him 100. if he does his work well. Orville Conklin died at his home in Ypsilanti last Thuraday, of heart di■ease, aged 77 yeaw. His wife awoke about 4.30 i the morning and found him in adying condition. Theclosing exercisesof the "Deestrick Bkule" of the township of Ypsilanti, will be held at the Ypsilanti Opera House in about three week?, nnder the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of 8t. Luke's church. The South Lyon lecture course ia now aasured. The citiiens are to be treated to four lecturos and a concert, all for $1 50, notwithstanding the fact that it coata $300 to secure these entertainraents. Livingston county now has 12 assemblies of Patrons of Industry with a membership of 400 or more, and the merchante of the villages in that county feel like commiting suicide every time one of the 400 comea in sight The citizena of Pinckney want to put on all the air of a metropolis. Theycomplain because they are obliged to wander around in the dark fier the aun goes down, and have asked the council to put in atreet lampe. Among the farmer who have had large cropa of applet, we flnd William Stephenson of North Lake, 600 barrels; W. I. Wood, south of here, 240 barrels from three acres; Thomas Jewett, 250 bárrela.- Chelaea Standard. A. Sweet of Brighton how looks well to the fire in his atove before starting for church. He went with his family to church, one Sunday evening recently, and returned just in time to save his house from burning down. William Whaley & Sons of Milan met with a severe loss last week, a part of their mammoth eider mili breaking down. As they have about 30,000 bushels of apples on hand, the accident happens at the wrong time for them. George Haft of Deerfield tried to elope with Flora Benton of Howell, but was arrested on their arrival at Toledo on the charge of abdnction. II is examination i9 set for November 8th, before Justice Gregory of Howell- Brighton Citizen. Ypsilanti is mnddled over the renumberiiig of the places in that city. They tried to adopt metropohtan airs and number a hundred to each b ock, but this was too much for them and the resiilt is that no man knows bis nght nuraber. The Fowlerville fair came within $147 of payingall expenses. When the Washtenaw connty fair does as well as this, everybody proclainesita "bowling financial snccess," an appelation that has been seldom heard of our fair in late years. Charles Lockwood of South Lyon is different from his neigbbors. Ihey haye been packing up their (joods and moving to Dakota, probably to freeze to death before spring, while he has )urchased a farm near Winchester, va., and removed his family to the sunny south." At the meeting of the Ypsilanti W. C. T. U., held Tuesday, the subject uudèrdiscnssion was "What will be the influence of ihe Pan-American Congress upon our young men, and what will be theiropinion oi us asa Christian nation?" None of the members of the congress were present to answer these perplexing questions. The treasurer of Livingston county has been on the anxious seat for some tirae past, but is now feeling relieved. The connty funds were deposited in the defunct Weiineister bank, and he didn't know but what he would be obliged to make good the loss. The supervisors pass d a resolution aceepting the loss for the county last week. Will Hopkins and-Miss Etta Chalker surprised the good peopje of the Preshyterian church at Unadilla on Sunday, Oct. 27, by marehing to the front of the church at the close of the morning service and expressing a desire to be united in marriage. The ceretnony was performed before the audience had really time to recover from the surprise. Mr. and Mrs. Monks, who live near Pinckney, just missed aserious accident and a thorough wetting one dark night recer.tly. Mr. Monks thought he would drive into a creek and water his horst s. He missed the road and reined off an embankment, upsetting the carrago and throwing the Occupants out, injnring him slightly. The horses ran but were caught in the village. A little girl named Amelia Bristley, living at Jerusalem, a small burg near CheLsea, had a narrow escape from deatli recently. She was leading a eow and tied the rope aronnd her waist. The cow became frightened and ran, dragging the girl over the ground and ijnjuring her badly, her face and body beiiig covered with bruises and a hair pin being driven into her scalp. tCleary's new business college at Ypsilanti will be dedicated on Nov. 13, and the citizens are preparing for a big time. TheChequamegonOrcheatra and the Univt-rsity Glee Club of Ann Arbor, and the Cecelia Quartette of Detroit, will furnish the music,and thesneakers will include Gen. R. A. Alger, Hon. E. P. Allen, Regent C. R. Whittnan, Hon. Joseph Estabrook, Hon. J. R. Whitney, Hon. A. T. Bliss, Hon. Jas. O'Donnell and Mayor Putnam. A sharper convinced a Clinton cottnty farmer that he had a receipt that would make his wlient weigh twice as muck as it ought to, and the contract which the farmer signed to divide the extra weiftht with the agent turned out to be a $1500 note. - Brighton citizen. That's just as it should be. A man that will conspire to beat his neighbors ought to be swindled. Probably the mostprofitable four-acre piece of ground iu these parte this season, waa the orchard of George Feldkamp. From 74 trees occupying less than four acres, 317 barrels of choice fruit was picked, of whirh 71 barrels were sold at 91.75 and the balance at f 1.80 per barrel, and beeides there were 700 bushels of windfalls, making the product of the orchard over $600 If our farmers would i?ive their orchards the same care they give theirfield crops, they would certainly prove profltable. - Saline Observer. The Stockbridge Hun has a new "fo reman and general utility man," B. L. Walker of Howell. In speaking of this change, with reference to the former occupant of this position (judging from the editor remarks.) the Kun says; " Miss Linnie Bowdish, who has been in ouremploy steadily forthe past year, and more or less for the past tí ve years, takes a little surcease from labor, bui has not severed her connection with the office. Linnie is such a faitbful helper that we could not spare her altogether."