Around The County

Thereare many rabbits throughoutthe county. The rnill-pond at Manchester haB been dragged of its weeds. Everybody in the county is rejoicing over the recent rains. The York milis have been undergoinjj extensivo repairs. Chris. Kaiser, of Francisco, died recently, aged seventy years. Gov. Luce will edify the farmers' club at Bridewater on August 26. Durints July the Ypsilanti waterworks pumped 24,212,658 gallons of water. Over 250,000 pounds of wool have been purchased in Chelsea this year. The house of Wm. Wanty, at Whittaker, was destroyed by fire recently. The Manchester Germán Lutheran Sunday-school held a picnic yesterday. The North Sharon Sunday school held their annual picnic at Wolf Lake, yesterday. The I. O. G. T. lodge of Chelsea enjoyed a picnic, yesterday, atCavanaugh Lake. Mrs. Elizabeth Cheshire, of Ypsilanti, died recently at the age of eightyseven. The Epworth League of Chelsea gave an ice-cream social last Saturday evening. About $2,500 worth of stock in the proposed creamery at Saline has been taken. The alumni of the Manchester high school enjoyed a lawn ice-cream social, yesterday. The campers at Base Lake are living on woodchuck stew. So saya the Dexter Leader. During July 11,000 pounds of butter were made at Sanford'e Crossing in Manchester. The P of I's will hold a unión meeting at the Chelsea town hall on Saturday, August 16. Conrad Finkbeiner, of Lima, has threshed barley on his farm, which averages 52í bushels to the acre. While Jacob Streeter, of Lima, was threshinp, the other day, he jumped off the separator in such a way as to break his leg. Barns belonging to David Potter, of Willis, were burned by lightning recently, including hay and grain and one cow. The county papers are devoting considerablespace to interesting accounts of the editorial excursión. The Registee was not represented. Rev. Mr. Lincoln, W. E. Boyden and A. Olsaver have leased a piece of ground at Portage Lake and will soon ereet a cottage thereon. A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press advises farmers not to thresb their barley until September. He Bays the color will be brighter if the barley has passed through its first sweat in the stack. Quite a stir was created in the vicinity of Pleasant Lake, Freedom, last Friday, on ñnding the body of an unknown man in the lake with a large stone tied to his neck. Foul play is suspecíed. - Chelsea Herald. The Dundee Reporter copies The Register editorial on the candidacy of Mr. Allen without comment. If "silence gives consent," we must infer that the Reporter sanctions the sentiments therein expressed. Mr. Goodman, a second-hand dealer of Ypsilanti, has the works of a primitive wooden elock purporting to be made in Connecticut. It is entirely of wood, except the pallet and escapement, and the wood is not the same as that used in later clocks. The contract for building the subetructure for the new bridge across the race in Milán has been let to Lockwood & Van Wormer, for $120. The new bridge, which is to be of iron, same pattern and width of the river bridge, is to be flnished about the 20th. The following corps of teachers will wield the rod at Milan next year : G. A. Deunison, principal ; Miss Gertrude Hanson, assistant; Miss Viola Mead, grammar room ; Miss Laura Paine, intermediatt ; Miss Lena Swick, second primary : Miss Anna Delaforce, first primary. When a pirl is sixteen she likes to be thought older; when she is thirty she tries to appear younger ; when she is fifty it flatters her to be rated at thirtyfive, but when she is eighty she likes to be taken fur a hundred and ten, at the very least. Fearfully and wonderfully made. - Chelsea Herald. A shameful spectacle was seen on the Ypsilanti streets recently. A young colured woman, with her baby in her arms, was being transported upon a dray, on her way to jail. She was crazy drunk, and sereaming aud struggling with all her might, and the officer in charge had all he could do to hold her down upon the platform of the vehicle. The child was hurt in the scufHe, and added its lamentable protestations to the horrible noise of its motber. Upon this text the Ypsilantian preaches a very effective temperance sermón. Thus far in the history of Mich igan the editor of the Ypeilanti Sentinel has worn the blue ribbon as a cantankerous donkey, but his record is seriously threatened by the editor of the Sheboygan Democrat. You want to stick your nose clear out, as well as up, Brother Woodruff, or the Cheboygan foal will get his muzzle under the wire first. - Detroit Journal. In reply to this piece of polite flattery, the Sentinel speaksasfollows: "Well.youdon't'want' to stick your ears up nor out, for they overshadow thelongest of your brother donkeys, and look like Eiffel towers among toadstools. Nature intended you for an unmatchable ass and succeeded bevond her expectations." Ypsilanti Commercial : The Hammond importation of Shropshire sheep arr.ved here Sunday morning. They were at once taken to the farm. Some 30 went in wagons, and the balance, about 265, were driven. Ten of the sheep died either during their journey or after arriying here, from the effects of over-heating, but as is usually the case, these were the poorest and least valuable ones. The prize winners which Mr. Hammond purchased cluded the two-year-old ram, Vindsor Prince. He was bred by the Mansells, England's greatest breeders, and ha won the First Roy al twice in succesf-ion. He is undoubtedly the finestShropshirtram ever brought across the pond; and is indeed the best ever bred, except perhaps the great Rector, now dead. Windsor Prince occupies the pofition in the Shropshire world tliat Axtell does among trotting stallions. They are each the best alive.