County

Eaton Mills is happy to think that it will have a dressmaker.
Many Hamburgites are petitioning for the appointment of J. F. Lemon as post-master.
Five local option meetings were held in Ypsilanti city and township to wind up the campaign.
It is said that nearly every child in Dundee, has had the measles. The epidemic may now be considered over.
The Milan Leader promises to begin a crusade against the cigarette after the local option campaign is over.
The Ypsilanti Firemen's masquerade ball last week was attended by 170 couples, most of whom were in masque.
The new editor hadn't been in Grass Lake ten days before he found that there were fifty new dwelling houses needed.
John Riedel, of Bridgewater, for the past two years a gay soldier of the U. S. A., is spending his furlough in his old home.
The mean daily temperature at Chelsea during January was 17° below zero and the total precipitation for the month was 4.75 inches.
James Sweeney, while chopping in the woods on his farm, was felled to the ground by a tree falling upon him crushing a leg and injuring his shoulder.
George H. Mugg, of Dundee, has again been arrested, taken to Calhoun county and bailed for being president of a late Bohemian Oat association.
Oscar Kilbourn, of Ypsilanti, was sent to the Reform School from Ypsilanti last week. He was convicted of petty stealing and was 13 years of age.
The Grass Lake News comes out this week in a new dress and is very tastefully gotten up typographically and we are well pleased with the style of the new editor's items.
Robert Campbell died in Ypsilanti on Tuesday of last week, aged 86 years. He came to this county from Scotland forty years ago. The funeral services were held in Stony Creek last Friday.
The Milan Leader is six years old, never was more prosperous and it will be many a year before a coroner sits upon it, even if one who has "a sit" upon it, did try for the coronership two years ago.
A very sad accident occurred in Pinckney this week. Thomas Glenman, a carpenter, fell from a school building, where he was at work and was instantly killed. He will be mourned by his many friends and acquaintances. The funeral was held in Brighton yesterday.
A team drawing a large load of young people from Pinckney going into the country for a social visit balked six times in going two miles. They were only started by applications of hot soapstone, and at the end of the two miles the load gave up the task of driving the animals.

THE NEW SALEM CHURCH.
The new Baptist church in Salem, was formally dedicated on Wednesday, February 6th, Rev. Dr Grenell, of Detroit, preaching the morning sermon, the resident pastor of the village taking part in the preliminaries. At the close of the. sermon, the report of the treasurer revealed the, tact that nearly $1,200 remained unprovided for, whereupon Dr. Grenell produced a blackboard and by means of this brought the financial standing before the people. Amounts of $50 down were received and before the close of the service the amount asked for was provided . A brief description of the building may be acceptable to your columns, which has been furnished your correspondent. The general plan is cruciform, semi-gothic as to its outward appearance, with brick veneered walls. A tower on the corner furnishes the main entrance. The distance to the top of the spire is about seventy-five feet. The windows are of cathedral glass, from original designs furnished by parties in Chicago and form no small feature in the attractiveness of the audience room. The auditorium room is 35 x 45 feet, with open timber finish-posts fourteen feet high and ceiling finished over the rafters The walls are tastily decorated in distemper by S. C. King, of Detroit, a gentleman who had charge of the frescoing at the Capitol building a few years since. Gas is furnished by a machine in the cellar, which, by the means of patent reflectors, provides an abundance of light. The chapel is separated from the audience room by means of a sash partition, in three sections each of which operates on the principle of a window, the lower section being hung with heavy weights is easily lifted into a receptacle, giving an unobstructed view from the most remote corner of the room. The audience room is seated [missing] chairs of a late design having [missing] seats and reclined backs af-[missing] a comfortable sitting. The [missing] baptistry is in the rear of the pulpit, and is said to be very convenient for the administration of the ordinance. Rear rooms are provided for preparation and class purposes. The floor of the building is covered with carpets of attractive designs, and a furnace gives sufficient heat for the most frigid creatures, which was demonstrated last Sunday evening. The entire cost of the building is something over $5,000 and is regarded as complete in all its requirements. Rev. Dr. Haskell preached in the evening of dedication day. The ordinance of baptisim was administered Sunday evening before a large congregation. - South Lyon Picket.