County

Saline elects village officers next Monday. 

Whooping cough is raging at Stony Creek. 

Crass Lake yearneth for a good photographer. 

Norman G. Engle, of Milan, has been granted a pension. 

Rev. T.W. MacLean has left Ypsilanti for Bay City. 

The Ypsilanti post office is to be repapered and calcined. 

W. Robinson has resigned his position on the Milan council. 

The senior normalites think of electing a lady class president. 

The Ypsilanti Sentinel resumed its old size of four pages last week. 

Chelsea is entirely out of debt and deserves to be congratulated thereon. 

Dogs have killed several sheep belonging to George Fuller, of Lyndon. 

Marsha Dexter, of Milan, has made four arrests during his term of office. 

The Ypsilanti normal museum has a fifty-one pound specimen of beaver. 

The McEntee and Beaman school district in Lyndon will have a new school house. 

Whitmore Lake is mentioned as a place where the state encampment may possibly be held. 

Hon. S.M. Cutcheon and wife, formerly of Ypsilanti, will spend next summer in Norway. 

Miss Lucinda Yanson, of Salem, recently broke her collar bone by falling. She is now recovering. 

Milan elects a president, clerk, treasurer, street commissioner, assessor and four trustees next Monday. 

Chelsea elects a president, clerk, three trustees, a treasurer and assessor next Monday. Voters may register tomorrow.

St. Patrick's day will be celebrated this year in Chelsea by an elegant supper at the town hall, orations, toasts, etc. 

Whitmore Lake complains of a want of houses. If the tariff on lumber is removed, the want can be easily remedied. 

T.J. VanAtta, of Salem, has gone to the upper peninsula to better his fortunes and leaves many friends who wish him well. 

The Jungfrau Verein is the name of the new society formed by the young ladies of the Bethlehem church in Freedom. 

Mrs. D. Heim, who has been a resident of Sylvan since 1843, died February 23, aged 676 years, of inflammation of the lungs. 

A blooded horse belonging to J.N. Bumpus, of Stony Creek, was drowned recently. It was a full brother of Jay Eye See. 

The South Lyon gas well has been abandoned. It developed the fact however that South Lyon had all the mineral water it could use. 

The child of William Kennedy, who ran a pair of shears, witch which it was playing into its neck, will recover, although it had a close call. 

A Dundee farmer named S.G. Tripphagen was found at his horse's heels in the stable, dead from heart disease Wednesday evening of last week. 

Mrs. Mary A. Post, mother of ex-pension agent Samuel Post, died in Ypsilanti last week, at the age of 85 years. She had resided in the county for many years. 

There are 81 non-resident pupils in the Manchester schools. The average attendance was over 96 percent of the number enrolled, which reaches 299. 

The Milan Leader effects to believe that from 800 to 1000 voters were imported into this county at the last election. That's the wildest statement yet. 

Squire Griffin, of Ypsilanti, as the ARGUS noted last week, was married February 29th. The first anniversary of his marriage will come in 1892 and it will be a century before he can celebrate his silver wedding. 

George Nordman, of Lima, is said by the Dexter Leader to have found a nineteen pound pickerel in Norman's lake and to have safely brought him to land. 

The good people of Manchester were recently alarmed by the breaking out of scarlet fever in that village. That is not so severe a scourge however, as diphtheria. 

Stockbridge is to have a new Baptist church to be located near the M.E. church and will be 28x48 feet in size and 14 feet high, surmounted by a tower 12 feet square. 

The Ypsilantian came out with commendable promptness last week, notwithstanding their loss by fire. The proprietors evidently have the right sort of push in them. 

The two year old child of Thos. Marion, of Clinton has a broken arm from falling down stairs. The wonder is that more children do not meet with serious accidents. 

The Dundee Reporter has a beautiful cut representing the Dundee fire engine putting out a fire in that village last week. It is a boy, with a pail of water and a a garden sprinkler. 

Supervisor W.B. Osborn, of Sharon, recently sold 165 sheep weighing 20,120 pounds. They were shipped to Buffalo last week by Rehfuss & Burtless, of Manchester. 

The Grass Lake post office does a larger business than any other post office in Jackson county outside of Jackson. That's because many Washtenaw people get their mail there. 

The new Baptist church in Lyndon was dedicated last Sunday and it can no longer be said that Lyndon has not a church within its bounds. Rev. T. Robison preached the dedication sermon. 

Mrs. George Martin, daughter of Wm. Scadin, of Webster, died February 29th. She was married less than a year ago. She was very prominent in Webster circles and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. 

The twelfth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. William Burtess, of Manchester, was celebrated on Wednesday evening of last week by a hundred friends, who took possession of the house and had a merry time. 

A ten year old Dundee boy, Lee Wattling, while sliding on the ice last week was drawn under the ice in the river and was unconscious before he could be taken from the water. The next time he a sliding goes 'twill be upon a summer day. 

A little daughter of Mervin Poole, (colored), of Augusta, was so terribly burned a couple weeks ago, by her clothes catching fire form a stove, while her parents were absent attending the funeral of a relative that she has since died from the injuries sustained. She was eleven years old. 

Valetine Bros. of Webster, report the following: March 7th one of our Shopshire ewes gave birth to three ewe lambs which were strong and lively, the combined weight of the three one hour after birth was 25 pounds, they were sired by the registered ram Robert No. 3001. Vol. 3. A.S.S.R.

William S. Negus, who was born in Dexter fifty-one years ago and who afterward resided in Chelsea, where a brother is now living, died January 13th in Helena, Montana of erysipelas. He had been in the west for twenty-two years engaged in running a stage line, a restaurant, farming, mining and stockgrowing. He was worth $75,000. 

Milan received $594 from liquor taxes last year which went into the general fund of the village. Out of this general fund $250 was aid for tile and $200 loaned to the highway fund. No taxation was needed to pay the general expenses of the village. The sum of $388.35 in the past year was raised for the highway fund in addition to the amount loaned from the general fund. There is now on hand in the various funds of the village $485.31. These figures are taken from the annual report of Dr. Pyle, the village president, made to the last meeting of the Milan council. 

One of our citizens has long felt the want of a dog, but he wanted a good dog, and it seemed that his desire was about to be granted, for last Thursday morning he secured a young shepherd and carried it home where it was duly inspected by the family and christened by the euphonious name of Grover Cleveland, and a barrel placed conveniently near for a warm nest, into which he was helped at night. The family were going away to spend the evening and Grover was tossed into his barrel, and the family felt sure their earthly possessions were securely guarded. the next morning the good housewife arose in the early dawn and went to the family pork barrel to prepare for the morning meal. The first lunge of the hook brought out Grover's limp and lifeless form. A few little O O's brought the master of the house, who saw he made a sad mistake and put Grover in the wrong place. But he is now willing to consign him to obscurity and let the March wind sing a requiem over his early demise. -- London Correspondence Milan Leader.