County

Whooping cough in Manchester. Wm. Gase s building a feed mili jn South Lyon. The Manchester high school has a new microscope. George Bennett, of Willis, is making sorghum molasses. Frank Holcolm will run a corner grocery in Mooreville. Burglars raided South Lyon last week, but didn't get mnch. There's plenty of marrying and giving in marnage up in Salem. Two car loads of apples vvere shipped from Stockbridge last week. The school house in district No. seven, of Manchester, is being repaired. t Miss Hendrick, a teacher in the South Lyon school, is ill trom scarlet fever. A. A. Tuttle, formcrly of Saline, died in Hillsdale, October ioth,aged sixty years. Every Ypsilanti city voter must re-register this year on November 2nd and 3rd. The Sharon democrats will listen to a rousing speech from W. Stearns this afternoon. Dixon Burchard, of Milán, has a turnip forty-six and a half inches in circumference. The Benton school in Saline township has been closed on account of whooping cough. C. W. Case, who went to Idaho from Manchester, is now running for probate judge. The Southern Washtenaw Farmers' club meets at J. P. Lapham's Saturday, November 3. Mrs. Susannah Johnson died in Lyndon, 'October c)th, in the seventy ninth year of her age. The late N. M. Thompson left $500 to the missionary society of the Ypsilanti M. E. church. James Hood, a Sharon farmer, died October 6. He had suffered from paralysis for some years. A social is given this evening by the young people of the Stony (Jreek presbyterian church at Mrs. Welch's. Macomber Bros., a Manchester dry goods firm, have closed up their business being unable to make il pay. Will Perkins had a lively ruEaway in Pittsfield last week. The onions were too strongf for the Jiorses. John Schneider and Miss Rickie Brinkman were married in Manchester, October 14, bv Rev. George Schoettle. The Pinckney Dispatch has been presented by Állred Monks with a twelve and a half pound cabbage measuring 42 x 30 inches. Miss Minnie Ayers, of Sharon, was married at the Methodist parsonage in Manchester, October 17, to Thomas Feather, of Jackson. Hause Bros., of Clinton, have been rnaking seventy barrels of eider a day. They could not have done it, had local option not been knocked out. James Reed, who died in Dexter township, October 12, was born in Ireland in 1S23 and came to this country in 1S47, settling in Dexter ín 1855. Ypsilanti ladies turned out in force last Sunday evening at the Congregational church to hear Rev. W. T. Beale divulge the "Secret of Beauty or How to be Handsome." The South Lyon Picket favors high tarift and yetit says it runs on a Iow tariff basis itself. Why not apply the same rule to the national business that one applies to his own? George S. Wheeler, the republican candidate for probate judge, is missing many of his speaking appointments throughout the county. Has the republican committee called him off? A colored ruíhan assaul'ed a young lady normal student in the Streets of Ypsilanti at half past ten Wednesday evening. Her screams brought timely aid but the ruffian was not recognized and succeeded in taking her purse. A rousing democratie rally at North Lake, on Friday evening Mr. JiabDitt could not come as advertised on account of sickness but enthusiastic and telling arguments were made by Hon. P. McKernan and M. J. Cavanaugh, in favor of tariffreduction. The Normal lecture course this year includes lectures by Lieut. Schwatka, Col. Sanford, James Hedley, Joseph Cook, Herr von Finkelstein, Mrs. Livermore, Prof. M. L. D'Ooge and Rev. R. Nourse and concerts by the Hunganan Gypsy Band, the Normal choir and the Kate Bensberg English Opera Company. The democracy of Webeter township held an enthusiastic meeting in the Ball school house on Tuesday evening. Notwithstanding the rainy weather the house was crowded to hear the tanff discussed by Messrs. Lehman and Cavanaugh. A republican meeting at the same place a few nights before was poorly attended. The following veterans of the old 2oth Michigan Intantry who reside in the countv, atended the reunión or tne regiment in Ypsilanl' : Ed O'Neal, Conrad Noli, E. S. Manly, W. VV. Bliss, A. A. Traver, N. D. Gates, Isaac Savory, E. W. Hatch, R. H. Nowland, J. B. Saunders, E. B. Saunders, G. Walker, of Ann Albor; Geo. W. Richards, D. S. Raymond, Chas. E. Danés, Chas. Shaley, Daniel Bissel, G. J . Crowell, Geo. Sellers, A. M. Morton, T. E. Wood, Wm. Yocum, Fred Lehman, E. Hammond, and P.McCover, of Chelsea; Edward Doans, LeonJird Rodeman, A. E.Phelps, and A. Van Fleet, Dexter; T. VV. Hammond, and II. C. Packard, of Salem ; J. H. Bortle, Mat Seager, John Heniger, James A. Dell, and J. B. Godfrey, of Saline; Harlow Shippy, Oscar Loveland, and Edwin Bailey, of York; H. P. Lamb, of Manchester, and A. A. Van Cleve, R. F. Ainsley, C. S. Wortley, P. M. Skinner, H. Lefurge, T. McCollum, of Ypsilanti.