Pittsfield

Grass and growing grain are alike affected by the prevailing type of weather. Miss Estella Tate teaches the winter term of school in the Tate district, near Saline. Miss Murray, of Milan, teaches the winter term of school in the Crittenden district. Wheat has sustained some injury lately, on account of the freezing and thawing weather. There are rumors of an entertainment to be given soon in the Sutherland school house. FredWebb,of the law department, who has been on the sick list during the past week, is convalescent. The raccoon, (commonly called coon), has many enemies these pleasantnights and the boys are having plenty of fun. An entertainment was held in the Roberts school house, Friday evening, which was a fair pecuniary success; so I am informed. There are two kinds of resistance; a boulder in your way does not fly up at you, no matter how much you abuse it, but it stays there all the same. This is passive resistance.