Kkkt.IhiPete's Ul’N, August 27. inlt;MnnwICtItFarmers are busily engaged cultivating theground preparatory to sowing their wheat, aiwhile some of the energetics art* ai ready }“scattering seed.” Corn will yet be a goodcrop if Jack Frost does not visit us too soon. I ri Elder Welsh preached at Earley *s Chapellast Sunday Since my last report we havehad several weddings in our vicinity. Our Iold friend, W. T. Price, of Windfall, becom- jmg tired of single blessedness, found a wifein the person of Miss Maud Swain, and spent | jthe honeymoon visiting here. The otherswere Henry Itinehart to Francis Lybrook, ^Peter Coy to Jane Crumeand W. Mower to flt; Sarah J. Katclifte. Now don’t it look as lfjti the tidal wave we predicted lat spring had \ c struck us? And madam Humor says others vvwill foiiov soon Several cases of sickness | *ibut nothing serious Joel Brower has pur*chased a wind pump Misses Fannie andAnna Cooper, accompanied hy Messrs. I q Woods and Heebe, of Kokonio, paid a fl vJug visit to our vicinity last Sunday ......The contest for supremacy in the postal card depart- j ment seems to have abated, and still leaves ••Mogul** the central '-tar. He is “like bun i whose name was legion”—no man Is able to j Phind him. lt;thkllo. | tiJkkome, August 2o. j J’j Lizzie Peacock has been favoring me with i Tcopies of the Falrmount News. I see In thelast one received, a very favorable mention of the scheme to connect Fairfield and Fair- ! mount by a pike. My reference to the sub- j ject some weeks ago, served HIM basis of the remarks of the News. I am assured hy | P interested parties that a strong effort will be j««t«Mmade this fall to have the work done I diin this county. Then Mr.Grant county man, j we hope you will do your share..... It is iumored that Joseph Mendenhall is married. | fa John Gore is suffering with fever; Ir. j eaWare, physician..... Elijah Hendricks has iemigrated to Michigan Many of ouryoung folks attended the Huukard soup tomeeting near lt;*reentown, on lust Sunday | inThomas Mendenhall, William Evans and their wives art* on a visit to Randolph conn - |ly There was a livel discussion at New p«Hope last Sunday, as to the religious merits tli of A. M. Purdy. J. It, Ellis denounced him I as “an infidel,” ami an article by him as an“impish sneer at Christianity.” AukOy*tr