ci.inVos sotks.Ad MurshoH made the purcbase of a hew huggy this week. Look om. girls.There was a new comer at the borne of Chester Baldwin, the first of the week. It's a boy.A new blacktmith shop is being erected at this place. Clinton has: been without a blacksmiih for a num-;bor of years, and it will seein like oldtlnicfl to have one once niore- (W. A. Dean’s corn was about to be) t-ikeu by the chinch bugs. He so.; cured some of Prof. Snow's diseased . Lucs, and applied them as directed,and had the aatisfaciiou of seefng!nearly every bug destroyed. |Fruit if very scarce in this locality. People will have to live on grapes and pumpkins the comiug year, ;The Bloomington school district has ! decided to build a (our huodred dol-;j lar school house. ^IHie school meeting passed off rather quietly. Some things of au amus-inc'uature happeued. Iii the eleciion . of a director there was only one | nomination, and.a motion was made i that the secretary cast the buJloi for | -tlie nominee. The motion wa.H car-, ried, and it somewhat “kerflummix- . ed” a aocklesa granger who was pres-) ent, hi whi.ch he jumped up and de-1clarodlhata d w schema was up, (and shot out of the door as if a streak i of greased lightu^g had struck him. |To show how well some of the 1 Thacher fellows were posted on the, ‘■Ago of Conaeut bill,” here last Fri- ‘ day at the primaries, and which they gave aaan excnae lor voting against, flowmrd, an example might be giver, j One was asked why be voted against; {[oward. He said, “it was on account j ofthatt^elve vear old law.” He was asked to explaiu it. He said “hedidn’t know what U was, only it was(somethingaboui being twelve years j old,” and he was not the only one ithat voted for Tliacher that was so j well posted. 1