• F. W. Wilson has sold out his white Plymouth Rocks to Fred Warner of Old Mission and will devote all his time to the breeding of his high scoring Black Javas. Judge McKenzie says they are as nice as he ever scored, having made a specialty of scoring them in Madison Square Garden, Chicago, Cincinnati and other shows.
• Chief of Police Ashton has received a letter from Dr. B. D. Ashton, his father, who is at present in Williamsburg, Virginia with his son, Dr. E. L. Ashton. Saturday, two weeks ago, was General Lee's birthday and Williamsburg, like the other southern commonwealths, celebrated the occasion. Confederate flags were everywhere and Dr. Ashton said they acted on the younger doctor like a red flag in front of a gentleman cow.
• R. Parker, the cocaine fiend who was confined in the Cass Street station house a month ago and the R. Parker, the young man in the county jail at present, are a veritable Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The prisoner states that his mother is closely connected with the family of William McKinley and that he contracted the cocaine habit by using the drug as a cure for catarrh. Mr. Parker's grammar is faultless and his speech shows that he has had excellent breeding and education.
• Seven hours continuous travel across a field of ice with cracks and rotten places, sitting on top of a casket containing a corpse, was the experience that W. D. C. Germaine went through last Wednesday. He made the trip across the ice from Cross Village to St. James on Beaver Island at the request of a local family to bring the body of a young woman who recently died to this city for burial.
• A merry crowd from South Williamsburg composed of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Avery, Mrs. M. Hamilton, Mrs. G. Glendenning, Mrs. J. Broomhead and Mrs. P. Boyd, drove to this city last Tuesday. The day was spent visiting friends, handling business matters and shopping.
• J. E. Brown, superintendent of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Company, has gone to the eastern markets to purchase a complete line of spring and summer millinery, suits, ready-to-wear garments, cloaks, fancy dress goods and novelties in women's wear. Frank Kafta, of the clothing division is also in New York buying his stock and Dan Loddon, of the house furnishing division left this morning for that city to place import orders and buy a full line of the latest in fancy china, cut glass, lace curtains, upholstery and fancy novelties.
• One of the Musselman Grocer Company's teams showed that it was a record breaker last week by drawing 15,500 pounds from the G. R. & I. yards to the company's building on Bay Street. The trip was made without a mishap although the sled was loaded with seven and three quarter tons. George Newberry was the driver.
• With the thickening of the ice on the bay, the fishing coops are appearing in numbers. The east corner is becoming quite populous and some Mackinaw trout are being speared there. A few cisco are also being speared and perch are running well in Bowers Harbor with one catch of eighteen a few days ago.
• The will of the late Mrs. L. O. Saylor was filed in probate court Tuesday. It is impossible to estimate the value of the estate as it is entirely personal property and an inventory would be necessary. A sister in Tennessee is given $500 and another sister in Boston is given $1,000. Samuel Garland, of this city and who attended to Mrs. Salor's business affairs after the death of her husband, receiving no compensation, was bequeathed $500.
• After less than three days of illness with pneumonia, Frank Pegg succumbed to the disease Monday. He leaves a wife and two children, one of the latter being critically ill with the disease now. The entire family had been sick with it during the winter but the father was the last to be taken ill.
• At the opening of the white sale at J. W. Milliken's this morning, the store presented a very beautiful appearance. The overhead decorations represented a snowfall and on entering the store, the effect is very attractive. The ledges are tastefully trimmed in white and make the counter and table displays so attractive that few women will be able to resist seeing. The decorations were the work of S. Cizek and reflect great credit on his ability.
• Advice on deportment. As a rule, the gentleman should take the outer seat when accompanying a lady to the theater, opera and concerts, but if this is the best for seeing or hearing, it belongs to the lady.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Medical advice of a century ago. To treat severe cases of diptheria, whiskey should be given every two or three hours in teaspoonful doses.
• Best buy of the week. 26” Wood Heaters, $8.98 at The Globe.