Contributed by our Regular Correspondents Local Brevities Editor PIERCE left home for Madison last Monday morning, to be in attendance at the extra session of the Legislature, which convened on Tuesday last. The prospect for a large hay crop in this county was never better than at present. So say those who ought to know. The M. E. Quarterly was not very largely attended last Sunday, the rain keeping many away. The Presiding Elder gave an excellent discourse-so we have been told. Charley NEWTON has been hauling rock during the week for repairs to the old hop house, which, we understand, he intends to transform into a dwelling house. Charley evidently thinks this is a fit country to live in, and is bound to prosper. The owners of the Friendship mill have been overhauling and making sundry repairs in and about that institution. Things run there like clock work, and the new proprietorship merits a large patronage. The heaviest rain fall of the season, accompanied with heavy thunder and fierce lightnings, visited Friendship on Sunday evening last. No damage done that we hear of, only that the ground is rather full of water for corn and potatoes planted in low places. The potato tramp made his appearance during the warm sunshine preceding the rain on Sunday last. We "kept the Sabbath" by picking off and destroying some hundreds of these pests. Diligent hand-picking and a proper use of Paris green are the best remedies known for their destruction. Elder P. R. STAPLES exchanges pulpits next Sunday (to-morrow) with Elder L. M. FOSTER, of Grand Rapids. Mr. FOSTER will preach in the Congregational church at the usual hour for religious services. It is to hoped he will be gratified with a large audience to hear him. One week from to-morrow (Sunday the 16th) Rev. George TYACKE, of the M. E. church, will preach in the meeting house in Friendship at 10:30 A. M. We understand that the Friendship circuit has been divided, and that Mr. TYACKE comes to take charge of the southern portion extending from Friendship to Twin Valley, while Elder HARRINGTON will devote his time exclusively to the northern division. A. J. HILL continues to make improvements around his wagon shop. The last thing we have noticed there is a broad and substantial platform in front of the shop, and a plank walk leading therefrom to the new smith shop. We take it for granted that "A. J." is not so busy with these new improvements but what he can find time to take and fill orders for the best wagons ever made in this section of the country. We took a trip from Friendship on Friday of last week to the Collins ALLEN farm, located in the town of Springville, some three miles west of Davis Corners. The crops of small grain, especially rye, between here and the village of Easton, were looking finely. The route from Easton to the ALLEN farm was new to us; and we could not help calling it the abomination of desolation-hardly fit to make a road across to a better place. We found ourself in rather hoggish company on our return from the ALLEN farm. A full-blooded Poland-China-19 months old, 5 ½ feet in length, and of height and weight to correspond-took passage with us in the wagon. His hogship can be seen in the yard adjoining Mr. PIERCE's barn. Agriculture is always to a certain extent substantial and reliable. Its profits vary as in other callings, but the instances are rare indeed where it fails entirely to give the husbandman a reasonable reward for his efforts in the way of a living, even if the margin is very small after that is secured. Al. HILL and Sid. FOSTER had a telephone in successful operation between the Press office and Hill's store on last Wednesday. Another one, we learn, is in operation between the stone building and the drug store, and will remain there during court week. We held a bit of pleasant talk with Al, and although quite "hard of hearing," heard distinctly nearly all he uttered. The sounds traveled on a string, and were given and received through a common lamp chimney attached to either end. The apparatus is so simple that we wonder it did not come in use long before the telegraph. We have neither time more room for further comments, but the curious can have a specimen of how a string can be made to convey articulate (Transcribers note: The rest of story is missing) A correspondent at Big Spring writing to the editor, gives the name of the cheese maker at the factory there as Nellie BUSSIE, from Oneida, Madison county, New York. Mr. Uri MORSE is salesman for the patrons of the factory, and D. M HATCH is Treasurer. The amount of milk received at the factory on Monday morning was 2466 lbs. The editor promised in the last Press to describe in the next number the process of making the cheese at the factory; but he was obliged to leave for Madison before finding time to write the article. Crop Prospects.-The following from the Mauston Star in relation to crops in Juneau county, exactly describes the condition of the crops in Adams county: From all sections of the county we have the same reports-crops looking splendid. Fall wheat never looked better. Spring wheat is doing finely. Oats come up thick and grow fast. Corn is backward but the season is yet early. Hops, as a rule, are not thrifty. Many yards are not cultivated at all, and all of them show thin weak vines.
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