Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-10-30
STATE NEWS.

of i'm Port Huron.
The question in Southern Michigan:
''Cassoplis or apolis, which?"
A scow freighted with lumber was
wrecked ner Frankfort October 18th.
n. w. Clark, of Worthwhile, has re-
ceived 100000 salmon eggs from Cali
fornia.
Ten thousand dollars has been sub
scribed towards the Grand Rapids driv-
ing park.
T.. q. Williams, lumberman of Flint.
has failed. Liabilities, $4,000; assets.
$4,000.
Mrs. Forrest, the Bay City acid victim.
is likely to recover and to preserve her
eyesight.
The Presbyterian society of Ypsilanti
have reduced their ministers salary Sl0O
this year.
1t is stated that Lenawee County has
more apples this year than the whole
state of Ohio.
Will Carleton is to have new volume
of poems for the holidays, entitled
Farm Legends"
Ihe amount OF liquor tax turned over
to the city of Detroit by the County
Treasurer is $6S,245.12.
The house of John Newton. near AL
pena was burned October lth. Loss,
200; insurance, $500.
More room is wanted i'm the state pris-
on. There are 800 convicts i'm the prison
and cell-rOom for only $50.
The fathers of Muir are going TO pros
ecute the saloonists with whom their
sons spend their evenings.
Two Adrian men have gone into the
temperance insurance business. The one
who gets drunk first is to pay the other
$40.
The Ottawa County Board of Super
visors have voted to pay $40 day to a
stenographer during the sessions of the
Circuit Court.
The Detroit Board of Education has
discontinued the employment of special
teachers of drawing and penmanship in
the public schools.
John Brown, one of the first pioneers
of Kalamazoo County, died at Portage
October 18th, aged eighty-ffve years. He
came from Virginia i'm 1884.
Henry Dippenbacher, farmer of
Adrian, was drowned i'm pond where
the water wOs but four inches i'm depth,
while intoxicated October 2Oth.
Two burglars entered the City hotel at
Kalamazoo recently and forced boy to
deliver the contents of the money
drawer to them. They got about Sc.
A livery rig was stolen from before a
church at East Saginaw last Sunday
while funeral was going on inside. The
thief should be caught and another fu-
neral appointed.
A wild bear made his appearance i'm
Kalamazoo last Sunday, which is said to
have engrossed more attention than the
Ohio election, but was as effectually
killed as the rag baby.
Postmaster Seaton, of Jackson, has n
50 bill upon which is written sTaken
out Of the moccasin of dead squaw be-
longing to Black Kettles band, January
18th, 1S60.-Allen Wetzlor."
The Berrien County Record says an
old resident of that place informs it that
thirty-two years ago October 2lst the
ground was covered with snow three feet
deep in the st. Joseph valley.
j. Beale Steere, who has been making
collections in Europe and South Amer
lea for the past five years (most of v nich
he has ssnt to the university, returned
to Ann Arbor Thursday night. Among
other things he has collection of over
5000 birds.
A Mr.. Charbineau, of Escanaba, killed
his son October 18th by the accidental
discharge of gun which he was carry
ing. The father was so overcome with
horror that he tainted on the spot, and
an older boy had to call for help to get
him home.
Levi Stockwell, Of Dover, Leuawee
County, has been tried, found guilty, and
fined $50 and costs for watering milk,
besides being obliged to settle with his
customers. Charles Grant of the same
place has been fined $25, and $73 costs
for skimming milk.
The body of an unknown woman, with
two life-preservers upon it, was found
near the beach two miles from Grand
Haven, October 22d. There is some
thought it may be the body of either
Capt. SCOTS daughter or niece, both of
whom were lost with the propeller Equi-
nox.
The Unitarian Conference at Jackson
closed on the 22d. An address on 9SOme-
thing of Orthodoxy and Little of Be-
form" was delivered by Fl. Block, rabbi
of the Sewish Synagogue. He thinks
there has been a great increase of iber-
ality in the Christian world, citing in
evicenre the treatment of the Jews i'm
ollen times and the present toe ation
shown toward them. The next confer
ence is to be held in Kalamazoo.