Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-04-15

STATE NEWS.
The Adrian paper mill has been sold to
w. 8. Wilcox for $12,g50.
Kalamazoo river is going to have a
steamboat this summer.
A man named Hart was fatally stabbed
in Bay City saloon last Monday.
The Escanaba mining companies arr
laying out plans for a big seasons work
The widow of Rix Robinson. the first
settler of the Grand river valley, dief
April 4. ..ss
If the Gazette can be believed the cityo
Pontiachas the worst gang ofyoung boys
| in the state. "
F. Morley, late of the Detroit Post has
Ideclined consulship to Egypt. Salary
would not pay. s u EIi.! ~ oB
Lenawee county is keeping 30 insane
persons-15 at Kalamazoo and the balanc
at the county house
The state Firemens' Association meet
at Celdwater, May Sd. g.. M. Sellick, c
Paw Paw, is secretary. go, i,Huora sil.
The State Horse Racing Associaiio-
has committee out looking for "A plac
to hold the summer races.
The city council of Bay City is at
dead lock on the question of choosing tn
officers elective by that body. 1! f.jlsf
They clnnot find John Dugan, treas
urer of WalkertOwn, Kent county, an
his accounts are over $4,000 short,
Four Japanese students are i'm attend
ance at Hope. Holland. They are goot
students and exemplary young men,.
The mayor of Monroe assaulted man
Oh election day. and was collared by the
sheriff and led off the scene. So says the
| Commercial.
A careless smoker was the cause of
burning up chair factory at Dowagiac,
valued at SD 900. A. s. J.. Rouse were
| the proprietOrs. tfF fla3 ~ u
| John Gerner, the Ann Arbor merchant
who was killed by falling down stairs.
left his wife and children a policy of
$4,000 OH his life.
Capt. III. b. Burger formerly of Te-
cumseh, has been Killed at the Utah pen
| tentiary. of which he was wa. den. He
was killed by prisoner.
Niles was 20 turbulent OH election day
that the mill ia were ordered under arms,
but did not have to be called out. Sew
erM men were wounded. .i9H
1t is against the laws of Michigan TO
sell gasoline, and the Hurlburt bros., OF
Grand Rapids are TO be tried tor not
keeping the law in that respect.
A Kalamazoo postoffice clerk has been
sending letter around the world. and it
returned 10 him in sc days and three
hours. 1t had taken journey OF 23,726
miles.
Ives, of Detroit, has finished the por-
/ of rhar IL if
now gracaS the walls of the state
library. All the Governors pictures are
now there.
Some Saugatuck musicians went to
Pier Cove to give an old-fOlks concert,
but were driven off by the piOus Covers
who didn't ''want no travelling show in
this ere church,
DIR. r. b. Fairfield. formerly president
of Hillsdale college, WAS unanimously
elected chancellor of the Nebraska siate
university at Lincoln, Neb. Salary 81
600 per annum. -,
| Pee She-kees, an Ottawa Indian, living
near LudinytOn, is 125 years of age. His
age can be substanciated. He is as sound
as nut. and u lively, well preserved old
fellow. He is a son of the famous Wa-bee-
nee-ll.
The town of Handy. in Livingston
eDuntv, thought it would not pay its rail-
road bonds. 1t had rather fight. The
fight came off i'm a court room. and now
Hlndy will pay that little S6,076 without
a struggle. A '-
March 3lst there were 49e inmates at
the Wayne county poor house. During
the month 6lS were relieved. At the
county insane asylum there were l32. pa
tients. There are also l3 at Kalamazoo
from that county. ilte2nn 'ii a'fiei'i
The pigeon shooters are abroad in the
land. Let the game associations look out
Tor those fellows. and remind them. that
there is a penalty of $50 for shooting or
netting pigeons within miles. of their
roosting place. s9ij-aitiiea s-lois aiiII
What kind Of place is this Hesperia.
Mich, any way?D The people have cot
out circulars telling certain editor wln,t
they think are the necessary qualifica-
tions OF an editor, and telling him he is
not the man. and asking him to ..git"
A st. Louis man got sorry about his
wife's infidelity and bought what he
thought was strychnine. But the drug
clerk thought he knew best and gave
him ipecac. 1t nearly tore him in pieces,
but he still lives. ilAs = 18l6o
/ There will be upwards of 275,OOO,OOO
feet of logs on the Muskegon river this
year, all statements TO the contrary not
withstanding. With the 27,0O0000 feet
left over, our manufacturers will have a
stock of over 300,000,000 feet this season.
Conductor Ed. Dolan, of Marshall,
thinks he will punch Michigan Central
tickets no more. His wife's father, who
left Marshall i'm 40 for California, after
wards went to Australia, where he died.
and now Ed. has got to go out there and
bring back $250,00O for her.
Mr. John Garfield. Manistee capital
ist. has a project for giving that citv a
railroad. His plan is TO build road frcm
thereto Baldwin on the flint and Pere
Marquette road. about 25 miles from Man
i istee and he says that if six men will sub
scribe E$2o,OO0 apiece the road will be built
without delay.
i The Bay City Tribune gives out the
idea that the Michigan Salt association
propose to sink an experiment. well soon
to see if they cannot get another brine
: yielding stratum. They want brine like
that at Goderich, which wdl require no
| settling. Most of the wells are about 500
feet deep, and they propose to drive one
1:SOO feet if Necessary. A well at Black
mars was sunk nearly that far, but it
only gave sandstone brine at 90 per
cent. s. .sassE SEA
We learn fact in reference to Major
Mclaughlin, the champion wrestler ,of
; the. world, that speaks volumes in favor
OF STREET temperance. He has never used
Intoxicating drinks, and doesn't know
one kind of liquor from another. He has
never used tobacco in any. form. He is
thorough temperance man, and prac-