Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-01-08
STATE NEWS.


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The new city bank of Albion opened
for business last week. eAi
Eighty thousand copies of VIII Carls.
toms poems have been sold.
The state of Michigan owns about
100000 acres of public lands. ,..
Cronin Bros. of Marshall. are going to
build $4,000 brick block this season.
There are four salt wells i'm Caseville,
'TuscoIa County. each of them LEO feet
deep. is M e 'sa
Mary A. Mosher. aged twelve years.
was married in Charlotte few days
since. R4t t
Thirty-three new buildings have been
erected in the village of Ovid during the
past year.
The Jonesville Independent says the
roads are so bad that q wood famine IL
upon them. ,an l ls s~egssr+s'e -;
Coldwater is outpf debt and has g. 500
in the treasury with which to commence
the Centennial ~ $50
The Corunna moulding factory has sns-
pended. throwing some thirty men and
boys out OF work.
| A Asnake two feet long was killed on
Portage street. Kalamazoo, last Friday,
December 81, 1875 ~ w sasf'''v t.1
A few days ago DIR Nelson, of Paw
Paw, arose in the morning and found
himself totally blind.
Tile farmers of Flint are plowing, and
say that upon turning the soil at the usu-
al depth the ground is found as dry as in
June. s.t. d, ,,..s,fs.,., s5s.i.,t
The Ionia Sentinel says that the Cardiff
giant jumped bis hotel bill in that place,
but was pursued, captured and made to
disgorgc. a. sa .seaf -tlsast
Samuel Sias, of Midland. has taken.a
ten years job of Dale q Co. to put co.
100000 feet of. logs into the Muskegon.
He has begun work. i ige .s..el efH
The Ludington Appeal says that these
sudden and radical changes of the
weather are what give undertakers A hab-
itation, name, and bank account.
A noble Romeo man, who refuses to
have his name made public. distributed
on Christmas day over 800 worth of
provisions to the poor of that town.
John J. Kitchen. travelling agent for
Gray. Toynton &, Fox, copfectioners Of
Detroit, has embezzlcd large amount OF
his employers funds and left for Canada.
James Norris, sailor, was shot at
Port Huron. December 81, by Philip
Endlich. saloon keeper. 1t is thought
that Norris will recover. Endlich is in
jail.
J.T. Greenwood, boot and shoe dealer
of Kalamazoo, gave loo pairs of shoes to
the orphan children of that town for a
New Years gift. A man Of sole as well
as cents. .. ..s 80
The good people of jackson are very
indignant at their gas company for. put
ting a poor quality of gas upon. them,
made from naptha, and charging the
same as for coal gas. =. .=ns- rf -
John Wamsey, of Marine City, had an
artcsian well sunk on his place. At the
depth of l50 feet gas was found, which he
has had carried to his house by means of
pipes. 1t burns finely.
VIM. johnson. of Detroit. was found
guilty in the Circuit Court at South Bend,
December 30, of burglary at Michigan
City last July. He was sentenced to paw
a fine of $500, and to seven years impris-
onment. ~ esA
Mrs. Hutchinson, of Beaton Harbor.
eloped last week with E. NJ. Weldon. of
Chicago. This is said to be the third
family that Weldon has broken up. Put
dose OF dynamite or nitro glycerine I'M
his coffee.
The Michigan potato bugs are not to
be outdone in patriotism. Committees
of them have already appeared in differ
ent parts of the state in their brightest
raiment, making preparations for the
Centennial. -. e.
ON. Barnes, land commissioner of the
Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad,
is making efforts in cooperation with
other commissioners. to have Michigan
products fully represented at the. Gen.
| tennial exhibition. - 49,
Fred. Morley, for nine years editorial
and business manager Of the Detroit Post,
has resigned that position and been sue
ceeded by VIM. Stocking, who was legis-
ative reporter for that paper last winter.
Mr.. Morley is a good tinancier and
gritty writer. e;,, sa.s 80, a,s.s.ri f,,s
Ourb big-hearted Governor did not for
get any of the states charitable or re-
formatory Institution in the rush of the
Centennial holidays, but the inmates of
all We're made happy by his generous
gifts. Among others he sent twenty-five
chromos and cngravings to the state
prison to decorate the chapel.
George W. Gage of the Grand Rapids
Democrat, aud Tarbox of. the Times, have
been calling each other unpretty names,
and on Friday last, as .T;.rhox was pass.
ing out of the Morton House, Gage struck
him from behind. Tarbox drew "A pistol,
but a bystander threw up his arm just as
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