Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-04-08

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and caught his baby. w
The freight business on the Detroit &
| Milwaukee road is greater than ever before
r. II. Long. superintendent Of the
Michigan Stove Works, died suddenly OF
pneumonia Monday. - ssrsf8
! Captain James Winters and wife, Of
Athens, Calhoun county, celebrated their
golden wedding March 22.
| The Attorney General has decided that
hereafter oil inspection must be done in
this state, and not in Cleveland. iti II
III. Higgins, of Detroit,a aged 36 years has
been arrested upon charge OF rayishing
his stepdaugbter, 70 years CT age.
Three of Ethan Aliens swords are
owned in Michigan, and there are several
cities and villages 10 hear from.
Rev. j. Wilcox, OF Cassville, cannot I'LL
his appointments, on account OF sickness,
and his wife breaches in his place.
+. Cook. of Niles, wants the address o.
all the survivors OF Andersonvil.e prison,
in order TO form u national union. s.t
Secretary Chandler has appointed u.
j. Baxter of Grand Rapids eiliet clerk or
the land-ofiice bureau in his department
At Washington.
Z. B. Ives, photographer Of Niles, has
taken several tine views OF the interior OF
the union school Of that city, TO send 10
the Centennial. ~saaI
The investigation now going on i'm the
case OF Rev. Z. w. May at Chesaning
shows that he has had a great many
paroxysmal attacks. F i9i
WI Bancroft was on Monday ap-
pointed receiver of the Chicago and Lake
Huron Railroad Company, with bonus
III the sum OF $4,000.
One hundred cases OF mea. les at the
state public school at Coldwater, and lot
a death. though some of the little suffer
ers had pretty close calls. iRo f4
Grand Rapids people have raised $4,000
for premiums tor their hurse show, which
will be held the third week in June,
commencing on Tuesday. uF
The Tittabawassee coal mine, out of
which the Saginaw valley folks was go
ing to make their everlasting fortunes has
been sunk so tar as 10 tap All underground
sea. atre - .,..lf r-lfr
And now I.apeer man sends back
" all tlom the Black Hills. The burden
oil his grief is that he ever went there,
and he advises sensible people to stay nc
home. a-gost .ioIi aas q
Joseph Saxton and wife, OF Paw Paw,
celebrated their golden Wedding March
"A. They have lived in Michigan 81
years and been members of the Baptist
church 46 years. -s9
J Benton Harbor aid ST. Joseph are 60
; ing their full length for that narrow
gauge Tread, .aiid.the two towns have
. 100000 stock in it so it is said.
Milton II. Rice, treasurer of South
Haven township, Van Buren, county, has
been arrested on complaint of one of his
bondsmeu. charged with embezzlcme,It.
He is short $1,000. Three-card monte
caused it rumor saith.
Henry @. Baxter, OF Jonesville, son OF
General Baxter. has secured lieutenanrs
commission in the army OF San Salvador,
Central America. Ii be turns out to be
J as good man as his father was in his
: profession he will do we'll enough.
A rotten tie gave way, and mixed
train on the Grand Rapids & Indian.
, railroad ditched near Morely, last Mon-
day, smashing several cars, burning
brakeman, slightly injuring dozen pas
, sengers and breaking a leg tor the con-
,, duc,or. No one killed. o1
Camilla Haslinger OF Detroit, young
Austrian surveyor, left for the old
: country few days ago to take possession
of $20O,OO0 bequeathed him by his mother,
and had only just sailed from New York
when the news came that his father had
died, leaving him $50O.0W more.
Probably j. Morgan, of Morgan's
Watchtower, is the most honest news
paper publisher in Michigan. He pub
fishes "a card i'm his paper IN which he says
of the advertisements, -four pages of the
Watchtower cannot be relied upon, for rs
a rule they are only swildles and un-
worthy of notice. @fot ~
The editor of the lansing Republican
has been swoOping about in the schools
of that city, and he is satisfied there is
: something radically wrong about a
: system OF education that keeps the
children better posted on affairs i'll Russia
than it does OH Michigan matters. A Ia
mentable Ignorance was displayed on
some things, he says. f~
Michigan is going to show at the Cen
tennial how her beavers can bite. Cen
tennial Noble, at Detroit, has received
specimen of elaborate giiawing done bv
the beavers in town 26 north, range 3
west, Crawford county. The sample ia
Il piece of white wood eight inches III di-
ametcr, and has been gnawed OF about
the length of a stick OF stove wood. 4 [.
looks like the first attempt of boy ~
wood chopping. fr
The convention Of county superintend-
ents of the poor closed their session az
Coldwater March y. Many valuable
papers were read; among them one by
h. II. Van Deu Ell .'On the insanen ono
by ex-senator &. ID. Randall ..On the care
of dependent cliildten," oEe by Bishop
George d. Gillespe /" On the necessity OF
a school for idiots" ana an Interesting
sketch of the Michigan public school by
l.. 4. Alden. its superintendent.
Twins are an indigenous product of The
Peninsular state,but they don't often live
10 be seventy-thlee years old; but there
resides in Albion two twin Sisters who
were that ole on the 2Id of March, "a
attended a birlilday party at the house Of
Ira W. Reecc, son OF one OF them, and re
ceived the congratulations OF numerous
friends. Both are remarkably smart for
persons Of aheir pge. Both are widows
Mrs. Reece and Mrs Williams-and both
mothers of large farniIes.
The Gale Misunderstanding company of
Albion have just completed a $40U plow
for the Centennial Z exhibition. The
woodwork is walnut, elaborately carved
at an expense OF $40, and the iron work
Is largely slver-platfd, though a part is
IpaiEtel IN r.ch French carmine. The
, beam Is sulmounted with silver eagle,
and beneath and in the center is the state
, seal Oh both sides of the beam in raised.