Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-07-08
STATE NEWS.


soned ut Litehlield last week Tuesday.
The IIubbar'lston lumber company
have made an assignment Liabilities
$150O00. ,fsh3fi hASlJ6va70
The Albion division of Sons of Tenn
perai C. now nnml e: 304 members i'm
good standing. s.sEtu "A sss1 fsssss s !
The Berrien Record says that huckle-
berries are nearly ripe and that there is Il
large crop.
Silver oar assaying $50 per ton has
been take from Tire Cleveland milne, near
OntOnagon. 1sof q. ~
Steve Bingham is looming up rs a can-
didate for Congress from the sixth Alr. :
Durand's) district. "a
This state has invested a capital Of
$I3l 400 in the lake Michigan fisheries,
and employs 1000 men. is5'Fig sii 'si
Russell Cary. of Albion. insailcson re-
liSiOn, has taken up his abode i'm the poor
house of Calhoun county. .st
The Almont Congregational ladies an
nounce n strawberry and croquet social
in the basement of their church. -
VIM z. Nesbitt, formerly editor of the
Pontiac Bill Poster, is now in England.
whittier search for health has taken him.
The Berrien County Journal says that
l7,G00 crates of Strawberries were ship
ped from Benton Harbor to Chicigo June
rs. sr -4lH3is s .s'.y {'sda'-si oi
The new postOfiice at Vernon Center Is
named "Durand,' after the gOod-looking
young Congressman from the Flint dis
trict.
Money is being raised in Battle Greek
to offer suitable ICES for state base tall
tournament, to be held about the las: of
July. =: 49, .a aiaHs ea s..e5
The Kalamazoo Republican = county
convention OH Saturday instructed the
congressional delegates unanimously for
Burrows. ~
At st. Joseph, July /, John Anderson,
sailor, fell from the crosstrees of the
schooner Sunrise. Result: A broken
skull and instant death. .....s...., I.
They are drumming on that railroad all
the way from Marshall to Elm Hall, and
if God helps those who help themselves
| the thing is bound to carry. s.l ~ IS
The contract for the electrical wo k Of
| the new State-hOuse. at Lansing, has been
awarded to the Western Electric Manu-
featuring company, of Chicago, III.
Messrs RIA. Campbell and Milton Spen-
\ cor ,IWO GranU Universe NEIL, were StTuck
by lightning oIoln,y last, but it slid
OH without doing them serious harm.
During the month OF June the ship
ments of lumber from Bay City amounted
to 43,SOO,OO feet, and from Saginaw $1S,-
3OO,OOO feet, making a total of W, l00,0O0
| feet.
| The Tecumseh Record says that John
Rector of that town sheared BIZ lbs. of
wool from a fOur-yearS-oitl buck this sea-
son Last year this s;tme animalsslleared
30 lbs.
a special train of 81 cars. loaded with
30 Of Nichols, Shepard & Co.'S thrcshinp
machines. $19,5O0 worth. left Battle
Creek eastward Oh the Michigan Central
on June 30.
The Centennial camp meeting at. .Crvs-
tai Spring., eight miles from Niles nnd
two from the Michigan Central Railroad.
at POkagon, will cDmmence August Is
and continue until the 25th. 80 -, I,
At Flint, June %, Thomas l.. Brown a
deaf mute teacher ut .he head of the deaf
mute department Institution, was married
to Miss Sarah NJ. Hoagland, superintem. {.
dent OF the blind department.. o. gial-ss
The Muskegon Register slys that tile
strawberry crop of Black lake is inn
meilse., Some ofthe fruit-growers pick
from 100 to 100 bushels per day, and the
crop will aggregate nearly or quite 5000
bushels. - -, -, .....,..
! An eight-yesr-old boy, of Manistee.
named William O'COnnell, stabbed Wal
ter Petermann, of about the same age, i'm
the back, June 2S, iniicting it is feared
fatal wound. The precociousl O 'CouiIell.
is in the lookup. (,
A 14-quart pail filled with cobble-
stones was tird to the tail of the high
way COW, in Cambridge, Lanawee ,niity.
one day last week by three ,agyrieved
citizens, and law suit before, Justice
Lamb is the consequence.
Z The Vicksburg Monitor says: aMrs:
Gamer, of Oceana county, has recently
been to Mount Washington, Massachu-
sets, after her father, Alexander Shcp-
ard, ll9 years of age. Mrs. Gamer is the
the youngest daughter, aged 81 years,
there is also a son aged S5." - ,'7"tf
Mr.. g.. n. Van ylcck, of Tecumsch.
has a sandstone pipe weighing three
pounds and-a-half, and witha human eff :
iigy ON the front side; also stone pipe
in the shape of a bullfrog, and weighing
nearly three pounds. They were found
i'm Ohio and are supposed to be the work
of the Mound Builders. ,,f..t
Prof. w. j. Beal writes home from tie
Centennial that hc has exchanged his
collection OF Michigan woods for 1000
sp, cincls of Brazilian wOOas. Dupli- Il
clt of Michigan woods have been. pre-
served in the museum at the Agricultural
College, and with The addition of the
Brazilian woods will be Il valuable col
LECTION. 9a9a ,7.is 91a ~ as9ai iojJ =
The Grand Rapids Common Council ,.
has adopted an ordinance requiring that !.
all dogs within the city limits be regis
tered and provided with a properly label
ed metallic collar. The ann,ril tax for a
male dog is fixed at 81, and a female dog
at 81. The penalty for violating the or
dinance is a fine not TO exceed $50 and
cost of prosecution, or imprisonment irf
The county Jail not to exceed 80 days. 50
The wagon road leading from Toledo
TO Adrian runs by the side of the of the
l.. 5. and NJ. S. r. r., through Bedford
township. 1t is Il noted thorolghfare for
trlmps. One day. last week u farmer liv- ~
ing on that road WAS ut work Oh a distant
part of his farm. His wife Went toa
neighbor's Ii o.1ing her house securely
before starting. The house had net been
,ft more than h; ! IN hour when she re-
turned, and us she entered one door She
saw ii burglar going out of an opposite
door. She went for him" and caught
him, and being, IL powerful woman She
brought him back TO the house To give an
account of himself. As it appeared that
his only object was to something to-
Fat, she let him go after compelling him
10 take an axe and cut Il good lot of stove
wood ior Ie".-Afpnroc Commercial