Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-10-07

Or0SSe Isle turDS OuC ABOUT han CrOD
of grapes this year. Z
A lansing firm has SOLD $3OOeU worth
of farm implements this year.
The track of the Chicago & Lake Hur-
on road is now extended rxmiles west of
Flint.
There is to be steamboat commBnica-
ton between Allegan and Sangatuck
next year.
IecumseA sheep thieves steal the whole
flock when they de anything in the sheep
stealing line. '1i
James Lawlers, of Lansing. stole $40
to help him OH his way to Ireland. He
wont go nOw.r <uIL
There are now GIG insane people under
treatment ut kalamazoo, Of,tbese 300
are males and ZIG females.
CrOaking. TO the contrary notwith-
standing. the Michigan apple crop will
be unusually heavy this year.
A Baptist and Congregational church
have been built ut Carson City this sum-
mer. anu also 80 other edifices.
The judges of the supreme court met
for the October term OIL Tuesday. There
are over 100 cases now upon the docket,
-Four thousand, dollars have beer
pledged toward the further support of
the Adventists' college ut Battle Creek.
Foreign miners who have been inspect
ing the Lake Superior mines report the
machinery, etc, the best they ever saw
i'm the world.
Phelps, the Dexter cattle king. scoopel
up a large share of the state fair cattle
prizes. and had ribbons of merit tied all
over his critters.
There is a gang of Bold robbers az
Manistee. Wherever they can catch an
old woman alone in tie streets after dark.
they are sure to rob her.l
Judge Brown, ot Port Huron. was
challenged by the greenbacksrs to a
joint debate. and he accepted the chai-
lenge but the q. B. men backed down.
The salt crop of Michigan is improv
ing. Thus far 1,1lS.591 barrels have
been made this season. an increase of
249,OOO barrels over last years crop for
the same time.
Jim MahOn and Ed. O'Neil. who
snatched 800 bill from an old farmer.
at Jackson. stand good chance of going
to state prison, after lodging in the Jack
son jail Il few months. - W aH
No hope of getting that University de-
falcatiOn suit settled by referee. and that
makes it equally probable that it will
never be settled, for no jury OH earth
will ever agree upon it. ieD
Next year it is extremely probable
that the several regiments consisting the
Michigan militia will go into camp as
a bridgade. The location of the camp
has not as yet decided upon.
Among the exhibits mt the Lenawee
county fair WAS yoke Of oxen ITO lar-
ness The collar was similar to that
used on horses but used bottom upward.
The team attracted much attention.
The Republicans OF Greenville had
big day on the 26lh when Hon. S. NJ.
CutcheOn went ont there to speak. Al
reform effort 70 break up the meeting bv
crying fire." did not scare the crowd
much. 81.
The Grand Rapids authorities cannot
force the closing of saloons nights and
Sundays without complaint being made.
and out of 1000 petitioners for the closing
not one has sand" enough to make a
complaint.
BY reason of misplaced switch n
freight train from the east eollided with
some cars standing on the side track ar
Battle Greek. Thursday night, disabling
the engine and smashing two cars. No
body hurt.
The Fireman's Journal says uIklt for
discipline. quick and effective work the
firemen of Grand Rapids beat any city of
less than 10000 Inhabitants" The facs
is that Gen. Smith keeps them under stree
military discipline.
Farmers in Raisin and Palmyra are of
tered 10 cents bushel for their apples at
the Alden factory. but they will "be
blowed" if they stop hnsking corn or at
tending political meetings to pick up APP
pies for ID cents a bushel.
An effort to get up hig reform dem
onstration ut Flat Rock the other tlay
was a lamentabe failure. They had only
$l4 of Sammy'S bari of money left, and
that would not get cars. bands. etc.,
enough to make anything of stir.
Jacob Fraise. a hard money farmer.
living near Charlotte. had 5000 i'm gold
and silver slowed away i'm his house.
where the pesky bankers could not
make anything off him. but when he
went to the fair the otter day robbers
took the whole stockiEgful.
Matthew Blennerhassett died at Port
Huron on the 18th. Mr.. Blennerhasseft
was one of the Oldest MasOns i'm the
United States. and it ia said he WAS q
iiheal descendant Of the man whom
Aaron Burr lei with him into treason at
the famous council OIL Blennerhassett's
Island.
Mason & Morg.ln's Combination. dra--
matte company known throughout the
length and breadth of Michigan. has just
closed IL very successful season. and is
now taking a rest at Pontiac They
showed under e.lifvAs This Summer. but
will sOon start ont again,. witt, hall tour
i'm view.
The Rly City Combination Lock COM
pany. working umler Roots useful par
ent, arr now making combil,at on cabi-
net chpst-lid and trunk locks. also pad
locks. 1t is the most ingenious. perfect
simple anil safe lock ever invenie |. and
the combination works lis well rs that OF
bank-safp lUk. a
The Battle Greek school library num-
hers 100 volumes. Of which l65 are l.llb-
lie documents donated by Hon. George
Willard. The museum connected with
the school is valuable and extensive. in
Guiding several thousand specimens Of
minerals. FOSSILS Inlian and mound
builders relics frpm Michigan AMI other
states.
A member of the Saginaw Rifles left
the ranks during a parade the other day
and got into a carriage with SOME ladies.
The captain ordered him back. lie would
not 60 and Il guard was ordered to arrest
him. After fighting the guard and max
ing IN exhibition of himself that would
have made "A mule laugh, he was per-
suaded weepingly back into the ranks.