Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-09-23
STATE NEWS.


Twenty million feet Of deals VII be
cnt at Muskegon this season.
The Democrats OF Flint will have no
wigwam tomfoollery. Costs too much
say they.
: The Grand Rapids Knights Templar are
thinking OF making an excursion to the
Centennial.
The Gazette prophecies that the burnt
district at Iawas will be rebuilt upon in
less than year.
Richard Hallett, of Hillsdale. has a
squash which girths six feet and seven
inches around the equator.
There is said to be a deal of crooked
ness in the existing contract to carry the
mail from Houghton Lake to Farwell.
The citizens of IIillsdale have decided TO
buy Il steam fire engine. provided they
can trade off some of their old hand en-
Igines.
The Grand Rapids g. Indiana railroad
company advertises their lands In an
elaborate manner upon the side OF their
freight cars.
1t is said that 1900 persons will visit
the Centennial from Lenawee county.
The Hudson Gazette estimates the eX-
pense at $225.000.
Three hundred and four bushels of oats
from six acres of land is the best they
can do at Roberts landing, hamlet up
the st. Clair rivee.
The Alpena people are wonderfully inn
growing their city. New brick stores are
being put up wherever there is
chance TO put one ap.
-
Battle Greek, have built seven new resi-
dences, to be occupied by teachers and
other employees of their college and print
ing house
1t was Birch Run salloonatic who In
voked 1.-The curse of God OIL the town If
"A Republican pole was to be raised there"
The pole went up however, and tic curse
has not come down as yet.
The Tuscola county Democrats are
alive and propose to spend little money
for reforin-;lnd the printers by publish
ing n campaign paper, to be called the
Tuscola Campaign Democrat
Greenback congressional conventions
will be held as follows: For the Second
district. at Hudson on Sept. 27th; for the
Third district, at Jackson on Sept. both;
for the Seventh district, at Port Huron
on Sept. 22.
MuskegOn has an Icelander named
| Thoryalbur Stevenson, who shows a
manuscript record of his family reaching
back to the days OF King Odin. who came
from Asia TO Scandinavia 40 years before
the birth of Christ.
At meeting of the Grand River Valley
horticultural society at Grand Rapids
Sept. ). it was ascertained that failure of
the grape crop this season is very gener-
al i'm the state. They think the cause is
unf;lvOrable weather.
| Mr.. Charlesworth. of lansing. and
another gentleman. who is master car
builder at the Adrian shops. have invent
ed il cir ventilatOr which they think is to
take the place OF all so-called ventilators
heretofore pantented.
| The Vicksburg Monitor is responsible
for story of a child that fell into well
53 feet deep in which there was III feet of
water vet she never struck the stones on
her way down and was hauled out alite
clinging to the bucket.
Hording over-ripe eggs is being ex-
tensiyely INDUCED i'm i'm Benzie county.
They are getting ready to fight for the
removal of the county records from ono
county seat to another, though it is hard
to tell which is the most desirable place.
The barn of Charles Smith noar Ches-
aning was burned Sept. 18th and Mr..
Smiths dead body was found in the ruins.
Foul play is suspected and Mrs. Smith,
her sister. and husband, and young
man named Alexander, have all been ar
rested.
The Lansing chair factory was sold at
mortgage sale OH Saturday. Latham
Hill. of Kalamazoo. bought it for $5.l39
3D. the amount of the mortgage. This
sale being on the first lien. cuts off the
others, the aggregate of which Is $4,000.
Value of property originally, Sa0.cO0s
Eastern millers advise the Michigan
farmers not TO raise Clawson wheat.
They say it makes poor flour. and bakes
rather black This is damper. for this
kind Of grain WAS beginning tosturnish us
with some of the biggest wheat stories in
the world.-30, 40, aud even oO bushels
20 the acre.
The Turf Field and Farm editorially
remarks that in Il six-lnile race the ShO-
wae-cae-inelte crew OF Monroe can un-
doubtedly give the London crew half
mile start anu then beat them. The edi-
tor seems to regard that native crew."
Us he CdiiS Tie MOllIOS lutil, Ju6 DeSb
''stayers'' in the land.
Paulina Mager, an Ann Arbor girl,
while tanning fire with her dress, got
too near and the skirt caught fire. She
lost her presence of mind and ran scream
ing ont doors. thus causing the flames to
burn all the more fiercely. and before
help arrived she was dangerously burned
-perhaps fatally.
Two valuable horses were stolen from
the farm of Mr.. G. e. Wheeler in the
town of COnvis, some four miles north of
Marshall. on Saturday night. They were
taken from the pasture. IL is supposed
to he the work of tramps. A reward of
500 is offered by Sheriff Smiley, OF
Calhoun county. for the return of the
property and thieves.
The Adrian Times saws that one of the
conductors Oh the Lake Shore, who is in
the habit Of nibbling see,ls AMI other
trifles, put Il gun cap in his mouth the
other day which upon being bitten ex-
ploded, badly cutting the inside of his
mouti, and lips. HIS friends say that he
looks as though he had been trying to
kiss Il buzz SAW
President Agassiz, of the Calumet &
llecla nine. has Informed Gov. Bagley
that at the close OF the Centennial his
company will present to the State Un-
versity the beautiful miniature stamp
mill now on exhibition IT Machinery
hall, ut the exposition. 1t is one of the
most beautiful and complete models
imaginable. and exhibits OH small scale
the exact workings of the Calumet &
IL c Il mill.