Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-01-27


Hiram Roop. of Bloomer. Montcalm
county, raised six tons Of honey last
year.
During 1876 602 names were registered
upon the books of the Calhoun county
Jail.
A colored girl. about IA years old. SPELL
ed the entire Hillsdale union school down
the other day.
The Penrwater steam poultry Matching
apparatus turns out 400 chickens ar once
when it feels well.
i A. L. Drew, supervisor Of Chickaming
township, Berrien county, has been IN
dieted for perjury.
The line OF the Chicago & Lake Huron
road crosses l6 tracks between Port Hu-
ron and Valparaiso.
A Marine City jeweler recetly removed
to Canada--in the night, ard left divers
creditors to mourn his loss.
Mrs r. Kingsly. of Health township,
| Allegan county, had been asleep IS hours
and was still sleeping at last accounts.
| During his last term of Office Gov. Bag
| ley pardoned 42 convicts from the state
prison and 16 from the house of correc-
tion.
/ Saginaw county will leave no stone UNI
turned i'm its efforts 10 secure the estab-
lishment Of house Of correction in the
valley.
Grand Rapids people wish the world
to know that there are $4,000 of tn, m
| living inside the limits of the VALLEY
City.
The ladies of Battle Creek are indus
| triously engaged raising funds AMI tit
ting up for the temperance reform club "a
reading room.
The New York and Michigan salt and
| lumber company. doing business on the
Saginaw river. with property valued &c
$250.000, has failed.
| Charles Soutbworth and William
Baker. of Dundee, shot at n Deerfield 10y
several times. just to see him run. They
are now in Adrian JAIL
They talk about 42 inches OF snow az
Dowagiac, and say that is the aggregate
depth that has fallen. Measured before
it has had time to melt or pack is full five
! feet.
Some very sensible and important inn
provcments have just been perfected in
Hamblin's opera house. Battle Greek. to
secure rapid and safe egress in case OF
| fire.
| Mrs. Hamilton. residing near Sturgis.
has been divorced from her husband, and
gets $4,000 almon,. The ground for
the suit was mean and inhuman treat
ment.
| Two ladies now have situations i'm the
Adrian postofficc. One is Miss Clara
4 o~1 f1alt q,
other Miss Elt. NJ. Stuart. at the money
order desk.
The total expenditures of the state fish
commissioners from July l '75. to Dec /.
'76 were $9.263 81, and the property of
the state now in the hands OF the commits
sion is valued at Sl.92l 81.
Just think of it A girl left Hougl.-
Ton the other day. Ell route for Sidney.
| Australia. A chap out there says he
loves her we'll enough to marry her il
she'll go to him, and she packed up and
started.
Prof Watson is writing an account Of
| his voyage around the world. which will
soon be issued in book-form by the Ann
Arbor publishing company. 1t will
doubtless be readable and very vali,-
able book.
A Jewish and Roman Catholic ladv
are serving as Vice Presidents of the
WOman's Christian Temperance union at
Jackson. All are working hard to dis
lodge King Alcohol's forces from their
inirenchments.
John Finley shot bis wife Mt Fremont
not long ago. and she may slie. He hal
been very cruel to her. and tried orlre be-
fore to shoot man he WAS Jealous of.
She left him, and he shot her because she
would not return.
| Seth Bowerman. of Hanover. obtained
divorce from his wife. on the ground
that she was cruel to him and abused her
step-children. Bnt Seth wanted wife.
and rather than trust his life and happi-
ness in the hands ofa stranger, he has
taken Sarah back. Thus far their warm
ed over affection works very well.
Hon. Ike Marston. tho jolly. hard-heal-
ed member from Ireland, who holds a
seat OH the bench of the Michiran su-
preme court. has accepted the Presid, ~
cy of the Bay county agricultural So
ciety and proposes TO put life into lis
long dead organism or be buried with its
corpse
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Michigan Salt association was held
at East Saginaw one day last week. three
! fourths of the entire stock being repre-
sented. The President and Secretary
submitted reports showing the operations
of the past year. the amount of sale re-
ceived, shipped. and the receipts and dis
bUrsements. from which it appears that
| the net profits to the manufacturers the
year past were nearly 100000.
Last Christmas Lewis r. Wright and
Miss Stella Rice were married ut Homer.
and on returning TO Albion the gentle
mans parents began a systematic course
OF annoying the young couple. They ar
last prevailed upon the young man to
leave. which he did. going to Detroit,
where he was arrested January 18th for
desertion and brought back. The case
was called before Justice Morrison. the
18th. but was adjourned until the Goth,
when, at the request of the young brle.
the case was dismiss ed 9 n Notu outstanding
AL this. the matrimonial market is still
decidedly brisk 1T Albion.
a fearful case of cruelty has been dis
covered i'm Green. Mecosta county, i'm tho
case OF one Elisha Cline and wife, their
victim being little girl of six years,
Clne's child by former wife. His
present wife has four children Of her own. .
and apparently wishes to get rid OF
Cline's two, and the unnatural father
seems 70 work according to her wishes.
The little girl has been repeatedly strip
ped naked and whipped with knotted
cord. held mp by her heels and let fall TO
the floor. rolled in the snow, and other
things TO revolving TO relate. When the
officers found her she was Gagged in box
like wild beast. with her face SO