Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-05-12
TOWN TALK.

Main street it receiving its annual quota
Of gravel.
Barclay & Co.'s mill it Is expected will
start up next week.
Large quantities Of perch are being
caught in Duncan bay and fishermen are
enjoying the sport hugely. Fish have
not as yet commenced biting at bait in
the river.
The lumbermen are not happy over
the prospects of getting their logs out.
1t Is feared that some will be '.hung up,"
while many will be got down only at a
considerable extra expense.
The Leviathan went over to Mackinaw
and Point st. Ignace Thursday with a
small party Of ladies and gentlemen from
here. The chief cause of the trip was to
take DR.. Perrin over to visit patient at
The Point.
The bill detaching Cheboygan county
from the Eleventh judicial circuit and at
taching it to the Thirteenth has passed
theHeuse, and we think will pass the Sem
ate and become law. This will be of
great benefit to the county i'm legal mat
tiers.
Lack of water for running logs is q
general complaint throughout the lum-
bering region. A letter to the Detroit
Post from Alpena states that unless they
have rain not more than one hall of the
logs got out last winter will reach the
mills this season.
John w. McGinn has a force at work
cutting off the spiles and preparing the
foundation for the iron pier OF the swing
bridge. Mr.. Wiley has the spiles for the
center pier and guards about all driven.
and Mr.. Summons has the spiles for the
end piers driven i'm position, and some
for the approaches driven.
Some person or persons not having
any fear OF the law, and desiring some
potatoes, made raid upon Mr.. Haydens
potato hole and took therefrOm about 20
bushels of potatoes, filling up with
b0ughs the void. and covering it up so
nicely that Mr.. Hayden cannot tell
whether they were taken last fall or this
spring.
The ice gorge i'm st. Clair river so late
i'm the season and for so lengthy period
is something unprecedented in lake
navigation. A telegram received
Wednesday announces that it was impos-
sible for boats to get through. The de-
lay was quite disappointment to u
number of passengers who were very
anxious to get passage for Chicago early
In the week.
Fires have burned over large sections
Of the woods i'm this county during the
last few weeks. Thousands ofacres have
been burned over in the southern por.
tiOn of the county. In some instances
homesteaders had to work hard to pre-
vent their houses from being destroyed.
Supervisor Jarmy had TO take things out
Of his house several times. and for long
while he despaired of saving anything
but fortunately he lost nothing
The Free Press last week stated that
the chairman OF the printing committee:
presented '.facts and figures" showing
that the Free Press bid was the lowest.
He did not do so, and we asked them of
the Free Press. That paper now refuses
TO give any. The situation is just this
1t has uttered deliberate falsehood, and
now gets up OIL its dignity and refuses
to give the evidence. We venture this
assertion The Free Press dare not pro-
duce the proof of Its assertion.
The Charlevoix Sentinel, last week. in
dulged i'm considerable growing about
the harbor appropriations, because the
eJitor thought Charlexoix was not going
10 receive the benefit of the amount ap-
propriated for their harbor last Congress.
The editor consoled himself OH the prin-
eipal of the adage that Misery loves
company" by saying that his consolation
was "that Cheboygan was like situated"
lie feels better this week, having found
ont that the remainder Of the appropri-
alton has been ordered expended.
The Ere Press tries to squirm out of
the fact that it suppressed the report OF
the Finance committee on the village
printing question, but it makes ridicu
lous failure OF it. When committee
makes a report. it is just as much entitled
TO place in the proceedings, If tits re-
ferred to any other committee, as though
it was adopted, and the editor of the
Free Press knows ii. Upon the same
principle, the report of the Printing COM
mittee should not have been published.
because it was not adopted. But the
Free Press was very willing to print
ti,a;.