Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-07-21
NJ. e. CHURCH,
G. I. NEwCOMB, Pastor.
TOWN TALK.

The Mattoon mill has been shut down
for few days for want of logs.
The potato bug is at work, and the de-
mand for Paris green is on the increase.
Pleasure seekers are arriving daily.
and The hotels are doing a good bust
ness.
Fishermen report the catching season
about over, and are talking of taking up
their Irvine.
Rev. Van Gennip, pastor of st. Mary's
Catholic church, is having residence
built near the church.
Henry a. Todd, has erected stand at
Humphreys dock, where he will keep
for sale ice cream, soda water, fruits,
cigars, &c.
Huckleberries have made their appear
ance on our Streets. We understand ''Lo''
brought in about one hundred pals
Wednesday.
Messrs. I.ichtenSerg g. Son, of Detroit,
have an agent here for the purpose of
buying huckleberries and shipping them
to that market.
Those who pass over the inland route
speak of it as being very pleasant trip,
and the travel is increasing as the route
becomes known.
Messrs. Tozer and Shaw, the former OF
the Grand Rapids Times, and the latter
of the Newaygo Democrat, made the
TRIBUNE Office yisis yesterday.
The time for the collection of corpora
ton, highway and poll taxes in the VIII
lage, has been extended for forty days
from the 10Th inst, by the Village
Council. -.42s
w. Chandler and w III. Bunker left
last Saturday night, on the steam yacht
Grace, on their return to the Sault. Nj.
Chandler's her, Mr.. Binker'ss flaugh-
ter, Minnie, and Miss Estella Seaman,
accompanied them.
There has been quite force OF men at
work during the greater portion of last
week and this constructing dam on
Pigeon river to aid in getting out the
drives which have been delayed in that
stream for The want Of water.
The Detroit Evening News says that
the arrangements for consolidating the
Post and Tribune of that city have been
completed, and as soon as convenient viii
go into effect. The lame of the paper,
under the new arrangement, it says, is to
be the Post and Tribune.
From the amount of goods being re-
ceiycd by our merchants, We should
iudge that business was looking up
the receipts for freight at Humphreys
dock clone to The present time being
several hundred dollars in excess of the
ainount received during the same p riod
last year.
MIR. John Sexton. OF St. Louis, No.,
and wife, arrived in our yillage last Mon
day to spend week or-so IN recreation.
Mr.. Sexton has long known u tbs adj
yantages afforded in this vicinity for fish
ing, this being the thirteenth summer
that he has visited Cheboygan to indulge
in the sport.
The cargo of lumber from Bullen &
Nelson, shipped Gu the schooner A. 2.
Nichols, July 9Th, sold III Chicago at an
average of $l3 IS per thousand feet
This is about as good a price as any cargo
brought that we have noticed as being
sold in that market, and speaks well for
the quality of the lumbcr.
We lnesday forenoon catfish or ..buli-.
heads, . as some call them, were ought
in large numbers Off of Humphreys
dock. Some six or eight were there fish
Ing, and it afforded them rare sport. 1t
is surmisesl that the heavy blow which
was prevailing at the time had driven
them in from the straits.
The contract for dredging Duluth har-
boz has been let to Messrs. Williams 81
Upham, who are well known to our cit
liens they having been engaged OH the
improvement of the Cheboygan harbor
Tor liz5c per cubic yard. The bid of Mr..
Moses was the next lowest, lie. The sum
TO be expended in dredging the harbor is
$4,000.
A small boy fell into the river near
Nelson's dock Monday of this week, but
managed 10 get hold of a Spite, where he
chung until The bridge tender, who dis
covered mis- situation from the bridge, ran
down ana pnIlsd him out. Quite force
was engaged loading the schooner Trow-
bridge 1T the dock, but, strange to say,
did not hear his cries OF know of his
danger until the bridge tender arrived to
pull him out.