Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-22
STATE NEWS.


inaw City.
John Waoley is re building his dock
at Cross Village.
A new jail is to be built at Cassopolis.
Cost $4,000 including site.
AT Benton Harbor subscriptions are
being made toward ipnblic library fund.
The Daily Observer. the new Bay CITY
Democratic paper, made its first appear
ance OH Saturday last.
Two houses, store and a church. at
Oscoda, are heated by waste steam from
mill and salt works.
A Battle Creek dog vomited up As certs
In cents and nickIes. A relched WV
OF resuming specie payment.
The bankrupt mill firm of Campbell g.
Campbell. of Bay City and Pinconninr
will pay III cents on the dollar.
Another ship canal meeting viii be
held 1T Aliegan on the 2Sth lust. The
state grange indOrses the project.
Two hundred and seventy Int tramps
have been lodged and fed at the Lapter
county Jail and poor house since january
l, 1877.
The state and county tax of st. Joseph
county was $41.250 last year, and is S62.-
969 this year, an increase of nearly 30
per cent.
Moses Taylor. of New York, won a suit
In the U. 5. court at Detroit last Tuesday
and The city of Ypsilanti will have to pay
him $2.753 81.
The fifth annual convention of the Su-
perintendents of the Poor will be held ac
Grand Rapids, beginning Summary and
continuing three days.
The CassopOlis red ribbon club have
offered reward of so to every person
who will furnish evidence sufficient to
convict the salOOn-keepers.
Congressman Huubbell has introduced
a bill to create new judicial district at
the Upper Peninsula. 10 be called the
Northern District of Michigan.
Scarlet fever is quite prevalent i'm AL
pena. and the Board of Health has order
ed notices posted OIL all houses
where the disease is known to exist.
The store of Bassett & Mcleod, at
Shepardsville, was entered last Monday
night and the safe broken into The loss
was small. however, but $50 or $40 being
taken.
p. NJ. Goodrich, tine Grand Rapids
hardware merchant who recently iaile.l,
had branch stores at Fremont Center and
Petoskey. Both are involved III his mis-
fortune.
| The State Salt Inspector exI 'sses the
opinion that the amount OF salt which
viii be manufactured i'm Michigan this
winter will exceed, that manufactured
during any previous winter.
The Hon. John F. briggs, ex-Con-
gressmaD, died at East Saginaw Eist Mon
ay.morning. at the age of Go years He
had been suffering for long while with
Bright's disease of the kidneys and paral-
ysis.
The state collegiate contest VIII take
place at Kalamazoo, January 25th. The
contestants will be an orator and an es-
sayist from each of the following colleges
viz: Albion. Adrian. Hillsdale and Kala-
mazOO. The esSayists are to be ladies.
AT Grand Rapids. on Monday morn
ing, the fog was so dense that the fire.
men could not find fire after OK
alarm had been sounded. They went di-
rectly past it, and the building burned
without their assistance.
James F. JOY made another trip TO
East Saginaw on last Saturday to ina, IS
what they were going to do about haI
Saginaw and Vassar railroad, and flle,-
were going to have meeting last
Wednesday evening to fix upon an All
swer for him.
The Vermontville Enterprise is respon-
sible for the statement that there lives in
the town of BroOkfield DIR. f. Z. Chaplin,
who claims TO be I07 years of age. lie
still practices his profession and not un-
frequently bitches mp his horse anu rides
10 or II miles TO visit a patient.
Owosso and Laingsburg each have had
a taste of the Utah divorce business. At
the latter place one gentleman who has
been arrested for marrying on the
strength of such divorce has settled
with his wife, and his case is dropped
from court.
The steamship plying across Lake
Michigan have been taking I'll possible
advantage of the good weather. and i'm
mense quantities of freight have been
taken from Milwaukee to Grand Haven.
necessiiating the employment of several
extra trains per day on the Detroit &
Milwaukee road TO move it.
Only 367 signatures were procured TO
the steamship canal petition i'm Kal una
200. where $500 were expected. Mr..
Willis is not pleased with the Big Viii
lage. and says that when it comes 10
spending $500,0O0 there in building his
canal the merchants who refused To sign
will be remembered and their stores
avoided.
1,ok
dian can forecast the weather as well as
squirrel or ground hog can, asked a son
of Lo the other day whether this was sto
be an open or severe winter. and received
this o.acrlar response Come my Wig,
wan may be one month ago, may be two
months ago. and Iniun tell um when
much cold country round here"
On Sunday evening last, as Mrs. Gertie
B .rnes. of Detroit, was addressing an all-
dience i'm Temperance hall at PiDckney.
the floor of the structure gave way pre-
cipitating Is or 100 of the people 10 the
ground below. a sort of a sub-cellar. the
audience rooms being on the ground
floor. There were 500 people in the
i building, it is estimated, but fortunately
no one was seriously hurt, when i con
sidered almos mil q ,ulous. The building
is total wreck.
The proposition James f. Joy
makes to the pc )ple of East Saginaw. in
regard to the proposed railroad TO Vassar.
| is that he is 10 build the road; and have
it in running operation within II months,
on condition that East Saginaw gives the
use of the new iron railroad bridge now
built across the river there, the right of
way tor the road east to Vassar. 20 miles.
, and the depot grounds at East Saginaw.
The bridge will give him connection west
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