Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-02-09

from Lake st. Clair to "yicksburg"
(Marysville).
Representative Keightly, OF this state,
hos been admitted to practice In the q.
). Supreme court.
Grand Rapids male a tremendous
effort TO get the state fair. Twenty-Five
men signed $50 each and that ended it.
Compliments have been passing te-
tween the mayors of Detroit and Osweeo,
N. Y.oyer the exchange of public docu-
ments.
The spiritnaists are making prrpara-
tions for their annual state convention.
wuich is to be held at Kalamazoo in
MAJ ch.
Said to be good soft coal at Three
Rivers. aud plenty OF it. The deposit is
about feet from the surface OF the
ground.
One of the lunatics i'm the Kalamazoo
asylum wants To marry Governor Cros-
well. The Executive clemency will not
stretch that far.
The Tribune says there never was
such an extraordinary demand for baby
cribs and baby carriages in Bay City AS
there is this season.
Now that big tree stories are i'm order,
Messrs. Sands s. Young, of Cadillac, say
they have cut Is cords ot stove wood
from a maple sapling.
During the year 1877 the Flint e. Pere
Marquette railroad hauled 77,l03.0OO feet
OF lumber. 3,0I6.4O0 slaves, l93,5o0,000
shingles, and 2,350,000 lath.
A peculiar disease affects the horses I'm
Bedford, Calhoun county, and there
,bOuts. Ii seems to attack the brain, and
they die almost instantly.
The prospects are tnat a fund for a
monument TO the memory of the late
President Jocelyn, OF Albion, will be
raised without much trouble.
A bold Lapeer thief found horse and
sleigh standing i'm front of the postofficc
in that ely, las. Saturday night, and at
OF ce converted it to his own use.
David III. Jerome and Ezra Rust. of
Saginaw City, are ut Washington OH
business in connection with the various
new projects for bridging the Saginaw
river.
A commission of IIolanders. from
Michigan, are to tell the Lincoln park
Chicagn) commissioners how to keep
Lake Michigan out of their park by
dikes, etc.
There were 3.942 liquor dealers i'm the
state of Michigan who were taxed in
1877, or 925 less than in 1876. The
amount of state tax collected was $751;
5Sl AZ; uncOllected. $33.S2l %.
Two East Saginaw butchers tied "A Jew
pedlar i'm a sheep-rack when he asked for
a ride to town. and kept him there tor
six hours in the bitter cold. when they
were arrested the Hebrew was almost
frozen To death.
A pine tree was cut on the land of /.
Wilkins, hear Farwell, the other day,
which measured five feet ten inches in
diameter at the butt aud two feet eight
inches i'm diameter at where it was of, log
feet from the butt.
Three young men living near Albion
tried to see how near they could let a
locomotive approach before their sleigh
crossed the track. Tie experiment VIA,
partly successful, as only the sleigh was
ground up ~ tine engine.
The steamer Carrie III. Blood, which
plies between Port Huron and AlgOIiac.
has made the the round trip 25l times
since navigation opened last year, AMI
has steamed 1920 miles.
Miss Inez A. Sexton, the well-known
vocalist has taken another benefit. The
Grand Rapids Enquirer says she was
married OH Saturday evening. tins
happy man who has caught this flutter-
ing sOng-bird was DR.. Marheinke.
1t has been asserted that Governor
Croswell has made too tree use Of the
par,ioning power. On the contrary, he
last year par,lOned only 16 criminals.
while, during the first year of his Gov
ernorship, Governor Baglry signed 81
pardOns.
VIM. Gage. stndent at the Flint high
school, fell down the steps leading 10
the mail entrance of that institution and
broke his left leg near the hip joint. He
gazed at the useless member and cody
asked how he should get home before
dinner time.
Hon. Moses B. Hess. of East Saginaw.
died at Albion, n. Y. last Saturday
afternoon. Mr.. Hess vas a prominent
citizen OF Saginaw, and a fine man. He
was state librarian, and Tor several years
was register OF the U. S. land office at
East Saginaw.
Mr.. G.hhens, St. Clair county farmer,
signed an order for lightning rod, and.
of course. u note tor $lS2 was presented
TO him i'm less than week. lie prompt
ly Cancelled that note by snatching it and
putting it in his pocket and kicking the
lightning rod sharper off his premises
The grave robbing business is reported
to be brisk at Flint again. Ii is said that
the body of Wheeler Plum, late cashier
l,.f h.,,,E al
that place and was inferred at Flint. has
been taken from the grave by resurrec-
,ionists. Some Flint people now arc
thinking that Judge Lynch is the best
judge the state has to sit In judgment OIL
bOdy-snatcherS.
For several days Mrs. Rev. A. B. A.
len, of Alpena, formerly Miss Nettie Den
| his. member Of the faculty OF OliveC
College. Was violently insane and lyingat
| the point of death, caused. il is sad. by
being bounded for weeks by a female
| evangelist from Illinois, who insisted that
Mr. and Mrs. Allen were not Christians.
and that the work they were engaged In
WAS only "a hindrance 20 the Gospel, etc.
| Mrs. Alien is now convalesait.
| a funny incident occurred in an Albion
church the other Sunday. A .ollege
professor pre- ,ched, and from excessive
dullness, or otherwise. put the worthy
pastor, who sat in the pulpit with him.
into IL sound sleep, from which he was
with some difficulty awakened 10 make
rhe closing prayer. When, therefore, in
the course or the prayer. he thanked the
Almighty tor the refreshing" they hal
received through the ministrations of the
brother who had just spoken. "a smile,
Ill. a
Icongreg ltion.