Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-08-24

Lightning struck p barns in this
state last week. Several counties still to
hear from, .i
1t is said to be cheaper ty far to drive
sheep from Calhoun county to Detroit
than to send them by rail. sa...e
Proprietors OF st. Joseph factories
have agreed to employ none but st.
Joseph people in their establishments.
Fire in the pineries of the Watson Bros.
in Lake county last week, burnt over
about 80 acres of timber, destroying over
100000 feet of logs. s,.ss,
Cairo bored for water for public uses,
and struck a first-class mineral water
vein, and Cairo's new editor sings the
praises thereof very vigorously risa- &
G. S. Wormer s. Sons vii supply The
State Agricultural society with 20 horse.
power engine and boiler and loo feet of,
line shafting for the machinery hall OF
the state fair.
Detroit never more soreIy felt the lack
of elevator room than now. Hundreds
of cars there grain laden have to wait and
take their turn. The elevators are per-
haps 500 cars behind.
Mrs. McCarty, of Troy. oakland coun-
ty, visited Mt. Clemens one day last,
week, and having no other means OF
getting there, walked the entire distance
and wheeled her baby in baby cart. /,
Good grit.
Mrs. Sarah A. Rynd, wife of DIR. Chas.
RyId. OF Adrian, Regent Of. the Univer-
sity. died at 4.30 Monday AFTERNOON, after
long and severe illness, aged 81.
A bright looking boy presented
check for $3.50 10 Bay City cashier the
other day, but being questioned he
''slOped." 1t was raised from a 50 check.
The boy and A suave adult companion
are confidence operators and swindlers
look out for them.
Matt Carpenter got $100 from the De-
troit liquor dealers to study up the corf-
stitutiOnality of the Michigan liquor
law. He did study it up and sent his
opinion last week. 1t was very brief
and to this effect: You can't break the
law"
Rev. Mr.. Reed. of Greenyille, thus fig
ures out the problem of what ails this
country; "The country raised and sold
over and above its home consumption
and imports $206, 100000 last year. This
shows prosperity. But against that, the
country has expended i'm liquors over
5000 O00'O00. This expenditure has bur-
dened the land and paraIyzed American
industry; hence the hard times"
Gen. Alpheus S. Williams was rcnomi-
mated for Congress by the Democracy of
the First Congressional Detroit) district,
last Saturday, receiving Sc out of l02
votes. His main competitors were w.
Maybury, City Attorney of Detroit, and
w. w. Wheaton, formerly Mayor of De-
troit. This is the first nomination Of a
congressional candidate of any Of the
e parties in that district.
1 Work OH the new capitol building is
going forward to completion. All the
: outside and many of the inside doors are
now placed i'm position. The glass tile is
D being laid in the rotunda. New furni-
, ture in the shape of desks. tables, chairs,
etc., has been placed i'm many of the
rooms in great profusion and confusion.
All the various buildings erected by the
] contractors have been taken down and
, re moved, with exception of the black
: smith shop.-Ldnstng Repablicdn
Kalamazoo formerly was reported a
3 healthy place, but here is what the Tele-
: graph has to say about its condition now;
: Physicians with. much owlishness at
tribute certain diseases to malarial and
4 Zymotic influences. Danish such bosh
e During the past two or three weeks the
o most horrid stenches that ever yssailed
the human seDsorism have .arisen from
" the reeking rottenness in back yards, al
Il leys and repositories in the heart of the
!, town, near the postoffice and other CEN
tral points,"