Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-02-23
STATE NEWS.

"A telephone IIile Is TO be o: Grated be
tween Kalamazoo and Plainw I'll.
Congressman Stone is striving to have
a signal station established at MuskegolI.
The Father os Fishes says he can
give out no brook trout for lake planting
this year.
Mr.. John DIV has been supervisor of
the town Of Sunfiel,I, Eaton county, for
30 consecutive Years.
The creditors OF George Campbell &
o. of Bay City. Tgfred to accept "a COM
position of 10 per cent.
Isaac Godie-, of Saline. has been di-
Torcei from Il % foot tal w'rIn ti.at he
has owned for over 20 yeais.
Judge Marsion, OF the Supreme court,
wilt deliver the address at the University
law commencement i'm March.
Another coal bed has been tapped at
Jackson. 1t is on the other side of the
river irom the one now being worked.
The city of Flint will compromise with
its late treasurer for 20 cents the dol
..;'r of his deficit. Thus the city loses about
$4,000.
Over 81 800 worth of wheat has BEEN
stolen from f,rmers living near Battle
Creek recently. The alrOit robbers are
sill at liberty.
Mr. Theodore C. Philips. late postmas-
ter If Day City, is now business manager
of the Bay City Tribune. MIR. Shaw is
still editor thereof.
Judge CrofOot has 'e>igncd hi. pace
as managing trustee aud treasurer OF the
Michigan Mill ;r Academy. EX-Goyer-
nOr Bsgley succeeds him.
John Clark of Midland. was arrested at
East Saginaw Tuesday. lie is charged
with adl,ling to hi> other accomplishing Is
horse-thieving and bigamy.
The Elk Rapids furnace is soon to be
shut down for repairs During the last
10 months th.t it has becn i'm blast it has
made over 10. 500 tons of iron.
No ice in Grand Haven IIarbor. and the
steamers Hackctt. Amazon, Forest CRY.
and Minneapolis are making regular tiips
between there an,l Milwaukee.
Last week the Grand Trunk railroad
fcrfi.s at Port Huron transferred liz
freight cars i'm 81 honrs-to say nothing
Of the regular passenger trains.
-. AUOuI 1SU Uucli stu
found employment last week harvesting
ice at Baw Beesc lake, at IIillsdale. The
ice WIS TOR the Cincinnati market.
LAUNDERING bp steam is now Ill the
rage. hIr. }. Ble,i!er is building rail-
road from the Flint Il Pere Marquette
road. near Evart, into his pineiies, about
seven miles distant.
Paul Br,Isha. Frcnchman- employed
at Flanders lumber camp in the Alpeni
district. was killed by a falling tree on
Saturday. Brrl-ha was a sailor. and lis
home WAS i'm Detroit or Windsor.
The 34th report of Receiver Trow-
bridge. of the Detroit & Milwankee raIl-
road, shows the fetal rcccip.s Tor Janu-
ary at Sl62.5Sl Is, and The expenditures
$95.419 Is. The outstanding Indebtedness
is $3l3.5 40.
A Detroit man, named Carles L. Dun
ming. GOT INTO quarrel with gang of
near Dea,lwool City. several
Weeks since. during wi icll one of them
drew a revolver airl shot him IN the
breast, from the effects OF which he died.
The Me,.ominee Herald says quite
number of parties owning lands in the
iron range are max ng ar -angemenss Tor
extensive explorations next season. aId
the prospects for an active summers
work i'm that direction are very eneour-
aging.
Last Wednesday the fishermen at ST.
Joseph. began operations again, MANY
nets having already been sets The lift
is confidently expected I'D be fine one.
This is the earliest opening OF the fish
ing industry known th' re tor many
years.
Discipline triumphant. A Fenton
schoolmarm was arrested for whipping
an unruly bog. and when her trial cam"
off the complainant did not put i'm an APP
pearance. There was 1 big crowd out To
hear The trial. AMI as there was no one To
fight. the lawyers made il an occasion 10
present the teacher an excellent raw-hiuc
to be used instead of Il ruler.
A deserted gIrl-wife and mother, only
l6 years of age. was an APP
plicant at Detroit for relief from
the county fund last Wedn. sday.
Her husband brought her from Sanlt Ste.
Marie. sold off all their effects, and clear
e,l out 10 New York with the proceeds.
The child (she is little mOre) has baby
three months OLD, and Is quite destitute.
II polished plate glass is left to stand.
several plates or sheets together. il gath
ers dampness. and in time the polish Is
spoiled, making the glass look as though
stained or smoked. 1T a Newspaper b.,
placed in a package of polished glass and
left there until the glass ",weats' every
letter and line of the paper will, upon
looking through the glass be found print
e.l there. This explains the so-cailed
trouble with glass at the state capitol.
The glass was purchased Of X A Boyd.
OF New York city, was received and ac-
cepted in February. 1876 Two years ago.
The institutions sent with the glass We're
TO open packages ami not ALLOW the
sheets of glass 10 remain standing to-
gether. These instructions were not fol-
lowed; the glass stood in package for mo
than year, and when opened some of iC
looked rs though stained and OF inferior
quality. \ mali is now at work repolsl,-
ing the glass. After he finishes "a win
dow it shows no trace of stain, bnt is as
bright us ever. The glass is of the best
quality. The cost of polishing it is the
price at which the contr lctors have pos
sesse'l themselves Of some valuable
knowledge.