Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-21
STATE NEWS.


ing at Lansing last week.
VIM. Livingstone, jr., of Detroit has
been chosen one of the directors of the
National board of steam navigation.
The university football eleven will
play the Racine (Wis.) college kickers a
match game at Chicago Feb. p, 1879.
Telephone communication is to be es-
tablished between Port Huron and Fort
Graiiot-the line to be operated for hire.
Mr.. Gisch, of Ludington, is boring for
oil at that place. He has got down 250
feet. anu thinks he has struck rich ind;-
Cations.
The Ann Arbor correspondent of the
Chicago lnterCcean says that Prof Wat
son Will not go to Wisconsin to DO STAR
gazing.
The body of one Sylvester Foss was
found in the woods near Manton. He
had frozen TO death. He leaves q wife
and child at Manton.
A convict who was sent to State Pris-
on for life in 1859. from Newaygo ccun-
ty, has by o"erwork earned oyer $1,000.
lie is seeking pardon from the Cover
nor.
The annual report of the state salt in
spector shows 1.S55,S3l barre Is manufac-
tured, an increase OF 1914 SI7 barrels over
the amount produced The previous sea-
| son.
The hew State Capitol at lansing was
Illuminated for the first time the night of
the 4lh. The buildings contlins I,4OO
gas gets. and consanic 4500 feet of gas
an hour.
g, orge Williamer. of Grand Rapids.
went to jail on Il conviction of assault
and battery. and now comes another
man and pleads guilty OF being the as
saulter and battcrer.
fthe Legislature establishes Reform
school for girls. Chirlo.ic viii make an
effort TO secure ~ erection there, as
there is no public state institution in Ea-
ton county. Adrifu also wants it.
The total copper shipments from Lake
Superior this year were 1880 tons, of
which 14,1971s tons were ingot copper.
The Quincy mines product was 1,777
tons, 81 more than last year.
Henry d. Taft. formerly Il prominemt
business man of Adrian, and later rail-
road time-keeper, has been sent to the
Pontiac asylum tor The insane. Trying
to invent perpetual automatic electric
gas burner lighter crazed him.
DIR. franklin. dean of the homeopathic
school of meditirIe lit the state univer-
| sity. has been convicted of assault anil
battery upon DR., Alex. MacIcan, of the
university hospital. The case will pro-
badly go TO the ciruit court on an ap-
peal.
| Oramel Hosfnrts. superinrendeus of
public instruction in Michigan eight
| years, Horace S. Tarbell, superintendent
one and one half years, and c. B. Sieb-
bins, deputy, superintendent twenty years,
are all natives of Orange county, Ver-
mont.
A pair of fun-loving young people Of
Sheridan were married in jest. bat it hap
pened that the man who performed the
ceremony was a justice Of The peace, who
says he was in real earnest-and now
the couple are lin pickle" 1t is alleg-
ell that tie girl thinks it is all
right. but that her husband does not.
One OF the visiting grangers at the
State Capitol, walked through $50 pane
of plate glass in one of the Governors
rooms. This is the second time light
of glass has been broken in this building
in similar way and in the same place.
The Marquette Mining Journal--un-
questioned authority OH Michigan min
eral matlers-says that the shipments of
iron ore by lake and rail from the upper
peninsula during the season OF 1873 were
l,I2490l tons gross.
V. w. Bruce. of the Howard Record,
| is Il candidate for Engro>sing and En-
rolling Clerk of the Lower House of The
State Legislature. He WIS postmaster
AT the last session. Besides being well
qualified for the position. he is crippled
soldier OF tn. War cf tie Rebellion,
aud that ought to count big.
| IT seems that under rec mt act Of
Congress the Government suppli-s the
cadets of the Michigan Milli'ay Acad-
emy at Orchard Like with arms and
ammunition anal the military c ,mmand-
ant is an officer detailed from the regu-
lar army. We understand that this is
the only military school wet Of New
York which enjoys these privileges.
Shipments of lumber and its products
| from the Saginaw river during 1878:
525, ,2S2.0 .099 feet of lumber; 187,699,3S0
shingles; 49 S0I6a0 lath; 2l,4S5.9O0 hoops
exclusive OF heavy rail shipmentsG 81
372 426 slaves; 453.SS0 cubic feet of square
timber. IL is esiimaiod that fully 1900
00o feet of lnmbtr shipped on through
clearances shonld DC added 10 the above.
The salt shipments aggregG:e 1,SI6,03l
barrels.
! The official canvass of votes On Gov
ernor gives Crcswe.l, Republican,, l26.2SO;
B srnes. Democrat, 7S SOB; Smith. Nation
al, 73, 3l3; Snyder, ProhibitioniSi. 3.469;
scattt ring. 1,200-a TO al vote of 1S2.I66.
OF The state officers elect The candidates
for Lieu cnaDt- Governor. Secretary of
State, Treasurer, Auditor General. Land
Commissioner and superintendent of In
struc ion ran slightly ahead of the vote
for Governor; while Edwards for Men,
Der OF the Board of Education, aud kirch-
ner. for Attorney General. ran a li't.e
behind though the entire vote on those
two offices were below the average on
other offices except that OF Lieuscnaet-
Governor.
The Board of Supervisors OF Barry
County have Issued circulir to the
several Boards Of Supervisors of the
State looking TO combined action relatiye
to- taxation, They want a law by which
a mortgage OH real estate may he ASSESSED
to the mortgages, and the value of tie
property over and above the mort
gage to the occupant; all moneys and
credits TO be assessed as person Il proper
ty except when secured By mortgage on
real estate; that personal property sh Ill
be exempt from taxation To the amount
ol Indebtedness of the person possessing
the same. other than debt secured by
mortgage; that the occupant .of any real
estate mortgaged be required to pay The
taxes assessed TO mortgage. and the col-
lector's receipts therefore shall be as so
much money paid on saii mortgage.