Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-03-02

days, but is better.
C. F. & w. A. Lynn have their ice
house well filled with first-class ice.
The Charlevoix Sentinel notices the ar
rival of DIR. C. A. Perrin in that village
last week.
Roys j. Cram. of the firm of Carkin,
Stickney & Cram. arrived on the stage
last evening.
Four new members were received in
to the Congregational church at the pre-
paratory service last Wednesday evening.
DIR. w. w. Bowes has been confined to
his house for several days this week.
suffering from diphtheria, but, we are
glad to state, is much better.
L. w. Ferry is again honored by being
elected President pro tenn. of the Senate.
he receiving 80 votes to % for Senator
Thurman, Democrat, from Ohio.
1t is stated that there are several Ger
man families making preparations to
leave Milwaukee upon the opening of
navigation and settle in this county.
A number of our citizens have been
putting up their ice this week. The ice
has been cut between the little island
and the main shore, and is one foot thick
and as clear as crystal.
The Board of Health inspected the
county Jail this week and found no cause
for the loud complaints which the Free
Press has been making. and intimate
that the editor of that paper does not
know what he is talking about.
The snow that fell last Friday night
did not last long. BY Tuesday the
snow had wasted under warm sun un-
til the roads were bare and some of the
camps were obliged to stop drawing
logs.
Wednesday the stores were doing bust
ness with their doors wide open. and yet
people unacquainted with this section
think that eight months OF the year we
have to endure all the rigOrs of polar
winter.
In the Senate, last Monday. Mr.. Ferry
presented the petition of citizens OF Mich
igan asking the passage of law for the
protection and preservation of TODD fishes
in the great lakes and rivers and straits
connecting the same.
If the Free Press wishes to build new
Jail, we do not suppose any one will offer
any objections, but so far as we can learn
the taxpayers of the county think they
are already paying as heavy tax as they
can stand without being taxed to build a
/ Jail.
A letter received in this village from
| Cincinnati, states that on the hills of that
city the thermometer has indicated seven
teen degrees below zero. We would adj
wise the citizens of that frigid region to
come up to the warmer climate enjoyed
by ChebOygan and get thawed out.
The Charlevoix Sentinrl says that the
proposed Goodrich line Of steamers from
Chicago to Cheboygan, will stop at Char
levoix and Petoskey, going and coming,
and that the steamer Van Raalte is be-
ing put into shape for business and will
resume her route earlier than usual.
The Board of Registration will be in
session at the Council room next Satur-
day, tor the purpose of perfecting the
! registration list of the village. All who
are entitled TO vote, who have not regis
tered their names, should bear this in
mind and present their names for regis
tartion.
AT Chicago vessel men are beginning
to talk about the opening of navigation
and charters are already being made for
the coming season. The schooner Pen
saukee, which loaded here several times
last season, has been chartered for grain
to Buffalo, on private terms said to be -
cents per bushel.
We acknowledge the receipt of an i'll
vitation to the publisher of tile TRIBUNE
to hop to have been given by the Off
GERS at Fort Mackinac last night. Mr..
Chandler, however, is absent from the
village, but we take the responsibility OF
returning, for him, thanks for the kind
invitation extended.
Last week gentleman living some
distance from the village, who had sick
child, sent note down to the physician
stating ''ihat the roads were III such a
condition Us 10 make it almost impossi-
bic to get TO the village, but bis child
having symptoms OF lever, he had adj
minis;ered dose of castor oil pro TEN"
The tug w. B. Minter, with lighter
in tow. came across the straits last San
day from Point ST. Ignaee, and took back
a number Ut horses, in charge of w. Ill.
Bunker, belonging to IL. w. Seymour,
| OF Sault Ste. Marie. She had some
trouble on account of the ice, but sue
C, eded, by persistent effort. i'll making
the passage.
The Pe:Oskey Dramatic club, which
was expected to have been present at
the enl artainment Wednesday evening
given by the Cheboygan Amateurs, were
prevented by sickness from attending
as a club. Representatives, however
i'm the persons OF Messrs. Beecher and
Smith, wei present, and compiimented
the Cheboys-an Amateurs quite highly