Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-03-09
'E0WN TALK.

The boys have commenced playing
marbles.
Some of the lumbermen have already
broken up their camps and left the
woods.
THERMAL now comes in On wheels, and
las the reads grow worse, is ARRIVING
.somew bat later in the day.
Thcl try Clara Irr, having been thor
.oughly repaired, was relauncLed from
Amiot's ship yard Thursday afternoon.
If some OF the silinglc mills 90 not
start up soon, building operations will
have to be suspended for want OF shin.
giles.
A,niot has the new boiler of the tug
Ava English placed in position, and ex-
poets TO have the tug ready tor launching
some time next week.
Those of our citizeEs who put up ice
last week are ia luck. The ice this week
las been somewhat scarce, and it looks as
i, the harvest was past
DIR. ". w. Bowes has been appointed
Examining Surgeon Tor Pensions at Che
boygan, and has received the necessary
forms ard blanks aud is how ready for
business.
This is splendid weather for sugar
making, ami We understand that good
use is being made of it, aud the p, aspects
are that large quantity OF sugar Will be
made in this section.
Secretary Sherman says he is going to
pay the next pay ment OF salary 10 mem
bers OF Congicss in silver. An eXchange
says it will amount to about twenty five
pOIIos to the member.
The NORTHERN TRIBUNE is Repub-
lican PAPER. published in Cheboy gan =
Free Press. Thanks. Tie most yalua-
bic inioi nation contained in the local
columns vi that paper tliis week.
when a mall warts 10 call puppy he
whistles. but girl just walks along with
l.er handkerchief Heating across her
shOulders."-FrCe Press. The editor
seems To speak from experience.
Mr.. Brill, proprietor OF Ike Brutus
House, has been arrested upon conn iainl
q, L. NJ. L;r.hrOp tor getting goods anu
money Under false pretences, and. falling
TO obtain bail, was coufiutd in Jail To
await examination.
The sheriff attached Il oition of the
seek assigned by Z. NJ. L;.thiop OH a
clsiin OF ). A. AIatIoon last Monday
Wednesday MI. SLowtiman, Ole OF tic
assigheCs, through IOiOher Horne re-
llcvined the goods.
There is paper published in Cheboy-
gan which claims 10 be the organ of the
Democratic party i'll this section, and yet
that party Lad TO cOme 10 the files OF the
1kIBUNE To ascertain Who composed
their village committee.
Albion Horne got handsomely dump
ed OF bis pony esierday. He Was out
riding Wien Tie pony got scared and
jumped from under him, landing him in
Inc slush mud OF the street, covering him
iiOm head TO foot with mud.
John w. McGinn and SCHUYLER Farrell
were sacrificed by The Democracy at
their caucus last Wednesday. Their
ieccld III regard 10 ti'e Village Attorney
aud village printing was not, satisfactory
20 The ..ling," hence they lad 10 20 over
bOaid.
: There has been so little ice in the up
per rivers this winter that the logs, in
many cases, have fioated of as fast as
iLcy have been banked. This will avoid
the usual delay Of breahing rollways,
which usually occupies Ken days OF two
weeks, and expedite the drive To that eX-
tent.
The warm weather of this week has
been too much for the roads in tue lum-
Der camps, and some have had TO cease
drawing. Others, however. where their
loads run through swamps and thick
woods. have been hauling during the
early portion of the day. while the
roads are frozen, and as soon as they
commence getting soft, stopping Tor the
rest OF the day.
The iiltimation in the TRIBUNE last
week that the editor OF the Free Press
did not know what he was talking about,
SO bewildered that gentleman that this
week he was afraid to express an opinion
even upon SO common subject as the
weather. and, like the lumbermen. is so
"discOurged" that he prints under the
head almost New" an item, the partic-
ulars of which were given in the TRI-
rUSE Of january l9:h.