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

Nearly 2OO men ale employed in the
ship-yard at Marine City.
Miss Eta Green. IF Hudson. has turn
I'll Purple. She did it by marriage.
William Hayden. Tecumseh miller.
is N. king flour to fill an order from Ire
land.
The Lake Superior mining interests
will not be represented at the Paris ex-
hibition.
Mr.. Breckenridge. of Oscoda. has inst
| erected the first brick house ever built i'm
losco county.
A colony of Germans, fresh from fader-
land. will settle in the western part of
AlcOna county in the spring.
The county Jail at Flint took I'm L.
l36 prisoners last year. and Genesee coun-
ty paid their board and current expenses,
amounting to $4.045 13.
The "Ailegan Agricultural Works" is
the title OF "a company recently organized
to manufacture Carriers patent tOngurless
cultivatOrs. Capital $4,000.
There is county seat war i'm Clare
county. and i'm the spring the electors are
| to vote OIL proposition To rrmoye the
seat from Farweli to Bud Lake.
The Battle Greek Machinery company
are negotiating with gentleman resid-
| ing 1T Singapore. India. for the sale ot u
Boults, carver and pal.eling machine.
The ambitious politicians of the Upper
Peninsula are again making faces at the
srate OF MicIIigan, aud moving that the
U. p. be set off as an independent state.
| Battle Greek girls slide down hill ON
scoop shovels. Assorted sizes are kept
on hand in the hardware stores. In this
kind of coa>fing "a mud bank is as good
as snow bank.
Senator Ferry writes to Henry Willis
very encouraglnyiy about the prosI &c of
squeezing $4,000 out OF the general gov-
ship canal route.
The name Of''Wright's station" on the
Jackson, Lansing d Saginaw "iit rtiIern
extension" has been changed 70 ~ elch
station" and Bradford Lake" is now
"Wright's Lake."
A Hudson doctor, in tcstifying upon u
| liquor suit, replied. OH a veXatiOus cross
examination, that the tippler 'spOnged
| his drinks out OF others us YOU lawyers
do" No more questions We're asked.
At Adrian, tine jury in the case of Hell
ell Dumks Us. William Friend Hudson.
| for damages for selling liquor to her hus-
band, returned verdict for $3.6e0 for
her. The suit was brought under the
old law.
L. is regarded as certain that j. j.
WoOdman will be appointed commissions
er for Michigan To the Paris exposition.
a. H. 80 LII.
and the decision i'm his favor has been
formally ratified since by the delegation.
1t is alleged that recent fire at Lex
inytOn, which consumed a valuable barn
owned by one of the prOprietOrs of the
Jefferscnian, was the work of certain sa-
loon proprietOrs. who were angry at him
for prosecuting them for selling liquor to
boys, etc.
Ten months ago there was not house
or any other building aI Bancroft, on the
Chicago & Lake Huron railroad. Now
there are 40 buildings, and more TO be
erected. Thirty thousand bushels OF
grain were sold there last year, aud over
100000 pounds of pork.
DR.. G.. II. Van Deusen, who has been
superintendent of the Kalamazoo asylum
for the insane for IL years has rendered
his resignation, whieii has been accepted,
and DR.. SEQ. Palmer, long his assistant,
will take his place. Palmcr's place will
be filled by DR.. Ii M. Hurd.
The Otisville schooIInarm 'sflaicd'' an
unruly boy; boys father CAUSED her ar
lest; all Otisville ''choose sides" OH the
matter great excitement in town; prose-
cutting attorney sent for; attorney a gal
liant chap, and did not like to prosecute
pretty teacher, who had done just right,
so nc b.ought about settlement, poured
oil on the troubled waters; outsiders pail
costs; attorney makes them so happy
they get up Il ball. and the sensible OIL
Ger lends out the pretty scaOolmarm tor
the first qliadrille.