Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-05-11

There were frosts i'm Barry. Kalamazoo
Genesee. Lapeer and Clinton counties
Sunday night.
The grand Commandery of Knights
Teinplar holds its annual conclaye in De-
troit next Tuesday.
Twenty cars of birdseye maple was
shipped from Gaylord, Otsego county,
to Liverpool last winter.
Rev. Jas. Lewis. of Howell, is one of
the visitors appointed TO the military
academy at West Point.
Charles F. Smith, Grand Rapids wife
beater, has been sent to the house of cor
rection for six months
j. II. Fletcher & Co., of Alpcna. have
dissolved. Mr. Fletcher retiring. New
arrangements not yet perfected.
Two more conductors have been
bounced OIL the Flint and Pere Mar
quette railway, making seven in all.
Red ribbons have closed five Battle
Greek saloons. The club is Is mouths
OF age, and over 1000 names are on the
roll.
The docks at Alpena are swept clean
of their piles of lumber. They haven't
presented SO bare al. appearance in six
years.
There are one thousand one hundre
| and forty four saloons. and other places
where drunk timber is sold, IN Wayne
county!
The First National Bank of Jackson
hfs gone out of business. Made sucI,
enormous profits, you know. Couldn't
stand it.
Congressman Ellsworth has recovered
from the effects of the assault made up-
on him by Shearer, and left tor Washing
ton again.
The apportionment of delegates TO the
State Republican convention 10 be hell
at Detroit, June Ii, calls for 634 Repre-
sentatives.
1t is now believed that the new
eastern asylum at Pontiac will be
thrown open for the reception of patients
some time in July.
St. Joseph does not get the Niles sock
factory after all, it is said. but the works
have resumed at Niles. and will soon be
provided with Increased facilities.
The report of the salt manufactured
in the yally for April, taken from the
Michigan State Salt Associations books,
shows ll3.7l3 barrels of the product.
Portage Lake station is the name Of a
new place OIL the Grand Rapi.s & Indiana
railroad, wlici, will probably become a
Iavorite place OF resort for excursion par
ties. etc.
at Grand Rapids nonresident drunks.
are t-undled to the depot in wheelb ,rrnws
AMI shipped for their homes. 1t saycs
the city the expense of boarding them.
at the lookup.
Mr.. S. o. Bush. Of West LEROY. CAL
houn comfy, sold $40 sheep for $3585.
They we're very fine lot. the heaviest
weighing 200 pounds, and the average
weight being 123 pounds
The rainfall rs carefully registered at
the Insane Asylum. at Kalamazoo, for
march was 3S7 1OOths inches. and for
April, 3.72 100tlis, thrce-four:hs of the
last amount falling in three days.
The Evening News says the Gratiot
lcounty gypsum is of the purest quality,
but unfortunately lies about one-fourtIl
OF the way down between GratiOt county
and town in the interior OF China.
Daring village caucus a. Mt. Cle-
mems. Saturday night, about 150 meli
took a tumble, the engine house floor
giving way and dropping them about 10
feet. None killed bat lnan7 bruised. :.
The chaplain of the Michigan state
prison figures out that 81 out of every
hundred cOnvicts i'm the state prison
} get their by rrason of strong drink. There
is data for lois of rel ribbon speeches.
Last Monday 1000 heal of cattle Ges-
tined. for Liverpool, England. were de-
.iverel TO the Great Western Railway
from the Michigan Central. They will
be shipped on ocean steamers at Boston.
A TeEonsha correspondent alleges that
, the wheat has grown so rank in paris Of
Calhoun and BraIIcl counties that it is
badly lodged. and in many places farm
: crs are plowing it under or cutting the
tops OFF with scytlics.
: Pending the WyandOtfe Rolling Mill
bankruptcy proceedings the lmills have
b, ell leased tu the Eureka Iron COM
pany and will resume operations at once.
under the management OF j. L. Turner,
The old superintendent.
Tn towns where the liquor licence has
been put up to high figure the saloon
keepers are planning to ''pOor' and es-
tablish one big saloon. dividing the pro-
fits among them. the basis IF division
being rated by their last years sales.
Inc I<iiiSill0 RtpuDllcstti idttffbTltdtIve-
" states that Hon. Ebenezar Gregg Dan.
forth Holden has not joint Il the Green
: backers AMI will not, but is and will
| ever ever be- stanncl Republican as
long as there is such party in ex-
J istcnce.
) Robert Smythe. of the WalwOrth Man.
ufac:uring company. q; Boston. who put
o i'm the steam heater in the state capitol
:. has been missing from his home in Ian.
r. sing. and has not been heard from foI
,wo weeks. He had $4,000 in money OF
- his person.
One upper and one Hn,ler tooth
weighing respectively 2 pounds I:
ounces and 3poundS onncps. supposed
to be teeth ola huge mastmlom, were
recently unearthcd on the farm OF James
: Minor. in Pittsfo.d township. and AK
now on exhibition at the office of Drs
H. and j. b. welch, of Hudson.
o Only three Hastings saloonists have
! taken ont q license for the ensuing year
last year there were severn and futt
years ago there were 10 saloons i'm tha
= = place. peTitiun is being cirrnlarcsl an,
: an effort made to have The common couii
Gil pass an or finance imposing IA city ia,
of $500 upon each saloon.
ri -Four years ago f. r. Munell. grail
r. dealer. obtained about 81 900 from bank
v in Grand Rapids upon forged orders
He escaped and went to Davenport. iowa
was convicted of the same offtn>e ut tla
" place anil sentenced to five years In tn
~ Iowa penitentiary. pardnne<l ont bv I'll,
g governor recently AMI subsequently cap
t,lred in New York, t~o months agf
N and brought TO Grand Rapids. His tris