Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-07
STATE NEWS.

The Ward mills at Ludington shipped
sc, 100000 feet of lumber this season.
The bridge at Bay City has broken in
two at the draw. 1t will cost $4,000 10
set things TO rights again.
Don't say "Deroit g. Milwaukee rail-
road" any more. L. is now the '>DetGoit,
Grand Haven & Milwaukee r. RI
| H. &. Win. lows sons, of NJ ,rton, Mu'--
fkegon county, had 1O2 swarIEs of bees
the past season and sold 5000 pounds Of
honey.
Rev. J. c. Hill, of Adrian, has invent
ed a pen chat will do away with the cleo
tric pen, it is claimed. 1t Is operated by
clOck-wOrk.
United States revenue officers lave
made raid on Midland City, resulting
in the arrest of several violators of the
revenue laws.
| A Cincinnati man has purchased 100
acres OF land in Porter, Clss county with
the inc ltion of planting the same 10
grapes for making wine.
Two stock companies are to be formed
at East Saginaw to work certain silver
claims in Colorado, or sOmwhere else out
where the silver grows.
The term of Office of Gen. Humphrey,
warden OF the state prison at JACKSON,
expires, Jan. l, 1879. 1t is believed &c
will be his own successor.
When the Ionia postmaster gets let
ter addressed to ''Su aimary" VI O.. h,
has no hesitancy about forwarding it 10
'.Sault Ste. Marie" Mich.
A Saginaw man who manufactures
board rules for measuring sawed lumber
has shipped consignment OF those
handy things to Callao, Peru.
The citizens of st. Joseph are making
AN effort TO raise $1,000 bonus for a blast
furnace that is to employ from 400 10 600
hands and to lOcate in that town.
/ Two Sanilac county families have sail
led b'ck from Kansas in prairie schOoners
lThey term Kansas fraud, and say Mich
igan is good enous b for, any man 10 live
and die in.
There are now two insane asylilms in
Michigan controlled BY Tire State and one
or two controlled by private corpora
tions; and now there is talk of establish
ing another at or near Grand Rapids.
} The exact statement of the pnlitical as
pect of the next state Legislature is given
as follows: Seilate-4 Democrats,.4 Green
hackers, and'23 Republicans; Iiouse-21
Democrats, IA Greenbackers, and IS Re
lpublicans.
"The man who woull steal a red-hot
{. stove" lives at Holly, a few nights ago
, a telegraph operator at the L. 81 Z. III.
depot i'm that city, stepped out 10 get u
| bucket of coal, and on his Return foanl
= that some one bad stolen the stove.
A bill has been di avn aud will be pre-
sented to the Legislature this winter
: creating the offenses of ielOnious assault
r and assault with intent. O do g'e yous
bodily injury, rs intermediate grades be-
? tween assault and battery and assault
with intent 10 kill.
While two men, Leich and Henry
t Wiese. were SINE; ring the inside OF
large iron tank with coal.tar. in Beichel',
sugar refinery, st. Louis. between 10 ami
: IL o'clock Tuesday m6rning. the tar took
fire and before the men could be rescu-
cd they were burnel to death.
E During November he carriers of De-
I troit postotfice delivered 45l,217 letters,
I of which 2,75S were registered; S9,104
, postal cards, and 24S.2f1 newspapers and
circulars. Their collection for the same
f period were 57,90S letters. $500 postal
cards, and 2S,93S newspapers and circu-
, lars.
Q The eastern owners of the patent for
1 nickel plating are taking steps to enforc.
! their claims for royalty by injunction on
parties using said patent, The stove
, companies i'm Detroit. which have been
8 uslng nickel plating i'm their business
) quite extensively, are consequently on
. the ragged edge.
3 There were rec ived .at Union Stock
5 Yards, Chicago, during the month Of
-,
I monthly receipts On recorL-an average
!. of 81, 800 hogs during each working day.
!. The number of hogs packed during the
: month was about $4,000. The aggre-
' gate weight of the hogs received was
1926, ,47S pounds.
e The central executive committee of
: the National party Monday issued an
address 10 the people of the United
e States expressing confidence that the
4 party wilfelecs its candidate for Presi-
dent in 1880. At a meeting in the even
4 ing resolution was adopted denouncing
the resumption of specie payments as a
: fraud and delu-iOn, impracticable in
i this or any other country.
: On Saturday, of lat week. when the
e propeller Benton reached Port Austin,
fshe was boarded by Sheriff Merrick, who
/ arrested the clerk of the craft, ThCO tore
r Andrews, on a charge OF forgery. An
!. drews was charged by Ayers Il Co., of
Port Austin. with raising the figures on
6 ii freight bill and trying to collect the
: difference. The prisoner gave bail in 81
!. loco.
e In the forthcoming great divorce suit
Y ut Battle Creek, the lady who sues for
separation does not charge her husband
. with criminal intim ICY with another
4 person, but that he learned to lore an
= other and thus destroyed her confidence
. in him. On his part ne is very sorry for
il all. doesn't love the other lady now,
etc.; but his wife insists OIL divorce.
, She cannot trust him after he has once
let ber image escape from his heart, and
q the upshOt will be suit for divorce with
= out single word or act of actual sinniug
alleged on either.
Corn for fuer' is the result of the big
crops and low prizes throughout the
. Northwest
e The trade dollar is returning from
China because, at the present rate of eX-
change in China, bankers are enabled to
lay down trade dollars in San Frincisc'
at 921%cents each. Senator Beck's bill
proposes to make trade dollars legal ten
I der fora year, and that as fast as receiv-
! ed for customs. etc., they be recoinesl in
: TO standard dollars.
The old established house of Messrs
: Horace Waters & Sons. New York, is
!, meeting the public more than ''half way"
, in their Holiday offer for pianos and
; organs. Ii seems incredible that suc'I in