Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-09-13
STATE NE WS.

IHoIe is HO longer SUCH tnlng as
the Chicago & Lake Huron railroad. 1t
is now the Northwestern Grand Trunk
line.
The salt product for August was 245,-
932 barrels, the largest for any month
in the history of the manufacture in this
state.
The Flint & Pere Marquette railway
company have found it necessary to en-
large their LudingtOn warehouses, built
only last fall.
Seventeen carloads of freight and 400
passengers passed through Detroit last
Tuesday from Paris and London, Ont.
on their way to Manitoba.
The contract for furnishing the cloth
for garments for the reform school at
Lansing has been awarded, for the
fourth time, to Stone, Atwood & Co of
the Flint wOOlen mills.
Gov. CrOswell has pardoned Henry
Wood, convicted in Washtenaw county
OF larceny, and sentenced to the state
prison for three years in June, 1873.
Wood is dying of consumption.
Gerrish Bros, of Muskegon cOntem-
plate getting in 100000 feet of logs
this winter. They have started camps
enough already to bank 100000 feet.
And so the tree slaughter goes Oh.
A rural couple in Tuscola county were
married the other day, and Immediately
some trivial matter. The bride went
home to her pa, and next day the bride
groom started for Kansas with the in
tentiOn of staying there.
The Catholic school at Hancock, Lake
Superior, made application for an ap-
preparation Of $1,OC0 from the school
fund at the recent annual school meet
ing of that district. A vote was passed
granting it providing it can be legally
dOne," That was safe and harmless.
A few days since lady named Miller
living near Beaver lake, OtsegO county,
went into the woods to pick berries, and
uOt returning home search was made
and she was found dead in the woods. 1t
was supposed she died from an epiletic
fit. Her remains were taken to Plymouth
for interment.
When prisoners receive their discharge
from the state prison they are entitled
to suit of clothes, the material of
which must not exceed $40 and also
$3.50 in cash. All our readers should
they will know what they are entitled to
when they come out.
Aman in Antrim county married his
niece while she was in state of intOxi-
cation, the knot being tied away from
home, On lonely beach, by justice of
the peace, and now the couple have the
prosecuting attorney after them. The
girls father threatened to shoot the
man who accompanied the couple and
called the justice to marry them, and
for this threat he has been arrested,
In one of the shops at the state prison
there is department in which toys are
manufactured, and also articles of vari-
GUS kinds fabricated from bone by hand.
Among the latter are beautiful crosses
highly polished and mounted with sill
yer, crochet needles, charms, sleeve but
tons also finished with silver, tooth picks,
paper knives, skewers for pinning horse
blankets, etc. Prisoners do this class of
work who are physically disabled from
working in the contract shops. One con-
vict who has but a single arm, is wood
carver and does his work well. The sales
of bone goods and toys aggregate about
| 800 per mOnth.-Jacks0n Patriot.
A party of Chicago capitalists, to be
known as the Pine lake iron company,
are about to erect 100000 blast fur
mace at or near South Arm on that lake,
about five miles from Charley0ix, where
the business Office will be located, with
telephone Communications to the works.
Thecapacity sOf the furnace is to be
40 tons of iron per day, and benefits
CharleyOix, it is estimated by the con-
sumption of 10000 or 10000 cords of
wood per year, the employment of so
men and the annual expenditure of
100000 for wosd, coal, and labor. The
ore will be brought from Escanaba by
semi-weekly steam barge, and the COM
pany will also put light draft steamer
on Pine lake. The whole project is to be
on condition that the residents make
the channel of the upper river IL feet
deep.