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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
The Owl as a Successor to the Cat.

Mr.. Alfred Ellis, of Leicestershire,
England, has been carefully protecting
the white or barn owl upon his estates.
He has attracted the bird by building
rough stone towers, in appearance as
much like ruin as may be; putting up
hollow trees in the coverts and covering
them with ivy, and sometimes combining
pair of owls therein for few weeks in
order to accustom them to use these
abodes. His efforts have been very sue
cesstul, as the owls have bred freely; and
almost any evening the birds may be
seen leaving their safe retreat to take
their nightly flight in search of mice,
beetles, etc. Rabbits abound there, but
they take no notice of the owl as she flies
silently over the meadows seeking food
and they show no alarm as they
would il preyed upon by these birds.
Sometimes an owl will be observed beat
ing freshly cut bayfield, for mice as reg
ularly as pointer would for birds. They
| are perfectly harmless to pigeons, and
have used the same loft, and only wage
war on the mice and small rats, which
are well known destroyers of their eggs
and young. The owls have been estab-
lished some years, during that time Mr..
| Ellis has examined great quantities of the
pellets which they eject from the
stomach; these consisted entirely of the
bones and indigestible remains of rats,
mice and small birds.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
How he Astonished the Bull.

A Glen Sutton, VT, correspondent re-
lates that while a young man named
Pelkie was out hunting few days ago
he CHANGED to espy fox industriouslJ
digging tor mice about a decayed stump
Between himself and the mouse hunter,
reclining upon the ground, quietly chew
ing his cud. was huge bull. Cautious
ly advancing, our hero reached the I'M
suspecting bovine; dropping upon his
knees and carefully resting his gun
across the animals back, he pulled the
trigger. The aim was true, and sly
Reynard fell dead; but wasn't the bull
astOnished, though? Springing to his
feet with a roar, he ran over Pelkie about
40 times, and rushed away snorting with
terror. The first thing our friend saw
on opening his eyes was the bulls tail
cleaving the air like a meteor, about a
mile away, and the dead fox lying upon
the ground near by. The sight of the
latter treasured him, and securing it, he
limped homeward, resolved that though
great the temptation he would never
again use live bull for breastwOrk.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
Mortgage Sale.

WHEREAS, default has been made in the pay
Wv ment of money secured by mortgage
dated the 14th day of September, A. ID. 1876, exc
cuted by Frank Bettes and sarah Bettes, his wife,
CLANCY A.Kelley and Nancy Kelley his wife, ali
of the town of St. Ignace the county of Mackinac,
of and state of Michigan, to Frank Began, of the
village and county OF Macknac, and state aforesaid
which said mortgage was recorded in the Office of
the Register OF Deeds of the county of Mackinac In
Libel of MORTGAGES, on pages $685. 294 and 295, on
the 10Th day of November. A. ID. 1876, at twelve
O'Clock and twenty minutes p. M; and
whereas, the amount claimed to be due on said
mortgage at the date of this notice is the sum OF
four hundred and forty dollars, with interest there
on from the l4th day of September, 1877, rated at
ten per cent per annum, and the farther sum OF
fifty dollars an attorney fee, stipulated for in
said mortgage, and which is the whole amount
claimed to be unpaid on the said mortgage, and no
suit proceedings having been instituted at law to
recover the debt now lemanng secured by the said
mortgage, or any part thereof, whereby the power
of sale contained in the said mortgage has become
operative. Now, therefore notice is hereby given
that by virtue of the said power of sale and in pur
suance OF the statute in such case made and
sale of the premises therein described, at public
auction to the highest bidder at the front door OF
the Court House, in .Mackinac village. in said
countY'of Mackinac, on the 18th day OF June,
A. ID. 1879, at one o'clock in the afternoon of
that day, which said premises are described in
said mortgage as follows, to-wit: Commencing at
the west side of the state road at the dividing line
of Peter Ponds and Frank Bettes' lands, running
along said state road (52H) fty-two feet and one
half of foot to stake thence southwesterly about
fifty degrees (2D twenty-seyen feet to a stake,
thence westerly (12H) twelve feet and onehaf of a
foot, thence southwest about thirty 1907 degrees
(50X) fifty feet and one-half of foot, thence
running northwest about (60) sixty degrees l4O)
feet, thence running about north-northeast t79Hl
seventy nine feet and one-haf of foot to a stake
at the west side OF the state road, the place of be-
ginning. The above tract of land contains about
one-quarter of an acre, more or less and is part
of lot number nine of private claims, at Point
Saint 1gnace, Michigan.
FRANK hogan,
Mortgage.
WATTS 8. HUMPHREY, -n7
Attorney for mortgage. l5march
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
. The Chinese Schools

The remarkable example of the eccen-
tricity of the Chinese turn of mind is
noticeable in their schools, where instead
of silence being inculcated, as might nat.
urally be considered so essential, every
child is expected to bawl out the lesson
that he is committing to memory at the
top of his voice; and the babel which is
the result may be more easily imagined
than described. When Chinese boy
goes up to repeat his lesson he does not
stand facing his tutor, but turns his back
upon him, and hence repeating a lesson
goes by the familiar name Of backing
it. This method of recitation has an eX-
cellent effect in keeping the boy on the
qui vive to avoid mistakes, for no sooner
does he commit one than he is called to
recollection by smart tap on the closely
shaven pate, from the metal of long to-
bacco pipe which every pedasogue car
rieS about him.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
Trouble for Tramps in Wisconsin.

The tramp question has become so iE.-
portant and serious i'm Wisconsin, that
Gov. Smith called attention to it i'm his
annual message, and the Legislature has
enacted very stringent law upon the
subject. The tramps that have invaded
and infested that state have been i'm the
habit of taking possession of railroad
trains, driving harvest hands out of the
fields, burning reapers, intimidating
women and children, and stealing and
robbing at their own sweet will and
pleasure; in short, they have become such
public nuisance that the Legislature
felt impelled "tO provide for the common
Defense" and enact a law that would dis
courage that sort of business.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12

"Papa. what made you go to warf'
Said Jennie, climbing from chair
Upon my lap; ~ hat did you forF
And then she Rugged me like bear.
"'Cause il you hadn't gone you see
You'd have two legs - canter me-"
s'Why, child, 1 went because-and then
stopped to think. OF course kneC;
I'd often told her brother Ben
When the recital thrilled me through.
And still she urged "What did You forf
Papa, what made you goto wars"
looked abroad. The blacks are free,
But voicelesS, voteless, filled with woe
Slaves of their masters seemed to be
As much AS twenty years ago.
She said sand what did Uncle Dorr
Get killed in front of Richmond for3"
A rifle club went wheeling by;
saw the murdere Chishom's ghost;
heard the Hamburg martyrs cry
The rebel yell-the van. ting boast;
saw the wounds of patriot dead:
"What made you go Z" my Jennie said.
NV dear.n said-but nothing more,
For, glancing through the Senate walls
The rebel generals had the floor,
And ruled the nations council hallsl
Papa" che urged, ''Why did you go =
"My child" said, 81 do not know"
N. Y. Tribune.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
Living Chess at New York.

A game of chess with liying pieces will
be played at the Academy of Music on
the evening of the 10th between Capt.
George Mackenzie, the champion chess
play er of America, and Eugene Delmar,
men in new York, The pieces will be
clad in costumes of red and gold and blue
and silver, ana stand upon the stage in
gorgeous group and overlooking the
game will be a representation of Satan
seated on throne and playing at chess
for the soul of a prince, while on. the
right and left, reposing on smaller
thrones. will be tableauX of Caissa, the
goddess OF chess, Thalia, the goddess OF
comedy. and Terpsichore, the goddess OF
dance and song.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
A MYSTERIOUS SPRING.
Its Wonderful Effects ON the United
States Soldiers of 1888.

In the summer of 1888, says the Chat
tanooga. Tenn, Commercial. the Thlrd
United States Artillery, commanded by
Col. Gates, WAS encamped ut the foot of
the Missionary Ridge, engaged In the
removal of the Cherokee Indians. one
day the colonel ordered out fatigue
party to clean out the spring, beautiful
fountain bubbling up at the foot OF the
lidge. Shortly after the sergeant reported
to Headquarters that his men were all
drunk. Says the colonel, "You should
not have let the men drink whisky" II
did not" replied the sergeant, "Chey
drank nothing but wafer from the SPRING
The sergeant and men were ordered into
the guard house and a new detail ORDER
ed and lieutenant placed in command
with orders not to let the men have &C
cess to. any spirits. Not long after the
lieutenant reported the men all drunk:
The men were ordered to the guard
house and the lieutenant under arrest.
Another party was ordered out, OF whicn
Col. Gates took the command. He took
seat on a stump so he could overlook
the whole ground. determined there
should be no getting drunk this time,
But behold in short time his men were
all drunk. He was certain they mad
drank nothing but water. which they
frequently did, getting down on their
knees and drinking from the branch just
below the spring. The colonel was at
wits end. The men were ordered to the
guard house, and he repaired to his tent
to think. After weighing the matter pro
and con he had to give it up. and repair
ing to the guard house he told the men
that if they would show him how it was
done he would release them, otherwise
he would punish them severely. 10 this
they agreed, and took him to the spring.
Just below the spring in the branch they
unearthed a five-gallOn jug filled with
whisky, the mouth of which was stopped
with cork, in which was inserted a
quill that reached the bottom, When
buried in the sand the upper end OF the
quill was just above the surface of the
water, and when they wanted to drink
they stopped down. inserted the quill in
their mouth, and while apparently drink.
ing pure water were drinking pure whis-
ky and the colonel, sitting on the stump
in plain view, was none the wiser for IT.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
ExtraYagant Birds Nests in Cleve.
land.

Yesterday the men engaged in clean
ing Monumental Park of the debris and
rubbish, while taking down the SPAR
rows nests in the trees, came across one
in which they found So bill neatly
woven. The money was crumpled, but
good, and the half dozen men quietly
divided" and went into the task with
renewed zeal. expecting to find few
more bills hidden away somewhere in
the nests. Strange to say, they found a
lady's fine gold cham i'm another, and a
number of other curiosities of less value.
-CleUelGnd Leader, 24th March.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
Relics of the Massacre.

William Garrett, of Oak Hill, Mo-,
would make a good hero for yellow
covered novel. He was in the Mountain
Meadow massacre. and, being only 10
years old, the Indian allies of the Nor
mon butchers spared his life. Garrett
was adopted by a ''medicine man" and
acquired great skill in the same profess
sion. He was finally rescued in the cam
paign in which Custer fell, and since he
has returnedto his old Missouri home he
has turned his reputation for curing the
sick to good account. A younger sister
of Garrett, who was saved from the same
slaughter. afterward became the wife of
the noted Sioux chief Red Cloud, whom
she refuses to forsake for civilized life.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
There is no woman in America who

There is no woman in America who
can afford to grow up in ignorance of
household management. The comfort OF
some home in the future is endangered
whenever instruction is withheld which
would enable woman to plan wisely all
arrangements necessary for the we'll
ordering of the spot which is to be her
home, whether that home be one of
wealth or the reverse, and the reverse
may come even after prospective. wealth
makes such knowledge seem unnecessary.
Christian Intelligencer.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12
Contractors Lien.

rNHIS is to certify. that the undersigned has
j lien on the following described land: Lot
four az, block one ~ of Macarthur Smith & Co.'s
addition to the village of Cheboygan, County of
Cheboygan. and State of Michigan, together with
the house and other buildings on above named
premises. That said lien is for the price of GER
tain materials and labor furnished by the UNDER
signed Frank Osier. OF the materials and in the
manner following, that is to say:
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12

Upon contract with Washir gton 1. Millken, of
which the above is a true copy or statement, and
said Milliken, by agreement made verbally, was
to pay the undersigned the sum of S38 60 upon
the performance of the work above mentioned.
That there is now due the undersigned on said
contract twenty-eight and CO. 100 dollars. That
the credits which The said Washington l. Milliken
is entitled to on said contract amount in all to ten
dollars.
Dated December 81, 1878,
FRANK OSIER.
STATE OF MIoHIeAs, IS
On this s1st day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.eight, before me, No
tary Public In and for said county, personally
came the above named Frank Osier, who, being
by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he
Knows the contents of the foregoing instrument
by him subscribed, and that the same were true,
EDWIN z. PERKINS,
Notary Public in and for said county.
oH, RGS,ssE oo5s 0TEI0r'ss
Received for record the 25th day of January, A.
D, 1879 at O'Clock P M, and recorded in llber d
of Mortgages, on page 134.
MEDARD METIvIER,
Shift Register of Deeds in and for said county,
New-York tribune., 1879-09-23
Juoes 10 ADVERTISEMENTS.

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New-York tribune., 1879-09-23

of his countrymen, Let us have peace" ana
TO bring about real union based on fidelity
To the Constitution and recognition OF equal
rights for all ; and that he alone, by MS Ve'o'
saved the Nation from dshonor by the repu-
dation of its pledges with respect to the cur
rency. and from the incalculable ruin when
imitation would have caused
The man of whom these three things may
be truly said will remain, while he lives, the
most distinguished citizen OF the Republic.
Unless civil war should break out again, no
other citizen can attain the double hOnoTs
which the ex-Gencral and the ex-President
has won. He does wisely in declaring that ne
will not be q candidate for any office, Tor de-
feat would not dim his reputation so niuch as
an effort on the part of friends, tolerated by
himself, to break down the wholesome custom
which Washington inaugurated. Every CHI
zen feels that the ex-President STANDS hlSher
in public regard while refusing TO oe can
didate for any office, than he could II pushed
forward by selfish cliques or Jealous friends
without rebuke. II Is easy to believe, 700, thaV
General Grant is thoroughly sincere III MS re-
fusal. for the cares and restraints OF once
never were congenial to him. His failings In
civil life arose in large degree from the Irk-
somencss of those cares, and the disposition
to trust too largely TO others the matters In
which he should have acted with absolute
and scrupulous independence of judgment.
He does not love criticism, and to be the
ruler of n free people is to be target for
criticism, constant and unspanng. In the
great engineering work to which he has con-
sentel TO devote himself he will find greater
Il
pect of new honor which the Presidency
can no longer bring to him.
No true citizen of this country wishes TO
see the schemes of revOlutiOnist5 and NULL
fiers iipen iuto another civil war. ii that tune
should come, there would be call for L. ;.
Grant, winch, the country knows, he would
not disregard. 1t is well that this plain cti-
zen still lives anOLg us, crowned with honors,
rpened by experience, and elevated ABOVE
party strife by his refusal to be candidate
for Office for if the war of factions should
ever threaten to plunge the country into DIS
order. or if rebellion shond ever lift its head
o0oin. there is n man around whom the 10y
atty of the Nation would instinctively rally.
The fact that he still lives, and stands above
the strife of parties, will make revolutionists
think twice before they resist the laws or
threaten the Nations unity. 1t is the rare
good fortune of the eX-Presidcnt that he can
thus render his country a daily ana hourly
service, while enjoying well-earned freedom
from the restraints of public station. In the
attitude which hc has chosen, with respect 10
all Offices and parties, his very life Is bene-
fit to his countIy-a powerful barrier against
notification, rebellion or revolution IN any
form. For the world knows that n million Of
veterans would take down their muslIets If he
should draw his sword in defence OF tie
Notinn
New-York tribune., 1879-09-23
GFyER4L GR4NTS RfTURN

Most heartily the whole Nation welcomes
ex-Presdent Grant. His wonderful career is a
pa1t of the history of the country which none
of its citizens can read without pride. His
bearing in foreign lands has been worthy of
his country, and he comes back laden with
houors such as have never been granted to
the plain citizen OF TO the actual ruler of any
other country In his person, as he has often
said with becoming mOdesty, 1t has pleased
other nations to pay respect to the great
Republic of which he was in war the VIC
torous soldier, and for eight years OF
peace the chief ruler. Millions who knew
nothing personally Of the individual were
assured that one who had so peculiarly
represented this Nation both in war and in
peace must deserve TO be hOnOred as q type
of this mighty self-gOverning nationality.
No other man living does in truth so fairly
represent what this Nation has achieved. Its
might in resisting assaults upon its life, its
fidelity in maintaining its honor. and the free
institutions by which citizen may rise from
humble birth and poverty TO the highest
honor and station, all are exempliied in
the career of the man whom the United
States now welcomes on his return from a
journey round the globe.
1t will not be thought. because the country
finds pleasure in remembering all that this
citizen has done to deserve honor that he has
suddenly become faultess in the eyes of his
cOuntIymen. That he has done things which
he now wishes had not been done, need not be
said. Bat The TRIBUNE surely speaks for those
loyal citizens VINO criticised his course most
sharply in some respects, i'll saying that the
country will ever hold in grateful remem-
brance the incaIculable services of ex-President
Grant. These services, and the many things
in his career which deserve high honor, the
country engraves on imperishable tablets.
He lived for many years subjected TO
the severest test that any man can
have TO meet, for that fierce light
" which beats upon a throne" is but FAINT and
dim compared with the stern intensity of crit
icism which self-government brings to bear
upon every detail in the public or private life
of rulers A passionate loyalty questioned
every act when he was at the head of the
armies, and applied the severest test to every
step of his official career. There has never
been a time in our history when unspar-
ing criticism was SO necessary, or so
freely employed for the very life and
honor of the Nation depended upon the
fidelity and wisdom Of individuals After such
a test, what has history to say of ex-Presi-
dent Grant 7 This that he, more than any
man living, saved the Nation from disunion
and rebellion; that he labored with unfinch-
ing zeal of purpose, II not always with uner
ring wisdom as TO methods. to secure the wish
New-York tribune., 1879-09-23
GENERdL NOTES.

An egg has been hatched IN a mans pocKe'
on The North Carolina coast. H. found tefr'pn e-s
beneath fragment VI rock. lie put II into ms voeA'
In rider 70 show friend, but forgot 10 take u Ou
He was startled few days aiter TO iDd young 'e'i
pin alive ami hicAing -,
A Partisan OF the Parisians mounted 10 '''o
lmpefiaIe OF AN omnibus fortnight ago, and tuilhso
the passengers. erred: " Have yOu ever seen '"."
crushed e. lie then threw himself head foTenos' .'. wv
the road His skull was fractured by the shock ana n
legs were cut OF by the wheels OF the vehicle
There is a remarkable old lady IN SA!c.
Widow Macpherson entered upon her lO6ih ye" i''.
Christmas She was born there In the same year '"'
Dr Samuel Johnson and Boswell visited SKYE anu ~
with Flora Macdonald, the Jsco0ite heroine VINO %
friended Prince Charlie after his disastrous 'o'e".
culleden In l746. when the Government r@"aru u
a3O 900 offered for his surrender did not induce nor v
beray her trust and yield up TINS sole survivor "
len dynasty During the los years fWido" M"'ln
life she has lived IN turf hut, the smoke iro"i 'ne
fire on the hearth finding is way ont by every
and giving lustre as N Vanished to tho raiters
support the thatched roof she has survived slA
of the Ise the present being the seventh LOre & NO,
aid She mas been ont OF tue lslahu nu sly Ia
unAerstand one word OF English Dut couNeIses mar.
Gaelic She has been bind for ten years, Dn ~ - ber
n and n,emory are both good, aud she u nutseu ~
dangnter Kitty, who Is unweared IN hei "''e"
upon her old mother. .so,
The bones Of the eleven thousand Virsins
sr, 20 rest IN peace after midsummer next 'O.0ssS
cathedral will then DO completed. What remains W "
done IL the last stage and browning decoration u ~
,,.,v ,ax.ra The massive Gaps OF stonework 1asv " II
be LAID op, and then on their SUBMITS As'o ~