Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-08-16
! STATE NEWS.

4 William Pulford and Walter La Vagan
lost $4,000 worth of cedar posts and
telegraph poles by fire at Long Lake,
Alpena county, on the 3D.. e5tl hH-'
The late John Rayner of Mason owned
claims against 507 different descriptions
4 OF land III GratlOt county, nearly all of
which consist Of, tax titles. =, ~. -.
y Wolves are quite numerous in SPRING
| field, kalkaska county. "A pack of seven
drove a man up tree, recently near
Peters camp, and Others have been seen
Ichasng deer. gof,T Ie- .as gfrr- .yoF 7q,Fsg.
Hf Monday steam hresher set fire to
1.-THE grain, stacks of ]. IL . Bartholomew,
near Lansing. About three hundred
fbushels Ofnwheat and a grain separator
were burned utTc % rlsail 9IG eyed pT01g
isdQuite large number of Quaker fam
lilies, mostly from Indiana, have within
a short time purchased farms and settled
in Long Lake and adjoining toWnsh
in Grand Traverse county - .o,,.t,o+
u cooJ :. 80 sssSIIIIJy ana acceSSaDle
0oal IN ll[Gs gaH66een Been discovered at Newberg,
soea soea miles from Durand, the point where
the Chicago & Lake Huron and Detroit
& Milwaukee railroads intersect. s-'5 - y
On the Sd inst. a mass of float copper,
bearing the marks of the ancient miners
tools was found on MinOng mining COM
pany's land, Isle Royale, Lake Superior.
1t was 16 feet below the surface and
weighed $500 lbs. nod EirlS ~ III n beQe,
The shipments from the Saginaw river
during the monthof July were as follows:
Lumber, feet, 90, ,2S1 ,6I9; lath, II, ,292 $50;
shingles 117,093,500; slaves, 1,756,500;
hoops, S,153,O00. n This is the heaviest
record ever made in one month"; 1870 p
The Adrian canning factory is in full
blast now, and immense quantities oOf
green corn, beans and tomatoes are
canned daily Forty acres of tomatoes
are contracted at 20n cents per bushel,
and the yield is reported to be large. hsi
Z. On the morning of the. 7til the captain,
crew and passengers of the ST. Paul went
to church at Port Huron. There was a
wedding in, which Mr.. Daniel ChrishOlm
| of Oscoda, and Capt. Boynton's daughter
Fannie were the high contracting par
ties. 'cIlra4ii a.'s ~ 1ii' hJN ~
% There was a monstrous yellow rattle
snake, 13 feet long, wearing "a rattles,
killed in Fawn River, st. Joseph county,
| July 80. There was found in, the ".sar-
pent's''' stomach % frogs, and toads, 4
spring chickens and about a dozen small
birds. y,Ir frit fsgf MI u Larfgi,-s9 u
| lds George Marks. of Quincy, was born on,
| the 22d of February, his first wife on
Emancipation day, his second wife, on
All FOOLS day, his son on New Years
day, and his. sons wife C0n the 22dl OF
February, while the latter was delivered
of babe on the 4th Of July. sdi 81 600
: Grand Haven talks strongly of having
a public park. The plan which has been
| published indicates rather neat cOm-
bination of lawn, artificial lakes, Lake
michigan, race course, sldirtj roads, etc.
| 1T calls for the gorgeous outlay of $780,
| 600, of which $4,000 is for the ground.
A horse sold by farmer living in
Columbia township, ITuscOla' county,
last fall, to man in Ohio, recently ap-
lpeared at the gate Of its old home, after
(having travelled over 300 miles, 1t left
\ the premises Of the owner about month
1 ago and was supposed to have been
| stolen. oi'S3' -" - 4-1v,''
ESThere need be but little fear as to dis
easedpeaches from st. Joseph and Benton
Harbor. There are but fewpeaches there
this year, and the great bulk of Michigan
peaches are now grown at South Haven
and points north of there. The orchards
which were fourishing in Berrien coun-
ty four, OF, five years ago are nearly all
j gone, have been ruined by the yell0ws
4 and torn out, root and branch.
Last March jAathaninl Hamilton, Of
Buchanan, lost a pocketbOOk containing
about $40. He never was sure-whether
lit was lmislaid or stolen; but it was gone.
4 A few days ago he received ! the money
back by mall the cOnseienee-stricken
, | wretch who had it not feeling able to
longer, retain it, possibly through fear
4 Of the consequences in the great here
latter. 1gsls .dF .ersa 1irs hig +,