Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-07-26
STATE NEWS

CharleV0lX mas been designated as q
storm signal station. ri, -rr
A counterfeit half-dollar factory is
said to be at work at Pontiac. r
Smut appeared to some extent in the
wheat in Grand Traverse county.
Estimated that the peach crop of Ale
gan county will be 1000 baskets.
The State treasurer on Monday paid
$37 COO of Sault canal bonds and $751;
OF coupons.
At the election of county seat in Craw-
ford county on the 18th Grayling won by
$50 majority.
The school meeting at Ludington au-
thOrized the erection of new union
school house to cost $1,000. r
Allegan county has faith in peaches.
In the western, part of the county 1885,
170 trees have been set this year. fs -
Sheep and lambs throughout the State
are sadly afflicted with goitre, and are
dying especially the lambs-by thous-
ands. il..lr -lG sit 7 bm - Is
Prof. Vaughan, of the university, has
declined the chair in science in the
Pennsylvania normal school at West
chester.
Jackson has very proficient juvenile
orchestra 20pieces- composed of young
| masters and misses, under the leadership
of Prof. Mills. A ~ u
About forty of the best skilled and
highest priced men have been discharged
from the railroad shops at Jackson and
from the road. >.....t.... =,
The Detroit, Lansing, and, Northern
railroad has declared dividend of 81
per cent tsemi-annually on its preferred
stock, and payable Aug. 8. aes
DR.. Kedzie, of Lansing, is engaged on
the important work of determining the
relative values of different varieties of
Michigan wheats for bread making. m
Michigan peaches have arrived in
market much earlier than usual, box
of the Alexander variety having been re-
ceived in Detroit last Tuesday from Paw
Paw. 'o6 s9 - l,ia YI 8
/ R. II. Morrison, the celebrated Oddfel-
low, has been arrested for perjury, alleg-
ed to have been committed last January
Berridge VS.. Jenny Carr. i1. h@s -ct
On Monday morning Mrs. Humphrey,
mother of Gen. Humphrey, warden of the
state prison, died of sciatic rheumatism,
, aged 20 years. She was a pioneer of
HillsdaIe county of the class of '37.
The farmers i'm Paris, Mecosta county
have raised large quantities of the new
: FOtZ wheat this summer, and are mar
keting it at higher prices than is paid
for any other variety. 1t has been dem
Onstrated that 81 bushels of FOtz makes
as much flour as los bushels of Clawson.
Monday afternoon a duel was fought
by two young men near Pontiac. Three
shots were exchanged without injury to
either party. The youths are IL and 20
years of age, respectively, and the affair
grew out of the outraged feelings of each
by the other over "a sweet little dress
, maker" - rs4ucge4 G.tr lss1 ,yia
The railroad and express Office at
+ Reading was burglarized between Sun
day night and Monday morning by
y tramps, it is supposed, who took about
$40 i'm change and small bills from the
money drawer and an express package
q of $40, which was afterwards found on
the track with other papers some 80 rods
from the depot. -l1
k At meeting of the state inspector and
r several of the deputies at Jackson on the
n 18th, to arrange upon uniform method
e of inspecting oils under the new law
e the deputies were enjoined to faithfully
/ execute the law i'm their respective dis.
: tricts, and that the dealers attention
/ shonld be called especially to section
of the law. -.--. =. .r,.
nj A correspondent writing from Kewee
70 nav comfy in reference to an article OF
It silver in the copper deposits of Lake Su
IS perior, makes the startling statemen
9. that during the active mining career o
E. the Cliff over 100000 worth of silve
it was filched from the minel he says h,
le can name several persons who now enjO.
N comfortable competency Obtaine'
ID through purchasing this stolen metal.-
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