Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-11-29
STATE NE VS..

The new iron swing bridge across the
Au Sable river, at Au Sable and Oscoda.
is nnlshed and pronounced good job.
Rev. James Hemmenway, of Hadley,
recently decided to quit using tobacco.
He was about 80 years old before he gave
it up.
The MenOminee Herald says that $780,
600 will be spent in improving and
building saw mills on the MenOminee
river this winter.
The acceptance of Ex-Governor Bald
win Of the SenatOrship will create a
vacancy on the Board Of Trustees of the
Pontiac Insane asylum.
The demand for salt is still increasing,
and the prospect now is that the Sagi
nav salt association will hardly be able
TO I'LL all its orders before the close of
navigation.
Thirty extra operatives have beensem-
plOyed at the JOnesville cotton mill re-
Gently, and though running night and
day is far behind orders. The enterprise
now bids fair to be success.
About 455,OOO,OOO feet of logs were
RATED out kOf the Tittabawassee booms
during the season Just closed. It was
estimated that 100000 to s., 600, 900 yet
remain back in the boom limits.
The blast furnace at Elk Rapids has
been rs weeks in blast and is still turn
ing out about 80 tons of pig iron a day.
The company have commenced the man
ufacture of stoves at their works.
The BOntecOn-H -Herberts temperance
campaign at Pontiac closed on Sunday
last with 289 signatures to the pledge OF
total abstinence, and 400 to a petition
for strict temperance amendment to
the constitution.
Six tramps who had taken possession
OF an unOccupied house near JOnesville,
and evidently were preparing for winter
quarters to the disadvantage of all
nelghbOring property, were arrested and
sent to IOnia for 80 days each, as va
grants.
On the night of the oath the Lansing
common council adopted resolution to
submit to the taxpayers of the city the
question of purchasing the old state Of
| fees and an adjoining lot at a cost Of
$17,222. The question will be voted on
December 6.
William Beatty, of Capac, st. Clair
county, was engaged to take charge of
the Agricultural College farm, and left
on Monday, November 10, for Lansing.
He was last seen at Flint, endeavOring
to sell house and lot which he owned
there. His family are in great distress
over his unaccOuntable absence, as
nothing further can be heard from him
in any direction.
The Grand Rapids Times says that the
track and franchises of the Grand Rap
ids and Reeds Lake street railway have
been sold at sheriff's sale, under an exc
cutiOn, obtained by the Union Iron COM
pany, of Cleveland, in 1876. The sale
was made under an order from the su-
preme court, and the purchaser, Robert
b. LangdOn, of Minneapolis, obtains the
right to operate the road for ten years.
The total land and timber sales made
by the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw
railroad company during the months of
September and October were 40, embrac-
ing an area of 5, 5,161.58 acres, and yield
ing revenue of $65, ,493 81. The sales
for numbering purposes are on Muske-
gOn and Manistee rivers, in ROscOmmOn
and Crawford counties. while the land
sold for farming purposes is located in
OtsegO county.
A family named Bradley moved into
a farm house in West Kalamo, recently.
The house had long been unOccupied,
and after moving in the people frequent
ly heard rustling noise behind the
plastering. A few days ago they found
that the noise was made by big Mas
sasauga snake. When found he had
come out of his hiding place in the wall
and was fOOling around the family baby.
Mrs. Bradley "snaked" the child out
ldOOrs and Mr.. B, slew the serpent.