Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-05-15

More furniture for Smith Brothers
arrived on the Pearl yesterday.
Main street is being dOctOred by hav-
ing gravel dumped into the worst holes.
The plastering in the new addition to
the Grand Central hotel is about finish
ed.
The River and HarbOr appropriation
bill is to be voted on in the House next |
Monday.
The Cheboygan market is well sup
piled with green vegetables brought In !
from outside"
Prof. Sweet gives his farewell hop at |
the Town Hall, next Thursday evening. |
Patrons please notice.
The citizens of Sault Ste. Marie con-
graduate themselves that they now re-
ceive their mails by boat.
The warm rains of last week started
the growth of vegetation, and one can
almost see the grass growing.
The corps Of engineers surveying the
line of the Jackson, Lansing q Saginaw
railroad reached Indian river yesterday.
Judson d. Smiths saw mill started
up last week to try the machinery, and
on Monday last started to saving for the
season.
1t was reported Wednesday at Point
st. Ignace. that the body OF one the seven
men drowned few weeks since had
been found.
The water in Lake Huron seems to be
raising, for the past few days the water
in the river has been at about the same
stage it was last season.
The TRIBUNE is under obligations to
Capt. BOuchard, of the Mary, for kindly
taking oyer the last weeks issue to our
subscribers at Mackinac.
Only eleven drummers arrived on the
Pearl yesterday. 1t is evident that the
wholesale merchants know there is
business being done in our village.
Street Commissioner SammOns has
been improving the looks of the main
streets of the village this week by hav-
ing the rubbish cleared up and hauled
away.
A small boy, whose name we have
been unable to learn, was badly bitten
yesterday by vicious dog. A little
thinning out of the CANNES would not
be bad thing.
A fish boat loaded with suckers, caught
in stream on Bots Blanc island. came
in yesterday and packed the fish at
Humphreys dock for shipment, s. Le-
Gault & Co. purchasing the lot.
The work of completing the City of
Cheb0ygan is being pushed forward.
Her engines are in position. her cabins
are enclosed, and she begins to show
how she will look when completed.
Smith Brothers new steam yacht was
launched yesterday and brought down
to AmiOt's ship yard to receive her boil
er. She will be beauty, and is highly
creditable to Mr.. Hodge, her builder.
Capt. Todd, of the scOw Minnehaha of
this port, last Wednesday while engaged
dragging for anchors, picked up SOB feet
of the missing telegraph cable. He found
it abreast of the island of st. Helena.
Sanford Baker received a telegram
from his attorney last Wednesday even
ing, announcing that the q. s. Supreme
court had decided the dock suit between
he and Geo. P. Humphrey in his favor.
| The swift current i'm the river makes
| it lively business for those bringing
RATS down, and already several have
beed wrecked upon the bars from Amiot's
ship yard up, but the lumber has been
all saved.
The citizens of Mackinac are still
complaining about their mail arrange
ments, and we don't blame them, for
they have only had three mails this
month, and then only received letters,
no papers.
Our ChebOygan spOrtsmen are having
lots OF fun shooting pigeons now days.
The birds are numerous, and fly in large
numbers just at the edge of town, max
ing it quite convenient for those who de-
light in shooting.
Barclay & MattOOn's mill started up
last week for the seasons saving. AS
fast as their lumber is manufactured it
is RATED down and piled on the east
bank of the river above the mill of the
ChebOygan Lumber company, ready for
shipment.
! The following from the Detroit News
Is as applicable to our own county as
any we know Of: "Just what this state
needs is less attention to big pumpkins
and moro scientific, sensible rOad-mak-
ing. There are some roads in this state
80 rough that even the ants prefer to
swim the bitches along side to risking
their necks on the highways"
| Thursday James Shields, employed by
Thomas Burrell on the drive, met with q
very severe accident, cutting his right
foot across the base of all his toes, sever
ing it down through the bones. He was
brought down yesterday and DIR. BOwes
was called and attended to the foot, fix
ing it up in shape. The doctor thinks
he will be able to save the toes all right.
Supervisor Gallagher gives notice, in
another column. to the tax payers of the
township OF Benton that the Board of
Review will meet at the Office of Geo. w.
Bell Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week to review the assessment roll,
and if any of the citizens have not been
made wealthy enough by the assessors,
they will be glad to add q sufficient
amount 20 satisfy them. Those interest
ed should attend.
Last week gentleman from Erie. Pa,
was at Point st. Ignace looking around
with a view of establishing blast fur
mace. The company he represented own
several thousand acres of hardwood land
in that vicinity, purchased with a view
Of manufacturing charcoal. The pros
poets of go important work being es-
tablished at that point have set the citi-
zens wild, and every property owner i'm
AGNES himself millionaire, and will
not sell land at any price.
: Just as soon as the Bay View and
Crooked Lake railroad gets i'm running
order so as to make regular connections
with the boats on the inland route, the