Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-07-24
TOWN TALK.

Jim-jams, sure. They keep seeing those
green-headed monsters in their butter.
The inland steamers are doing rush
ing business, the boats carrying from
forty to sixty passengers every trip.
According to the Sentinel the soldiers
ut Fort Mackinac are thinning out rapid
ly, every week, nearly, some of them de-
serting.
We have been rushed with job work
again this week and as consequence
we are q little later than usual issuing
our paper.
Poor LO is reaping rich harvest gath
ering huckleberries these times. Three
boat loads came in from down the shore
Thursday afternoon.
Wetmore & Lathrop's steam apparatus
for loading ties on vessels has attracted
considerable attention, and its success
highly c0mplimented.
Building at Point ST. Ignace is BOOM
ing. Eight or ten good sized buildings
are now being put up. The scOw ROb't
Emmett left here Thursday with load
of lumber. mostly dressed, for that
place.
Lieutenant Clay, stationed at Fort
Mackinac, has been selected by the
superintendent of rifle practice in the
army, to take part in the CreedmOOre
contest, commencing Thursday of next
week.
The ChebOygan correspondent of the
Detroit Free Press evidently had an at
tack of the ague last week. He tele-
graphed that paper that the vessel men
reported quite heavy snow squall on
the lake Friday.
The Grand Rapids s. Indiana railroad
will receive bids until July 26 for the
sale to them of bonds of the first mort
gage issue of October 1, 1866, to the
amount Of 100000 for redemption by
the sinking fund.
The work upon the upper range light
Is delayed for want of some long sticks
Of timber. They were shipped from
Detroit a week ago last Monday in
the sc0w louisa but she has not yet
put in an appearance.
Camp meeting at the Bay View Camp
grounds, near PetOskey, commences next
Tuesday. Large numbers are reported
on the ground already and the indica-
tiOns are that the attendance will be
largely increased over that of former
years.
Aman residing in one of the southern
cities of the state writes the TRIBUNE
wanting to know the character of timber
and kind of s6n m section II, town 80,
ChebOygan county. AS there are four
towns 50 in the county, it would be
difficult matter to answer his queries.
One thing that speaks well for our vii
l. Ixcx cvf. ,1o ,sc.f nd
enjoy the cool and invigorating breezes
from lake Huron, are sure to return
another season. There are great many
in the village at present who spent
portion of the summer here last season.
The Mackinac Sentinel says, "there is a
soldier at Fort Mackinac, Owen Brennon,
of Company D., who enlisted when the
regiment was FIRST organized in 1856,
and has served continuously in the same
company. He is the only man in the
regiment that belonged to it at its or
ganiZatiOn. -
Here is more evidence of the boom in
lumber. The imports of lumber at
CswegO during the present season to
July were 72, $4,000, which is greatly
in excess of any imports for any recent
corresponding period. In 1868 they were
1881 900 and last year, 1885, OOfor the
same time.
New towns are already springing up
along the line of the proposed extension
Of the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw rail-
road. Ten miles north of Gaylord in the
midst of q good farming country that
is being rapidly settled, town called
Vanderbilt has been started, a
pOst0ffice established and num-
Der Of buildings have been put up.
The Lumbermens' Gazette, of Bay CITY
says: I'd. j. feathers sold, on the 9Th
inst, to p. H. Mcdonald, of Cheboygan.
Mich, 600 acres Of pine timber, situated
in town 81 north, range2 east, for $1,000
cash. Mr.. feathers purchased this land
in connection with 1 800 acres more, less
that year ago, of ex Gov. Fairbanks of
Vermont, for the price $1.25 per acre.
They must have attentive wharfmen
at Mackinac. The Oswegatchie was in
there the other night with quite lot of
freight for that place and whistled a
number of times for some one to open
the warehouse and receive the freight
but could not get anybody to appear and
Capt. Shay would not leave it On the
dock 80 he brought 1t over here and land
ed it.
The work on the extension of the
Canada Central Railway towards Lake
Nipissing is being rapidly forwarded.
About 1000 men are now employed on
the road. Mr.. Mcintyre, has sailed for
England, it is understood to make ar
rangements for the construction of the
Sault Ste. Marie branch-fOr which the
company will hold the charter lin the
event of the members of the Dominion
Government, who will be there, intimat-
ing the nature of the policy they will
pursue in regard to this important con-
nection of the Canada Pacific.
The Democratic papers are bowling
wildly over the mere suggestion of a
writer in the Post and Tribune that the
states having Republican legislatures
might call extra sessions and pass law
repeating the laws authorizing the peO-
pie to elect electors, and empowering
each state to appoint its electors in such
manner as the legislature might direct,
forgetting that in Louisiana, after secur-
ing Democratic legislature by "bulI-
DOING" and intimidation, utterly dis
franchising the Republicans of that
state, they have put in practice what
they SO loudly condemn, 1t makes a good
deal Of difference with them whose OK is
g0red.
Last Sunday morning Detective
Thomas started via the inland route for
Petoekey with the prisoner English, the
noted Pennsylvania desperate whose
capture we chr0nicled last week, on his
way to Pennsylvania where English was
% badly wanted. Under-Sheriff Paquette
accompanied them as far as Petoskey at
which place they were received by the
whole population of our neighbOring