Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-08-07
STATE NEWS.

During July the Detroit letter carriers
delivered 523,30l letters and collected
| 190,240.
Marion township, in Sanilac Co., has
boy ten years old who weighs l04 pounds
and girl IL who weighs 143 pounds. =
At Rockford, Kent county, Garfield
and Arthur club has been formed with
Is active members, some of them for
merly Democrats. rr,, sIa fs,-r
Ypsilanti mother complains that
boys who go in swimming there on Sun
day are liable to arrest, but are perfect
| ly safe in the city saloons, where no Off
Ger will disturb them.
The contractors who are constructing
branch of the G.. r. Il |. railroad to in
tersect the.main line at Reed City, are
in want of 100 laborers Immediately, to
whom they offer $1.5O per day.
The Sparta & Lake Superior Railroad
company is the name of an organization
effected to build road from Sparta, Wis,
to OntonagOn, Mich. The route is 220
miles long and the capital stock $6,O0O.-
600. .-5--HlT 80
Miss Ida Blanchard of 0scOda, at
tempted suicide Friday evening, last
week, by leaping into the lake from the
Union steamboat dock. She was diseOv-l
cred and taken-Out unconscious, and af-
ter some time by constant application
she was restored to consciousness.
A gas well has been struck on the
south line of SOuthfeld township, three
miles west of Royal Oak. i'm Oakland
county. Major r. +. Judson, of Kalama-
zoo, owns the well, and is authority for
the staten ent that it is blazing 40 feet
high.
NW.sC. Conant died at Big Rapids on
the Both ult. 1t will be remembered
that he was arrested on suspicion of set
| ting fire to the Mason house, which was
burned last October. His trial would
have taken place the next term of the
court had he lived.
OSince December 1, 1879, there have
been 1,49S, ,461 barrels of salt made in
this state--an increase of 297, ,4O3 barrels
over the corresponding eight months of
the previous year. The yield for July
was 266,24S barrels, and it is believed
the product for 1880 will reach 100000
barrels. 'PiF
Big Rapids Herald: Every year proves
that the pine lands of this country are
uOt DdIItu duu WOItllltSS dS tnty nave
been thought to be. There may he
portion that will not pay for agricultur-
al purposes, but we believe that the most
of them, with proper cultivation, can be
made equal to large part of the "Oak
openings" of the south and central parts
of the state. These Openings" were for
many years considered too poor to make
farms of, but are now among the most
productive lands in the state,
The organization of a new railroad
company, to be known as the Grand
Rapids, Greenville & Bay City railway
company, to build and operate line Of
railroad from Rockford, on the line of
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad to
Greenville, and thence via Midland to
Bay City, was completed at Grand
Rapids Thursday of last week. The
directors of the company are: w. O.
Hughart, II. ]. HOllister and j. M. Bar
nett, of Grand Rapids; C. j. Church, LIE
Roy Moore, C. C. Ellsworth, Nathaniel
Slaght, William Backus, Eugene Rutam,
John NJ. Riddle, James fowls, Stephen
r. Stevens, and George Z. Middleton, of
Greenyille. The officers are: w. @,
Hughart, president; C. j. Church, vice.
president; j. III. P. Hughart, secretary,
and Leroy Moore, treasurer. l