Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-01-24
No. 30
STATE NEWS.

owned by its members.
: They are surveying for railroad from
MnskegOn to the mouth Of the harbor,
and say they will build it in the spring.
The schooner Cora left st. Joseph,
Mich, for Chicago Tuesday morning, be-
ing the first clearance from that harbor
this season.
Mr.. HObson, the University taxidermist
has secured the skins of 500 birds, which
ne will soon mount and put up in the
University museum.
| During 1879 the lard department of
the Flint u Pere Marquette railr,s,d dis
posed of 1852 acres of land at an 4 fef-
aye per acr5f SD p. g .a. 2
Sunny Tilden came ont ahead in four
Of his suits in the Mlrquette circnit
last week and had jalg OF S33J
! scored up glilSt hin in fifth
The train and station men of the
Grand Rapins & Indiana Railroad have
al been supplied with new uniform caps
in accordance with the State law.
Mrs. Grandy, of Bay City gave birth to
her 18th child on the 14th inst, and it
was just II inches long and weighed two
pounds and a-half. 1t is well formed
and vigorous,
During the past year the Grand Rapids
d Indiana railroad company have sold
1900 acres of pine and 14,200 acres of
farming lands, receiving therefor $780,
800, and average of nearly $l5 per acre.
The books of the internal revenue col
lectOr show that "a, 4,349,933 cigars were
sold by the 20 largest manufacturers i'm
Detroit during the year 1879. Three of
them sold over 100000 apiece and eight
sold over 100000. +.
"Phatty" Peck, one of the best known
saloon keepers at Adrian, has been fined
S25 and costs and sent to Jail for ten
days, on a conviction for disObeying the
State law relative to keeping billiard
tables where liquors are sold.
The Republican says that the mud is
so deep in the region round about Lam
sing that the farmers walk to town
rather than force their teams through
the mire, and that some of Lansing's
main streets are even worse than the
country roads.
The Berrien County Journal claims
that the record of the proceedings of the
board of supervisors of that county has
been falsifed, and that the resolution to
submit to the people proposition to
move the county seat never received the
required two-thirds vote.
At East Saginaw Tuesday night it was
decided that all the schools in the city
must be closed, in order to check the
diphtheria if possible. Among the
latest victims of the scOurge is another
child of Rev. TheO. Nelson. while yet an
other is very ill and may die.
The ice on the lakes at Cadillac is now
one foot thick and very fine. The Grand
Rapids & Indiana Railroad Co. cOmmenc-
| ed last week to cut 1900 tons to fill their
ice houses, and as the crop south this win
e. is short, this company are preparing
ior large business in that line
The editor of the Bay City Tribune.
who has been a resident of Washington
| fOr many years until few months ago.
ventures the assertion that Hon. 0.D.
| COnger, of this state, will take the place
II Garfield as parliamentary leader of
he Republican side of the House of Rep
teSentatiyes.
During the quarter ending Dec. 81,
| 1879, 22,60O emigrantS entered the United
states at Port Huron. Of this number
y 1886 were from Canada, 4S0 from Eng
and. l07 from Nova Scotia, 163 from
| sermany. l02 from France, and others
| rom Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, N0s~ay,
russia and New Brunswick.
Prof. Palmer, of the University arrived
lOme from Europe on Friday, and the
aetlical students, who seemed to think a
,reat deal of him. gave him rOusing
eceptlon. lie was escorted from the
epOt to his house by over 800 of the
F0ung men. and at night was rendered
banquet at the Chandler House.
Alady once expressed the belief that
editors never go to heaven" The Char
lOtte Leader replies, "we thought that
country people knew that iOurna
lists never went anywhere They. don t
get the chance. They just sit up nights
thinking how to do good, until the tops
Of their heads wear holes through their
hair"
Out of 40 saloons and other places
where liquors are sold, at Port Huron,
only 10 have paid the required taxes.
The red ribbon club of that city has ap-
pointed committee to see that the law
is enforced, and on the committee are an
ex-Judge and leading lawyer, both of
whom are striking examples of what
the reform movement accomplished in
that city.
Anent the Texas colonization scheme
recently alluded to as being worked i'm
GratiOt county, there comes a startling
allegation of fraud in the matter. As
set forth in the GratiOt Journal, a certain
individual was selling Texas land scrip
to GratiOt county folks for the sum of
$3.50 per section, whereas the same scrip
is on sale at Austin for S22 so per see
ton. Grati0t county bit greediIy to the
extent of several thousand dollars.
Commissioner Neasmith of the state
land Office states that some of the more
recent experiences with a certain class
OF Michigan lands, heretofore considered
worthless after the pine is OF, is great
iy modifying the prevailing view about
their adaptation TO agriculture. In var
ious counties, among them Montcalm,
where the removal of the timber has led
to an extensive test of the agricultural
capacity of these lands, the crop returns
of the past year have been of the most
gratifying character. These facts have
commenced to influence the currents of
immigration. The northern counties on
the shore of Lake Huron. which have, by
reason of location and other causes, been
greatly behind the rest of the state in
point of settlement, are receiving a
large access to their population. One
| feature Of the business at the state land
i, ioffice is the sales to men who have tried
the prairie states west, which raise
principally high winds, and are now
glad to get to lands where everything
that they turn off in establishing a
home brings them ready money.