Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-07-31

The peach crop of Michigan this year
Will be the largest ever known.
Queen bees have been received at the
agricultural college from Cyprus.
A Greenville firm has shipped $4,000
pounds OF flour direct to England.
Holly woman adyertises that her
husband has left her bed and board, and
she fOrbidS any one to harbOr or trust
him on her account.
Seventeen large furniture manufac-
tories now do business at Grand Rapids.
1t is the greatest furniture making place
in the United States.
Prof. Dangley's electric light is to be
used at Sand Beach, and the government
work on the harbOr of refuge will be
prosecuted day and night.
new throat disease, somewhat re-
sembling diphtheria, has made its ap1
pearance in Cincinnati with fatality
that battles the skill of the doctors.
The iron ore shimpents from the upper
peninsula for the season up to July 21,
have been 1862 tons, against sol, COS
for the same period last year. The Re-
public mine has shipped 102, 1852 tons and
the Norway S9.9S
Workmen repairing the Marshall
Presbyterian church made the startling
discovery that some of the timbers sup
porting the roof of the church had rOtted
away, and are puzzled to understand
what has kept it from falling.
The 33d anniversary of Gen. Scott's
entry into the City of Mexico will be OBJ
served in Detroit, September ! 4, by the
Michigan veterans of the Mexican war,
who will hold their annual reunion i'm
that city on that date.
Wednesday morning Joseph Eaton, of
of Selby, an emplOye on an extra train
on the G. & w. NJ. r. R., was killed while
sitting Oh raised seat on top of a car,
his head striking against a bridge about
two miles out from Muskegon.
The Grand Rapids Electric Light COM
pany lighted 16 lights on Saturday even
ing, and the citizens were charmed with
the brilliant exhibition. The company
lights six stores and prominent places.
and the illumination is to be permanent.
Postmaster Wallace, of Battle Creek,
wanted to fly Garfield flag from the
pOstOffiee building. Hon. James S. Upton
(dem.) owns the building, and fuss that
would do discredit to so many children
has ensued. The stars and stripes now
float there and all is serene.
In the heart of large pine tree re.
Gently cut down by Jonathan Qatley of
Unadilla Forks, n. j., was found an In
dian pipe of stone, with the date rough
carved on it, 1883. A flint and few
arrow heads of steel were near it, This
is supposed to be the spot where the fa-
nous treaty of 1888 was made,
At the professional sculling match at
Bay City, on the oath, Riley won. The
distance was three miles, with a turn.
Time, 22:25. Geo. Lee, the eX-amateur
champion, was second, and Plaisted q
very bad third. Plaisted and his hacker
lost heavily at the pools, buying the
field literally against Riley, at odds Of
10 to G.
Frank A. Ross, student at the uni
yersity of Michigan, started from Ann
ArbOr for Terre Haute, Ind, on d 50inch
bicycle, July A. He made the trip of 432
miles lover roads that were by no means
good in the main) riding through rain
and mud large portion of the distance,
in 6l hours running time, or an average
of 6.44 miles per hour.
The boiler i'm Mellen's steam saw mill,
at Bagley, 0tsegO county, exploded Tues
day afternoon. Engineer Lennis was
blown through two board partitions and
terribly mangled; Fred Mcqueen was
scalded to death; H. Mellen, owner of the
mill, was seriously hurt; and Charles
Bartlett and John Strattonwere scalded.
Several other employees were slightly
hurt. -
The Otsego County Herald says: ''The
probabilities are now that grading for the
extension OF the railroad from Gaylord
will commence within one month, al
though! We have nothing official. The
surveying party are to commence driv-
ing the grading stakes very soon, and
Mr.. Cooper Is employed to commence at
once to negotiate for the right Of way
through non resident and settlers land.s
Grand Rapids merchants and manu-
facturers have been notified to immedi-
ately figure up an estimate of the num-
Der of carloads of freight or tons of mer-
chandise shipped to and from that place
each year. Government inspectors are
expected to figure how much it will cost
to make Grand Rapids seaport town by
digging out the Grand River channel.
A Sheffield. England, clergyman has
patented an invention lessening the
number of deaths by drowning. A chem
ical preparation is inserted in portion
of the coat, waistcoat or dress. 1t does
not add to the weight or alter the ap-
pearanee of the garment, and is inserted
between the lining and the cloth. The
moment man falls into the water the
coat initiates, and he cannot keep his
head under the waves. The invention
has been practically tested and found
to be successful.
The gigantic operations of the rail-
ways OF the United States for the past
year are exhibited i'm the summary given
In New York dispatches to the daily
press. From these it it appears the thir-
teen principal lines moved over sixty
seven million tons of freight during the
year. the toll on which amounted to over
a hundred and sixteen million dollars,
while the gross earnings of all the roads
reached the aggregate of nearly five
hundred and thirty million dollars. The
profits are indicated by the aggregate of
dividends paid, which was over sixty-One
million dollars.
Baths! Baths! Baths!
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