Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-01-17

Last Monday, it showed thick and fast
at Cincinnati.
Attention is call to an advertisement
headed "lost" in another column.
DIR. C.. A. Perrin, of CharlevOix spent a
few days in the village this week.
The disappearing of the snow has
made dry wood a scarce commodity in
the village.
The feed mill of G. P. Langdon is kept
running most of the time grinding feed
for the different lumber camps.
The Black River race track, on the ice,
is occupied almost every day by the
owners of fast nags trying their speed.
Lake Superior steamboat combina-
tions, located in Chicago, Detroit and
Buffalo, are said to be under way for
next seasons business.
Last week the little Golden Eagle was
making trips between Sandusky, Ohio
and the islands, the lake and SanduSky
bay being free from ice.
The State Board of Auditors finished
their annual settlements with the several
state institutions Friday of last We L
and found the accounts of the state OF
Michigan all 30. K"
The Marquette Mining Journal says
that the ChOcolay farmers are lying
awake nights trying to fix the prices they
shall ask for the D., NJ. & nj. r. R. right
of way through their lands.
The regular meeting for the election
of officers of the ladies society of the
Congregational church will be held on
Friday the % inst. at o'clock p. m. A
full attendance is earnestly requested.
The Charlevoix Sentinel says daily
line of steamers between Traverse City
and Mackinac is talked of for next sea-
son, and it is more than likely that the
City of Grand Rapids and the Van Raalte
will do the business.
The school closed Thursday evening
for the week, in order to enable the the
doors of the building to be changed to
swing outward from the various rooms
and main entrances in accordance with
the requirements of the act passed at
the last session of the Legislature.
A bOrse, with cutter attached, run
away last Monday, coming down Main
street at lively gate. Turning in at
Hayes blacksmith shop the sleigh upset
dumping out the occupants rather I'M
tremendously, but fortunately doing
them no particular damage.
The soft weather has interfered to
some extent with numbering operations
in this section and unless more snow
soon comes some of the camps will have
to stop hauling. In one or two camps
we learn that they have only been draw
ing portion of the time this week, and
only by throwing snow on the road.
During one of the windy nights recent
ly, large tree was blown down on the
barn at Callums new saw mill, above
Mackinaw City, falling its full length
on 1T and completely wrecking it. The
barn contained sixteen horses at the
time, and singular as it may seem, it is
stated that none of them were injured.
The incessant rain the latter part of
last week and fore part of this i'm the
Saginaw Valley has about stopped lum-
bering in that section. The streams are
at high water mark. Saturday night
Bliss & Brothers boom broke letting out
some 5000 logs. The lumbermen are re-
ported as being dependent over the pros
poets.
Our citizens should remember that
there are less than ninety days in which
to raise the amount of money necessary
to secure the valuable appropriation of
swamp land offered by the state to aid
in improving Black river. Call at the
banking house of RollO & Hitchcock, ON
and after Monday, and aid the movement
by taking some stock.
Mr.. Ed. Forsyth, formerly editor of the
Bay City Evening Penny Press, spent
several days in the village this week,
prospecting for starting Democratic
paper. He spoke very highly of the man.
ner he was treated while here and SEEM
ed very much encouraged by the induce
ments held out, and when he left had
about concluded to locate in cur midst.
Should he determine to do so he expects
to issue the first number of the paper
sometime next month.
The Detroit Free Press found fault
with Governor CrOswell for pardOning
plug" Campbell. The Lansing Repub-
lican retorts by stating that one of the
Free Press editors was one of the most
active workers to secure the pardon, and
now comes the Free Press and says it is
not mad on account of the pardon being
granted, but that the conditions were
such as to deprive that editor of his par
ticular chum, after all his devotion and
hard work to secure his freedom.
The Saginaw Morning Herald has
made arrangements to receive the regular
Associated Press dispatches and has
commenced publishing them regularly.
The Herald reaches ChebOygan twenty
four hours in advance of the morning
1aiIioo of Dotroit and Chicago. and if anv