Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-04
Congress opens next Monday.

three lumber camps running.
The Cheboygan river is clear of ice
but Mullet lake continues solid.
The harbor is about as free of Ice at
the present time as in mid summer.
VIC. Moore returned from Chicago
last evening via stage from Petoskey.
Chateau Dor" Mrs. Holmes new
novel, just received at Fexer's book
store.
Mike Kurtz, of Detroit, drank pint
of whisky on wager, and won the
wager but lost his life.
AS it SHOWS more or less, about every
day, the prospects are we will have some
sleighing before the winter is over.
The indications are that the ice crop
will prove an abundant one. 1t is al
ready being harvested in more southern
localities.
The four largest states in the Union
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois-polled at the last election rather
more than one-third of the total vote.
The citizens of Sault Ste. Marie have
been having a hard time getting their
mails. A letter received from there says
they only received two mails in two
weeks.
Deputy Sheriff Paquette has had con-
siderable experience as "dOck VOL
Topper" this week. He makes good
one, always looking after something
heavy.
The large number of vessels going into
winter quarters at this port has furnish
ed a large number of passengers for the
stage line, many of the crews going
out via Petoskey.
VIM. Hess has his boiler shop COM
pleted and is now making lively music.
He says he has plenty of work for the
winter, having large amount to do for
parties on the north shore.
A man named Joseph Barrett, employ
ed in Robert RObinsOn's camp. was kill
ed last Saturday, by a tree falling upon
him. The remains were brought down
Sunday. He was from Canada.
Read the advertisement of Littlefield
& McCarty's stage line between Cheboy-
gan and PetOskey. Both the prOprietOrs
are well known upon the route as care
full, reliable and accommodating men.
The steamer Van Raalte has been doing
a good business since she was placed up
on the Cheboygan, Mackinac and Point
st. Ignace route, showing that she was
just the craft wanted on the route. Capt.
Bouchard says it costs less to run her
than it did to run the Mary.
C.M. Nichols, editor of the Springfield,
o., Republic says Hon. R. G. Horr, of
Michigan, one of the wits of the House
of Representatives, and just reelected,
was a fellOw-student with j. Warren
Keifer, at Antioch. We knew the lad
right well, in the Olden time. And to
know him was to like him."
Skating rink opened for the first time
this season last night. The ice in some
portions of the rink was not of the best
but in others it was excellent and those
present, goOdly number, appeared to
enjoy the sport very much and every
thing went along merrily. Another
flooding with good freeze will make it
all right.
Last Tuesday man named Levi Mas
ter working for Thompson Smith in
Geers camp, was struck by falling tree
in the left side of his head, fracturing
his skull badly. DR.. Perrin was sent for
and removed portion of the skull and
did all that could be done for the injur-
ed man but it proved fatal, he lingering
until yesterday when he died.
The Detroit Evening News says, one of
the most fortunate things that could
have happened for shippers this season
was the order closing the st. Mary's
canal at an early period, thus hurrying
up the freight for the north so that it all
went through. Had the canal remained
open until the close of navigation there
would doubtless have been large body
of freight left over.
There was rumor upon the street
this week that that the sub-cOntractOrs
for this end of the Jackson, Lansing &
Saginaw railroad had rented the old
boarding house of the Cheboygan Lum-
Der company for boarding the men, and
were going to set force at work at once
on the cut near the brick yard. Mr..
Nelson, however. says he knows nothing
about the matter, so that it would seem
to have been only rumOr.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean says the the
suggestion made by the Burlington
Hawkeye that ex-COngressman Rainey,
of South Carolina, be elected clerk of
the next House of Representatives is a
good one. Rainey is we'll qualified to
fill the position as any one yet named.
and it would be an exceedingly graceful
thing upon the part of the Republicans
to elect cOlOred man to this office
Rainey was a.faithful and capable, if not
brilliant, Congressman, and at the close
of the FOrty-fifth Congress, when all the
Democratic members of the Committee
on Enrolment were drunk, and all the
other Republicans on the committee
were absent, Rainey did the work eli
four men, without food or sleep, fol
twantv-four h0urs and savad tho counfrv