Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-07-10
STATE NEWS.

There are II pairs of twins in North
Shade township, Gratiot county.
! During the year ending June 80. 7O.-
600 emigrants entered the United States
| at Port Huron.
During the firing of a Hancock salute
al, Romeo some one put gravel in the
cannon, and Robert Young was shot in
the mouth..
/, Tt is now expected that the main line
of the Port Huron e Northwestern rail-
way will be completed to Sand Beach by
September 1st.
OwOss0 gave the Estey Organ company
1.-The, land On.Yhich its big factory is to
be erected. 1t is the best Investment
the place ever ma,ie q;
The popdlatioriaofB Bay City is nearly
81 geo making itthe third city in the
state. twenty yeAfs ago its population
l064. :.
= Farmers in the southern part of the
state complain of scarcity of help for
har vesting. The wages paid are gen
orally about 81 day. .vlrs serrr.it
There are eight greenbackers in
Isabella county. They expect to leayen
the whole lump, despite the fact that
two of them are insane. 7,
The collections of internal revenue In
the iDetrOit- district for the month of
June amounted to $l13;344.6o. an in
crease of $3,007.46 over the same mouth
last year - .eslc
The largest family yet reported by the
census enumeratOrs of Jackson county
is that of John and Angeline AckaFsOn
of Sandstone, which consists of man ana
wife and IA children, all living.
Contractors have begun to grade the
Detroit, st. Louis & Bntfer road at
Adrian. They are unable to secure
force to progress with the work as. fast
as desired. They pay 81 30 per day for
men and So for teams.
Mrs. Iowa Reams, aged SO, years, was
the pioneer to carry. eff the prize at the
CasS county pioneer meeting, as the one
showing the greatest number Ofdescend-
ants. She had 13 children, 81 grand
children, AZ great grandchildren; total
116. -s..-s.r - ,s,..s. IA .,s.,s.~s,
1t is stated by those who profess to
know that the fruit belt OF Western
Michigan will this year yield larger
crop of peaches than ever before. The
fruit crop of all kinds, it is said, will be
enormous, nearly double that of any pre-
ceding year. J - l.frcf5s
Thirteen years ago James Hewett left
his home in Pennsylvania to selfsome
horses. His family never heard OfSfiim
again. A few days ago woman told
Miss Hewitt, of the st. Joseph knitting
factory, about man named Hewitt, who
was in the Berrien county poor house.
She went there and found it was her
father, the identical James Hewitt who
left his Pennsylvania home as above.
He has been i'm the aims house fire years,
while his familyha been living ten
years in that county and neither knew
of the others whereabouts. = ilsrzq :
At the late session of the state red rib
bon convention atJacks0n somebody de-
nOunced App. NJ. Smith, of the Manistee
Times, asea whisky man, and he was
-thereupon bounced from position which
he would otherwise have tiled. There.
fore he sendsa circular to the press call
ing upon them Ito publicly express their
opinion upon the record which have
made before the people on this subject"
The Evening News says lit can say in all
truthfulness that App. NJ. Smiths career
in Detroit was marked by earnest tenn
perance w0rk-in fact, he. was the ex-
tremest kind of a radical temperance
man and the writer of this knows that
fully onelIalf, of his income While here
was freely spent in adyoracy OF the
cause"