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

ter.
The Michigan car works Of Detroit
have taken contract to build 1000
freight ears for the Chicago and North
western road.
r. II. Morrison, the much sued and
deeply investigated ex-eddfellow grand
treasurer. has opened law and collec-.
tlOn agency at Sturgis. A
new bridge, 564 feet long, will be
constructed over the river at Niles, on
the Michigan Central, by the Detroit
Bridge and Iron works.
| A Toledo firm has contracted to do q
large amount of bridge building along
the line of the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad next summer. -
The Methodist church at Courtland
Center, Kent county, burned on Sunday
last; loss 5000, with $500 insurance.
The edifice was only about year old.
| Port Huron still gropes around in the
dark, the gas company refusing to fur
nish the means of lighting the streets
until it knows where its pay is coming
| from.
| All the bridges on the lineo the De-
trOit, Saginaw & Bay City railroad are
being raised so that they will clear the
heads of brakemen standing erect on the
top of freight train.
The man who invaded East Saginaw
with a project for establishing green
back paper established good sized board
bill instead, and7s then established his
headquarters elsewhere. e's ~
Two boys who ran away, from the
state reform school at Lansing last week
voluntarily returned. You can't fool a
boy on the subject of where he gets good
grub" and comfortable bed.
There is haunted blacksmith shop in
Colombia township, Jackson county.
The ghost blows the bellows, pounds on
the anvil, etc., but hasn't yet been de-
tected i'm doing any real honest black
smithing.
They are querying in Bay county
whether to levy any county tax this
year. The state owes them $4,000,
which stands to their credit on the books
and there is money on hand for all need
ed purposes.
The New York Graphic of Monday pub
fishes correct and elaborate diagram,
with explanatory references, of the plans
and calculations for constructing the
proposed bridge over the Detroit river at
Belle Isle.
Dan Calaher was instantly killed at
Bnck's lumber camp, in Oregon town.
ship, Lapeer, county, Monday. He was
saving tree down, when it split at the
stump, the split flying outward and kill
ing him by the blow.
The annual report of Postmaster Geo.
C. COdd. of Detroit, for 1879 shows that
the net revenue of that Office during the
year was $206, 1874, being an increase
of nearly $4,000 over the net income of
the year previous.
The Olivet pOstOffice was robbed of
small change, postage stamps and
other valuables on the night of the 18th;
total loss, $50. The safe was drilled but
the fuse failed to do the work, which
was a lucky thing for Postmaster Keys
and others.
! Six prehistoric mounds have been
found on the southwest shore of Brace
lake. EckfOrd township, Calhoun county.
EThey are eight feet wide and two feet
high. One was opened and yielded hu-
man remains, and i'm another was found
ancient pottery.
| A committee of the East Saginew
board of health has looked the diphtheria
question squarely i'm the face, and has
decided to recommend that all city
schools attended by children under -
years of age be closed; also all private
schools and Sabbath schools.
At a meeting of the press of Ann Ar
Dor Tuesday afternoon it was unani-
mOusly resolved that the editors and
publishers of the state, their wives,
daughters and sons, be entertained by
the citizens Of Ann ArbOr during their
attendance upon the annual meeting of
the association. R. A. Beal, of the
Courier was duly authorized to invite
every editor and publisher to attend in
person. -.
At the meeting of the State Press assO-
citation, to be held at Ann .ArbOr on the
9th, papers will be read on dead Beats;
wildcat newspapers; sNoWspapers and
the law of libel''; early newspaper his
tory of Detroit; Newspaper makeup"
and other topics. Several interesting
biographical sketches are also expected.
The visit to the University city further
more promises to give the editors
splendid opportunity of becoming per-
sOnally acquainted with one another.
The state fish commission held meet
ing at Grand Rapids on the 8th to discuss
the question as to when and where to
plant the 100000 white fish fry now
on hand at the state hatchery at Detroit.
There are at the hatchery at POkagon,
Cass county, 10000 brook and 10000
lake trout spawn in process of Matching,
which will soon be ready for distribu-
tiOn. The commissioners are also look
ing for quite quantity of land-lOcked
salmon spawnfrOm Lake Sebago. Maine,
to be Matched there and distributed
through the state.
About 200 packages containing Christ
mas present for friends i'm Canada came
through the western mails as far as De-
trOit and stopped there because their
contents were dutiable and could not
cross the line. As many as possible were
sent back to the pOstOffice where they
Originated" but in spite of all that could
be done several hundred of them had to
be sent to the dead letter Office. And now
there are hundreds of angry individuals
i'm Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indi-
ana and Ohio, who rave around their To-
cal pOstOffices because those packages
"miscarried'
During 1879 the Jackson, Lansing and
Saginaw railroad company sold IA ,S88 26
) acres of land, against 12,415 acres in
, 1878 and 17,OS6 acres i'm 1877. The price
per acre was $11 40 for 1879, 50 86 for
, 1878. and So "a for 1877. The total sales
} in 1879 amounted to $167, ,789 Al, in 1878
/, to $122, A, and i'm 1877 to $149,397 80.
. The timber sales i'm 1879 were $2S,523 As,
i. and i'm 1873 to $7,O02. The total receipts
3 for land and timber i'm 1879 were $685.
! 312 92: in 1873. S129413 a. and i'm 1877