Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
STATE NEWS.

OuperlOr region, looking IOr counter
feiters.
The State of Michigan is 43 years old.
She was admitted into the Union January
26, 1887.
The balance i'm the State Treasury at
the end of the month of January was
1852, 1864. ~
The Manistee salt seekers have bored
over 500 feet, and haven't even had a
smell of brine yet.
The Detroit, Lansing & Northern rail-
road car shops will not be removed from
IOnia, where new buildings will soon be
erected. 1.srre fat
A Howard Citv shop-keeper and lum-
herman of that place have swapped
wives. Each mother took the others
children. AK ,ti
y Gen. Clinton A. Fisk, the man who so
nObly exposed the rOttenness of the
Indian rings and shattered it, is Mich
igan man..
There were 13 new prisoners received
into the Jackson prison during January,
and 2S discharged, leaving 874 on hand
February1. hrs aeG
The Michigan Central railroad COM
pany paid its State taxes last Saturday.
The amount was $4,000, and was paid
in one check.
VIC. Conant, charged with burning
the Mason House at Big Rapids, has
given $1,000 bonds for his appearance at
the examination, which is set down for
Feb. "a. -
The University Athletic association
have challenged the Racine (Wis) high
kickers to game of foot ball, to be
kicked at Ann ArbOr; also to have q
tournament in June.
Representative Cutcheon, Of Au Sable
is more cheerful than he was. A tape
lwerm so feet long has been feeding on
his vitalS-and his victualS-but has at
last been 6shed out.
The Grindstone City quarries last year
yielded 1900 tons Of grindstOnes. 10000
boxes of scythe stones, and 80 cubic feet
of block stone. One grindstOne made at
this place weighed $3.50 pounds.
The reports of logs got in by some Al
pena firms are as follows FLETCHER, Pack
& Co., 100000 feet; Geo. III. Prentiss. g.
100000 feet; F. C. Gilchrist, 100000 feet;
F. C. FOlherts, 100000 feet; H. R.
Morse, 100000 feet.
Good judges say that not to exceed 25
per cent. of the anticipated log crop, has
up to this time, been put into the Pere
Marquette river, and that it will be next
to impossible to secure more than 30 per
cent. of the usual crop.
The citizens of Berrien Springs and
Buchanan are reported to have raised
money enough to charter a railroad to
run from the Indiana line to Berrien
Springs, the design being to make road
from st. Joseph, Mich. to Fort Wayne,
Ind.
The boy who carried off the West Point
appointment in the Fourth Congressional
district at the recent examination at
Paw Paw was an orphan, who had to
fight his own battles thus far in life.
And he has got the stuff in him that
wins.
A Pontiac chap who was fined SIS for
being drunk, etc., could not raise the
money at first, but finally appealed to
those who sold him his whisky and
threatened to sue them for making him
drunk if they did not fork over the money
for his fine. They come down.
|OWm. 7. Palmer, aged 81, an old English
war veteran who claims to be the only
Surviving member of the 1000 soldiers
who guarded st. Helena during the i'm
prisOnment of Napoleon, is living at Bat
tie Creek; and, old and withered as he is,
can still see to read fine print without
glasses.
1t is now rumOred that Prof Watson,
late of the University of Michigan, is to
be made director of the Lick observatory
of California, with fund of several
millions (more or less) to draw from i'm
buying telescopes and other things need
ed to equip that which is promised to be
the finest observatory in the world.
The Marquette Mining Journal says
that next year. if men and hosting ap-
paratus enough can be put in the Nor
inee range, fully 100000 tons of ore can
is only question of means, it will prove
to be the greatest hematite mine i'm the
world.
An enthusiastic railroad meeting i'm
the interest of the Port Huron & North
western narrow guage railway was held
at Port Hope on the 9th, and apportiOn-
ed the amounts to be raised by Sand
Beach and Sherman at $1,000; RubicOn,
$1,000; Gore. $500; Huron, $1,000, and
Port Austin $l4,50 The meeting limit
ed the cost from the Sanilac county line
to Port Austin to $4,000, $4,000 of.
which is already pledged.
A singular instance of insanity occur
red in the township of Sheridan last
week, VIM. r. Winnes and wife both
going insane on Sunday, January %.
Both cases are of very violent nature.
Mr.. and Mrs Winnes were in Marshall
Saturday trading at the stores, and moth
ing strange was noticed in their actions,
but on Sunday they were observed by
the neighbOrs capering about the yard
like little children. and soon after it
was discovered that they were insane
and the officers notified. Their cOndi-
tiOn kept growing worse and the man
was taken to the asylum and the woman
will follow Battle Greek Journal.
A suit of no little interest is pending
i'm the Kent Circuit Court, it being that
of Fife Lake township against Enos
Putnam and others of this city. Putnam
ct al. have been cutting lumber i'm
leased saw mill at Fife Lake, and fire.
quently have several million feet of
lumber and logs there, personal property.
but no realty. Now on this personal
property the township authorities are
attempting to collect a tax of 1878 and
1879, the same amounting to about $500.
Putnam ct al. allege that they cannot
be taxed on personal property there
that they claim to pay in this city where
their house and their Office is. The plain
tiffs allege that they can tax the
lumber and logs and similar property
located in their town, and the suit is to
lo <hn II