Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-01-03
TOWN TALK.

Mcdonald & Cueny have fresh adver
tisement in this issue. Read it.
Rain this forenoon, which is some
thing unusual for ChebOygan at this
season of the year.
Preparations are being made for a
grand masquerade ball, to take place at
at the Town Hall. January 18th.
The best way to avoid dating your cor
respOndence 1879 is to have your letter
and note heads printed at the TRIBUNE
Office.
Antrim county is trying to find out
where its seat" is. The Clerk has re.
moved his Office to Bellaire, while the
the Treasurer and Judge of Probate are
still at Elk Rapids.
The ice harvest has commenced al
Saginaw and the crop is pronounced ex.
cellent. Large quantities are being
stored to create GOODNESS during the
heated term next summer.
The frame of the skating rink is about
up. With favorable weather it will moi
take great while to enclose it, then
look out for sport. This enterprise OF
the band should be well patrOnized.
Wednesday word was received by tele.
graph that the schooner d. A. Wells
was fr0ze in the ice off Paufetts, on the
the north shore of lake Michigan. Where
she was from or where bound we could
not learn. 1t was stated that she had
been visited by some fishermen and that
the crew were all right.
AmlOt has two new lighters under
way, for Macarthur, Smith & Co., one OF
whichis be eighteen feet wide, and
eighty feet long, the full size of the lock
The other will be twenty feet beam and
one hundred feet long, and will be used
below the lock. 1t will have a carrying
capacity of 100000 feet of lumber.
There is considerable quantity OF
freight being brought in from Petoskey
by the stage line. From the quantity
received before navigation closed, one
would have thought that our merchants
would have been prepared to meet any
demand, but it appears they are getting
short on some articles, and are Obliged
to order them sent by rail.
The Saginaw Herald says it was a
queer Christmas greeting that met a res
ident of that city on his holiday visit
from the woods. He found that his wife
who had not failed to write to him fol
money for current expenses" had sold
the household effects during his absence
and left for parts unknown, and hel
present whereabouts is to him a mys
terry.
On the third page of this issue may bt
found the prospectus of the Detroit Free
Press. This we'll known journal has 6
reputation that is exceeded by few, il
any, papers in the United States, and thu
managers not only propose to keep it vi
to the standard heretofore maintained
but to make it better than ever. Rea(
the advertisement and see what they
offer.
Capt. BOuchard went over "Wednesday
to try and recover the tin jettisOned by
the propeller Badger State. 1t addition
to the pig tin thrown over there were
several hundred boxes of tin plate
Captain Bouchard is of the opinion thai
now is the best time to recover it, Will,
the ice is not so thick as to make i
labOriOus cutting holes, and thinks h,
be will able to recover the whole amount
if he can have few days of good weather
The mail carrier between this plac,
and Mackinac, after number of un
successful attempts last week, succeeded
in getting across last Sunday. The della.
caused seventeen bags of mail to accu
mulate, which made quite a load ant
made it necessary to divide the load a
times in order to get over the veal
places in the ice, Much of the mai
matter was destined to the Sault as al
the mail for that section passes thrOugl
here since the close of navigation.
The ChebOygan correspondent of tn
Inter-Ocean must have been indulgin
in too much Christmas or else Dire,
fearfully upon his imagination when h
telegraphed that paper that the maj
carrier from Mackinaw crossed on .foa
ing ice Christmas. The fact was tina
the carrier had not crossed to Q
from Mackinac for several day
previous and did not cross eithe
way until last Sunday, when he succeed
ed in getting to the island.
Our farmers should rembember thu
the census taker will be around ne1
spring, and should devote few houl
this winter in making careful estima1
of the acreage of his place, both improve
and unimproved, and the amount of Il
various crops he raised last season,
that he will be ready to hand in as co
rect statement as possible when Gale
upon by the census taker. 1t is very in
pOrtant that the returns should be
full as possible, that our state may ha'
due credit.
The machine shops are kept busy {
mill and steamboat work. Perry & Wa
son have the engine for Smith Brother
new steamer for the inland route we
under way, and are also Overhauling Il