Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-22
STATE NEWS.

Prof. Beal, of the Agricultural college,
says the peach buds in that part of the
state are generally killed.
The ice is so thick and the water so
low in the Monroe marshes that the
muskrats are rapidly dying from starva-
| tiOO.
A foot of snow fell at FarwelI Friday
of last week. and the mercury went down
to thirty below zero, being the lowest
since 1875.
A proposition will be submitted to the
people of CharlevOiX county in the spring
to remove the county seat from Charlie
vOix to BOyne Falls.
VIM. Belden, step-father to Gen. Gar
field, died at his home in Byron town.
ship, Kent county, Friday night of last
week, aged 20 years.
Streams are remarkably low through
out the state, so much so that mills and
factories depending on water power
have catching time of it.
One hundred and fifty men are en-
plOyed in the Grand Rapids & Indiana
car shops in Grand Rapids. 1t requires
about $4,000 month to pay them.
George Parmelee, of Old Mission, Grand
Traverse county, had a crop of 5000
bushels of apples last season, and has
1,6O0 bushels still on hand for the sum-
mer trade.
j. L. Ayres, formerly a we'll known
lumberman at Clare, in this state, has
been arrested at Sidney, O., his present
residence, on charge of issuing over
$4,000 in spurious bonds.
The Michigan salt association expires
by limitation in March, and the busi-
ness it has been carrying on for the past
three years is being closed up. A new
organization will take the place of the
old.
The Railway Age says that the salary
of General Manager Ledyard, of the
Michigan Central, has been advanced to
$4,000 per year, and that he has de-
clined $4,000 offer from another west
ern road.
Detroit vessel owners will send two
delegates to general convention of ves-
sci owners to be held i'm Cleveland, jan
uary 26, chief object of which is to
combat the present Lake Seamens'
Union system.
1t is currently reported at Grand Rap
ids that the heirs of sGme of the persons
lost by the destruction of the steamer
Alpena propose to sue the Goodrich
Transportation company flor damages
for the loss of the lives of friends.
A Bay City woman employed a justice
of the peace to write letter for her. 1t
was to her husband warning him to
leave the city to avoid arrest for crime
which, till then, was unknown to the
authorities. And this is how she gave
him away
During the month of December the
Flint & Pere Marquette railroad hauled
l2,061 $50 feet of pine logs, of which A.
133,090 feet to Averill and Midland, and
155, ,29O feet to Flint. To handle this
quantity of logs it required $50 trains
composed of 4,043 cars.
Gov. CrOswell has transmitted to the
Legislature list of pardOns granted
by him in 1879 and 1880. lThir-
ty-nine persons were pardoned from the
Jackson State prison; twelve from the
Iona House of Correction and two from
Detroit House of Correction. The Gov
ernOr also commuted the sentances of
five persons.
A man calling himself Charles Shafer
and claiming to hail from Detroit, start
ed from East Saginaw with a team of
horses which he was to take to Nester's
lumber camp, riding one and leading
the other. The horses belonged to Thorn
as Nester, who waited for several days,
a Id having he lrd nothing from Shafer,
put the telegraph in operation and az
last found his horses in Genesee county.
Shafer had sold them to farmer named
Mcintyre for $3.50 and another horse.
The latter he left in Flint, but made
good his escape with the money.
The board of visitors to the Michigan
Military Academy at Orchard Lake re-
port that the general management of
the institution meets with their hearty
approval; that the system of instruction
is excellent and the rules of study and
military exercise about perfect; that the
institution is worthy of confidence and
support; that parents and guardians
need have no hesitation about sending
their sons and wards to the academy, for
fear of their falling into evil company,
or forming bad habits, as all avenues
leading in such directions are most
carefully and cOnscientiously guarded.