Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-03

New York City.
Under the Iron clad" liquor law
which goes into effect the 18th inst, the
penalty for getting drunk is fine and
imprisonment.
Last Week John w. McGinn kept two |
gangs at work filling in the crib at the
entrance of the harbOr with stone, work
ing night and day.
Moloney Brothers have force at work
excavating for their beer cellar. 1t will
be under an extensive ice house which
they propose building, and which is to
be sixty feet long.
More trouble at the salt well. The
large driving pulley bursted Wednesday
evening, stopping the work. 1t is expect
ed that another will be in and work con-
mence again next Monday.
The Lansing Republican says: Jessie,
only daughter of ex-State Treasurer
Collier of Battle Creek, is dangerOuslyill
at Mackinac. Mr.. Collier was summon
ed to her bedside last week.
Last Tuesday was scorcher and by
many it is claimed to have been the hot
test day they ever experienced in Che
bovgan, at noon the thermometers rang
ing from 94o to go in the shade.
We are in receipt. from the publisher,
I. W. Helmick, $50 Elm street, Cincin-
natl, o., of a song, with chorus, entitled
"God Bless the Little Woman" 1t re-
fers to the noble wife of our suffering
President. The price is 35 cts. per copy,
or four copies for $l0o.
The Pressure Isle county Advance says
that Burns and Riley, the two prisoners
who escaped from the Cheboygan Jail,
were pIOwling around that section cCm-
uniting depredations. Under Sheriff
Calvin, however, says that the descrip-
ton of the men seen at Rogers does not
correspond in the least with the appear
ance of the escaped prisoners.
The numerous glowing accounts we
have received Of the good tine enjoyed
by the members of Northwestern Mich
igan Press association last week at its
meeting at Cadillac and subsequent ex-
cursiols makes us sad to think that "we"
were not there to take it in. Having
been there in other days we believe all
the good things that are said Of it.
The schooner G. Hart arrived at the
pier last Tuesday morning with sixty
big stone. Capt. Hart says the first one
he picked up weighed about ton and
just as they were going to lower it into
the hold it dropped from the tongs and
he thought the bottom was going out of
his vessel, sure, but he could discover no
damage. He left Thursday morning
after another cargo.
Track laying on that portion of the
railroad from Cheboygan to Mackinac
City commenced last Monday. As not a
very large force has been engaged at it,
not much progress has been made, but
the force. we understand, is to be in
creased when the rails will 90 down
more rapidly. The start made is en-
couraging as it looks as if some day we
would have our long looked for railroad.
Oleanders are not very plenty in Mich
igan, yet people ought to know the poi
sonous nature of the tree. A recent
article in the N. Y. Tribune says that a
horse which had eaten bunch of the
leaves died in a short time. Persons
picking and eating the blossoms have
also died from its effect. The branches
Invested Of bark and used as skewers
have poisoned the meat roasted on them
and killed out of ~ people who par.
took of it.
Taxpayers, you are all interested in
the action to be taken at the school meet
ing, next Monday evening, at the school
house. Let there be large attendance
that all interested may have an Oppor.
tunity to express an opinion, and vote
upon this important question, that what
ever conclusion may be arrived may b.
clear expression of the will of the ma
jority of the taxpayers Of the district
Don't stay away and then grumble be
cause the matter was not decided accord
ing to your desire.
Lrst Monday lighter loaded will
tanbark sunk in Crooked river, and pu
an embargo upon the running of TIN
inland boats. The river is so marrow
that the boats could not wind an,