Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-29
STATE NEWS.

Six black walnut trees, grown on the
island, near SchO0lcraft, were sold re-
Gently for 5000.
In Berrien county water is so scarce
| that farmers have to draw it from long
distances for their stock.
In the proposed apportionment bill
now before the house at Washington,
Michigan gains one member.
Congressman Newberry, of this state,
is president of thirty-fiye mining and
manufacturing companies.
The Michigan delegation in Congress
is united in the support of Judge Cooley
for position on the supreme bench.
The total general receipts of the
Grand Rapids pOstOfice for 1880, aside
from the money order business, were
| 500, ,207.53.
VIM. G.. Brown, eight miles west of
Berrien Springs, has peach orchard of
500 trees, and the cold weather has killed
nearly all of them.
An Albany lumber buyer purchased
three hundred thousand feet at 81, $l4
and $32, and three hundred thousand
feet at 81 25, $14 30 and $33, at Saginaw
Tuesday.
| Some of the upper dams on the upper
Tittabawassee, broke Tuesday, flooding
the fats below, and scattering some q
100000 feet of logs, which will have to be
collected and banked again.
A lot of Bay City business men signed
petition for the removal of the city
marshal without looking at it; and now
they are dOlefully explaining that they
thought the paper was something else.
The amount of money annually expen-
ded by pleasure seekers who come to the
Grand Traverse region to fish is estimat-
ed at not less than $4,000, which sum is
of course added to the general income of
the people.
The jury in the case of W. T. Lawrence,
under Indictment for manslaughter, re-
turned verdict of not guilty. Mr.. Law
renee was the owner of the famous
Adrian grand stand which fell October 2,
1879, killing IL persons during the c0un.
| ty fair of 1879.
"A Lansing man, "whO knows how it is
himself" dreamed few nights since
that the state fish commissioner held a
grand reception and the only guests
present were gentlemen who have been
and still are fishing for Office. A multi
tudinOus assembly was present.
Henry Willis keeps his mind at work
building the Michigan ship canal. He
makes the prediction that "ere ten years
roll over vessels of 1,5O0 tons will clear
for Europe from Detroit" He says fur
ther that mo steam craft can compete
with sail in freighting produce"
The board of supervisors of Kalamazoo
county, at their session just closed adopt
ed a memorial to the state legislature
asking for the passage of a law prOvid-
ing that the mOrtgaged portions of real
estate should be assessed to the mort
gage or made charge against the inter-
est.
A Climax correspondent of the Cold
water Republican writes as follows of
the recent gunpOwder explosion: "a
horse hitched near the building was bad
ly burned in the face and holes burnt in
the buffalo robe that was thrown over
him. dog that was under the store
was not seen for two days, but when he
came home it had to go to the wreck,
and went on the opposite side of the
street as fast as it could 60, looking back
over its shoulder to see that it was not
chased by it. The injured ones are i'm
proving, but are sorry looking subjects
yet. None are mutilated as stated at
first. The loss on the building will be
$500 or 5000.