Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-04-16
TOWN TALK.

Beautiful moonlight nights but frosty.
Main street is getting dusty in spots
few and far between.
1t is reported that the snow is not set
thing very fast in the woods.
The ice on the inland lakes continues
solid and the going good.
An interesting letter from W. W..
Strohn will be found on the third page.
The machine shops are full of business.
H. A. Blake has been running night and
day,
See Keck, Winterhalter & Co., adver-
tisement of furniture on the second
page.
The beautiful" still fingers although
the most of the streets of the village are
getting bare.
F.M. Summons has ordered hand
some coach and expects it in on one OF
the first boats.
Governor Jerome has approved the bill
extending the time of the land grant in
aid of the improvement of Black river.
The pleasant weather has started
building matters booming. Go where
you will in the village you can find new
buildings going up,
Since the Main street race track went
back on them the owners of fast nags
have retired to the ice on the straits
where daily tests Of speed are INDUCED
in.
The liquor tax law passed by the Sen
ate last week makes no discrimination
between beer and whisky. 1t provides
for tax on retail dealers of $500 and OF
$500 on wholesale dealers.
Six sleigh loads of freight, consisting
of over eight tons altogether, came
through from PetOskey Monday night
In some places the snow was scarce and
at these the teams would double up.
A man named Gilpin, engaged i'm get
ting out ties, short distance east of the
village, cut his foot quite seriously with
hisax Wednesday forenoon. DIR. Perrin
stitched up the cut and dressed the
wound.
Last Monday the United States Circuit
CUult, db DctlOlt, dppOlutcu utOIgb u
Frost of this village United States com
missioner. The appointment is a good
one. There has long been a need OF
some one i'm that position at this port.
Temple Lodge No. 331, I.O.O.F. Of
this village are making preparations fol
grand dance tObe given at the TowI
Hall, Tuesday evening the 18th, inst.
that being the sixty-secOnd anniversary
of the introduction of OddfellowshiI
into America. The fraternity when they
take hold of anything never fail to make
a success of it and we have no dOub
that this dance will equal any previOu!
effort of the lodge and that very enjoy
able evening may be anticipated.
A letter to the Detroit Free Press from
HarbOr Springs, April 6. says: 'Team
are still crossing between Cross Villag,
and Beaver Island, though water can b,
seen from Skillagalee and the ice is re
ported so thick between there and tn
straits that crossing will not become
hazardous under two. weeks. Here tn
mercury has fallen to zero every nigh
for week, but to- day is very warm an,
the bay will be open about May l."
In compliance with request from tn
census bureau at Washington for stats
ties of losses by fire for the years 1877
and 1880 in this vicinity we find from a,
examination of the files of the TRIBUN
for those years that the losses were TO
1879. $58,975. This includes the loss b
the burning of the big mill at Duncan
City, and the burning of the King plan
ing mill and G. P. LangdOn's shingl
millat ChebOygan. For the year 1885,
$2,250, the greatest loss being that cause
by the fire in Macarthur, Smith 81 Co.
lumber piles on the docks OH the Yves
bank of the harbOr.
In the United States circuit court prf
ceedings as published in the Post an
Tribune we find that in the case of job
l.. Smith as. John Mckay ct al; the jur
rendered verdict Friday evening Q
last week, dividing the cargo and requil
ing each party to pay to defendant Fal
well his claim for freight. Mr.. Russell
on behalf of Mckay, entered objection
receiving the verdict on the ground ths
the jury must find wholly for one side
the other, that they had no right to I'm
in reference to the freight and that thei
finding was nullity; court received til
verdict and or Saturday morning gran
ed stay of proceedings for with 10 day
leave to either party in the meantime
submit such motion as he may be adyi
ed.