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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-11-03
The Tie Driver.

The life of tie chopper is lone
and monotonous one. Three or four
of them build camp together,
and do their own cooking-being
supplied with grub by the con-
tractor Each man, on an average,
cuts thirty ties per day, receiving ten
cents each for them. Three ties, usu-
ally, can be obtained from each tree.
The cutters pile the ties up on timbers
placed upon stumps. SO that they will
not be hidden by deep SHOWS. These
men go out in the fall, and usually do
not visit the city more than two or three
times during the year. Every day
through the long winter, they are out in
the timber bright and early, telling the
trees and trimming and dividing them
into proper lengths, or if a storm is rag
ing remain snugly esconsed in their
cabin, putting in the day in reading,
playing cards or checkers, or some like
amusement.
The trees are hauled to the bank of the
river or stream down which they are to
be floated, and 'banked." When the
snow and ice melts each spring, and the
little creek becomes torrent, "drive"
is organized, the ties are thrown into
the water and fioated down to the boom,
where they are taken out, counted and
delivered to the railroad company.
The tie driver is paid good wages, but
his duties are arduous and attended
with considerable danger. He is
armed with long spike pole, and as
the ties are continually catching on the
banks and bars, is necessarily in water
up to his waist great deal of the time.
Nor is this all, for the ties, in floating
down so narrow, rapid and tortuous
stream as the Laramie is, from the
headwaters to below the Jelm mountain
canyon, frequently form a ''jam,"
when thousands of ties become piled
up, one on top of another. Then it is
that the tie drivers must do their best
work. The mass of ties must be loosened
and when it once starts, look out; a slip
or a fall might be fatal, as the unfortu-
nate driver would be overwhelmed by an
avalanche of whirling, leaping logs.
More than one man has been drowned
in the Laramie by the breaking of these
jams.
Each gang of drivers has its cook and
pack animals, and the camp moves
with the drive The men. who are
blessed with good appetites, are fed on
plain wholesome food, bread, potatoes,
bacon and beans.
When the drive is over the men, who
have been in the mountains continuous
ly for months, come to the city for
''picnic" of a few, days, at the end of
which time many of them return to the
mountains to commence another years
labor The BOOmeran0.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-11-03
THE LETTERS ON THE WALL.

j. and f., and Il. and p,
Jimmy, frank, BERTHE and Paul,
These are the letters cut and carved
On every foot of the garden wall.
Only few brief years ago,
Innocent boys beside my knee,
When combed the locks of gold ard brown,
As happy as only mother can be.
Moss and mildew gathered apace
Over the names on the garden wall,
And out of all the noisy throng
None Is left me but baby Paul.
Out in the wide world went the feet
That once held I'm my loving hand;
Stemmng the tide of sin and care
Are the boys that made my household band.
One little hand grew white and still
Fer 1t learned the coming of earthly lore,
And one was a gentle, girlish hand,
Whose words still come from distant shore.
But read the letters on stick and stone,
j. and f., and b. and p,
While the binding tears my eyesight dim,
AS think they will never come back to me.
Never come back with dimpled hands,
And faces unwritten by time and care,
With TIE sunny smiles of boyhood's grace,
And the radiant looks they used to wear.
Time will cover the letters dear
With the dust and mold of passing years,
But the names a"e kept in a sacred shrine,
Freshened and washed by mothers tears.
HRS. ID. N. Jordan, IN Chicago Inter Ocean.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-11-03
The Death. Watch.

There is a little insect called a
"death-watch'' or death-tick, which
caused me no little annoyance during the
summer. Some may never have even
heard of IL. while others like myself
may have heard, not seen, and wondered
at the ominous tick from some old piece
of furniture in the country-fOr it is in
the woodwork of such that they secrete
themselves. Sometimes the sound is
like the too-rapid ticking of watch out
of repair, or again like the whetting of
a scythe in the distance; and heard at
the dead of night, one is reminded of
the old superstition of its foreboding
the death of some one in the family.
One feels as if it were old Time whet-
ting his scythe, to be the surer of sue
cess when he attempts to NOW down
the irregular rows of humanity. Such
thoughts as these add to the delightful.
awe of the moment:
Thus saith old Time to himself
"Whet away, whet away, day is soon here;
Whet away faster, ere the sun reappear.
The deed to be done must be at one swing;
Thus the.ripest of wheat to the dust I'll bring"
This is an interpre tation of the sound
as it impressed me. For description
it is species of beetle, small, about
one-half the size of the ordinary garden
beetle. The "tap, tap that we hear is
produced by the male insect, by rising
on his feet and throwing himself forward
on his two front feet, sometimes with
force enough to indent the hardest of
wood. The noise is thus caused. and is
his way of being understood, like the
chirp of cricket.
Having explained this little phenom-
enon, may it ease the superstitious fan
cies of many as unknown in the cause
as was; and Notwithstanding the CO.
incidence of death soon after having
heard the ''death-watch, we may ac-
cept these facts and not be disturbed
with forebodings; but, "Watch, let your
door be on the latch, for we knoweth not
at what hour he may come. Cor BoS-
ton Transcript.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-11-03
Different Classes of Brazilian Slaves.

Among the classes of slaves in Brazil
the lives of some are so different from
those of others that the case of one class
cannot be taken to represent the state of
the whole. The highest-class slaves are
the maids, pages, or Wallets, whose sole
work is to attend on the master or mis-
tress to whom they have been dedicated
at birth, the custom in many planters
families being to give to each of their
children the soundest and best-lOOking
slave child nearest in age and of the
same sex. These little slave maids or
Wallets have to do all the labor and bid
ding of all sorts of their young owners,
acting as shadows when SO required, and
as substances when occasion demands.
These children-the one free, the other
bOnd-grOw mp together often weaving
cords of love and affection, so that what
ever may be the lot of the other slaves
these remain with their first owners, and
are never sent away to work in the plan
tations or elsewhere, except in cases of
very bad behavior. The next in favor
are the artisans, the bricklayers, car
penters, and smiths, who are often hired
out, and who are well treated in con-
sideration of the great revenues they
bring to their owners, in fact many a
hired slave of this class earns for his
master from five to ten shillings q day.
Then come the house slaves, the coach
men, the cooks, and the washerwomen;
following these are the town slaves, who
are hired out to work at any labor, the
owner receiving so much per head per
day. Last of all come the plantation
slaves, who often in appearance look
little human, and seem very Calibans in
many, many cases. These sad ones are
they who earn all the wealth of the land;
these are they who rise before the sun,
and after asking in forced formality the
blessing of Christ from their master or
overseer, are led off in herds to toll till
dark, their food being taken to them in
carts, and dOled out as to a herd of
creatures more swine-like than human;
these are they who do all the hard work
of the plantation, the life-sapping toll.
leaving that which is easy to the colonist
or free laborer. No one who has only
seen the city slaves can form an idea of
herd OF slaves being led off to their work,
nor can tell the sensation of meeting
half-hundred human beings homeward
turning after hard day in the sun, each
carrying wood to serve for the food
cooking, each on meeting you folding
his hands and abjectly begging your
blessing in Christ's name. On they
come, one struggling behind the other
the young and still strong in front, the
old and feeble and the women, with
their little ones bound to their waists,
toiling far behind. London Times.
IN. T. Elliott, of Live Oak, Fla, had
a very fire patch of Hubbard squash,
from which he expected to realize at
least 500. A few days ago he found
few worms on his vines, which he sup
posed to be grass caterpillars. Arising
one morning, not long after, he found
he had neither vines nor fruit, the worms
having completely destroyed both.
They first eat the vine and then tie
fruit. Hundreds of squashes wese q,
sroyed in one night
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-11-03

Rev Dr. Mackey, laboring in For
mosa on behalf of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada, reports in a recent
communication that one thousand alb
origines have thrown away their idols.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-17

THE Secretary of the Navy has in'
structed the Naval Advisory Board to i'm
medlately prepare plans for the five new
war ships provided for by the late Congress.
THREE officers of the navy and one of
the army are among the Nihilists soon to be
tried at st. Petersburg, Russia.
A MEETING of the committee of Eng
fish holders OF Virginia bonds at London the
other day resolved to take all possible
measures to vindcate their claim.
The Chicago (lll.) Cremation Socie-
ty has proposed to organize with capital
OF 100000.
THE Dublin Qreland) Invincibles
were reported recently as finding no diff
Guilty in obtaining recruits.
MEETINGS of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation OF Iron and Steel Workers were held
in the various districts on the 10th to agree
on rate cards to be submitted in the Nation
al convention at Pittsburgh.
IT was announced at Washington on
the 10th that Judge Lilley would pro-ecdle
S. W. Dorsey for the assault committed on
him some days ago. He was still laid up by
bis injuries.
London, Eng, ran distance of four miles,
fulfilling the conditions claimed for it.
The Secretary of the Treasury has APP
proved the rules and regulations and amend
ments to the same adopted at recent
meeting Of the Supervisors and Inspectors
OF Steam Vessels.
SECRETARY FoLGER has received APP
plication from the State Of New York,
through the State Comptroller, for the re-
OF United States bonds embraced in the last
call, which will mature the first of May,
with interest only to the time OF redemp-
ton. As the Government would thereby
save one months interest the Secretary was
said to be inclined to assent to the applica-
| ton.
The National Cremation Association,
to be operated on the cooperative plan. for
the purpose OF disposing OF the remains OF
members after demise by cremation, has
been organized in Philadelphia, Pa.
THE homeopathic physicians of Mas
sachusetts petitioned the Legislature Of
that State recently for the establishment Of
an additional insane asylum, to be under
the control OF their school OF medicine.
A SUIT for $4,000 damages has beer
brought by Colonel Thomas Worthington,
Of Cincinnati, o.. against Third Auditor
Keightley, of the Treasury Department, fol
alleged statements contained in official re-
ports that tended to defeat the plaintiff
claim for pay for supplies furnished CamI
Dennison. O., during the war of the rebel
lion.
AT recent meeting of twenty-on'
delegates representing the South YORKSHIRE
and Lancashire (Eng.) iron trades, it wa
resolved to restrict the output of finished
iron.
A MEETING of the shoe manufacturer
in New York the other day determined t.
resist in the courts the royalty demanded b.
the Donald Mckay Company for the use o
their machines. The Company's patent eX
pired July 6, 1879. Since that time owe
So, DOC, 900 have been paid them.
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SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Alexander II. stephens.

TIE funeral of Governor Stephens
took place at Atlanta. Ca, on the Sth, dele
gati,rs Of citizens and military from all
parts Of the State being present. The bust
ness OF the city was entirely suspended In
all departments, and from all stores, public
buildings and private residences hung EN-
blems OF mourning. The first event OF the
day was the memorial meeting held at the
capitol. Speeches were made by Martin j.
Crawford, General Toombs, General Jack
son, Senator Brown, Colonel Jones, DR..
Miller and others. General Gordon read the
following resolutions by the Citizens Com
mittee:
ResoIred, That in the death of Alexander
Hamilton stephens, Georgia hos lost her
best beloved and foremost citizen the Tn on
one of fits most able and cnlightened states
men, and the world an example of bcnevo-
lencC and humanity.
Resolred, That his catholic sympaties en-.
bracing as they did all classes, colors and
conditions, the whole family of man. render
his life an inspiring example for the imitation
of ourselves and those who are - come after
US.
Resolved. That not only with admiration but
with asi olishmcut, we contemplate his life
long struggle against adverse circumstances,
beginning with h S career at col eye and end
ing only with the repose on the bier. He con
quered poverty, debility, disease. and, with
gathered imperiShable honorsiu Almost every
sphere of intellectual activity, and fell vt last
a hero in full panoply on the field of his home
at the post of duty.
Resotved That the readiness with which he
broke with political parties when In his iudg
ment they had wandered from the Consttu-
! ton of his country, and his brave support of
the rights and privileges, as lie conceived
| them, of all citb ems, whether colored or of
| his own race, native or foreign born, Illus
| trate his courage and conviction which never
| failed him, and which is worthy of emula
| ton.
| Resolred, That while we do not present Mr..
| stephens as infallible we do point with sin
| cere pride to the many. sided intellect OF this
remarkable man, to his vast and various ac-
| qurements all Disciplined to usefuI eSs by
| superb practical wisdom and sanctifed by the
virtues of every day Christian life, to his pre-.
| eminence everywhere in speculative rs well
| as practical life, at the bar, on the hustingS,
| in craftsmanship and in the wider field of let
| tiers, as rendering him a match for the NIGH :
| TEST, an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his fame will
take care of itself. He built his own monu-
ment in the heart of every Georgian and his
name VIII be canonized on the hearthstone oil
| every house IN the State.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE situation on the lower rivers con-
tlnued to improve on the 18th. dispatch
from Vicksburg, Miss, said there was
gradual decline above and scarcely per-
ceptble rise at any point below.
The President has been requested by
Secretary Lincoln to order military court
to inquire into General Hazen's manage
ment of the Signal Bureau.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis for the week ended on the
10th was $269, 900; for the corresponding
period last year, $l44, 400.
IT was reported in Washington the
other day that Secretary Folger was in very
poor health and that his physicians had or
dered him to 90 to the sea-shore in order to
receive the benefit of salt air.
THERE had been twelve hundred
anarchist arrests In Andalusia, Spain, to a
recent date,
The Commissioner of Pensions has
ruled that pension agent cannot collect a
fee for prosecuting claim for increase Of
pension.
THE Secretary of the Navy is prepar-
ing to send IL cargo of gifts to the Tchuckches
Indians at St. Lawrence Bay, as a return
for assistance to the crew OF the burned war
ship Rodgers.
COPIES of the new tariff law have
been mailed to all collectors OF customs,
with instructions from the Secretary OF the
Treasury as to the construction of sections
that were not clearly understood.
RECENT intelligence from Paris,
France, states the emeute there was due TO
the fact that 900 people were out OF em-
ployment. Travellers were giving that city
wide berth owing to its unsettled condi-
LiOn.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, John s. Syren
murdered his brothers. wife the other
morning and then committed suicide.
The Attorney-General has decided
that the appointment OF the chief examiner
under the Civil service act Is vested in the
President.
A PASSENGER hack was caught at q
railroad crossing near Alamo, Ind, by q
train OF cars the other morning and two
passengers, the driver and team were in
stantly killed.
A BROKEN rail caused wreck on the
Whitewater Road, near Connersvllle, Ind.
a few days ago, in which dozen passenger
were more or less seriously hurt
Two boys were arrested at jersey
City, \. j., the other morning as they wer,
buying tickets for Chicago. They we're OF
their way West to annihilate Indians ant
had four revolvers, two bowie knives, 1, 0O
rounds Of ammunition and Sls4 in gold.
IVES, BEECHER & Co., New Yorl
liquor dealers, failed recently for half mil
lion.
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MIsCELLAEEOUs.

JUDGE LILLEY, of Washington, was
confined to his bed on the Sth in consequence
of injuries received in personal encounter
with S. W. Dorsey, who charged him with
persusding Rerdel to testify for the Gov
eminent in the star-route cases.
THE Commercial Iron Works Com
pany, Shoreditch, Eng, has failed for
ESQ, 900.
Two French columns had marched to
quell an instruction in Southern Algeria
on the Sth.
PROFESSOR WIGGINs, the Canadian
weather prophet. was up to the 9th inst.
the principal sufferer by the great storm he
| predicted for that date. Nervous excite
ment over the anticipated devastation had
caused his utter prostrstion.
THE Reading Pa.) Hardware Com.
pany has increased holders wages ten pei
| cent.
IDA II. HosMER, three feet tall, and
Robert Ii. Huzza, three feet six inches
were married few days ago on the stage Of
the Brooklyn IN. W Museum, in which
they were attractions. ....
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided a case involving the claim OF the State
of California to tract OF land of about 100,
900 acres lying upon the borders OF LAX,
Tulare. The decision approves the Creighton
survey, and awards the lands TO the Stat,
of California unoer the swamp land gran
act Of September 2s, 1850.
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, in a recen
letter to the London Times, charged Bigga
and Parnell, as trustees OF the Land League
fund, with not accounting for fl25,O0o.
THE German Emperor has given 5000
marks for the relief of German food suffer
! ers in America.
THE Secretary Of the Interior ha:
leased several tracts OF the Yellowstone
Park for periods OF ten years at two dollar;
per acre.
The recent flight of Patrick Eagan
was charged as Il moral acknowledgment OF
Land league completely with the Irish In
yincibles,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-17
A HORRIBLE FATE.

A Railroad Boarding House DESTROYED by
Fire-Eleven OF the Inmates Miserably
Perish in the Fiames-Seversl Others
More Less Seriously Burned.
ST. PAVI, MINI, March II.
A Deadwocd special to the Pioneer Pr'ss says:
At eleven o'clock last evening fire was dis
covered in the large two-story bOardin p house
owned by Hood s. Scott, in brownsville, on
the Homestake Railway, nine miles from this
city, and in less than thirty minutes the entire
structure was destroyed. The following
named persons persisted I'm the flames: Peter
Hansen, Lewis Hansen, II. c. Wrigh', Thomas
Finess james Chalmers, james Tcnneclif,
Samuel Hayes, Fred ID. Peters, Charles Ham
montreed, W H. Andrews, Harvey Wood.
Several others were burned and more or less
seriously injured.
The building was a long, low, chcapy-con-
structed affair of pitch pine, and burned with
the greatest rapdity.
The bunk-room occupied a loft access TO
which WIS gained by means of one Ladder mt
the end OF the room. The fire undOuhtedly
started near the ladder, cutting on al retreat.
Several of the deceased leave large families,
and all were we'll knuwn and esteemed.
brownsville is located in II heavy forest,
from which the Homestake Company draws its
immense supplies of fuel and timber for mines
and mills. The deceased we've employed in
its preparation. Large numbers OF people Wis
tied the camp this morning, and much excite
ment prevails.
The dr. originated through the carelessness
of the cook, Peters. who placed bundle OF
kindlings nj the side of the stove, from which
the burning Goals fell. The flames Immediate
ly communicated n the pitch-pine framework
OF the building, over which they spread with
great rapidity. cutting of all retreat from the
loft by way of the ladder. One window at the
end of the loft not over ten feet from the
ground afforded ample means of escape, had
the inmates promptly availed themselves of
it, but aroused from sound sleep they ran
around bewlldered, and only four saved tn m
selves 10y Jumping, and they were badly
burned, the legs of two so seriously that am
putaton will be necessary.
The room was usually occupied by thirty
men, but at the time OF the fire twelve were
absent In camp,
Peters WIS asleep on the lower floor, but 50
bewidercd was he when aroused that he made
no attempt TO escape BY the door, not five feet
distant.
The remains OF the eleven unfortunates
| hegdless or limbless, and all Charred and
| blackened beyond all 20 sible rccogn.t on.
The Coroner will hold an investigation.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-17
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

THREE judges of election in Philadel-
phia, Pa. have recently been sentenced to
three months imprisonment for making
false returns.
Mrs. LUCINDA FoRMAN and her
daughter were found murdered with an AK
on farm near Indianapolis, Iud., on the
10th.
ELEVEN men were burned TO death
in a lodging house at a wood camp near
Deadwood, Oak, the other night.