Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-01-27
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, JANUARY q. 1883.

W'D. uiioI VI NeWdSO mas DeeQ ap-
pointed State Swamp Land Commission.
er. and has assumed the duties of the
office. The appointment is we'll spoken
of by those who are in position to
know. g .,i.I
George Fitzpatrick has purchased the
Fountain House, and will take possession
the first of May, opening it as a hotel.
For the past season he and his partner,
Mr.. BrOgan, have been keeping the Tre-
mont House.
Every body is cordially invited to at
tend a social gathering at the residence
of Mrs. II. A. Blake, Thursday evening,
Jan, Both. The Aftermath" society of
the Congregational church, will furnish
music, other ntertainment,.a land refresh
ments for the evening,
Those of our lumbermen whose log
ging roads run through open country
have had hard time this week. One of
them, who has MISUNDERSTANDING
haul, mostly through open plains, in
forms us that his teams were more en-
gagged with snow pillow trying to keep
the roads open than they were in hauling
logs. All complain of having too much
snow for successful operations.
One of our citizens who read in the
New York Tribune that kerosene lamps
placed in cellar would prevent vegeta-
bles freezing in the coolest weather.
concluded to try 1t himself, and thought
the frigid weather of this week good
time to try the experiment, and he placed
ed two lighted lamps in his cellar. He
says. it works to charm, making a
difference of several degrees in the reg
istering of the thermometer.
We have every reason for believing the
reported drowning of Louis P. Trempe, jr.
is false. In fact, Mr.. Trempe paid the
TRIBUNE Office call last Monday morn
ing, in person, and said he had good
reasons for thinking it was false ru-
NOR. One reason was that he was not
anywhere near the straits at the time of
the reported drowning. He spent
couple of days in our village. calling
upon his numerous friends, all of whom
were glad that he yet walked this ter
restrial sphere. '~''
The frigidity of the Opera House dur
ing entertainments is a decided unpleas-
ant feature to those in attendance. We
think 1t could be remedied If the open
spaces between the upper stairway and
the gallery floor and the windows in
front Of the building were closed. AS it
is now there is a space of ten inches or
foot, the width of a window, through
which the cold air rushes up through the
vestibule and stairway of the hall. We
suggest to our village fathers that they
try and have this source Of frigidity shut
off, and then we believe the hall could
be made comfortable in the coolest
weather.
J.W. Lnderman arrived home Sunday
evening, for few days visit He re-
ports the hotel at Seney, Of the building
of which he has had charge, approach
ing completion, and thinks the carpen-
ter work will be finished about the first
of next month. The hotel is considera-
BILE of a house, the main building being
55x25 feet, two stories high, with an l.
25x32 feet, the same height. with two
one story additions in the rear, one 17x32
feet, and the other 9x111s feet. About
the first of February he will take his
force of men to Mcmillan station to put
up hotel there, somewhat larger than
the one at Seney. 1t is to be two-stories,
with mansard roof, and of very neat
design.
The epidemic Of horrors, disaster and
death which has made the present month
one of human slaughter, shows no signs
of abating. Since our last issue occurred
the collision at sea of the steamers Sultan
and Cimbria, by which the latter was
sunk, with loss of over 400 lives. The
wreck of a train onithe Southern Pacific
railroad, by which dozen or so we're
killed and many wounded. The collision
of three coal trains in West Virginia
with the loss of the lives of Is train
men. The loss of % lives by the flooding
of mine in Australia. The murder Of
three children by an insane mother In
Milwaukee, besides number of minor
accidents In which the loss of life was
limited to only one or two.