Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-03-31
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
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SATURDAY. MARCH 81. 1883.

Inc boys nave commenced Jnelr an
nual spring amusement of spearing fish
in the river.
All but one of Macarthur, Smith & Co.'S
lumber camps have broken up, and va
mOsed the ranch.
One our of leading lumber jobbers es-
Inmates the out put of logs for the Che
bOygan district during the past winter
at 12O,OOO,OOO feet.
Quay & Son have started up their
single mill and are prepared to cut all
lengths and grades Of shingles. They
are paying the highest price for good
single bolts.
The AlgOmah brought In the heaviest
cargo. yesterday morning, ever brought
into this port. and, probably, the most
valuable, being copper from the Lake
Superior mines, bound east.
C. r. Smith says the Messenger will
make one trip to Manistlque, and then
if the ice is not out of the straits, will
make round trip between that port and
Chicago. before coming to Cheboygan.
The indications are that there will be
lively times at the election next Mon
day, In some of the towns of this county,
rival tickets being in the field and the
supporters of each being worked up
warm.
We hear great preparations are being
made for harvesting the maple sugar
crop, which it is hoped will be an abun-
dant one. As yet the nights are too
freezing to enable the sun to start the
juice running during the day, although
some trees have been tapped.
The Supreme Court will not take up
cases again until Wednesday, April 4th.
On the calendar for the term is the case
Of Alexander McLennan vs.. Donald Nc
Dermid and John S. Hendrie, an appeal
from the Mackinac circuit. Humphrey
& Perkins, of this village, being attor-
neys for McDermid and Hendrie.
Postmaster Humphrey is congratulate
ing himself over the fact that in Texas
a man who assaulted postmaster was
convicted and sentenced to break stone
for year. Be careful how you pitch in
to a p. nj. However, it is question If
any man who should tackle our P. M.
would be in a condition to peck stone
after the matinee was over.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings of this week there were hand
some auroral displays, Wednesday even
ing they were remarkably beautiful, ap-
pearing first as brilliant arc and then
rapidly dissOlving, shooting brilliant
steamers up into the heavens, then
passing along rapidly from west 10 east,
as it were in pursuit Of each other.
For the benefit of the editor Of our
contemporary we would say that Ramsay
has not been unlOaded, but is still on
deck, and will in the future, as in the
past. try and make it sufficiently inter
esting for him to keep him in cOmfOr-
table state of mind. That our efforts in
the past have been successful is clearly
shown by the numerous complimentary
notices and endearing pet names be-
slowed upon us.
D.Quay & Son have during the winter
given their single mill thorough re-
pairing. They have put in new boiler
head, new brick arch, new drag saw, new
slide, and now draw the logs to the saw
by machinery. They have procured
supply of new saws, put in a new car
riage and single machine of the latest
and best style. reducing the weight of
the carriage over 100 pounds. They now
claim that they can cut as many shin
giles per day as any one machine in nor
thern Michigan.
Chas. Werner has rented the store on
Third street near the bridge, occupied
last summer by FOOte the auctiOneer,
and will soon open candy mandatory,
including popcorn balls. He expects
to be in full operation in about two
weeks. when he will be ready to supply
dealers with first-class goods, warranted
perfectly pure. Some Of his manufac-
ture of candy has been on sale by the
dealers in ChebOvgan for some time and
are pronounced by them the best of that
class of goods they get. See advertise
ment in next weeks TRIBUNE.
The press kilograms announce the
death of Major Franklin HarwOOd, of
the u. s. engineer CORPS, at Boston. Mass.