Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-02-24

Some of our marine men are predict
ing that the straits will not open this
year until after the first of May.
VIM. Hess is making good job on the
boiler of the propeller A. c. Van Raalte,
and when done it will be as good as new.
Wood has been in lively demand on the
streets this week, but little coming in,
and what was hauled in was mostly EN-.
gagged beforehand.
The Pressure Isle County Advance
gives Capt. Valentine, keeper of the
FOrty.mile Point life-saving station,
credit for killing large gray wolf and
a All pound bear, recently.
The youth of our town are paying con-
siderable attention, just now, to the
manly art of seIf-defence, and nightly
are devOting their time and attention to
practicing with boxing gloves.
W. R. Busenbark. western passenger
agent of the Michigan Central, who was
badly injured in jumping from the third
story of the Newhall house during the
dreadful Milwaukee fire, is able to be
out again.
1t is about time winter was letting up,
the supply of hard coal in the village
is running low and if cold weather con-
tinues much longer, coal will have to be
brought in by rail, or stoves for burning
wood set up.
At meeting of vessel owners held at
Port Huron on Tuesday evening, reso-
luton was unanimously adopted not to
place vessels in commission before May
Is, provided vessels owners in other
ports agree to adopt similar resOlu-
tiOn.
The freeze-up is SO solid that vessel
men in the lake ports have but little to
say, rs yet, about the time for starting
out this spriug. We think it will be safe
to calculate that the Flora, nor any
other boat, will not be stack in the ice
off this port by March 9th.
Messrs Hodge & Harrington are making
good progress on G. r. Smiths new boat
They have the frame set up and it will
soon begin to assume form and show
what it is going to be. They are also
making some alterations and improve
ments on N. W. Lyons scOw Essex.
The ladders belonging to the Fire de-
partment need looking after. The
other day one was wanted and when
looked for was fou1d covered with snow
and so badly frozen under as to take
some time to chop it out. In case of a
fire, when they would be needed, such a
state of affairs might cause loss.
Thursday small boy who was so in
tent watching the movements of the
band and listening to their music that
he did not notice an approaching team,
was knocked Down by the horses. but
fortunately was not injured. at least he
jumped up and moved on with the pro-
cession as il nething had happened.
Two weeks from next Monday is the
regular time for the election of village
officers. 1t is time you were bringing
out your nags and currying them down
in order to have them i'm good condition
for the race. A President, three trustees
in place of Vim. Macarthur, James f.
MOl0rey, and VIM. f. Mcdonald, Treas
urer, Clerk, Street Commissioner. Assess
or and Constable are to be elected.
If the author of the paragraph in last
weeks Democrat in reference to the
Sunday school books purchased for the
Independent church had taken little
pains to inquire he would have learned
that David C. Cook from whom the books
were ordered, furnishes more sabbath
schoel literature than any other house in
the northwest, and if he had read sab
bath school books more he would have
been able to perceive the difference be-
tween them and nickel novels.
The artesiaa well at the water works
is going down very satisfactorily. They
are down between twenty and thirty feet
into the rock. Soft stratas of rock, that
cave, have been struck, but so far they
have had no trouble in getting the tub
ing down past these spots. In the rock
they end streaks of kind of mari that
is soft, like putty. The rock is full of
flint, and interrupts the work by causing
them to sand pump every 6 or 8 inches
they drill. Running just day time they
are drilling from to Z feet per LAY.
A short time since a man living in
EdmOre, Montcalm county desired to 60
to Alpine, in the adjoining county Of
Kent. Being uneducated,he pronounced
the name Of the place "Alpina." The
agent of the railroad mistOOk IL for AL