Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-03-13

large. We understand mask s0cia
will be given by the society sometime
soon.
The band serenaded all the elected
officers Tuesday night ab0nt 1S o'clock
The elected in every instance replied
in speech. 1t is said Cueny's Wharton's
Hunts and Hayes addresses exceeding
anything for eloquence, patriotism and
sound morals, since the days of Webster
and Clay, but President Frost's address
was not up to its usual standard.
The man WHO shot six cats and cap
tured the tail of the seventh has met
with catastrophe. Hess bellows, of
immense capacity and strength, will
blow no more, for it has been blown to
flinders. How it was done is mystery.
1t occurred on Friday, black Friday, the
very day the Democrats and Republicans
had their caucusses, and some think the
escaped political gas was sucked in by
the bellows, that was in operation, hence
the explosion. Others trace the cause
of the calamity to Captains Bouchard
and Brown, who are, it is alleged, in
training for set to, for the belt of cham
pion garner of this century. One Of
these gents received for a valentine a
picture Of huge bellows. tremendous
blower. Brown denies having gassed
on any yarn calculated to blow up a
bellows, and in fact has told no yarn
since the revolutionary war, when he
was employed to tell Summers to blow
up the enemies works and blast noun
famous roads for the army, that on
Friday he was thinking only of things
suggested by Lent, and he firmly believes
1t was one of BOuchard's lies that caused
the explosion. On the other hand Cppt.
BOuchard says he never was given to
telling stories, that the only whOpper he
ever told was when boy learning to
sail on the Mediterranean. certain
waterdOg preacher named Jonah was
trying to steal his passage, and they
chucked him overheard, and he stole into
the cabin Of whale for free ride
there, when he, (Bouchard,) did, then
and there. tell concentrated lie, full of
dynamite that made the old sardine of a
whale heave to, and land its clerical
cargo on shore. He says he simply did
it as joke on the preacher, was sorry
for it afterwards, has never since told
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the company of any one who tells yarns.
that he is now working on bill to be
brought up at the present Congress to
make it capital Offense to tell any
thing but the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. He thinks at the time of
tae explosion Brown was EARNING and
this led to the sad result. Hess says he
doesn't believe either of them, he does
not know how one firm can dmplOy two
such captains without busting, and |
that he knows his loss was caused by |
extraordinary gas from some source, and |
that the joke was very expensive to him,
and calculated to discourage manufac- |
lures.
A Grand MarlaS correspondent 10 Ine |
Chippewa County Democrat complains
bitterly of the treatment given Grand
Marias by Cheboygan papers and people.
We are not aware Of any unfriendly at
titude ever taken by ChebOygan, and it
is certainly not true of the TRIBUNE.
The correspondent gets black eye from
the local of the same paper in which his
letter is published where we End the
following:
There is demand in certain sections
in this peninsula for a society for the
prevention Of cruelty to animals, if we
are to believe all that we hear in regard
to the villianOus compounds cold in
some places under the name of whiskey.
The stuff should be labeled, double dis
titled essence of damnatiOn," and the
trafficers in the devilish "brOth" should
DO summarily dealt with. We are told
of so-called whiskey dispensed to the
"bOys" from the woods at Grand Marias,
only few drinks of which Immediately
make a raving manalc of the poor vic'
tim. The effects produced by the stuff
are not all the same as that caused bv
ordinary tangle foot whisksy. The drink
Or. after taking four or Eve glasses, does
not become drunk merely, but he is
made crazy, demoniac, desperate and
Mackinaw City Differed herself on
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