Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-01-29
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 20. 1885.
THE CITY.

Detroit on business.
We would call attention to DIR. d. W.
Berdan's card, in the advertising
columns.
What is the use Of hanging out your
sign if you do not advertise and let peO-
pie know what you have to sell.
E.O. Penney left for Detroit last Men
day to attend the Masonic grand lodge
and also to purchase new goods.
Carkin, Stiekney & Cram are building
four damp scows at Bay City with eight
pockets each for next seasons work.
Michael Engelbrecht has taken con-
tract to furnish st. Mary's church and
parochial school with 100 cords of wood.
Last Monday afternoon the first report
Of a widow needing relief was made to
the Ladies Relief Society. This was
case of widow with two children.
There is lot of freight being brought
in by rail this winter, the warehouse at
the station being pretty well filled after
the arrival of each up freight train.
Again it is rumored that Senator Con-
ger is about to resign and again Senator
Conger denies the story, and says it is
lie manufactured out of whole cloth.
The House committee has agreed to re-
port in favor of bill to reduce newspa-
per postage from two cents to one cent
per pound when sent by publishers to
bonande subscribers.
The newspapers are giving Father Alb
bOtt credit for inventing that stove for
burning saw dust. 1t is Foster Abbott,
but nevertheless he is both a father and
grandfather.
VIM. Hess 10 about completing q new
steel boiler for the tug Pioneer, at Sault
Ste. Marie, owned by l.. P. Trempe. 1t
is a fine specimen of boiler work and
fully sustains Mr.. Hess reputation for
doing good work.
Henry Erratt and j. G.. Spiller spent
two or three days last week trying to
trap wolves, but did not get as much
as even a sight Of track. Henry says
they got lots of exercise and three nights
of very cold slumber.
February will come within one hour
and fifty minutes of being month with
out full moon. The mOOH fulls this
month tomorrow forenoon at 1929 and
the next fulls the last day Of February
at 1910 in the evening.
The opening of Wertheimer Bros. now
clothing store took place on Saturday
last and was largely attended. The store
presents handsome appearance and a
fine stock Of goods is displayed. They
have a new advertisement in this issue.
According to the school census for the
year 1884, as compiled in the office Of
superintendent of public instruction,
the number of school children in the
state between the ages of 5 and 20 years
is 577,O44 against 567,O5O for the year
1883.
State Senator Henry has introduced q
bill providing for the rendering of a YER
dict by a less number Of jurors than IL
in the circuit court or less than in a
justice court. We think this move in
the right direction. How often it Is the
ease that one stubborn juror causes a
disagreement.
Dynamitsrs attempted to blow up the
House of Parliament in London, Eng
land, last Saturday afternoon. COnsid-
cradle damage was done, and a number
of persons seriously injured. The friends
of Ireland 5y countenancing such means
are injuring their cause and arousing
the indignation of civilized people the
world over.
The board of supervising inspectors OF
steam vessels in session at Washington
have adopted rule providing that where
steamers are furnished with approved
life saving mattresses. such mattresses
may be used in lieu Of lilo preseryers in
the proportion of one person for a single
mattress and two persons for a double
mattress, thus saving steamboat owners
the expense Of purchasing life prsserv-
efs in proportion as their steamers arc
fitted out with life-saving mattresses
Parties holding orders issued for build
ing of the Spooner bridge over the Che
boygan river, complain that the town
ship of Grant made NO provision for
raising money to pay its share Of the
ayneuse The bridpa was built ieintlv
by the towns Of Grant and Inverness,
each to pay half the cost. The latter has
made nroyiainn for its half The hridpa