Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-09-25
PAPERS. MEN AND THINGS.

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The Duke Alexis has been divorced
| from his wife. +. .f.f sol
Ex-senator Carl Schurz has returned
from his European trip. q l91 q san
Gen. Sherman is going to publish re-
vised edition of his Memoirs. More fun.
Mr.. Talmage thinks it is spiritual chic
roform that stupefies SO many protesting
| Christians. 54
A recent decision of Louisville Judge
is that journalists are justified in carry
ing revolvers-
The failure of Messrs. Lee & Shepard
will not prevent their issuing a number
of popular books this fall. ss@,,s.t
Six editors of the Frankfort Zeitung
are in prison for refusing to reveal the
authorship of certain articles.
A family in Fort Wayne moving into
house found in pile of straw roll of
greenbacks amounting to $1,000. le'inl
The Bloomington Pantagraph has a
column ssPantalets,n supposed to be the
equivalentof Harper's Editors Drawer"
Olive Logan, who has been writing let
tiers for the press from Long Branch, will
appear on tue stage this winter in two
plays written by her husband.
The Grand Duchess Constantine is
beautiful and spirituelle. A cores
pondent declares her to be one of the
most bcwitchingly lovely women in
Europe. s. -, 49,.
King Alfonso does not desire a visit
from his mother, anu has forbidden her
presence at Madrid, and Don Carlos has
offered her the hospitality of the Basque
Provinces, under his regime. oa = n
It's asserted that the Mount Lebanon
Shakers are fast dying out, and their re-
ligion is becoming a thing of the past.
AS to the truth OF this fact it is disputed,
and scarcely seems probable. i'
Robert Joyce, Brooklyn policeman
too lazy to ran after a colored prisoner
who was trying to escape, drew his re-
volver and shot him dead. An earnest
effort will be made to suspend Mr.. Joyce
I-by the neck. IS o ssf -s sfi
A colored congregation i'm Dayton,
Ohio, have decided to forgive their cler-
gyman for betting on three-card monte,
and losing $50 of festival money. One
of the deacons remarked: 1--WE is al
human, and de game is VERY exciting"
An English paper makes it "Jeffer-
son Davis, the American rebel, has been
invited to address the Winnebago natives.
N. B.-The Winnebagos are tribe of
Indians. formerly Of Wisconsin state, but
now removed to an agency in Nebraska
1t estimated by the Minnesota com
missioner of statistics that the wheat
yield of the state the present year will be
far greater than ever before. He esti-
mates the surplus over home needs at
"a, 100000, bushels which figures exceeds
those of the total crop of last year.
1t is too frequently the case for papers
Of low order of intelligence to ridicule
the college graduate as a helpless and
useless individual. Mr.. Avery, of Yale,
however, graduated only a month ago,
and already he has secured position of
trust at salary of $4,000 year. 1t is as
pitcher of professional base ball club.
Troy, N. ", has centenarian named
John Blackwell, who is 100 years old, and
who is said to be as vigorous as man of
90, who learned the tailor's trade 80 years
ago, never rides, has never seen the IN
side of street car, has taken only one
ride on railroad, is opposed to lawyers
and newspapers, and expects to live for
ever.
Seven nominations for Congress have
thus far been made i'm Mississippi. Five
} of the candidates are "Colonels," one is a
"Gcneral," and one is s.Major; !" the pri-
Yates are yet to be heard from. What
ever may be said about the color line in
Mississippi, it is quite evident that the
people in that region are acting upon q
military line. 9g raea.aa 7stfl
The case of Miss Smiley has found a
! parallel in England, where certain vi
car has been taken to task by his bishop
for allowing woman to speak in the
church, contrary to custom. aud the law
laid down by the Apostle Paul, in view.
as some think, of just such cases. The
lady in question is the Wears own
daughter, and her efforts were doing
much good,
/ The wedding in Newport on the lst
!; inst, of Mr.. Charles Joseph Bonaparte
5 and Miss Ellen Charming Day, of Boston,
the niece of John Paine, Esq, at the lat
ter's elegant summer mansion, was the
sociable event of the season at the fash
ionable resort. The bridegroom descends
from an illustrious family. being the
grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, King of
q Westphalia, and was graduated at Har-
! ward in the class of II. tess1zssat q
vi Bret Harte's new novel, which is at
last completed, and carefully guarded in
2 the publishers safe, calls forth the high
a est anticipations in literary circles. 1t
: will be begun as serial in the Novem-
0 Der number of Scribner's magazine, with
r outillustrations, for it is said to be graphic
4 beyond need of them. and full Of fnci-
e dent, The story takes its title, Gabriel
r Conroy, from its hero, simple, good
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