Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-10-23
MfscelIane6us Matters.

MISCELLANEOUS Matters.
A bear weighing 320 pounds was shot
in Siblcy County. Minnesota, last week.
California expects to put up 10000
boxes of dried grapes of her own raisin'
this year.
The Chicago Inter Ocean deuies the
story that it is to be merged into the
Chicago Tribune.
I Three women were arrested in Detroit
on Wednesday for shop-lifting. Their
house was found full of stolen goods.
Brooklyn is the place-and very prop
erly so-where Moody and Sankey will
begin their American revival campaign.
The Ohio papers are complaining that
incompetent engineers are allowed to
drive locomotives on railways in that
state.
The ladies will now wear striped kid
gloves. 1t is said that the top stripe will
match that on the stockings, but you
can't prove it.
DIR. E. B. Chaplin, centenarian Ct
Charlotte, Mich, has taken his oath that
he is 105 years old and has practiced
medicine seventy years.
Jack Rossiter, famous trotting horse
twenty years ago, died Tuesday at the
farm of John Juffy, near St. Louis. He
was thirty-six years old.
The Methodists of the country num-
ber 100000. The Baptists number
l,72l,171. We make this statement in
answer to correspondent.
The reports of the Minnesota wheat
crops are to the effect that the yield will
average not less than thirty bushels to
the acre throughout the state.
The probabilities for miserable old Boss
Tweed are that he will soon drift from
the Ludlow street jail back to his old
quarters OH Blackwells Island.
Dartmouth College has now the inter
est of $4,000 to distribute each year to
poor students as scholarships. These
prizes are usually of from $40 to 500
each.
The vandalia and Indii inapolis and st.
Louis Railroads have AGREED to pool their
net earnings, to be divided according to
the value of the stock and capital en-
ployed in running the roads.
A righteous and an upright Judge or
the Indiana Supreme Bench has decided
that the habit of requiring the loser il
playing Billiards to pay for the games
does not constitute gambling.
If Mrs. Mcfarland of Cairo hadn't
thrown pail of water over her husband
to arouse him from his morning nap
she'd have been doing her housework
to-day instead of repOsing in her silent
tomb.
One Of the distinguished veterans at
the indianapolis reunion was Thomas H
Howard, of Clarksville, johnson Count y,
Indiana, who was a drummer boy in the
war of 1872. He had nine sons in the
| late war.
SDiritualism is spreading i'm Russia, and
looking around within her own borders
it is hard for America to decide how tC
advise her sister nation-whether to in
crease her insane asylums or add to hel
prisons.
Gen. w. D. Washburn, of Minneapo-
lis, Minn., who made an assignment
about year ago, has paid up his debts
dollar for dollar, and his assignees have
reconveyed to him some 100000 worth
of property.
''Say, mister" said soiled looking boy
on the wharf, ''do you ever give a piece Of
watermelon to a poor boy whose father'n
moths dead, IN who goes to Sunday
school, N has got sore heel ?" The man
was deeply touched, and gave him 9
large slice.
A little Chinese girl, about eight year;
old, and born i'm California, has been ad
mitted to one of the primary schools in
the city Of Sacramento. This is the first
time that Chinese parent has made ap-
plication for the admission Of child tC
the public schools.
Treasurer Mackay and ex-Treasurer;
McGrath, Kemple and Irwin. of Penn
sylvania, refuse to attend and testify be-
fore the Legislative Committee. The
failure Of the eX-Treasurers to attend
the sessions is construed as a confession
that the charges made against them are
well founded.
A Georgia Judge instructed jury a
few days ago to the effect that an officer
who shoots man whom he is trying to
arrest for petty offense is guilty of MUIR
der. The Judge held that the use OF
fire arms to stop a man not guilty OF
felony was liable to punishment as as
sault with intent to kill.
One of the street sensatiotis in New
Orleans last week was the horsewhip.
ping of gay Lothario by an Indignant
married woman whose acquaintance ht
had attempted to make on the street. Shs
made an appointment with him ant
brought her husband along TO see fiji
play while she whipped her insolen
admirer.
They have an imitator of Jesse Pome
roy in San Francisco. He is but ter
years of age and has already developed
disposition to. tortuae young childre,
and animals. He skinned dog alive ant
inve;rlad a chilli fhraa vaarc oId ;,to