Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-01-22
PArERs, MEN AND THINGS.

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move his political disabilities. ei
Henry G.. Bowen is said to be worth
$2,000,000, with no investments i'm North
ern Pacific.
E Gen. Loring. an ex confederate, has been
promoted to the command of the north
ern army of Egypt, on
Lieut.. Cameron is the only man except
ing Livingston and Silva Porto that has
ever crossed Africa under the equator.
Some workmen at Sandusky, who were
blasting recently for laying waterpipes.
found a petrified alligator twelve feet
long. ~ al
Queen Victoria, it is said, will soon Wis
1t COburg i'm search of another German
son-in-law as q husband for Daughter Be-
atrice. ~
The Kentucky Legislature has rejected
bill prohibiting members of that body
from accepting free passes and free
lunches"
A bill has been introduced into the
down the pay of the members from $3.50
a year to $500.
Thirty sensible women of a Boston
school committee report that sewing
should continue to be taught in the pub
lie schools of that city. aa
George Francis Train, who for the lasi
.,,irteen months. has been under an en-
gage..slt o. 5000 to keep still, has of
fered the other ontlacting parties $500
to let him off. $500
Anthony Chomstock has been ridiculed
a great deal, but he has been the means,
by the authority vested in him, OF do
ing great deal Of good in the way Of de-
strOying vicious books. pictures etc.
Lewis Russell, of Madison township,
Lenwaee county, thinks he can throw
Mclaughlin. He wants to try, and his
friends want him to, and offer to do their
part in backing him in match for 81 900.
J. Kipp. treasurer of st, Augustine
church, Of Cincinnati, has been found a
defauiter to the amount of $4,000, and
suit has been brought by the trustees and
Archbishop Purcell to recover from his
bondsmen. -
Gen j. Meredith Read. our minister to
Greece, is said to be writing history of
that country, upon which he expects to
be engaged four or five years. 1t will be
the fullest and most complete his. " of
Greece ever published. @
The meanest man i'm Indiana is DR.. Pc
terS, of Decatur. lie spent considerable
money at church fair buying votes for
IA handsome cane to be given to the most
popular doctor, and falling to win the
prize, has sued the church for his money.
DIR. Millingen. the physician of Lord
Byron. and in whose arms the poet died,
is still living i'm Constantinople. He Is
the last survivor of the band of Philllel-
lenes who were with Byron in Greece.
The late DR.. Howe was also amember of
that devoted band. -e. ~
1t is said that the grangers of Kentucky
have been so exclusive i'm electng farm
ers to the Legislature that the Speaker is
unable 10 find lawyers enough in that
body from which 10 select the committee
on the Judiciary, OF the 100 members
less than dozen are lawyers. and of these
more than One-half are not profoundly
versed in Leg lore. -
An interesting incident i'm the life of the
late DIR. Howe is told by the Boston
Herald: AFTER the war he taught the
Greeks in the arts of peace. like true
Yankee as he was, and the first cart ever
made in modern Greece was built under
his direction. Twenty years afterward,
when he rode alone into Greece on horse
back, he was seen and recognized by a
peasant woman, who spread the intelli-
genee of his arrival. He was Immediate
ly surrounded and borne upon the shoul-
ders of the people into the neighboring
city, upon the site where he had founded
a village. At this time the Greeks were
i'm the enjoyment of fresh triumph over
their anciento ppressOrs, and in the right
mood to welcome their former ally and
friend. This incident i'm the life of DR..
Howe was derived from Greek newspa-
per Of the time, which some friend i'm tha
country forwarded to Chrles Summer t