Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-06-24

Jefferson Davis has arrived at Liver
pool on the steamship Memphis from
New Orleans.
Texas has new law requiring Of Jurors
the ability to read and write.
Reported: That another batch of 80 COX
troops is to be sent to Cuba.
Great damage has been done by inunda
tons in the eastern cant0ns. of Switzer.
land.
Tie Republican legislative caucus ir
New Hampshire nominated e. III. Rollins
for United States Senator
New and very rich diggings are re-
ported in the DeadwOod region, Black
Hills. Plenty of gold and no Indians.
L. D. Sine, the famous blind printer
and lottery man, was buried at Indianap-
oils on Monday.
Babcock's trial ON the indictment
charging him with completely i'm the safe
burglary has been fixed for september
10.
The Senate appropriation committee
propose to strike out the provision trans
terring the Indians to the war depart
ment. air Is Gaa s
A dispatch from Berlin affirms that all
danger of European war is over for the
summer. Burroughs are being freely
granted.
The lower House of Connecticut Legis-
lature has, by vote 13S to 20, passed a
law reducing the legal rates of interest
from seven per cent. to six per cent.
Col. VIM. Heath, auditor of st. Louis
county, No.. Is reported defaulter to the
tune of $4,000 to 800, 000-mOneys be-
longing to the township school fund.
DR.. George Cook, president of Bregam
Hall Insane asylum at Canandaigua, was
stabbed by an insane patient on Monday
so seriously that he died a few hours
thereafter. r. ~
Dom Pedro, in the short time he has
been among us, has seen more of the
country and its arts and industries than
nine-tenths of our citizens have ever
dreamed of.
The French government has in
strucJed the minister of education to
organize great university at each of the
following cities: Paris, Lyons, BOr-
deaux and Nancy, each city having an in
dependent status.
The application tn vacste the probate
of A. 4. Stewards will came up for argti-
ment on the 10Th, before the Surrogate
of New York. The court room was
crowded. A large array of counsel ap-
peared on both sides. and there promises
ca fine family fight.
= icob Nunnemacher and Christian
snther, of the Milwaukee whisky ring.
e been sentenced, the former to five
aths' imprisonment anu fine of $10,-
and the latter to three months i'm
0nment and fine of $1,000. Nunne-
cher is very old and wealthy citizen.
FRS. Margret Boggs died in Philadel-
a last week, aged 100 years, five months
two days. She retained her faculties
iost up to the moment Of death. In
nof day she was quite noted woman,
being cousin Of Andrew JacksOn's wife,
and was the last surviving descendant OF
Mrs. Bessy Ross, who made the first
American flag of the present pattern.
The report Of the royal commission on
the British fugitive slave question, has
been made. 1t recommends that COM
manders of men-of-war should abstain
from any active interference with slavery
incOuntries where it is alegal Institution.
but should not be altogether prohibited
from exercising discretion as to retain
ing fugitive slaves on board their vessels.
In other wortls, strict rules are inexped-
lent, and considerable discretion must be
allowed. ~
fHE contest between various railroa
for Centennial travel has brought passen-
ger rates down from the old prices until
everybody who has any notion Of travel
and the money to spend are on the wing.
The following rates were announced by
the Erie railway to take effect June 10:
From New York to Rochester, $3.50, to
Buffalo or Niagara Fall Sc, Dunkirk So,
Cleveland $S, Toledo $40, Detroit $40,
Chicago $13, Columbus 80, indianapolis
$l2, Cincinnati $ll, Louisville $l5. Quin-
cy $2l. st. Louis SIT. Milwaukee SIG,
Kansas City $2S, Omaha 500, San Fran
cisco 1929.