Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-06-23
CONDENSED NEWS.

A German girl i'm Buffalo recently
waltzed herself blind.
Bath, Me-. is building no less than %
vessels, and enjoying greater prosperity
than at any time since the war.
EX-Gov. Noyes, the newly appointed
Minister to France. will accompany the
| President on his trip to- New England
next week.
Ohio has a new law, making il a peni.
| Tertiary Offense to obtain notes from
farmers and others for agencies for the
sale of patent rights.
A family of paupers. sent to New York
from Newport. to be forwarded to Ire
land. were found to have trunks contain
ing $4,000 worth of apparel and1goods.
The general postal union. ratified at
Berne in 1874, includes about % nations,
and expresses its rates exclusively i'm the
metric system. 10 this union the United
States is party.
The German press is unanimous in ex-
preston of regret ut the resignation of
Mr.. Bancroft Davis, the United States
Minister to Berlin. Mr.. Davis was uni
versally esteemed in Germany.
The chief clerk of the Lower House of
the Missouri Legislature is charged with
surreptitiously disposing of an important
insurance bill, after its passage. and be-
fore it reached the Governor. He has alb
scOnded.
The Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected a second class medal 20 be issued
to six persons who recently conducted
themselves gallantly in saving human
lite on the occasion of the stranding of
the bark Tanner.
Michael Cafferty, tramp was arrested
near Pleasantville, Westchester county,
n. Y, last Saturday, while making al
outrageous assault on young lady. The
people threatened lynching.
Florida is said to have the curious law
that no man who has lost an arm or a
leg, no matter how or; when, or from
what cause, can be taxed for any busi7
ness he may enter into, always excepting
the liquor business.
Two or three hundred hands of Hamil
& Booths silk mill, OF Paterson, n. j.
struck on Wednesday last for higher
wages. The strikers. male and female
marched through tue streets to the other
them.
A dispatch from Eucharist says the
Poumanians are becoming discontented
because of the slowuess of Russian mill
tary operations. The existence of this
feeling has been communicated to the
Gar. and it is believed will lastcu the
advance of the Russians across tue DAN
ube.
A number OF bricklayers arrived ut To-
ronto. from Buffalo. the other day. they
were brought over by the Builders asso-
citation 10 take the place of those on
strike. They went to work AT once. but
were shortly aftrrward induced TO Join
the strikers, and returned from whence
they came. The strikers threaten to
take contracts at cost.
The Emperor William. of Germany.
hearing a report that VI. Washburlle had
resigned as United STATES Minister to
France. has oiderel the painting of life
sized portrait of himself for The purpose
of presenting it 10 the Minister. in recog-
nition OF the distngui>hel seryIc'.s he
rendered to Germany during the Franco
German war.
A m,l was lately killed out near Dead
wood, in the Black Hills. by stroke Of
Tightening. Ii was Coates Kinney. once
an Ohio journalist ofconSilerable ability.
bit who through misfortune became a
stroller and All outcast He was the au-
thor of the well-known ballad, Rain Up
on the Roof"
The y. Y. Tribune says that we'll
known down town broker. Il member of
a prominent firm, Il club and society man.
has confessed TO stealing valuable jewelry
from different residences, to which he
had been invited to attend social gather
ings. Lie says that financial pressure
Compelled the crime.