Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-02-10
CONDENSED NEWS.

On Saturday the House voted to fix the
Presidents salary at $4,000.
Six hundred persons were thrown out
OF employment in the printing bureau Oh
Saturday.
In spite of the reports Of peace. the
Turkish government continues tC
strengthen its frontier outposts.
There will be some difficulty i'm filling
Judge Davis chair i'm the supreme court
when he retires, for it is 40 inches wide
The Chicago coroner, in his annual
report. states that of the fifty-five suicides
i'll that city during the year only three
We're caused by love.
The London Post argues that. on pure
y ethical grounds. the undisturbed bal
ance OF the Geneva reward should be re-
| turned to Great Britain.
The Secretary of the Treasury says he
has all the silver on hand that is required
and he declines to accept any more in ex.
change tor treasury notes.
An order has been recently filled by the
Glasgow umbrella makers tor tOrtv enor-
nous sunshades. to be sent as presents
to African chiefs. Some of these UNI
brellas are thirty feet in circumference
1t is understood the Canadian govern
ment will shortly ask for tenders for the
construction of further portions of the
Pacific railway, or for proposals from
capitalists to undertake its construction
subject to government control.
In the Senate the bill to amend the
Pacific railroad act so aS to create sink
ing fund for the liquidation of indebted
ness due the government by the Pacific
raili Dad companies, was considered Mr..
Christiancy. of Michigan, spoke in favor
thereof.
A resolution has been introduced in
The Wisconsin assembly. declaring it be-
meath the dignity of a United States su-
preme judge TO seek political position,
and asking for an amendment to the Uni
tel States constitution making such
judges and their successors ineligible for
ever from holding political office.
The report of the silver commission is
expected within ten days. 1t will un-
dOubtedly be the most valuable dOcu-
ment on the silver question that has been
published since the controversy began.
Ii will give with as great an exactness as
can be attained the amount OF silver pro-
dnced In this country. and especial care
has also been taken to make the history
OF the monetary change i'm Germany, and
OF the effects of the fluctuations i'm the
gold price of silver ON East Indian ex-
changes and commerce more comprehen.
sive than any that has hitherto been
printed.
Here is little story which comes from
Nashville, Tenn: A handsome bov
boarded for a year i'm one of the hotels
there. and conducted sewing machine
agency. He was active and successful in
business. and a pet of the women, with
whom lie was fond of assOciating. His
yOuthfulneSs insured him more freedom
with them than would have been accord
ed an older beau; bit ore day he hugged
and kissed a chambermaid, and was com
planned o, to the landlord. At this point
in the story the prononn she" must be
changed to ''she." for the offender con-
fessed to being woman i'm boys clothes.
She said thai, being compelled to earn
her own living. she learned by expert
ence that her sex was eletriment. So
she took to trowsers. and in that guisr
she not only did better in business, but
was able to bamboozle the women