Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-07
CONDENSED NEWS.

The Khyber pass trouble was greatly
Exaggerated. 1t Is now clear in all parts
to the British.
The United States and India are the
only countries whose exports exceed
their imports.
Prophets of evil predict that q mild
winter will be followed by a genefal cpl
demic OF yellow fever.
"Masterly inactivity" was first alluded
TO by Isaiah. when he said Xxx, y,
Their strength is to sit still.n
For his conduct during the war with
Russia the Turkish General Suleiman
Pasha has been degraded and imprison-
ed.
Sergeant F. ]. Papst. of the signal sta
ton at Alpena. has been ordered to Wash
ington and will be succeeded by Sergeant
j. A. Barwick.
The Democratic majority of the Pot
committee have decided to investigate
the ''cipher kilograms" whether the
Hovse orders to them or not.
Cornelius Guerin, who was sent TO
state prison Is months ago from Muske-
gon.ss has been pardoned. his innocence
having been fully established.
Lenawee county farmers will petition
the Legislature to make it unlawful tor
any railway employe to buy or
deal in grain, directly or indirectly.
A petition is being circulated and nu-
merously signed asking the Legislature @
to enact law at its coming session es-
tablishing state reform school for girls.
Prlvare advices received at Washing
ton, report Gov. Hampton i'm critical
condition in con sequence of the recent
severe accident in being thrown from his
mule.
A bale of cotton auctioned at Memphis
Monday for the yellow fever relief fund,
brought $3.50. 1t will also Re sold i'm
several other southern cities for the
same charitable purpose.
A postal card has just made the cir
cult of the world i'm III days. Had ii
been mailed on just the right day for
shipment the feat would haYe been &C.
complished in 20 days less.
A vacuum atomatic brake has been in
| vented in England which will bring q
train running 60 miles an hour to stop
in 300 yards, and i'm half that distance
when running at 40 miles an hour.
| Ellen and Kate Crowley. two maiiens
| Of 26 and "a summers. are the sole man.
ayers and keepers OF the Saugerties light.
house on the Hudson, and have played
the heroine on more than one occasion.
While OH her recent passage from Hall.
fax to Bermuda the British steamship
Grontes lost man overheard. A boats
| of I fn hi, II
were drowned by the upsetting of til,
boat.
Australia has decided to hold world,
fair i'm 1900. A public garden in the cen
tire of Melbourne has been secured fol
the exhibition, and Parliament has vote
$360.O00 for the erection of the necessary
buildings.
| Mr.. Meyers, Of Detroit. Is an applicant
for the position of Supervising Architec
OF the Treasury, in place of Hill, indicted
for connection with the frauds commit
ed with the building of the Chicago Gus
tom house.
A South American firm has bough
from the Edison company the exclusiv;
right to the use of the electric light in
South America, and Rio Janeiro vii
probably be the frs: city in the world tC
be thus lighted.
The newest motor ia an invention o
a Geneva, ILL.,, man-Mr. j. B. Atwate
|-and consists of a street car operated BY
quicksilver. He claims a thrce-hors.
4 DOwer from the use OF eight hundre
pounds Of the mercury, and 10 los b1
wearage.
A singular case is on trial I'm Landel
In which the defendant, Lady Gooch, i
charged with palming off a stranger
child as her own on her husband, in or
to secure the inheritence, which, if hs
died childless, would revert to hi
brother.
While repairing an old postal car a
the Michigan Central car works, Detroit
Monday. the wOrkmen found i'm the crev
ices of the woodwork a rum Der OF letter
} one of which was money letter sent b,
Pension Agent Post, i'm September, 1S7t
TO pensiOner at Union City, Mich; til
loss of which had been an object OF curl
osity Ito say the leasD ever since.
Receipts from internal revenue for th
last fiscal year, $ll0. .5Sl.624. TO collec
which cost 81 525, 1866. or 1910 per ce mt
4 Customs receipts, $13l, ,S51. .85l; to collec
which cost $5, 5,S26.974. or lilo per cenl
Which shows a smaller percentage of col
lection expense than in either Great Bri
tain, France or Germany, notwithstand
ing their smaller area and more dens
population.
Michael Murphy has just been releaa
, ed from Sing Sing after four and hal
years imprisonment, on charge of muir
der of which he was finally proven limo
cent. Three times i'm the interval he ha
suffered all the agOnies ef death i'm see
ing the scuffOld built and all prepare
tiOHs male for his execution, and all tn
atonement the state can offer is sinpl,
to -"let him go!'
Il Mr.. Edison patents all his discOverie
both In this country and in England. an,
loses no time in doing it, The other da,
he made discovery at 4 o'clock i'm tn
afternoon. BY o'clock the specIfica
tions were drawn up and the applica
tion for patent cabled to London. A
noon the next day the application was
filed sin the English patent office, notic
of which he received at o'clock th,
same day.
Howard City has added to its previous
bad record, by terrible af'ray. 1t is al
legged that it arose from the attempt o
several men to enter disreputable plac,
where they were not wanted and wher,
they were fired upon. Cal. Paasly wal
fatally shot i'm the head, r. Collins wa
hit in the leg, and John Weller wa
struck iu the wrist. Major Rounds an(
two women are under arrest.
Mrs. Babington, resident of Boy
county, ,Ky.,is one of the only two wOiner
that were ever initiated into the myste-
ries OF freemasonry. She won by strata
gem what she could never have got in
any other way, secreting herself in on,
Of the rooms when the lodge met durins
Zone of its sessions, and, thus becoming
l-pOSSessed of the secrets of the order. tn,