Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-21
CONDENSED NEWS.

Wisconsin has manufactory of paper
bricks. They are durable and moisture
proof.
Minneapolis lumberman contemplate
putting in 200 100000 feet of logs the
coming season.
Ship building in Portland. Me-. district
has declined from 1876 tons in 1874 to
4,279 i'm 1878.
The present years crop of wheat in'the
United States yields the enormous total
of 425,0O0.000 bushels.
The demand for A per cent bonds con-
flnues large. and sales are averaging
nearly sl,O0O,0OO per day.
Ii Texas had as many people 10 the
square mile as Massachusetts. she would
have population of 72,000,000.
COngressman-elect Love of Alabama.
says that he will vote independently of
the Democrats in the Forty sixth Con
gress.
The House Committee OH Postoffices
and POstrOads will favorably report a
bill Tor total re-classifieation of mail
matters.
American street cars arr now running
in nearly every city i'm the world. and
horses continue to be exported from this
country to Europe.
The House Committee on Commerce
have assigned the River and Harbor an
preparation TO a sub committee for pre-
paration OF the bill.
Exclusive of all demands. the United
States treasurer expects to have Sl35 0OO.-
i'm n txhi ah
payments Jan. l, 1879.
The arrivals at the port of New York
for II months ending on 30th of Novcm-
Der, Sl.2o5, while only 66.111 were re-
ported Tor the previous year.
The United States has recovered YER
diet at Portland. Oregon. of S35. .22S
against w. G. GriswOld, charged with
frau'! III Indian war claims i'm 1854.
The Committee Oil Appropriation have
decided 70 recommend The appropriation
OF S45O,OO0 for the continuance OF the
railway mail service for the remainder of
the year.
The British House of Comm0ns have
voted to defray the expenses of the AT.
CHAN war from the East Indian revenues.
aud parliament has adjourned Till Febru-
airy Ii, 1879.
A Liverpool firm is reported to have
purchased steamer for the purpose OF
importing live pigs from America. The
vessel is being fitted up to hold over
1900 pigs, rs well as cattle.
R..M. Hunter, Treasurer elect of Vir.
ginia. forgot to qualify within the lime
set by law and now the Governor an.
nounces that Virginia has no Treasurer.
Wellborn hal $4,000 Democratic ma.
jority for Congress from his Texan dis
trict, at last accounts, and two counties
were yet to add their frugal quota. 1t is
thought he is elected.
The New York Graphic figures up
that in the United States Senate, out of
rs Senators % are lawyers. and that in
the House, out of 293 Representatives
223 belong to the same profession.
Dispatches from central and western
Missouri. Iowa and Kansas say that The
snow storm of Thursday night aud Fri
day of of last week. was the heaviest
known in years. Railroad travel was
much impeded.
The United States Government has
been requested by China 10 assist in
carrying out the terms of treaty be-
tween China and Spain relative to the
improvement of the status of Chinese
in the island of Cuba.
In Massachusetts,, the average earning
per month for men is SSS 81; tor women,
S35 35. In Maine, neil, $37; women, SIS.
In Pennsylvania, men, $Il OF; women.
S34 09. In Ohio, men, $6o women, $44;
In Michigan. men, $5l 20; women, $2S 10.