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

New Haven claims that the first hard.
money coined in the country. a copper
cent, was coined there i'm 1857.
Excursion tickets six feet long. emit
Ting the bearer to corresponding long
trips in the South, are being sold in New
England.
A farmer in Stanton, Va, possesses a
valuable pair of ducks which can be taken
to distance of 40 miles and sold. and
will next morning be found at home.
A family i'll Gloucester, Mass, mourns
| the loss of a goose at the advanced age of
| 20 years; but is consoled by the survival
| OF another goose known to be 80 years
old.
New Orleans will continue to be the
capitol OF Louisiana, the proposition to
| remove the seat of government to Baton
Rouge having been defeated by some 81
| 600 votes.
Spontaneous incubation has taken
place in an Adams Center, N. Y, barn
yard, where the hea. of litter accidental
| ly thrown over nest of eggs ha. ched
out ii healthy chickens.
r. Bolender; of Ackley, Iowa, informs
the litQr of the Enterprise that34 years
1
and theTsOld it tor 40 cents per bushel.
1t took him IA days TO make the round
trip.
Thieves in New York steal sugar by
rowing their boats under the wharves
| and boring up into hogsheads above.
Tie sugar pours down into the boat. ard
by and by the thieves get away with a
cargO.
One of the prisoners in the Albany
penitentiary is little lad of II, sent
from Georgia for stealing letters. He is
a bright, handsome boy, and seems out of
place among his surroundings. He Oc-
cupies IL cell with Oakley, the cashier,
who is teaching the little Southcrner how
to read, and--actually-to say his prayers
| and worship his CreatOr.-Albany Times.
A sham battle took place at the fair
grounds at Mount Gilead, Ohio. thanks
giving day i'm presence of large con-
course of citizens OF that place and visitors
from the surrounding country. During
the war several serious injuries We're in
flicted, and much ill-feeling was engen-
derel. Burt Fry, OF the Leyering Guard,
was shot In the face. Tie wound is con-
sidered quite serious. Benjamir Nc
Gowan was struck on the head with a
bayOnet, cutting tOthe skull.
n gentleman entered a grocery store
at North Vernon, Ind, the other day
and asked for gallon of lnolasses. HAY
ing drawn it the storekeeper' asked him
What he would take it home in. I'm my
hat" promptly responded the customer.
calmly holding ont Il new silk hat, into
which the grocer, not to be OutdOne in
sang frOid, poured the fluid. Then the
customer jammed the hat on
the grocer'S L cad, and, having thus Oc-
cupied his attention, took what money
there was in the till and departed.
Nasty expected great things of the
November elections, but he was pros
trIted by the result, tlOOred as it Were,
aud this is his wall:
am entirely satisfied that shood hey
bin happier ei | he'd meyer bin born.
Life liz 10 NEE an unendin suckseSShuu
NV disasters. OCCASIONALLY there IL IA
gleem NV sunshine, Il rift thro tile clouds
that cnvellOp me, but it don't last. For
sixteen long yeers hev bin strugglin.
wrasslin back-holU with disaster. and
disaster hez ginerally Hoped me.
I'M Topped now, and am so sore with
brooses That it don't seem TO me that !
shell ever git up agin. 1t il singular
that disaster and | hey he'd so menny
encounters, and that the result hez ever
bin the saline.