Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-09-27


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Mexico has paid $4,000 on the debt
owing to the United States.
The total Russian losses during the
war in Turkey in Asia We're 7O.478 sol
diers.
The European beet sugar crop is esti-
mated at 1900 tons, against 100000
tons last year. sfEf;9I :>ffri <
Chicago will consume 25,OO0Co0 feet
OF lumber this year in making boxes
for pork packers. ..a,., ..... ..-..-l-..l ...
An auction sale of highly bred Short
horns is advertised to take place in Chi
cagO on the 18th prOx.
Arrivals of gold at New York since the
beginning of August are $27,OOO,OOO;
since January /, $3l, ,152,860. .9n,li u.iklf
Twenty-One clergymen returned home
from foreign travel in three steamers
arriving in on Sunday week.
Fresh cargoes of mOrmOns are coming
from Europe weekly. 1t is estimated
there are 10000 yet to arrive this season.
Signs of returning activity i'm Mem
phis, but physicians say absentees should
not return before frost if they value their
lives.
The Khedive of Egypt has an Ameri-
can in his service, Gen. Batcheller, who
is now visiting his friends in the United
States.
| The chairman of the Strike Committee
of the Bradford mechanics has sailed for
America to make arrangements for the
emigration of $50 men.
Wash. Arnold and Pryor Ward, two
darkies disgusted with life, locked arms
and walked in to the river at st. Joseph,
Mo-, Monday. They drowned.
The steamer Lord Give has left Liver
pool with 30 machinists and engineers
| for Philadelphia, and 100 riveters will
follow on the order of a Philadelphia
| firm.
Of 225 South Carolina cOnvicts hired
out by the state to the Greenwood g. Au-
gusta railroad, nearly 100 have died dur
ing the past summer. An investigation
| is to be made.
The announcement is made by author
| ity that no appointment to the English
or Russian Missions will be made until
| after the return of the President from
his western trip.
| A black bass was taken from cake of
ice at ROndOut, Monday, where it had
been imbedded for eight months. 1t now
dispOrts itself in druggists aquarium
as lively as ever it was.
Pearl fishing on the Little Miami river,
O., is getting to be a popular industry.
AS much as 800 day has been made by
single person. One pearl found there
was sold by the Tiffanys for $1,000.
Large delegations of ex-prisoners of
war, from Chicago, Indianapolis and va
riOus Michigan cities, have signified their
intention to be present at the fOrthcOm-
ing war prisoners reunion at Toledo, O.,
October and 2.
A new gum resembling gutta percha,
| though tougher and flexible, has been
discovered in the Amazon region. Its
properties are such as to make it supe-
riOr to India rubber for manufacturing
purposes. 1t has been named Belata.
The Toronto Evening Telegram says:
'Tt is more than probable that Hanlan
will not 60 to Chautauqua lake to row
Courtney. He is in anything but good
health, and it will be impossible to get
him into proper shape in time for the
race."o $50 e. oaF .>Ef#eL
1t frOze in Pembina, in Dakota Terri
tory, last Friday night, the mercury,
early Saturday morning, standing at 30
degrees, or two degrees below the freez-
| ing point. 1t was almost as cold at
| inn do
grees. ~
The South African cable has been COM
pleted between Natal and Mozambique.
| The section from Mozambique to Zani-
bar was to have been finished before the
10th inst, which would place South Af-
RIGA within nine days communication
with England. +ss.f -.,- -..o~e
China exports $75,CC0,OO0 of tea per an
mum to Australia alone. This lucrative
trade has stimulated tea culture i'm
India. 1t is constantly extending, and
promises in course of time to seriously
encrOach on the quasi-mOnOpOly which
China has long had in this article of
commerce.
President Hayes and party had an en-
thusiastic reception in Illinois while
passing over the c. B. & r. r. Stops
were made at Aurora, Plano, Mendoza,
Galva, and Galesburg. The party reach
ed Hannibal, Mo-, at 10O'clock last Tues
day night, and had grand reception at
Sedalia, Mo-,
There is every indication of the speedy
collapse of the spinners' strike at Fall
River. The men are ready to resume
work at the old prices if all can be
re-emplOyed, but the prOprietOrs will not
discharge the men who have helped them
during the strike, and some of the
strikers have decided to take work
wherever they can get it.
Although as great smoker as ever,
Gen. Grant has not drank wine for sew
eral months, and tends to total absti-
nence, which he finds agrees with him.
The first intimatiOn Grant had of the re-
ported death of Mrs. Sartoris was the re-
ceptiOn of telegram at Yokohama, Japan
as follows: "RumOr of Nellie's death
untrue" He was naturally much shock.
ed and anxiOusly awaited particulars
which he received from a pilot boat
loh of tho Eoro Innao