Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-11
CONDENSED NEWS.

Inc OLodry DeIG walk began at New
York at o'clock last Monday morning.
Thirty-five men started.
Fifty thousand pounds worth Of gold
was purchased in open market, in Lon
don Monday, for the United States.
The national board of steam naviga-
tiOn will hold Its eighth annual meet
ing at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, Oct.
%.
Gen. Grant and party returned to San
Francisco Tuesday, and sailed on Thurs
day for Portland, Oregon.
There are 1OpetrOleum refineries with
in the limits of PittSburg, which have a
combined capacity of from $4,000 to 75,-
600 barrels refined oil per week.
There were at one time 230 japanese
students in this country, but only about
20 now remain. The number of Chinese
in our educational institutions is 12O.
At Cincinnati the manufacturers say
that they are employing extra hands
and running their machinery to its full
capacity, and are still unable to meet
all their orders. t.s-
A project is on foot, and it will prOba-
bly, be carried out, to connect the ST.
Louis & San Francisco road with the
California Southern, and thus form an
other transcOntinental line,
Six Shoshone chiefs, war painted and
armed with breachlOading rifles, passed
over the Union Pacific road Saturday,
paying their fare and announcing that
they were on their way to join the Utes.
Electric lights are to be used by the
divers working under the water to re-
cover the $5O0OOOO i'm treasure believed
by many to have been sunk in the Brit
ish frigate HusSar at Port Morris in
1850.
Sub-treaSurers are all supplied with
gold and are paying it out freely on cur
rent obligations. Treasurer'S checks for
called bonds are being paid by the assis-
tant treasurer in New York in gold
through the clearing house.
There are three Japanese girls at Vas
sar just entering upon their second year
there, and one of them has been elected
! president of the sophomore class. The
Japanese government is training them
| for teachers. and three more is expected
there soon. -+'
The returns of the New York pOstoffice
for the quarter ending September &c
show total revenue over expenses, OF
$5S3,39O 80. The expenditures were
| S203,2 81. For the corresponding
quarter last year the revenue was $476,-
49S 81.
Miss Lille George, aged IS, of Bona
parte, Iowa, pupil in the Cincinnati
college of music, suicided at the latter
city last Sunday because Fred nj. True
man, to whom she was engaged to be
married, died of congestive chill the
night before.
The Dominion telegraph company
have reduced their rates on all messages
between points in the province of On
tariO and Quebec, and between Detroit,
Buffalo, OswegO and Ogdensburg from
25 to 20 cents for messages of 10 words
The reduction took effect Monday.
Secretary Swank of the American iron
and steel association says: "There will be
more iron and steel turned out i'm the
United States this year than in any one
year in the annals of the country. When
l speak of iron and steel l embrace
categOrically more rails, more bar iron
more plate and sheet iron, more pig iron
more BeSSemer steel, and more cruciblt
steel. What is better, this large production
is in answer to the demand"
The decision of the Supreme Court O.
Pennsylvania, in what are known as th,
Pittsburg riot cases, affirms the cOnsti
tutiOnality of the law imposing upol
that city, and the county in which i
is situated, the payment of DANCES fo
| the destruction of property by the mo-
in 1877. No further appeal can be taken
and the city and county are saddle
with the payment of not less than 50
500 600 for the destruction of propert
which the imbecility and cowardice Q
, the authorities made possible.