Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-09-13

1t has been decided to hold the next
American worlds fair in 1883.
Patent Office receipts for the fiscal year
exceeded expenditures by $l59,494 50.
All accounts from the European cOnti-
nent point to an increased demand for
American wheat.
twenty-five clerks have been discharg-
ed from the national bank redemption
division of the treasury.
Nine telephone, electric light and 9th
er electric patents were issued from the
patent Office on Monday.
Some Mormon emissaries from Utah to
North carOliua have been publicly whip
ped with hickory switches and sent back
Prof. Leon went up i'm balloon at
Cincinnati, Saturday, at 5 p. m, and at 6
p. m. landed at HillSbOrO, 65 miles dis
tant.
Seth Green's assistants have put into
the Upper Hudson 6,686OO0 shad fry this
season, the largest seasons work in five
years.
The institute of international law
votes that the destruction of or injury to
submarine telegraph cables is an 0ffense
against the law of nations.
The fruit-packing establishments of
Baltimore employ over 25,O00 hands.
They will pack 100000 cans of peaches
this year, using 100000 bushels of peach
eS.
A farmer i'm south Georgia rescued his
corn field from crows by sleeping some
grain i'm alcohol. The whole flock became
drunk and since they have avoided that
field.
At the request of the United States
government two cadet engineers from
the Annapolis naval academy will be
admitted to the Royal naval college at
Greenwich, England, as students next
month.
There is on exhibition at the Cincin-
natl chamber of commerce mass of car
bOnized corn taken from the tomb of the
moundbuilders The grain is thought to
be 500 years old.
The spirit of unrest Is spreading east
ward among the negroes OF Alabama,
Georgia, and the CarOlinas, and it is
thought that they will contribute large
| ly to the exodus which will set in when
the cotton picking season is over.
In 1890 there We're Repositories in the
United States, with total of 1,875 miles
of post routes and revenue OF $37,935.
In 1878 we had 39,258 pOstOffices, with a
total of 30l 1856 miles of post routes and
a revenue of $29,277,417.
Capt. Goldsmith and wife, the two fools
who tried to cross the Atlantic in the
little boat "Uncle SAM" were caught in
a heavy storm and suffered terribly for
three days, and were finally picked up
by bark Aug. 10Th and taken to Liver
pool.
One hundred and fifty labOrers at
Jones & Laughlin's American iron works,
Pittsburg-the largest establishment of
the kind i'm that city-struck work last
Monday for $1.25 per day. They had
been getting 81. The mill will be closed
rather than accede to the demand.
The municipal council of the City of
Mexico have formally asked the councils
of other cities to initiate movements fol-
raising funds to pay the next install
ment of the American debt, and the
President has ordered the national treas
ury to set aside $1,000 daily for the same
purpose.
Never before, says the Chicago Times
has trade been so good as this season
and in no previous year have Chicago
merchants sold as many goods as thus
far during 1879, and to-day the business
interests of that city are i'm better shape
than at any previous time since the pan
ic of 1873.
One of the most remarkable strikes re.
Gently recorded has occurred at OcOnt0
Wis. The congregation of church
there had got nicely settled in theil
pews and were waiting for morning ser
vice, when messenger from the pastor
arrived and said that no divine servict
would be held until the members bought
him suit of clothes in which ne cOul(
make decent appearance in the pulpit
The congregation sadly dispersed.