Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-12-06
CONDENSED NEWS.


| Charleston, s. c., has just had the first
fall of snow within ten vars.
Fighting still continues between the
Cuban insurgents and the government
forces.
The governor of Texas has removed
the entire faculty from the State agricul-
tural college.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that not
$4,000 out of $4,000 people in that city
attend church.
The Marcellus powder-mill near Syra-
lcuse, n. Y, exploded Nov. 2S, destroying
three buildings. No lives lost.
| The Americans of Berlin celebrated
Thanksgiving day by fete at which
Minister Andrew d. White presided.
A shortage of $2O,OOOha been discover
ed i'm the Toronto, Ontario, custOm-hOuse
The cashier and collector are implicated
| in it.
The English team won the bicycle
tournament at Chicago, their score
standing 1865 milesltO 1858 for the
Americans.
The remarkable circumstance of per-
fectly clear sky unspecked by cloud
from the Atlantic to the Pacific was noted
by the signal corps Monday last.
Prof. David E. Bartlett, of the Hartford
Conn., deaf and dumb asylum, died Sun
day night. He had been an instructor
of deaf and dumb mutes for 81 years.
Washington E. Hall, New York in
spectOr of elections, convicted of making
false returns at the election of 1878, has
been sentenced to Is months i'm the State
prison.
The pope has written the Irish bishops
to assure the people of Ireland that the
British government will promptly look
into the matter of their grievances. This
for peace.
The grand jury at Salt Lake City has
presented four indictments against per-
sons for pOlygamy. They say in their
report that it is hard to obtain truthful
| witnesses.
The Memphis citizens committee has
adopted resolution urging Gov. Marks
| to call the Tennessee legislature tOgeth-
er to authorize tax of two per cent for
sewerage purposes.
The brig WestmOrland, which has just
arrived at New York from Jacmel, San
| Domingo, after 40 days passage, Suf-
fered terribly from yellow fever, all her
crew having died but three men before
reaching Nassau.
EdisOn's perfected electric light will
be exhibited on Christmas eve at MenlO
Park, New York, when all the buildings
| i'm that place are to be illuminated by
| wires run from house and connected
with his laboratory.
In the case of Crowley and Gillen, on
trial at Chicago, for throwing pepper in
the eyes of Illinois Central railroad mes
sengers and rObbing them of $4,000,
the jury disagree as to Gillen, but found
Crowley guilty as accessory and fixed
the penalty i'm his case at seven years in
prison.
Is the Oneida community i'm earnest in
its new departure? AS sixteen mar
riages have taken place in the cOmmun-
ity within the last few weeks, it would
seem that the good old way of marrying
and being given in marriage is popular
even among those wO have tried the pro-
miscuous or free-lOve system.
Gen. jeff. C. Davis, colonel of the
Twenty-third United States infantry,
died of pleurO-pneumOnia at Chicago,
Sunday afternoon. He was Union Off
Ger of distinction in the war of the re-
belliOn, during which, at the Gait house,
Louisville, KY, he shot and killed Gen.
Nelson, who had grossly insulted him.
Four women were nominated in Wis
cOnsin this year, for county superinten-
dents of schools; only one, however, was
elected. The GAINESVILLE Gazette says
that there is growing sentiment that
women should be elected to these educa-
tiOnal offices, and adds that it is doubt
less wise policy to give them fair
trial.
King Alfonso and Archduchess Marie
Christine were married in the AtOchi
church, Madrid, shortly before noon on
Saturday. The church was beautifully
Illuminated and decorated and filled
with grandees of Spain and other ma
tiOns. The new queen was presented to
| the ambassadors, etc., and the following
day ex-Queen Isabella, mother of Alton
so, held reception.
Daniel Bandmann, the tragedlan, lost
his entire wOrdrObe at the burning of
the Toronto. (Ont) grand opera house,
early Saturday morning, as also did his
troupe. In addition to the three lives
heretofore reported lost, man named
Scott was probably fatally injured. The
entire loss is placed at about 100000.
Shortly after the war the legislature
| of Georgia made a law eXempting all
new factories that might be established
| from taxation for 10 years. Under this
encouragement the state has prOspered
wonderfully, twill appear strange that
number of the old factory prOprietOrs
have Just combined to test in the courts
the validity of that exemption.
The Irish demonstration in Hyde Park,
London, on Sunday, was attended by up
wards of $4,000 persons, yet there was
no disturbance. The speakers of the
main meeting used temperance language
but the most SeditiOuS utterances were
made at the side meetings, creating
only apparent amusement. Resolutions
protesting against the recent Irish agi-
tatOrs, and favOring peasant prOprie-
| tary i'm Ireland, were adopted by accla-
nation. Parnell and Finnegan will
sail for America within a fortnight.
The Clinton Oenawee county, News
relates that one day last week Robert
Smith and family started from their
home for Clinton, and after coming part
of the way their wagon broke down, and
all alighted. Mrs. Smith uncovered her
child, some three months old, which she
was carrying in her arms, when she was
Mortified to find that it was dead, having
suffOcated by being so tightly wrapped
up.
The Saginawian, published at Saginaw
City, refers to the boom for Mr.. Jerome,
of that place, for gubernatOrial hOnOrs,
as follows: Personally we like Mr..
Jerome, and have had that sort of feeling
for him 'goin' forty year. Politically
he's stalwart, and one of the worst Of
the species, broadening out sometimes
toward aborigines and uncivilized races,
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