Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-11-01
CONDENSED NEWS.

ments for hunt next year in the cOun-
try around Black Lake. w.
CONDENSED NEWS.
L. A. Brown, Republican state sena-
tOr-elect to the Ohio legislature, died at
HillsbOrO on Sunday.
The NOrdenskjOld Arctic exploring
party started from Japan for Sweden,
via Asiatic ports, 0ct.sH.
1t is estimated that full fifty millions
of dollars in gold have reached America
for our serials since January last. q
Official statistics of the recent floods
in Murcia, Spain, show that fOur-fifths
of the arabic land is ruined and 5000
persons missing,
The Lake Shore road has been expert
menting with petroleum, as fuel for To-
cOmOtives, and finds it much cheaper
and cleaner than coal.
st. Julian, a California horse, trOtted a
mile in the remarkable time of 2:1224 at
Oakland park, Saturday afternoon. Gen.
Grant was one Of.the spectators.
The treasury reports that 44,443yOS5
standard dollars have been coined to
udGc, blldt 1G,SAG,lOA dit Ill sClICuldtlOl,
and the remainder in the vualts.
In deed to large tract of land now
on record at Santa Rosa, CAL, mistake
in the number of the township locates
the land IL miles out in the ocean.
The pOstmasters at New York, Louis
Willie and New Orleans have been in
structed not to rent boxes hereafter to
lottery companies or lottery agents.
A curious accident happened to a
| steamer near Bismarck recently. An
avalanche of about a quarter-acre of
land fell upon her as she was going un-
| der bluff.
1t is ascertained that owing to the de-
! ficiency in her cereals England will dur
| ing the coming year require 98,0O0,O00
bushels of foreign grain for her home
consumption.
Chicago will span State street at the
Palmer house with 81, 800 arch in hon
or of Grant, and will erect four other
arches of lesser magnitude at other
points in the city. e.. r..-.
The cholera in Japan is now announced
as rapidly subsiding under the sanitary
endorsements of the government. There
have been 10000 cases since April last,
and 900 deaths.
The SlOssOn-Shaefer 1900 point bill
lizard match at New York was won by
Schaefer, the game standing Schaefer
1900, SlOSSOn 2,604. Winners average
Al 2-3; losers 80 81.
1t is asserted that 10000 persons die
every year i'm Great Britain from intem-
perance- -40,50O dying from their own
excess and 1850 from the indirect con-
sequences of the excess of others.
| In order to reduce the distance be-
tween Fairplay and Leadville from 60
to 20 miles the Mesquit mountains are
to be tunneled 21a miles at cost of
100000, to be finished in one year.
Hayes has invited Grant to be his guest
if he comes to Washington. Grant will
not be present at the Army of the Cum
berland reunion there Nov. 20, as he has
an engagement at Indianapolis on that
date.
A vessel which has been loaded with
corn at New York in single day takes
ten or twelve days to unload when she
arrives at an English port. The loading
has been done by machinery-the un-
loading is done by hand wOrk.-LOndon
Times.
The Kentucky HolbrOOk- Underwood
feud is not ended. The Underwood
women have been notified by the HOl-
brooks to leave, and the latter have also
threatened death to any one who testi-
fies against them.
A wealthy citizen of Hartford, Conn.,,
whose daughter is very accomplished,
has sent her, with her full consent, to
learn trade. They both feel that a
trade is no discredit, and may in this
world of uncertainties some day be of
value to her. .-'cI ,f--ts -.s..--.
The mosque of St. Sophia at COnstan-
tinOple, which for centuries has been
closed against the intrusion of unbe-
4 levers, is to be open every Tuesday and
Friday for believers of all faiths to at
tend lesson intended to reconcile the
differences of religions. .......-
A curious old oil frescO painting on
plaster has been discovered in the Yer.
non house at Newport, which was the
headquarters of Washington, Lafayette
and ROchambeau. 1t was found behind
la broad panel over the fireplace in an
upper room, and represents West In
dian scene.
| y,
Ohio, is strong Republican, and on
election day she used her horse and bug
gy to carry voters to the polls. A number
of young Republicans manifested tlleil
\ appreciation of her valuable services by
presenting her beautiful toilet set in
the evening. ...
The remains of w. T. BOdie, the origi
nal dlscoyerer of the BOdie mining dis
trict, who perished in snow storm No
vember IA, 1859, were discovered las1
Monday about mile southwest of Bodie
The deceased is believed to have been q
native of either Rochester or Poughkeep
sic, n. Y, where he left family.
The steamship England arrived al
New York last Tuesday morning from
Liverpool. When the cargo was about
to be unlOaded man was found leaning
against a crate, who family gasped Oul
"Water." He was terribly emaciated and
weak. He was asked if he had been all
these days while the ship was at sea
without food or drink, and he nodded
once, shuddered and died. The body was
sent to the morgue. The England lef
!, Liverpool October Is, and the stOwaway
must have been 13 days without fOOi
or water. -
/ Boston has PhiscognoscosphOcraph,
society. The motto of the Phiseognos
5 cosphOcraphickers is ''Breyity is the sou
l of wit" PhiscOgnOscOsphOcra is
7 specimen of it. If the PhiscOgnoscos
4 phOcraphicites were to start pape
7 called the PhiscOgnOscosphocrapher, tn
: the editor would doubtless call his brie
paragraphs "PhiscognoscOsphoc
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