Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-07-19

IHE lnulanS OF the NORTHWESTERN eSor-
walton have caught the walking match
disease.
AJUTANT GENERAL STEEL, of Texas,
officially reports that there are between
1000 and 5000 fugitives from that State,
of whom 851 are murderers.
IT is stated that the Great Eastern is
to be refitted, at cost of 100000 for the
the transportation of cattle from Texas
to England. She will carry a crew Of
200 men.
ONE of the Chinese Legation in Wash
ingtOn carries rusty fan on which
some Chinese maiden wrote a verse of
poetry 5000 years ago. Why he should
carry thu old thing is hard to surmise,
since it is presuma5le that the girl was
not his sweetheart.
Tho las MJCRCSsIN, inspector of asy-
lums, prisons, etc., for Canada, has been
on visit to Lansing, with instructions
to obtain the requisite information to
enable him to remodel the refrOm school
at Penetanguishine, in the province of
Quebec, after the Michigan state refrom
school, with which he is highly pleased.
will then be nOrthwesterly in search of
Prof. FOrdenskjOld, the Sweed, who sail
ed from Stockholm July last, to make
the never before accomplished northeast
passage through the Siberian sea. While
it seems presumptuOus folly for men to
sail into this sea of ice, that they may
be successful in returning home alive is
the most REASONABLE wish one can make
them.
AN amusing trial for highway robbery
has been taking place in Cleveland, in
which the prosecutors are the prOprie-
tors of the Leader newspaper and the
defendants the staff of the Herald. 1t
seems that at some public meet
ing Leader reporter snatched the man
uscript of one of the speeches, whereup-
on Herald reporter followed him into
the street and fOrcibly took it away from
him. The Herald was fined $35 and
costs.
THE Memphis Board of Health, i'm ad-
vising the removal of families from that
city pending investigation as to the
cases of yellow fever that occurred, has
contributed not little to the excite.
ment, but it has acted wisely. In the
face of the terrible experience of last
year, the people will not be slow to ACT
upon such advice, and should not be
slow to adopt all possible precautionary
measures.
NEW YORK is to have another WOman's
Hotel. 1t will bear the patriotic name
of the Martha Washington Home. Only
professional will be admitted. Charges
So to So a week. The cost of the hOtel
will be $4,000. 1t is admitted that a
wOman's hotel in New York is urgently
needed. Judge Hilton's failed on &C.
count of the arbitrary and unknown reg
ulatiOns in vogue there, and also because
the price was too high. The new expert
ment i'm this matter will be looked for
ward to with some interest.
THE most costly school building in
the world is probably the new POlytech-
mic Institute at Hanover. The late King
of Hanover commenced the construction
of magnificent palace, upon which he
expended about five million dollars.
When his government was OverthrOwn
and the Kingdom of Hanover became a
province of Prussia, the building was
found in half finished condition. For
several years the windows were boarded
up and the empty rooms became the
residence of bats and birds. At last the
German government resolved to alter
the building and adapt it to the uses
of the polytechnic school. The work has
been going forward for several years,
and is now nearly ended.