Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-27
CO0DENsED NEWS.

at Quebec.
The erection of grand Protestant
cathedral is mOOted in New York.
Pennsylvania's total debt is $22, ,19O,-
66S, of which $8O0,718 bears no interest.
The majority of the immigrants arriv-
ing at New York this season are Ger
mans.
The decrease of the public debt for the
two months of 1880, is over $16.OOO,OOO.
The new year opens well.
Alfred H. Littlefeld has been nOmi
mated for governor of Rhode Island by
the Republican state convention.
The Chicago Times proposes to get
ahead of the paper manufacturing mo
nOpOly by starting paper mill of its
own.
A colony of $50 negroes, from the vi
cinity of Helena, Ark, arrived at Cincin-
natl last week. the first stage on their
route to Liberia.
TX. Upton, the new assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, has been for IL
years in the employ of that institution.
He weighs 225, is 40 and a bachelor.
The California Legislature has passed
bill, which the Governor has signed,
for the taxation of bank deposits, mort
cages and the capital stock of corpora
tiOnS.
The Democratic county convention to
choose delegates to the state convention
at Harrisburg, Pa. met last Tuesday
and elected full Tilden delegation Of
eighteen.
San Francisco reports are to the effect
that since the first of January, between
$5,00OO00 and $6.OO0OO0 of gold coin
have been shipped to New York from
that city.
The extremists on both sides seem to
have attained the ascendency in their
| respective parties at San Francisco, and
the hOOdlum troubles threaten to break
out again.
The new ROckaway Beach hotel to be
opened i'm May is One-fOurth of mile
long, has 1000 rooms, and will employ
40 bartenders. 1t will be open the
year round.
Three million acres of wheat have
been sOwn in California. the early and
abundant rains enabling farmers to put
in full crop. which is said to be very
unusual thing.
The total arrival of immigrants this
month at New York reaches 12,720, more
than double the number for the same
month last year. Between 1900 and 4,0U
are known to be on the way.
The Senate committee has provided fol
80 amending the Ute agreement that NJ
money shall be paid them until all tht
White River Utes engaged in the Meekel
macCaarQ haVn hQan ourrondnrQd
At Lincoln, Lancaster county, Pa.
part of the floor of public hall CAV,
way last Saturday evening, during al
entertainment, precipitating 100 to 15l
to the floor below, injuring 30, some Sc
J riOusly.
The AndersOnville graveyard contain.
1875 graves, of which about 1000 ar,
unmarked. The grounds are enclosed
by brick wall. Bushes cover the for
mer prison site, but part of the stOckad,
! is still standing.
The Sand Lots gang are on the ramp
age in San Francisco again, the Citizens
Protective Union are opposed to all com
. promises, and all hopes of an amicabl,
adjustment of existing difficulties ar,
considered at an end.
, Fred Nichols, mail carrier, was mur
dered and robbed by Apache Indians OIL
the 10Th inst. on the JOrdanO del Muerta
, seven miles below Alemin, n. M. Tn
savageS also cut the military telegraph
lines in several places.
Figures have been made up at tn
! treasury department to show that w
might have paid the national debt an,
have had $1,500,000,000 left, if the tarif
and internal revenue taxes of 1857 ha,
: been kept in force till now.
The California law fOrbidding the em
: plOyment OF Chinese by corporations ha
been declared unconstitutional by tn
United States circuit court at San Fran
: cisco. The case will probably 60 to tn
United States supreme court.
The United States government ha
presented Peter Green senior, resident O
Tristan d'Acunha, an island in the SOut
J, and $500 to the rest of the inhabitant.
S as reward for saving shipwrecke
American crews.
One-half, or 10000 of the puzzles wer
: sold to able-bOdied men, each of whom
s at low estimate. passed three hours
s day, for at least five days, trying to &c
e 13-15-14 in proper sequence tim
of able-bOdied men consumed, $4,000
: hours or 56,250 working days.
4 A builder who has been busily engage
. in repairing the ravages
the recent cyclone at IndianOp0li
! says that all estimates heretofore mad
t of the damage have been too low. HI
/. thinks at least $l50,OOO will be require
e to put the property in the condition
o was.
e John Quinn, aged SO, one of the F,
s mans captured by the Canadians in 1876
2 and sentenced to be hanged, but who's
n sentence was cOmmuted to 20 years i
II prison, and who served six years i
Kingston penitentiary, hanged himse
in the police station at Buffalo on SUI
day night.
Mrs. Christiancy created temporar
j. excitement at Washington Tuesday b
!. stating to members of her family thi
she had taken poison, but when foe
of doctors arrived at the house she d
" MED her previous statement, saying
k was joke. The doctors didn't see
10 very clearly.
e Dan COnrOy, stone cutter of Fri
~ Pa, has become violently insane over til
y Fifteen puzzle, after working at it Sc
e eral successive days and nights. 1t r
% quired four policemen to take him
& Jail, where he has scratched a diagral
IL of the puzzle on the wall, and keel
L working at it i'm his calmer moments.
1T Jay Gould has ordered the cOnstru
n tiOn of new rgilrOad, to be known
W the Lexington & Southern railway. I'll
ID length of the road will be l50 miles,
Dt of which are to be completed this sun
" mer. The new road will be branch
re the Missouri Pacific. and will eXteJ