Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-13
COCDENSED NEWS

In the valleys of Idaho and eastern
Oregon recent snow storm has killed
20,CC0 cattle.
The Republicans made clean sweep
in last Mondays municipal election at
Augusta, Me.
The legislature of Mississippi has i'm
posed a tax of So upon bachelors over 25
years of age.
The Virginia senate has refused to pass
the Riddleberger debt bill over the veto
of the governor.
New York has $45.C00Cco of gold i'm ber
assay office, awaiting call from the
Philadelphia mint.
Pennsylvania next state fair will be
held in the international exhibition
building at Philadelphia.
Five women were elected school trus-
tees at the charter election at Middle
town, n. Y, last Tuesday.
The season of pork packing in Cincin-
natl has just closed. There were 534, 600
hogs used against $4,000 last year.
One of the European steamers which
arrived last week brought number of
English road locomotives for use i'm Ne
vada.
Representative Forts bill for the ex-
change of trade dollars with legal ten
der silver dollars will be reported favor
ably.
Mississippi planters are canvassing
the question of supplying the places
vacated by the negro exodusters by
Chinese labor.
The Chandler mansion i'm Washington
will be sold, in order to settle the estate
i'm accordance with the laws of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
COrcOran, the Washington banker. has
decreed that 10 woman who ever worked
for living shall become an inmate of
his home for old women.
The Bible on which Washington first
by the st. Johns (MasOnic) lodge, n. Y,
to which he once belonged.
OGen. Grant and party have secured
passage for New Orleans from Vera Cruz
on the British steamship Haytien, due
at New Orleans next Monday.
A case has occurred in Philadelphia
where decree of divorce was annulled
after the death of the husband. The pro-
ceeding enabled the wife to share in the
estate.
The awards i'm regular mail lettings
urday. The service is from 10 to 30 per
cent. greater and the cost from 5 to 10
per cent. less than last year.
In Ireland, 26 landlords own 1,495, $3.50
acres of land from which they get an an
nual rent of $4,190,C00. 1t is possible
that Our contributions are needed to
save some of this gang of 26 from star
yatiOn.
Fears of cOmmunistic outbreak in
San Francisco have been revived. The
armOries of the various city regiments
are being carefully guarded, and adj
ditiOnal troops have arrived from camp
Halleck, Nevada, and from Wellington.
Up to the 9Th inst. no mail had been
received at Bismark, ID. L., since Febru-
ary 9, owing to snow blockade on the
Northern Pacific railroad, which has lost
over 100000 by the stOppage of traffic.
The people of that region are out about
the same amount.
DanbOurg, the French engineer, claims
| that he has devised means for transport
ing vessels over isthmuSes, however
steep, and an experiment will shortly
be made at Argenteuil by lifting ship
of 1900 tons from the river Seine and
and taking it on rails to another.
On the 22d of June the 300 miles of
track of the Atlantic & Great Western
railway will in a few hours be reduced
from six foot to standard gauge. II
will require from 1900 to 1900 hands
and the longest day in the year has been
selected for the work. This will be the
last of the broad gauge in the country