Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-01-31
CONDENSED NEWS.


ture shows: Blaine 81, Grant IA. j
SenatOr-elect Garfield was once the
bell-ringer of Hiram college, and later
its president.
Two Americans have been arrested at
Naples for the theft of $1,000 francs from
the Russian navy at Brussels.
The fir tree flOurishes i'm California.
1t starts easily from cuttings and COM
mences to bear the second year.
Mrs. Kate Chase-Sprague is assisting
E. S. Hamlin in the preparation of a BIZ
Ography of the late Chief Justice Chase,
her father.
The New York Republican State Con-
ventiOn, for the nomination of delegates
to the National Convention, meets in
New York City to-day.
The New York Times says a 81 per
cent. bond could be marketed, if Congress
would remit the 1 per cent. tax on the
national bank circulation.
Garfield, lately elected q. S. Senator
from Ohio, strongly urges the nOmina-
tlOn of John Sherman for Presipent by
the Ohio delegation at the national con-
ventiOn. 9
The ice in the Mississippi river above
Dubuque, Iowa, is breaking up, and the
river is now clear opposite that city and
south of it. This is the earliest opening
of navigation in years.
The Cincinnati Times states that it
has positive information from an au-
thOritive source that the national Demo-
cratic convention will be held at the
music hall in that city.
1t is estimated that the population
along the line of the Northern Pacific
Road, some 500 miles, increased by 25,-
1872 during 1879. The number of farms
increased from 1886 to 1882.
Samuel j. Tilden having failed to an
swer the bill of discovery filed by the
government in the income tax suit, a
motion for an attachment for contempt
was to have been argued yesterday.
The Catholic priest of the diocese of
Cincinnati have resolved to oppose the
application of Archbishop Purcell's as
signee for permission to sell church
property to pay church debts incurred
by the Archbishop.
The report of the New Orleans super
the past year not single death was Oc-
casiOned by steam explosion, a fact un-
precedented in the history of Mississippi
steamboat navigation.
Intelligence is published that the ex-
plOring expedition under the lead of
Henry M. Stanley has established the
first trading station on the Congo, near
Yallala, which place is claimed by both
England and Portugal.
The monster Italian double turreted
irOnclad, DuilO, the most powerful war
vessel in the world, in trial Saturday,
made IA miles per hour, working six
sevenths full capacity. She has pow
erful ram, and at the stern a torpedo
boat.
Superintendent of the census Walker
has rendered Robert P. Porter of the In
ter-Ocean the management of all mat
tiers pertaining to the collection of sta
tistics and information in regard to the
wealth, debt and taxation of the United
States.
The small letter upon our silver money
refers to the place where struck. C de-
notes Charlotte; d DalhOnega; o New
Orleans; S San Francisco, etc. Those
having no letter were minted at Phila-
delphia, which is the mother manufac-
tory of all.
Eleven counties in Pennsylvania have
sent delegates to the state convention
instructed for Blaine. In two counties
attempts to secure instructions for Grant
have failed, and so far no delegate has
been sent to the convention instructed
for Grant. hre 1
De Lesseps does not consider the Da-
rien canal scheme so formidable an un-
dertaking as the SueZ, and believes he can
complete it in six years. He has already
deposited $4,000 with the Colombian
government as forfeit in case the canal
is not built.
The twO-cent postal cards of the uni
versal postal union areOut. They are the
size of the One-cent cards, printed in blue
ink, with very neat design, and can be
sent anywhere within the limits of the
postal union, which now includes nearly
every civilized country of the globe.
Reckoning nickel at 50 per pound, the
5 cent piece is worth a cents. Itweighs
" grains and a fraction. The proper
tiOns in the composition of it are 75 per
cent. of copper and 25 per cent. of nickel.
Copper is reckOned at 43 cents per
pound. If, then, nickel cent piece is
lost, the government clears 81 cents on
the issue.
A letter recently mailed at Chester,
Orange County, n. Y, was addressed to a
certain person at "10O21 10O22 HOlum."
In the mail car it fell to Capt. j.. Cox
to distribute, and at last it occurred to
him that its destination might be No.
121 One Hundred and Twenty-secOnd
street, Harlem. The letter was forward
ed, and there found its owner.
A market has at last been found for
a part of the governments enormous
stock of silver dollars. 1t is in the south.
The New Orleans factors find it easier to
have silver dollars shipped to place in
the interior at the expense of the gov
ernment than to bly exchange on the
point; and the negroes, to whom the coin
is paid, like the big white pieces.
The New York police made raid on
the famous "Mabille" just as it got into
good working order, the other night,
capturing 800 men and 100 women Tin
round numbers) and the friends of good
government will regret to hear that the
record of the police the next morning
bore the names of Rutherford B. Hayes,
Charles O'Conor, Roscoe Conkling, Sam,
uel j. Tilden, etc.
Mr.. j. S. Critchfeld, of BrOadwell, ar
rived at Springfield, ILL.,, last week
bringing with him small vial, in which
he had imprisoned dozen or more spec
linens of young grasshoppers taken from
the meadows and low lands about Broad
well, where he says myriads of these ter
rors of the farmer are to be found under
the long, thick grass peculiar to thai
section. Mr.. Critchfield says the winter
weather apparently has no effect on thu
hoppers, and expressed the belief thai