Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-30
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
WIDE, WIDE WORLD.

IlcKeCS from New 1Ork W CHiCdSo
were sold for 1915. it is said.
Next Monday 1886 new money-order
offices are to be put in operation.
During the year ending June 30, $780,
600 emigrants landed in this country.
The dreaded army-wOrm is doing much
damage to the crops in various parts OF
Illinois.
The Secretary Of War will lend 1900
tents for the celebration Of the Yorktown
Centennial.
The Washington grand jury was dis
charged and the star route cases go over
until October.
Miss Dorothy Dix, the great-hearted
nurse of the late war, is slowly dying at
Washington.
The Mayor of Philadelphia orders the
arrest of every man who carries a con-
cealed weapon.
BOnesetter, the celebrated trOtter,
valued at $4,000, dropped dead on the
Pittsburg track.
The manufacture of raisins from
grapes is becoming an extensive indus
try in California.
A yacht containing six young men
capsized near South Boston Wednesday
of last week, and all were drowned.
The acreage of potatoes in the country
is two per cent. greater than last year,
and the crop is reported in fine cOndi-
tiOn.
At Wimbledon, Hyde, the American
marksman, made the highest possible
score for any rifle, for the association cup,
at 600 yards.
The London Economist estimates that
the commercial people of England owes
their correspondents in the United States
over $S0,OO0,O0O.
Geo. w. Ingalls,, Indian agent, is in
dicted for presenting false vouchers, and
1t is said that he is defaulter to the
amount of $4,000.
The excavations at Epidaurus have
led to the laying open of the great theater
of Polyclitus. Fifty-five rows of marble
seats have been unearthed.
During the week ending Saturday 10Th.
there were 141, 800 standard silver dollars
put in circulation against 119,OC0 for the
corresponding period in 1880.
During the last fiscal year over twelve
millions Of dollars worth of gold and
silver were used in the arts and manu-
features in the United States.
Under penalty of removal from Office,
Postmaster General James has ordered
that POstmasters make returns for each
quarter Immediately on the close of the
same.
Copper and silver-bearing ore has been
discovered near Fort Laramie, w. T. Sur
face assays vary from $50 to $3.50. A
town is being built on the spot, and big
emigration has set in from Cheyenne.
A building in Jersey City that was
burned lately, fell last week bury
ing twenty children under it who
were gathering wood. Two were taken
out dead, and one with both arms
broken.
Assistant Secretary of State Blaine has
been at Gloucester, Mass, paying out the
money received from Great Britain on
with the American fishing fleet at New
foundland.
Robert Bell, 80 year old African, died
at Westminster, Nd, whose life was in
sured for 100000. A good many Mary.
landers appear to have owned interests
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 in this
Valuable OH person..
Secretary Blaine announces the re.
lease by the German authorities June IL
Of a young man named Brink, a Con.
necticut citizen recently impressed into
the German military service while tenn
porarily visiting his fatherland.
Commissioner Raum has directed Col
lectOr BraytOn, of Columbia, s. c., to EN-
~11a srphf al 20 hnIv
down illicit distilling in that district
This order is the result Of the recent
killing of Deputy Collector Brayton.
A tornado passed over New Jefferson
Harrison county, Ohio, Saturday 16tf
inst, demOlishing the Lutheran church
and a school house, besides unrOOfing
many houses and barns. Twenty horses
and a large number of sheep were killed
The Secretary Of the Treasury ha
awarded gold life-saving medal to tn,
famous Ida Lewis, now Mrs. Ida Lewi
Wilson, in recognition Of her services
in rescuing number of persons from
drowning, since the passage of the &C
authorizing such awards.
There is tract of land 1C0 miles lon,
and 30 miles broad, north of the pan
handle of Texas, which does not belong
to any State or Territory. On the Lane
Office maps this land is marked "publi
lands" And at the last session of Con
gress an appropriation Of $4,000 wa
made for its survey.
The postmaster-general has signifie'
his willingness and pleasure in permit
ting Woolworth & Graham, postal car'
contractors, to manufacture 10,000CC
postal cards for the Canadian govern
ment, similar in size and quality Il
those i'm use in this country. The Can