Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-13

single ranchman in Texas sends
10000 cattle to market this year.
Two torpedo boats are being built in
this country for the British Government.
From January to June $4,000 emf
grants left Hamburg alone for the
United States.
The North Carolina election resulted
overwhelming against prohibition. Too
many of the natives interested in Illicit
stills.
A man in Accomac County, Va, is the
father of nineteen children-"eightp pairs
and three aces as the local paper ex-
presses it,"
The only place where pennies are coin
ed is at the Philadelphia Mint. The de-
mand for these coins is far greater than
the supply.
General Hancock has accepted an in
vitation extended through Secretary of
War Lincoln to command the troops at
the Yorktown centennial.
Collector Merritt, of the port of New
York, reported that the entire receipts
for that city for the past fiscal year
amounted to $139,579,562.
Caleless mining and robbing support.
ing pillows has so weakened twenty to
thirty houses in PlymOuthbOrOugh, Pa,
that they are liable to cave in at any
time,
Eleven menof-war are being built by
the Spanish government, and six more
are ordered in fo,eign dOckyards to form
fast and well-araed squadron for the
colonies.
1t is said that durine the last 1S months
$1OOO0OO0O of northern and European
capital have been subscribed for invest
ment in the southern stats. This ought
to create something of bonn.
An Iowa husband on going Aome found
his wife carousing with fOurWen. He
adroitly got the five offenders into five
separate rooms, locked the door, and
then thrashed them soundly, one By one.
1t is reported that meeting ot1OO
Irishmen, hailing from different parts
of the country, was in secret session
at Chicago all last week organizing the
Internal machine business on large
scale. ~
A dying thief was compassionately re-
leased from the Rhode Island state pris-
on, and sent to pass his remaining days
at home in Providence; but before his
dea III he crawled out and robbed seven
houses.
A remarkable structure is just about
completed in New York, to be called "the
Home for Homeless Boys" 1t cost$3OO,.
600, and was erected by means of a sub
sciption, no one person giving more than
twenty-five cents, and therefore repre-
sents the contributions of 100000 PEG.
pie.
The New Orleans Times says, after sun
set New Orleans is doubtless the most
gratefully cool city in the Union. for hel
fan is the Mexican Gulf. The breeze in.
vades her, dallies with ones hair, dives
into ones neck, and up ones sleeve, until
one sits back in languid surrender, and
wishes the night were fifty hours long,
The Cincinnati commercials cent sub.
scriptiOn, started topay the fine and costs
assessed upon G. A. Cook, Of Brownsville
Ohio, for Shaping Morrison in the mouth
for saying he wished that President Gar.
field would die, has far outgrOwn its
original purpose. The number of names
and cents now in is about 1900, and
still coming. The fine and costs amount
ed to $32.
Two children, born few weeks ago
in the Canton Vaud, Switzerland, were
Joined together in the same manner as
the famous Siamese twins. 1t was be.
lieved that, as infants, the ligament
which Joined them might, with success
be severed, and the operation was &C.
cordingly performed. No apparent per,
manent injury was caused by it, and sew.
eral days afterward the twins were re.
ported to be doing we'll.
The agentslof the Postoflice department
who were ordered to investigate the use
Of United States mail bags in Canada
visited the cities of st. John, Halifax
Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Windsor and
Ottawa and conferred with the Dominion
postOflice officials. They found that a
large majority Of the mail pouches in
the mail belonged to the United States
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