Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-29
CONDENSED NEWS.
There is project at Montreal for max
ing tunnel under Niagara falls.

par.
The Treasury records show that VIM.
Fl. Vanderbilt owns $5O,OOO,OOO in gov
ernment bonds.
Sunday, at New Orleans, snow fell to
the depth of one inch, the heaviest fall
for fifteen years.
Floods in Oregon and Washington
territory have destroyed property to the
value of S5OOOOO.
The New York Express is of the opln-
ion that Mr.. Garfield has learned how to
keep his mouth shut.
The Princes Louise is in really precar-
lOus health, and remains in England by
her mothers command.
The New Jersey grand jury recon-
mendS the re-establishment of the whip
ping post for wife beaters.
The wheat crop in Tennessee and the
southwest is reported ruined by late
planting and the early and hard winter.
The bankrupt act prepared by Judge
Lowell, of Boston, is to be favOrably re-
ported by the House judiciary commit
tee.
The boat race between Hanlan and
LaycOck, on the Thames river, has been
further postponed until the 14th of Feb
ruary.
New York society is informed that Vice
President Arthur is to marry Mrs. Mar
shal o. Roberts, whose husband died last
summer.
1t is stated that not one dollar of the
public money in Delaware has ever been
appropriated for the education of the col
Ored children.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has given two days
income from his per cent bonds, $10.-
600. to INDECENT students of the University
of North Carolina.
An intimate friend" of Gen. Garfield,
now in Washington, says that the Cabi-
net has not yet been made up, even in
|Garfield's own mind.
The sales of government land at the
Marquette Office are unprecedentedly
large. On Monday of last week they
amounted to $25,0O0.
In the year 1900 February will have
but % days, although leap year. This
phenomenon occurs once only in 20O
years, and always i'm the odd 100.
1t is the general belief i'm Washington
that an appOrtiOnment bill will be passed
during the present session of Congress
The number of Representatives will be
fixed at from 295, to 30S,
Secretary Evarts declares that the
President expected Senator MOrtOn's
support in his southern policy, and that
the death of Mr.. Morton was a serious
political event to Mr.. Hayes.
Judge Ramsdell, of Traverse City, is
mentioned in connection with the Re.
, publican nomination for regent, and
Judge Arnold, of Allegan, is urged fol
the supreme court to succeed MarstOn.
The Quincy copper mining company
has declared dividend of S. a share, OF
100000 in all, payable February 1. This
7 is the 25th dividend declared by this
. company, making a total of $2,59O.OOO.
Senator HOar introduced a bill to pay
! annually to all retired Presidents of the
United States, and to those who subse.
quently retired, sum equal to one.
fourth the salary they receive while in
office.
, Millie T. Whitlow, a white girl OF
Cumberland county, Virginia, was ex
, cluded from the district school because
she resided with a cOlOred family. She
has sued the district school board fol
, damages.
An error In the telegraphic transmits
t sion of the report of the proceedings OF
/ Congress on the 18th credited a lively
speech on the refunding bill made by
, MIR. HOrr of Michigan to MIR. HOuk OF
, Tennessee.
1t is expected that the resignation OF
Associate Justice Swayne will be form
: ally made very soon. If the opinion OF
the bar throughout the country is re-
, spected, his successor will be Thomas M
Cooley of this state.
C. H. Van Wyck was elected United
States Senator from Nebraska. Tht
Pennsylvania and Tennessee legislatures
are still at deadlock. Judge Key il
mentioned as possible compromise can.
,, didate in Tennessee.
, Stewart L. WOOdfOrd, United States
, District Attorney, has been waiting fol
two years for the Supreme court to de-
| eide that the income tax is constitutional
He will now proceed to push the suits
! against Samuel j. Tilden.
: Stanley Matthews chances appears
very good for the appointment to thu
8 Supreme bench. The president seems
bound to make himself and the whole
4 country believe that Ohio is the Onl,
4 state in the union worthy of considera
5 tiOn.
Seventeen packages of registered let
ters were stolen from mail pouch Will,
In transit from Rochester to Chicago
and the pOstOffice authorities are search
ing for the criminal. The amount o.
the loss is not known, but it is no
I thought to exceed 5000.
Queen Victoria has engraved on tn,
5 memorial at FrOgmOre: "TO the memOr,
K of my much beloved and lamented daugh
/, ter, Alice, Grand Duches of Hesse, wht
survived but few days the fever-strickeI
!, child beside whom she had watched. no
: counting her life dear to herself"
Edward A. Southern, the distinguishe,
= comedian, died in London on the nigh
' of the 21st., after lingering illness. HI
d was born in Liverpool, April l, 1880, an,
:. made his first appearance on the stag
in September, 1852. He was best know
i'm the character of Lord Dundreary.'
q from which he made more money thai
any actor who ever appeared on tn
9 stage.
!. A terrific snowfall occurred this weel
q in England. Business is at a stand
n still, as railroads are blOckaded. In Lon
c don the drifts are five feet high. Th
great fall of snow has caused the over
Q flow of the Thames, and the damage +
q property is estimated at $10,OO0,OOC
a Fearful wrecks are reported along tn
coast, but the sea is so high that no as
sistance can be sent,