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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-16

hearty meal and had piled up fuel enough
to last until they came again; and when
they finally withdrew, the song of their
blessing was sounding in their ears.
And so the refOrmers went on until
their nights work was done, and when
they came to separate they declared that
they had found such enjoyment as thew
had never known before.
During the succeeding week three new
members were added to the club-men
who were willing to cut off expenses for
rum and tobacco, and devote the pro-
ceeds to the relief of the poor and dis
tressed of the town.
And ere long Digby's reform club be-
came noted institution at that place.
The projectors could hardly credit the
evidence of their own senses in cOntem-
plating the result Of their three months
labor. Two and twenty members had
Joined, and the fund of relief amounted
to nearly $40 week, and each man was
pledged to pay in weekly the exact sum
his spirits and tobacco cost him. If he
continued the use of tobacco he took a
lower place in the company, and the use
of spirits as beveridge was sufficient
cause for expulsion. When people saw
the good that was being done they were
anxious to give their aid and be con-
nected with the merry crew; but the laws
of the club were fixed: no money could
come to its fund except such as had been
saved by the donor from some evil habit,
or of cutting off some useless luxury.
1t was bright Sabbath in the spring.
time, and it had been given out that Par
son Meekly was going to preach ser
mon upon Digby's reform club, and the
old Westinghouse was filed to over
flowing. The clergyman read his text
from st. Johns gospel, Gan there be any
good come out of Nazareth? Come and
see." And when he had told the story of
Digby's reform club, and pictured the
good results of its labOrs, he proclaimed
tOall, $50 ye, and do likewi Sc"
Once John Digby and his companions
had fancied it would be proud moment
when they had brought the old parsOn to
recognize the worth of their labor; but
the blessings of those upon whom their
bOunties had fallen had made such sweet
music in their ears, and the satisfaction
of duties truly done had dropped so
sOothingly upon their souls, they found
no room for that baser pride which they
had before that time anticipated.
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House. and Lot For Sale.

ONE HOUSE AND LOT on Main street, CEN
~ trally located near Amiot ship yard, suit
able for Office or store. One lot on lower part
of Main St., near Spencer House. Inquire of
CT. SOUTHAM,
iun4-1m* Cheboygan, Mich
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-02-24
CRIME.

ROBBERS took $1,000 in iewelry from the
safe of Garside & Berdan, at Paterson.
M
A JURY at Lancaster, Ohio. on the 18th
inst, awarded Catharine Bowman jjIldg-
ment for Sl3 against Moses Mcdonald for
breach of promise.
TIE interior of the Michigan Avenue
Baptist Church, in Chicago, was destroyed
by an incendiary fire, on the 18th inst.
The loss was about $4,000.
JOHN DEMPSEY, George Davis and
Robert Osburne, were arrested in kenOsha
Wis, on 18th Inst, on a warrant oh arging
them with burglarizing the Western
Union depot at Racine junction.
J. NJ. g. MIDRIsr has left Crown Point
Ind, on extradition papers, to be tried in
Switzerland for murder Two deputy
United States marshals escort him to
Havre.
ALLEGED corrupt acts on the part of the
contractor for the prison labor of Mime
sofa have caused the house to pass a reso-
luton for an investigation of the matter
by Joint committee.
A WEALTHY farmer Of Hamilton county,
Indiana, named Isaac Hayworth, has been
trapped at indianapolis, with boy COM
panion, in passing counterfeit silver coin
The arrest is considered one of great inn
portance.
A MAN claiming to be Catholic priest
was arrested for tramping at Dover, Wis.
on the 10th inst. He was taken to Jail
Father Mathew saw him in Jail in the
evening and pronounced him an imposter
T. HOWARD PETERSON, son of the Phil
adelphia publisher, mysteriously disap-
peared from Atlantic City, about ten days
ago. As the detectives can obtain no trace
of him, suspicious of murder are enter
tanned
BURGLARS entered the residence of
Ralph Gates, No. 436 Wabash avenue, Chi
cago, on the night of the 18th inst, packed
up plate and clothing valued at 5000, and
had reached the back fence when fred
upon by an officer.
RICHMOND PEACOCK, living near La
rian, Ga, was assassinated on the highway
and 300 taken from his vest pocket. At
the coroner's inquest lady picked up a
piece of gun.wad used by the murderer
and identified it as part of dress she had
given to a nephew of the decea sed. The
latter was jailed.
In the circuit court at Logansport, Ind,
in the trial of young man for theft, the
prosecuting attorney became too personal
in his questions. A friend of the accused
started free fight, in which a dozen or
more engaged, chairs being the chief
weapons. The leading offenders are in
Jail for contempt.
Ir may be remembered by many read
ers that George NJ Roush, a wealthy
stock-raiser, living near Bloomington,
ILL.,, died about three years ago, of what
was thought to be heart disease A state
ment is now made that Peter. the second
son of the deceased died recently in
northern Iowa, after making the confess
sion that he murdered his father by put
ting poison in a glass of water standing at
his bedside
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FOREIGN


PARNELL's disappearance is 81 id to have
utterly disorganized the Irish party in
Parliament.
THE new Spanish ministry intends to
push negotiations with the United States
for treaty of commerce.
INCREASING financial difficulties make
the Sultan more than ever DESTROYS for
peace,
ITALY will participate in the interna-
tional M anetary convention, and Premier
CARROLL expresses belief in the success of
its deliberations.
AN Irish Land Lacquer named Habon
has been sentenced to three months inn
prisonment for making a reasonable
speech.
In the contest on the 10Th inst, on the
Thames for the championship of England,
The Sportsman cup and 81 900, Hanlan
defeated Laycock by four lengths.
A TELEGRAM from Sweetwater, wy
oming, reports fifteen inches of snow on
the ground, and asserts that cattle are
dying by thousands.
THE home-rule element in the British
house of commons has given notice that,
whenever urgency is declared, the CO.
ercion bill shall be passed without debate.
UPON the ruins of the St. Louis Times
is to be built up Garfield organ, and
rumor connects Carl Schurz with its edi-
torial management.
A COMMITTEE of directors Of the perma-
nent exhibition at Philadelphia have
voted to sell the building which was the
main structure of the Centennial.
THE Russian police have discovered a
plot to blow up the arsenal at Kieff, and
have made several arrests in connection
with the conspiracy.
INVITATIONS to an international none
tary conference, to begin April 49, have
been issued at Paris by French and Amer
| lean representatives.
THE emperor of Germany. in his speech
at the opening of the reichstag, announced
| that the powars were united as TO the es-
sential objects of the negotiations with
| Turkey.
| THIRTEEN socialists Fave undergone
| trial at Vienna during the past week
One was convicted of high treason and
sentenced to four years Imprisonment.
another TO six months confinement, and
eleven were acquitted.
A REGIMENT of cavalry and two batter
| les will be sent from Bombay to Natal, and
a hussar regiment, battalion of infant
ry, and a company of artillery will be or
dered thither from England.
GENERAL GRANT and associates have
organized in New York the United States
National bank, secured building, and
will commence business on March list.
II. Victor Newcomb was elected president.
A BERLIN dispatch announces that, at
the request of Great Britain. Bismarck
has consented to take leading part in the
negotiations at Constantinople on the
Greek controversy. 1t is thought that the
| influence of France and England over
Turkey has lessened down to nearly moth
| ing.
THE British cabinet has under consid-
Grafton proposals from the Beers looking
toward peace. Dispatches from Durham
announce that Newcastle is completely in
vested. and that General Colley is abso-
lutely helpless. The war is being carried
into Natal, and a desperate battle is ex-
| pected.
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Chicago 1kartSet.

CHICAGO, Feb. -Flour.---Quiet but
steady. Wheat-Fairly active; and shade
higher; No. 2 Chicago Spring, IS bid for
seller cash; 9Sk for seller March; 99s4 for
seller April; l.02s for seller May; No. 8
Chicago Spring, S7G9O11. Corn--Steady and
in fair demand; 374937H for seller cash;
37A bid for seller March; 421 942A for
seller May. oats-29h 030k for seller cash.
29}4 bid for seller March, 294a297s for
seller April; 337s for seller May. Rye
Steady and unchanged. Barey-Firm; l.O2a
I.O3 Flax seed-Easy at l.23. Pork-strong
and higher; 1850 for seller cash; and
seller March; 1915 bid for seller April
1890 bid for seller May. Lard-Strong and
higher; 1925 bid for seller cash and March;
1895 bid for seller April; 1915 bid for sell
Ter May. On call-Wheat-E Easier, and de-
clined &c. Corn-Esser, but not quotaby
lower. oats.-Easier; 33A for seller May.
Pork Easier; 10. So bid for seller March; ad.
vanced 2hc. Receipts-Flour, 22,O9O wheat
LOGO; corn, $4,000; oats, so 600
rye, 2,700; barley, 1900. Shipments Flour
10000; wheat 1000; corn, rs 600; oats, 1000
rye, $500; barley, $500 The "Droyer's
Journal reports Hogs-Reeeipts, 10000
shipments, 5000; all translate fairly, active
| firm; late arrivals unsold light, 5.7O96.00
chiefly, 595; mixed packing, 100000; good
to best heavy, 6I0@G.60; chiefly, 6.25a6.4O
Cattle-Receipts, $780, shipments, 400; every
thing snow bound; trade light and butchers firm
common to fair shipping 4.259470; good tC
choice, 1909 $780, exports 5.4OG5SO; butch
ers easier; bulls and feeders scarce. 2.15a4.25
Sheep-Receipts 200 in fair demand; common
to medium, 4,25a4.5O; good to choice, Asa
5.25; prime, nominal; 55Oa5.75.
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1.-THE large domain of her deceased
aunt--the bulk of Aunt Hester's vs.
teriously-hidden fortunel
How the girls heart throbbed with
| JOY and gratitudel A thousand visions
sprang up before her, framing them
selves into air castles, faltering, then
vanishing and drifting silently affair, as
they came,
'eWhat boundless wealth." she whis-
pered to herself, hardly daring to trust
her senses for fear the reality would
vanish into dream. us it dream?"
But no! it could no be-there it was
tie clustered harvest before her, uu-
changeable still, and real.
Out, out into the street FASTENED the
Happy girl, into the din and hustle, past
| the great warehouses that looked up
gant-like in the distance, picking her
way through the tra9lD Shout her, down
| one avenue, then anothe- until foot
| sore and weary she reached the out
| SKIRT of the city. AT the terminus of
a'road, before a poor-looking cottage
| t4ai bespoke the poverty of its inhabi-
/ tant, Faith paused. Here dwelt her
1 ssstsr-the once beautiful and proud
| Na3d-~friendless and forsaken by
| egesy one except the trusty little sister.
| FAte had strewn her path with thorns
o. misfortune. Faith had entered and
/ found her liz .icssly gazing out of the
snail window that fronted the barren
k fields beyond. Maud Maud! You
spaa be happy agaiD-you are rich
ners take IT, H. il yours" And
ri another moment Faith had
threwn herself and her precious
| burden about her sister, neck, and was
weeping tears Of JOY Then she told
her how the dear old Bible had proven
faithful, how its pages had brought her
heavenly riches and worldly wealth
And Maud listened, in silence, of the
wondrous book that had hidden in it
the harvest of gain" and Aunt Hes
ter's "hidden treasure so dear to the
hearts of mortals."
| In the beautiful home of advanced
| thought lives Faith and her husband
/ Nlth them, contented and happy,
d%ells Maud, their sister for she never
could be brought to accept aught of
/ thAt harvest which her sister alone had
reaped and won.
Their home is one of splendor and
! elegance; yet, conspicuous above all
lis luxury, uron simple stand lies a
simple old book, its leathern back gold
en- lettered with three simple words;
Faith Twins Legacy"
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE extreme cold weather has been de
structive to fish and oysters, and the prices
have materially advanced.
THE hat factory of 7. F. Brennan & Co.
at Orange, n. j., has been burned the loss
being 1874, 600.
THE Congregational church at Akron
O., was damaged to the amount of 5000
by fire.
]. II. BURGERS iron works, in Circjn-
natl, valued at $4,000, were destroyed by
fire on the 10th inst
THE proprIetors of the wooden mills at
Triffin, o.. have made an assignment, then
liabilities being $4,000.
GESERAL HERMAN Uni. an influential
German citizen of New York. accidentally
shot himself in the breast while cleaning
some small arms, and expired in hale an
hour. For nearly twenty years he was
business manager of the Stddts-Zettang.
THE paint-shops Of the Wisconsin Cen
trail road at Stevens Point. containing two
coaches and baggage-car, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th inst.
A dispatch stated that an unknown
clergyman from Boston had died of small
pox in the Brooklyn hospital, and been
bured;in the potter s-feld. 1t now APP
pears that the unfortunate gentleman was
the Rev. George H. Paul, Presbyterian,
residing in New Jersey.
PIERcR's Palace hotel at Buffalo, a
stately fve-story structure, which cost
about $4,000, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 18th inst.
The families of Messrs. Bovce aud Eel
ter. Of Roundout, \. Y, were found on the
18th inst, in dying condition from
trichiniasis.
TIE button-shop of the Seville Mann
featuring company, at Waterbury. Conn.
was burned on the 10Th inst. The esti-
mated loss is $200, 900 and two hundred
men are thrown out of employment.
ARANrIs. noted stallion, owned by Al
Hankins, OF Chicago, died on farm near
Decatur, Ill.,, on the 10Th inst. He had a
low trottiug record, and was valued al
$500
4 TORNADO sweeping through the pines
of South Carolina, on the 10th instant,
crushed rude hut occupied bv turpen-
tine-makers, killing ten of them and seri-
ously wounding three others.
A WABASH train struck a broken rail
near East Hannibal, Mo. The caboose
was thrown over an embankment OF twen-
tv-tive feet, and took fire. V. Smell, of
Crescent city, Iowa. was killed. and Con-
ductor Pollock was bruised and cut badly.
+. A, Nolan started from Bradford,
Pa, on the 10th inst, for Aiken, with two
hundred pounds of nitro-glyeerine in a
cutter. His horse evidently ran away, as
after an explosion only pieces of flesh re-
manned of the outfit.
A NovEL case of blood poisoning Is re-
ported from Richmond. Ind where Rich
ard jackson died from crushing a potato
bug in his fingers and atterward touching
the inside of his ear, for which he suffered
for twelve months. losing one hundred
pounds of flesh.
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A Day on Guane Island.
Californian for February.


My idea of a guano island had always
been that it was very rocky and cover
ed with white substance resembling
mortar before the sand is mixed with it.
/ imagined, too, that it exhaled an
odor differing somewhat from the
orange-groves of Tahiti. Had / not
been told that | was on guano island
| would not have known it from the
surroundings. Instead of being rocky
the soil was mellow and dark, and
everywhere vegetation was most lux
uriant. The air was remarkably clear
and pure. During walk about the
island | then learned there was two
kinds of guano; or, rather, that of GER
tain qualities which all guano possesses
some of these qualities predominant in
that found in given locality, while
guano taken from islands differently
located possesses i'll a much stronger
degree some other essentials. Thus
the guano of the islands off the coast of
South America exposed to the rays OF
a tropical sun, where the surface of the
land is never cooled, and where rain
never falls, possesses the strongest
ammoniacal properties. Not only
the excretion of birds are deposited
there but the birds themselves
come there to die; and eggs have
frequently been taken out little below
the crusts which form over these de-
posts that are almost pure ammonia
The guano of these islands has strong,
pungent odor, and is white and light
brown in color. But the guano of the
islands of the Southern Pacific is made
up of decomposed coral forming most
" phosphates of lime and magnesia
1t is entirely inodorous and of dark
brown color, resembling wel-pulver-
lied loan. 1t is believed that the birds,
which in large numbers inhabit these
islands, living, as they do, almost en-
tirely on fish, deposited. phosporic acid
on the coral, and also leave the bones
of the fish, which they cannot eat.
These decompose the coral, and thus
form the phosphates which give to the
guano its value The guano Is sepa
ratet from the coral in the following
manner: There is quite force of ma
tives employed, who gather the earth
in large heaps, and then screen it in
the same manner as fine coal is sepa-
rated from course. The screens are
about eight feet by three, and the iron
gauze covering them is fine, allowing
only the guano or fine portions of the
earth to pass through, and leaving the
coral in the screens. The guano is then
sacked and shipped to Hamburg,
whence it is reshipped to different parts
of Europe.
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THE AMATEUR FARMER

dreamt of beautiful time
When the world shall happy be
When the elephants and hyenas
Shall blossom on every tree
When tamarinds and potatoes
Shall cease thir dreadful roar
When turnip trees shall blossom
In the garden for ever more.
dreamt of great republic
When the people shall all 90 West,
Sow plums and reap tomatoes
In the lana they love the best
Whe" pig iron and molasses
Shall bloom ON every hill,
And chickens low in the barnyard,
While gooseberries toll at the mill.
I'm weary Of seeing the cabbage
Handle the rake and the hoe;
I'm weary Of watching and waiting
For the grasshopper bush to grew;
long for the time when spinach
Shall cope with bread and milk
When hens shall lay potatoes,
And horses spin rnH silk.
Oh sweet we're the vanished hours
When / wandered down the glt1
And wrsatbsd ny brow eith tsfBatoeF,
Or plneked The riPensd hen
When The donkey tulned up ths tssiiis
And the cucumber ekirpsd IN tiss grsss
And the sweet pststa wlGstlsa
To its mate - the rH08hsa3a pass.
Bet gone arc the days II saiAhao.l
And maBisoas dreams sfs ai3H4'
Yet long for tbe ~ gtAs se'srs
As sit meath tbs Iafslsa vias-
Oh wreathc your blossoms sboss 40
And soothe my aching breast
While the gooseberry piaintiVsiy ssfhies
And lulls me into reet.
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GENERAL NOTES.
SMALLPOX is prevailing to an alarming
ox+apt in Cbicauo

SMALLPOX is prevailing to an alarming
extent in Chicago.
GENERAL HANCOCK has concluded to at
tend the Inauguration of General Garfield.
Col. ILGEs, with two companies OF
mounted infantry and batch of captives,
has reached Fort Buford.
The four eastern trunk lines have
agreed to restore emigrant rates on the
tariff of Jan. /. This will make the fare $I3
from New York to Chicago.
CANADIAN hay, on which the duty is $50
per carload, is being imported into the
eastern cities in considerable quantities.
Two Cinnamon of Chicago applied to
Judge Moran for naturalization papers
and the matter was taken under advise.
ment.
b. o. ADAMS, the defaulting postmaster
OF Deadwood, who was sentenced to FIVE
wears in the Detroit house of correction,
has been pardoned out by the president.
MATERIAL is going forward for the ex-
tension of the Sioux City and Pacific road
to Fort Niobrara, which will give it the
nearest terminus to the Black Hills.
OK account of the light subscriptions
toward the worlds fair in New York, il is
rumored that General Grant viii resign
the presidency of the enterprise.
Miss ADDIE BALL, of Cuba. ILL.,, when
attacked by smallpox. was deserted by
her parents, and had only the attention of
a loving brother for two days, when death
came to her relief.
GENERAL GARFIELD viii start for Wash
ington on the last day of this month He
has consented TO the plans of his neigh
bors for a public reception at Mentor,
and will make parting speech on that
occasion.
SOME startling developments are prom
ised in the Whitaker court-martial
Southworth, the expert, claims to have
made some important discoveries rela-
tive to that note of warning signed "A
Friend"
SMALLPOX has become epidemic at
Cuba, Ill.,, five new cases being announced
and citizens are leaving the region. On
account of case in the convent at Streat-
or, ILL.,, the city authorities forbade
services at the adjacent church.
President GoSzAREs, of Mexico, has
granted to Samuel Bowman; formerly of
California, fifteen hundred leagues of
land in Sonora, on which TO colonize one
thousand American families. General
Manned Costas, who is favorable to the
scheme. viii command the department in
which the grant lies.
THE Hon. Fernando Wood, the great
4 ancier and author of the present fund
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Freaks of q SOmnamnbIist.

Somnambullsts perform some strange
freaks in their sleep. A young man OF
our acquaintance, says the Napa zeal.
Reporter, while ago got up from his
bed, dressed himself, went to the stable
it was pitch dark, harnessed working
team of horses and put them to a
wagon. The boys father had been
awakened by the noise of the barn door
opening, and gotup in time to observe
the greater portion of his proceedings.
The sleeping boy, after hitching up, got
upon the wagon, drove through very
narrow gate to pile of manure and
loaded up. He then took his course
for the field to sprinkle the load, when
his father put stop to his further
somnambulistic proceeding by shaking
him into wide-awake state. The boy
was employed at least half an hour in
the above way, and when awakened
was completely oblivious of every
thing that had TRANSFERRED.
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Where Our Forests are Goins

10 make shoe-pegs enough for Amer
lean use consumes annually 100000
cords of timber, and to make our luci-
fer matches, 100000 cubic feet of the
best pine are required every year
Lasts and boot-trees take 500, 900 cords
Of birch, beech and maple, and the
handles of tools 100000 more. The
baking of our bricks consumes 2000,-
600 cords of wood, or what would cover
with forest about $4,000 acres of land
Telegraph poles already up represent
about 100000 trees, and their annual
repair consumes about 10000 more
The ties of our railroads consume an
nually thirty years growth of $4,000
acres, and to fence all our railroads
would cost $45,000,000, with yearly
expenditure of $15,000000 for repairs
These are some of the ways in which
American forests are going. There are
others: ourDacking boxes, for instance,
cost, in 1874, S12,000,000, while the
timber used each year in making wag-
ons and making agricultural nipple
ments is valued at more than 81 00O0,-
-FishkiU Standard.
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4 Senator. Elect Not Elected.

The Memphis Avalanche says the demo
Gratis Ia the Tennessee legislature had
elected Rose by two majority. The
joint session was in white heat Of ex-
citemsnt Then up rose Roderick
Dhu (Roderick r. Butler) and sounded
his bugle for Jackson. 1t was the in.
SEPARATION of genius. The democrats
followed the republican leader, and in
a mOment it was Jackson, not Rose.
The Araldncle further remarks that the
astonishing celebrity with which Ten
nessee legislators change votes from
one candidate to another, and the sue
cess Of the grand transformation scene,
where nov you see the senator, and
now you don't" will furnish some in
structive lessons for the guidance Of
future legislatures when electing United
States senators.