Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-06
NORTHERN TRIBUNE,
SATURDAY. AUGUST 8, 1881.
WIDE, WIDE WORLD.

at Berlin.
Gen. Longstreet says that "as failure
JEFF Davis is the most marked success OF
the nineteenth century"
Joseph Young. the Mormon apostles
brother, died at Salt Lake last week aged
"a. He was one of the anOinted.
Over $50 new butter and cheese factor
les will be erected this year in Iowa,
making over 400 in all in the state.
An experiment of talking over 800
miles of telephone wire, from Patterson,
N. j., to Buffalo, N. Y, was successful.
A clerk in hardware store in Wash
ingtOn has been fined IS for selling toy
pistol to boy under 16 years of age.
The United States owns 5,52S,97 acres
of coal land which the land office adj
vertises for sale at from $40 to $50 an
acre.
The appropriation for the patent Office
this year is 100000, about 100000 more
than the average annual receipts from
patents.
The organization of the postal tele-
graph company was completed at New
York last week, with James R. Keene as
president.
Freedman's bank depOsitOrs who have
received no dividends are notified that
their claims must be presented before
August 81.
A coal mine in Schuylkill, Pa, is ON
fire and will probably have to be flooded.
This will throw 500 or 600 men out of
employment.
Wheat is now carried from Chicago to
Liverpool via Montreal for Is, and via
New York for 10 cents. These are the
lowest rates ever known.
The pay of about $50 clerks in the post
Office department is to be reduced be-
cause the present figures are higher than
are authorized by law.
The Treasury department has ordered
that no more gold halves or quarter dol
lars be manufactured or sold nnder pen
atty of fine and imprisonment.
The completion of the census totals for
the Dominion of Canada shows popula-
tion of 4,35O943 against 1870, 435 in 1871,
an increase of O,49S, about 10 per cent.
The IA feet ship City of Bath, hence
from Europe with two men and cat,
has arrived at a Newfoundland port after
the loss of one of the crew. 1t was the
cat.
T. O'Meager Condor, the Irish patriot
now in Washington, claims that the in
fernal dynamite machines were shipped
by British agents from New York for
political effect.
The carpet product from Philadelphia
for the year 1880 reached the high figure
of 34,037,O00 yards; 219 establishments
were engaged in the manufacture, en-
plOying 6,OS0lOOms
The bees upon the Pacific coast, which
are now in such countless swarms, are
said to have all originated from two
swarms taken there in 1853 by Mrs.
Shelton, of Santa Clara County.
The iron manufactures of Cincinnati
are stopped, by the foolishness of strik-
ing, and the strikers go about the streets
with their hands in their pockets, mourn
ing the unhappy issue of their under
taking.
The average daily production of crude
oil In Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West
Virginia is $4,000 barrels. The daily
consumption in the entire world, SO far
as can be ascertained is about 45, 900 bar
rels per day.
The gauge of the Chicago, st, Louis
and New Orleans railroad was Friday of
last week changed from five feet to the
standard width. The change was made
for the entire length-550 miles-in
eleven hours.
The suit of James M. Wilkinson of
Marquette, Mich, assignee in bankruptcy
of the estate of VIM. L. WetmOre, against
Samuel j. Tilden, was called Friday
afternoon of last week before Judge
Blatchford in the United States circuit
court, New York.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, says that ex-Minister
Christiancy has paid to Mrs. Christiancy
and counsel so far, for alimony and coun-
sci fees over $4,000. 1t is thought to be
not unlikely that the divorce suit will
not come to trial before next year.