Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-09
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Cincinnati last week paid $1,000, 492
for land for public parks.
The patent Office receipts from January
to June 80 were $440,494.
Over a billion postal cards have been
issued in the past four years.
The internal revenue receipts for the
past fiscal year were $135, 1865.
The amount paid for pensions during
the fiscal year ending June 80, was $685.
2S2,397.
The deposit in the national banks have
increased over $133,O00OO0 during the
past year.
Large number of Canadian emigrants
are going west over the Michigan Gen.
trail to Manitoba.
United States Fish Commissioner Ellis
turned loose at Dubuque the other day
100000 young shad.
Work on the Yorktown centennial
monument, which is to cost 100000,
will be begun at once.
Gov. Cornell of New York has vetoed
the bill providing free textbooks for the
Brooklyn school children.
Want of funds has forced the dismissal
Of 10 men in the construction depart
ment of the Brooklyn hayward.
Many prominent Virginia Republicans
have expressed themselves by letter as
favOring coalition with Malone.
The national debt of the United States
for June was $2,O69,013,569, decrease Of
about $12,5O0,0oO during the month.
There arrived at New York during the
past six months 241,SO3 emigrants,
against 176,9S5 the same time last year.
A Japanese student writes home that
Harvard and Yale are boating assOcia-
tons, given to reading books when it
rains.
The coinage at the United States minis
during June was $4,O29,5OO gold, Sab
$40 of silver and $3S,972 base coin. Total
| $8,841,S42.
John Roach and others have filed arti-
cles in New York incorporating the New
York & Cuba mail steamship company;
capital 100000.
The 10th call for bonds was made on
the LIST inst, and includes all registered
fives issued under the acts of July ii,
1870, and January 20, 1871.
A powder house blew up at Tucson,
Arizona, June 81, breaking nearly every
window in the town. The county hos
pital was nearly demolished.
During the last fiscal year fifty-four
national banks were established, while
nineteen went into liquidation, leaving
the number now doing business 2.122.
The reduction of the public debt dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, was
| $101,573,463. Less than IS years at the
same rate will extinguish the entire
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A convict at Huntsville, Texas, has
written to the governor, requesting that
the latter knock off 10 years of his sem
tence, which is Imprisonment for life,
on account of good behavior.
A family group of seven persons, re-
presenting five generations, was photo
graphed in Clinton, Wis.,, few days ago.
The oldest will be 100 years of age Aug.
9 If she lives, and her great-great grand
child is a'little girl of 2 years.
The President has appointed ex-Sena-
tor Hamlin, of Maine, Minister to Spain,
vice Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin,
who desires to be recalled. This appoint.
ment was unsought by Mr.. Hamlin, and
is deserved compliment to him.
The late Thomas A. Scott married
when he received salary Of only Sc
per month. He died worth, at low est.
mate, $10,00O,OO0. A good many young
men who are waiting to be rich before
marrying, might learn lesson from
Scott.
Gov. st. John of Kansas PERSISTS that
prohibition Is a grand success in thai
state, with the exception of two or three
Of the largest towns where the liquor
interests are spending thousands Of dol
lars every week to retard the work Of
temperance.
We are showing the largest stock Of
fine black silks Sver brought to this
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