Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-02-26
CONDENSED NEWS.

Condemned NEWS
Australia has awarded the highest
prize to American watches.
Sixteen ocean steamers and 203 sail
ing vessels were lost during December.
A driving snow storm, about the heay-
lest of the season. prevailed in New York
Monday.
There are now 80 regular lines of
European steamers sailing to and from
New York.
Seven thousand men are at work on
one section of the railroad from the City
of Mexico to Toluca.
The French government has put an
embargo upon the importation of Amer
lean salted pork, bacon and ham.
1t is said that the opposition to the
telegraph consolidation is really move
ment against the new cable company.
Numbers of bargeS are being loaded
with wheat and corn at st. Louis for
foreign shipment, by way of New Or
leans.
Fire at Silver Cliff, Col, destroyed a
number of buildings i'm the business part
of the town Sunday. Loss $4,000, par
lldlly lHSuTeu.
A certificate of the increase of shares
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany to $80,OOO,0O0 was filed with the
Secretary of State of New York Monday.
L. p. Ernest, heavy live stock dealer
in Colorado, says nearly twenty per cent.
of the cattle of that state periShed dur
ing the severe weather the present win
ter.
The public debt of the United States is
$6S per head; of Spain. $154; of France,
$136; of England. Silt; of Holland, STA;
of Canada, $28; of Mexico, 80; of Switzer-
land, So.
Two young men of Marietta, Ga,
fought duel when they discovered that
both were engaged to the same girl. 1t
would seem more appropriate for them
both to fight the girl.
An explosion was caused in StOddard's
agricultural works. Dayton, Ohio, Satur-
day by the upsetting of 1900 pounds of
molten iron into tank of water. One
workman was fatally injured, and the
recovery of several others is doubtful.
The connecting rod of an engine on
the Wabash road, near Lafayette, Ind,
broke and knocked the cab to pieces.
The engineer Wash. Carpenter stood at
his post, shut off steam, put on the air
brakes, and was killed for his devotion.
A Galveston widow was about to marry
her fifth husband. Her pastor rebuked
her for contemplating matrimOny so
soon again, "Well, Just want you to
understand, If the Lord keeps on taking
them, will, too," was the spirited re-
ply.
The Charleston News says the people
of South Carolina are weary of canvasSes
and elections, in which a minority are
expected to overcome majority, with
out hurting anybody and without con-
signing any Jealous worker to the peni-
tentiary.
The new Senate will have IL Johns, Z
James, 3 ThOmaSeS and Matthews,
making "a in all who bear the names of
the apostles. Two JOsephs. Benjamins
and ZebulOn are representatives of the
sons of Jacob; and Eli, 3 Samuels, l
David and one Daniel make up list of
36 scriptural names.
Senior ZamacOna, who passed through
Cincinnati en- route to Washington, says
that Mexico is becoming much more
nearly allied 70 the United States than
formerly; that the number of people
from this country there is increasing
very fast, and Mefe Is fully $6O,OOO,OO0
of American dapttal now invested i'm that
country.
A curious fact, and one bearing on the
value of submarine cables, was mention
ed by Mr.. Pender January q, in presid-
ing at the half yearly meeting of the
Eastern telegraph company. 1t was
that the company hadbeen able. for el0,-
600, to pick up from depth of 1900
fathoms one of their cables which had
beeen 10 years i'm the water. The estab-
lishment of the fact that it was possible
to raise cable from such depth of
course gives an additional value to all
telegraphic property.
A large eagle attacked boy as he sat
at breakfast in his fathers house near
Milton, n. c., dragged him out through
the open window and tried to carry him
off. The fight was desperate one, and
would have ended i'm the death of the boy
had not the bird fatally injured itself by
striking its neck upon sharp stick
which stood upright in the ground. The
father was attracted to the scene by the
boys cries, but, thinking the eagle was
the devil, ran away as fast as his legs
would carry him. The boy was terribly
mangled.