Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-06-11

The May revenue of the United States
aggregated $32, 2,324,O00.
Gen. Grant has obtained for the West
ern Union the right to lay cable from
Yucatan to Cuba.
Mrs. Nellie Grant-SartOris will prob
ably pass the summer with her parents
at their cottage at Long Branch.
Hydraulic machinery has been sue
cessfully applied in operation of the
lock gates of the Des MOines Rapids
canal.
The deepest we'll in the world is To-
Gated at Buda-Pesth, Hungary, and Is
1920 feet, or more than three fifths of
mile, in depth.
| The British government announces
that it will entertain no application for
the removal to the United States of the
remains of William Penn.
The defence in breach of promise
suite in Napa, CAL. was that the con-
tract was entered into on Sunday night,
and therefore was not binding. The
claim was sustained.
The strange spectacle of of church
f10atlng down river was seen in the
course of the recent floods i'm Dakota.
The bell in its steeple could be heared
above the roar of the food and crashing
of the ice.
A railroad. bridge over the Illinois
river at Peoria, which was condemned
several months since, fell beneath the
weight of train of six cars loaded with
refuse from the Peoria grape sugar
works, on Monday.
Erod DoupIooo doI;yorod nm -. 49,, -
John Brown at Harper's Ferry, on Deco
ration day, and the first to congratulate
him at the close of his address, was
Hunter, the prosecuting attorney of 1859,
who prosecuted John Brown to his death.
Persons connected with the manage
ment OF the star-rOute cases say that
there probably will be 100 indict-
ments, including members of both
political parties, and that the trials will
occupy the time of the Criminal Courts
at Washington during most of the fall
and winter.
A 12-pound California salmon was
caught the other day in lake Michigan,
off Cedar Grove, Wis, by G. H. Smith g.
Son. fishermen at that point. California
salmon were planted in the lake six
years ago by the fish commissioners, and
this is said to be the first proof that the
plant has taken root.
Among the latest uses to which saw
dust has been applied is in the manufac-
ture of car wheels. A writer states that
sawdust car wheels, sawdust brick, saw
dust fence posts, railroad ties, and even
sawdust window and door frames, VAIN
scOting and mOlding begin to appear
among rhe possibilities of the immediate
future.
General Badeau reports that Grants
losses in the Wilderness were, all told,
13,6O1 men. The rebel historian of the
Cincinnati Gazette will dispute this
probably. But Badeau gives the figures.
During the whole seasons campaign
Grant received 10000 re-enforcements;
Lee, 10000. Grants entire loss is stated:
Killed. $500; wounded, 26.OO0; total, 32,-
500. The Federals lost 1900 i'm the
single battle Of Gettysburg, and the
French loss at Waterloo was over 10000.
At AppomattOx only 27,516 officers and
men were parOled. This is all that was
left of Lees splendid Army of virginia
on the 9th of April. 1865, year and a
month after Grant took command of the
Army OF the Potomac. But in the con-
stant fighting and pushing" that was
forced by Grant from March 90 to April
8, the rebel losses by capture were 46, 6,495.
In twelve days they lost by apture 74,OI1
men and officers. Grant'sclosses in the
same time were: Killed, 2 600; wounded,
$500 missing, $500; total, IL, 900.