Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-02
CONDENSED NEWS.

There are $3l ,OOO,OOO worth OF gold and
silver in the United States Mint at Phila-
delphia. ....
The Board of Agriculture of the State
of Ohio estimates the wheat crop this
year at 100000 bushels. edi
Buffalo reports the arrival Of the
largest tow of lumber from Michigan
which eyer passed through the great
lakes. 1t consisted 3.250,OO0 feet.
1t is rumOred in Washington that the
President is about to ask. Attorney Gen.
eral MacVeagh to resign, and that Will
liam E. Chandler will probably be offer
ed the position.
The production of tobacco in this
country in the last ten years has increas-
ed about 80 per cent. The anti-tobacc0
reformers must regard this showing as
very discOuraging.
The Indian census, now over a year in
progress, will require another twelve
month for its completion. The noble
red man, like Mr.. O'Flaherty's pig, runs
around so nobody can count, him. nc
The international pigeon race was
flown on Saturday from different parts
of the United States and Canada, the
distance to their homes being $50 miles;
the winners made their distance at the
rate of a mile in two minutes.
Saturday last, an act of the Missouri
legislature went into effect declaring the
keeping of gambling house to be q
felony, punishable with Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary, and all the
gambling hells in st. Louis are reported
to have been closed. ffof 4.il Ia e.r a
The Attorney General has decreed that
when cadet fails at West Point, he can
not be reinstated by the President or the
Secretary of War. This is welcome
b0mbprOOf for those officials who have
hitherto been beset by political friends,
tO, change the result of unfavorable ex-
aminatiOns at West Point.
Thursday of last week two of the vi
dette boats built for the British navy by
the HereshOffs, at Bristol, Rhode Island,
were tested. They made speed of
nearly Is miles an hour, and astOnished
the British officers present. They are
the fastest boats of their size-S4 feet
length, 8 feet beam, 5 feet depth--in the
world. ~ 'N'
T There are continued signs of the
growth of the Independent movement in
Mississippi as we'll as in Virginia. The
latest is a gathering at Jackson of inde-
pendent Democrats, Green-backers and
for the purpose of forming
some plan of agreeing upon a state ticket
by which they could this fall wrest the
state from Bourbon control. 81. s., :f...,.
i When the tenth Massachusetts, Regi-
ment of volunteers went to the war q
drummer boy of 12 years accompanied it
and served his term of enlistment. That
boy is now millionaire, and entertain
ed the survivors of the regiment at his
residence near Boston the other day.
Twelve years ago he was earning sal
ary of $40 month, but by energy, en-
terprise, and the use of his brains he dis
covered that there is always room at
the top" f .v'f ifala,l
Secretary of the Interior Kirkwood has
appointed +. La Flesche, an Indian edu-
Gated at the Indian school in the Omaha
agency. and brother of Bright Eyes, to
be clerk in the Indian Office. This is
the first appointment of an Indian to
such position; but the secretary does
not mean to be the last. He hopes, with
in year or two. to put several young
Indians from the Hampton school in
training for the government service in
the Indian bureau.
With a view of finding what proper
tiOn of ordinary business is transacted
by means of checks, Comptroller of the
Currency Knox issued circular request
ing national bank officials to report de-
tails of receipts and payments on June
Both and Oct. l: These reports will show
in what kind of money receipts and pay
ments are made, and from them Mr..
Knox expects to derive very interesting
and valuable statistics, actual and COM
parative. to be embodied in his next re-
port.