Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-23
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, JULY %. 1891.


There are 1900 licensed dogs in the
city of Chicago.
Railroad fare from New York to Chica-
go is$ll, and likely to be lower.
Ohio Democrats wrathfully charge
thai Bookwalter bou sht his nomination.
Mrs. Garfield, in spite of her perpetual
anxiety and terrible trials, Is said to be
gaining in strength.
A lava stream from the Sandwich is
land volcano of Mauna-Loa threatens
the destruction of a part OF Hilo.
The Marquis of Lorne's term of Office
in Canada expires with December, 1882,
and he is going to see it through.
Mrs. Garfield says she has received the
tenderest messages of sympathy from
Democrats as we'll as Republicans.
Several deaths are reported in New
York from lOckjaw OccasiOned by explOs-
ions of toy pistols on the Fourth of July.
Eight thousand Sheffield wOrkmen
send a protest to parliament against the
One-sided system of free trade in Eng
land.
Maud S., the great trOtter, beat her
record of 2:104 Wednesday, of last week
exhibition against TIME.
Out of 1926 tubs of butter recently ar
rived at Glasgow from the United States
only 1,467 were pure; 1,75O containing
OleOmargarine and butterine.
Estimates of the boards of agriculture
of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa
make the total wheat crop in those states
80,500,O0O bushels less than last year.
Baltimore is becoming OverstOcked
with tropical fruits. Schooner loads Of
bananas and pine apples are received
daily from all the West Indian islands.
Experiments are being made in the
White House to test the practicability of
ascertaining by electrical means the
location of the bullet in the Presidents
body.
The massacre of 1000 persons on one
of the Sandwich islands is reported.
Troubles in religion led to the slaughter,
and the blOOdyp party was led by a preach
or named Kabu.
Guiteau, the assassin, says he is very
sorry he shot the President. His object
was not to cause him any pain-simply
to kill him outright. He further says he
will not do it again.
The Agricultural Department at Wash
ingtOn estimates the wheat crop at 83
total crop of 1881 400,000,000 bushels,
shortage of 100000 bushels.
Allen Rutherford, lately employed in
the Toronto stables, has been informed
by letter from Scotland that he Is heir
of the earl of TeviOt, and master of
rent roll of 100000 per annum.
Total number of postage stamps of all
kinds, wrappers and cards, issued during
the year ending June 30 was 1,499, 1885,
sos, representing a value of 1874, 483,519,
an increase of 10 per centin number and
per cent in value.
In 1879, 10 carp scarcely two inches
long were placed in a private pond near
White Plain, N. Y. They have never
been fed, but last week one of them was
taken, after considerable sport. that
weighed four pounds.
Jeff Davis says that if Buchanan had
been the man he ought to have been and
had dealt with the situation as its gray
ity demanded, he would have seen that
no other southern states followed South
Carolina into secession in 1860.
It is now reported that the Chinese
students are withdrawn from this cOun-
try because they learn too much here;
the youthful celestials go beyond their
prescribed studies and imbibe notions of
political freedom and other new and
dangerous ideas.
The smallest engine ever made for
actual use has been made for railroad
in South America, by w. G. Bagnall, of
Stafford, Eng. 1t has 3-iDch cylinder
and 1917 inch wheel, and its maximum
width is only 81 inches. 1t Is of 3-hOrse
power and 18-inch gauge.
Harry Garfield is slender youth of
Is, with his fathers Saxon hair and the
regular features of his mother. MOllie,
on the contrary, has her mothers dark
hair and her fathers features. She is
only IA, but she is larger than her mother,
though perfectly childlike in her man.
ners, and great pet.
The experiment of applying the tur-
bine wheel for opening the valves on the
new lOck-gates of the Welland Canal has
been tried and found abortive. The
valves remain Obdurate and will not
move to the satisfaction Of the contractor
and engineer. If no suitable cOntriv-
ance can be devised for the utilization
Of.the valves, the canal cannot be open
ed this year.