Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-15
CONDENSED NEWS.

1t is proposed to divide Texas into
three states.
Chicago wants branch mint establish
ed in that city.
Alaska has population of 30,146, of
which 339 are whites.
General Miller, Republican, was elected
United States Senator from California
last Tuesday.
The Nevada Legislature Tuesday elect
ed James HI. Fair, Democrat, to the United
States Senate.
About $4,000 Canadians emigrated to
the United States during the last six
months of 1880.
American apples sell in India at $25
per barrel, and the heathens will have
them, even if they do come high.
Mrs. Bridget Gallagher, known as the
oldest woman i'm Cincinnati, died Mon
day aged 107. She came from Ireland
in 1S47.
The Masonic lodge in Fredericksburg,
Va, in which Washington was initiated
Nov. 4, 1852, has determined to erect
memorial temple.
Gen. Benz. Harrison was unanimously
nominated for United States Senator
from Indiana Tuesday evening by the
Republican caucus.
At st. Louis, Mo-, another cold wave
came down from the north Sunday night,
and Monday morning the mercury sunk
to eleven degrees below zero.
At TaylOrsville, Texas, snow began
falling Sunday morning. continuing all
day. 1t was one of the heaviest snow
storms ever seen in that region.
The horse ridden by Wilkes Booth in
his attempt to escape is yet alive. aged
twenty-three. 1t belongs to John A.
Pearle. of Arlington, Connecticut.
A boy of 13 years, who can spell long
words backward and forward with equal
facility, is amusing attendants upon
teachers institutes in Pennsylvania.
DR.. Muller, of Geneva has made a cal
culatiOn in which he estimates the num-
Der of plant species existing on the
globe to reach minimum total of ESQ.,
600.
New York and Brooklyn together have
spent $12,575, ,40302 On the bridge across
the East river, and neither are yet con-
fident of the ultimate success of the un-
dertaking.
Governor Porter, of Indiana, and the
state officers elected with him were in
augurated Monday with the customary
ceremonies. In the evening the Govern
or and Mrs. Porter gave their first legis-
lative reception.
The Republicans of the two branches
of the general assembly, of Ohio, met
Tuesday night in open caucus. Hon.
John Sherman was nominated for Unit
ed States Senator by reclamation. The
caucus was not in session more than
thirty minutes.
A Titusville man, aged 45 years, has
recently seen his father for the first
time. He was born while his mother
was visiting her father, who took such
fancy to the infant that he adopted it.
The mother returned TO her husbands
home in the west, and the boy grew up
at his grandfather's.
foreign insurance company wrote a
policy for 100000, last Saturday, in
Worcester. Mass, on the passenger sta
tiOns, freight houses, bridges, lOcOmO-
tives, cars, freight in stations and in
transit of the Providence and Worcester
road. This is the largest policy ever
written by one company in this country
and no American company would take
so big a risk.
Few persons have any idea of the
amount of land that has been donated
by the government up to the present
time in aid of railroad building. In u
linOis the amount has EeeD 1856, 5,O53
acres; in Iowa, 6,795,527 acres; in Mis-
sisSippi, 2,O62, ,24O acres; in Louisiana, l.
57S,720 acres; in Arkansas, 4,87S,149
acres; in Missouri, 1885, ,160 acres; in
Michigan. 4,72l. 480 acres; in Wisconsin.
4,SOS, 436 acres: i'm Minnesota, 9,9O2,O41
acres; in Kansas, 9,27O,OOO acres. Be-
sides this vast amount, 159, ,203, ,S07 acres,
or $4,000 square miles of land given by
the United States government in aid of
railroad construction. 1t is estimated
that the total value of land granted to
the railroads of the country by Congress
amounts to fully $53S.OO9,529. This
amount has been arrived at by figuring
the average value of the land at $3.50
per acre, which is low estimate.