Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-01-21
WIDE. WIPE WORLD.

me pennsylvania republican state
committee call the state convention at
Harrisburg May 10th.
In the Office of the Treasurer of Vir-
ginia the clerks are nine years behind
in the work of posting accounts.
Senator Anthony has introduced a
bill providing for the retirement of any
person who had served fifty years or up
wards in either house of Congress.
On the 25th instant memorial ad-
dresses will be delivered before both
houses of Congress in honor of Wiscon-
sins dead senator, Matt II. Carpenter.
The Nellie Sherwood, a schooner, sail
ed out of Kingston, Ont, Thursday OF
last week with a cargo of 5000 bushels
of Oats-the latest sailing for many
years.
A cabinet session last week considered,
it is said, the case of Cadet Whitaker.
The Judge Advocate General asserts that
the court which tried him was illegally
constituted.
The shareholders of the Consolidated
Bank at Montreal have entered action
against the late directors to recover
100000 lost by Encouragement of
the banks affairs.
People of the Black Hills, in mass
convention assembled at DeadwOOd, fav-
Ored the division of Dakota on the 10th
parallel and the admission of the south
ern part as a state.
The House elections committee has it
in mind to refer the Utah delegateship
contest between Cannon and Campbell
to the people of the territory to be de-
cided by new election.
The United States envelope contrac-
tors in Hartford, Conn.,, furnished the
postoffice department with nearly H.
100000 stamped envelopes during the
last three months of 1881.
The territory of Montana contains 3d.
100000 acres Of land, of which 100000
are susceptible of being cultivated, a.
100000 grazing, 100000 timber, s.
100000 mineral and % 100000 mountain
Gus.
DR.. R. G. Dyrenforth of Illinois, exam
liner in chief of the patent Office, is men,
toned as likely to be appointed commits
sioner Of patents. He has the support
Of Senator'S Logan. Jones, and Hill, (Of
COlOradO).
Mr.. W. R. Winans, of Baltimore, who
is making England his home, has built
a monster "cigar ship" on the Clyde at
a cost of about 100000. He thinks
she will be able to cross the Atlantic in
five days. Mr.. Winan's residence is one
of the finest private palaces in London.
OF ex-Prssident Hayes children, one,
Webb Hayes, is a manufacturer in
Cleveland; Burchard Hayes is practic-
ing law with young Mr. Waite in Toledo;
Rutherford Hayes, Jr., is at school in
Boston, and the younger children 60 to
the public shcOOl in the village of Free
mont.
A New York man, while digging in
his back yard the other day, found an
old can buried in the ground, in which
was concealed 678 guineas, very old
coin. Captain Kid, alias Kyd, is sus-
pected of having been in that neighbor-
hood, and all the back yards in New
York are being dug up.
A story is told of a member of a GER
tain theological seminary who was so
sensitive as to any suspicion of plagiar-
ism that he never allowed himself to
make the slightest quotation without
giving an authority. On one occasion
he commenced grace at breakfast thus:
lord, we thank Thee that we have
awakened from the sleep which writer
in the Edinburgh Review has called
the image of DEATH"
The cotton seed of the southern states
last year amounted to about 100000
tons, all of which six years ago would
have been thrown away. OF this 3,0OO,-
600 tons of 1881, 100000 were used as
feed for stock or as fertilizer as it came
from the gin, while the oil was extracted
from 100000 tons. The 100000 tons
would have produced 100000 gallons
of oil, worth $400OO,OOO, but this was all
wasted; besides which, the seed is worth
more either as feed or fertilizer. after