Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-06-17
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
WIDE, WIDE WORLD.
SATURDAY. JUNE II, 1882.


Mrs. Garfield has Teen elected to her
husbands place as trustee of Hiram col
lege.
The glucose factories of this country
used up over 100000 bushels of corn
last year.
The two grandchildren of Garibaldi
bear the names Of Abraham Lincoln and
John Brown.
The export of specie during May aver
aged over $3,000,OU0 a week. A heavy
turn in the tide.
The three-cent piece was coined from
1851 to 1873, inclusive, with the excep-
tion of the year 1857.
Tennessee marble brings 20 cents per
foot more in the New York market than
either Vermont granite or Italian marble
The Pennsylvania railroad company has
a new engine with seven foot driver,
which makes 30 mile run in so minutes.
The most valuable modern coin is
the confederate silver dollar, which is
held by coin collectors at $1,000 to ST.
500.
Mrs. Azubah Olmstead, mother of Mrs.
Governor Foster, died at the residence Of
the Governor, at Columbus,,O Saturday,
aged 80.
The Philadelphia Times Dem.) admits
that Democratic supremacy in the next
United States Senate is altogether i'm
probable"
Angus Morrison, a well known polite
ian, ex-M p, and former mayor of Toronto
was found dead in bed Saturday morning
of heart disease.
APittsburg business man, who has re-
turned from the new Garfield oil territory
says there will be 200 oil wells in differ
ent stages of completion down there in
side of month.
The first man in this country to adyC-
cate the abolition of slavery here, was
Charles Osborne, Quaker minister OF
North Carolina, in 1875.
1t is said that over 100000 acres of
the public land nave been donated to
railroad companies, which is about one
sixteenth part Of the total area.
A Nebraska cattle herder predicts that
meat will be plentier in the market in
July, but not cheaper. These dealers,
though, are always bulls in the cattle
market.
The experience Of California striking
ly illustrates the rapid distribution Of
property under the American system.
In 1850 there were only S12 farm in Cal
iforinia; by the last census there were
1881.
The agricultural department has crop
reports from 1861 counties showing that
the condition of winter wheat is good,
the area of spring wheat II per cent
below the average, and the area Of oats
seven per cent above.
In New York loans on frst-class two
name papers are freely had at to 81
per cent. per anuum. No financial
smashup in this country was ever pre-
ceded by such cheap money.
Up to the present time the govern
ment has paid to soldiers engaged in the
late war over $5OO.OO0,OOO In pensions.
The amount to be paid yearly in the i'm
mediate future exceeds that required to
pay the interest on the public debt.
A new company called the postal tele-
graph company has been organized at
Chicago with capital, it is reported, of
$21,0O0,O00, of which 100000 has already
been paid in for preliminaries. Gov.
Foster, of Ohio, is one of the principal
stockholders.
It is common for woman to loose her
maiden name on marriage, but it is
rather unusual for man to lose his by
such an event; but Queen Victoria has
granted Ashmead Bartlett a royal license
and authority to Adopt the maiden name
of his wife, and be legally known as
Vim. Ashmead Lehman Bartlett Burdett
COutts.
In 1897 1,776 silver dollars were issued,
in 1904 nearly 10000, and now the 1897
coins can be had for SO so, while for one
bearing the 1904 date, coin collectors
offer from $3.50 to $1,000. In explana-
tion of this it is supposed that the issue
of 1904, being about the last of the coin
age Of the silver dollar until 1886. was