Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-06-10
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. JUNE 10, 1882.
WIDE, WIDE WORLD.

Farm labor is everywhere higher
than it was in 1875.
More than 20o suicides in this country
since the middle of February.
In single school in Charleston, S. c..
there are 400 negro pupils.
There is an old lady in Virginia who
is'living with her 18th husband.
More than $3O,OOO.UOO of gold has been
sent abroad during the present year.
man who is 81 years old and weighs
but 26 pounds isIa curiosity of CORTLAND,
Ala.
Mrs. Garfield has an income of about
$16,OOOin addition to the pension of
$4,000.
Victor Hugo heads an appeal for funds
to assist the emigration of Jews from
Russia.
Investigation shows that over $4,000
New Workers. enjoy their opium cum
dignitate.
Mrs. Morgan, a blind woman of Key
West will cOnsnmmate her sixth mar
riage soon.
At Harrisburg, Pa, the court has dis
solved nineteen more mutual insurance
companies.
Joel Barry, the fattestman in Maine,
died on Sunday at Machias. He weigh
ed 400 lbs.
San Francisco is feasting on straw
berries and boasts of getting away with
30 tons day.
Young alligators are offered for sale
on the. streets of Americas, Ca, at 10
cents apiece.
In the House, Tuesday 100 bills and
resolutions were introduced under the
call of the states.
The expenditures of the Cuban govern
ment for the past year exceeds the re-
ceipts by $9.766.OOO.
VIM. A. Gordon an Englishman by
birth,d at Fredericton, Ohio, on
Monday, aged 10 years.
Alligator hides have become in such
demand that many alligator farms have
been started in Louisiana and Florida.
The boiler of an engine at Norries, Wis.
exploded last Saturday killing the fire.
man blowing the engineer to atoms, and
injured five others so that there are
doubts of their recovery.
The Soldiers Home at Dayton, o., has
been determined on for holding the an
nual reunion by the ex-Prisoners of War
Association, which has been set for next
Wednesday and Thursday.
James Winnepenny, of Manayunk, Pa,
hanged himself Monday. He was pro-
prietor Of the Arcola mills, employing
1875 hands. He was unmarried and &C.
centric. He leaves an estate valued at
$250,OOO.
Anew Jersey farmer sets an old straw
stack on fire to scare out fox, and
three tramps crawled out of the smoke
and upbraided him for his carelessness
in not first jabbing around with pitch
fork to see if there was any one there.
Cyrus w. Field, the millionaire, began
work in New York in the store of A. T.
Stewart & Co., on salary of 50 week.
1t was his duty to be first at the store in
the morning to sweep it out, and to re-
main and close it up at night after all
the others had gone.
Jose Marks was picked up at sea We'd;
nesday where he had foated for four
days without food or drink. He says
that he and ten others left a fishing
boat off st, John, N. B., to attend to the
travis. when fog shut them out from
the vessel. The fate of the others is I'M
known.
Henry Shook guest at Toronto
hotel, ordered corn beef for dinner and
got a particularly tough piece. Being
eighty years old and nearly toothless, he
explained to the waiter that under the
circumstances, sOmthing tenderer ought
to be served. But he could get nothing
better, and therefore undertook to eat
what was on his plate. Suddenly he fell
back In his chair, gasped for breath and
chOked to death. A chunk of the beef
which he had tried to swallow whole
lodged in his throat.
Chinese Law.
A Chinaman who was defeated by
by some Of his relatives in suit at Law
concerning burial ground, murdered
three of his opponents. The criminal
was sentenced to death, but 1t is a prin
chile of the Chinese law that the nun