Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-05-20
CONDENsED NEWS.

localities by the frost of May Is.
James Wick, the famous flower seeds
man of Rochester, died Tuesday, aged64.
The Michigan conference of the M. E..
church will be held at Coldwater Sep
tember 6.
Bennett of the New York Herald is
credited with having given Mrs. DeLOng
$50,UOO in United States bonds.
Rich discoveries of native copper near
Laramie City, Wyoming, have caused
great excitement in that section.
During the month of April there were
262,0l9 barrels of salt inspected in Mich
igan, against 50, 745 in April of last year.
The contract for grading the narrow
gauge railroad from Port Huron to Al
mont has been let, to be done by August
first.
Des Monies, Iowa, Irishmen have raised
$1,000 to add to the rewards for discover
ing the murderers of Cavendish and
Burke.
London is poyerty-stricken city.
Over $4,000 paupers every day through
out the year are fed and kept at the pub
lie expense.
Arrests continue to be made in Eng
land and Ireland in connection with the
assassination, but no significance is at
tached to them.
During the ten months ending April
30 total of 544, ,599 immigrants arrived
in this country. The April arrivals
alone numbered 108S23.
But few northern people now visit An
dersOnville cemetery, most of the visitors
being from adjacent villages. with whom
1t is fayOrite Sunday resort for small
parties.
The new $13,0O0,OOO state capitol at
Albany, MY, is in such sorry plight that
the papers say it will cost $4,000 to find
out whether portions of il can stand
alone or not.
The corner stone Of church to be
erected as a memorial of Robert Raikes,
the founder of Sunday schools, was laid
at Gloucester, England, by the mayor Of
the city, on April II.
At the Minnesota state university
student, pursued by professor, drew a
revolver, for effect. The professor
promptly drew a revolver and used il,
with effect. Student slightly wounded.
There are 80 carloads of California
wheat EN- route to New Orleans to be re-
shipped to liverpool. This is the first
shipment on contract Of 100000 tons,
10 be delivered at New Orleans, where
two vessels are waiting.
The Iron World of London complains
very earnestly that in spite of the cheap
ness Of labor in England, American tools
are imported into that country which, i'm
pOiut of finish, quality, style and cheap
ness whip the native product.
The Ohio State Journal mentions as a
sample of brilliant Democratic states
manship, the work of Democratic con-
gress which abolished the duty on qui
nine, but left standing all the duties and
taxes on the material from which
quinine is made.
A syndicate has been formed in Paris
with capital of 100000 francs, which
proposes to experiment at Chicago with
certain patent process in applying a
new antiseptic compound for the pre-
servation of food of all descriptions for
export to Europe.
OF the 212 graveyard insurance COM
panies doing business in Pennsylvania
| 1876 have been dissolved by the courts.
Seventy-five companies having filed an
swers stating their purpose to resist the
proposed revocation of their charters
have required to present their side of the
case June B.
It is claimed that a Mr.. Essick of
Alliance, o., has invented type-writing
style of telegraphy by which wire can
do four times the work expected of it
under the Morse system. The single
prints one, and anyone who can operate
q type writer can work this telegraph.
The result is self written where received,
as reading by sound is impossible.
Since 1864 the national banks have re-
ceived and handled for government over
S3,669,OOO,OOO ($3,669, ,561 ,046). They
transferred ,916,OO0OOO to the treasury
and they paid drafts drawn on them by
the government amounting to $S41, 900,
600, and all this vast business was
transacted without the loss of one cent
and without the cost Of one cent to the
government.
Tn 1862, Cyrus ii. Mccormick had some
baggage checked for Chicago placed on
a train at Philadelphia, and desired its
return before the train started, as he
had decided to go by another route. The
baggage-master held on, however, and
the baggage went to Chicago and was
burned with the depot there. On Satur-
day, after working at it for exactly 20
years, Mr.. Mccormick reached a verdict,
and was awarded $l3,248.
The judiciary committee of the House
has reported in favor Of affirming the
validity of the United States land officers
in issuing patents to settlers of lands
claimed by the Ontonagon & Brule
river railroad. This precedent, If estab.
lished by Congress, will deprive other
and larger railroad companies of large