Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 80, 1882.
WIDE, WIDE WORLD.

er last year is 10000 acres.
Sixty thou aud citizens Of Cleveland
and vicinity have pt titiOned for Sergeant
Mason's pardon.
Three thousand per day scarcely GOV.
ers the number of immigrants arriving
in the United States.
Grain is now carried from New York
to London at one cent per bnshel. Who
is it that complains of dear Transports
ton?
The Canadian House of Commons has
passed the bill authorizing the cOnstruc-
ton of the new Canadian Pacific Rail-
road.
The total amount sent by New York
city to the relief of Michigan fire suffer
ers was $147,94O.19. A truly noble con-
tribution.
The President has received an invita-
ton to attend the Milwaukee industrial
exposition in September and will proba-
bly, accept.
The New York papers say that every
comfortable state-roOm npon the steam
ers leaving that port had been engaged
up to the first of July.
Amendments prohibiting the natural
izatiOn of Cinnamon in the United States
are regarded as vital features of the pro-
posed anti-immigration legislation.
The Hon. Alexander Stephens, of Geor-
gia says he considers Attorney General
Brewster "the ablest man who has held
that position since William Writ held
it,"
Professor Charles Robert Darwin, one
of the greatest scientists of the age, au-
thor of "Origin of Species" etc., died in
London, last week Thursday, aged 70
years.
The cost of the compilation of census
returns is exceeding all previous esti-
mates, and gross carelessness is charged
upon the late superintendent, Gen Fran
els A. Walker.
The American Palace Hotel, to be built
on the Thames embankment, London,
will be nine stories high, accommodate
1900 guests, and will be constructed
strictly after the American fashion.
The President has sent to Congress a
letter proposing the conclusion of con-
vention with Mexico for defining the
boundary line between the two repub-
lies from the Rio Grande to the Pacific.
The troops stationed in Arizona and
New Mexico are on the alert to put down
Indian outbreaks. From different set
Elements come reports of dangers appre-
hended and rumOrs of actual raids by
the redskins.
Depere, Wis.,, was devastated early
Monday morning by fire, which origin
ated in saloon, where man who was
intoxicated was burned to death. The
loss was about $4,000, with insurance
of about $4,000.
The wedding business is said to be
booming in New York. Easter week one
of the popular clergymen married
twenty-five couples, and received $1,O5O
in fees. Four of the fees were 800
each, and one was 500.
A dispatch has been received by the
New York Herald from Irkutsk, Siberia,
announcing that the search steamer
Rodgers had been burned and sunk, and
that Lieutenant Berry and the officers
and crew are at Tiepka, near Cape
Serdze, in need of immediate relief.
John A. Whipple bored an arCesian
well opposite the Providence depot at
Boston, and at 2,503 feet, or nearly half
a mile down, the hole gives out 100000
gallons of medicinal waters daily. He
has well enough and will let well enough
alone, having stopped Operations with
the deepest bore yet made in the world.
A clergyman in certain city who had
just been installed, and who was search
ing the town over in vain for a house to
live in, began his prayer very innocently
the next Sunday as follows: 20 Lord,
we are wanderers here below. Thou
knowest we have no abiding place." Many
OF his congregation who knew of his
fruitless endeavors i'm house hunting
could not help smiling quietly at the
truth Of his remarks.
Colorado gave Oscar Wilde better treat
lneht that any other state the aesthetic
has yet visited. Socially, Oscar is the
prince of good fellows. There is no pi-