Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-06-09

National debt, less cash in the treas
ury $1,569, 189,40S. Decrease of debt dur
ing May, $4,S90,476. ~
Senator Brown, of Georgia, has an in
come of 500 day, the largest of any
man in the south.
Lumber shipments from Ottawa, Ont,
ting advanced rates.
Striking miners at Des Moines, Iowa,
accused of blowing up the houses of
laborers hired in their stead.
Thus far in 1883, 1900 emigrants have
been dispatched from counties Mayo and
Galway, Ireland, by aid of the luke
fund. Ytg IilH ii fah1Nn Ni1at1li
the Board of Overseers of Harvard
College voted Is to H., against confer
ring the degree of LII. d. on Governor
Butler.
The boat race at Point of Pines, near
Boston, between Hanlan and Kennedy,
was easily won by the former by twenty
lengths.
The Union and Central Pacific rail-
| roads own and control unsubsidiZed lines,
| 1904 miles long, and subsidized line
LOO long.
A heavy gale at Montreal Thursday of
last week blew ships from their moor
ings and demolished scaffoldings and
insecure walls.
Judge David Davis and wife have ar
rived at his old home at Bloomington
Ill, after their prolonged bridal tour TO
the Pacific coast. 0ua to
Excitement continues in Arizona in re-
gard to the Lower California gold fields.
The exact location of the fields is said to
be known only to the Indians in that To-
cality.
The Roskolnik sects i'm Russia, who are
dissenters from the Greek Church, have
been granted many cessiOns by the Car,
but they must not engage in public pro-
cessi0ns.
/ The Niagara Falls commissioners have
elected President Anderson, of Rochester
university, president of the board, and
4 hold their first business meeting at the
Falls to-day. -.l
Failures in the United States last week
numbered 100. beating the previous
weeks record by five, and being an in
crease of fifty-siX over the corresponding
week in 1882.
Irish ecclesiastics who continue to
support the Parnell fund and take part
in agitation contrary to the POpe's re-
cent circular will be suspended from
. their functions.
A fine monument was unveiled We'd
nesday of last week at the grave of Pres
ident Zachary Taylor at Louisville, KY,
y, memorial address being delivered by
Mayor Jacob of that city.
The steamer PrOteus, 467 ton sregister,
has left st. Johns n. f., bound for Lady
Franklin bay and Davis straits,in search
,, of the Greeley polar expedition, last
heard from two years ago.
The centennial anniversary of the dis
banding of the revolutionary army was
celebrated at Fishkill Village, N. Y,
Saturday. A procession, addresses and
) music comprised the ceremonies.
: The South Boston iron works have
contracted with the war department to
construct four twelve inch rifle guns at
. 100000 each, and to convert so ten-inch
: smooth bOres into eight-inch rifle cannon
: at 5000 each.
q superintendent of all national insti-
z buttons under control of the interior de-
partment are directed to submit esti-
q mates of supplies needed for the next
r fiscal year. This action is taken in order
/ to take advantage of competition for the
s contracts and supplies.
Q Postmaster General Gresham has is
sued an order that pOstmasters of first
! and secOnd-cIass offices must personally
e attend to their duties, and must not alb
r sent themselves without permission from
q Washington Violation Of this rule rem
r ders them liable to removal.
u A trial was recently made in Williams
port Pa. of gas made from wood. II
!, gives soft light, and is about 30 pei
y cent cheaper than ordinary gas. Any
; kind of wood except oak can be used in
:. making the gas, which is manufactured
I by portable and easily managed appa-
Il ratus. rl.tl
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, re.
fuses to return to the alleged owners GER.
tain portions Of tanned human skins
y used by him in evidence in the Tewks
i bury investigation, saying that he &C.
q knOwledges no property in "human
q hides" but promises they shall be de.
: Gently inferred. fo ru0y
l. Amasa Stones will bequeathes $5OO,OO(
n and the Euclid avenue homestead in
& Cleveland to his wife, and The remainder
q of the estate goes to his family, except
# that Adelbert College is to receive $780,.
:. 600 il the estate reaches $3,500,OOO; and
70 $4,000 each is allotted to the Home fol
Aged Women and the ChiIdrens Aid So
Is ciety. " al1 Itilri
n During the year ending September &c
l. last, 3.O99,89 pounds of cinchOn bark
l. were exported from the island Of Ceylon
\. or an excess over the previous years ex-
% ports of 1,S93O00 pounds. This product
s in one form or another, but principally
IS i'm the form of quinine. is distributed
Al Iolx e. h. Io .,I,