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

Niagara Falls were lighted with cleo.
tricity last week, and the effect was
beautiful.
Matthew Arnold has taken TO daily
wine because 1t seems to add to the
agreeableness of life
One hundred and ffty-three German
soldiers, stationed at POsen, were acct
IDENTIFY and dangerously poisoned Mon
day.
A cyclone in Greenville, Tex, did great
damage Sunday night, but strangely
enough only one, cOlored child, was
killed.
The main tent of Barnum's circus
took fire and was wholly consumed Tues
day morning at Chicago. No lives lost,
either OF men or animals.
Louis, the fool king of Bavaria, is
growing pOrkey. very much to his dissat-
isfactlOn. 1t may improve him. though;
ne has been little too thin, thus far.
The Mayor of Moscow has been BAN
lshed to his estates for expressing the
hope at recent banquet that the Gar
would institute constitutional regime.
1t is estimated that the number of
Democrats slaughtered by the new New
York World man for tariff heresy in the
two weeks he has welded his fatal quill
is about $4,000.
Courtney accepts the offer of a manu-
featuring company and will give bonds
in $4,000 to row his best in race with
Hanlan for purse of $1,000 1t is prob
able the race will be rOwed at Cincinnati
or ST. Louis.
Queen Victoria is afflicted with drOpsy,
and her physicians consider her cOndi-
tiOn unsafe. Recent fits of dependency
and melancholy have effected serious re-
suits, and it is feared that in short
time she will be confined to her bed.
The modification of the laws against
Roman Catholics in Prussia permits the
saying of mass and celebration of the
sacraments; and the church. in return
for these concessions, must give notice
of its appointments to the government.
An address has been issued to Irish
Americans calling for contributions to
the Parnell testimonial. 1t recites Par
nell's efforts in behalf of the Irish peO-
pie, and was written by two priests, of
whom the Rev. DR.. Reilly, of Detroit, is
one.
The Montreal land league has resolved
to organize national league for Cana
da, in connection with the Irish league,
to aid in redressing the grievances of
Ireland by legitimate constitutional
means. The resolution was carried unan-
imOusly.
An interviewer finds Hendricks red
hot for the ticket of 1876. He had been
opposed to bringing it out, he says; but
he considers it duty to run tandem
with Tilden again, and this time, says
Mr.. Hendricks, the old ticket will be
elected.
Henry WatersOn, at the recent Demo-
cratic state convention, boosted that the
Democrats of Kentucky stood at the
'front.'" This may be all true, but the
procession Is headed the wrong
way, as is usual with Democratic pro-
cessiOns.
The Republican and Democratic COM
mittees of Madison county, Miss, Tues
day effected a political fusion, shutting
out the Independents. The same scheme
is being worked in Hines county, the
purpose being to defeat Chalmers pOlit-
zeal aspirations.
It is reported that plot by Fenians to
blow I'D the Welland canal on May IL
came to the knowledge of the Canadian
authorities and the Is men who had gone
to Welland for that purpose, finding
themselves under strict watch, wendell
their way back to Buffalo, whence they
came.
Those who account for territorial cy-
clones by spots on the sun, are rather
put to it to explain how it is they have
such uprOariOus spots up there when
everything is SO placidiOusly calm down
here. The cyclones, gentlemen, are
dOubtlessly to be attributed to the winds,
and not to sun spots.
The Democracy which has gone into
mourning for 30 days because Harvard
refused to Doctor Governor Butler, went
into spasmOdic glee soon after the
war, when Dartmouth bestowed that hon
or upon him, and for many cheerful
months derisively spoke of him as Doctor
Butler.
The Rev. Morgan Dix, in a biography
of his father, General Dix, says that
when he was postmaster in New York in
1860, he found Democrat politicians
swarming all over the office, collecting
political assessments from every en-
plOye, and that when he found them
there he cleaned them out. That was %
years ago, when the pure and spOtless
Democracy had controlled the govern
ment for years; and yet, within twelve
month the pure and spotless Democracy
of our land suffered untold agony on
hearing that Republican committees
were calling on Republican officehOlders
for money to help pay the usual election
expenses. If you ever see any nations
of the world advertising for pure and
and spOtless Democracy, one from the
country preferred, just tell 'em they can