Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-09-29
THE UNITED STATES.

Gen. Mcclellan will live hereafter in
Washington. IS
There Are only 10000 Indians in the
United States.
Camphor trees are being introduced
with success in Florida.
The American bible society will issue
100000 bibles this year.
Last week ship from the coast of
Africa brought 1,4OO parrots to New
York.
New YOrk's ocean steamers have taken
3l,262 passengers to Europe since the LIST
of May last.
Pope will probably succeed Sheridan
in command OF the military division of
the Missouri.
The Agricultural Department of Kan
sas places the corn yield at over 206, 0OO,-
600 bushels 50,00O,0OO bushel more than
last year.
The government will follow the decj-
sion of Judge Potter, of New York, that
Chinese sailors cannot be permitted to
land on United States soil.
WindOw-glass workers of New York,
Pittsburg, and the west, in session at
Cleveland, resolved to avoid lockout by
conference with manufacturers.
William Sprague refused Monday to
give up possession OF the Quidneck pro-
perry, saying he did not recognize the
authority Of the Supreme Court.
The notes of Democratic harmony"
in Ohio remind the Philadelphia Press
OF the noises proceeding from cat and
terrier shut up in cheese-bOx."
The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Com
mercial Gazette have each agreed to
contribute $500 to protect the ballot box
from fraud in that city upon election
day.
The gale at Buffulo Tuesday blew 81
miles an hour. Houses leveled. glass
smashed. and four Blue Line cars wash
ed into the lake, where their contents
were lost.
The United States Supreme court
meets one week from to-day. There are
$50 cases on the October docket, three
times as many as the court can dispose
of in year.
A supplementary order has been issu-
ed to all pOstmasters f0rbidding them to
pay any money orders drawn to the Or
der Of M. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana
lottery.
Dissatisfied Poles belonging to the
Church of st. Stanisli us at Buffalo
undertook to lynch Father Pi'ars, and
would have succeeded but for the police,
Friday night of last week.
The Pennsylvania legislature contin-
ues to make desperate but unsuccessful
efforts to adjourn. The SO per day,
which each member draws, is found to
be an insurmOuntable obstacle.
The Tennessee river is half al inch
lower than ever before recorded. There
is no record before 1910, and it is one
inch lower than the low water mark of
that year. That section Is suffering
from drought.
Catoctim mountain, near Mechanics
town, Md, has surprised the natives for
week or 10 days by sending up tall
slender columns Of smoke 300 feet high
from the summit, the columns rising
quickly, as if shot from gun.
In order to render cucnmbers mascu-
Gus they should be cut up with onions,
and left to soak. After while the
onions should be thrown out. To insure
absolute safety, the cucumbers should be
thrown out after the onions.
The annual report of Director Powell,
of the U. S. geological survey, just made
to Secretary Teller, states that IN the
Gunnison district, Colorado, valuable
beds of both anthracite and bituminOus
coal have been found, of quality I'M
surpassed in that state.
John L. Williams, the only son of the
late Eleaser Williams, distinguished as
the last dauphin of France, died Satur-
day at TigertOwn, Wis. Eleaser Will
liams claimed to be the son OF Louis
XVI, of France, and was well known as
Bourbon among the people here.