Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-05-05
Phelps City, Mo-, went up in blaze
last Sunday night to the extent of $15,-

PhelpA City, Mo-, went up In Dlaz'
last Sunday night to the extent of $15.
0o0.
Meriden, La, spOrted cyclone lasI
Saturday property destroyed, no lives
lost.
Hot Springs. Ark, was visited by dis
astfvus hail storm, last Saturday.
A medical writer says children need
more wraps than adults. They general
ay get MORE Exchange.
Estimated that the government loses
$5OO,00O annually by smuggling done
along the Rio Grande.
The late cyclone damaged Beauregard,
Miss, $450,OOO; quite premium for the
privilege of living in mild climate.
Steamer Catalonia arrived at Boston
with 1000 Irish immigrants, aided to
this country by the British government.
Three flowing oil wells struck in new
territory, in Forrest and Warren coun-
ties, Pa, and the speculative oil fever has
revived.
Interesting archaeological discoveries.
two miles from COllinsvilie, ILL.,, in an
cient mounds, consisting of skeletons,
pottery, flint hoes, etc.
The assessors lists reayeal that there
are SO women in Boston who are worth
over 100000, five of them beingi worth
over $5OO,OOO and two over million.
OF great men always before the public,
the letters passing to and fro should be
burned, at least each spring when the
time for housekeeping has fully come.
Professor Suing.
pint of whiskey put in fruit cake
will keep it for six months. and the same
amount put in a man will keep him
down town until two o'clock in the
morning Teras SiftingS. q.
A man i'm OuiO has been in trance
two years. Should he rouse up about
the year 1900 he will be surprised to find
that the star route trial No. 2 is still go
ing On.-NOrrtStOiC Herald.
The first passenger train passed over
the Pemigewasset Railroad short time
since. If that word should ever get up
on the track there will be fearful
SOmerville Journal.
An international chess tournament be-
gan at London, Eng, Thursday OF last
week, at which the prizes amount to $5,-
OOO. Three leading players from the
United States are among the competitors.
Canadian manufactures have doubled
in decade of protection, the capital ris-
ing to $165,3O2,623 in 1881. or twice that
of 1871. The value of products, $3O9,676,-
2O8 in 1881, has advanced One-third in
ten years.
1t is believed. by those having an op-
portunity to know, that no Indian of pure
aboriginal blood, is now resident of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts,. they
having intermarried with whites and
blacks until extinct.
Canadian shippers who for years paid
90 per cent duty on hay, when the tariff
only called for 10 per cent, are going to
make an effort to obtain rebate from
the United States, amounting in the ag-
gregate to oyer 100000.
Gen. Crook is ordered by the war de-
partment not to cross the Mexican
boundary to dislOdge band of hostile
Apaches from Arizona, as such cross
ing would be contrary to the Mexican
of August, 1882.
The sale of stamps under the new law,
began at Louisville. KY, Monday night
at midnight. Tuesday special train of
30 cars, loaded with tobacco products,
started for points east Of Cincinnati, and
another train of 20 cars for Chicago.
81 don't want no rubbish. no fine SEN
timents, if yon please" said the widow,
who was asked what kind of an epitaph
The desired for her late husbands
tombstone. "Let it be short and simple,
something like this; William Johnson,
aged IS years. The good die young"
The canal through the isthmus Of Cor
nth will probably be finished in four {
,ears. 1t will be four miles long, and of
he same dimensions as the Suez canal.
BY passing through the canal, vessels
rom Adriatic ports will save 1856 miles.