Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
GENERAL NEWS.

There are nearly $4,000 Irish soldiers
/ n the English army.
Secretary Manning has directed that
tlnusd for the present.
Swarms of grasshoppers have appear
ed in Pamela county, Texas on the Louis
lana border, and have destroyed several
fields of grain.
Nurses and physicians have gone from
Philadelphia to fever stricken Plymouth
Pa, and find that the reports Of the ep-
dsmlc have not been exaggerated.
The British ship Earl of Dalhousie, an
iron vessel, while being tOwed across
San Francisco bay was struck by a
squall. overturned and sank. She was
worth 100000.
An Austrian astronomer, professor APP
polOZer, is preparing list of eclipses,
5000 solar and 5000 lunar, of the period
between 1907 b. Z. and 2061 A. d.
George Nadeau, of Monroe, has sold
5000 muskrat skins to Fort Wayne
firm. year ago his sales were $1,000.
The severe winter has caused a light
catch.
A report of the Statistical Bureau for
Germans Abroad estimates the number
of persons born in Germany, now resi-
dent in America at 1861
Mrs. Elizabeth Granger, of Pittsfeld,
Mass who has been widow for seven
ty-ive years, celebrated her 100 birthday
anniversary Saturday 9th inst.
A consignment Of 1000 sacks Of Rus
sian flour, quite as good as the best
American product, were offered for sale
on the New York produce exchange last
week, being the first sample eyer shown
in this country.
The FIRST wedding in America was that
of Edward Wilson and Susannah White
at Plymouth in 1921.
Editor Shropshire Of the COosa River
(Ga) News, and his wife are said to be
the youngest grandparents in this cOun-
try. He is 35 and she is %, yet they
have grandchild over year old.
The theory of the decadence of the
supply of ocean food fishes receives Sc
we're blow from this years experience.
Mackerel are phenOmenally plenty, and
the catch has been enormous. Herring
in some quarters have been so numerous
that the catch could not be used. Cod
have been caught in unusual numbers,
and almost all kinds Of salt water fish
are cheaper than they have been for a
long time.
Bartholdi, the sculptor, will come to
this country to see his statue of "Liber-
ty Enlightning the World" properly
placed on its pedestal.
An epidemic Of diphtheria among
horses prevails in Dubuque and Grant
COMMITTEES, Iowa, resulting in the death of
bar of 1 Ia 90
The seventeen and thirteen year To-
Gusts will visit this country this year.
The National entOmOlOglst, Professor
Riley doesn't believe that they will prove
very destructive.
The aggregate annual cost of the
armies OF Europe Is nearly $750,O00,O00.
and the average number OF men with
drawn from industrial empleyments for
military service is about 100000.
The steamer Helystia, of the White
Cross Line, en- route from Antwerp to
Montreal, was sunk ia deep water by
heavy ice in the Gulf Of St, Lawrence.
She had q cargo of freight valued at
100000. No lives were lost.
The house which Philadelphia citizens
presented to General Grant in 1866 is adj
vertised for sale at Public auction June
2. The committee paid $4,000 for the
house, and General Grant has not lived
in it since he was elected President.
Batouchs was captured Wednesday Of
last week by Middleton's troops at the
point Of the bayOnet. the Canadians los
lug six killed and fifteen wounded. Sew
en- prisoners held by the Indians were
rescued 1t is now believed that the
rebels will disperse In bands throughout
the Western country, and that Riel will
escape ntoAmerican territory.