Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-04-23
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. APRIL %. 1885.
GENERAL NEWS.

Presidents speedy marriage.
About $1S,OOO,OOO worth of cOrssts |
were sold in the United States last year |
The Beloit, Wis, City Council stands
in favorof $500 license fee, for liquor
dealers. no OH
President Cleveland has bought a
handsome victoria and fno span of
bay horses. w
1t is said that the friends of General
Mcclellan are urging him for the Chi
lsss mission. NV
Theodore Roosevelt saws that Tam
many is slowly dying, and In few years
may pass away.
Edward Pisrrepont, secretary of the
American Legation at Rome, died in that
city Thursday. =
Minister McLans and family will sail
Ior Europe on the Goth and Minister
Phelps on the 3Oth.
Peanut flour is becoming an impOr-
taAt product of the South. II makes
very .palatable biscuits and pastry. n
The bill providing for free park
around Niagara Falls was sent to the
Governor of New York Thursday for his
signature.
Judge Carter, of the District Of COlum-
bia supreme bench, is 70 years old and
says he will soon retire. He has bssn %
years on the bench.
The section near Hamlet, N. c., was,
swept by cyclone Thursday afternoon,
timber, yhsuses and fences being lsveled,
but1n0 lives were lost.
The English Admiralty has chartered
thirty small steamers for torpedo servi-
ees, and received tenders for building
two FIRST class ironclads.
The Lafayette Courier says the wheat
crop of Indiana this year will be 15,0O0.-
600 bushels short of last years crop.
This cuts down the yield to less than
half crop. M Nga
The United States Commission to South
America reached Lima Thursday even
ing. They will remain in Lima and 9th
er points In Peru for two weeks before
proceeding to Chilli.
Secretary Of War ERdieOtt has inform
ed his sub0rdinatss that if he Aads they
use their official positions to avoid the
payment of just debts he will see that
they. are discharged.
The United States mint ut Carson,
New, has shut down coming money I'M
til July, but the superintendent has 81.
100000 in the vaults for spending money
until work 10 resumed.
A small incandssssnt electric light is
used in the examination OF the ulcsra-
tiOn of General Grants throat, and whom
introduced into the sufferers mouth il
Eliminates the parts effectively.
The efforts Of the force of lOg-drivsrs
sent up the Eau Claire few days ago,
to break roll-ways and start the drives.
have proved unsuccessful by reason of a
sudden and unexpected decline Of the
water.
M. Blaine has given up his lease Of the
Window house in Washington, in which
he has lived all winter, to take effect In
June. He will return to his home In
Augusta, Me-, as sO0A as the warm wealth
er sets in.
Orson P. Arnold, leading Mormon,
pleaded guilty to unlawful cOhabitati0n
at Salt Lake City, and stated to the court
that hereafter he intended to abandon
pOlygamy and obey the laws. Upon this
confession Judge Zane imposed but q
fine Of $500.
Mrs. Mary Benjamin, of Amss Iowa, il
visiting in Lafayette, Ind, and is repor-
ted to be 112 years old. She 10 sister
of the famous Commodore Perry, and re-
members Washington and other reve-
lutionary heroes. She has 100 children
grandchildren, and greatgrandchildrsn
living.
The Postmaster General has ordered
the clerks in the Office Of the First As
sistant Postmaster General not to exhib
it papers or give information to appli
cants for postmastsrships Much trouble
and ill feeling has been caused by riva
applicants learning the contents OF pa
pers fled at the department BY one an
other. %
-Four trotting herses have been recent
ly purchased In this country by gem
tleman from Vienna, Austria, and viii
be taken home by Him for the purpose o.
starting stable Of this class of hsrses
A mile track has been established II
that city, and racing will DO instituted
there during the coming summer upor
the Americas plan.
There will be, according to the hes
guessss, about 413,0O0,00O bushels o
wheat in this years crop. 1t requires
for our own consumption 315,O00,OO
bushels. We have on hand about 121,
100000 bushels of last years crop. Thi
will give US 219,OO0,000 for export. A
the present outlook every bushel OF
will be needed.
At the Postoffiss Department Of Wash
ington they are getting ready 10 issue
new postage stamp. Is Is to b used b.
newspapers, the postage of which ha
been reduced from cents to 1 cent 4
pound. The stamp will be Of the sam
general character a. the series now Il
existence, which ranged from TO 1
cents in denomination, The reduction
OF newspaper postage goes into effect OF
the first Of July next.
The bachelors Of Rochester, N. Y, n
longer have an excuse for not marrying
The young ladies OF the place have pre-
pared document proving eonclusiysl