Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-07
GENERAL NEWS.

IS There are 100000 eats in London.
IS The Welland Canal will open for ma,
y igatiOn to-day, May7.
!, The weight of an ostrich egg is squa
= to twsnty-eight hens eggs.
: The peach crop of Delaware will b
|. unusually large unless some unexpacte
, disaster Oecurs. ~
Mrs. Granger, a Milwaukee woman
committed suicide by holding her hea,
In bucket of water.
! Five steamships have been purchase,
; in the United States by Russia and ar,
, to be used as cruisers.
Ex-GOv. Hubbard, of Texas, recently
, appointed Minister to Japan, will sal
for that country Saturday.
= Experiments made in Paris show that
the crocodile can bring its jaws together
with the force of over 300 pounds.
Stephen ]. Field is the only Judge on
the supreme bench who is Democrat.
He was appointed by President Lincoln.
The international cricket match be-
tween Canada and the United States
will be played at Toronto, August 3, A
and 5.
A perpetual injunction was granted at
Louisville against the Supreme Lodge,
knights OF Honor, electing officers out
side the state Of Kentucky.
Miss Lillian Jackson, niece of "Stone-
wall" Jackson, will be married to En-
gineer John p. Kelly, Of the BROOKLYN
Navy Yard, in few weeks.
The window glass trade is reported as
unusually dull, with several factories
closed, and unless business improves
several others will suspend operations.
There are five Russian merchant YES
sells now in the port of New York. Their
status In case they sail prior to decla-
ration OF war Is not very clearly under
stood.
The working force of the navy yard in
Washington was reduced on the LIST by
the discharge Of more than 100 men, be-
cause for the want Of money to pay
them.
COver 200 ear loads of cattle are new on
the way between st. Paul and Mandan.
ID. T., and IL Is estimated that the aggrs-
gate of tho shipment this spring will be
10000 head.
AT largely attended meeting Of |
northwestern lumbermen Thursday at |
Minneapolis, it was decided to make adj |
vance on lumber Of from so cents to ST.
30 per thousand.
A thirty-tOn rock rolled down the
mountain side near Heraldville, VT, and
and blocked the Rutland railroad track
Tuesday Of last week 1t had to be re-
moved by blasting.
Mrs. Mary MeNeely died in Wantauga
county, North Carolina, Tuesday of last
WoQlr MT fha oa ~ III Oh |
born In that county in 1774 on land then
owned by Daniel Boone.
A shower of fish, large and small,
ralned down on the farm CT Geo. Knight
In Knox county, Ind. the other day. Mr..
Knight gathered up near wagon load
OF the fish al proof of the occurrence.
Officials of the Canadian Pacific road
claim that In ease of war between Rus
sia and England they will be able to
transfer troops from Halifax to the Brit !
Ism Columbian coast by the middle Of
May.
At the annual sheep shearing in YER
mont the heaviest rams fleece weighed
% pounds IL ounces, and the heaviest
'we's fleece Il pounds 8 ounces. This, it
8 claimed, exceeds the record at any
public shearing.
During Thursday General Grant die
ated enough matter to q stenOgrapher
Q make twenty-thrse pages of his book.
cred Grant says he il almost certain
low that his father will be completely
estOred to health.
The new postal card paper, under the
Ontract Of 1885, will be q delicate pink,
n lieu of the cream color of the cards
low issued. The texture of the paper is
lso to be improved. The size will be
he same as now. in use.
Anthony H. Kelley, of Virginia, who
!as recently appointed United States
linistsr to Italy, hut declined, was .
thursday appointed United States Min
,ter to Austria, to succeed General John
|. Francis. of Troy. N. Y. Y
The Democrats of Louisiana are irri-
.ted at the course adopted by President
lsveland, and in an interview Senator
ustis said that from Democratic
'andpoint the President thus far "has
cen a conspicuous and humiliating
allure" n
The Millerites assembled at COrinna, n
O., Wednesday OF last week, TO climb u
10 golden stair. believing that the
0rld would come to an end ut o'clock
lat morning. Men and women were at
red In white ascension robes, but W
,lden chariot failed to appear. Ni
Tho Department of State is informed
; the United States Consul at Colon un-
r date of April 10 that the mails from
Q United States and elsewhere for Be-
ia. Carthagena. Barranquilla. and the =
terror Of Colombia. "for the past
o months or more" were DESTROYED by A.
Q on the 31st of March. They were
red in the National Postoffice await