Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-07-02

Inc whOl0 number or VISITORS TO tho
New Orleans Exposition was 1,158,s4O.
The Centennial Exposition was attend
dee by 7.9l0966 people.
Mrs. l.. B. Buell., of Rockford, ILL.,,
broke her thigh Saturday. In sitting
down upon a chair. The same lady q
year ago broke her arm while welding
U fan.
Business in Oregon is reviving and
the Republicans in Portland have elect
cd their entire ticket by handsome
majority.
Thousands of English sparr0ws have
built nests this season on the trestlss of
the New York elevated railways within
six inches of the tracks.
The European wheat crop is estimated
by Fry q Co., of England to be 100000
bushels short Of last year. They say
there must SOON be reaction in the
worlds wheat market"
s. l.. Phelps, United States Minister
to Peru, died at Lima Wednesday morn
ing, Of last week, aged 60. The new ap-
peintse to the position, G. W. Buck, Of
Kentucky, has not yet arrived at Lima.
Judge Foraker, the Republican capdi-
date for Governor in Ohio, is said to have
been great help to his mother when he
was boy. He could wash and iron,
milk the COWS, cook dinners, spin cloth,
and pick geese.
The passage of Texas cattle through
Kansas Is opposed by the citizens Of the
latter State, and trouble is anticipated.
Secretary Lamar has been appealed to.
The claim Is that the cattle are diseased.
According to the Rev. DR.. Willis, of
San Francisco, what the Apaches net ed
is a gospel that will get hell out OF the
Indians and not gospel that will get
the Indians out Of hell.
An epidemic Of glanders among horses
which has been communicated TO eats
and dogs has broken out in Knoxville.
suburb of Pittsburg. Pa. A disease call
ed "brslning" Is spreading among hogs
in the Lebanon. (Pa) section.
Kentucky whisky men owe the gov
eminent 100000 back taxes which will
be due Aug. l. They are labering to
get "a stay" until Congress meets, and
Secretary Manning will be called upon
to meet great Democratic argument.
The law 10 peremptory, and the penal
ties for non-payment are heavy.
Fifteen horse-thisves we're captured
and hanged by vigllantes in Indian Ter
ritOry within few days.
Mrs. Mary Beneman, sister of Commo-
dore Oliver Hazard Perry, is said to be |
still living at Ames, Iowa, aged 112
years.
The convention of the National G. A.
r. encampmsnt ut Portland closed
Thursday, sx-COngressman s. 8. Bur-
dette, Of Missouri, being elected Com
Arosstsok county. Maine, last year
100000 bushels Of p0ta-
toes into starch. That is the way to
stiffsn the price of potatoes.
The new city directory Of San Fran
cisco contains 10000 more names than
that Of 1884. and the population 10 now
at $4,000.
Nearly 100000 eggs are shipped
across the Atlantic to this country,
chiefly from Antwerp and Hamburg,
during the summer months Of each year.
At a recent "Childrsn's day" service
in the Methodist church, in Roxford
Flats, N. Y, lady who had no canary
bird took parrot to hang up in the
church among the flowers and other
decorations. When a small boy with
whom the parrot was familiar began to
speak his piece" the parrot began to
mock him and finally scresched out.
"Hsy, you little dsvilp This demoraliz-
ed the congregation and Polly was hur-
ried out Of church in disgrace.
Kitty Stevens, a little eight-year-old
girl, who died in Poughksspsie. N. Y,
made her own arrangements for her
which were carried ont. The
corpse was attired in white, and in its
arms was . doll In white. The flowers
on the casket az we'll as the casket it
self, were white, the hearss and its
horses were white, and ave little girls
dressed In white acted as bearers.