Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-09-23

Lord Dufferin, Governer-General o.
Canada, has an income from his rea
estate alone of over 100000 year.
| Col. Robert Ingersol spoke at Colum.
bus o., Saturday evening, to crowd es.
timated at from 10000 to $4,000 persons
j William III. Tweed and William Hurst
were to have been embarked at Corrunns
for Cubaas prisoners, last Thursday, 2lst
| The Rev. Lyman Abbott will hereaf
ter be associated with the Rev. Ii. w.
Beecher III the editorship of the Chris
tian Union.
The sale of the old South church tor
100000 was perfected on Friday. last
week. The building is to be used strictly
as historical museum.
Official returns from Maine Zone town
and six plantations excepted) give total
vote of 135.99l on governor and the Re-
publican majority 15.459. The House is
l2O Republicans and 20 Democrats-two
to hear from.
The Delaware avenue Methodist Epis-
copal church at Buffalo, n. Y. was dedi-
Gated with appropriate ceremonies on
Sunday last. Bishop Simpson preached
the dedicatory sermon. The cost OF the
buildings and ground was over 100000.
The property is entirely free from debt.
A Washington dispatch says that the
Attorney General has examined the pa
pers III the case of A. G.. Hesing, one of
the Chicago whiskey thieves, and con-
cluded that pardon should be granted.
He thinks IIesing was not fairly dealt
with. having been promised immunity if
he would plead guilty.
The Franklin institute of Philadelphia
is projecting the purchase of Machinery
hall, on the Centennial grounds, and has
entered into correspondence with similar
associations in New York. Boston and
Baltimore, in hopes of arranging a sys-
tenn of quadrennia' exhibitions i'm these
Atlantic cities. so that each city can hold
an exhibition every tour years.
a Democratic speaker in South Caro-
lima asked his co'ored hearers if they bad
plenty to eat. There answer was. ssplenty,
plenty" "Who gives it to you?r he in
quired. Nobody gives it: we work for
it," they cried. "What. do you own now
that you did not have before the war ~
said he. s:Our wives and children" Was
the stunning answer. That Democrat
had no more to say.
The receipts from informal revenue foI
the months of July and August, 1876. are
nearly $7l4,000 greater than those of the
same months last year. Commissioner
Raum considers this an evidence of the re-
viyal of trade throughout the country
and believes from the outlook, as shown
by the collections i'm various districts, that
the receipts for the present fiscal year
will amount 10 nearly $l0,000,000 more
than. the amount estimated.
A religious ball room run i'm connec-
ton with Polish Catholic church i'm
New York city became so noisy that the
people had it pulled OH Thursday night
as a nuisance. The police captured 45
young men and II girls (about 100 man.
aging to make their escape) and marched
them all down to the station house. the
pastor, Rev. Adelbere Miclentzhy, being
at the head of the procession. The next
morning all were released except the
pastor.
The Boston Herald, paper which sup
ports Tildcn AMI Adams, makes this can
did remark: IF Gov. Tilden has ai,y-
thing to say about that income tax busi-
ness he had better say it. A good many
people have caught at the charge and be-
lieved it without waiting for proof. There
is strong 2orima facie case against the
Governor, and if he cannot explain it he
is not the man for President. Gov. HAYES
has met the charge made against him and
crushed it. Gov. Tilden.can do no less if
he wishes to stand well with his country
men,
They have way of estimating the cal
iber Of candidates up in Wisconsin that
must be disheartening in districts where
good Congressional timber is scarce. The
Lacrosse Sun in comparing the two NOM
inees for Congress in that district SAYS:
MIR Porter has over 10,000,000 feet more
talent than Thorp, all RATED and i'm the
boom ready to 90 down the river.n I'm
agine phre nologist with his little tape
line trying to- get at the measurement of
an intellect like that. Fer growing
woOden-headed COngresslnen Lacrosse
ought to be awarded a medal.
Rev. Samuel W. Dufficld, grandson of
the late Mr.. Duffield, of Detroit, and pas
tor of the Eighth Presbyterian church of
Chicago, rendered his resignation last
Wednesday evening. He had a salary of
$4,000. but owing to the poverty of the
church it was very much in arrears, and
notwithstanding that he had thrown off
$1,000 for the current year, there was
still 500 due him, tor need of which he
was sadly pincbed. His resignation WAS
laid OH the table for a week for consider
alton. Mr.. Duffield was for some time
pastor of Il church in Philadelphia, then
of the Ann Arbor Church. and i'm the
fall of 1874 he accepted the charge he
now retires from.