Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-04-29


for repairs. but would vote
for the building of a new bridge. Let
us have new bridge.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
THE bill transferring the Indian Bu-
reau to the War Department passed the
House on the 2lst by vote of l59 to
81.
DOM PIATT, chronic libeler of other
men, has got himself to look after in the
matter Of the fraud of the moth extcr-
minator.
The third annual report of the State
Board Of Health is now i'm course of dis
tributiOn. 1t covers a wide range of
topics. is edited with great skill, and is
altogether document of no small i'm
pOrtance.
MASSACHUSETTS has passed an act to
about 5000 to 5000 men. The expen .
for the last ten years has been nearly 3d.
100000; and with the present dull times,
reduced incomes, and high taxes, the peo-
pie have concluded that il don't pay.
IT is really about time for another
grand European war, the custom being
to indulge in one about every rive or six
years. The Crimean war occurred i'm
1854, the Italian war in 1859, the Aus
tro-Prussian in 1865, the Fran c ,-Prus-
sian in 1870, and now it is clearly about
time for the final settlement of the long
harped-On Eastern question.
THE Senate has passed bill allowing
the diamond necklace, which the Khe
dive gave 10 Gen. oherman's daughter,
now and for many months i'm the New
York custom house, to be admitted free
of duty. 1t will be sold at auction, it is
said, in month or two, if it is not freed.
SUBSIDIES to railroads are getting
played out. We now feel the mistake
that was made i'm some places i'm our
own state. The business men Of Helena.
Montana territory, are strongly opposed
to voting aid to the Northern Pacific
railroad, and call on the newspapers to
oppose.
Mr.. KNOTT, Of Kentucky, last week
introduced in the House bill to regulate
the privileges of the writ Of habeds cor
pus in certain cases. 1t provides that the
Supreme Court of the United States, or
any judge thereof, shall alone be empow-
cred to issue writs of hdbcds corpus in
cases Of persons detained by either
House or Congress.
The instructions OF the Secretary of
the Treasury for the redemption of frac-
tional currency in silver have been pub
lished. They are intended mainly fer
those who will have the duty of making
the exchange. As the public is not Iii
rectly and personally interested in effect
ing it, the substitution of coin tor paper
money may be gradual. Some prefer
the scrip, as matter of convenience, to
the coin.
TIE Bay City Tribune has the follow
ing: The Tribune learns through direct
sources, that the Hon. n. B. Bradley, the
present Representative in Congress from
this district, does not desire another
term. Such being the case, it is only
natural that the counties outside the Sag
inaw Valley put in a claim to furnish
Mr.. Bradley's successor; and it would be
only just for the valley, which has so
long had the Representative, to g We way
in behalf of competent outsider.
A BALTIMORE church on Easter day
used for the first time an aims BASH
weighing ten pounds, of solid gold ant
silver. made from watches. chains, rings
spoons, and jewels, contributed by mem
bers of the church. The rim is inlait
with five different kinds of preciOu!
stones. IL is probably one of the most
magnificent and costly aims dishes thai
ever made glad the heart of the poor by
the magnificent manner in which il
holds ten cent scrip anil pewter nickles.
The Detroit News says it is a shame
that the Northwestern Railway compan.
should be allowed so long to defeat BY
their Vaccinations the construction OF
the Marquette & Mackinaw road. The.
exercise the same absolute sway over tn
upper peninsula that the notorious Cam
den & Amboy company did for year
over the state of New jersey. and it j
time the monopoly was broken up. Tn
interests of both peninsulas demand tn
speedy building of the road between
Marquette and Mackinaw.
IT is stated in Washington special di.
} patches that the President, after flu
Cabinet discussion, has directed Secre
tary of War Taft to issue an order to Oh
troops on the Rio Grande to protee
. American citizens in Mexico agains
forced loans and other outrages, by fore