Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-10-27

THE Board OF Supervisors OF wayne
county have practically increased Circuit
Judge Reilly's salary $1,000 by ordering
his employment to that extept as counsel
fer the county. 1t is believed that this
evades the constitutional prohibition of
extra pay for Circuit Judges.
GEAR, Republican, candidate. for Gov
ernor of Iowa, ran 600 votes ahead of his
ticket in his home county. Irish Demo-
cratic candidate, ran 81 votes behind his
ticketin his home county. Gears ma
jority over Irish in the state is given at
10000.
GENERAL GRANT labored under an
impression at Birmingham that fell on the
free traders like wet blanket He drop
ped all incidental remark that he "ffa1 a
kind OF recollection that England herself
had protective tarffiumtil her mauufac-
tories were established :
e.. .ief 4ai,-i -. x m1ts .os:d
The statistician of the New York Pro-
,ilce Exchange estimates that the wheat
crop. of the United States this year
amounts TO 325,OOO,O00 bushels, and corn
crop to'1 ,2S0,000,0 600 bushels, vast In
creise over the'crOps ofany' proceeding
year in the history of the country pis
+. f.'- :. s. isitE
The Democratic papers are sexperi-
eneing Il. violent attack of. spontaneous
anxiety, and are frantically assuring 1.-The
President that he can't .ietract even
II he wants TO, and they beg him to re-
Inemberthat lie is the happiest man in
the country, ami to stand fast ,'as he. is
This may be an indiGitiOni that Demo
cratic hopes are to be frustrated.
CONGRESSMAN SMALIiS, of South Ctr
.olina, stole II Confederate gupboat DUR
ing the war. This proves, to the South
Carolina mind. that he is guilty OF BRIDE
~, and he has been indicted on the a gen
eral principle that every man who rdid
any thing TO crush the rebellion is neces-
sarily I. terminal. Why not .indiet him for
stealing "a gunboat, and make 4 square is
sue? ear ef ., "a III ~ ;t9;3iz /
. --l..iI.5t ~ sT-li .
THE New York Democratic platform
demands assumptions OF specie payment,
mil tho OI,ia D.,,o oornt- ,Ihot tboir firl al
OH the ground OF their opposition to re-
sumption. The New York Democrats
demand free trade and, tariff for revenue
only, and the DEMOCRATS in the House,
make Il ,Pennsylvaniaa protectionist'
Speaker. who has the making Of the.
committees. :. a q sfa
The Reform spirit is unusually Wig
orous in the democratic party Of New
York, and especially i'm the purified and
regeEcrate Tammany Mr.. John Kelly
has not only sent TO the city officials
demand fora percentage on their pay for
political purposes, but sends along with
it a collt ctorto take the cash onthe, spot.
There's nothing Democrat likes so
much is reform within the partyrLthe
Republican party. --s~..C--
The following is the text Of the bill
introduced by Senator ingalls, authoriz-
ing the coming of a standard silver dol
lar, aid restoring its legal-tender charac-
ter: BE it enacted. ETC., That there shall
be, from time to time, coined at the
mints of the United States, silver dol
lar of the weight OF 4l211s grains standard
silver TO the dollar, as provided for in
The act Of January Ii, 1887, and that said
dollar shall be a legal ,ender for all debts,
public ard spriva;e, except where the
payment of gold coin is required by law.
THE utter neglect of the Russians to
give proper attention to their wounded
leads one to doubt if Russians or Turks
are most in need of humanizing influences
OF christian civilization. An American
physician very. friendly to Russia) re-
ports the treatment of the wounded rs n
most damnable outrage OH humanity
He tells of over 1000 soldiers left in buI-
lock carts Through "a night and day, ex-
posed to bitter cold, and with no atten-
ton whatever paid to their sufferings.
These facts certainly bear striking re
semblanceto the terrible Turkish atroci-
ties of which we read so much.1 s.. ri
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REPUBLICAN papers in New York in
s!st that the approaching election in that
state is not to determine the success or
failure of the administration of President
Hayes, her to decide whether Republi
can party supports or disapproves the so.
called new southern policy, but it is to
decide whether Republicans or Demo-
Gratis al e 10 be elected to state offices; is
TO decioe whether honest men shall be
elected to office OF whether Tammany
Hall and the Canal Ring shall enter up
on an indefinite period of undisputed
power. @ .f-,l. sse. 4f;l
The aggregate of the votes cast at the
late French elections shows a remarka-
BILE loss of the Republican strength. :, 1t
is this feature, doubtless, that, tempts
Mac Mahon and his ministry, to make
further resistance. The majority for the