Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-09-21

Wales, eXploles, sending two
hundred and fifty of the miners to the
mU:t horrible of deaths.
THE cold wave of last week brought
no relief to the fever-stricken South.
Although the mercury fell many degrees,
it did not reach the freezing point. and
the heavy damp air rather aggravated the
sufferings of the sick than otherwise,
Forty deaths at New Orleans and ninety
at Memphis in one day are figures which
tell their own story.
TIE British Medical Journal reports
peculiar case of glove poisoning. A
gentleman travelling in Europe purchased
in Berlin pair of marine blue gloves.
put them on, and made several calls.
Soon after he felt i'll, and his hands were
covered with a peculiar eruption. On in
vestigation considerable quantity Of
arsenic was detected i'm the gloves.
THE Presidents policy of appointing
good Democrats excise officers in Georgia
does not seens to work very we'll for
either the revenue or the officers. In the
fight between the revenue officials and
the illicit distillers in Hancock county in
that state the former, it seems. had voted
the Democratic ticket all their lives, but
that fact did not save them from the bull
let's of the moonshiners.
THE dispatches report that the old
veteran, General Shields, has been strick-
ell down with paralysis in New York
The General is now 6S years of age, and
the announcement of his critical illness
will awaken tie gravesS apprehensions
and call out the warmest sympathies Of
the people who have recently felt renew
ed interest in the life and interest in the
life and work of this veteran of two wars.
PROF. WATSON, of Ann ArbOr, reports
that he has discovered two intra Mercu
rial planets, Vulcan and larger one.
Prof. Swift, of Rochester, reports that he
has confirmed his discovery of Vulcan, by
discovering that it has disappeared; that
is to say, it isn't where it was July 20,
which demonstrates that the object he
saw was planet. not star. This Vul-
can business grows Interesting and con-
fusing.
WHEN National tells you that ''the
public credit act of 1862 made all the
bonds and notes that were originally pay
able in "lawful money" payable i'm coin.
take him firmly by his ample ears and
real into their cayerous recesses- this
clause from said act: 1T is hereby pro
provided and declared that the faith OF
the United States is solemnly pledged TO
the payment liz coiu o. its equivalent of
all the obligations Of the United States
not bearing interest. known as the United
States notes, except I'm cases aUhcre the
lam authorizing the issue of saecIs obliga-
ton has expressly provided that the
same may be paid in ldlCfuL money!" He
will know more after he has heard that
distinctly read.
THOSE jubi'ant Greenbackers who see
in their large gains to success in Maine
an Indication of any sweeping or perma-
nent victory, and those wavering Repub-
licans who take counsel OF theil~fears OIL
account of the same event, may profita-
bly, study the history of tie Know Moth
ing party. The Know Nothlngs in 1855
swept Massachusetts by large majority
elected their Governors in New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island and Connecticut, car
ried their state tickets i'm New York.
California and half dozen Southern
states, and. beasscd of their ability to
carry the next Presidential election. Yet.
i'm November, 1856. they carried only a
single state, and in many of the states
figured hardly at all. "Nationalism,
should not forget that hissorN-repeats it.
self.
The Evening Telegraph of Saturday
Publishes page full of interviews with
leading Dem. cats and Nationals of
Michigan i'm regard to the Presidential
question. The Democrats of the state
appear to be divided between Hendricks
and Thurman, with few for Bayard, and
with general unanimity i'm rejecting the
denomination of Tillen. The Nationals
are wholly at sea. A portion of them
favor the nomination off Thurman or
Hendricks, and declare that these gentle
men can easily be- captured by the Ma
tionals, and can be drilled to keep step
with tile mnsic of THE National org ,niza-
ton. Others declare themselves in favor
of Ben, Butler. The most noticeble fact
i'm regard to the utterances OF the Nation
ais is their readiness to. unite with the
soft money Democrats i'm the support of
4 candidate. They are, by preference,
either for Thurman or Hendricks. But
here and there voiee.is- heard in favor
of Ben. Butler-that clown of politics
who has been many things by turns and
nothing long One thing, is certain
that the demoralizel and disintegrated
Democratic party will play an insignifi-