Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-04


0aioiaI Paper ofthe County and Village
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Hon. GEORGE w. JULIAN, of Indiana,
predicts that the Grant boom will neces-
state the nomination of Gen. Grant for
President, by the Republicans, and that
Tilden will be Che Democratic nominee
with equal certainty.
GENERAL GRANTS baggage, seventy
three cases, filed with books, pictures,
ornaments, and curiOsities gathered in
his trip around the world, has been land
ed free of duty by courtesy 0f$he Secre-
tsrY of the Treasury. =,
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THE telephone is being substituted for
the telegraph by a number of western
railroad companies where distances are
not too great. They have successful
example in the east where tine Pittsburg
Southern railroad, extending from Pitts
burg to Washington, Pa, a distance OF
over So miles, has discarded the old In
struments for the telephone in the tran.
saction OF all business, including the
running of trains. 1t is said whisper
in Washington can be heard in Pitts
burg. } enr-+
GOLD continues to flow into the United
States daily in large amounts. Two
ocean steamers which arrived at New
York Friday of last week brought. 81.
O5OOc1, and e1,C c . was shipped from
Paris at the same time for this country
making a total transfer of specie in our
favor Tor the day of over six.milliOn dol
lars. The figures show the great volume
of trade in our favor, and the substan'
tial basis there is for the business pros
peTity enjoyed everywhere in the United
States.
AF.EE ct DeadwoOd Friday Of last
week, almost swept th:t enterprising
little frontier city out of existence. The
buildings generally being frame struc-
lures, and the fire aDpcEatus being con.
sumed early in the coDfagratiOn, the
flames spTecd until nothing WIS lett tt
be burned Of the mein pert of the town
OWING to the combustible character OF
the buildings, the insurance companies
were ch:ry about taking risks in the
town, and their losses were comparative
fy insignificant. p -ru. ---. .
ROBINSON and Potter have written and
published their letters of acceptance OF
the. New York Democratic nominations
for governor and lieutenant governor
1t is, therefore, too late to back out, OF
for Tilden to withdraw them, unless he
is and they are willing to submit to the
ignominy of square surrender to Tam
many and boss Kelly. On the other
hand, boss Kelly not only exhibits nc
symptoms of backing down; but he is
vigorously pushing his campaign. The
Albany Times has come out openly fol
Kelly, and reports that Kelly organiza.
lions are forming everywhere through
the state.
THE TichbOrne claimant has come to
the surface again in England this time as
a candidate for Parliament. A cable
dispatch announces that he will make
the contest for the seat for Nottingham
at The next election. The probabilities
are that he will receive no small support
Of warm sort. 1t is not for himself SO
much as because of the English sense Of
fair-play, which in the famous trial was
so shamelessly outraged by Lord Chief
Justice Cockburn in his partisan zeal
against the claimant, that the people are
yet disposed to regard the latter as the
victim Of judicial tyranny, and, as re-
buke to that, to elect him.
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IT has been discovered in Washington
that the Potter investigating committee
never filed its accounts in the treasury,
and Potter never, in fact, made out any
accounts, though the committee spent
$22,5OO of the peoples money. There is
nothing to show how any part OF this
money has been expended. What makes
the case worse is the statement that Pot
ter was formally asked TO send in his
bills, but he positively refused to do so,
and had the law, authorizing his COM
mittee. drawn and passed without the
customary clause which requires bills of
items to be deposited IS vouchers in the
treasury. .-. ..5
WASHINGTON is enjoying a currency
very much inflated by free issue of
silver certificates of denominations of
$40 $40, and $1C9. The government is
paying out about $1,000 . per month in
silver, under Secretary Sherman's rule,
that ten per cent of all disbursements
shall be Of silver, and the persons receiv-
ing it habitually exchange the coin for
certificates, which are at once put into
general circulation. One of the princi-
pal banks stated that about 20 per cent
of all its cash deposits was in these GER
tifcates, and that they were paying
them out indiscriminately with legal
tender notes. rr rr5., -
The Toronto Mail strikes back vigor-
ously at the free trade journals which
decry or deride the protective tariff pol