Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-11-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
WASHINGTON specials announce that
movement has been started by Southern
members of Congress in favor of the ere
alton of the Office of Captain General of
the Army, with an annual salary of fifty
thousand dollars, to be bestowed upon
Gen. Grant for life.
INDIANA has the largest school fund
of any state in the Union. 1t now
amounts to 100000 and will soon
amount to $12,OOO,OOO. Half of the fund
is loaned to the state government at 6
per cent. interest, and the remainder to
individual borrowers at per cent.
EX-SENATOR JOHN B. HENDERSON, of
Missouri, prefers Bayard to Grant, but
thinks that Sherman is the strongest
man the Republicans could nominate.
On the other hand, ex-dOor-keeper, ex-
confederate Fitzhugh. of Texas, thinks
that state would give its vote for Grant.
ADvICES from japan, which briefly
state that over ninety thousand deaths
from cholera have already occurred. in
dictate to what terrible extent the dread
epidemic prevails. The only hope of its
abatement which seems held out is the
mere expectation that it will terminate
by the end of the year.
THE official returns in New York give
Cornell 1856 majority for Governor,
Hoskins, 1,15O for Lieutenant Governor,
Joseph B. Carr. 2.152 for Secretary Of
State, James W, Wadworth, 6,619 for
Comptroller, Nathan d. Wendell, 1924
for Treasurer, and Hamilton Ward 1928
for Attorney General-all Republicans.
THE Cunard company is to build
new steamship which will be second
in size only to the leviathan, the Great
Eastern. 1t will be 500 feet long, so
feet wide and Al feet deep, of 5000 tons
burden, and capable of carrying $50 first
class and 600 steerage passengers and
200 officers and crew. She will be plated
and riveted with steel.
DURING his stay in Japan General
Grant presented handsome new drop
curtain to the principal theater at To-
kiO. Last week the steamer which ar
rived at San Francisco brought from
the manager an elegant set of gold
lacquered harness for the General. And
now the editor of the New York Sun
may be expected to throw himself into a
frame of mind about gift-taking.
Now that bankrupt law has been re-
pealed nearly a year, movement has
been set on foot to secure its re-enact-
ment, or the the passage of some SINH
lar act by Congress. The Merchants
Association of Boston, has taken the in
itiative in the matter, having appointed
a committee to secure the cooperation
of other organizations to bring infiu-
ence to bear upon Congress to obtain
the passage of such law.
THE full official vote of Wisconsin
shows the following majOrities of the
Republican candidates over the
Democratic candidates: Governor Smith
25,494; Lieutenant Governor Bingham
26.647; Secretary Warner, 26,OS5; Treas
urer Guenther; 2S,o61; Attorney General
Wilson, 25,6S2; Superintendent Whitford,
21,S36. The above figures are liable to
some change upon refOOting, but they
will not be varied over 80 either way.
1T is announced that Congressman
Emory Speer, of the Ninth Georgia dis
trict, is about to follow the example
of Congressman FELTON,, who come out
in letter openly abandoning the Con-
federate Democratic party. Alexander
III. Stephens and Col. Crawford indorse
the FELTON, letter. 1t will require only
a few more such changes to destroy the
Confederate Democratic supremacy in
the House, at least on questions when
the majority of the Greenbackers can
not be depended upon to vote with the
COnfederates.
SENATOR BAYARD is described by cor
respondent of the Boston Herald as
"brOad-shOuldered, gray haired, clean
shaven, muscular and fresh in color:
he is exceedingly athletic, being famous
in Wilmington as pedestrian and boxer
his manners are frank and earnest"
Now who will be so cruel as to give a
personal description-by way of con-
trast to this-Of Samuel Jones Tilden as
narrOw-shOuldered thin breasted, lean;
lank, lantern-jawed, lOp-eared, slab-sided,
shaky, trembling, cross, crankey, listless
and clOse-mOuthed?
THE clearing house returns for last
week indicate that the volume of busi-