Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
THE Chicago Times says the Demo
cratic convention may as we'll remain
at Cincinnati. If the committee were to
change the place, Chicago would be Sc
lected. but Chicago has no wish to link
its name to failure.
THE Republicans of Kentucky have
held conventions in fifty-fve counties in
the state, of which thirty have instruct
ed for Grant, three for Sherman, and one
for Blaine. Where no instructions have
been given Grant delegates to the state
convention have generally been appoint
ed.
1T is rumOred that the Democratic
National committee is to be called to-
gether again to select another place for
holding their national convention, Gin
cinnati having refused to allow the tele-
graph company to erect the necessary
poles to connect Music Hall with the
lines of the company.
AT the auction sale of rare books in
New York on Tuesday of last week a
copy of an almanac for 16S6-a small
volume OF twenty pages-was knocked
down for 1856. Another volume relating
to an act of the Assembly Of the Province
OF New York, printed In 1724, was sold to
the LenOx Library for 1886.
SENATOR MCMILLAN has introduced a
bill repeating section 5,176 of the revised
statutes, which section provides that no
national bank organized subsequent to
July IL, 1870, shall have a circulation
larger than 100000. The object of
Judge McMillan's is to place all national
banks Oh the same footing in respect to
their circulation.
IT is stated that Senator Edmunds.
while gratified by the declaration of his
own state in his favor as Presidential
candidate, does not desire to be cOnsid-
cred a candidate for that Office and will,
in case his name Is pushed elsewhere,
write letter positively declining, II
he does so, this action will probably give
to Blaine the ten votes of Vermont in
the national convention.
AST. PETERSBURG telegram states that
it was rumOred that the Car, Thursday
night of last week, fired at and mortally
wounded his confidential servant. The
latter, thinking that his imperial master
had called him, entered the imperial
chamber, whereupOn the Car suddenly
awaking and finding some one in his
room, imagined it was a nihilist assas-
sin, and fired at him with the above re-
suit.
Upon the strength of the two dissent
ing opinions rendered by Justice Field
of the U. s. Supreme Court, upon the
political cases lately before that bench,
the Democratic friends of the Justice
are engineering boom" towards him
becoming the nominee of the
Democratic National convention for
President. In our opinion the cultiva-
ton of that Field will prove Improbable,
yielding no return on labor invested.
THE Democratic newspapers of Ten
nessee publish the names of residents
of the state whose war claims have been
passed upon by the House Committee on
Claims and reported favOrably to Con-
gress. There are 100 claimants, and
their claims foot up total of $4,000.
This total represents only a part of the
claims of single state. The list gives
significance to the statement of an Au-
gusta, Ga, paper, that claimant must
wait till after the Presidential election
before making further raids on the treas
ury.
A TELEGRAM from Panama says the
COlombians are much exercised over. re-
ports from Washington that the Ameri-
can government will oppose the con-
structiOn of canal by foreign COM
pany. They say they want no protector
ate, neither French nor American, and
will submit to neither without striking
back as hard as they can. They are
strongly incensed at the slight offered
Colombia, in that she is not allowed the
right to grant concession to private
companies other than American, or with
out asking permission of the United
States.
SENATORS and Representatives from
California are not at all pleased with
the selection of the commission to ne
gOtiate an emigration treaty with China.
They claim that they have been badly
treated, because it is a subject that their
constituents are interested in almost
exclusively, and they have been given
but one member of the board, while two
have been selected who know nothing of
the situation or needs of California.
They insist that no man can understand
the Chinese question until he has come
in contact with the race, and that learn
ing by experience is vastly different
from learning from theory.
FRENCH Canadians are leaving Mon
treal at the rate of sixty or seventy per
day, their destination being Michigan or
Colorado, while few are destined for
California. A large number of mechan-
les, chiefly carpenters, are being engaged
to 90 to Colorado and other places to
prepare lumber, etc., for new railways.
Thav are Guaranteed work for six months