Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-12


heavy importers of New York. They
and the recent heavy decline i'm the
prices carried them down. One of the
firms have liabilities amounting to g.
100000, another over $2,OO0,OOO.
A COMPLIMENTARY banquet was given
at the Russell House, Detroit, to Minister
Angel, Friday night of last week prior
to his departure on his mission to China.
He left Detroit last Monday for CalifOr-
MIA, where he would spend few weeks
posting himself from California stand
point on the Chinese question.
THE river and harbOr bill passed by
the Senate Wednesday of last week will
have to go through the House before it
become an act; so that its final shape is
still i'm doubt, owing to the many amend
ments with which it has been loaded
and the possibility of disagreements be-
tween the two houses.
A CoLORED man presiding over Ma
tiOnal political convention is significant
of the progress that has been made
within the past few years in respect to
the rights of humanity. Friday of last
week, Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, was
temporarily called to preside at the Re-
publican convention in Chicago, by
Chairman HOar.
A TORONTO Globe special from London
says the Hanlan-Tricket articles were
duly signed Friday of last week. The
race takes place on the 18th OfNOvember,
on the Thames, from Putney to MOrtlake,
for goo side and the championship of
the world, and the spOrtsman's trophy.
Col. Shaw has posted ESQ on behalf of
Hanlan. Everything has been amicably
arranged, to the satisfaction of all par
ties. Great interest is felt in the match.
REACTION has already taken place in
the iron trade sufficient to cause, besides
the Reading company, the failure of a
large concern near Chattanooga employ
ing 600 hands. The late boom, as has
been before intimated, was largely the
result of speculation. To-day the price
Of iron is so low i'm this country, that
there is no margin for importation.
However, the whole situation is far
more healthy than it would have been
had the high prices continued.
AMERICA needs large increase of her
shipping. A modest calculation it is
said, puts $9O0,OOO,OO0 as the sum
America has paid to foreigners i'm the
last 81 years, for carrying American pro-
duets across the seas. Last year we thus
paid out S75,0O0,OO0. England, as a
freight carrier, earns about $200,OOO,OOO
per year-all clear gain. Time was
when we did about 80 per cent. of our
own business in this way ourselves.
The New York Herald says three war
ships the Vandalia, the Alliance and the
Tennessee ordered to Canadian
waters. 1t is quite unlikely that with
three ships our government proposes to
cOerce Canada and England into adopt
ing the American view of the Fortune
Bay case, but it is possible the state de-
partment, on the principle that an ounce
of prevention is worth pound of cure,
proposes to have selAe of our national
police on the ground of the late dis
turbance, in order to discourage new ap-
peals to violence.
The House passed resolution to adj
jOurn June 10. but Senator Davis, of West
Virginia, said he thought the Senate
would amend to make it June Is. The
rabid free-traders are much ineensed
with the Democrats for agreeing to ad-
jOurn so early, when, they declare, they
might, by persistence, do some tariff
tinkering. This action is interpreted as
victory for the prOtectiOnists. The re-
formers had hoped to do little this ses-
sion, and had even talked of scheme to
accomplish it during the absence of the
Republicans at Chicago.
In the vicinity of Leadyille, Colorado.
recently, there were apparent Fremont.
tiOns of volcanic outbreak. Rambling
noises and tremOr of the earth were
noticed, and chasm four feet wide and
seyenty-fiye feet long has made its ap-
pearance on the side of the guich near
the Eurydice Tunnel. The great volcano
of JOrullO rose in a few weeks on the
surface of Mexico i'm the last century,
destroying hundreds of farms, and ee-
casiOning much loss of property and life.
1t is to be hoped that Colorado will have
no such unpleasant experience, yet a
smoking crater would certainly prove an
attraction to tourists.
In the Democratic National COnven-
tlOn four years ago VIM. L. Weber of
Michigan offered resolution, which
was adopted, declaring "that the sO-calI-
ed tw0-thirds rule be abolished as un-
wise and unnecessary" and that each
state be requested to instruct its dele
gates, in 1880, to vote whether the two
thirds rule shall be continued in force
or abolished. On Wednesday of last
week the Saginaw County Democratic
convention again elected Vim. L. Webber
delegate to the Democratic State Con-
ventiOn' and passed resolution in favor
of the maintenance of the two-thirds
rule, in order to beat Tilden, whose
nomination another resolution pro-
nOunced unwise and impOlitic. Thus
Democratic principles wObble.