Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-05-01

the last day of May. Speaker Randall
still maintains that 1t Is entirely prac-
ticable to be ready for adjournment at
that date. Ifi ttlI
A WASHINGTON telegram to the daily
press says 1t is very probable that Pri-
yate Secretary Rogers will be appointed
Governor of Idaho. He has acquaintance
and interest in Idaho, and his name has
been strongly pressed upon the Presi-
dent as suitable person to make q ter
ritOrial governor out OF. The chances are
that he will be appointed. f'.'.li--iI
A SHORT time ago Miss Belle Cook Of
Mountain View, Santa Clara County, CAL,
challenged any lady equestrienne in the
world to a twenty-mile race for from
1900 to $1,000 q side. Miss Emma
Jewett, of Litchheld, Mimi, has accepted
the challenge, and if an agreement can
be had as to time and place, the race will
probably come off this summer. They
are trying to get the exhibition for
Minneapolis, MINI. -
The result of the inquiry into the Tay
bridge disaster, as reported in the cable
is to establish that the iron
tiebars were defective and deficient in
tensible strength, that rivet-hOles were
too large for the rivetS, and that four
columns were cracked and patched up
with bands around them. The substance
of it seems to be that through niggardli-
ness the structure was left in murder
Gus Out-Of-repair condition.
In the House one day last week Kelley,
Of Pennsylvania, got of q joke, but. pre-
sumably, by accident. Reagan, Of Texas
was complaining because some people
In this country were richer than others,
and attacked the general policy of the
Republican party as responsible, He
Vanderbilt as having got rich
by manufacturing. Kelley replied that
Vanderbilt had never manufactured any
thing but watered railroad stock.
The Democrats in Congress apprOpri-
ated $25, 900 to prove that the negro exc
dus from the south is due to something
else than "inhuman treatment" The
has spent all its money and
being hawked about the streets of Wash
ingtOn and offered for sale at discount,
30 that the witnesses can get money to
pay their expenses home. They are
bought by the curbstOne brokers with
the expectation that Congress will pass
a bill to pay them.
THAT Tilden is q refOrmer and that
the Democracy of New York are all re-
formers cannot be doubted. The Tilden
in New York has proved it.
John Fox, one of the delegates selected
to the Cincinnati convention, was one of
Boss Tweed's board of supervisors.
Michael Norton, another delegate, ac-
quired an unsavOry reputation as one of
Tweed's court house commissioners.
John r. Fellows, who was spokesman
Of the convention, was Tweed's district
attorney. And they are "refOrmers" all.
THE leaders of the woman suffragists
Of the United States have issued a call
for mass-meeting of all the women
who want to vote" to be held at Far
we'll Hall, Chicago, June 2. They de-
mand an amendment to the National
giving women the right to
vote, and propose to bring a pressure
upon the political parties national con-
ventiOns to espOuse their cause. On the
25th and 26th of May National Woman
Suffrage Convention will be held at In
a.a
IT is not improbable that the i'm
mediate deficiency bill, which has passed
both houses, and which contains clause
restricting the constitutional authority
of the President, will be vetoed. General
Garfield was the only Republican who
favored the rider which the Democrats
attached to the bill, and during the de-
bate it was clearly shown that the at
tempted restriction of executive powers
is unconstitutional, and it is understood
that aside from this it is said that the
President believes the legislation. at
tached to the bill is improper and p'oJu-
dicial to fair elections.
EDGEFIELD, South ear0!lna. Is the cen
ter of Democresfc bull-dOzlng district,
and has a repdtatiOn well calculated to
make opist and peaceable men give it a
wide oerth. At the recent local election
there was a contest between two factions
IF the Democratic party over the Ques-
lion whether the license for liquor
sellers should be placed at high or low
figure. A negro presented himself to
rOte, and rendered ballot for cheap Ii
sense. DR.. Bland, white leader Of the
high license faction challenged his vote.
NJ. Clisby, white leader Of the cheap Ii
:ense faction, after brief dispute. pull
I'd out his revolver and MORALLY wound
ID DR.. Bland. DR.. BANDS brother pull
ID out his revolver and severely wound
I'd Clisby and one Of Clisby's hackers.
DR.. Bland, though mOrtally wounded,
,rawled to the ballot box and voted for
high license. The chivalry of this affair
Is beautiful to contemplated safe
distance. But what became of the chal-
enged negro or his vote the admiring
Democratic chrOniclers of these knightly
fail to mention.
SENATOR BALDWIN introduced bill
of last week authorizing a
bridge to be constructed, for railway
Ind other purposes, over the Detroit
liver, not less than one mile from Detroit.
The bill puts the construction of the
bridge under the authority of the Sec
,etary of war, and provides that it shall
Do constructed so as not to interfere
With navigation, shall have one or more
)iyot draws in the main channel, where
t shall be most convenient. for the pas
age of vessels, not less than 200 feet in |
he clear on each side of the pier and the |
pace between each span shall not be |
ess than 25O feet in length, and the |
ridge shall be 20 feet above highwater |
mark. The draws shall be kept open
Turing the season of navigation, except |
It certain stated times when it shall be
for trains to pass. The own