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

HORACE MAYNARD, of Tennessee, was
confirmed last week by the Senate as
Postmaster General.
THE Chicago Inter Ocean of Sunday
congratulates the delegates to the ma
tlOnal Republican convention on their
opportunity TO attend church that day,
and hear SOME OF the distinguished di-
vines OF that city. We fear, however, that
the thoughts of the most of delegates
would be mere on the approaching con-
test than to the words that might fall
from the preachers lips.
WHILE the Republican congressman
were absent at Chicagoth the Democrats In
Congress entered largely into the anann-
ment business. They passed q bill ts
expAad a large sHBl for monument st
Yorktown, Virginia; 81, Gee for monu-
lsfent To Gen Herkimer, at 9riskaay,
New York; $4,000 for monument TO
mark the site of the house where Wash
ingtOn was born.
A SITE has Mt last been given for the
Obelisk, from Alexandria. now on its
way to New York. A small knoll in front
of the new building of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Central Park, is the spot
where ii will stand. So far this site is
approved. One advantage must be al
mitted, that the mOnOlisk will Rot be
dwarfed by the surrounding buildings,
as it might have been in some OF the
smaller parks or squares of New York
City.
ACCORDING to the New York Times
there is peculiar and and unaccOunt-
able plague of locust on Long Island.
The Times says: In many places they
are so thick as to bend the bushes to the
ground, and the highways are lined
with the old wings and body cases cast
off by them. The woods appear to be
full of them, and the peculiar roaring
sound made by their wings can be heard
for a great distance. They strip off
everything green as they go, leaving the
trees and bushes bare.
q The American rifle team sailed for
Ireland Thursday of last week. Whether
they will consent to shoot in England is
uncertain; probably they will not, as the
English challenge was issued as catch,
so that an all-British team could say that
1t was only private match if beaten,
but claim an international victory if
they won; whereas the American team
was selected solely to shoot in the Irish
match, and not i'm any private match at
Wimbledon. If the English desire an
international match, an American team
can be selected to meet them.
Mr.. SwAwN's annual report as secre-
tary of the iron and steel associations
of America gives the pig-irOn product of
all sorts during the year at 3,070,S7
any one year. In 1873 the production
first reached 100000 tons, from which
time it steadily increased until 1873,
when it reached 2,S68,27S tons. 1t de-
clined in three years to 100000 tons,
when a new increase set in. The num-
Der of blast furnaces at the close of 1879
was 697, against 692 i'm 1878. But
whereas there were only 265 i'm blast at
the close of 1878, there were 1888 i'm full
operation at the end of 1879. The fur
naces out of blast at the latter date were
81 anthracite, 70 bitumin0us, and 1863
charcoal. OF those i'm blast 1853
were anthracite, 1913 bitumin-
Gus, and 1O3 charcoal. The price
of iron has been violently fluctuating, for
lowest price of AMERICAN pig-irOn was re-
corded, namely, $16.5O,per ton. In May.
1879, it had risen to $3.50, and continued
to advance until February of the present
year, when it had risen to $43. In three
months these figures had dropped to $25.
per ton.
A CENTRAL Mississippi correspondent
of the Cincincinnati Gazette writes:
"The southern Democrats of late seem
afraid to express their sentiments and
place themselves on record. They have a
wholesale dread of the criticism of the
Northern press on Southern Outrages
and confederate politics, while they have
stirred up some bad blood, have i'm the
main done vast amount of good. was
born and raised i'm the south, and have
lived in the state of Mississippi for years.
/ know the spirit and sentiment of the
white people of the south better than
any correspondent of the press that
comes down and fits from place to place
by rail can gather it up i'm the cars and
wayside hotels i'm few days. The pa
triOtism of the great mass OF the south
ern whites burns yet as a very feeble
flame. The old rebel hate is yet a con-
trolling. The results Of the war have
not been accepted very heartily any
where. The Southern Democracy will
give the northern wing Of their party
any aid in their power in undOing the
results of the war. If the Republican
party do not want their work since the
war utterly undOne or neutralized, let
them see to it that a Republican Presi-
dent is elected, and that their candidate
is man who will not run the machine
iato the ground, or bring his party to
the verge of ruin by his bad manage
ment.
THE Democrats and Greenbackers of
Maine have struck new path. Their
state conventions were held the same
day and i'm the same city. They each
nominated Harris Nj. Plaisted for COVER
nor, so that they propose to pool their
issues i'm the endeayOr to carry the state,
as they did last year. But this is not all.
The two conventions agreed tOpool their
issues also i'm the Presidential election.
They agreed to nominate the same elee-
toral ticket, giving the Democrats three
of the electors and the Greenbackers
four. The object of this is twO-fOld.
First, the Greenbackers hOpein this way
to carry the state of Maine from the
Republicans, and yet have the Presiden-
tial election so close as to throw it into
the House. in which case the vote of a