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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
Entered at the POstoffice at Cheboygan
Mich, as Second Class Matter.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Z, 1880.
General Legislation.

A special telegram to the Inter-0cean
from Washington says proposition has
at last come from the Democratic side of
the HOnse to incorporate in the new
rules of that body provision making it
impossible for the Appropriation Com
mittee to incorporate general legislation
in the appropriation bills. This comes
from Mr.. Speer, of Georgia, one of the
more Independent Democrats, who did
not approve of the methods adopted by
his party at the extra session to force
the President to approve the apprOpria-
tion bills with political riders tackled on.
But this proposition does not fully meet
the exigency, for it will still be easy for
majority to do i'm the House what has
heretofore been done by the committee,
tack On any legislation that any easily
convinced chairman OF the committee of
the whole may be pesuaded is germane.
Several amendments, that will entirely
close this avenue for political legisla-
tiOn upon the policy of approve or starve'
have been suggested upon the Republi-
can side, and the fact that they appear
to meet with considerable favor among
Democratic members is good indica-
tiOn that they are anxious to avoid re-
currence of the wOful muddle in which
that party found itself in the early
months of this year.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07

tiOn to construction, and most of the
way would be peculiarly adapted to a
canal fed by streams. In going over the
natural route now used, a vessel passes
around fOur-fifths of an irregular circle,
and the latitude of the northern part of
the route is so high that the streams
there are ice locked for two months
longer than are those in the southern
part. 1t may be possible to make use of
the channels of the st. Joseph and Maui
NEE Rivers in constructing the canal.
These rivers lie nearly in the direction
of the proposed route, most of the way
across the peninsula. and comparatively
little work will make them navigable to
points less than fifty miles apart.
Great benefit would be conferred upon
the large and increasing commerce from
West to East by route which will save
800 miles i'm distance, and add two
months each year to the navigation sea-
son. The committee says that so long
as Canada belongs to Great Britain. such
canal must be regarded as military
necessity, in case of war with that cOun-
try. The committee also directs atten-
tiOn to the great agricultural area lying
beyond the proposed canals western
terminus, and to the new wheat lands of
western Canada, which must soon seek
a more southern latitude for means of
transportation. 1t is said that railways
alone are insufficient to move Western
produce to Eastern markets in due sea-
son, so that better and safer water COM
municatiOn is needed to prevent the ac-
cumulatiOn of grain i'm Chicago, and to
remove the opportunities which such
stagnattOn gives to capitalists to form
pools and corners, In conclusion the
committee asserts that it is matter
of vital consequence to our commerce to
establish this route, or one equivilant to
it, in order to hold our own trade and
draw that from Western Canada over
our own routes before Canadians draw
their commerce and part of ours into
similar cut-Offs, which they propose to
make on their own territory.
The above is the press report from
Washington in regard to the project of
connecting lakes Erie and Michigan by
ship canal through the lower part of
the Michigan peninsula. Whether the
project is feasible remains to be demon
strated, but even if it were so, we have
our doubts about many of the advantages
that are claimed for it. The claim
that it would add two months each year
to the navigation season is simply alb
surd, and we would like to know where
those streams are to be found i'm this
northern latitude that are ice locked for
two months each year longer than those
i'm the southern part.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
A Grand Success.

To the Editor of the NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
Last week Madam RumOr" scattered
about our quiet village the news that
on the following Monday evening
our ladies would take advantage of lib
critics afforded them by leap year, and
would give large party at the Town
Hall under their especial care and di-
rectiOn. The report was soon confirmed,
as mysterious calls were received by
the gentlemen from the ladies, and the
conversation would be something as
follows:
Lady-"Ahem. Have you an engage
ment for Monday evening"
Gent-"N-n-n-O, mann, not a positive
one"
Lady-"Then will you consider your
self engaged, or will you allow me the
pleasure Of your company to our party?"
Amid smiles and bushes the gentle
man replies, THANK you, | accept with
pleasure"
Lady-"All right, will call for you
at half-past nine o'clock. Good morn
ing"
The door is closed and both take a
long breath.
Some of the ladies, bless their big
hearts, not wishing to see any of the
gentlemen stay at home for the want of
an invitation, asked two or three to go
with them, and the manner in which
they cared for them all showed that they
were equal to the emergency.
Well, Monday evening with all of its
expectations came, and at fashionable
hnr ha
many of them politely taken out to COM
Portable sleighs, in which an easy seat
was soon found. Warm robes were then
carefully placed about them by gentle
hands, and thus they were escorted to
the hall, where they found that the ladies
were indeed master of the situation"
1t was quite noticeable that nearly all
of the married ladies had invited the
company of young gentlemen, but we
suppose this was because they wished
to be reminded of happy days now
buried beneath the cares of married
life. But what became of the husbands
of ChebOygan? They were kindly pro-
vided for by the young ladies, who, no
doubt, wished to be reminded of the
happy days to come. The programme
for the night was dancing, of course,
tHeTelOIe StIlHSeu 1HStIuHeutS WtIt
taken i'm hand by skillful performers,
and the large numbers who had gather
ed at the hall by this time were soon
keeping time with the music under the
direction of the floor managers. About
half-past eleven o'clock one lady stepped
upon the platform and announced that
refreshments would be served at JewelPs
restaurant, where thirty could be ac-
cOmmOdated at one sitting. The gen.
tlemen were taken in charge by their
respective ladies, and the supper that
was placed before them was all that
could be desired.
Upon returning to the hall dancing
was enjoyed until late hour, after
which the gentlemen were escorted to
their various homes. All were loud in
their praises of the happy manner in
which the ladies conducted the whole
affair, and wished that Leapyear might
come Oftener. We certainly need to
compliment the ladies of ChebOygan,
and can only add that their party was
one of the most delightful entertain
ments of the season. ~
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
NEW WATER ROUTE.

The Proposed Lake Canal -Adyaut.
ages of tho Water Route Between
Lakes Michigan and Erie
The bill introduced in the House by
Mr.. Stone, of Michigan, at the extra ses-
sion in relation to the construction of a
canal from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie
has been favOrably reported by the COM
mittee on Railways and Canals, with an
amendment apprOpriating $1,000 to pay
for survey. The most feasible route,
in the opinion of the committee, is from
some point short distance north of To-
ledO to some point on the southeastern
coast of Lake Michigan, near the mouth
of st. Joseph River. The length of the
present water route, around by the
straits of Mackinac, is about 1000 miles,
and the navigation of it is often dan
gerOus. The length of the proposed can
al would be about two hundred miles.
The committees report asserts that the
country through which the canal would
pass is level and abundantly supplied
with running water in shallow streams
so that there would be little OppOsi-
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
WHITE PAPER.
Getting 10 be an Expensive Luxury
Hard Times for Publishers.


From the Chicago Tribune.
The revival of good times the "busi-
ness bOOm," so called-has given almost
every class lift except publishers of
newspapers. Strange as 1t may sound,
the general advance i'm wages and prices
which pleases the public so much has
made harder ''times" for the press. The
price of type has been raised, coal is
dearer, labor has advanced and white
paper, the leading item in newspaper ex-
pense, has been thrust up thirty-three to
fifty per cent, with threats on the part
Of the paper-making combination to put
it higher next spring. Meanwhile, pub
fishers are charging the old price to their
subscribers and the old rates for adver-
tising; consequently the whole advance
in the cost of publishing newspaper
falls on the prOprietOrs, who have not
felt at liberty to tax back their losses on
the public. Some of the newspapers have
dropped their supplements to reduce ex-
penses, and a few have ventured to raise
their subscription prices. The st. Louis
morning papers have advanced their
rates from four cents copy at retail to
five cents, and by the week have increas-
ed their charges five cents. Papers in
other cities are contemplating a reduc-
tiOn i'm the size of their sheets where
their presses will permit it. In this city,
the Daily Tribune has omitted a part of
its supplements, and may have to drop
more of them if the price of paper keeps
on advancing, but will retain its old
price. The Times, as a choice of evils
between a reduction of size and an in
crease of rates, has advanced its price
one cent a day. retailing hereafter at
six cents instead of five, and raising its
delivery price to city subscribers five
cents per week, charging thirty cents
instead of twenty-five cents. In making
the announcement of the advance, the
publisher says that the cost of printing
the Times is at rate Of 100000 per an
mum more than it was year ago. Judg-
ing from our own experience, this state
ment is not far wide of the truth. All the
great dailies will be obliged either to
curtail their size or increase their price
if they would escape serious loss. Singu-
lar as it may appear to the unreflecting
reader, the more business bOoms and
prices initiate, the worse it is for the
publishers. Like the fable i'm EsOp
what is sport to the reader is death to the
publisher.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
Notice Of Subscription.

NOTICE is hereby given that books for sub
IN scription to the capital stock of the Black
River Slackwater Navigation Company will be
opened at the Banking House OF Rollo q
Hitchcock, in the village of Cheboygan, on
Monday, the 10Th day of January, 1880.
The entire capital stock of said company is
fxec at $4,000, divided into Zoo shares of $25
each.
Ten per cent. of the amount of each sub
scription will be required at the time of sub
scribing, and an additional fifteen per cent. on
or before the 10Th day of March, 1880. The
balance in instalments as shall be required
from time to time by the Board of Directors.
VIM. McARTHUR.
THOMPSON SMITH,
G.. ID. ". ROLLO,
III. G.. DAVIS,
w. CHA NDLER,
Directors.
Dated Cheboygan, Mich, January II, 1880.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07

No one need suffer from loss off appe-
tite when such ready restOrer as Reed S
Gilt Edge Tonic is prOcurable.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
A Cure For Small Pox.

81 am willing to risk my reputation as
a public man." wrote Edward Hine to
the Liverpool Mercury, "if the worst case
of small pox can not be cured in three
days, simply by the use of cream of tar
tar. One ounce of cream of tartar dis
solved in pint of water, drank at in
tervals, when cold, is a certain, never
failing remedy. 1t has cured thousands
never leaves mark, never causes blind
ness, and avoids tedious lingering"
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07

An adjourned meeting of the Village
Council was held at the council rooms
Wednesday evening, Feb. 4, 1880.
Present-Att0rney Humphrey, Trus-
tees Gallagher. Miner, Mcdonald j. b.
Macarthur and VIM. Macarthur.
Absent nt-President Brown and Trustee
Rapin.
Trustee j.. W. Mcdonald President
pro. tenn. in the the chair.
On motion of Trustee Vim. Macarthur,
voted that the reading of the minutes of
last meeting be omitted.
On motion of Trustee VIM. Macarthur,
voted that the report of the special COM
mittee, rendered Dec. Is, 1879, in rela-
tiOn to the discOntinuance of the Alpena
and ChebOygan state road, be taken up.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Trustee VIM. McArthur:
ResOlred, That that portion of the Dun
canand Alpena state road that crosses the
corner of The south west Il of the south
west a of section 32, town 3S, north
range, 1 west be discontinued on and af-
ter the third day of March 1880, prOvid-
ed the owners and the occupants of the
lands required for the proposed streets
and alleys mentioned and described in
the report of the special committee of
the council, to whom this matter was re-
ferred, made on the 10th day of Decem-
ber, 1879, shall execute and deliver such
deeds of dedication thereof to the village
of ChebOygan as shall be satisfactory to
the council of said village. Provided
however, that majority of quorum of
said council voting therefor at any legal
meeting, shall be sufficient for the ac-
ceptance of said deeds of conveyance.
Adoptee by the following vote:
Yeas-Miner, Gallagher, Mcdonald,
VIM. Macarthur and j. B. Macarthur.
Nays-nOne.
On motion of Trustee VIM. McArthur,
voted TO adjourn.
NORMAN w. LYONS, Clerk
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-02-07
Council POceedsngs
(OGciQI.l

A regular meeting of the Village cOun-
Gil was held at the council rooms Tues
day evening, Feb 3, 1880.
Present-President Brown, Attorney
Humphrey, Trustees Gallagher, Miner,
Mcdonald and VIM. McArther.
Absent-Trustees Rapin and ]. B. Me-
Arthur.
Minutes of last meeting, held Jan. 6,
1880, read and approved.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
GENTLEMEN: Your committee on
claims and accounts to whom was re-
ferred the account of Smith Bros, and
j. w. Linderman. respectfully report
that they have had the accounts under
consideration and recommend that the
same be allowed. C. A. GALLAGHER.
III. j. MINER.
Report of the village marshal was pre-
sented, and on motion the same was ac-
cepted.
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,NRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA II. r

II
Sunday, October 5, 1879.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01
PERSONAL.

Mr. Columbus DclanO Is mentioned as q model
farmer, and the pOssessOr Of the finest horses and
cattle in Knox County. Ohio.
General Grant writes that he will probably not
20 east of Illinois before the Autumn. He is CO.
ing in June to the Rocky Mountains for visit of
few weeks
Mrs. Hayes has gone to Cincinnati to attend her
brothers funeral. Her mourning will interfere
with tho few social duties left to perform this sea-
son at Washington.
The widowed Madame Theirs has sent to Vice.
President Wheeler a handsomely bound edition Of
her husbands works, which is to be placed in the
library of the Senate.
The Hon. Mr. Downey Is said to be q native of
West Virginia, and the son of o. w Downey who
was hote-keeper at Piedmont and who helped to
represent Hampshire County at the Wheeling Con-
YentIOn IN June, 1SGl
An ill-tempered British paragraphor notes o
rumor that Mr.. Rice has asked Moltke TO write for
The North american an article about the French
army and that he has limited to Bismarck that no
might prepare u short sketch Of GOrtschakOff.
Ex-Assistant Secretary Hawloy had narrow
escape from death at Marshfeld during the recent
tornado there; and after leaving the town he was
on railway train which ran off the track and Just
escaped tumblinR over high enbankment Mr.
Hawley should be o thankful man,
NJ Bonnat has sent to the Salon picture Of the
forlorn job and also portrait of President Grevy,
and this. under the circumstances, Is giving pre-
text for tho lovers of fun to mistake one for the
other, and when looking of tho Job to exolaim,
" Poor President Gr6vyj how thin aud how UNI
happy he has grownP
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour Is quoted as saying
that be has always had great admiration for the
red men. aud as adding: They are natural orators
and dIplomatists. The finest speeches that were
made to mo when was Governor were made by
the IrOQuOiS Indians Yet they would not speak
except In their own language and through an inter-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01
CHEATING JUSTICE.

The pardon of Kembe and his three as
sociates, following almost Immediately upon
their conviction, will be a shock to the honest
sentiment of the community. 1t would have
been better if these men had never been con-
victed at all, than that we should be led to sus-
pect that their conviction was farce. The case
against them was overwhelming, so that they
made no resistance, ell pleading guilty the sem
tenee was marked by just severity; the pris-
oners were consigned to the Penitentary.
When they have been only four days in cOniinc-
ment the Board of PardOns cOnvcneS, their APP
plicatiOn for clemency is made, the State Is left
unrepresented, and the pardOns are at once
issued, the Acknowledgement himself, the law
officer of the State, who was detained from the
meeting, sending written assurances that he
cOncurled in the action Of the Board. 1t is an
inevitable Inference that the return of the fugi-
tives for sentence and Their imprisonment were
merely parts of legal burlesquC, designed to
mystify and impress the public and our Phila-
delpha dispatches show that this inference Is
sustained by the general understanding OF the
case In that city.
A more insOlent defiance of public sentiment
under cover of temporary Difference to 1t, has
not been seen since Tweed asked the taxpay-
ers of NeW-YOrk what they were going to do
about it. Kemble and his associates in crime
must have laughed in their sleeves when the
law-Oficers, without so much as Il wink to dis
turb their gravity, marched them Oft to Jail.
The whole business is dIsgraccful. Peaceful
and prosperous Pennsylvania must needs blush
in the presence of distracted California. Denis
Kearney has been sent to Jail for year merely
for making incendary speeches, and the pros
pect is that he will stay there.
The people have always one defence, how
ever-the retributIOn of public opinion. These
men may escape the ligors Of prison lire, but
they cannot wipe out the record Of their crime
nor the universal conviction that they deserved
the punishment which they have now been
spared They will always wear the incilace-
able brand of the convict, justly condemned and
Wrnngfully pardOncd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01
rEv.YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MAY /, 1850

He was not only the secret emissary to and
from the whole Democratic party Of New York,
but he also held the closest and most confiden-
tial relations to all the Democrats in Minnesota.
If he goes on with his story we shall discover
presently that he has the secrets of other States
in his keeping; and that whenever Demo-
cratic Congressman wishes to know what his
constituents want or what the Ostensible leaders
OF his party are up to, instead of resOrting to
the ordinary sources of information, he sends
for Finley. 1t is awful to think how much de-
ponds upon one mainland Finley is evidently
Overworked.
Still, the consideration of this gentleman's
agency in regulating the politics Of the United
States is rather matter of curious historical
research than of practical legislative business,
and we trust that it may occur to Congress,
when the first excitement of the inquiry has
worn off, to stop and ask what is the object OF
the present proceedings, and whose case the
select committee is to be understood as investl-
eating.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01

acquired 81 each candidate. and amid the still
Wilder claims of the various Presidential Bureaus
II ia almost impossible TO make an estimate which
IA wen tolerahly accurate In oil, 470 delegates
have been elected, leaving 2s6 to be chosen. Civ
Ing Grant the full New-YOrk delegation and thirty
eight Of tho Pennsylvania delegation. the solid dele
cations Of Missouri, South Carolina, Kentucky,
Virginia and Arkansas votes from Texas. from
North Carolina, from Georgia, from the District
Of Columbia and from Massachusetts,, he has a
total of 237, or 142 short of nomination. 1t is rea-
sonably certain now however, that he cannot get the
full vote either of Virginia South Carolina Giving
Blaine 20 Of the Pennsylvania delegation, though
he is pretty of %, and only those from other
States which are absolutely certain for him, as Cali
fOrnia II, Connecticut 8, Georgia 8, Indiana 90
Iowa %. Kansas TO- Maine IA, Oregon 9, Rhode
Island g. Texas and the Territories 8, he has 14O
Sherman has Ohio Al, Georgia s. Indiana 2, North
Carolina 8, a total Of 80. Edmunds has IA from
Massachusetts, 10 from Vermont and from Con-
necticut, % in all. Washburne has from Con-
necticut, and possibly more, the latest reports
from that State indicate accessions in his favor
among the delegates
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01

prefer though they spoke ArsIish perfectly xsl1.
Thew reminded me Of Ta1eyrsnd, who would ssS
allow himself 70 speak English OF DO addressed a..
that tongue while he was in Great Britain. fhouah
he was fluent English Scholar
PHnADErpHrA, April 30.-Miss Florence Daveu,
port the actress, and Harold Tears were married at
St. Johns Catholic Church this afternoon. Eathsr
Riley performing the ceremony.
LONDON, April 30.-Captain Potter and eight
officers Of the United States ship Constellation wli
90 to Dublin on May to attend the ball At thu
Mansion House, They will afterward take part IN,
niversary Of the Emperor's birthday. Reception
was held at the Winter Palace. The ENJOYS from
Germanysand Austria, and Populations from the
German regiment of which the Gear is honorary
colonel, attended -
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rnANcu OFFICES OLE THE TRIBUNE.
Nelu'1lork Daily Gribme1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1880.
THE NEES THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-The German Government has been
defeated three times in the ReichstaR since Mon
5ay. - The race for the Thousand Guineas was
won by Mr. Walkers Elizabeth. - Earl Cowper
has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Observation-Disclosures Key was ap-
pointed to a Tennessee Judgeship. - Judge
Orange Ferris was appointed Second Auditor of the
Treasury. - The California Republican Conven-
ton has decided to enforce the unit rule only i'll
the voting for Mr.. Blaine. - Michael De Young
has been arrested for an alleged libel on
Mayor Kalloch. - General L. +. Alex
andcr is about to become vice-president of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. -
The State Legislature passed large number of
bills. - The storm of Thursday night caused a
number of disasters at sea. - The Methodist
General Conference meets at Cincinnati to-day.
CoSGREss.-In the Senate the bill to appoint col
ored cadets was considered; the Navy bill was
passed the Kellogg case was taken up. - The
House was occupied in the consideration of private
oils.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Further testimony was
given yesterday about the shooting of DR.. Steele
ly W. E. Sawyer. 60 William II. Vanderbilt
and Jay Gould denied the story of sale of
100000 shares of Western Union. - The
arguments in the Page telegraph suit were
concluded. - An Independent Republican
Conference resolved to send delegates to
the st. Louis Convention. 60 Stephen G. Bald
win, a bank teller is missing. - Gold value of
The lega-tender silver dollar (412ls gTains, ss.16
ents. Stocks huctuating and generally higher,
losing feverish and irregular.
The WEATHEP.--TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate clear partly cloudy weather, with low
followed by rising temperatures. Thermometer
yesterday: Highest, $50; lowest. $40; average,
50ls0.