Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-27

THE President has nominated Bret
Harte, the well known California poet
and sketch writer, as Consul to Glasgow.
He is nominated as from Colorado.
THE pension bill for the present fiscal
year will require siXty-twO millions OF
dollars. In 1881, siXty-three millions, it
is estimated, will be needed for pensions.
and still new claims keep coming i'm,
And Congress seems continually anxious
to pass new pension bills.
THE Rhode Island Republican state
convention, held Thursday of last week,
it is reported, chose a solid Blaine dele
cation to the Chicago national presiden-
tial convention. This action will, of
course, produce some effect upon the 9TH
er New England states.
1T is now understood that very i'm
pOrtant concession has been obtained
from the British Government, and that
American cattle will be permitted the
privilege of transit through Canada from
one American port to another. with a
privilege also of stopping for rest and
other accommodation at some places i'm
Canada.
1T is announced i'm Washington dis
patches that the Secretary of the Treas
ury ordered that the payment, without
rebate, of the quarterly interest on the
four per cents due on the first of April
be commenced last Monday. This will
take out of the treasury about seven mil
lions, which. of course, will relieve the
money market of the stringency so much
apprehended.
THE POmerOy Greenback candidate for
Vice President of the United States is
Col. B. j. Chambers, of Cleburne, Texas
He made his neighbOrs public speech
on being serenaded, March II, but it gave
great Offense. He is said to be so unpOp-
ular that he cannot carry his own cOun-
ty. His age is 63 years. Stephen A.
Dillaye, the POmerOy candidate for Pres
ident, has withdrawn from the canvass.
MAJOR RENO may now follow FitZ
John Porter, and apply to the Democrat
lie majority in Congress to try and put
him back in the army with big apprO-
priatiOn. The Offense for which he has
been dismissed from the service is one
which particularly appeals to Democrat
ic sympathy. Ben. Hill i'm the Senate
and Acklen in the House, can speak feel
ingly against the cruelty of furnishing
such OffenSeS with dismissal from office.
The United States supreme court hav-
ing decided in Tennessee case substan-
TALLY that when the state authorities
arrest a United States officer upon a
trumped up charge, for some act done
in the discharge of his lawful duty un
der the United States laws, and the case
is transferred to United States court,
and the state authorities are beaten, the
state is liable for the costs, the New
York World sees in this another awful
invasion of states rights, and wants to
know whittier we are drifting and what
we are coming to.
A SPECIAL cablegram to the Inter
Ocean says Mr.. S. A. lola, Grand Com
mander and President of the Scottish
Ancient and Accepted Masonic Rite for
Egypt, and the Egyptian ex-Grand Mas
ter of Symbolic Masonry. has just ex-
amined the foundations of the Alexan-
drian ObeliSk, and discovered another
series of stones which not only bear all
the existing Masonic emblems, but fur
nish the key which has hitherto been
lacking to explain the entire dimensions
and proportions of what proves to have
been an elaborate Masonic edifce, in
GLIDING the Obelisk itself, the pedestal,
the staircase. and the foundations.