Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-04-02

THE New York authorities appear to
have at last begun i'm earnest crusade
against the scourge of typhus fever,
which has been devastating that city.
A rigid inspection of lodging houses and
cellars has been tegun by thirteen picked
physicians, and by officers of the sanitary
squad.
THE deadlock in the Republican judic-
ial convention of the Fifteenth circuit
Branch and st. Joseph cOunties) lasted
until the significant number of 329 bal
lots had been taken, when it WIS finally
agreed to settle the contest by drawing
lots, and Russell R. Peeler, of st. Joseph
county was the lucky man.
The advocates of postal telegraphy do
not propose to permit their project to
-languish during the vacation of Congress.
Ford, of Wisconsin. who intrOduceda bill
in the last Congress for system of gov
eminent telegraph, announces that as
soon as the next session cOnvenes he
will commence active operations.
SINCE it has been definitely settled that
Gen. Lew. Wallace is to vacate the gov
ernOrship of New Mexico for the
position minister to Uruguay and Para
quay, gossips have it that the Peruvian
mission is to continue to be held by
citizen of Michigan, and Ex-representa
tive Brewer is mentioned as probably
successor to Judge Christiancy.
THE Consul of the United States at
Hamburg informs the Department of
State that an international exhibition of
power and work machinery will take
place at Altoona from Aug. 1S to Oct. IL
The Hamburg American Steamship Com
pany offers to take back to New York all
American objects in the exhibition free,
provided the goods are sent to the exhibit
ton by the cOmpany's steamers.
THE Democratic Senators have resolved
in caucus to resist by every possible
means the proposed change of Senate
officers, and protracted struggle, not of
brains or logic, but of physical endur-
ance, has commenced. 1t begins to look
as though the Republican Senators could
only carry their point by summoning
back to Washington all their absentees,
and thus making quorum with the aid
of the votes of Davis and Malone, the
former of whom in speech pledged him
self not to fillibuster.
AT A meeting of the Republican State
Central committee, held in Detroit in
January, W. S. George, of Lansing, a
member of the committee, was authorized
to print and distribute the Republican
state tickets. 1t was claimed this would
secure the certainty of having the tickets
correct, but the result has been very diff
ferent, for they have been found to be
uniformly incorrect, so much so that
circulars have been sent out by the sec
rotary of the committee calling atten-
ton to the mistake and stating that I'M
less the ballots were reprinted and cor
rected "the ballot would be fatally
erroneous" This error may cost the
Republican ticket many votes, as in the
newly settled counties of the state the
polling places of many of the townships
are so distant from the county seats and
business centers that it is a difficult
matter to reach them, especially at this
season of the year, and the short time to
remedy the matter, remaining before the
day of election, makes it extremely doubt
! full whether all the out towns can be
reached with corrected tickets in time.