Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-05-07

NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
Z ,tered At the Postonce at Cheboygan
Mich. rs Second Glass matter.
SATURDAY. May 1881.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
ENGLAND and the other European
powers object to the Russian proposal
for conference on the refugee ques-
ton.
The planters of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi are said to be resorting to force to
keep the colored laborers from migra-
ting, and when they do escape, pursuing
them and bringing them back, as was
the custom in ante-bellum days.
DURING artillery practice on board the
training-shp Mars, at Wilhelmshaven, a
German station on the North Sea, shelf
burst while the gun was being loaded
Eight men were killed and sixteen
wounded.
A FERRY-BoAT sent out from Nebraska
City, Neb, rescued nearly four hundred
people who had been surrounded by
water for several days nearly drowned
out and almost starved. They were
lodged in the public buildings and pro-
vided with food.
In the British House of Commons the
Conservatives gave notice of an. amend
ment to the land bill setting forth that
the House is disposed to aid in the de-
velopment of the industrial resources of
Ireland, rather than pass bill which
confuses, without settling on perma-
nent basis, the relations of landlord and
tenant.
MRS. JOHN C. FREMONT, the Jessie
Of the campaign of 1855, is one of the
most charming ladies in Washington
society this winter. Beautiful and
accomplished in maturity as she was
in youth, Mrs. Fremont. who is the
daughter of Thomas H. Benton, is one
of the most remarkable women this
country has ever produced.
DURING the first fifteen weeks of the
present year the deaths in New York have
aggregated 10,75O. Only once in the
corresponding period during the past
ten years has the death figure reached
nine thousand and the average has been
about $500, or $3.50 less than this year
The greatest number of deaths in any
one week was 7S9, during last week.
AN attempt to evict some tenants at
New Pallas, Ireland, failed utterly. There
were 500 soldiers and police present, but
mob of 5000 assembled and stoned the
sheriff and his assistants. The police
charged upon the mob several times, but
the bailiff's life being threatened he re-
fused to point out the houses of the de-
linquent tenants. About 200 of the mob
were armed with revolvers.
IN'the State Penitentiary of South
Carolina band of counterfeiters has
been discovered, with a full plant of
dies and other implements. They had
on hand quantities of base dollars, half
dollars, and quarter dollars, which, but
for their light weight. would have been
detected with difficulty. Columbia is
said to be flooded with this penitentiary
money, and some of the prison guards
are implicated in its circulation.
REPORTS received at the Treasury De-
partment show that the exports of mer-
chaHdise from the United States for the
year ending with the beginning of April
is the largest of any year since the foun-
dation of the government. The aggre-
gate for the year named amounts to
$912.257,025, estimating the exports for
April, and the aggregate for thirteen
months amounts to fully 100000, 600,
or more than half the public debt.
THE Washington Post says that a
meeting of western Republican candi-
dates for speaker was held in Washing
ton last week, attended, among others.
by Messrs. Burrows, Kasson and Keifer,
and it was agreed that all candidates
should go into the caucus with their
fullest strength, and that the one poll
ing the largest vote should ultimately
receive the support of the others, in pre-
ference to any eastern candidate.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES says that
he has been seriously misrepresented in
newspaper publications which have con-
veyed the impression, either directly or
indirectly, that the attacks made upon
General Brady were inspired by him. He
says he has endeavOred to avoid forming
any opinion as to Mr.. Brady's exact-re-
lations with the star route contractors
until the Investigation il mnlated and