Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-05-21

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ACCORDING to statistics gathered by
Colonel I. W. Higginson, there are sew
enty-six females practicing medicine in
this country with an average practice of
$1,000 a year. Three earn from $1,000
to $4,000 a year. and four earn from
$4,000 to $4,000.
AFTER a contest of unusual bitterness,
the Hon. Stanley Matthews was con-
firmed by majority of one as Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. The opposition to him came from
the ablest lawyers of the Senate, mostly
those upon the Republican side. No one
ever doubted Mr.. Matthews ability,
and he will doubtless be. an ornament
to the bench.
A CENSUS report just made on the
glass manufacture of the United States
shows that there were 1874 establishments
in existence during the census year, with
capital employed amounting to 19,415,-
500, in wages, and producing glass and
glassware of value of $21, 013,404. The
results for 1880 are very imperfect. The
number of establishments is put down
154, of employees, at 1887, the capital at
$13,826, 142, and the value of product at
$18,47O,5O7. -
THURSDAY of last week a meeting of
the Legislative joint railroad committee
was held at Lansing to consider the
Detroit union depot bill. John Atkin-
son and Bella Hubbard appeared in op-
position to the bill, and James F. Joy
advocated it. According to the Evening
News John Atkinson completely ami
hilated Joy, but according to the Free
Press the latter gave Atkinson "a sledge-
hammer pounding" "You pay your
money and take your choice" Both
papers admit the contest was equal to
a circus for the committee. e97
UNDER the head of "a Moribund En-
terprise" the New York Tribune explains
that the Worlds Fair project in that
city failed because it was pitched on too
low key, and because selfishness was
the uppermost motive all the time. In
conclusion the Trib une says: "We have
no doubt that an American Worlds Fair
will be held at some time during the
next decade. but the present prospect is
that Boston or Chicago or some other
place where there is more active and
better organized public sentiment than
exists in New York will be its location.
If New York secures the fair, after all
the bungling and laundering Of the past
two years, it will be by fresh hands and
brains taking hold of the enterprise and
placing it on higher plane than that of
the mighty dollar.
JUDGE MCCRARY, of the United States
Circuit Court, has just decided that an
Indian, however civilized, cannot vote
in the United States. Last fall a suit
was instituted in Omaha by John Elk,
an Indian, against Registrar Wilkins, Of
the Fifth ward of that city, for refusing
to allow him to vote, the purpose being
to determine his right under the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to
the Constitution of the United States
The Registrar demurred on the ground
that Elk was not citizen, and Judge
McCrary has sustained the demurrer
There are quite large number of Indian
voters in this state. Several In this
county all of whom have voted for years
and we are of the opinion that they will
continue to vote Notwithstanding this
decision. In Maine and other states
there are also large numbers of Indians
who have enjoyed the elective franchise
for many years. sae