Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-06-04

NORTHERN TRIBUNE, |
Entered at the Postosace at Cheboygan
Mich, as Second Glass Matter.
SATURDAY, JUNE A, 1881. i
EDITORIAL NOTES.
GENERAL GRANTS railroad contract |
has been approved by the Mexican Sem
ate. He is now en- route for the states.
AN effort is being made to connect the
name of Secretary Blaine with the star
route ring. 1t is believed to be unjusti-
fable.
THE Cornell crew will not be allowed
to row in the Henley Royal Regatta be-
cause they did not make entry for it on
or before March L.
The Iowa Republicans will open their
campaign early. Their state convention
is to be held at Des Moines June 10Th,
with about one thousand delegates.
THE excess of exports over imports for
the twelve months ended April 30, 1881,
is s259,013961. For the twelve months
ended April 30, 1880, it was 178,460,218.
FRANCE is not to be held responsible
for the destruction of the property of
American citizens during the struggle
to make q Mexican empire, engineered
by Napoleon Ill.
PHILADELPHIA's gas works trustees are
to be prosecuted by the city. 1t is alleg-
ed that they haye allowed some $4,000
600 to deviate from the receipts to their
own private bank accounts
GEN. MCMAHON, one of HancOck's
frmest friends, believes he will be NOM
mated by reclamation in 1884, as his
superb conduct 'takes him above the
mere plane of political dog-fghting."
Mr.. ROBERT P. PORTER, Chief of the
Wealth. Debt and Taxation Department
of the United States Census. states that
the net debt of all the cities and towns
of the United States with a population
of over 1900 is $570,471,373.
ANEW YORK jury gave Mrs. Albert
Watson damages to the amount of six
cents in her suit against Herman Meyer
for kissing her against her will. The
jury must have thought the provocation
very great, or the kiss very poor one.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Star is authority for the statement that
Tilden is laying plans to 60 on the track
once more. He proposes to be nominated
and elected governor of New York in
1882, and secure the presidential nOmi
nation in 1884.
In the southern states, which have 13s
electoralyotes, nearly 45 per cent. of tht
voters cannot read and write. In SOutf
Carolina 81 per cent. of the voters arr
illiterate. These figures speak loudly il
favor of some more general system O
education for the south.
THE total receipts from custom source
for the first 81 days of May were $1S,3OO,
600, internal revenue 100000. The OF
binary expenditures for the same perio,
were $13,3OOOOO, including 100000 in
spection claims. and not including in
terest on the public debt.
FUNERALS of the victims of the Lon
don. Ont, calamity lasted all day and al
night. There were not hearses no
collins enough to meet the emergenc
and vehicles of all kinds were used t
convey the dead to the cemeteries. From
the accounts given by some of those VIII
survived the Victoria, the behavior o
rough characters on board had much t
do with causing the disaster.
On the LIST the new temperance la,
went into effect in Nebraska. 1t II
quires that there shall be no screens, n
shades, no blinds, no curtains, no obsts
Gle at all between the public and the gi
mill. That the "keen sunlight of pull
licity" shall show up every man VIII
drinks, and there shall be no sneakin
around back doors. The saloon-keepeI
are making preparations to evade th
law in various ways.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, is not without he
princely benefactors. Mr.. ]. II. Wad
has claim for the enduring gratitud
of her citizens. He has presented to Il
city a park of hundred acres, bearin
his name, and worth half million
dollars. 1t has front on Euclid avenu
of itself one of the finest avenues in Il