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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

The poisonous germs that infect the
human system are driven out by Reeds
Gilt Edge Tonic.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

OVER five million dollars of the six
per cent bonds of 1880, all due and pay
able December 31st, 1880, and drawing
no interest after that date, are still I'M
presented and unaccounted for. 1t is
thought that a large portion of them
have been hypothecated as security by
spectators, who cannot redeem them.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

1T is denied in Washington that there
is foundation for the reports that have
going the rounds of the press to the eff
feet that a conflict was impending be-
tween the stalwarts and the new admin
istratiOn. 1t is stated that there has
been no chance for any such feeling to
be engendered. for the simple reason
that the representatives of the stalwarts
in the Senate have not communicated
with General Garfield, or he with them,
upon any of the subjects in which it is
said the difference will arise. 1t is re-
marked here that the stories are started
by those who desire what they are pre-
dieting.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08
A Rochester Physicians Experience.

Rochester Physicians Experience.
r. Caulkins, NJ. D., of Rochester N. Y,
certifies Oct. 9th, 1879, that he has
used the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure i'm
his practice for diseases of the kidneys
and liver, and the result has been salts
factory in the extreme. He says: 81
would now prescribe the same remedy
to all similarly afflicted, and you are at
liberty to state in your testimonials.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

1T is well for people even in signing
the best documents to know just what
they are signing. Several farmers in
Wisconsin, who not long ago complied
with opportunities to sign temperance
pledge, are being astonished by the pre-
sentation of promisory notes promising
to pay cash instead of to practice total
abstinence.
THE petition of James G.. Stewart,
DEM, for mandamus to compel the
Tennessee Governor and Secretary of
state to declare him elected to the state
Legislature instead of FOut, Rep, has
been denied. This leaves the Republic
cans with two majority in the Tennessee
House, and improves their chance of
electing United States Senator.
Mr.. SPRINGER's apportionment bill
provides for 293 members of the House
of Representatives. The ratio of repre-
sentatiOn will te obtained, of course, by
dividing the whole population of the
United States by this number.
Should the whole number be
fixed at 293 Michigan's quota would be
10. The bill also provides for minority
representation, by complicated system
which will probably not be adopted in
any case.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

REUBEN SPRINGER. whose generosity
has done so much for Cincinnati, scatter
ed $1,000 United States bonds pretty
freely as Christmas gifts. He gave one
to st. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, one to St.
Mary's Hospital, one to the House of the
Good Shepherd, one to the Sisters of the
Poor of st. Francis, one to the Good Sa-
maritan Hospital, one to the Little Sisters
of the Poor, one to the Founding Asy-
lum and Lying-In Hospital, and one for
the relief of the outside poor. He also
gave $1,000 each to the faithful servants
in his household.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

THE startling discovery has been made
that the new capitol building at Albany,
New York. has been erected upon species
of quicksand which will certainly dump
it into the Hudson river. 1t is only a
question of time when the whole super
structure, with the hill it stands on, will
slide over the bank and be engulfed in a
common mass of ruin. 1t seems that in
digging for the foundation of the new
capitol the wOrkmen came upon this
quicksand, and tried to form solid base
by laying floor of cement from five to
ten feet deep and equal in extent to the
whole size of the building. 1t is now
discovered that the entire hill on which
it rests is slowly moving toward the
river, and that a greater danger than a
cracked roof threatens life and operty
/ WHEN the arrearageS of pension act
passed Congress its authors averred that
the sum of $25,0O0,00 would be more
than enough to meet az requirements
Up to Nov. last $2t,600,4 s7 had alread,
been paid Out. II IS ascertained at tn
Pension Burean that the averay re arreai
age due the pensioners OF the list is $780,
058. The average amount of arrears OF
new cases is SLIGO. There are now 2S2,'
597 cases on file awaiting settlement.
and the bureau estimates the number of
claims that will be allowed will require
$217, 599,80O for arrears alone, and that
over $20,OO0OOO will be added to the
amount required annually for payments
of pensions. No movement is on foot to
have the time extended for filing of
claims for arrears of pensions.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

JUDGE FREEMAN, Assistant Attorney
General for the POstoffice Department,
has written to the Postmaster General
taking the ground that printed comercial
papers filled out in writing are legally
subject to letter ratios of postage, and
therefore section 232 of the present postal
regulations (allOwing such papers as
bills of lading, invoices, way bills. insur-
ance documents, deeds, circulars and
hand-bills to pass through the mail as
third-class natter should be annulled
as contrary to law.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

THEpublic printer has been investigat-
ing the recent purchase by Congress of
100000 worth of Congressional Globes.
there are only two complete sets in the
lot, and unless about $4,000 is spent to
reprint 1000 sets of the missing num-
bers, the old numbers on hand are prac-
tically worthless. The public printer
suggests that unless Congress decides to
fill up the sets it would be good plan
to have the old volumes sold at public
auction as waste paper.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

STATISTICS in the Postofice Depart
ment make suggestion showing of the
relative value of the Republican and
Democratic parties to the Nation. Count
ing California for Hancock, the Union
was equally divided on the election
nineteen states going for Garfield and the
other nineteen for Hancock. The records
show that for every dollar expended for
mails the Garfield states return $1.OS
for every dollar expended for the same
purpose in the states giving their elect
oral vote for Hancock only So cents are
returned, the first class returning a
profit OF 8 per cent and the second class
creating deficit of 80 per cent.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

A WASHINGTON special says: "There
is prospect that Representative O'COn-
nor, of South Carolina, who owes his
election solely to tissue ballots, will not
long retain his seat in the next House.
Mr.. Mackey, the Republican candidate,
has filed notice of contest. O'Connor's
election was the most barefaced fraud
upon the purity of the ballot ever at
tempted in that state The case of Gen.
eral Chalmers, of Mississippi, is consider
ed altogether hopeless by the Democrats
themselves"
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08

The King of Spain has retained the
Hon.Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, and
Charles B. Collier, Esq. of Philadelphia,
to prosecute the United States for the
recovery of what are know as "the Flor
ida Claims" In 1919 the government
acquired GlOrida from Spain by treaty,
in which it was expressly stipulated
that the United States should make COM
pensatiOn to Spanish subjects for such
injury as they had sustained by reason
OF the American arms in the war of 1872.
In 1923 court was established which
adjudicated these claims, adding Der
cent interest to each, according to the
uniform international rule in courts for
spoilatiOn. The Secretary of the Treas
ury declined to pay this interest, and
ever since 1924 the Government of Spain
which has aprotectorate over the claims,
has been demanding payment. Again
and again have the law officers of this
government decided that they should be
paid, but in some way or another every
attempt to settle the debt has failed.
Now the Spanish Government proposes
to make out case. The amount de-
manded is somewhere near four million
dollars.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-08
100000 Acres
O f
MI CHIGAN LANDS
FOR SALE.
The lands Of the
jackson lansing & Saginaw r. r.

A@oAAoAu6 * S1udW He He
Are now offered for sale
Lo'O prices and Long Time
frn e rallroad is constructed and in operafion
ON jackson to Gaylord, a distance of two
hundred and thirty-six miles. and Will soon ne
completedt straits of Mackinac a f,,,.th %
distance of about ffty-five miles ~ 'A10'
Particular attention is called IN tho
tracts of the best white and Norway nine tim.
Der along the line of the road, and lInon The
Ausable, ChebOygan, Muskegon and and Man.
istee rivers, the most important logging
streams in the state
he farming lands of the COMPANY include
some of the most fertile and well wafered
hardwood lands in the state. Especial atten-
ton is called to the farming lands in Craw-
ford. Otsego and Cheboygan counties, which
are high and rolling; timbered mainly with the
finest hard maple; soil, black sandy loan and
abounding in springs of the purest water
Ihese counties are being rapidly settled. and
the numbering business in the vicinity will af-
FORD to farmers first rate market for pro-
duce for many years.
TERMS OF SALE.
For pine Lands one fourth down. and re-
malnder In three equal annual payments with
lnterest at seven per cent. For farming lands
10 settlers, longer time will be given if desired
SEND Tor Illustrated pamphlet, full of facts
and figures, address,
o. M. BARES, Land Commissioner.
Lansing Mich.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, JULY 9, 1881

of the merchant and transacting
their business on the cooperative
plan.
The Grange press has had no
more powerful influence arrayed
against it than that which comes
from the do-nothing Oranges, and
that opposition is artfully created and
stimulated by the town merchant
and his friends in such Oranges.
But these do nothing Oranges
cannot hold out much longer. The
influence which has heretofore con
trolled them must give way to that
rapidly growing element which
needs and demands the practical
adoption of Grange principles and
methods in their business affairs, and
which will no longer be content to
submit unmurmuringly to the rule
of hostile interests That element is
becoming educated to the real OBJ
jects of the Order, and as it is edu-
Gated it will gather strength and will
use it for the building up of its own
interests
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09

cluded to dig four or FIVE good sized pits
in dry gravel bank, line them with straw,
cut and place the corn in them as soon as
possible, cover it over with straw and
plank, and press it down with earth. This
he did; the work occupying him about
week. In the spring of 1877, as early as
the frost permitted, he opened the first pit
and found the fodder in an excellent state
of preservation. Not having cut it up
when placed in the pits, he was obliged to
use derrick with double purchase and a
heavy team of powerful horses to break it
out. He found that his animals liked the
fodder very much, and in order to con-
sumo the whole of it he added to his herd
by purchasing number of cows. In
consequence of the blunder in planting his
corn, and the success he had in preserving
his fodder as the result of it, Mr.. Mills
says he then and there deviseI the method
which he has since perfected and now has
in practical and. successful use.-1TilEs'
System of Ensilage,by Francis d. MonLtOa
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09
The New Commissioners of Agri-

The appointment of Mr.. Loring,
of Massachusetts, to succeed Mr..
LeDuc, as Commissioners of A gri-
culture, was not well received by
the Grange leaders and the Grange
press of the country. The latter had
made himself quite popular with
members of the Order by his efforts
to subserve the interests of agricul-
ture, and it was natural that they
should regard his removal with dis
favor. Some have gone SO far as to
condemn the President severely for
making the change, and the impress
sion has been made that the new
Commissioner is a mere politician
and knows nothing of practical ag-
riculture. There is, however, a dis
position among many of our leaders
to wait and see what Mr.. Loring
will do, and these, and indeed the
farmers generally, will give him an
earnest support when his official
acts command their confidence and
respect.
1t seems, from a letter which we
reproduce from the Maine Dirieo
Rural, that Mr.. Loring is not only
a practical farmer but a successful
one, and has been a lifelong, an
able and a prominent advocate of
agricultural interests. He is a states
man of enlarged views, in point of
intellect vastly superior TO LeDuc, a
successful agriculturist who takes
pride and interest in his calling, and
it may prove that his selection is an
eminently wise and proper one.
Let us wait and see
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09
Number s.
Jersey Cattle in America.

In 1868 the American Jersey Cat
tie Club was established. This So
ciety has done vigorous and sue.
cessful work in guarding the purity
of the stock and in extending the
knowledge of the merits of this
breed. These merits were not, at
first, either widely or willingly re-
cognized; and the Jersey-or as they
were then and are sometimes now
wrongly called Alderneys-were
seldom seen except upon the lawns
or in the stables of men of wealth.
Gradually, however, the reports of
the great annual yield of butter
made by cows of this breed reused
the interest of practical farmers, and
the growing demand for the butter
of these cows further increased their
popularity; and soon the little cow
which had been laughed at as an ex-
pensive, foolish luxury, became to
practical breeders of butter stock
an absolute necessity. In fact, the
growth in numbers and in value of
this breed of cattle in this. country
during the past eight or ten years
has no parallel in the history of thor
oughbred stock. A dozen years
ago Jersey cattle were not seen at
the shows; half a dozen years ago
they were shown, but with no ex-
pectation of rousing much interest,
much less with the expectation of
winning prizes, for none were of
fered for this despised breed; three
years ago. at large fairs, Jerseys
were not classed with or judged ac-
cording to the rules which govern
tie exhibition of thoroughbred cat
tie. To-day in nearly every State
in the Union, the Jerseys shown
out number any other breeds upon
the grounds, and in some States
they outnumber all other breeds;
it is about the stalls of this breed
that, to-day, the largest number of
interested spectators gather; and
this breed during the past year has,
in the average amounts realized at
public auction, taken its position at
the head of all others in the United
States.-JerSey Cattle, by Richard
Goodman, fun. .r
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09
French And American Agricul-
furists Compared.

Our attention is often called no an an
alogous system of landholding estab-
lishe in France by the Code Napoleon
more than three-quarters of century ago.
But engrafted as this system has been on
people unused to it and ignorant Of its
effect upon the political economy of the
state, it has not secured those popular ad
vantages which in our own country, led
the eminent French philosopher, De Toe
queville. to attribute to it the stability and
vital force of or instructions-a lesson
learned here, and not in France. In accu-
rate and economical farming, we NAV per-
haps learn a lesson from France. In her
area of 2O7.4 .4So square miles, not larger
than the largest State in the Union, her
production of local and staple crops is
enormous. Her wheat crop equals our
own. Her cattle and horses almost reach
our number, and her sheep outnumber
ours. With thrifty population, among
whom wealth is quite generally diffused,
her resources in war and in peace are un
bounded and her national vitality is the
admir- alton of the civilized world. That
much of this agricultural prosperity is due
to the fact that the people devote their en-
ergieS to the cultivation of small farms,
, there can be no doubt. But it should be
remembered that the state of society which
goes with this system in France differs so
entirely from our own that she furnishes
no such example of popular intelligence
and personal independence as is found in
the United States. There the home known
to the American farmer is not found. The
American farm house is almost unknown
The peasantry gather for the night into
crowded towns away from their lands, and
go forth by day to til their few outlying
acres. The demands of the State upon
them are not large. They are seldom
overtaxed except in time of war. They
are tempted by none of the honors or
emoluments of public service. They as
nire to no civil distinction, and even when
organized as a Republic, they are warmed
into no personal ambition, and as social
organization furnish no example which
their own philosopher and publicist can
commend as guide to the civilized world.
From The Problem of america Land
Holdine. BY Hon. George B. L0rfng of
MaSsacknseftS.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09

Garfield conld have made. We
New Englanders and Patrons of
Husbandry ought not to find fault
with the President because he did
not take the advice of the National
Grange and retain the old Commits
sioner. We advocate the advance
ment of farmers to Congress, and
certainly the office of Commissioner
of Agriculture ought to be filled by
farmer. | am induced to say SO
much in defence of Mr. Loring, be-
cause he has been twice attacked in
the Dtrigo Rural and misrepresen-
ted both times. L. B. BENNETT.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09

He should be held responsible from
the fact that he is so much their
friend, and so capable of defending
them, that thev always know where
TO go to obtain the ablest counsel
from their friends. 1t well becomes
the people of Iowa to look seriously
to this question. They can be made
the tools to aid in the great conflict
to seal their own doom. or they can
resist by refusing to aid in putting
into such commanding position one
who has always been the active and
efficient agent of corporations
/ozUa Grange Visitor.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09
Ehe Attempted Assassination Of
the President

The whole country thrilled with
horror as the news of the attempted
assassination of President Garfield
sped over the wires. There was a
temporary feeling of insecurity
caused by the shock, but the
1neNCusablenesS of the deed,
the absence of any object to
be gained by it to either person or
party, soon restored tranquility to
the public pulse, except such feel
ing as was caused by sympathy
with the sufferings of the President
and fears of his recovery. Some of
the papers of the country it is true
scent a conspiracy on the part of
the political enemies of the Presi-
dent, but we feel pretty sure that it
was the conception OF an individual
embittered by disappointment and
Selzing upon the opposition of GER
tam parties to the President, as his
Justification. We may denominate
this species of insanity. Conkling
and his adherents might have wish
ed the President a speedy demise,
but would not, we think, have given
even look to have precipitated the
event. That the criminal, is of for
elgn birth, is significant. We be-
lleve that the normal American
mind, under existing circumstances,
incapable, by its form of civilization,
OF such deed. Lincoln's assassin
was of family in which lunacy
was an inheritance.
The universal and profound sym
Pathy of every section of the coun-
try for the President shows how
really and vitally every part is
bound together in the General Gov
eminent and its Representative.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09
How 10 Insure Prosperous Far
ming,

| found financially prosperous farming
made easy at Arrareek farm, in Pompton,
New Jersey; and the statement of its
owner, Mr. c. w. Mills, whom | have
known for many years, will, | have no
doubt, be as much of a surprise and de-
light, to I'll who read it. as it was to me.
The statement was made to me Monday,
april 4, 1881. 1t was that, dUri 1g the
winter OF ISSo-SI, he had kept one hun
dred and twenty horned cattle and twelve
horses, and should keep them seven months
more, with half the ground feed that would
have been necessary if feeding the best OF
of hav instead of GREEN FODDER, which
was the product of thirteen acres of his
farm. The two pits, or silos, in which
Mr.. Mills preserved the green fodder, cost
him about seven hundred dollars, and the
fodder less than five hundred dollars; hay,
to answer the same purpose, would have
cost him seventy-five hundred dollars; 50
that, as the grain consumed In either case
would have cost the same, the profit was
about seven thousand dolars-not taking
into account at all the extra price for milk.
which was sold at premium in New
York because of its richness. | walked
with Mr.. Mills over his farm. / do not
want to say that | never saw poorer one,
but | do not think | ever did. | looked
at the stock and they were in unusually
fine condtion-clear-e fat, sleek. and
lazy as pets I tasted the milk and it was
the best | ever drank. The first expert
ment which Mr. Mills made, and through
which he discovered his system of ensi
lage, was in the fall of 1876. He was led
to it through blunder committed in under
taking toimprove the quality of corn com
mon to the section of the State in which
he lived. He tried to hybridize it with
very superior species of Southern corn.
and in order to accomplish his purpose
planted each in alternate rows in the
spring of 1876. The home corn was fully
ripe and ready to harvest when the South
ern corn had only begun to develop its
pollen, Notwithstanding the latter stood
twice as high as the former. Mr. Mills
had failed 20 take into account, at the time
of planting. this difference in the time of
maturity of the two species, He harvest
ed the home species and left the other
standing, trusting that with favorable
weather he might be able to harvest it be-
fore the frost came, but late in October
the frost nipped the leaves while the corn
was yet in the milk. There were about
20 acres of it, standing II TO Is feet high,
and what to do to savej was the question:.
After thinking the mater over he con.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09
Our Agricultural Progress.

The census bulletin on agriculture
just issued shows that the past ten
years have been the most remark
able period of agricultural growth
in the history of this country. The
The entire cereal product of the
United States has made the enorm-
Gus advance Of nearly one hundred
per cent. During the preceding
decade the increase was but Sc per
cent, while between 1880 and 1860
was 43 per cent. The yield of
wheat alone has advanced from
2S7,ooo,ooo to 5o6,ooo,ooo bushels,
a gain of 73 per cent, while the
product of Indian corn has sprung
from 7oo, 1000, 900 to .I,772, 100000
bushels, an increase of I33 per cent.
The enormous productive capacity
of the great West and Northwest
is shown by the fact that seven
tenths of the entire wheat crop of
States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Cali
fornia and Wisconsin,; while the
three States, Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri together produced in 1879
the year covered by the census
returns-upward of eight hundred
million bushels of corn, or more
than the yield of the entire country
in 1862 Verify the United States
will be able not only to feed its own
rapidly multiplying people, but also
to supply Europe with bread and
meat whenever needed.