Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-01-22

population of over 10000.
| AMONG the nominations confirmed
last week was that of Daniel McLaugh
lin, Collector of customs from the Dis
trict of Michigan.
THE Hon. Stewart L. Woodford ha
been reappointed United States Attorne.
for the Southern Circuit of the Secont
district of New York.
A DISPATCH from Vincennes, Ind.
gives report that the grave of the lat
Gov. Williams has been srifled, and tht
casket and body stripped of valuables.
THE House Committee on Agriculture
will move for the passage of bill max
ing the Agricultural Bureau an indie
pendent department and its head a Cab
met officer.
Two members of the subcommittee OF
the House Military Committee will re-
port adversely on the bill proposing tt
make General Grant Captain General Of
the army, and one will favor it.
The House committee on railroads has
instructed its subcommittee to report
to the full committee bill declaring
forfeited the lands granted to the North.
ern Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific rail.
roads. ,..,
THE cOlOred refugees in Kansas refuse
all overtures from their former employ.
ers looking to their return to the south
They would rather die in. Goods cOun.
try" than live under oppression and
abuse.
SOME official census figures on cities
New York 1,206,59O; Philadelphia, $780,
984; Brooklyn, 566,6S9; Chicago, 5O3,3O4
Boston, 362, 535; st. Louis, 35O,522; Balti.
more, 332,1 100; Cincinnati 255, 7OS; San
Francisco, 1886; New Orleans, 216,.
14O.
The New York Tribune, i'm speaking OF
the selection of Mr.. Conger by Michigan
Republicans for q. s. Senator, says: HE
has won his advancement by valuable
service to the country, but his vacated
seat in the House will not be easily
filed"
THE public debt is now less than$1 SOC, :
100000, and over $1OOOOO,OOO of it dis
appeared last year. At this rate it will
not be long before we get through pay
paying Vim. II. Vanderbilt $4,000 every
three months as interest on the 4 per
cents. he holds.
GOVERNOR FOSTER, of Ohio, denies that
he withdrew from the Senatorial contest
ON the understanding that he would be
appointed to a place in General Garfeld's
Cabinet, or that Secretary Sherman
would resign the Senatorship for the pur-
pose of remaining in his present place.
Gov. MURRAY, of Utah, says that the
reason he refused certificate of election
to Cannon, the Mormon candidate for
Represen tative in Congress, was that he
is not a citizen of the United States. He
was born of foreign parents in foreign
country and has never been naturalized.
SENATOR WILLIAMS, of Kentucky, has
speech in support of his bill
appropriating 100000 to be expended
under the direction of the National Board
of Health to investigate, suppress, and
prevent cattle and hog diseases. He will
call up the measure as soon as possible.
1T is said the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee of the House of Representatives will
report favorablya resolution calling upon
the Secretary of state for infor nation
garding Professor Kinds allegation that
fraudulent statistics were employed to
procure the Canadian fisheries award.
THOMAS c. PRATT was nominated for
Senator by the Republicans of the New
York legislature Thursday evening of
last week. Mr.. Platt is native and
citizen of Oswego, N. Y, AZ years of age,
is merchant and has large numbering
interests in Michigan. He was elected
to the fOrty-third Congress, and re-elect-
ed to the forty-fourth. He is personal
and political friend of Senator Conk-
ling.
FRED DOUGLASS has procured man
damus from the Supreme Court and
served it on Secretary Schurz, to compel
the delivery of patents to the land enter
ed by McBaine, and withdrawn by the