Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-12-09


cattle, to be held at Hamburg in July,
1883.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed and
commissioned Clayton McMichael, OF
Philadelphia, United States Marshal for
the District of Columbia, in place OF
Henry, removed. Mr.. McMichael Is ed
itor and proprietor Of the Philadelphia
North American.
GEORGIA has 1888 manufacturing
establishments, with capital of $2O,672,
40. These establishments give employ
ment to over $4,000 men, women, and
children. The South, like the west, will
soon have the strongest of arguments
in favor of protection to home industry.
SENATOR CoNGER says the report OF
his committee on the causes of the de-
cline in American shipping will be
ready for submission to congress very
soon. Having reviewed the causes, IT
will recommend remedy in the form
of a radical change of the laws relating
to pilotage, tonnage duties, etc.
OWING to frauds of startling magni-
tude in connection with the Usage In
dian lands in Kansas, the commissioner
of the general land Office has issued an
order suspending all cash entries made
by single men since June %, 1881,
where lands lie within the counties OF
Sumner, Harper, King and Commanche.
THE Senate Of the United States met
at high noon last Monday, David Davis,
president pro. tenn, in the chair. The
Presidents message was read and de-
partment reports were submitted. Bills
were introduced to increase the number
commissioners to five and to authorize
coinage at Denver mint. Adjournment
was voted at ESQ o'clock out of respect
to the late Senator Hill of Georgia.
THERE were in 1880 1,943 manufac-
tories of agricultural implements in the
United States with the invested capital
of 1862, 1O9,668. The number of hands
employed was 39,5SO. The amount of
wages paid was $15,359,6l0. The value
of materials used was $31, 531,170, and
the value of products was $6S,64O, 4S6,
leaving good surplus over the cost OF
production.
THE Sunday law was enforced at New
York, Sunday, with strictness that sur
prised the residents. Street vendors OF
all commodities, newspapers included,
were arrested. and in Brooklyn the drug
stores were closed. The barber shops
were closed, and tOnsorial artists Ill
hotels were kept busy, as outsiders who
wished to be shaved. claimed to be guests
The street cars were not running, and
express drivers, IL found violating the
law. were taken in. Projectors OF sacred
concerts Jared in similar way.
GENERAL RAUM, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, has submitted his report
to the Secretary Of the Treasury. He
elbows that taxation by internal revenue
has increased from $113,OO0,0O0 in 1873
to $146,5OO,OOO in 1881, and estimates
the receipts for the year at $l45,OOO,OOC
He believes the revenue should be re-
duced from $6O,OOO,OOO to $70OOO,OO0 an.
Aually, and that IL they are continued
at the present rate the Treasury would
contain surplus in short time which
would necessitate the purchase Of bonds
the demand for which by the government
would enhance their value at the cost
of the people. He thinks the duty or
sugar, now amounting to $45,OOO.OO(
yearly, should be abolished, and thai
home producers, as an Offset to the los'
of protection, be given bounty of FL
cents on each pound manufactured. Thu
Commissioner estimates the stock Of dis
titled spirits in bond as about equal t
six years consumption, and thinks al
extension of the bonded period Is press
ing want Of the trade. As the manu-