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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
THAT FRAUDULENT TICKET.
"The Mountain Labored and Brought Forth
Mouse"

"The Mountain Labored and Brought Forth
Mouse"
Our Democratic and Greenback friends
prOfessed to be wonderfully disturbed
over the appearance of ticket that was
more or less circulated Monday. In the
afternoon dodgers" were issued calling
a meeting of "honest men" at the Town
Hall that evening to take steps to cir
cumyeRt Charles F. Gibson's efforts to
circulate fraudulent tickets. Their
whole cry seemed to be aimed at Mr..
Gibson the Republican candidate for
Congress from this district. How little
foundation there was for their Ihus and
cry can best be explained by the follow
ing letter from s. B. McCracken which
has reference to the ticket in question.
The representatives Of the same party
in this district endorsed Mr.. Gibson for
Congress and his name was put on the
ticket for that position. This is all there
was to the "fraud"
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLES PARTY
To the Editor Of the Evening Journal.
DETROIT, Nov. 3-The act Of political
adultery sought to be perpetrated by the
Democrats and portion Of those repre-
ssnting the former Greenback party, 80
awakened the just Indignation Of thous-
ands Of Independent voters in Michigan
that conference was held at Lansing,
Sept. 30 at which straight Butler cleo
t0ral ticket was nominated, as follows:
Moses w. Field John ID. Cotharin
Wildman Mills J0hnathan =. Hinshaw.
John j. Watkins Charles III. Williams.
Aaron s. Dyckman Benjamin Fox.
Frederick D. Carnahan Chas. H. Stone.
Andrew Harshaw Charles Benton.
Herman Goeschel
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
NORTHERN TRIBUNE
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1884.
MARINE.

he Dahlia. the United States light
house steamer was in port Monday fore
noon.
The Atlantic arrived up Yesterday
morning, having been delayed by the
storm.
The schooner Pensaukee is loading
lumber from the Cheboygan Lumber Co.
for Chicago
The tug Duncan City went over to
st. Mary's river Saturday night after
tow of logs.
The papers report foot Of snow in
Owen Sound and vessels going into win
ter quarters.
The Flora arrived up Friday night
and passed on to st. Ignace and did not
call in going down.
The tug Chas. +. Pendell was hauled
out at Bunker's ship yard Monday hay
ing her rudder fixed.
The steambarge j. E. Potts vas in
port this forenoon bound from Lake Su-
periOr to Cleveland with lumber.
The Champlain arrived Sunday
morning and left about noon the same
day on her return trip to Chicago.
w. S. Smiths tug in addition to her
new boiler and enlarged engine is to be
housed in from bow to aft of engine
room.
The City Of Mackinae did not arrive
up Monday until about noon. Being so
late she did not call in when bound
down.
The barge banner, loaded with lum-
Der, has been at anchor at the mouth Of
the river three weeks, waiting chances
to tow down.
The Leyiathan delivered the schOon-
or White Star safe in Chicago last week.
The tug left Milwaukee Monday night
for this port.
The Ste. Marie arrived down from
the Sault Sunday morning, and started
back just as soon as she could discharge
and take on her freight.
Captain Pollock, formerly Of the
schooner Parana, we understand will
command Thompson Smiths tug Major
Dana the rest of the season.
The tug Champion had to leave the
schooner Gsrritt Smith and run to Che
boygan On account of the blow. The
schooner is in bad shape and likely to
prove total loss.
The Van Raalte arrived down from
the Sault Sunday evening with a broken
crank pin. She was over three hours
coming from Dingman's dock to Che
boygan. She remains in port until re-
paired.
The Messenger arrived last night,
haying had rough trip down. Captain
Bouchard reports the Lawrence having
loft Manitowoc fifteen honrs in advance
Of the Messenger. The Lawrence has
not yet arrived.
The schooner Mlllard Fillmore was
released Saturday by the tug Andrew
j. Smith. Seven hours after they got
the steam pump at work she was afoat
The Smith lowed her to Port Huron
where she will 60 into tho dry dock for
repairs. Quin the diver examined heI
bottom Sunday, and found her consider.
Co. L~r
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE,
Lansing, October /, 1884

Notice is hereby given, that the following
described Swamp Land situate in Cheboygan
county, heretofore reserved on road contracts
or licensed as hon esteads, which land has re-
verified to the State, will be RESTORED to
market at this Office on the 18th day Of No
vember, A. ID. 1884, at ten o'clock A. M, and
will be subject to sale according to the form
pragcribed nv law
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
For Sale.

100 acres Of good farming land situated with.
in one half mile from Mullet Lake Station.
Apply to SAMUEL II. TAYLOR, Agent.
0erow Block. Cheboygan. Mich
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
MINOR s. NEWELL,
MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE,

IHIlSInR, OCC. Ist. 166f. J
Notice is hereby given, that the following
described Agricultural College Land, situate
in Cheboygan county, forfeited for non-pay-
public auction at this Office Nov. 18th, 1884, at
ten o'clock A. NJ, unless previously redeemed
according to law.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
Team Work.

Sealed proposals will be received until noon
Nov 9Th, by the Board of Water Commissioners
for drawing from the Cheboygan Lumber COM
pany's mill, and piling under the shed at the
pump house, 500 cords OF slab wood. The
rected by the Board. 1t may be necessary to-
have some of the slabs drawn before sleighing-
the balance to be drawn during the ensuing
winter, and in any event must be delivered as
early and as fast as required, Make proposals
at certain prices per cord-for sleighing, also
for wheeling. Address
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS,
j. p. luton, Sec
Cheboygan, Oct 22nd, 1884.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06

The Saginaw Valley was In Sunday
evening.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-06
MINOR S, NEWELL,
Enrp fniSainnnr
MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE,
lansing Oct 1st. 1884,

Notice is hereby given that the following
described Swamp and Agricultural College
Land, situate in Cheboygan county, forfeited
for noB-payment Of taxes assessed in 1881, will
be offered for sale at public auction at this Of
fee Nov. 18th, 1884, at ten o'clock A. M, unless
previously redeemed according to law.
MINOR s. NEWELL,
mis-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-08
WISE WORDS.

Youthful rashness skips like a hare
over the meshes of good counsel.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than
labor wears. while the key often used is
always bright.
Women jump at conclusions, and gen
ally hit; men reason things out logically,
and generally miss.
He is poverty stricken who is so alb
sorbed in the one little inclosure of which
he holds the title deeds that he loses his
grasp on the bending universe.
Calumny crosses oceans, scales noun
tains and traverses deserts with greater
ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like
him, rides upon poisoned arrow.
Courage that grows from constitution
often forsakes the man when he has oc-
casion for it; courage which arises from
a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
He that gives good advice builds with
one hand; he that gives good counsel and
example, builds with both; but he that
gives good admonition and bad example,
builds with one hand pulls down with
the other.
Intercession is the very safety valve Of
love. When we feel that we can really
do nothing at all in return for some re-
markabe kindness and affection, how ex-
ceedingly glad we are that we may and
can pray.
The detractor may, and often does, pull
down others, but he never, as he seems
to suppose, elevates himself to their posi-
tion. The most>he can do is maliciously
to tear from them the blessings which he
cannot enjoy himself.
All trust is dangerous, if it is not en-
tire; we ought on most occasions to speak
all or conceal all. We have already too
much disclosed our secrets to man from
whom we think any one single circum-
stance is to be concealed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-08
VOL. XII.
FROM THE MOUNTAINOUS.


Dear World, looking down from the highest
of heights that my feet can attain,
see not the smoke of your cities, the dust Of
your highway and plain;
Over all your dull moors and morasses a veil
the blue atmosphere folds,
And you might be made wholly of mountains
for aught that my vision beholds.
Dear World, 1 look down, and am grateful
that so we all sometimes may stand
Above our own everyday level, and know
that our nature is grand
In its possible glory of climbing; in the hill
tops that beekon and bend
So close over every mortal he scarcely can
choose but ascend. ,,-p.----,,---.-.
Though here, oh, my World, we miss something
the sweet multitudinous sound
OF leaves in the forest a-hutter, of rivulet
lsping around, ~
The smell of wild pastures in blossom, of
fresh earth uptuined by the plow-
The uplands and all the green hill-sides lead
the way to the mountains brow.
One world there is no separation; the same
earth above and below;
Up here is the rivers cloud-cradle; ; down there
is its fullness and flow;
My voice joins the voice of your millions who
upward in weariness grope,
And the hills bear the burden to heaven-hu-
manity's anguish and hopel
Dear World, lying quiet and lovely in a SHIN
mer of gossamer haze,
Beneath the soft films of your mantle 1 can
feel your heart beat as gaze;
1 know you by what you aspire to, by the
look that on no face can be
Save in moments of high conservation; you
are showing your true self to me.
Dear World, behold but your largeness; I
forget that aught petty or mean
Ever marred the vast sphere of your beauty,
over which as lover I lean;
And not by our flaws will God judge us; His
love keeps our noblest in sight;
Dear World, our low life sinks behind us; we
look up to His infinite height!
Lucy Larcone, in Harper'S Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-08
ISLAND POND VERMONT FRIDAY AUGUST g. 1884,

footed and barelegged, and many with
strings of coins around their necks the
result, perhaps, of years OF hard labor
on the plantations.
Water street, upon which the market
stands, is the business street of George
town. 1t extends the whole length of
the city, from the suburb of Werk-e
Rust to the sea- wall, and for its whole
length of about two miles is bordered by
stores and extensive warehouses, which
seem to do large bus ness. There is
large trade here in right-colored cali
Goes, cheap jewelry and such other arti-
cles as attract the negro and coolie popu-
lation. The smaller stores and shops
are run by Portuguese, people who
seem to be born pioneers, for they are
to be found, with their little stocks of
trade, scattered all over this South
American continent; away up the rivers,
far into the interior; no place seems too
remote for them. So it is in Africa, and
in the Polynesan Islands; everywhere
the countrymen of De Cana and Magel-
Ian lead the van of commerce and civil
zation. The more pretentious establish
ments of Georgetown are controlled by
English and Scotch. Several of these
stores are conducted on very large
scale and do an enormous business, car
rying in stock almost everything that
luxury or necessity requires. OF course
the great trade of the colony is in sugar,
molasses and rum, immense quantities
of each being shipped to the United
States and to England every year. The
sugar yield last season of the three
provinces, Essequibo, Demerara and
Berbice was nearly 40, 900 hogsheads.
Running parallel to Water street is the
fashionable thoroughfare of the city,
Main street, lovely avenue, shaded by
giant moras and cottonwoods, and orna-
mented by rows of stately palms. Down
the center of the street runs stream of
water some two or three yards in width,
in which grows the queen of lilies, the
glorious Victoria Regia, with its huge
leaves and large flowers of every shade,
from beautiful pink to the purest white.
On each side of the street are the resi-
dences of "The Quality Folks" large
wooden houses, mounted on brick pillars
and surrounded by broad verandas over
which grow, in wild profusion, creeping
plants of all descriptions. There is an
other fashionable street in the city which
| must not omit to mention, although it
has not a very euphonious name. 1t is
called Brick Dam, and on it are located
the government buildings and the resi-
dence of the American consul. The
buildings are made of white marble, and,
though of no very great height, present
a pleasing appearance. 1t is here that
the court of policy sits, and the govern
ment reigns which Trollope describes as
g a mild despotism tempered by sugar
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-08
The Metal Nickel.

The metal nickel has been made IA
miliar to nearly every one by its extensive
use in plating metallic surfaces, in which
it has largely replaced the more ex-
pensive and less durable silver. In its
pure metallic form it is not very we'll
known, probably not so we'll as it will
be, and there are even those who claim
that it is the coming metal for uses to
Which it is much better adapted than
the more expensive silver and the more
easily oxidizable iron and steel 1t is
safe to say that its importance in the arts
IS now very generally recognized, and
that its uses are destined to be vastly
multiplied. 1t is not many years since
nickel was first separated from its i'm
purlties in commercial quantities and
utilized in its pure state without alloy or
contamination by sulphur, arsenic or
other elements with which it is univer-
sally combined in its natural state. AS
to its geographical distribution, it may
be said that it is found in many locali-
ties, and in various parts of the world;
but only in a few places has it been
found in sufficient quantities and of
sufficient richness to be worked with
commercial success. The recent discov-
cries in New Caledonia (an island lying
east of and near Australia have given
such Importance and commercial cheap
ness to the metal as to bring it into eco
nomical uses heretofore unknown. This
locality is at present the main source of
supply to the world. The only place in
the United States where it has been extern
siVely mined is at Lancaster Gap, Pa.
This is the well known mine of Joseph
Wharton of Philadelphia. He is now
the only producer of metallic nickel
in the United States. The ore from this
mine contains in bulk from one and a
half to two per cent of nickel. 1t is worked
into a commercial state at Mr. Wharton's
extensive works at Camden, N. J. The
important deposits of nickel recently
found in Nevada are now attracting at
tention. These deposits are said to be
rich in oxides of nickel and cobalt. The
grade of this ore is claimed to be as high
as sixteen per cent. nickel, or nickel and
cobalt. Nickel is now worked so as to
be ductile and malleable. This is to be
viewed as a new material, new gift to
the industrial arts, with an unknown
number of applications before it. Its
most extensive use at present in the arts
of plating, and in the production of Ger
man silver. For coinage there has been
a large demand, which is no doubt des-
tined to be greatly increased as its advan-
tages and economy are better understood.
In the last twenty years it has varied in
price from 81 to $4 per pound. The
price in England in 1888 was quoted Gin
memorial to Congress) at seventy cents
per pound. In the form of anodes for pla-
ting, etc., it commands a much higher
price. From 1876 to 1882 the price was
on the average upward of $1.40per pound
for large contracts The production
from the Gap mine to 1888 is estimated
at about 1900, 900 pounds. If the mines
in Nevada turn out as expected the i'm
portation of nickel to this country will
not be necessary. Boston Herald
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-08

"Ten grains in mine, please!" The
speaker was a lady, well dressed and
attractive, who had just ordered glass
of soda water in Broadway drug store.
The clerk took salt spoonful of white
crystals from wide-mouthed bottle and
placed it in the glass. 1t dissolved i'm
mediately. The customer drank the So
luton, paid fifteen cents, and departed.
"That's a chloral fiend, " said the clerk,
''and one of our regulars She takes
that dose three times day, and has been
doing it for three or four years. She has
the habit so bad that | don't believe she
can ever break it..
care there many like herr"
''There must be large number in the
great cities. We have ten chloral fiends
who openly acknowledge the habit, and
about twenty moss who claim they take
it incidentally, and not for the pleasure
it gives. Multiply this by the number of
drug stores, and allowing for the differ
ence in business done, and you can'thav
less than $500 in this city. When chlor
al was first introduced, I think it was
about 1868, it became quite popular. 1t
was put up in patent medicine shape,
favored and sweetened, and sold very
well. There was chloral nepenthe, and
chloral soother, and dozen other nos
trums. But they have all been driven
out of the market"
"What was the reason of it2"
''Well, first, it was too expensive, and,
second and chiefly, chloral in solution is
rapidly affected by light, and decomposes
into chloroform and other compounds.
In several instances this ,decomposed
chloral acted as poison. Now it is used
only in its plain form. Some take it in
soda, Others by the dose, and others
again buy it by the ounce and measure
out their own quantities. 1t must be
very largely used, and it is now imported
and manufactured, not by the pound,
but by the hundred weight, and even by
the ton The habit is very bad. The
doctors have begun to recognize it, and
call it 'chloralism.' A person takes
small dose, and feels pleasant sensation
of ease and quiet, something like the
effect of opium and hasheesh At night
it induces deep and heavy sleep. After
a time the dose fails to produce the de-
sired effect and has to be increased
Finally limit is reached. The con-
sumner gets the relief wanted, but terri
BILE penalty. In the morning the tongue
and mouth are coated, the pupils of the
eyes are dilated and painfully sensitive
to light, and all the nerves shattered like
those of an absinthe drinker. The appe-
tite is impaired, and all the secretions of
the body greatly affected. In the night
he has horrible dreams, and, believe,
ometimes pains through the whole body.
hen chloral user becomes what we
u.l a 'iend' his existence alternates be-
tween half-pleasant lethargy and in
tense misery. The oldest thing about it
is that large majority of the ffends
are women.
'WhaI's the dose9 They start at five
grains and run up. The highest ever
knew was a hundred grains a day.
Nea0 York San.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-08
Blood Drinking.
"Half a pint of blood, please. "

''Half pint OF blood, please.
.'Come this way"
The butcher led the way into the back
of the store into a temporary shambles
where COW had just been knocked down
and was having her throat scientifically
cut.
In few moments the small white
pitcher was returned to the girl full OF
smoking red liquid.
GLOW is NJ this morning?"
''He is better, and he says it's the blood
is helping him."
The girl went out with her pitcher OF
blood and the butcher picked up an
ordinary glass, stepped back in the shsm'
bles and returned with it half filled with
the liquid which was of the consistence
of thick cream.
"There are dozens of men and women
in Detroit who drink blood. We used
TO serve great many customers with 1t.
Now we have only one."
"What do you charge for it9"
''Nothing We never sold spoonful.
Any one is welcome to come here and
drink it. We let the girl come here with
a pitcher because the old man for whom
she gets it is dying and he won't take
any other nourishment; taste it."
mo, thanks"
cit is like rich, warm milk; there is
no taste or smell to it.
Thus encouraged the representative of
the Free Press took up the tumbler and
swallowed mouthful of the fluid it con-
taincd. 1t had sweet, milkish, sickish
taste, half OF which was imagination, and
the other half b-l- -o-o-dl
"The doctors advise it in some cases"
said the Jefferson Avenue butcher "but
with most folks who come here it is 4
tradition. They take it because some
other member of the family took it"
"Do healthy people ever take blood in
this way2'
Eyes, occasionally; just as they would
take stimulant of any kind Drinking
blood won't make fighter of man. 1t
isn't men that drink it as much as deli
cate, consumptive women. We drink it
round the shop when we feel like it. A
pint of blood is equal to a good lunch
any time. n-Detr0it Free Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-08
A Badger Battling,

An amusing incident in lhe unwritten
history of Abraham Lincoln is told by
the Hon. Ward ii. Lamon OF this city,
says the Denver Tribune.
While the gentlemen were law partners
in Illinois, and before Lincoln was thought
of for President of the United States, they
happened to visit an agricultural fair in
an inland town of Tennessee. Lincoln
was in high spirits and seemed bent on
fun. While casting about for such
amusement as the exhibition afforded
Lincoln discovered an attraction in the
shape of a turned-down flour barrel con-
tanning a badger.
"Fifty dollars for dog that will haul
the badger out of the barrel" shouted
the ed-faced man who owned the outfit.
! "Fifty dollars, say, to the dog that
can haul out the badger"
There were a few takers of the badger
mans offer, but the luckless dog owners
who invested twenty-five cents in the ex
pertinent invariably lost in the specula
tion, for the badgers teeth were sharp,
and every dog that entered its strong
hold came out in jiffy. while the fero
cious animal inside held the fort and
grinned all over.
Mr. Lincoln hit upon happy thought.
Taking Ward to one side they found
lank countryman with a still tanker mas.
tiff.
''Want to make $50 with that dog2'
asked Lincoln.
"Course l do" replied the country
man.
The dog was bartered for, and as Lin.
coin approached the badger man, elbow
ing his way through the crowd, he said
"I'll invest a quarter in your game
sir"
"The badger operator looked at Lin
coins hungry dog and smiled as he took
the silver quarter. Lincoln caught the
dog and led it up TO the barrel. Hastily
grabbing the mastiff, he threw it into
the opening hindqu2rters first. There
was pause only of second, and ther
followed lively scrape inside the barrel
"Hold on, there, cried the manager
''Fair play"
But he was to late with the remon
STRANGE. Out sprang the badly fright
ened dog with the badger sticking to
his hindquarters. The crowd parted
and awav went the dog and badger into
the inner field of the race track. The
badger stuck like brother, teams rar
away, women tainted, and the crowd
roared. Lincoln fairly went into spasms
of mirth, the fun was so enjoyable. The
countryman owning the dog was para
lyzed, as was the badger owner, who sci
up great howl and was mad enough tc
fight.
"Produce your fifty dollars" said
Lincoln to the badger-keeper.
"Foul play, foul play" cried the cha
grined gamester, "and I'll never pay
it."
Here is where Lamon came in service,
able. Catching the badgers friend by
the neck, he cried:
"Give up the fifty dollars or I'll wal
lup you"
Lannon's herculean proportions were
too argumentary to be triAed with, and
the money was handed to Mr.. Lincoln,
who in turn gave it to the country,
man.
The dog was well paid for, and the
badger business closed up for the want
of badger.