Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-13

the Republican candidates National and
State.
The returns from the county show
that nearly all Of the candidates of the
Republican party slipped in, The slips
were all printed at the TRIBUNE Office.
The st. Ignace Republican claims that
the Republicans of Mackinac county
elected Sheriff, Treasurer, Prosecuting
Attorney and possibly Judge Of Probate.
Commencing with Tuesday the night
train OH the G. r. & l. leaves Mackinaw
City at $3.50 p. m. instead Of 11:50, and
will continue to do so until further no.
tice.
Messrs Gero & Smyth will do every
thing in their power to make the mas
querade at the rink tonight a grand
success. Good music will be in attend
ance.
The Misses Johns, dress and mantle
makers have removed their rooms to the
store formerly occupied by Mrs. Sum-
mers. Attention is called to their ad-
vertisement in this issue.
C. S. Ramsay having declined to serve
as secretary of the Cheboygan County
Agricultural Society, the Board of Di-
rectors appointed Frank Shepherd, and
he has accepted the position.
Watts s. Humphrey went to Detroit
Monday to attend the u. s. court as at
torney for Packard Brothers in their suit
in regard to the lumber about which
they have had so much litigation.
The Democratic brigade Saturday
night cornered Republican and charged
upon him. He defended himself so yal-
iantly that one of the assailants after
wards visited doctor to have his ribs
examined to see if they were all intact.
Mr.. Louis Wiegand arrived Friday of
last week and is stopping with his wife's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. E. Kirkland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wiegand, when they appear
on the street, attract considerable atten-
tiOn from the diminutive size of the
pair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Coner and niece,
Miss Maud Tolfree, expect to leave to-day
or tomorrow for Saginaw, to be absent
three or four weeks. Mrs. Coner and
Maud will visit friends, while Mr.. Coner
makes tour among his customers in
tho large cities.
DuriRg the month Of October there
were S65 passages through the U. s. ship
canal at Sault Ste. Marie. These crafts
carried 5,49S passengers. 54,9S9 tons of
coal, 4,337 ,846 bushels'of grain. 169,S06
tons of iron ore, 176,O66 barrels of -four
and 22,630 feet of lumber.
On the night of the 5th Jerome Eddy,
chairman of the Democratic state cen
tral committee, telegraphed to Grand
Rapids paper that this state had, from
indications, gone Democratic by 10000
majority. That shows how reliable re-
turns from Democratic quarters may be
considered.
Ed. Brown, mate of the Van Raalte,
who is a strong Democrat, says one reas-
on why he don't believe Cleveland is
elected is from the fact that this spring
he took monkey wrench and screwed
down the rooster on the pilot house of
the steamer as tight as he possibly could
do it, head to the front, aud now the
said rooster is inclined to turn tail to
the front.
Hampton, of the Harbor Springs Inde-
pendent, says that it was the National
Greenback party that elected BegOle
Governor two years ago, and it was the
National Greenback party that nomi-
mated him for Representative in the
Legislature. Charlie, don't you think, in
view of the small relative vote cast by
the Greenbackers in the late election,
that you are little cheeky in claiming
so much for your party? Over in this
section it has been generally supposed
that the Democrats had little interest
in the matter.
Medard Metiviar says that the charges
made by our cotemporsry against him
in regard to the defeat of the Democracy
in this county is unjst and without foun.
dation further than the fact that he re.
fused to accept nomination On the tick
ct that he did not want and would not
take under any circumstances. That
previous to their county convention he
had positively declined to accept a nomi
nation for Judge Of Probate, on the
ground that he was not familiar will