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NORTHERN TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1S78. 03cial Paper of the County and Village. L.ET ClIEBOrGAN CO.HE TO TUE FROST. We bare no doubt that the agricultur al products of Cheboygan county this season would average equal in quality and quantity per acre, to any county in the state, What we need to secure emi gration to the county, Is to secure the belief of the people generally that this is the case. A large portion ot the residents of the state are in perfect ignorance ' re garding the resources of the county. We shouU disseminate this knowledge broadcast over the state. This done we would see hundreds of tarmrr3 coming to this locality to settle and improve the land. In no way can this knowledge be spread to so good advantage as to pre pare samples of the crops grown here and exhibit them at the state fair, as the productions of Cheboygan county. This is a matter that we would natural!y look to our agricultural society to take charge of, anil the directors are proper parties to take action in the premises This action should be immediate, so that samples of the growing grain crops could be secured. Let the directors nt once appoiut some gentleman, we would sug gest Col. II. G. Davis,to look alter secur ing the proper samples, and to go to the state fair with them, and exhibit them, and represent the county, It will pay a larger interest on the investment, than could be secured in any other way. Our lriends in Chippewa county saw these fuggestions made in the Tuieune months ago, and are acting promptly in the matter. Will Cheboygan be behind them ? We cau make as good a showing a3 any northe;n county in the stale Again we urge it upon our people, let not this important matter be neglected. EDITORIAL. NOTES. Caitain Gkeen, an American mili tary attache, has received the order of St. Vladimir for the passage of the Balkans with General Goui ko. " , The names of Prof W. W. Payne, of Adrian, a well-known tc:icher and edr. rational author, and ot C. II. Stebbitis, ct Lansing, for many years the deputy in tue SiaU' Superintendent's t-f3cc, are be ing pressed by their friends lor the vu" fancies occasioned by Superintendent Tarbell's resignation. The Republicans of tbeFHirth District have s'lecied as their Congressional can didate the lion. Julinsi C. Burrows of Kalainuzoo. Mr. Burrows i one of the best known of th? Republic ms of the state, and one of the most cfieotive polit ical speakers in the Northwest, has bad public expetieuc, and will make a ute lul and industrious re rcscutatiye. The English sovernincnt will not pro duce the document relating to the SchouvaloS" agreement. If Beaconsfield allowed these to be published, he would betray the seerets of the Russian govern meat as well as his own. and shed more light on the plans, lor the future than would be politic. The English people Lave indorsed but the rirst step in the Anglo-Kussiau programme. The Turks have at last given up the strougly loriifud town of Schumla. The Turk3 captured the place in 13S7, anJ have held it ever since. It was , fortified in 1CS9, and sioce that date has been counted one ot the Turkish strongholds, and in all ihe wai 3 between Russia and Tui key, it formed the point of concen tration for the Turkish amy. The torn is in a gorge 011 the north ilr.pe r' the Kdkans and the J tin. r very extensive. JU- population is aboiuni . too.' ' Tiikke are 2S5 postal savings banks in Canada, with 25,535 depositors and de posits to the amount of $2,541,9S4, the average of each account being $107.87. This a gain of 1,4G1 accoun's and $114. 547 in deposits over 1S77, and for Ihe first time since 1874 an increase in busi ness is bbown, empal ing ihe year w.th that proceeding it. This is encouraging evidence of the re-establishment of pros perity in the Dominion, and of the popu lar recovery from the 1 fleet a ot the crisis of 1S73. At Cincinnati Professors Gilbert and Ilayden, both acronmts of some note, have made a match for a balloon race be tween the balloon 'MAerkenbeckrn hold ing C0.000 feet of ga-s, and the balloon Leuisteele,'' holding 4S.O0O feet. Ilay den bets $500 against $30Q that he, with the smaller balloon, will rise higher and remain in the air longer than Gilbert, with the larger balloon. E ich is to send a man with his rival, carrying an Instru ment to determine the heigh'fl attained The match, from its novelty, is attracting considerable attention. 1 he dale of ihe ascension is not yet fixed. The Duke of Connaught, one f the younger sons of Oneen Victoria, is about to marry a Get man pi luces, and, after me iasnion or th royal mendicants if England, he comes before parliament asking for a little something to start housekeeping with. The House of Com inous has voted him $50,000 a year, with an annuity in the event of his death, of $30,000 to his widow. This is equal to the salary of the President of the United States. The reigning family of England is a thrifty one, anil manages to lay by a very tidy sum from the millions which are appropriated from Ihe national treas ury for the support ot its various scions. A St. PAUuMinn., dispatch.datetl July 25, says the wheat harvest is generally in progress in Minnesota. Reports from fields continue dismal, but allowance must be made for disappointment of the extravagant expectations Urst hdl. The estimate of twenty-five per cent, defi ciency holi's good for some of the South ern comities Other districts will have a full yield. The estimates range from ten to twenty-five bushels per acre. The de fie'ency in the crop will probably be com pensated by increased acreage, making the aggregate product about the same as last year. The quality will be much lower, however. The National Greenback county con vention of Ingham county, last weeki through its committee on resolutions made the absurd charge that the bullion ists instigated the burning of farming implements in Ohio and elsewhere for political eflVct, but didn't attempt to ex plain how these ourrages could have any political effect against the National Greenback party unless that party had in some way been getting mixed up with Communistic doctrines. A delegate was loolish enough ito charge that Z ch. Chandler con I J be convicted of hiring the scoundrels who burned William Johnson's reaper near Pontiac for cam paign purposes. Mexican silver dollirs and United states trade dolhn-3 are purchased at the Philadelphia mint and Assay Office at New York at the equivalent of tho Lon don ra!e for silver on the day of pur chase, less one half-cent per ounce, pay able in standard silver dollirs. The bullion or mint value of the Mexican and trade dollars, under the above regulation and the present price of silver, is about 90J cents. Neither the Mexican nor the trade dollar is a legal tender, and, when offered in payment, may be law fully refused by any one. It was expected that the New Orleans Mint would be ready to commence purchasing JMextcan and trade dollars on the above terms about Aug. 1. The total receipts of the government from internal revenue for the year end ing June 30, 1878, were $ill,0S0.319.91.or $7,905.Sfio 34 less than tlie year preceed ing. Tins is accounted for and is shown to be owing to the agitation of the whis ky and tobacco taxes during the last ses sion of Congress, as it was during that time that the receipts tell off. The de crease was principally on spirits, on which there was a, tax of nimtyeenis per gallon. On this item the decrease was IC.CU3.073. Onbrandv there was a falling off of $379,807. 72. There was an increase of $3,504.17 on retail liquor deal ers, special taxes, and stamps for spirits intended for export. Of the the total revenue receipts for the year. $50, 4J0,502.U4, or nearly one-nait, was from the lax on spirits. tabor-Savin it machinery The Best Fricud of Worklnjmcn, The burningand breaking of farm ma chinery, especially of reaping, and mow ing. ami binding machines is a frrm of outrage never known in the United States unttl the formation of the "Na tional" party, and the commencement ot i:s systematic work of st'mulation, by speeches and documents, an ignorant and dangerous hatred of those who have suc ceeded in acmmulating anything, much or iitile. And it is noticeable that, whr-r - 1 ever the 'Nat.'onulp.irty and its doc- frinrs are pretty wefl osft Wished. tii to: ui of violence has broken out.- We h ive accounts of such outraged ii Ohio, Indiana. .Illinois, Wisconsin.. Missouri. Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan all grates in which "Nationalism" hs acquired something ot a foothold. C't leaving the political aspect of the subject out ot the question, we wish to siv ; something on the economic phases of this labor saving machinerv. v. "'- . Were it not that these outr?gessg;-inst the use of labor-saving machiin rn prove that there is a large class of prfj.iV!it'e,, unreflecting people who are the v.ihnp of very false ideas on this subject'1' would seem useless in this coiiit,r vV.on inven'ions and mnch nery hlVe raised it to one of tlie grandest nosit'o among natrons to argue at all over plain Met that Lit" or-savinff marhinpif? -pa invention are not only the ber ia 'neonnfryiis a whole, hut. elates. It . nd " the working cM.cs. "self-evident that, it the steam engine. : ' , ' v- tions, were stricken oiiPS??- civilized world would thereby he moved back into barbarism. Uut, this aside, every educated person knows that in all countries where labor-saving machinery most abounds there the wages ot" labor are Ihe highes'; and in all countries where labor-saving machinery is least used, their wages are the lowest. Fur ther. hi all countries where labor-saving machinery abounds workui-n live best, and are surrounded with comforts and luxuries which can only be enjoyed by the rich in countries where machinery is little used. Further, wages in all coun tr es are exact proportion to the Increase of labor-saving machinery. Tlie history and statistics ot the world prove this. The United States is peculiarly Ihe coun try of invention and labor saving ma chinery; and workingmeu. receive the highest wages in Ihis rountry and live the best. England employs more labor saving machinery than anv other Euro pean country; and she pays higher wages to labor than any other European coun try. France next; and ro on, till you get to Turkey and Russia, where the least machinery is ued. and where wages will scarcely keep soul and bodv togeTh er. In China. Japan and India" nvichln ery is but little used w:iges half a cent to five cents a day, and millions staivni". Two centuries ago. before England used much machinen, laborers worked hard fifteen hours a day for three pence or les and skilled artisans for a six pence to a shilling a day. In the United States, wIku many now living were youn, eight dollars a month was considered good wages for carpenters, and less for common laborers. Everything was then done by hand labor; and a workingmanV Iiome had a table, fire-he irth. benches, and a little other rude furniture; one suit of clothes was expected to last a whole year; the food was of the coarsest; and the laborer never had any mone v to spend. L ibor-saving machi.iery produc ed employment, and has steadily increas ed wages. Not only does laboravingjaiachinery produce high wages, but it also employs the la-gest number of workingmeu. In countries where there is little machinery there is little labor hired. England, the United States and France swarm with workingmen, because machinery em ploys them. The more factories, mills, mines, workshops and foundries there are in a country, the more men, women and children find employment for wages, and the easier it is for a" working man to make a living. lint let us appeal to statistics the sta tistics of the United Stales. We will be gin with reaping machines, which fanat ics would destroy. Heaping and mowing machines first came into use about the year 1850. They are'now used principally in twelve states. The united States census statistics show the result. The number of farmers and agricultural laborers in these twelve slates In lSoO was 1.301.863. In 1S70. the date of the last census, the number had Increased to 1.641.830 an increase of the number of working men on farms of a million and a third.. But the increase of wages was still more striking. In 1S50. the average wages on farms wag eight dollars a month; in 1870 it was thirty dollars a month. In 1850, the average wages of harvest hands was eighty, cents a day ; in 1870. it was three dollars and seventy eight cents. This year in spite of the hard times, the wages of farmhands by the month was at least twice and a half what it was in 1850. and harvest wages average in the twelve states two dollars and a half a day. This is the result of the enormous increase in farm machin ery. uesiies tnere are now thousand ot men profitably employed in the manu facture and sale of reaping and mowing machines, and other farm machinery. Take the sewing machines, against which the tailor.? of New. York struck in 1S52. because it was going to ruin tail ors, sewing women, etc. By the census of 1850. there were 52.0G9 tailors in the United Stages, having a total population of 23,19I.S76,or one tailor to every 445 people. In 1S70, after twenty ve-rs of sewing machines, there wer 40C 579 tail ors in a population of 38.558.3C1. or one tailors to every 2C1 people one tailor to half as many people after twenty years of'sewing machines as before the sewing machine era. Sewing women increased in like tatio. and vvags in 1S70 foi sew ing women and tailors were more tlnn double what, they were in 1S50. Besides 20.534 people were employed in manu facturing and selling sewing machines. About 1SC0 sewing, pegging and other machines were employed in the manu facture of boots and shoes. Foolish workingmen struck because they said machinery gftkiifrl ruin their trad. But the census teas the story in the follow flures : 9n. 1870. Rands . . 1R1.RV 2"!i.3'f Wasps JUrS"!. $7Uni.S67 Product 106.416.40O ?95 153 565 Ten vears of machinerv in making boots and shoes produced these extraor dinary results ; The nnmbe? of work men Increased inMinlf : the wages paid more than drnbled : and the price of boots and shoes wa red need, f r all oth er kinds of workingmen to bnv. one third. Besides, thousands of mechanics were employed in making these machines, and thousands more in tan ning leath'T to kpf p the micl i ie f o?"f. But some mv say tint the-e are select ed specimens, and still believe that labor savinsr machinery hurts Iibor. Lt u then trv on labor-saving mnCftinr ry by the census figures. These figures include all machinery, and all wo; king men and women employed in 'the trades or work in" for wages." The result is somewhrt surprising, and complete answer to the diatribes of demagogues against labor saving mae'dne-y : f-550 n-'8.fi"9 ITOP..7S0 4fU 21 191 r ISi)-) 1311245 379.S7S.9C,(J RUttS"! 1S70 2 0'3 996 775.5S4SI3 SS 551 371 Thi table shows that during tlie last recorded twenty vears of machinery and invention the hands emp'oyed h ive more than doubled, and Ihe wages nave near ly quadrubled. while the population on ly increased s:xty-seven per cenf. The product Increased the average we- l'h ol every man, woman and child about thre times! Any laboring man, if lie will listen to reason, ought to be cmvineed by these statistics 1 bor-saving machines and invention are the best friends to his his 'class. The statistics of all other coun tries show the same remarkable results. Labor-saving maehirery and inventions everywhere steadily increaKe the number of working people employed; stsadilv in crease the comforts and luxuries wbich working people can buy, because they m ike the prices of luxuries and neces saries cheaner: and steadily increase the world's wealth with which ' to employ labor. They also steadily increase those businesses which must employ labor. They have also 6teadi!y decreased the number of hours of labor per day, and bettered the social; moral, and political condition of Ihe working people. New inventions er-ate new industries, giving new occupation to thousands. And while large factories are increased. Ihe numler of small workshops is much more increased. A single machine is often all the capital required to start in business. No one can point to a single great invention, which has ever injured labor; or which has failed to largely help labor. Detroit Post and Tribune. Consumption Cured. An old physician, rct'r d from ptrc' ice having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a t ,imple vegetable remedy, for the speedy .nd permanent cure of consumption, Pouchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung a Sections, also a positive and radical cure for nervous complaints, after having tested its wonderful cura tive powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his su Bering fellows. Actuated by this mo tive, and a desire to relieve human suffer ing. I will send, free of caarae, to all who desire it, Jh:s recipe, with full directions for preparing and using, in German, French or English. Sent by mail by ad dressing with stamp, naming this paper. V. W. Sherar. 14 Powers? Block, Koch ester, New York. 1-4 w C. T. ALLISON, 3 x -- S3 -m-t Phi - P o hop corner ot Tutl nn.l? Water atreets, opposite Benton House, CHEBOYGAN, !MICll. OPIUM IlaMt & Skin Diseases. Thwuauds cored. Lwct Price. Do not Qui to writs. Dr. V . . Husa. Quincjick MICHIGAN STATE LAND OKKIOE, 1 Lansing, May 1.1S7S. NOTICE is hereby ffivfn, tha- the following de scribed Swamp Land, siinate In Cheboygan county, heretofore reserved ou a Hoad contract, wUich land has reverted to he State, will be re stored to market at thu office, June IS, 1S78, at ten o'clock a u., and will be subject to sale according to the torm prescribed by law. C F. 1'AuTdlDGE, Commissioner. Description. Section. Town. Ranite 8 w 1 4 of s e 1-4 26 C7 JJ I K T O OUR We have removed our stock of & ACROSS TIIE STREET, Next Door to the 3?ostoB.ee9 Where we will be pleased to meet our our old friends and patrons. We will keep a complete line ot Groceries and provisions on hand,' AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. We will always keep Green Fruits and Vegetables In Season. We Have now a nice line of Green Vegetabls andPruts On hand, such as Fresh Strawberries, Chenics, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Summer Squash, Onions, New Potatoes, etc., eic. OUR LINE OF TEAS Is complete, and 1 ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICES- GALLAGHER & fMcDONALD. May 31st, 1878. flose30 and more, by buying a machine that will last you a life time, and that has all the latest improvements. VICTOR EElYCxQ MACHINE CO., ' CXAeral Terms to Agents. 881 W. Hadison St., Chicago, CI. fiend for Circular. ATTENTION! "VFIfc OiFf PKICES Has commenced. Xow is your time to economize. We shall continue to Sell Goods in our Line at Bottom Figures. New Goods consisting of the latest styles of CLOTHITSTGr, DRY GOODS DRESS GOODS, FANCY GOODS,, MILLINERY Constantly ou hand ann arriving on almo .ivery boat, and placed upon our counter- , prices BELOW COMPETITION. Make a note of this. jand examine our goods and prices, as we are de termined to give MORE GOODS FOR ONE DOLLAR Than any other party can or will. Call early and secure great bargains, at the new CHEAP CASH STORE, Opposite Farr & Weed's new drug store. no39tf NOTICE iTo Consumers -O F Tobacco The great cdeUlty of w TIN TAG TO BACBO hare cause many imitations thereof to be placed on the market, we therefore caution ali cliewera against purchasing such immitations. All dealers buying or selling other c co bearing a hard or metalic label, render them selves liable to the penalty of the law, an 1 all persons violating eur trade marks are punishable ; by fine anl imprisonment. SHE ACT OF ! CONGKESS, AUG. 14.18T6. The eenuine LOKILL.AKD TIN TAG TO ' BACCO cm be distinguished bj a TIN TAG , on each lump with the word LOIUIXAR.D I stamped thereon. i Over 7,088 tons tobacco sold in 1877, and f nearly 3,000 persons employed li factories, i Taxes paid Government in 1877 a)out $3, ; 500,000 and during past 12 years, over 20, I 000,000. ' ; - These goods are sold by all olbeis at manu- facturen rates. 43-3m Hotel Property for Sale. DESIRING to leave town I offer the rropprtr kunwn as ibe Hethr ng Hon bo. sUuatcd on the corner ot Main and Pine et eett. Tbisde sii eable property wiU be sold on terms to suit the purchasei. Also . 3 ACRES OF H.AND, 3 miles from the village, well adapted for garden Ins pnrnoscs. 2uue3m ilKS. ALICE IILTUEKIXUTON 3 .V. 03 PATRONS. p&ovmoss. A .ANSPAOH CO. CARRIAGE SHOP JUST OPENED HAVING engaged the services of a first class CARRIAGE UILDER We are prepared to do all kinds ;of work in tha ine, fuch af Buggies, Cutters, Wiigons, Lubering Sleighs, &c. Blacks mi thing And He vy Foging. Shop on Maui street, adjoining. Blake's ma chine shop. WAli kind? of farm prod ace taken in ex change for wo: k. l-ti 0. S. CLARK, L. EUDDOCK. Engraving on Wood. H. C. Chandler, ENGRAVER ON WOOD "Glenn'? Block, Indianapi is, Ind. Esliaaalci en chccriully iuretdoEC npplic Extra SULLIVAN BKOTHEBS, (Successors to E. SP1LLER & CO.) Manufacturers of and Dealers in PARLOR, CHAMBER AND OFFICJ& IF1 TEJ JHL rJV I T U B E -INCLUDING- Spring Beds, Mattresses, Hooking Glasses, Pictures, Picture Frames &, Particular Attention Paid .'to Upholstering and Repairing. UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRANGHS. Office and Salesroom In Howell Clock, y-f jl LOOK AT PAKLOR SUITS-Io Hair. Cloth. Chamber, Wort 'lIneeYet Kai with ilarole Top, $43.50. ' BaUcd Be,l5. Forty Stee SprinSc is m n i Ki 4 hPr,n Canvaas? Sprit - BOOE AITS JOB FEINTING, The attention of business men and othet ecutin all OOK AND -SUC Business Cards, Bill Note and Letter Heads, Hand Bills, Pamphlets, &c. We have just received seTeral fonts of TVe wonM bdyise To Esamine our specimns and Prices Before sending outside for work of DUPLICATE DETROIT Our work is ciraranteed to GIVE PFRFTrrr ATTrAfTriON. Samples and prices of any class of work will be promptly iurnUhed on application, either ou or uy letter, uruers oy man or otherwise lor printing or . . Wddings.. Receptions, Will receive prompt and NORTHERN Ictmgs, Bureaus, Chairs, vx A N f LI I a II. OUR PRICES: T( . $30 to S5. W1 Pa,iela.onSistin of Th:Tc rieccs. : is called to our snrerior facilities for t kinds of JOBPPJNING. II AS- Heads, Statements Receipts, C&eeks, Posters the latest styles ot type Jesir.ed for our husincs mea this class We re able tc OR CHICAGO PRICES" Balls, Parties, Etc : earefnl attention. Address, TRIBUNE, Chboygan Mich