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Day
20
Month
February
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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Tilden has a good hold in California, according to some of our exchanges. The editor of the San Francisco Chronicle saya that California is about cqually divided Ictween Grant and Blaine. The Ameriean criminal record finds tbat there is a decrease in the tramp nuisance, whii'h lio uttriiutu.- to un iniurovement in businesn. Owing to the recent advamv in paper, iron, and, in fact, all coinrnodities, thore is a s!rong tendency to repeal or raodify the t8riff 'w The Berrien County llocord comiuenced its four'eenth year on the I2th. Mr. John G. Holmes, the editor, knows how to niake a good paper. The London Trish relief coniuiittee have purclia.seil Ü1U.OO0 worth of potatoes for distribution in Ireland, to be used as seed potatoes, to guard against a famine neit Tilden hasteneu to deny the repwt that he was soob to be married, but doea not find time to deoy that he i a Presidential candidato. As long as the barrel holds out he considera bis chances good. The Massachusetts Republicana want the wan nominated who can poll the largest vote ; at least so says the Boston Journal, whieh further eays tliat Grant, Blaine and Sheruian have earuest supporters. The wom' n of this State can now enter the political arena, as the last Legislalure passed a Iaw niaking women eligible to the office ot' township school inspector. We doubt Many availing thomselves of this opportunity. The Moruion eider, Thatcher, has returned hume from Mexico somewbat disappointed in his mission. l'he Mexican governnient wül profeet the Morraons in thiir worship, but not iu polygumy. In (bid rCMiuct Jlexiivi i nnt a hit liukiid the United States. A $50,000 stock oompany will be foinred in St. Louis. Mo., to cslablish a coraaiercial ageney at the city of Mexico for the transaction of legitimate bnsiaefs by sample, and lo do such öthor tuineseas promises profitable resulte. Helbie long this long neglected field will l.e ihoronglily cultivated by enterprising buïJ))us men of the United States. There ia one Presidential candidate legs th;m was expected, as Efpb. E. B. Washburue has writK n a leticr to Gen. Logan, saying th.it he will not bc a candidate under any circunj.-tances, and that he is for Grant without qualification. Mr.Washbume also withdraws from the ubernatorial contest in Illinois, as his hmlth is very poor. Poef health is reason sufficient for his not being a candidate, besides he is getting too lar advanced in life to assuaie the respoosibilities of IVsideut. When lecturing bere one yuar agr he wu obliged to sit hile deüvering it ; and, from reports, his health has not improvcd .siuee that time. The old batüe-cry of thu Democratie party of " eorruption," " letrcnehruenr," ''reform," and tliat " ihe Kepublican party is responsible for the hard times," are very amiquated, and will hardly pass niuster at the present tiuie. Their steering ppartaa is sadly out of repair, so that we can oDly wonder where thcy wil! break out next, as they have tried all phases and sides ualiuual live queslion of the day for tUa past üfteen years, and stil!, like the weary Jove from Noah's ark, have not found where to lay their heads. Where tliey will find ucw lields and green pastures neither w nor they know at the present time. The Sugiuaw Ilcralil wysj " Tbe enumeratiirs ho! duty it will bc tg oollect the ceosus statfiaticM, wi 1) have the strong iirin of the (aw to hrtcit them up in their efforts to obtain the requisito information, and parlies who lail to atiewer their questiuiis will do so ut thoir peril. The law IMJjri that all persons abore the age of twenty-one joarï. who fliall refuse to furni.-b ihe iijformalion roquired ly the eimiueratoTs, bhaü íi.rfeit and pay a sum not eroeedin 1(K). OfhYiuN of jirivata corporations who slia.ll ïofuse to answer the queetions pro.uundcd and afford the oensus-takers the faciliiies for obtaining the requiite stutiMics, shall be liable to a finp not exeeeding $10,000." A dispiitch (rom London on the 1-tih, íaj a : ' ' The mbstanee of' the trt aty between thi; United States and France, sigDed at Washington on the 15th of January, for the sel dement oí' claims of French citizens resiJKipe (rom the war of seeession, has been puhli4ied liere. The treaty provides that a conimisHion of three members, one appointed by France, óne by the United States, and the tliird by the Emperor of Brazil, tball meet six uionths aftor the exuhange of raiiliuationc, lo rbitrate definitively on the claims of French subjeets, and on any eountur claim of American citizena who sustined losses under like circumstarxefi. l The treaty applies solely to demand for indemnity origmating from acts of injury commitfed with tlie cognizaDceof the federal authotitics, the United States Oovemment haviu( absolutely re fused to accept the respcmsüiility Por the acts of the Confedérales or for any lo-is arising f rom the loss or emancipation of slaves. ' ' 1 The statement that the Baroncss Burdett CuutU iotends giving $2,500,000 to ameliorato the condition of the Iri.-.h in Iirland, appearx to bc confirme'!. Ilrr plan, as sc-t forth, is to purebase a largo quantity of' laii'l, and then lease it to the peasantry at a merely nominal rent. Thcy are of a class tliat live from hand tn niciuth, and let the morrow take care of itoelf, 80 tlat if tliere ooues a failure of one erop ouly, thcy have to rely upon the houtity of the world to s'ipport them. VVith éúfch a peopie tu deal wilh, tl:cy would ikH :i vaü tluniM'lveij of the advBnt8ges oí' low reot, Uit would so sonn increa.'-e in nutuber on a givtm numliT of arrrs of land that they uould tío lóngej be .npportcd, and the latter end would be ai bad na the íirst. The excuse that renta aro so excessive that they cannot do more than live, hardly scems probable when we know that ihe peoplo in the northern. part of that country, who are more or lesa mixed with the Scotch blood, ra novf doing fiqgly, and are in a im.-t prosporous enndition beeause of thcir frn1' ga! h&liits. '¦'¦ _S The Lto.iinK Bcpublican, of Febrmry 14th, contains the iollowinp, wbít'li eíactly expresses our views on th: subject: ''Tlic Saginaw Herald indulges in ü 'drie' at the Kepublican delegation frorn Michigan to the national oonventinn in. Is7(, vrry similar to the drives which wore prartuvd on that delegation ín ('inri tina ti by federal officials from home and adjutants from Washington. Our State Convention in that yoar gave no instructions, Lut advised its delégate to aot together, if they eould honorably do so. This was all tlio instruotion that should evor be given to representé ative men in a doliberatíve tody. 1F ouf delegation is to be packed, tied up, niul labeled for some particular man, ít would seem best to Rhip twenty-one wooden efigies as freight to CTiicago, dump tlein in the hall, and let one live chairman speak for them throughout tha entire proecdings. This would save a deal qí expeuoc. and anawer every purpose of' the party " bosses." Republicans who are so ardent for one oandidate that they can see no good in any other randidate, or in any Republican supportiog any other candidate, would do well to moderate tboir zoal before tbe oonvention meets, for if by buJIdozing they carry their point, they will have lots of begi;ing for votes to do before election, as bulldozing in the Nortb. begets boltiug. How many votes, think you, rao be spared in the doultful States? Better let bygones be by-gones, friend Elerald.