The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12
MINOR TOPICS.

NEW ENGLAND is infested;with tramps
such fellows as eat at the free soup
houses and'sleep at the police stations in
the cities during the winter. They will
not work when the chance is offered. In
several places the authorities set them to
work sweeping the streets in payment
for food and lodging, and the result is a
riddance of vagrants.
THE outlook for trade is much better
than it was month ago. America is es-
sentially an agricultural nation. She
depends for prosperity on the great sta
pies of production. And this year, though
the wheat crop in Indiana and Illinois is
smaller than it was last season, in the
other wheat-growing States it is much
larger, the corn crop promises to be in
excess of former years, and the cotton
crop is set down at $500, 900 bales. The
hay crop has been excellent both in
quantity and quality, and the yield of
other staples more than realizes expecta-
tions.
The testimony introduced in the trial
of John d. Lee, which has been in pro-
gress at Beaver, u. T., for participation
in the Mountain Meadow massacre in
September, 1857, presents sickening
story of that horrible slaughter. One of
the butchers has been put upon the stand,
and testifes to the affair in all its wicked
details. 1t is in evidence that Brigham
Young knew of the massacre, and ap-
proved of it; that the goods taken from
the victims went into the church tithing
house cellar, and the cattle were branded
with the church brand. Now let the gov
ernment arraign Brigham Young and all
the other accessories to the affair.
THE immense size of some of the pho
tographic productions executed at the
present day is well calculated to excite
astonishment. Recently, pictures of
this kind have been made of the new
opera house, Paris, four feet three inches
in height-these being obtained in one
single piece by well known processes. and
with the aid of large camera constructed
in special manner for this purpose. All
the lines of these remarkable pictures
are represented as of peculiar artistic ex-
cellence-the mouldings, busts, medal
lions, and even the minutest details,
being reproduced with rare perfection.
The attempt is being made to secure pic
lures even larger than these.
By the Life of the Duke of Bruins
WICK" just published in Paris, it appears
that an agent sent by him visited Louis
Napoleon in the prison of Ham in 1S47,
and gave to the prince 100000 francs, or
100000, with which he bribed his jail
ers and secured his freedom. The condi-
tion was that the prince should sign
treaty with the duke, of which the first
article ran thus: "We. promise and
swear on our honor and the Holy Scrip
lures on the one part, to re-establish the
Duke of Brunswick in his duchy, and, if
possible, to unite Germany in one ma
tienality on the other part, to assist the
Prince Napoleon in his design to restore
to France her national sovereignty"
LoCK-oUTs and strikes are the rage in
England. In accordance with a notice
given by the cotton masters of Ashton,
Staley's Bridge, Dunkelfeld, and Massly,
a lockout has commenced in several of
the mills. Unless the operatives yield
within month, the mills still open are
to be closed, as the time of the notices
expires; in which case several thousand
people will be thrown out of employ
ment. A strike set on foot by the oper-
atives in Oldham has gone into effect,
and involves one hundred mills and
thirteen thousand hands. The Working
mems Associations of Yorkshire, Lanca-
shire and Cheshire have resolved to
support the locked out and striking mill
operatives.
The Irish team in the gallant and
closely contested all-England match at
Wimbledon won the Elcho Shield. This
is as America would have it, for victory
over all rivals by the team which the
American team conquered carries but
one inference: that the Americans would
have carried off the shield if they had
been admitted to the competition. This
conclusion is abundantly confirmed by
the comparison of the scores at Wimble-
don with the scores at Dollymount. At
Wimbledon the Irish team made 1900 |
out Of 1900. or about five shots out of
six. At Dollymount the Americans
made 967 out of 1,0S0, which is just
about nine out Of tenor one shot out
of fifteen better! Thus the Americans
would have easily won at Wimbledon if
they had shot as well as the Dollymount
average. Another feather in the Yankee
cap-a result alike creditable to Yankee
skill and English prudence. s..
The North German Gazette, comment
ing on the recent submission of Catholic
clergymen to the law for the admins
tration of church property, says the
Episcopate has thereby abandoned the
principle hitherto maintained that the
politics of ecclesiastical matters can only
be regulated by means of independent
arrangements between the State and
church. The Gazette infers that the
Roman Curia had given permission to
the clergy to decide for themselves, at