The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-13

IF'rom tho National Capital.
The internal revenue receipts April 80
were $685., 677; receipts for the month, ST.
or, $3.50. A comparison of receipts for the
first four month Of this year with the cor
responding period OF lS74shows an increase
The Treasury Department has just made a
call for $5,000, 900 of 1862 bonds, interest to
cease the LIST of August next, as follows: Sos,
17,1Ol to 1900; zoos, 44,2O1 to 4S,lOO; 5O)s.
22,4l0 to $4,000; 1,0C0s, 70,651 to 1880. In.
ternal revenue receipts, $597 1853. Grand
total for the fiscal year, $90,266 III. The
Secretary of the Treasury has given direc-
tons to the Assistant Treasurer in New
York to sell $5,O00,000 of gold during the
month Of May, as follows: 81, 500, 900 on the
first and third Thursdays, and 81 ,0O0, 900 on
the second and fourth Thursdays, each.
The Supreme Court gave its decision in
the case of the United States VS.. Farragut
ct al, an appeal from the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia. This is the case
of the commander and officers of the feet
engaged in the capture of New Orleans to
recover prize-money and salvage. The Court
sustained the decree entered below, based
on the findings of arbitrators, that the cap.
not conjoint operation of the army and
navy, and that the value of all captured
vessels is to be computed in the distribution,
as well as those which were subsequently,
restored to loyal owners, from whom they
had been captured by the enemy, as well as
those which were condemned as prize.
Western Items.
Lieut.. Col. A. 1. Dodge has been appointed
to the command of the escort to Mr.. Janney.
in the Black Hills, which leaves Fort Law.
renee on the 10Th instant. -. -. The following
was just received by Gen. Ruggles from
Camp Stampaugh, Wyoming: "a small
party of Indians who stole stock on Big Papo-
ugie, were followed by citizens, and fight
ensued, in which two men were wounded
and three Indians killed. No stock was re.
captured" 1.-THE operator at Julesburg,
COL, reports that seventy-fve Indians
miles west. Of Julesburg, going north.
A Kansas City special says that dispatches
from Wallace, Kan, state that Indians con.
tinue their attacks on hunters and herdsmen
A gentleman named Francis, with outfit and
three men, was driven in after sprghtly
skirmish near Landmarks Fork, fifty miles
north Of Wallace. He was shot at several
times, and has dozen bulletholes in his
e othes. His escape was miraculous. Re.
ports say that the Pawnees, Cheyennes and
Sioux are crossing the road and moving
northward. The Government has ordered
troops. TO. the protection of settlers. Two
. comPsnies OF cavalry and one of the 23d
anientry have left Omaha for the Spotted
Tail and Red-Cloud agencies.
Southern Items.
The Southern Baptist Convention met in
Charleston, South Carolina, May s, and over
three hundred delegates were present, rep
resenting Maryland and Virginia, the Caro-.
linas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Texas.
There was also q large attendance of visitors.
Rev. Dr. James p. Boyce, of Louisville, was
elected President; Rev. DR.. P. H. Nell of
Georgia, Rev. DR.. ]. I. NJ. Curry, of Vir.
and Rev. DIR. Fuller, of Maryland. Vice
Presidents, and the Rev. G. r. M. Coll, and
Mr.. w. o. Tuggle, Secretaries. Reports
were made of successful operations by both
foreign and home mission boards. A dele.
CATION from the Northern Baptists was re.
ceived, and DR.. Cutting, Secretary of the
Amsrieap Baptist Educational Commission
VA Especially Welcomed. .. The Democracy
OF Kentucky, at their late Convention in
Frankfort, nominated John B. McCreary for
Governor.
rr 'f OTlmeS.
The jury in the case of Isaac Brandt. for.
mer State Treasurer of Iowa, who has been
on trial for the embezzlement of State funds
have brought q verdict of guilty on the sec
ond count, which fixes the amount embez
zled at 81 900. There are seven more indict
ments against Brandt, but none will be triec
this term...:..M. B. Johns, County Commits
sioner OF Mcleod county, Mimi, was at
. ri ant In h. -. l. 4
gagged in surveying. Tampka attacked Johns
with q pitchfork, running one of the tines
the whole length of his arm. Johns, in self
defense, killed his assailant by crushing his
head with stone.....Joe Reed, colored
man at Nashville, Tenn, killed policeman
who was Nresting him for wife-beating. He
was arrested In attempting to escape, and
placed in Jail. At night an insane moi
broke the Jail open and conveyed Reed tc
= the suspension bridge for the purpose O
q hanging him but, the rope breaking, he fel
. TO the rocks fifty feet below, and wa
= drowned.
80 Mrs. White, wife of colored man, wa
=, found dead in her room, in Boston, recently
and her body badly burned. Several col
ored men were arrested, who are suppose,
to have killed the woman and then burned
the body to conceal their crime.
4 jas Coulter, an old resident and an hon
orable mar, recently foreman of the CONNIE,
cidl Office in Leavenworth, Kan, committed
suicide recently by taking laudanum. II,
had been expelled from the Typographical
Union, and published as a T" rat and de
), faulter, which is supposed to have influenced
him to commit selfdestruction. .... The Euen
ing Post says the steamer City of Hartford
when, passing through East river, ran int,
: and capsized q scow on which were Captain
Costa, his wife and four children, the eldes
seventeen years old. The four children wer,
drowned. The captain and pilot of the Cit,
o., Hartford were locked up, in default o
5000 bail each, to await an Inquest. :. :. ..Of
hcef Battcn was shot dead, at Plymouth
Mass, by Christopher Stoddard, whom h,
had attempted t arrest. The fire company
was called out and secured Stoddard aftel
he had emptied his revolver.
Disasters by Fire.
,At,12 O'Clock at night fire broke out in
the Bruce Blocks, on Main street. Mont
:, pelier VT, which ragged for four hours, de
stroying about thirty stores and dwellings
a strong wind prevailed, threatening thu
business portion of the town, but forum
b 'ately changed, and drove the flames towart
1.-THE dwellings. Both sides of the street fol
p nearly one-fourth of q mile were burned
The FIRE companies of neighboring cities
contributed to the suppression of the flames
- The lossis estimated at 81 IA, OOO Mclean,
paper mill, at Factoryville, N. Y, burned
Loss $4,000.
The breaker, at Donty 4 ,Bsumgardner'l
ecollisyy, near Shamokin, Pa, was burned b,
an incendiary. Loss 800, OOO Two hundred
men and boys are thrown out of employment
by this fire.
Casualties.
A gale, April 20, did some damage at Roch
ester, N. Y. A barge laden with iron ore
bound from Ontario to Charlotte, was aban
doned, and is supposed to be lost, with -four
persons. The Leighton Iron Works, at Eas
Rochester, were blown down. Loss, $4,000
A 6shing-boat, containing three men, cap
Y sized In Lake Michigan, recently, at shor
distance from the shore, while trying To