The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-12-16
GENERAL NOTES.
STRAWBERRIES are ripe in Mississippi

GENERAL NOTES.
STRAWBERRIES are ripe in Mississippi.
n A DISPATCH from Paris to the London
Morning Echo says the announcement OF
the sale of canal shares to the British
government caused great sensation IN
Suez.
The Paris Moniter says there is no
longer any doubt that England has an
eye upon Egypt, and lie Temps declares
that the purchase of the Suez canal gives
England the virtual sovereignty of that
country. f..sft ...rgsE. ..f -s af 3
A GENTLEMAN in Oakland, California,
has entered a caveat for patent for a
contrivance by which he proposes to
attach telegraph wires to the concave
side of the rail ON all lines Of road, thus
doing away with poles. gs
You can t depend on Kansas -four. A
loaf of bread passed into Leavenworth
iail contained two files, knife, bottle
of acid and roll of money. A country
which grows such wheat as that can not
expect to get ahead very fast.
1T is stated that, with view to pre-
venting Austrian Intervention, Mon
tenegro has proposed to Servia an often
siye and defensive alliance, in favor OF
Herzegovina, and, IL the offer is accepted,
both countries will take joint action in
April. -7-t tff .
The people of the country have paid
four billion and half of dollars from
1861 to the present year through the
channel of the revenue bureau. In the
past year tobocco has paid into the reve-
nue. $3S, ,3O3, 46l, an increase of $4,000.
900 over the preceding year. .ia
In the Criminal Court, at Chicago.
Frank Williams and Charles Smith,
charged with repeating at the last county
election, pleaded guilty, and received the
extreme penalty of the law for that Of
tense, fine of 81 900 each, and impris-
onment in the county Jail for one year.
A FREIGHT train ran into a passenger
train, recently, at West Bernard, Texas,
on the Harrisburg and San Antonio rail
road. The rear passenger car was tele-
scoped. One passenger, Henry Roberts,
of St. Louis, was fatally injured, and
died in half an hour. No Others seri-
ously hurt. frt
A GRAND reception was given at the
Royal Palace at Madrid, November %,
ON the occasion of the Kings eighteenth
birthday, and his coming to his majority.
Assurances are again given that the King
will take the field in January, but they
are doubted. The reports of additional
American complications are denied.
AND now the French are sorry they
did not buy the bonds of the Suez canal,
which England took with avidity, when
they were offered to them by the Vice.
roy. The canal is monument 10 French
enterprise and engineering, and the idea
that 1t may be gobbled up by England
is not relished i'm Paris.
SOME silver plate, which had been dis
trained for Queens taxes, was put up Al
auction lately at Hendon, England. IL
was the property of a lady who annually
allows her goods to be seized and sold,
for the purpose of making a practical
protest against not being represented in
parliament. ..
The British iron turret ship Monarch,
of the channel feet, came in collision
recently with the Holden, from Pensa-
cola for London. The Holden was badly
damaged, her bows being smashed in.
The man-of-war was also seriously in
iured, and both vessels put into Plymouth
port. The Holden's officers assert that
the Monarch tried to cross her bow, and,
after the collision, steamed away without
Offering assistance.
TUE Khedive's shares in the Suez
Canal, according to an old arrangement
with the canal company, receive no divi-
dend for nineteen years; consequently
their unconditional purchase by the
British government would, in pecuni'
ary sense, be wholly improbable for that
time, but telegram from Cairo states
that Egypt has agreed to pay to Great
Britain five per cent. on the amount ol
purchase money, four millions sterling
for nineteen years.
A WOMAN aged forty, named Wilhel
| nina Weik, was recently arrested IN
Buffalo, charged with numbering her
step-son, aged fourteen, who had beer
missing since the 2i of November. The
body was found in an old well on the
premises in q nude state, except the
shirt. A chain and other weights were
attached to his neck. The property be
longed to him, and reverting to her owl
child in case Of his death, is the supposed
cause.
THE bark Florence, from Port Dscov
cry to San Francisco, loaded with lum
Der, foundered off the Umpqua river
November II. The crew, consisting o.
Captain Dayton, Chief Mate Anderson
Second Mate Carey, five seamen, and thu
Chinese cook, took TO the boat. In at
tempting to land the boat was capsized
and all were drowned except DAME
Deary, who was picked up and cared fol
by the Indians. The vessel drifted ashore
during the night.
A CoAL-MINERs' strike at Carbon ant
Rock Springs, Wyoming, has been sup
pressed. Gov. Thayer, of Wyoming
took four companies of United States
troops to the mines to protect the works
Of the one hundred Cinnamon hired b,
the Union Pacific, only fortyeight o
| the whole force of both mines have beer
re-employed. The rest have been Offered
passes to Omaha or Ogden, and are leav
ing the country. The Union Pacific in
tends to fill the complement of its work
| ing force with Cinnamon.
| Nm CuApIra Dudley WARNER. writ