The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
GENERAL NOTES.

DIVIDE l, ZOO, 900, the estimated popu-
lation of Massachusetts,, by five, and you
get that of Boston.
ATTENTION, smokers of short skies I
This years tobacco crop in Connecticut
promises to be the largest ever gathered.
The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon is only forty
one years old, but it is twenty-five years
since he awoke up in London and found
himself famous.
THEhighest mountain in the world has
been discovered again. 1t is i'm New
Guinea, and is 32,783 feet high. They
have christened it Mount Hercules.
JAMES r. MoNIEL, a well-known plan
ter, living eighteen miles below Men,
phis, on the Arkansas side, was assassi-
mated recently, by some person unknown.
The wagering of kid gloves on the
races is fun, not only for the ladies, but
for the merchants who sell 'em. They've
sold 20, 900 pair at Stewards branch store
at Saratoga, this season.
JOHN CoMsToCK, the discoverer of the
famous "Comstock mine," which has
produced $4,000, 900 of silver an a year,
died by his own hand, penniless and dis
cOuraged, and was buried at the expense
of friends.
AN order has been issued by the Paris
police forbidding any person to drive
f0ur.in-hand or tandem in the streets of
the city, unless furnished with a certifi-
cate of capacity, to be issued by the po-
lice after inquiry.
IT has been decided by the English
Courts that a husband can make be-
quest to his wife conditional on her re-
manning a widow, but that the wife can
not bind her husband in the same way to
remain widower..
THE technical name of hanks" APP
piled to skeins of worsted yarn or other
thread, it is supposed, was derived from
one Hankemus de Brabant, Flemish
weaver. dyer, or fuller, who settled in
York, England, in 1871.
IT is estimated there are now less,
rather than more, than 100000 Chinese
in California. The increase of arrivals,
however, is quite rapid. For the first
half of this year 15,807 arrived. Of
1904 who arrived in the last twelve
years but 4, 172 were women.
CORNELIUS WILLIAMS, a negro, was
lately hanged at Jackson, N. O., for the
murder of an OLD man named William
Presson, bridge-keeper at Weldon, some
months since. He made full confession,
duplicating three other negroes.
The remaining members of the once
powerful tribe of Narragansett Indians
are living on small spot of ground in
the neighborhood of Westerley, r. 1.
They stick to agriculture, are eminently
religious, and never NEEDLE in stocks or
taste rum.
A VICKsBURG Herald special from
Macon, Miss, on the Oath, reports riot
at New Hope Church, in which eight
negroes were killed, and several wounded
The cause of the riot was quarrel be-
tween a white man and negro about
drum beating.
PEOPLE may laugh at New Jersey as
much as they please-she is out of debt,
or has larger surplus in the treasury
than is necessary to pay off her entire
liabilities. The excess of receipts over
last year, on O very low tax
rate, was $299, S17.27.
ONE hundred and sixty-four thousand
six hundred and eighty-one melons were
last month from Augusta, Ga,
to Western and Northern markets, and
yet there was melon a day left for
every darkey cultivator in the State
above and beyond the consumption
among the whites.
A SAIL boat in which were two men,
John Irving, of Stonington, and Fred.
Of Brookfeld, N. j., capsized
in Newport lower harbor recently. One
man was rescued by Ida Lewis, who put
out from the Lime Rock lighthouse, and
the other was saved by two Boston men
who put out from the shore.