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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10
A TrOtting Wonder.

Says the San Francisco Bulletin: The
buckskin mustang, Don Elipha, is ex-
pected to arrive here from Los Angeles
on the steamer Orizaba. This wonderful
horse. without a pedigree, has an inter-
esting history. He was for long time
worked in hauling stages in Arizona,
and has done considerable cavalry SER
vice in that country. One Of the feats
performed by this half-breed while in
cavalry was the carrying soldier one
hundred miles in one day. He was
purchased by Smith and Billings, of Los
Angeles, two years ago, for mere song,
and put in training. He has trotted five
races in the Orange Grove City, and
when he scored 2:30 he shut himself out
of future contests in that locality until
the racing stud shall be improved. This
is the best record made on any course in
Southern California. The last race won
by the Don was a two-mile race for 81, 900.
A brilliant future is predicted for the
Don, and it is expected he will yet 60
the string under the twenties.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

A SARATOGA preacher delivered such
a powerful sermon on charity, that the
congregation went home and hunted up
forty-fve old coats and three stepladders
for the grasshopper sufferers.
WHAT good are all these spelling
schools going to do any way? Nasty
has made $3.50, 900 spelling words wrong,
and where will you find a man who is a
perfectly correct speller, who has made
half that amount out of it.
You ask me, wondering why sing
And why my lips In laughter part;
The rippes of my mirth all spring
From the deep sorrow at my heart,
A smile is easier than tear
That serves to keep sad memories green,
And always through what is, hear
The echoes of what might have been.
Tempe Bar.
He was rich American in Paris, who
discovered that an unpleasant-lOoking
fellow followed him every day from
morning till night. He became uneasy,
and diplomatic inquiry was made
whether the man who watched was con-
nected with the police. AS a result of
much negotiation, .he unpleasant person
was arrested, and proved to be gatherer
of butts of cigars. The rich American
only smoked famous brands, and only
smoked them half up, and it paid to
follow him.
"ARRAH, me darlint," cried jamie
O'Flannigan to his lOquacious sweet
heart, who had not given him the oppor-
tunity to "get in word even edgewise"
during two hours ride behind the little
bay nags in his oyster wagon, fare ye
atther knowing why your cheeks are like
my ponies there" "Shure and its be-
cause they're red, is it?' quoth the
blushing Bridget. Faith, and better
raison than that, mavOurneen. Because
there is one O. them aich side of wag-
gin tongue"
A CORRESPONDENT, who evidently
cares nothing for the fact that the tresses
of the Lydia Thompson style have gone
Out of fashion, pens the following She
whom l love has golden hair, the Lore
ley's witching, golden hair, an aureOle
beyond compare, fit nimbus for her face
so fair. She whom l love has golden
hair, cascades of dazzling golden hair,
with dancing CLEANS that seem to dare
cen mock the suns bewild'ring glare.
She whom l love has golden hair, Col
conda mines of golden hair, sly Cupid's
fell and fatal snare to haste me to fore
seen despair.
In my nOstris the summer wind
Blows the exquisite scent OF the rose!
D for the golden, golden wind,
Breaking the buds, as 1t goes,
Breaking the buds, and bending the grass,
And spilling the scent OF the rose!
o wind of the summer morn,
Tearing the petals In twain,
Waiting the fragrant soul
OF the rose through valley and plain,
/ would you could tear my heart to-day,
And scatter its nameless pain.
EVERY duty brings its peculiar delight,
every denial its appropriate compensa-
ton, every thought its recOmpense, every
love its elysium, every cross its crown;
pay goes with performance as effect with
cause. Meanness overreaches itself; vice
vitiates whoever indulges in it; the
wicked wrong their own souls; generosity
greatens; virtue exalts; charity trans
figures, and holiness is the essence of
angelhood. God does not require us to
live on credit; he pays us what we earn
as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or
hell, according to our choice.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

BY J. i. L.

Oh, time Of fairy iancles Of youth and its ro-
OF green and happy valleys which our light steps
wandered DER
With all their sweet birds singing and dewy blossoms
The spell that once thy gates unseaed our lips re-
peat no more.
On ivied tower and hoary rests the same soft summer
glory,
On banks Of yellow cowslips where the same glad
On the gardens scented posies its white and crimson
roses
And orchard walls where blushing fruits are rip
Full in the sunlight golden, still stands the dial
With the dainty blooms around it, and above, the
But there the shadows linger, where times efacing
Der each sunny moment passeth, and beareth it
away.
Where are the autumn rambles, through the mellow
fruited brambles,
The nuttings in the dim woods, and the fairy tale
To which our hushed hearts listened while the win
try easement glistened
Midst the hoar-frost and the starlight in that
once upon time?"
Till through our childish dreaming swept elfn glo-
And we wandered mid green woodlands all aglow
with fowery store;
Where little lettering maiden, scarlet-hooded,
blossom-laden,
With her small feet traced the messy paths-return-
ing Hevermore.
Ye plots Of bushing flowers ye fragrance breathing
bowers
And the blackbird's joyous carol, under skies Of
softest blue;
Care is the dreary warden of lfe's enchanted gar
den,
And the bitter herbs that grow therein, and rose
mary and rue
The fount grown to river, 1t backward foweth
never,
And manhood scorns the simple joys that once be-
guiled the child
But sternest paths Of duty fall heavens dews in
balmy beauty,
As upon the daisied meadow, so upon the rugged
wild.
After spring-buds, faint and tender comes the
mer's eafy splendOr
After autumn's golden garner, the winters sterile
bough
And the old man still remembers sitting idly by the
embers
Glowing brightly on the hearth, the faded hopes
OF long ago.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10
OUErN VIcroRIA has n shrewder hes

QUEEN VICTORIA has shrewder head
for business than she is ordinarily
credited with. Some time since, for the
sake of encouraging struggling artist,
she purchased Miss Thompsen's picture,
"Roll Call" Since the purchase the
picture has been on exhibition at a shil-
ling head and has paid for itself ten
times over, furnishing her Majesty with
all the spending money she will require
for her summer trip to the Highlands.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN, on the occasion
of her Boston farewell to the stage, was
presented with bronze statuettes of Mer-
curry and Fortune. Miss Cushman's
"last appearance on the stage" began in
the year 1862.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

A CHESTER county (Penn.) farmer
says: If any one wishes to induce the
mole to eat poison, better put in the
worm or bug; yet better plan would be
to set small steel trap, properly placed,
in his road with as little disturbance as
may be, or sink q small tin box or tin
fruit can in his track, with the top on a
level with the bed Of the road, and cover
over the top to keep it dark. They will
in their travels drop in, and, as they are
very poor climb bers, may be secured.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

A low stretch Of leafy wall, sentineled by pines
Bright through the Pickering openings the hurrying
river shines;
Beyond green sweeps Of pasture the golden corn
And on the russet upands the browsing cattle
stray.
Whitley, along the hillside, the winding highway
creeps,
Above the waving orchard tops the farmhouse CHM
And higher yef, the serried trunks of oaks and
beeches climb,
And form along the hill tops long and bristling
line.
Far, lar away behind them, the grand old mountains
tower,
Each In his regal robe and crown, and pomp OF
kingy power;
They sit upon their purple thrones, and keep their
solemn state
Encircled by the courtier clouds, that seem their
will TO wait.
Framed by the gabled window, STEPPED in golden
mist,
Hangs the picture, now by shadow, now by swift
sunshine kissed
With .garlands Of thanksgiving, lily and rose,
fain
Would crown the dear Gods picture seen through
the window-pane.
-Y0uth's Companion.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

THERE were 2,147 vessels built in the
United States last year, 404 of which
were steamers. The gross tonnage of these
2,147 vessels is 432,725, in round num-
bers.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

Humility is the solid foundation of
all the virtues.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21

fatality that has attended the people con-
nected with the Public Library of Kentucky
Is rather startling. Gov. Bramlette lost his
wife and son, and then died himself Charles
Briggs, his associate, lost his wife. Judge
Hardin, recent law partner of Gov. Bram-
lette, died. Casseday, editor of the Public Lii
brary paper lost his wife, and McCarty, su-
perintendent of the Library Building, also
lost his wife. Harris cashier of the business
office, died recently, and James Chambers,
who succeeded him, had death in his family.
There were three other recent deaths in the
families of those connected with the library.
Altogether eleven persons who were connected
In the library scheme have departed this life
or been bereaved by death since its Inaugural
ton. 1t is a very heavy mortality in the
comparatively small circle. and is pointed out
as quite singular fatality. st. Louis Re
publican.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
RAILWAY MORTALITY.

Scr'bner's for February has the following
La his address before the mechanical section
OF the British association, Prot. Jas. Thomp.
son discusses the question OF Improvements
IN railway engineering. By reference to the
reports for the last twenty-seven years, he
shows that In the early part of that period
about one passenger in five million was killed.
Through the period the number steadily di-
minished till, in 1873, it was one in eleven
million. Among the employees of the roads,,
however, very different state of affairs exists,
for IN the same year, 1873, one ont of every
SO employees OF the railroads in Great Brit
am lost his life. The grea. majority of these
accidents occurred at stations and along the
lines IN the operations of coupling and shunt-
ing, or switching the CAS- from one track to
another
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE

on Louisiana affairs will be here to-day
as the dispatches state. Seven members com
pose the committee. Three have been here
and after a full and thorough examination o
all the facts connected with the late election
and Of all the causes which have produced
such frightful and lamentable state o.
our material, commercial and financial condi
ton, have made their report.
What now may be the object Of the -four
members Of the committee who were no.
present in the previous investigation, is not
known to US. 1t certainly cannot be for the
purpose of making a counter-report, for it is
not possible to procure any reliable facts or
data to show any error in the conclusions Of
the report already made to Congress. It is
rumored that the four members will 90 into
the interior for the prosecution OF their in.
quiries, and this supposition is based upon
paragraph in the report OF the previous com
mittee, which stated that "the committee
took such proof as the opportunity offered.
Both parties agreed upon four parishes as
samples of the condition of affairs in that re-
spect, in the State.
Of these, owing to the impo sibility of pro-
curing witnesses from the locality in time,
your committee were obliged to contine
their special examination to the two parishes
most accessible
If the object of the committee is to fill out
that hiatus in the report and to cumulate evil
ience, after the two sample parishes were
into, then the object must be for |
lelay, for it will consume all the time to 60 |
% the several parishes and make out their re-
port and return to Washington before the adj
ournment of Congress.
This delay viii be the excuse of the Admin
stration and of Congress in granting any re-
iet to the people Of the State, or of even as
uming any responsibility for the violent and
legal acts of the army on the two occasions
n 1872 and 1875. 1t would then be a clear
asc OF delay to shirk responsibility.
We trust orr people will aid the com mite
nd give them all the assistance which NAV
9 required, and extend to them the we'll
nown courtesy always given to persons in
Ugh and honorable positions.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
HOW PHIL SHERIDAN SAW THE
TECHE.

AS announced, the brave Phil left on the
as far as Brashear and took tug up the
Atchafalaya, near Pattersonville, and never
''sAw" the Teche, and took up comfortable
quarters on his return on the steamer Whit
ney at Brashear. He remained on board till
II o'clock NJ. of the 10Th, and took special
train for self and party to New Orleans. An
empty car, locked at both ends intervening
between the Lieutenant General and our
friend Barrow, Of Canal fame, prevented
fuller report of the sayings of our hero, who
CONQUERED" all the banliti he INVENT"
and "sAW"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
MIR. BEECHER'S TROUBLE.
from the N. Y. World. 18th. 7

From the n Y. World, 16th.l
Till MIR. MOulton's cross-examination packs
the courtroom and gives the rows of upturnes
faces new expression, no change need be an
ticipated. Yesterday, save that in the after
noon Mr.. Beecher and his wife were absent.
was like the five days that preceded. MI.
Beecher steps now and then around the mar
row space in which his counsel sit, whispers.
to Mr.. Evarts, chats at length to Mr.. Shear
man, or hands Mr.. Porter some note on tbs
evidence.
For five minutes yesterday at the opening
of the trial, MIR. Beecher, Mr.. Moulton and
Mr.. Tilton were sitting in chairs that touched
During most of the day, however, MI. Beech
er sits with all his lawyers between him and
the plaintiff fguratively The only person,
in the room who acts in all things the part Of
a non-combatant is Mrs. Tilton. Facing the.
jury, she sits all day silent. Besides the two
more or less related to the scandal and Mrs,
Tiltons companion, each day sees one or two
new ladies among the audience. As four
fifths OF the audience are in the habit of turn
ing around in particularly pungent passages.
and watching the demeanor of these ladies',
their situation is somewhat trying.
So far as personal support is concerned,
Plymouth Church could scarcely do more than
1t does. Two rows of seats behind Mr.
Beecher and outside of the bar are reserved
for the representatives of the church, and
yesterday, by actual count, nearly fourth OF
the audience was composed of this dense lit
tie group of personal supporters. Reserying~
the seats is not an easy matter where twice as.
many people daily receive tickets as the room
will hold, but 1t is successfully accomplished
by a tall, burly member of Plymouth Church.
several sizes larger than any man interested
in the scandal, who stood in the middle aisle
OF the church on the stormy evening whens
Mr.. Moulton appeared there, and loudly called
for help to put him ont.
Yesterday, some one of the ladies bundered
into the seats reserved for Plymouth Church
people, but this gentleman was fully equal to.
the occasion, and reminded her it was taken.
The modest little clusters of fresh tea-roses
and violets which have stood each day irs
front Of Mr.. Beecber had their counterpart
yesterday in an elaborate bouquet with cut
paper holder that was passed in with some
thing OF counterbalancing flourish to Me-
Elton, and that was followed by basket Of
lowers. Perhaps the funniest thing in it all
vas Mr.. Pryors utter scorn Of the whole per
ormance. By singular coincidence, Mrs.
Elton received bouquet just after her hus--
,and, and, still more singularly, both received
hem, SO cards attached said, from ''unknown
nut admiring" friends.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
Dairy Production in the United States.

convention of dairymen of this countr,
Is holding at present at Utica, New York, ant
on the 18th was the second day. On the oc
caslon of this meeting an address was de-
!lvered BY the Secretary of the Butter and
Cheese Exchange of New York, which furnish
ed the following statistics Of the production
and export of these two: 'The annual Ameri.
| can product Of batter was estimated at l, 400.
OOo,OOO pounds; of cheese at 300. 600, OOO
pounds. The export Of butter is about Is
DOC, 900 pounds, while that of cheese for 1874
was nearly ia, 00O 600 pounds"
The following is from special dispatch to
the Chicago Tribune with reference to other
subjects Of this address:
Some of the Western butter received at
New York is of fine quality. and the average
quality has much improved in the last few
years. Most Western butter. however, re-
celved there has its value fixed by the ex-
porters. Better butter packages are much
needed, and the address strongly recon-
mended metal packages instead of those of
wood. Mr.. Peters thinks there is E, falling
OF in the home demand for cheese, and
to counteract this, strongly recommends the
manufacture Of small cheese. The manufac-
ture OF skim-milk cheese was strongly con-
demned. The guaranteeing of WEIGHTS of
cheese by the shipper was thought i'm portant.
the Western Rural on
DAIRYINCi IN THE NORTHWEST
map was shown giving the regions in
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, in
which dairying has become prominent, aud
history Of the rise and progress OF the bust
ness was given also discussion of the OBJ
stacles and circumstances favoring prosperity
in these States. Liability to extreme drouth
was named as the most serious obstacle. The
cheap lands and abundance, and cheap food
in summer and winter, except in times of
great drouth, give a marked advantage. The |
cheese product of these four States for 1874 |
was estimated at twenty-five million pounds,
and Northern Illinois producing
most OF this and about equal quantities. Iowa
produced about one million two hundred and
fifty thousand pounds Minnesota but few
hundred thousands of pounds. The probable
Increase OF cheese product for 1875 was given
t twenty per cent
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21

La Grange (Ga.) Reporter says: "What has
become OF the negroes? This is a question
which forces itself on the minds of the think
ing men of the South with peculiar emphasis
at this particular time. Heretofore there has
been no difficulty about homes and employ
ment for all the negroes who wanted them.
But matters have greatly changed in the last
twelve months. Comparatively few white
farmers will be able to obtain supplies this
year with which to feed laborers, and conse-
quently the majority will be compelled to do
without laborers. This will throw the negroes
on their own resources, and their resources
are-nothing. They have no provisions on
which to live while making crop this year,
and they have no means of obtaining them. We
expect to see considerable suffering among
this unfortunate class in the course of a few
months; and we expect also to see an alarm
ing increase of crime among them.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
THE DEAD CONE TO LIFE.

Our reportorial boudoir was invaded yes.
terday by a man named John Dormer,
whom we had chronicled as having been
drowned Tuesday. The unexpected appa-
rition of man whom we had supposed ere
this was food for fishes caused dismay and
horror. The Indignation Of the man who
would not stand burying was finally appeased
on our promise to acqualnt his friends of his
safety.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
THE WAC OF THE DETROIT FREE PRESS.

| National Republican,
U. T. Lewis is the wag OF the Detroit Free.
Press. During the past three years he has,
written some of the finest touches of senti-
ment and human nature in his police court.
proceedings that have ever appeared in the.
United States. Unlike Bailey, he did not in
herlt his wit unlike Mark Twain, it did NOT
come to him through associations. The truth
Is, 1t was blown into him. He was an ordi-
nary stupid country printer, about Ann Arbor
and Lansing, Mich, until he took it into his
head to go on tramp" After footing it TO-
Louisville, he engaged to work his passage on.
steamer to New Orleans. The first day out
the steamer blew up.
Lewis, one of the victims, was sadly Scared
and crippled, but as soon as he got able to
write he sent an account of his experience and
sensation in being blown up to the Detroit
Free Press, which at once established his
reputation as versatile genius. On his re-
turn home the Free Press took him on it's
columns as items man. The leading editor
said the other day that he had to watch him
IKE hawk, for about half the lime. like old
Milton. he clings lovingly to the --latest
emanations of his brain. Lewis writes n
good deal far the Eastern weeklies, over the,
signature Of IN. Quad TIA bourgeois en-
quad he says "as it is worthless in print
ing Office. except in its own line-it won't
Justify with any other type" Lewis will last
some time.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21

SrAxB.-This prince OF newsdealers has
just received large batch of newspapers,
both daily and pictorial, from the North, in
which are contained all the news relative to
matters aad things in Louisiana.
We would call special attention to large
lot of Frank Leslies he has received, contain
ing an account Of the outrage committed here
on the 4th list. by the military. Give Staub
call at his stand, No. 60 Canal street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
THE LOUISIANA CONMTrTrr

Inc three Republican members of the,
southern Outrage Committee who are going
TO New Orleans leave tomorrow. 1t is iikelv.
that MIR. Marshall may be induced to recon
s,der his intention of not going and go along.
ne nas consented to do as his Democrats
trends think best Qd it seems to be the gen.
eral OPINION that some modicum of blacken-
ing should be got into that bucket of undi-
iuted whtewash which it is the purpose of
this second investigation to find. uf the
three Republicans it is said that there is a
small chance that two of them wheeler and
Frye may prove equally as fair men as Foster
and Phelps. George F. Hoar, the third man
and the chairman of the committee. is be-
heved to be too strong partisan to become,
convinced by any possible statement of facts.
washington Cor. 81. Louis Republican, 1s.h inst.