The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-07

From the National Capital.

September gives the condition of wheat
when harvested, for all States, as seventy
nine per cent, but quality poorer than for
several years. The Oat crop is superior in
quantity and quality, and Is mostly secured
for the country is eighty.fve. Potatoes are
ten per cent. above average. The wool crop
is full average weight, or little above, in
nearly all the States. Tobacco has fallen ten
per cent: below an average. Hops, New
York and Wisconsin, which together pro-
duce from three-fourths to four fifths of the
entire crop, have largely increased their
average.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decided that under the act of July 7, 1870,
railroad corporations are liable to five per
cent tax, instead of two and one-half per
cent, to August I, 1870, on amount of all
dividends, earnings, income or gains which
accrued before that date, and also on all I'M
divided profits earned by the companies
prior to that date and added to any surplus
contingent or other fund. This question
came up on an application from the
Illinois Central Railroad Company to
abate the tax assessed at the rate Of FIVE
cent was the legal rate under the fifteenth
section OF the act above mentioned......
Messrs. Cresswell, Purvis, and Leopold,
Commissioners OF the Freedmen's Savings
and Trust Company, announce that they
will commence paying dividend of 20 per
cent. on all audited claims, on the LIST of
November.
Southern Items.
The following was sent Attorney. General
Pierrepont September %, from Jackson,
Miss:
The Secretary Of the Republican State Committee
having elegraphed you that the organization OF the
militia has been enjoined by the Chairman Of the
Democratic State Committee, we desire to say the
sS Sy ts g 5 sy sa sS in
lican, on the ground that money about to be
drawn from the State Treasury for military pur-
conflict with the Constitution OF the State and of
the United States. 1t was only the drawing of the
money, ana not the Organization OF the militia,
which was enjoned The undersigned. members OF
tho Democratic State Committee, assembled here
to-day from every part Of the State take pleasure in
assuring you that everywhere throughout the State
the most profound peace and good order prevails.
II. II; Chalmers, E. c. walthall, J. A. p Camp
bell T. B. Sykes, John A. Binford, Upton NJ. Young,
J. b. Chrisnian, VIM. Steed.
Two colored and one white company of
the militia have been organized and mus
tered in.
News continues to come in from Texas re-
specting the terrible gale. The number of
persons known to have lost their lives be-
tween the peninsula and Bernard, on the
Brazos river, are fifty-seven. Later informa.
ton from Trinity river says that three
schooners are high and dry in the fields near
the fork of Double and Whites BayOus.
Every house in Wallisville is more or less
damaged, and it will take years to rebuild
the town, but from the present feeling of
the people it is not thought many of them
will rebuild. Mr.. Mays, who lives half
mile above Wallisville, on Doris Island,
lost fifteen hundred head of cattle and fifty
head of horses. His dwelling was only
slightly injured. Mr.. Lawrence, who lives
about two miles above Wallsville, lost from
one thousand to fifteen hundred head of
stock, among them forty horses. His resi-.
dence was badly damaged.
Disasters by Fire.
The Wooden Mills of George Jackson, near
Little Falls, New Jersey, burned down re.
Gently, with loss of eighty thousand dol
lars insurance, sixteen thousand dollars.
AT recent fire at Haverstraw, N. Y, two.
thirds Of the Rockland Print Works were
destroyed by fire, viz: The old dye.house,
starch-room, plating down room, wash-room
and steam-chest room, and the large eighty.
horse power engine. The roof of the packing. |
house was also burned, but no damage was |
done to the goods. Some unfinished goods |
were burned. The exact loss is not known. |
There Is full insurance. Peter j. Dennan, |
foreman of the printing-room, was instantly |
killed. Dennan and several others were on |
bridge connecting the printing building
with the wash-house, when the gable wall Of |
the wash.house fell, breaking through the
roof OF the bridge and pin-sticking room.
Two other persons were severely injured |
and two slightly hurt. The estimated loss
ranges from S225,0OO to $350,OOO... The
Star Oil Mills at New Brunswick, N. j.,
owned by Charles Meyer, were DESTROYED by
fire. The loss is 500, ZOO; insurance, $65, 900.
......A fire at Hamden, Conn.,, entirely de.
stroyed Clark's webbing tool mandatory,
and also his scissors and needle manufac.
tory. Loss about $4,000; insurance $37,.
OOO. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Casualties.
The London Morning Standard to-day has
q special telegram from Dover, containing
the following: "The steward of the Ameri.
con bark Forest Queen, Captain Burns, with
wood and spars from Port Ludlow, for Havre,
has arrived at the National Sailors Home
for the Destitute, at Dover. He reports that
the Forest Queen foundered off Rio de la
Plata, and that the Captain was killed by
the rolling of spars. A boat containing the
hrst mate and six men put off from the
wreck, and another with the second mate
and five men followed. The latter was soon
lost sight OF by the steward, who was in the
hrst mates boat. On the fourth day one of ,
the men died from exposures on the nine.
teenth day they were sighted by Norwegian
bark and taken on board. The steward, I
with others who were Dutch, were ,
landed ct Ramsgate yesterday. The
m 1atter VIII return home from that port"...... {
The ship Western Empire, Captain BERTHE !
from Pensacola, on the 1lth OF September, !
Tor Grinsley, with timber, became water.
logged in hurricane on the 18th, in latitude
2s0 53' North, longitude so 81 West, and i
was abandoned. The captain and crew
landed on St Vincent's island, Apalachicola
Bay, Florida, in boats from the ship. In h
landing one of the boats capsized, and eight /
men were drowned. The remainder seven a
teen in number, including the captain, landed I
at Pensacola on the oath of September, in a 4
destitute condition......An accident occurred d
the other morning on the Kansas City, st. "
Joe and Council Bluff Railroad. at Win. a
throp, opposite Atchison, Kansas, by which 7
-. Farwell, the Oldest conductor on the road, f
was killed. -
In an accident to the mail train from Chi.
cago, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy I,
road, near Woodburn, Iowa, James Powers. Fl
section fireman, was instantly killed, and G.
ABOUT nifty passengers more or less injured.
One lady, name unknown, had a rib and leo e.
broken: ...T The first accident to the limited u
mail tram happened to the section which a.
leit flttspurg at six o'clock on the evening "a
oI the 18th OF September, over the Pittsbure. n
CINCINNATI q st. Louis Railroad. Edward ~
nchlnney, passenger for Dayton, was p
thrown from the platform, near Lock IL in Ia
Ohio, and fell under the wheels, the train
passing over him, crushing the back part of
MS head and injuring him so that he can not
ecover.
From Sorel, Quebec, we learn that. a few pr
Nights since, q train coming from Yamaska I'll
an over an obstruction supposed to have W
zen maliciously placed across the track. IL
'ix platform cars, on which there were W
bout seventy laborers, were in front of an ed
ngine in the rear, and the train was rim. M
ling at fair speed. Two or three platform m
airs were upset by the shock, and the men on he
oard fearfully crushed and maneled. In e
.leven were killed and twenty-five wounded LII
he wounded were all laborers, and belong IN
D Lower Canada. re