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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18

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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-18

Read the STAR; but subscribe for II
first.
H. 8. jerks has made up his mind
to try the STAR.
w. A. Deuress has our thanks for a
nice piece of fresh beef.
Remember the meeting Of ex-soldiers
and sailors, to be held in Baldwin to-
day.
Snow fell to the depth ofthree or four
inches, Monday night, and on Tuesday.
1t still sticks.
ID. G. Warner, Esq, is talking strong
ly of renting his place at Chase and
moving to Baldwin.
We understand that Bray intends to
complete tho building recently pur-
chased Of f. Hibner.
Geo. Broffie has huge sign-''Rcs-
taurant''-across the front Of his cstab-
lishment, near the depot.
And now comes Charlie Roberts, and
quietly presents his check for one years
subscription to the STAR.
Geo. G. Townsend Is making all due
preparation for party at his new hO-
tel, next Thursday evening.
Judge Wheeler held special term
of Circuit Court in Osceola county, dur
ing the fore part of this week.
There was no less than sixteen emp
ty and loaded freight cars OH the side
track at this point, yesterday.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
Death from HydrOphObia.

The New Orleans papers record
another sad death in that city from hy-
drophobia, the details of which so closely
resemble the recent case of Mr.. Jackson
in Brooklyn as again to suggest the in
quiry whether it was not, in a measure,
the result of over anxiety rather than of
actual disease. It seems that the victim
Mr.. Harvey--owned a small terrier
which was remarkable for its docile
nature. The children were accustomed
to play with the animal, and no signs of
anger were ever shown until about ten
weeks ago, when, while one of the chill
dren was playing with the dog, it turned
around angrily and bit the child. After
this it inflicted severe scratch on Mrs.
Harvey's hand with its claws. The dog
then showed signs of rabies. When Mr..
Harvey returned home his wife informed
him of the dogs condition, and the fact
that he had bitten the child, whereupon he
went in search of the animal with the inten-
OAOA VI hIlAlllS lu' LII LIS 6uuedVOT 10 R6blu
from its kennel the dog snapped at him,
inficting bite upon Mr.. Harvey's third
finger of the right hand. Mr.. Harvey
sought the services of a physician,
and the wound soon healed. The fear
of hydrophobia continued to prey upon
his mind, however; and finally, while
eating his dinner the other day, he fell
back in terrible fit and was seized with
a choking. His wife called in assistance
and placed her unfortunate husband in
bed, when he was thrown into one spasm
after another, refusing to be famed or
to allow the slightest air to blow upon
him. Water was offered to the suffering
man, which he refused, throwing it away
from him. Soon afterward his limbs
were spasmodically contracted, his eyes
assumed q wild glare and his condition
was similar to one suffering from an
attack of epilepsy. Nothing could be
done to ease him, and after suffering the
most frightful agonies he expired.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
The Opium Eater.

The confirmed opium eater seldom
lives beyond the age of forty, and may
be recognized at a glance by his trem-
bling steps aud curved spine, his sunken,
CLASSY eyesand sallow, withered features.
The muscles, too, of his neck and
fingers often become contracted. Yet
mourning even this penalty will enable
him to indulge his vice only for GER
tain length of time. Unlike the healthy
enjoyment which we derive from our
appetite of hunger, and which nature
herself renews periodically, the enjoy
ment of the opium eater gradually di-
minishes as his system becomes habi-
tuated in the drug. From time to time
he must increase the quantity which he
takes, but at length no increase will
produce any effect. Under these cir
cumstances he has recourse to O. dan
gerous expedient he mixes a small
quantity of corrosive sublimate with the
opium, the influence of which is thus for
time renewed. Then these means also
fail when the victim must bear the
miserable condition to which he is re-
duced, until probably, sooner or later,
he sinks into the grave. On the excita-
BILE temperament of the Malays and
Javanese, strong dose of opium causes
state of frantic fury amounting almost
to madness, and this often ends in that
homicidal mania which has been called
running amuck;" in other words, in
the individual attacking with his crease
or dagger every one whom he meets, SO
that it becomes necessary to shoot him
down with as little conjunction as we
do mad dog. In Java, opium is not
allowed to be sold except in adulterated
form, the risk of these evil consequences
being thus in some measure lessened.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24

as he raised the little figure in his strong
arms and looked into the pale, very pale
face. 1t was only the reaction from
fatigue and anxiety, and in a few mo-
ments Flora opened her eyes to see
Ralph bending over her, his face full of
tender, anxious love.
"Flora, poor child, you are worn out.
l have been careless and selfish not to
watch you more closely. Oh, Flora,
can you ever forgive my impertinent
harshness, and let me tell you how 1 re-
spect as well as love you2"
"Ralph, 1 am a good-for- nothing
flirt, but if you will trust such q tor
ment once more she will try to be a
wife worthy of you" And as Flora
afterward declared, "the man actually
began to find out what his magnificent
eyes were made for"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
Numbering the Sick People.

During the incumbency of Sir Cecil
Beadon, the Friend Of India says, an
attempt was made to regulate the prac-
tice of taking sick people to the river
side to die; but nothing was done then,
as the government of India did not con-
slider any interference in this matter nee
essary, although the more advanced sec
ton of the native community threw their
opinion into the scale with the Ieuten-
ant governor. That some regulations are
absolutely necessary will be seen from
these facts; About five o'clock in the
afternoon, procession was observed
passing through station not far from
Calcutta, accompanied by the usual din
and noise. At the head of the process
sion was q man about six feet high car
ried on litter four feet long, in much
the same way as the bed of Procrustes
in the olden time was made to accommo-
date its victims of any stature. At first
the occupant of the stretcher was taken
for corpse, but on closer examination
it was discovered to be a human being
in the last stage of physical prostrltion.
The head was dangling over one end of
the stretcher, and the face exposed to
the full glare of the sun, which the dy-
ing man attempted to keep off by shad-
ing it with his right hand. This was
observed by his son in the crowd, who
opened an umbrella and held it over
him. The procession stopped at ghat
opposite the station public library, and
the stretcher with its ghastly burden was
laid on the ground. The sick man ex-
pressed wish for something to drink,
and cup of milk was held to his lips;
he then had q smoke and conversed free
ly in the meanwhile with his friends
who he'd followed him. A miserable
looking and shabbily y-attired native, who
was addressed as the Koberai Mohashai,
held the pulse of the sick man with q
gravity of circumstance worthy of dis
ciple of Galen. To cut the matter
short, the sick man was kept at the CHAT
till the Saturday following, and as he
still continued to disappoint his friends
and relatives in their expectation of see
ing him depart this life, he was removed
to another CHAT little higher up the
river, where hewas kept for a time inn
mersed in water, with the head and a
portion of the chest above it, till he ex-
pired in this position. The deceased
was man of the weaver caste and of
some prospects He had removed to
this station some years back from Doud,
where a portion of his family are still
living. Another CHAT murder took place
about two or three weeks ago. In this
case the victim was woman, the wife Of
respectable shopkeeper,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
Tainted Meat.

Thirty-nine tons of meat were con-
demned as unfit for use in New York
city during the year 1874; and it is
probable that under the somewhat lax
system of inspection which prevails this
amount was but small compared with
that which found its way from the stalls
of the retailing butchers, principally to
the poorer classes. While it is known
that certain races of people habitually
eat meat in high state of putrefaction
with impunity so far as immediate dele.
terious effects are concerned, it is well
settled that the individuals are, as rule,
weak and possessed of slight power to
resist disease. The weight of authority
points to the fact that bad meat, no
matter in what form consumed, is pro-
,luctive of illness, the mild symptoms OF
which are lassitude, headache, dullness,
indigestion and loss of appetite, while
severe attacks are characterized by vom-
iting and typhoidal indications. In a
recent English health report it is as
serted that, although it may be difficult
to prove the fact by actual cases, there
can be no doubt that unwholesome meat
is one cause among many of the poverty
of blood and intractable maladies of the
poor, who flock to the dispensaries dur.
ing the hot weather. Especially in sum-
mer is it cause of diarrhea, and in.
stances are cited of both typhus and
typhoid fevers being traced to it's effects.
In appearance, tainted meat is generally
of pinkish hue and more than or
dinarily slippery to the touch, and the
fat is very soft and yellow. In advanced
stages the odor is disagreeably apparent
Shrinkage in cooking, often to the ex
tent of twenty-five per cent, is also an
other indication. We have little doubt
but that large percentage of the bad
meat sold in New York city is due tc
the filthy state of many of the slaughter
houses. s.-Scienttfc american.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
A Case of Lynching.

Iowa, an agricultural State and peace
full, has two or three lynchings every
month, some of which are SO sensational
as almost to challenge credibility. 1t is
not so long since, in the State capital,
Howard was taken from Jail and hanged
to q lamp post at the court house gate;
but in that case the lynching was per
petrated at midnight and the vigilantes
masked. But in the case of Smith, who
was lynched at Ottumwa, there was not
the slightest attempt at disguise or
concealment. AS the murderer, q no.
torious desperate, was being conducted
from the court house to the jail after his
examination, the mob-by no means q
moA in the common acceptation of the
term, since it contained large part of
the most respectable residents of the
city-took him from his guards, hanged
him to lamp post at the door of the
city hall, and left the corpse swinging
there for twenty minutes, its distorted
face in open view. And this between
one and two OF a June afternoon in a
| quiet city of 10000 souls
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
A Hearty Reception.

The American rifle team met with O
most cordial reception in Belfast, Ire
land. Mayor Lindsay and the corpora
ton of the city were at the station to
receive them as they stepped from the
train and escorted them to the carriages.
The crowd in and around the depot fill
ed all available space. procession was
formed and the guests made triumphai
entry into the city. They passed through
streets festooned with banners and pack
ed on each side by crowds apparently
comprising the entire population. The
cheering was unceasing from the mo-
ment they left the station until they
reached the Imperial Hotel. The en-
thusiasm of the populace was so great
and the calls for the captain of the team
so urgent that the mayor introduced
Colonel Gildersleeve, who received
round after round of applause. AS soon
as silence could be obtained Colonel
Gildersleeve said:
"CITIzENs OF BELFAsT-The gentle
men of the American team and their
friends thank you most cordially for this
enthusiastic welcome to your beautiful
city. We recognize this reception as o
compliment to our country, and are
proud of the great honor you do it.
Accept my earnest and sincere thanks in
behalf of the team and the land they
love to call home"
Here the cheering was tremendous.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
An EngalIant Joke.

A st. Paul paper tells this story: She
came from Detroit, Mich, and her great
pride was being an invalid. She lost no
opportunity in stating that she came to
Minnesota to recuperate. She did not
hesitate to enter into conversation with
any person she came in contact with
giving advice-climatological or physi-
ological-to invahds, and seeking the
same from those of robust constitution.
Her conversation was always prefaced
with the Introductory inquiry, so COM
mon to visitors "Did you come here
for your health2" She thus addressed a
stalwart, ruddy visaged young man at
the dinner table of the Metropolitan a
few days since, and the following dia-
logue ensued:
eyes, madam, came here, probably
the weakest person you ever saw. had
no use of my limbs, in fact, my bones
we're but little tougher than cartilages.
1 had no intelligent control of a single
muscle, nor the use of single faculty"
"Great heavensl" exclaimed the as
tonished auditor, "and you lved9"
"I did, miss, although was devoid
of sight, was absolutely toothless, unable
to articulate single word, and depend.
ent upon others for everything, being
completely deprived of all power to help
myself. I commenced to gain immedi,
ately upon my arrival, and have scarcely
experienced sick day since, hence ]
can conscientiously recommend the eli
mate"
CA wonderful case l'' said the lady,
"but do you think your lungs were af
fected 2"
"They were probably sound, but pos
sessed of so little vitality that but fol-
the most careful nursing they must have
ceased their functions"
81 hope you found kind friends, sir
"Indeed I did, madam it is to then
and the pure air of Minnesota that owe
my life. My fathers family were with
me, but unfortunately my mother was
prostrated with severe illness during
the time of my greatest prostration."
"How sad Pray, what was your die
and treatment 2"
"My diet was the simplest possible
consisting only of milk, that being the
only food my system would bear. Al
for treatment, 1 depended entirely upor
the life-giving properties of Minnesoti
air, and took no medicine except an oc
casional light narcotic. when very rest
less. My improvement dated from my
arrival. My limbs soon became strong
my sight and voice came to me slowly
and full set of teeth, regular and firm
appeared"
Remarkable, miraculous Surely
sir, you must havo been greatly reduced
in flesh 2"
Madam, I weighed but nine pounds
1 was born in Minnesota. Good-day.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
The Big Saratoga Trunks.

Jennie June gives the ladies a peep
into the big Saratoga trunks that are
now on their way to the summer resorts.
For both the dignifed matron of fifty
and the stout buxom girl of twenty are
provided fanciful hats with wreath of
flowers inside and another wreath out
side, broad shepherdess hats Of white
MANILA straw and combination costumes
with pockets and sashes matched by
parasols, gloves and all the details of
attire. The only single costumes which
are considered complete are all black
silk or grenadines, and these continue to
possess o certain prestige, notwithstand-
ing the efforts to put color with them
for outdoor as well as indoor wear.
The most fashionable toilets Of grena-
dimes, however, are mounted with silk
as folds, as bows, as facing to the pock-
cts, as sashes and the like. Not as plait-
ing, the silk being too heavy for this
purpose, and not as effective as grena-
dine. But above the plating is some
times another of black thread lace, es-
pecially at the sleeves and neck, and al
ways an inside plating of white lace or
crepe lisse, which harmonizes with the
white chip hat, with its trimming of
black silk, black lace and flowers and the
black silk parasol, lined with white, but
covered with black thread lace, and be-
ing silver mounted or having pearl in
laid in It's ebony handle. There is an air
OF supreme elegance in these black cos
tunes if the details are properly carried
out, but jet is avoided as if it were con-
tagion. Some charming toilets sent to
Newport were combinations of pale pink
and blue faille, with crepe de chine Of
the same shade. The crepe de chine
was used moro as trimming than as a
part of the dress, and was bordered
deeply with soft, messy, crimped fringe.
There was no tablier or overskirt, but
the skirt of one was crossed diagonally
with scarfike folds of crepe finished Oh
the lower edge with fringe, and forming
drapery at the back which was orna-
mented with lovely variegated roses.
Upon the pink the fringe was lined with
white Valenciennes lace, and white snow.
balls were used for ornaments. Toilets
of white muslin, intended for the even
ing wear of young ladies, were q mass
of delicate Marguerite plaitings. With
each one was sent high bodice Of
white or pale tinted faille, with square
basques, buttoned at the back, for veal
or not, but most useful in making varie
ty. A very desirable addition to the
wardrobe of q young lady who goes
much into society is white embroidered
muslin. They do not cost great dea
and can be worn with or without O sill
underdress. They consist of skirt
which is trimmed with two founces of &
tablier with wide sashes embroidered
deeply and in a fine floral pattern upo1
the front and ends, and material with
bands for trimming sleeves and bodice
These dresses require no lace and little
ribbon finishing. and are invaluable fol
wear over an old or somewhat delicate
pink silk.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
IN ADVANCE.
Items OF Interest.
Gen. Dakin, of the American team, is
a heavy shot. He weighs 300.

Gen. Dakin, of the American team, is
a heavy shot. He weighs 900.
Rev. Henry Morgan of Boston offers
5000 for the best essay on Why men
don't go to church"
Duels hereafter will be legally punish
ed in France by fine and imprisonment.
The Partisan fancy stock ridicule the
idea. I1 .s OF. - ..f
A victim of circumstances in Baton
Rouge, La, is in prison because "while
whipping his wife he accidentally broke
her neck"
More than a thousand enterprising
persons came to grief under the common
delusion that they could edit newspapers
in the United States last year.
Mrs. Lizzie Petit Cutler declared in
recent lecture on "Flirts of Modern
Society,"" that it is always the noblest
and best men who are ruined by the
firt."
1t is proposed in Paris to place in all
tobacco shops umbrellas to be hired out
at modest price, small sum being re-
quired as deposit until the umbrella is
returned.
On opening bale of cotton at the
mill of one of the largest Liverpool spin
ners, the other day, much surprise was
manifested at the discovery within it of
box of lucifer matches.
At Middletown, Del, an immense
peach refrigerator is to be built, capable
of holding 200, 900 baskets of fruit, which
the protector guarantees tc keep by
peculiar freezing process for six months.
A reformed inebriate lately informed a
New England audience that any one who
will take an orange every morning half
an hour before breakfast will be kept
quite out orange of alcoholic tempta-
tion. ... .l ... %
The Paris Financial Journal is writ
ten up by five editors, who send their
copy from their places of residence. In
the number of June 10 the copy of each
editor respectively was sent from Paris
prison.
From sundry localities come reports
of the admirable way in which the new
patent wire clothes lines serve as light
ming conductors; conducting it horizon
tally into the neighboring houses in the
most effective manner. .........; ..
Recently the italian Parliament passed
a law for the suppression of brigandage.
Upon hearing of this in Sicily the popu-
lation organized indignation demonstra-
tions, as people here do against prohibit
ton laws. Brigandage is their most
agreeable pastime. .s..t. N.
A series of interesting experiments
have been made at Toulon on board the
iron clad Marengo to work the rudder by
steam power. By means of this inven-
ton one man can do in ten seconds what
it required eight men to perform in q
minute and a half under the former
system. ~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24

To be divorced evidently "runs in the
family" in some quarters. How other
wise can any one account for a circum-
stance so notable as that in q case on
trial in the marine court of New York
Every witness examined on one day,
man or woman, had been divorced.
There were five of them--all more OF
less nearly related to one another-and
of various ages fathers and sons and
daughters, sisters, brothers, cousins all
married, and, though married, yetneither
husbands nor wives, but divorced peo-
pie. AS they are all related it might be
fair inference that the same infrmities
of temper ran round the circle and led
to the same result in all these cases.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
Rum.Selling Under Difficulties.

For some time q warm conflict was
going on in Westerville, Ohio, between
the citizens of the village and one Henry
Fl. Corbin, who recently opened q liquor
saloon within the corporate limits. So
far the war had been one of words: but
one night some persons unknown placed
gunpowder under the saloon building,
and, by means of fuse, the charge was
fired about midnight, causing an explo-
sion which demolished the doors and
and windows, and raised the roof four
inches. Upon Corbin's application,
warrants were issued for the arrest of
the preachers of the various churches
of Westerville, the postmaster and four
other citizens. The warrants charge the
parties designated, and others who are
unknown, with riotous conduct, in as
saulting and encouraging an assault
upon Corbin's saloon. Otterbien Uni
versity is located in Westerville, and for
many years no saloon has been allowed
to exist in the town. The excitement of
the people is very great, and both sides
of the controversy seem determined not
to surrender.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24
Song.

II you have never thing to say,
Why do you come so near me2
Why do you smile at me in way
To conquer king2 Dost hear me2
If you have never thing to say,
Why do you come so near me2
II there is nothing you'd have me know,
Why do you press my hand
When, in dream, we wander slow
Over the darkening land?
II there is nothing you'd have me know,
Why do you press my hand2
If you are wishing me out of your sight,
Why in my path do 1 meet you?
You are my trouble and you my delight
In sweet confusion greet you.
If you are wishing me out Of your sight
Why in my path do meet you?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24

The Indiana census brings to light a
matron who has nineteen children, with
but seven birthdays among them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-24

In Nebraska more than 12, 900, 900 for
est trees were planted last year.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-06-02
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Widows Rights.

A guunt woman jumped into the
Central Station yesterday, bonnet
askew and eyes blazing, and as she
rcachol tho Sergoant's desk she OK
claimed - ....
"l'm tho Widow Coon |"
"Ah !" remarked tho Sergeant.
"And / want to know if my land
lord can raise the ronton me 2" she
went on, ....
~ Guess so; landlords con do
most anything" ...s. ....
"But I'm widow Z"
$50 you say" ...
"And isn't thero law to protect
widow from having tho rent rails.
cd 7"
"Nover heard of one."
"And | haven't any moro rights
than a married woman -
Not one"
"Vory WE'LL" sho said, shutting
hor teeth together and striking the
desk elf widow hasn't any rights
I'll marry somebody aforo sundown
you hear mo now I
And she kicked over oh air an
walked out.-Dct,oit Free Pres.