The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-24
GENERAL NOTES.

."H o~too VI hdsSdcnuSetJS mas JUS
had occasion to make lone of $4,000,
for the completion of new State Luna
tic Hospital. When the bids came to b,
opened they were found to be eleven il
number, amounting in the aggregate te
more than $7,O0O,000, and ranging from
100 to liz. The awards were made a.
iollows: William B. Astor, $4,000 al
IL, and $4,000 at I'LL; New York
110a.
THE General Synod Of the Evangelical
lutheran Church of the United States
las just closed in st. Marks Church,
Baltimore. The Synod has 769 ministers,
l,22S churches and 176,029 communi-
cants. 1t is one of the four bodies of
Luthsrans in America. The other bodies
are the German Lutheran, the Lutheran
Church South, and what are sometimes
called the High Church Lutherans.
The New York Times recites that re-
cent researches by one of the oldest
banks in the country have disclosed the
fact that of one thousand of its best de-
positors, chiefly business firms, forty
years ago, only six remain at the present
day; and that the residue have either
failed or died destitute of property. This
evidence of the mutability of earthly
fortune appears to be borne out from
the records in the New York Probate
Courts, whose histories show that in the
settlement of estates about ninety per
cent. prove to be bankrupt.
THE immensity of the national debts
is shown by Blackwood's Magazine which
shows that since 1860, when America en-
tered the market as borrower ut pro-
digiOus rate, the indebtedness of the
world has increased at the average rate
of two hundred millions year. It then
goes on to say, eff this average is kept
up, in twenty-five years more the total
debt of the world will reach ten thousand
millions, the interest of which, taken at
the average rate of five per cent, will
amount to the present aggregate public
revenues of all the states of Europe and
North America.
DEs ARK Ark Citizen: Mr.. J. w.
Harvey, who lives on the east side of
White river, near Des Arc, brought to
town few days since few pieces of |
silver and small diamond in the rough,
which was part of treasure he found |
buried few days defore. He says he
was at work in the woods with his axe,
and in examining tree observed the
letters ",J. c." cut upon it. A sunken
place in the ground near the tree at
tracted his attention, and putting the
two things together the idea struck him
that something might have been buried
beneath the place. An excavation was
made, and jar containing near three
gallons Of silver was the result of the
search. The money amounted to a lit
tie over fourteen hundred dollars. The
Indications were that the money had
been buried but few years.
RECENTLY, Mr.. Joseph F. Dennison,
who resides in Wilmot, Nova Scotia,
went, accompanied by his wife, to make
| call upon a neighbor, leaving his little
BOY, nine years old, and two younger
sisters, alone in the house. The children
we're startled, soon after their parents
eft, by the appearance of large wildcat,
which suddenly dropped in upon them.
The boy, with great courage, caught up
! billet of wood and assaulted the ami
nal, while the little girls, mounted OH a
able, watched the conflict, and encour-
ged their champion by shouts of " Give
t to him, Sammyp And Sammy did
i've it to him. The fight was long and
ierce; but the boy conquered at last,
nd when his father and mother came !
Ome, they found the great cat dead on
he floor, and Sammy standing over him,
cry proud, as he had reason to be, of his {
xploit.
WAvERLY (TENN.) Journal: At mid ,
light of Sunday night last, Mr.. Pavo,
wing in the western part of Waverly,
,as aroused from his quiet slumbers by
he outcries of his little three-year old !
irl that something was scratching her."
hastily lighting lamp, he discovered !
n immense sized coon on the bed with
he children, and another escaping y
trough an open window. While search
1g for a means to slay the varmint, his
oonship retreated outside the house, but
resently returned and made attack upon
Ir. Pavo, and was again forced to re- /!
'cat out of doors, where, perhaps, a con-
lltation was held with his mate, when |
e returned the second time and made .
ght. This time he was captured by
lr. Pavo turning barrel over him. .
his strange freak of coons entering a
abited house and making war upon the !.
mates is mystery indeed difficult of =
'lution. >