The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-07
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

A CoLoRED hunter in Tennessee has a
black sheep that joins in the chase with
the hounds, and puts the dogs on the
right scent when they have lost it.
THERE is gentleman living in Gin
cinnati called "the truly good" He is
an editor. The New York Sun mentioned
his name the other day.
HENRY WAGNER, a soldier of the First
Empire, now aged one hundred years and
five months, and his wife, aged eighty
seven years, both enjoy good health in
Paris.
EMERSON WIGHT, the newly-elected
Mayor of Springfield, Mass, has two
wooden legs, having lost both of his
natural ones by railroad accident sew
etal years ago.
A CoLoRED barber named Jones, who
recently died in Pittsburg, had accu-
muaated the snug sum of $4,000. He
was most successful shaver.
A sHoRT-HoRN steer was recently
butchered in Detroit that weighed from
thousand one hundred and ten pounds
alive, and yielded three thousand pounds
of dressed beef This is believed to be the
largest animal ever slaughtered for beef
on this continent.
THE pathological editors of the Gin
cinnati Times and the Commercial are in
worry about the spelling of the word
kidnapped, or kidnapped. The Com
mercial spells it with one vowel" p, and
the Times is mad about it. What's the
difference, any how? 1t doesn't help
Charlie Ross bit.
The Dundee advertiser announces on
authority that the reward of $4,000 Of
fered some years ago by Lady Franklin
for the recovery Of the official records of
her husbands expedition still holds, and
that over and above she will be prepared
to remunerate any one who may sncceed
in recovering them for any outlay in
which his research may put him.
FROM Florida comes the story of Della
Jones, full-blooded negress, forty years
ofage. She fell desperately in love with
a young white man, carpenter, and re-
alizing the fact that he could never be
anything to her she turned her prop
erty into cash ($7 ,250), left it to him by
will, and then went off and drowned her.
SELF
Mr.. CHARLES BRADLAUGH seems TO
think the Philadelphia people ought not
to erect a statue to William Penn, be-
cause the Penn heirs shave for more than
seventy years received and still receive
from England a pension of 0,000 year
asa reward for the efforts of the Penn
family in their unsuccessful endeavors
TO prevent America achieving indepen-
dence."
AN old tax warrant, just discovered,
sets forth that Joseph Bonaparte was
taxed in 1912 one hundred dollars for
one thousand and six hundred acres of
land, by Nathan Sutterthwaite, then AS
SCISSOR of Bordentown, New Jersey. The
ex-Assessor is still living, and says he
"stuck it on little, as Bony was rich
and could stand it,"
ROLAND PETERSON, a colored man, of
almost gigantic size and great strength,
died recently. in Lancaster, Penn, of
hemorrhage, brought by injuries re-
ceived by performing some extraordinary
feats of strength. He was almost seven
feet in height, and in his best days fire.
quently carried barrel of flour under
each arm, and could, unaided, puta hogs
head of sugar on end.
MRS. ELIZA BRooKBANK has long
been set down as widow in the Chicago
directory, and such she imagined herself
to be. The other day she received two
letters from her husband who went to
California twenty years ago, determined
to make money or never return, and had
not since been heard of. He is now rich
and is coming home to share his fortune
with his long deserted wife.
AN Iowa paper publishes the follow
ing: Last week Hon. James Wilson
was to start from Chicago with cattle
train and watch it clear through to New
York. The object of this novel trip was
to gain information regarding the man.
ner in which cattle are transported from
communicate his sobservations to the Com
mittee on Agriculture, of which he was
member"
CHARLES DE RUDIO, lieutenant in
the regular army, now stationed at st.
Martin, Ga, is said to be the Rudio who
was engaged with Orsini, Pieri and
Gomez in the plot to assassinate Napo-
leon in 1858, and was condemned to death,
but gotta communication of his sentence by
turning evidence against the other con-
spirators. He was banished to the coast
of Cayenne, but, after five years of penal
servitude, escaped to this country and
served as a commissioned officer in the re-
bellion. The st. Martin (Ga.) Sentinel
declares that he is detested for his
brutality.