The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-20

Pearce, of Maysville, G. ]. W.; D. P. Robb,
Of Versailles, g. Treasurer; w. G. Stone, OF
Covington, G.. Recorder; G. X. Miller, OF
G. Standard R.; j. w. Prewitt, of
Sterling, g. W.; A. b. Parrish, Of George
town, q. c. G.....The American Bible Soci-
ETY. held its annual meeting in New YORK,
May Is, and elected Managers. The annual
report gives the receipts as $577 ,669, inciud'
ing $299, 222 for publications, $3S, 246 from
rents, $l26,933 from legacies, $lO6,S1o from
donations; expenditures, $685. number
Of copies published at the Bible House, a. "a
$3.50; printed and bought abroad, 1862;
total issued, $4,000, Including 726,6S3 at
home; total for fifty-nine years, 81 ,S9S,332
copies in circulation of the Record, 1863, 40.
.........Judge Blatchf0rd, in the United States
Court, at New York, on application OF Jay
Cooke and Charlemagne Tower, holders of
the first mortgage bonds of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, issued decree ordering
the sale, at public auction, of all property,
Pacific Railroad, the lands and grants to be
sold in the States where they are located,
and the other property in New York, on the
first Monday in August. United States
Marshal Fisk and United States Commits
sioner White were appointed Masters.
Notes from Abroad.
China has engaged Confederate General
Ripley to construct extensive works for the
defense of the coast and principal rivers.
General Ripley sails for the East in few
days.....T The American Methodist chapel at
Quiekang has been destroyed by mob of
Cinnamon. The Chinese authorities have
offered ample reparation for the outrage......
In the Lower House of the Prussian Diet,
the bill for the suppression OF religious
orders has had its first reading. London
Standards special from Berlin says the
Prussian Police redoubled their vigilance,
having received alarming notices of plots
against Prince Bismarck and Minister Falk.
A special staff of fourteen detectives have
been formed for their protection......As special
dispatch from Port au Prince, May 8, says
the revolution was at the first moment sub
sequent to the outbreak put down by the
Government troops. Generals Price, Brice
and Pierre were killed. The foreign consul
lates were Immediately crowded with refu-
gees who sought shelter from the violence of
the native mob. Martial law was proclaimed.
The proclamation contains promise of
amnesty to those who would surrender at
once to the officers of the Government.
tranquility has been restored.
The Chamber Of Representatives at Brus.
sells, recently, after a long debate adopted
resolutions approving the Governments
conduct of the negotiations with Germany
.....In the Chamber of Deputies at Rome,
Signor Minghetti, President of the Ministry,
stated that the relations of Italy with Ger
many had always been excellent. A motion
approving the ecclesiastical policy of the
Government was passed by vote Of 2l0 to
149.. 1.-The swinging saloon steamer Bes-
emer made trial trip recently, to Calais,
in one hour and thirty minutes. The saloon
being unfinished was not worked. When
the steamer was entering Calais harbor she
refused to answer the helm, and ran into
the southern pier, carrying away fifty yards
of the pier. The claim made by Calais
municipality for damage done by the
steamer Bessemer is 10000 francs.
The Car has arrived at Berlin. He was
received at the railway station by Emperor
William, all the Princes of the EmperOr's
family, Generals Won Moltke and Mantenffel
and other distinguished personages. The
Emperor's greeting was exceedingly cordial
An immense crowd was gathered around
the station, and cheered most enthusiastic-
ally. The city is decorated with flags. The
Car, accompanied by Prince Gortschakof,
has visited Prince Bismarck. The Berlin
Post says there are reasons to suspect that
certain Polish priests have conspired against
the lives of Prince Bismarck and DIR. Falk,
Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, and that
three persons, whose names are already
known to the police, were hired to carry out
the plot....A special to the London &dnddrd
from Berlin, says Bismarck and Gortschakoff
will decide during the Cars visit whether
Germany should answer the last Belgian
note directly or appeal to the guaranteeing
powers. Recent war-like rumors are de-
clared to be the work of stock jobbers......
The feeling at Paris is more hopeful. La
Liberte says the Gar intends to propose a
general disarming, and Germany will sup
port the proposition......T Intransigente
prisoners, who were engaged in the Corta-
gena insurrection, have been set free. ........
Advices from Buenos Ayres state that the
President opened the Chamber with speech,
offenses, and announced that all difficulties
with foreign powers have been settled......
A Berlin dispatch says that the bill for the
suppression of religious orders passed its
third reading in the Lever House.
A Vienna special says Bismarck, with the
help of Russia, intends to obtain public
written guarantee of the status created by
the treaty of Frankfort. Russia and Austria
are ready to support it......The Catholic
Bishops Of Prussia have decided to dissolve
rather than see them subjected to govern
mental supervision......A crowd of women
mobbed an Old Catholic school house in
Koningshute, Silesia, declaring they would
never allow their children to become Old
Catholics. After much excitement the mill.
tary were called out and cleared the streets,
which were full of spectators. Twenty per-
sons were arrested...... The North German
Gazette says: awe can give assurance that
I, Ioks a<xf L.,
at no time since the war been more friendly
and satisfactory than they now are" THE
Provincial Correspondence, a semi-oficial
journal, declares that Germany desires peace,
and is able to rely on union with q power
full neighbor to repress any possible foreign
ambition aiming at its disturbance. ..... The
Deutsche ANgen,eine Correspondents, which is
considered well informed journal, says the
expediency of mobilizing the German army
was seriously discussed at Berlin during the
visit OF the Emperor of Austria to Venice.
As Austria and Italy do not at present seem
inclined to join France, apprehensions are
allayed. Military affairs in France and Bel
GUM, and the movements of UltramOn tanes,
are still closely watched from Berlin. There
is a general recognition of Germany's TEN.
perate policy. This is the best guarantee
that an understanding will be effected, and
all fears dispelled.
The British Medical Journal says the youth
O'Connor, who on the day of thanksgiving
for the recovery of the Prince Of Wales at.
tempted to shoot the Queen, was arrested
again on the 9th inst. The Queen was hold.
ing drawingroom at Buckingham Palace,
and O'Connor was found standing in the
same place in front of the ratings from
which he, on the former occasion, pointed a
pistol at the Queen. The arrest was quietly
made, and O'Connor was sent to Hanwefl
Asylum on certificates of two physicians
that the prisoner was subject to both suicidal
and homicidal impulses. telegram has
been received at the Russian Embassy in
Paris, stating that the Car has left Berlin
thoroughly convinced that conciliatory senti-
ments of q nature to insure the mainten-
ance of peace prevail there. Similar intel.
| ligence has been communicated to all the
| Russian Legations in Europe ....... Prince
Bismarck theoretically disavows all respons
| Utility for the reports of alarmists, and hat
assured Prince Gortshakof that Germany
has in no way menaced Belgium's indie