The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-20
GENERAL NOTES.

Four of the sixteen boilers of the
Fletcher Mill, at Harrisburg, Pa, ex.
ploded, the other morning, killing two
men, and wounding, more or less serious
ly, a number of others. Loss to mill
owners, $4,000.
A FEW mornings since an engine on the
Tyrone and Clearfield Railroad exploded
near Sand Ridge. Three men, named
Miller, Campbell, and Shannon, were
killed, and another, named Henry
Waters, fatally injured.
MARTIN SOUTH, butcher, son of
Col. Jere South, lessee of the Penisen-
tiary at Frankfort, Kentucky, was assas-
sinated in the market-space few days
since. The assassin was on horseback,
and fired through an opening, riding
off at full speed as soon as the murder
was done. Walter Stephen, butcher,
was arrested for the deed.
The women of Massachusetts, are not
going to have an opportunity of telling
their children that female emancipation
graced the Centennial year. After
earnestly discussing an amendment to
the Constitution allowing women to vote
and hold Office, the House of Represent
atives rejected it by very decided ma
jority. The supporters of the measure
number seventy-seven, and its opponents
one hundred and twenty-seven.
A ATERRIBLE accident occurred at Sugar
Lake, near Meadville, Pa, recently. A
man named HI. Ferry had double
barrel shotgun loaded with buckshot,
and was riding on q horse. While dis
mounting, the gun was accidently dis
charged, the contents striking young
lady named Wentworth in the heart, and
her cousin, little boy, aged six. They
were looking out of window, and both
of them were instantly killed.
TIE highest clerical salary paid in
New York is said to be that of the Rev
Morgan Dix, of Trinity Church, who
gets fifteen thousand dollars. In Eng
land salaries are higher. The Archbishop
of Canterbury gets about seventy-fve
thousand dollars a year and the hum
blest Bishop about ten thousand dollars
Deans gets from five to fifteen thousand
dollars, and CanOns about the same
But some of the rural clergy and those
in smaller towns receive salaries which
keep them and their families down al
most to starvation point.
GENERAL RICE, former law partner OF
Belknap at Keokuk, was examined in re.
gard to the post-traderships in Texas and
New Mexico, which he had procured for
various parties. From one person he got
four thousand dollars, from another five
thousand dollars, from third he got
one-half Of tie net profits, and from the
fourth he got one-third of the net profits.
He denied that General Belknap knew
anything of the money which he (Rice)
received for these appointments.
The New York Sun says: Agents and
messengers of the American Express
Company, while on duty, will present a
war-like appearance hereafter. Pistols
are to be furnished on all important
routes at transfer points to Offices distant
from the station, and to Offices where
trains are to be met after dark. Each
pistol is to be furnished with belt, and
the agent or messenger having money in
charge must wear the same outside of all
clothing, ready for immediate use.
THE statement is authorized on semi.
official authority that frauds on customs,
amounting to from five to seven million
dollars per year, have been perpetrated
at San Francisco. A large proportion OF
the smuggling is by way of Panama,
dutiable merchandise being ostensibly
shipped from San Francisco to New
York, and vice versa, but on arrival OF
the steamer at Panama other packages
were substituted containing goods
answering the description in the manifest
IT may be interesting to note the per-
centage of nicotine in some of the most
known growths. The French grown to.
bacco possesses on the average in two
parts of dried leaf, nicotine to the extent
of $50; Alsace 3.21; Virginia, 6.67
Kentucky, sos; Maryland, 2.20; Ha
vana, 200. An analysis of tobacco
smoke given by DR.. Richardson gives
watery vaper, free carbon, ammonia.
carbonic acid, oil of tobacco; but as
these products appear to vary consider.
ably in different kinds of tobacco, it il
difficult to assign any definite proper
tiOns