The Lake County star., 1876-06-08
GENERAL NOTES.
BRITISH geld is coined in London with
American machinery.

BRITISH geld is coined in London with
American machinery.
A COLLISION between freight and ac-
commodation trains on the Western and
Atlantic Railroad resulted in the proba-
bly, fatal injury of four persons.
THOMAS MAST is illustrating a Cen
tennial edition of the complete works
of Josh Billings-a hundred pictures by
him will indicate the Centennial humor
of the book.
ONLY six persons have been hung in
Connecticut during the last thirty years,
and only two OF these for offenses COM
mitted out of prison, the other four hav-
ing murdered prison officers.
The romance of a recent wedding in
high life at New York is that the bride
groom had to take no for an answer from
the bride three times, during a period
of five years, before he finally got her.
The Great Salt Lake of Utah has been
steadily rising for the past fifteen years,
and the people are afraid that it will
suDmerge all the low lands. Thousands
of acres have already been rendered use
less.
SHOOTS of the rubber tree are in lively
demand in New York for house plants
1t is tough, will stand furnace heat, and
has curious and interesting habit of
dropping large sheath that envelops
leaf-bud.
A THIRD suit against the sureties of
John Busby, of the Whisky Ring, was
tried in the United States District Court
of st. Louis and decided in favor of the
Government, the jury returning YER
dict for $35, 900. the full amount of the
bond.
GOVERNOR TILDEN has signed the bill
allowing the wife to testify in favor of
her husband in criminal cases; the law
does not compel her, however, to be a
witness. This is the first innovation ever
made by the New York Legislature upon
the old common law rule prohibiting
husband and wife from testifying for or
against each other in criminal cases.
Miss HODGES, young lady nineteen
years of age, who lived in Beaufort
county, South Carolina, committed sui
eide lately by drinking two ounces of
laudanum. The alleged cause is love
affair, which, through the interposition
of her family, mad ended unpleasantly;
and the young lady, preferring death to
life of estrangement from the object of
her affection, at once resorted to the
means above referred to to terminate her
existence.
The Omaha Herald reports seven
pounds of Black Hills gold upon exhibi-
tion in that town, and represents that the
owner of the same has bought between
$4,000 and $4,000 more from miners at
Custer City. The general impressio,
still remains, however, that Black Hills
gold digging is considerably less profita-
BILE than farm labor.
ALL the women were drunk in Lon
don female club, ten days ago, when
man who was "mad drunk" attempted
to enter it. He did not get in very far,
for one of the drunken female members
rushed upon him and battered his face
out of its natural shape, so that next day
she was sentenced to term of imprison-
ment. We do not suppose that out of
London any thing called wOman's club
could be found where all members would
simultaneously give themselves up TO
drunkenness.
The engine Commodore, No. 81, while
standing on side track of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad q
Chicago, preparatory to taking train oui
of the depot, exploded her boiler abou.
eight o clock few mornings ago. The ex-
plOsiOn caused a terrific shock, which
broke the glass, ETC., in the neighborhood,
flung large pieces of iron great distance
through the air, and badly scalded five
workmen, two of whom, Patrick Coy
and Thomas Flynn, will probably
die from their injuries. The lower part
of the boiler was found to have become
verv thin