The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-21

From tho Capital.

mates OF the appropriations required Tor the |
public service for the fiscal ending with |
June, 1878. These are: Congress, Sc, 9SS, $50; |
State ts 81 as S57; yT Treasury Department,
$l65,24S,3S War Department, $54, 15l, 1856;
Navy Department, $22 sol ,96S; Interior De. |
partment, $3S, S06722 Postofiice Depart
ment, $6,636,647; Department OF Justice,
$4,422, 900; Department OF Agriculture,
1927. 300; total, $299, GIL ,66s. These estimates
are $4,000, 600 less than those for 1877.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections has voted to recommend the adop.
ton by the Senate of Mr.. MltchelPs resolu.
ton directing the Committee 10 investigate
the facts attending the appointment of Pres.
idential Electors in Oregon. Senators Nor
ton, Logan, and Herman will act as sub
committee and conduct this investigation,
and Governor Grover, together with the
Secretary OF State and such other persons,
will be subpGnaed to come here i'm med lately
from Oregon bill introduced by Sen.
ator Merrimon, in the Senate, to revise the
Constitution, provides that the Secretary OF
State, or in case of his death, the Secretary of
the Treasury, shall succeed to the Presidency,
in the case Of the death, removal, or resigna'
ton OF both President and Vice-President..
1t is understood that the Committee on Ways
and Means have no important financial
matters before them, and that unless the Sec
rotary of the Treasury makes some recon-
mendation in that quarter, there will benO
financial legislation attempted this session.
1.-THE Postal Appropriation Bill, as re.
ported by the House Committee on Appro.
priatiOns, shows reduction of about ST.
100000 from the amount of last sessions
postal bill, and a reduction of some So, $780,
600 from the departmental estimates of the
amount required for the next fiscal year. 1t
is estimated that the postal receipts during
the m rarinI mi ha G2n AK nd fha
bill therefore, contemplates an actual
The appropriation for mail depredations
and special az ents is reduced from the $780,
600 granted last session, to $l2O, 500 for the
next fiscal year. The amount for the CON-
$1,900,000 to $780, 900. For inland mail
transportation, by star routes, steamboats,,
and all other means of transportation,
except railroads, is reduced from Sc, 737, $50
to $6,0O0,000, and for railroad services
from 50, 100000 to $9,000,000. The bill also
provides for a reduction in the amount for
salaries of railway postal clerks, route
agents, and other employees OF that branch
OF the service. The appropriation for the
transportation of foreign mails is increased
from $780, to $230,OOO.
southern Items.
1t was reported at Columbia, s. c., on the
night of December 10, that ten negroes, who
murdered white man named Allen and
wounded another named Baker, at Lowndes-
vile, Abbeville County, and were discovered
to be engaged in plot to murder the whites,
were taken from the Jail and lynched by
Georgians. Thirteen negroes were arrested
on warrants issued by the Trial Justice, and
owing to threats oflynching, were sent, unde err
strong guard, to Jail, at Anderson, in the
adjoining county, for safe keeping. 1t is sup.
hat yhtl ~. 7
by the Georgians, who came across the
Savannah River, and summarily dealt with
them..-....H Hon. George A. Trenholm, an
eminent merchant of Charleston, South
Carolina, and Secretary of the Treasury of
the socalled Confederate Government, at
the time of its collapse, died recently, aged
seventy years. The colors Of the shipping
OF all nationalities in the port were displayed
at half mast.
1t is reported from Charleston that there
is no truth in the rumored massacre of the
sixteen negroes.....A terrific boiler ex.
plosiOn occurred few days since at saw.
mill near Texsrcana, Ark, killing nine men
and wounding two others.
Disasters by Fire.
At midnight, December 6, two hundred
and eighty-three bodies had been dug out
of the ruins Of the Brooklyn theater, and
the fremen were still engaged in exhuming
the bodies of the victims. The work was
to be continued day and night until all the
bodies were recovered. The fire was caused
by drop scene coming in contact with one
Of the border lights. Miss Claxton, Mrs
NJ. A. Farren, Mr.. Murdoch, and Mr.
Studley stepped to the front OF the stage
and requested the people to be quiet
Almost in the same breath, one OF the
actors, who he'd urged the audience to re
main in THAR pa1la1 wildly IN ba
people, commanding them to fly for theil
lives. Miss Claxton jumped into the audi
forum, and escaped through the main en-
trance. Mrs. Farren got out through 9
passage-way under the stage, and Mr.. Stud
ley does not know how he saved himself
There were one thousand two hundred per
sons in the house.
Up to noon November z, three hundred
and fifteen dead bodies had been removed
from the Brooklyn theater. or these, fly
nine were identified, some by remnants o
clothing, others by watches and chains, ant
such articles, but few by the features. TIL
actors, Claude Burroughs and Harry s. Muir
dock, are among the identified. What ar
accepted as the bodies of the two actor
are two black cinders. Around the trunl
of one was a soiled and scorched buckskir
undershirt, and beside the other was q pec,
OF braid, apparently portions Of stag
dress.
Itoms IN General.
The electoral colleges of all the States
met on Wednesday, December 9th, for TIT
purpose of casting their votes for Presiden
and Vice-President. Twenty.one States cas-
their votes for Hayes and Wheeler, givin,
them 1856; and fifteen States for Tilden ant
Hendricks, with 1874 votes.
The Baron Dc Palm, according to his will
was cremated at Washington, Pennsyl
vania, by the Theosophical Society
on December z. At noon, the cremation
furnace having cooled sufi cienty, the ashe
were collected. They were found to weigh
exactly five pounds and a quarter, and re
sembled in color and consistency pulverizet
white sugar. The time occupied in cremat
ing the body was two hours and forty min
utes. In the retort, heaped up by itself
was found half peck OF unreduced CLAW
which had been placed in the abdomen
the body by the embalmer. 1t was yellow
in color, and easily distinguishable. No on,
knew OF its presence in the body until the re
tort was opened. The weight of the Baron il
life was one hundred and seventy pounds
The cremation is regarded as complete sue
cess by DIR. Lemoyne.
A train was wrecked recently on mis-
placed switch, at Attica. New York. Tn
cars took fire, and an unknown passenge
was burned to death. Two Misses Camp
bell, Miss Choate and James Gregory wer
drowned in a mill.pond, ten miles iron
Olmstead, Kentucky, a few nights since.....
The last act in the Brooklyn theatrica
tragedy was performed on Saturday, Decem
Der o, when the one hundred dead bodie
not identified were placed in ffty-si,
hearses and wagons, and conveyed to Green
wood Cemetery. The city was draped IL
mourning, ana business was almost en-
tirely suspended. The line of march :,
the cemetery was thronged with people, o.
rather, mourners. The occasion was yer,
solemn, and the scenes very impressive
The bodies were laid in q trench, side b,
side, in a beautiful lot donated for tn,
purpose by the Directors of the cemetery
Alter the usual religious services, tn,
crowd, which was very large, dispersed.....
special from Petrolis, Pa, to the Asso
Grated Press, says: Lately in the afternoon
about i've o'clock, a wagon.load OF glycerine