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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13
A Romance Of Reality.

1t is stated that some fifty years ago
hunter named Randall married Welsh
girl in Oneida, N. Y. and afterward went
on long hunting excursion, while his
wife paid a visit to her childhood home
in Wales. While there son was born,
and the lady dying, he was brought up
by her kindred. Coming of age, the
youth took a journey to the Oriental
lands, prior to visit to America. Near
Damascus, the daughter Of sheik fell
in love with him, and he was captured
by the tribe and compelled to marry her.
He was closely watched so that he
could not escape. They lived happily,
and children were born to them. The
young man, like his mother was
Baptist. He converted his wife; his
children were brought up Christians;
and the old sheik dying, the Oldest boy
became sheik, and all the adjoining tribes
Joined him in the support Of the new
religion. But Mohammedan Dervish,
full of zeal, had endeavored to overthrow
the Sheik Randall, and charged his
daughter with witchcraft. She was sum-
moned before council of over hundred
sheiks, and though but fourteen years
of age, with Bible in hand she defended
herself so we'll that she was acquitted,
and the sheiks anew swore to defend all
Christians who thought and felt as Rosa
did. This was in October, 1872. The
next June, while Rosa was teaching.
class of forty little girls, in grove, the
rcvengful Dervish stealthily approached,
murdered the maid and fed. In the last
letter from Lady Arzalia LIE Avish
Randall, giving all the particulars of her
child's trial and tragic death, occurs this
beautiful sentence and request: "Pray
for me, that my piety may be as humble
as the violet, as enduring as the olive.
and as fragrant as the Orient"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

THE painter Courbet, who distin-
guished himself as q member of the
Commune by pulling down the column
in the Place Vendome, has not escaped
quite so easily as the sentence OF six
months imprisonment to which he was
condemned by the Versailles court
martial might have led the public to ex-
pect. 1t will be remembered that, be-
sides the penalty of imprisonment,
Courbet was compelled TO pay the cost
of the restoration of the column. As
the painter is unable to do 50, after the
expiration of the limit of time assigned
by the court, all his property has been
confiscated. This consists Of small
farm in the Department of the Doubs,
valued at eighteen thousand francs, of
thirty thousand francs of personal securi-
ties deposited at the Bank of France,
and of an artistically furnished studio
and six paintings due to his own brush.
The sale of his effects is expected to pro-
duce about eighty thousand francs. This
of course goes but little way toward
paying the expenses to which Courbet
has put the State,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13
NUMBER 50.
The Marriage OF Great Men.

Byron married Miss Millbank 10 get
money to pay his debis. 1t turned out a
bad shift.
Robert Burns married farm girl with
whom he fell in love while they worked
together in plow field. He was irregu.
lar in his life, and committed the most
serious mistakes in conducting his do
mestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter ola coun-
try squire, and lived with her but short
time. He was an austere literary recluse,
while she was a rosy, romping country
lass that could not endure the restraint
imposed upon her; so they separated.
Subsequently, however, she returned,
and they lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
were cousins, and about the only ex-
ample in the long line OF English mon
archs wherein the marital VOWS were
sacredly observed and sincere affection
existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded farm
er's daughter. She was faithful to her
vows, but we could hardly say the same
of the bard himself. Like most of the
great poets, he showed too little discrimi-
nation in bestowing his affections on the
other sex.
Washington married a woman with two
children. 1t is enough to say she was
worthy of him, and they lived as married
people should live-in perfect harmony
with each other.
John Adams married the daughter of
a Presbyterian clergyman. Her father
objected on account of John being
lawyer. He had a bad opinion of the
morals of the profession.
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
married his nurse. She was altogether
beneath him in social life and intellectual
capacity, and, besides this, was fifty-two
years old, while he was but twenty-five.
He would not take No" for an answer,
and they were married and lived happily
until she died, which occurred two years
afterward.
Peter the Great of Russia married
peasant. She made an excellent wife
and sagacious Empress.
Humboldt married poor girl because
he loved her. Of course they were very
happy.
1t is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married lady whose husband
was still living. She was an uneducated
but amiable woman, and was most de-
votedly attached to the old warrior and
statesman.
John G. Calhoun married his cousin,
apd their children fortunately were
neither diseased nor idiotic, but they do
not evince the talent of the great State
Rights advocate.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13
DrOll Christenings.

They tell of Bishop POrteOus that he
had an utter aversion to long names, and
fine names, and more than one name.
That being called upon, when parish
priest, to christen poor mans child
Thomas Timothy, he dropped his finger
hastily in the basin, cut the matter and
the names short, and christened the
child "Tom Tit" The fashion is now
running, and has been for some years, to
fine names-Bettys, Sallys, Sakeys, Nam
nys, are all gone; and apropos upon
Nanny, l have seen the beautiful old
ballad, go Nanny, wilt thou gang with
me !" adapted to modern elegance thus:
Amelia, will you 60 with me ?" This,
however, has nothing to do with the
church christenings, but it shows that
rose, by any other name," may in time
smell sweeter. Now of names. Surely l
entered OH the register the strangest
imaginable. A mason's wife, and be-
longing to the next parish, presented her
urchin. What took place was exactly
as follows: "Say the name," said /,
with my finger in the water. Acts,
sir" said she. "Actsp said 1 ; "what
do you mean?' Thinks l to myself !
will ak the clerk to spell it. He did,
Acts-so Acts was the babe, and will be
while in this life, and will be doubly,
trebly so registered, if ever it marries or
dies. Afterwards, in the vestry, / asked
the good woman what made her choose
such a name. Her answer was this:
Why, sir, we be religious people we've
got your on 'em already, and they be
caa'ld Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
and so my husband thought he'd compli.
ment the apostles Bit" The idea Of
complimenting the apostles with this
little dab of living mortar was too much |;
even / could not help laughing. have
no doubt she will 90 on to Revelations,
they being particularly religious people.
Letters from a Country Cmate, IN Black
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13
George Washington.

The dress in which George Washington
generally appeared at church was faced
hat, stone colored coat with gilt buttons,
blue surtout, buff knee breeches, boots
and gilt spurs. Being held the best horse
man and boldest fox hunter in Virginia,
it was natural he followed the fashion
prevalent among the young gallants and
came to church on horseback. He used
Pelham bit and generally rode with
holsters at his saddle peak. The portrait
by Peale, which is considered by his rel
atives the most correct one, represents
him at the age of forty in the uniform OF
Colonel of the Twenty-second Virginia
militia. There is no trace of resemblance
to the grandmotherly portrait by Stuart,
even allowing for the difference Of age.
The former agrees in personal appear
ance with the character given him by
neighborhood tradition-a bold, dashing
gallant, even after his marriage; rather
foppish in dress, and safe, according az
occasion offered, to win lady's smile OF
the fox's brush.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13
A Business Mans Experience.

His name was HippoAam. His uncle
left him some money. He started in the
grocery and provisions business He had
read in the paper that John Jacob Astor,
A. Il. Stewart, Daniel Pratt, John Smith,
and hosts of others had once been poor,
and had made their start by advertising.
He believed it all, dough-head that he
was, and he advertised four squaresin the
TorchRght, six squares in the Badger, and
half column in the Moonshine. When
the people saw from the advertisements
that Hippoham had started into business
with fresh, large stock they rushed for
his store. Then his trouble commenced.
He had to hire an extra clerk and a cash
boy. He could not find time to sit down
on candle-box, thrust his feet under the
stove, and gossip about politics and the
Louisiana question. Every day or two
he had TO write or telegraph for new
goods, ordering more coffee, tea, sugar or
spices; and when the goods came he had
to open them out. As day after day
went by people began to notice that
Hippofam was growing thin and pale.
He looked care-wOrn and harassed, as If
driven. He keptadvertising, and people
kept patronizing him. Other groceries
could get time to go of on excursions, and
to sit down for hours at time and play
checkers and dominoes; but Hippofam
could not get an hour to himself, except
time to sleep. By and by he had to open
an account with yet another bank, got
more clerks and cash-boys: and it came
about that he kepta carriage, built fine
house wore broadcloth. and was elected
mayor of the town. Of course man
couldn't go on in this way many years
without breaking down his health, and
the day came at last when Hippoham had
the dyspepsia, the jaundice, heart dis
ease, rheumatism and several other COM
plants. The shadow ofdeath hung over
him, while the grocers who hadn't ad.
vertised at all grew fat and portly and
had double chins on 'em. They had
time to 90 fishing, were never tired out,
looking over their bank accounts, and 1t
wasn't once year that they had to order
anything more than box Of herring.
Broken down in health, feeling mad at
the world, and finding himself victim
of newspapers, Hippofam one day drew
all his money out of the bank, passed it
over toa lunatic asylum, set his store on
fire, blew up his mansion with keg of
powder, and then hung himself to peach
tree in the back yard. The coroner cut
him down, the jury sat on him, and the
verdict was: advertising killed him,
and we hereby warn all business men to
let his fate be an awful example against
patronizing newspapers"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

MARIA" observed Mr.. Holcomb, as
he was putting on his clothes, there
amt no patch on these breeches yet"
"I can't FIX 1t now, no way; I'm too
busy" "Well, give me the patch, then,
and I'll carry it around with me. don't
want people to think ! can't afford the
CLOTH"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

A KEARNEY man started with team
to the Black Hills, and the Indians wanted
TO interview him on the way. He
whipped up his team, but the redskins
gained on him. He threw out his load,
but they came still nearer. He finally
tumbled off the bed, drew the king. bolt,
and rode the forewheels safely into Gus
ter City at the rate of twenty miles an
hour,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13
THE TWO sHARPsMOOTERs.

Two men went out from the fre-lit camp,
In the autumn midnight gray;
Over the quaking, croaking swamp,
To the edge of the woodland still and damp,
With ride and spade went they.
A hunting owl walled out TO its young,
And picket stood as still
In the meadow below as the shadows flung
By the beaded tent lights thickly strang,
On the silver-threaded rill.
Twas long ere the picket moved away,
And there was no time to lose;
The pits must be dug by the dawn OF the day
Said one: {" We are digging graves, / say !"
The other one whispered, Whose?"
With the morning light column of steel
Moved upward along the hill,
Toward the hidden pits, but double peal
Close In the front made the column reel
A moment, and then stand still.
The check won battlefield that day;
On the morrow the dead were laid
Head to foot in trench of clay;
But two apart in the front that lay
Were buried without spade.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

Two new breeds of sheep have been
introduced into England from the west
coast Of South America. One Is white
wooled sheep, with four horns, and the
other q dark brown wooled species, a
cross between the llama and the alpaca.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

BEFORE leaving sleeping apartment
in the morning, throw each article of
bed covering over the back of a chair.
or the foot-board, and hoist the window,
If the weather is not rainy.-Dr. Hall.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

THIS was made up in the New York
Sun office: A pretty little Ohio school
marin tried to whip one of her pupils,
boy of fifteen, the other day, but when
she commenced operations he coolly
threw his arms around her neck and
gave her a hearty kiss. She went back
to her desk, and her face was "just as
red"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

The advance sheets of Gould's Direc-
tory for this year put the population of
st. Louis at 49S, ,1S2.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

FLOUR sells for thirty-eight dollars
per barrel in the Black Hills.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22
A Wheelbarrow Trip to the Centennial

One afternoon recently, about 3
o'clock, man and a boy, apparently
worn with travel, and certainly bronzed
by the sun and begrimed with the dust
of the road, were seen trudging in West
King; the man being between the han
dies of an oddly constructed and hand
somely painted wheelbarrow, and the
boy walking by his side. The man
proved to be Mr.. J. G. Temple, Of the
town of Joplin, Jasper county, Mo-, the
years. He said that he left Joplin on
the 18th of February, accompanied by
his son Otto and an Englishman named
Wilson. Some time last winter he made
proposition that if the Oronogo and
Joplin Mining Company of Jasper
county would give him fifty pounds of
meteorological specimens from their
mines he would wheel them on wheel
barrow ali the way to the Centennial.
Some beautiful specimens of ore were
brought to him, and he constructed a
wheelbarrow that would be particularly
suitable for so long journey. The en-
tire weight of the barrow, baggage, and
specimens of minerals is $50 pounds, and
the cost of. the outfit wac 1925. The
minerals are specimens of zinc, lead,
blackjack, spar, and garnet, all from
Oronogo and Joplin, Mo-, mines.
Mr.. Temple and his son have travelled
more than l, 400 miles. They have made
as high as twenty seven miles day and
rarely less than twenty miles, though they
frequently stopped off at convenient
points to recuperate, at one place resting
as long as five days. They camped out
twenty-seven nights, but generally were
furnished with good lodging and hospit-
ably entertained along the route.-L0n-
caster pa InteILiQencer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22
Names of the United States.

Massachusetts, is the Indian name for
"the country around the great hills
Connecticut is derived from the Mohe
gan, signifying "long river ;" Tennes-
see is the Indian for 'the river of the
bend ;" j. e., the Mississippi, which
forms it's western boundary Ohio means
" beautiful river" Mississippi is an
Algonquin name meaning "long river >
Illinois is derived from the Indian WORD
itliaaiaOek, eve are men = Missouri ia
from the Illinois, and means ga canoe -
Michigan is from the algonquin ma5ohd-
gonai, 'greatlake - Ponce de Leon
landed on the coast of Florida on Easter
Sunday, and named the country in com
memo alton of the day, which was the
Posqua Florida of the Spaniards, Or
Feast of Flowers )" Minnesota,
" cloudy water"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22
TWO LETTERS.
BY cHAs. F. RICHARDSON.

xf Won were dead and in sonae silent valley,
& red wild rose were blooming your grave,
I'm some lone fen where idle breezes daily,
And somberIy green willow branches wave
With willing feet oft would stand above you,
And with sad eyes your moss-tsrown name spell
out,
Thinking that once each said to eaon' i love
In those far days before we dared to doHbt
Amt mo Won are not dead the world adores you,
Kpeess at YOUR feet and calls your face divine;
Praises your beauty, worships till it bores you,
Knows not and cares not that you once were
mine.
Rdtes. I care not that your blood is flowing
La splealdid radiant cheek or dainty wrist
That on your supple throat there still Is glowing
oueenly coil of pearl and amethyst;
Our love is dead, so you are dead thrice over,
Though on your face have dropped no mournersA
And YOU and I. who once were maid and lover,
Are farther sundered than the farthest spheres.
- '' Oh what silly letter
plain and prosy man will sometimes write.
I'm sentimental, and you can't do better
Than laugh at me- once more, with all your
might.
Tho fact YOU see, is this: can't forget you;
In all our quarrel l alone wrong;
And I've been blue enough since last met you,
IL
Oh! Edith could only go and see you,
And tell you all the things want to say!
cannot give you up; will not free yeu;
Ioge you Edith. May come to-day?
Why Tom dear Tom, of course you may
You see call you Tom again;
SO please come over, right away,
You oldest, truest, best OF men!
To tell the truth, I've pitied you,
And you've most likely pitied me;
But them you know, it wouldn't do
TO let the world my pity see.
You men, of course, are very wise,
And think you know woman's heart;
But bats and owls have brighter eyes
Than you TO understand her art
You were just hateful, though, that night;
But I'm afraid made you So
Tom, drop your quarrel out OF sight
Forgive, forget, and let 1t go.
Well, Tom, III not write any more,
Although, indeed, I've much to say;
My music masters at the door,
SO az FeUOiT, and come to-day.
p S-You brighten me to death
With E'Wiilow, "'' valley" grave, ana ''fen. .
Dear me I almost lost my breath!
Tom, don't you dare do 80 again!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
BIZ THOMAS s. COLLIER.

Hurrah! Hurrah ring loud the bells,
Sing triumph with each blow;
Ihey rang sad march and funeral knellS,
hundred years ago.
All darkly lower'd the winter sky,
and mid the wind and snow,
Brave patriots armed to do and die,
A hundred years ago.
On Bunker Hill, by Quebec's wall.
Where Hudson's waters flow,
were saber clash and foemen's call,
hundred years ago.
No iron-horse, with frantic speed,
Its white steam plume could show
BY mountain dark and grassy mead
A hundred years ago.
Along the sounding wires, that ring
Where wisdom's light doth glow,
No word of hope and love could sing,
A hundred years ago.
But loving hearts, AMI toiling hands,
And mach of joy and woe,
Were heritage of all the lands,
hundred years ago.
All, men were brave, and women fair,
In those old days we know:
Were prompt to do and strong to bear,
A hundred years ago.
The liberty that is our pride,
Did from brave hearts out-grow,
Acts of great souls that lived and died,
A hundred years ago.
And we are worthy of the fame
They did on us bestow;
1t is as bright as when it came,
hundred years ago.
Let noble deeds that will endure
Be ours to proudly show,
And build like they who built so sure,
hundred years ago.
That when we sleep, and the bells tell
A century's ebb and flow,
They'll say, " They did right brave and well
hundred years ago."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22

The three men who killed the Cali
fornia bandit Chavez, in November last,
in Yuma county, Arizona, have unsuc-
cessfully applied for the reward offered
for the capture or head of the notorious
robber, the limit of time set by the
proclamation having expired just prior
to the date of their achievement. To
make the matter all the more aggravat-
ing, the Mexicans of Yuma county, Ari-
zoni, are seeking the lives of the entire
party.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22
An Old Flag.

Sarah Smith Stafford, daughter OF the
lieutenant who sprang into the sea and
rescued the flag shot from Paul Jones'
ship, Bon Homme Richard, in the battle
with tine English ship Scraps, in 1879,
is still living in Trenton. She has in
in her possession the flag shot from the
masthead of the Bon Homme Richard
and rescued by her father. 1t is of bunt-
ing, with thirteen red ind white stripes
and twelve white stars on blue field.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22

THE State University of Indiana has
435 students.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22

did not survive it till the end of the year. The
Free-soilers nominated John 2. Hale and
George W. Julian. The KnOw-NOthlngs then
just organizing, put Jacob Brown in the field ;
an abolition" convention named William
Goodell; and a Southern Rights" conven-
ton paid similar compliment to George NJ.
Troupe, of Georgia Thus there were six
tickets in the field but Pierce carried the
Union like a whirlwind completely routing
Scott, who only secured the votes OF the four
States of Vermont, Massachusetts, Kentucky,
and Tennessee. Since Monroes time there had
not been so complete party victory
The campaign of 1856 was especially notable
as that in which the Republican party, rising
on the ruins of the Wings. contested the Presi-
dency as a national organization comparatively
little interest attached to the Democratic con-
vention, by which it was nearly certain that
James Buchanan would be made the candidate.
The convention met at Cincinnati on the I'd Of
June. Buchanans principal rival Presi-
dent Pierce. The frat ballot resulted in 1875
votes for Buchanan, 122 for Pierce 33 for
Douglas and for Glass; After several ballots
Pierce's supporters passed over to Douglas
when the vote stood, Buchanan. 168 Douglas
121; Cass, g. Finally, on the seventeenth
ballot, Buchanan received the unanimous nomi.
nation. John c. B eckirridge was nominated
on the second ballot for Vice-president.
The first Repubi can convention met at Phila-
dephia on the 18th OF June. Over a thou
sard delegates made their appearance and
Henry S. Lane, Of Indiana was chosen
President Many names Of eminent Freesoi-
ers appeared as candidates for the nomination.
The strongest seemed that of William III. Sew
ard but he had formidable competitors in
Salmon P. Chase, N. p. Banks John Mclean,
Charlts Sumner, and John C. Fremont. But
the convention made quick work of the aspi-
rants, and promptly showed its preference for
an ''available man. On the first ballot John
G. Fremont had 359 votes John Mclean, 1876
Sumner, 2 and there was one vote each for
Banks and Seward. On the second ballot FIRE.
mont was nominated by unanimous vote. The
candidates for the Vice presidential nomination
were William L. Dayton. Abraham Lincoln,
David Wilmot Preston King, Charles Sumner,
Thomas r. Ford, Cassius NJ. Clay, and many
others on the second ballot William L. Dayton
was chosen. The convention made long plat
form, and adjourned with enthusiastic hopes
of victory.
The defeat of the Republicans in 1856 was
really Bunker Hill, presaging triumph four
years afterward. When the election of 1860
approached. that party had waxed stronger as