The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
GENERAL NOTES.

The take of buffalo robes in Montana
the present season is the heaviest for
several years. Some of the dealers will
ship from 5000 to 10000 robes each.
The French drank thousand
million gallons of wine last year, a
comparatively small amount of spirits,
and a little water taken incidentally.
SHANpoN CAVE, near Dungarven,
Ireland, has been explored, and bones of
the mammoth reindeer, red deer, wolf,
fox, goat, and hare and various birds
found.
A STATISTICAL genius estimates the
cost of fences in the United States at
81, 300, 600, 900, and their annual repair,
depreciation and interest on first cost at
$4O0. 100000.
AMONG the Western military bodies
that have determined to march all the
way to Philadelphia are the Cincinnati
Life Guards, the Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Guards, and the Green Bay Light
Guards.
LONDON spt cial in New York Herald:
A remarkable accident occurred on Sun
day. A telegraph wire was broken by
the force of the wind, and in its retrac-
tion almost severed the head of an omni-
bus driver from his body.
A PATERSON IN. J.) woman lost a
valuable gold earring in the yard of
New England farm house last summer
and when the folks recently killed one OF
the old turkey. gobblers they found it in
his gizzard, not damaged in the least.
The first time bill to give women
the right to vote was introduced into the
Michigan Legislature, it was referred to
the Committee on graveyards. The last
time similar bill was presented there,
it passed the Legislature by a twO-third
majority.
A MAN fell down shaft one hundred
and fifty feet deep at Gold Run, Cali
fornia, the other day, and was washed
through the big tunnel distance of two
thousand feet, yet had life enough left
to crawl out upon the bank, where he
was found dead.
AS freight train on the North
western Railroad was moving north from
Milwaukee, Wis, the trussel work on
the lake front that supported the track
gave way, throwing the engine into the
lake. The engineer, named Berry, and
the fireman, named Lynch, were killed.
AN Englishman has analysed the
causes of railroad accidents, and comes to
the conclusion that human machinery is
responsible for forty-one per ,cent. of
them defective signals for twenty-eight
per cent; defective roadway for eighteen
per cent, and defective rolling-stock tor
thirteen per cent.
A DETRoITER who didn't exactly
know how to get letter registered, sent
some money away the other day, and
wrote OIL the envelope: Registered
with two dollar bill inside" Fearing
that this might not be strong enough,
one of his friends wrote: "Pll swar that |
| saw Jim put two dollars in this" The
man who fools with that letter will get
into trouble.
Mr.. @. Ii. OWEN, of Rutland, Yer.
mont, the United States Consul at |
Messina, Sicily, will, in few weeks,
send to Vermont one hundred and fifty
pairs ola species of migratory quail. The
birds pass their summer in Sicily, and in |
the autumn migrate to Africa to pass the |
winter. They breed in regions similar
to Vermont, and it is believed that on
this side of the Atlantic they will find a
soil ard climate congenial to their habits.
The New York Mail says: Trade is
not so stagnant as many people suppose.
For an instance to the contrary, the ex-
ports of cotton goods from this port for
the week last reported were valued at
one quarter Oft million of dollars or at |
the rate of over $lS, 900, 900 year. This
would be larger trade, in this line, by
two millions than was done even in the |
exceptionally prosperous year of 1860.
For fifteen years the exports of cotton
goods have been small and unworthy of
special notice. The revival of this branch
of trade is one of tho hopeful features o.
the situation and is attracting much at
tention.
COLONEL S. BAssET FRENCH, of Rich
mOnd, Va, has received from Mr.. |
Eustace Neville Kolfe, of Beacham Hall,
Kings Lynn, England, framed por-
trait Of Pocahontas, about ten by twelve |
inches in size. He deposited it in the
State Library of Virginia, as it was in
tended by the donor to take that direc-
ton and there remain. The Virginia
Princess has very dark copper. colored
face, and does not appear altogether
lovely, though decked with high felt |
hat and large square-cut lace collar.
The picture is correct reproduction of
what is supposed TO be an authen tic por.
trait, and bears the following inscrip-
ton: "Matoaka alias Rebecca, ELLA
Potentiss, Prime. Powhatans Imp, Vir-
giniaer."
VERSAILLES news says that copies of
the Budget for 1875 have been distributed |
among the Senators and Deputies. The
revenue is estimated at 1854, AGO 900 and
the expenditures at 1888, 10000 No
increase of taxation is proposed. The |
preamble Of the Budget says: "Our re-
are not greater than our require
ment. None of the receipts of the |
Treasury can at present be spared. The |
will not avail itself of the |
power to borrow GS,000,000 from the
Bank of France. On the contrary, it will
be able to refund f5,000,000 by antici.
patory payment. The Treasury will
have completely repaid the Bank of
France by 1879. This will set free $780,.
O00, 900 yearly. 1t will be only possible
to propose a serious reduction of taxes
after this is accomplished"