The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-23
GENERAL NOTES.

A TORNADO passed. over Lainonto, MIS-
souri,, totally destroying several houses,
and unroofing number of others. Sew
eral persons were injured, but no one Sc
riously.
AT a recent dinner given to Senator
Sharon by some of his friends, in San
Francisco, each guest found at his plate
bill of fare engraved on forty-dollar
silver plate.
ALFRED PERRY, while switching in
the Vandalia Railroad yard, at East st.
Louis, caught his foot in frog, and was
fearfully and fatally crushed by back
ing train.
IT would seem that some rigid cutting
down could be done in the direction of
prices at army posts. If they all pay as
much profit as the one at Fort Sill, there
is a comfortable margin realized from
the soldiers.
The suit brought by the widow of
the co.Ored man, Henry Jones, whose
body was refused burial in Mount Mo-
riah Cemetery, Philadelphia, was de-
cided in the Supreme Court of the State
in favor of the plaintiff.
The winter now closing has been sim
gularly mild in most parts of this cOnti-
nent, buS in Europe it has been more
rigorous than ia common. Skating has
been almost continuous, and there have
been some very severe storms.
A CoMPosIToR has calculated that in
the course of years type-setting the
average compositor will put up more
than 100000 separate pieces, which,
with their distribution, requires more
than 100000 motions of the hand.
The firm of William Peer & Son, Lon.
don cotton brokers, have been charged
with fraudulent transactions in cotton.
This has been one of the first buying es-
tablishments in the Liverpool cotton
trade, and is one hundred years old.
The punishment of any person offer
ing money to an officer of the Govern
ment to secure a place is, upon convic-
ton, a fine three times the amount of
the money involved, and an imprisop-
ment of not more than three years in the
Penitentiary.
TwENTY-FoUR vessels have been char
tered in New York to load grain for the
European markets, mostly for England.
These vessels have loaded altogether
$4,000 quarters of grain, or Cos, 400
bushels. This quantity is entirely indie
pendent of that taken by the regular
ocean steamers.
The envelope makers and printers
assert that the Government loses 500, ,OOO
in the manufacture of postal cards. to
say nothing of the cost of carrying them
as mail matter, and they claim that
if the Government should abolish
stamped envelopes, postal cards and
wrappers, it would save $2,5OO,OOo
year.
OF the sixty railroad accidents in last
January, fourteen were rear collisions
eight were from misplaced switches, tlvt
from broken rails, four from spreading
of rails, two from broken axles, and ont
each from brOken-down car, wash out
malicious obstruction, accidental obstruc
ton, cattle Oh track, bad track, ant
broken engine. Thirteen were unex
plained.
The London Bookseller, while admit
ting that in the matter of news collecting
the American newspapers are greatly
superior to the English, finds fippancy
and an absence of scholarly polish ant
, dignity in the daily journals of thu
United States. 1t says the experimen
of London newspaper with foreign ant
political news and local intelligenc
given with the ful!ness of American me
tropolitan journals, is yet to be tried.
THE story is current that before Dant
, G.. Rosetti's poems were published, som
years ago, they had been lying for te
, years in his wife's coffin, and that, yield
!, ing to the solicitations of his friends, h
got an order from the Secretary of State
: had the coffin exhumed, and the manl
: script taken out. "This," criti
remarks, "would account for the pr'
vailing unhealthiness of their tOne.'
: On the night of the Sd inst, some on
f stole three horses, making six in al
s from the Arrapahoe camp, few mil!
e below Fort Fetterman. On the 4ti
: some Indians, believed to be Arrapahoe
S ran off twenty-one head belonging I
citizens of that vicinity. Sunday I'll
a citizens went in pursuit, and durin
: Sunday night discovered an Indian cam
!. at Bridger's Ferry, and drove off frol
, sixty to one hundred head belonging
\ the Indians, including some of the
n own. Several small bands of lndial
e have been lowering around Fetterma
o tor some days past.