The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03
GENERAL NOTES.

BEECHER otigbt to emigrate to Texas,
as under the new constitution of that
State nine to three OF jury may render
verdict.
The failure Of Israel Farjeon, MANU-
factur ng jewelcr, 81 Nassau street, New
York, is announced, with liabilities ut
80, 900.
HENRY ADKINS, a wealthy citizen of
Henry county, Missouri, suicided lately,
by cutting his throat. Pecuniary diff
culties are supposed to have been the
cause Of the act.
A DISPATCH from Vienna asserts that
Montenegro has purchased fifteen thou
sand more muskets, and that the bargain
was made through Russian agent, and
the arms paid for with Russian money.
SNowFALLs under a cloudless sky are
common in Virginia City, puzzling
strangers. The snow is blown from
Mount Davidson, which is close by the
town, and is whirled through the streets
by the wind.
AN Ultramontane newspaper at Brus-
sells says that Louise Lateau is dying.
She is peasant girl, who, some time
ago, attracted crowds of pilgrims by an
exhibition on her person of an alleged
miracle of stigmata.
A POND of water in Northern Alabama,
embracing some ten acres, suddenly dis
appeared the other morning with loud
rumbling sound, and large hole, down
which the water poured, is all that re-
mains to mark the spot.
On the night of the 18th the Southern
Overland Express was robbed by Ameri.
can highwaymen, between Rio Mimbres
New Mexico, and Rio Grande, of "a, OO(
in bullion, and large amount of green.
backs from the passengers.
ACCORDING to very ancient English
rhymester. when Christmas falls on Sat
urday the winter shall be full of grea,
tempest, that shall slay both man and
beast; fruit and corn shall fail greatly
and many of the people perish.
NICK THOMPSON standing on scaffold
in Quitman, Alabama, with the moose
around his neck, sang Ninety ant
Nine" all through, and prayed for ten
minutes. Then he said: Letter CO.
1t is a work of supererogation to add tina
"she went"
THIS from the letter of recent settler
in Nebraska: We are burning corn in
our cooksstove, and it makes the best fue
! ever used for quick, hot fire. pay
eighteen cents for seventy pounds, and
think it fully as cheap as hard wood al
six dollars cord.
THERE is dog on the frontier O
Dakota Territory which singly and alone
carries the mail over route of sixty
miles, through all weathers, as straigh,
as die, and none dare modest him. His
name is BOss-but he never put in any
straw bid, and belongs TO no ring.
A LETTER from Fayal, one of the Azort
Islands, holds out this incentive to i'm
migration: Here you get bottle o.
wine for six cents, meal for eight cents
board by the day for twenty-five &C nts
while fifty cents will buy as much as five
dollars will i'm the States"
ISAAC L. WILSON, of Columbus, Ohio
after week of hard drinking, at Cham
paign, Illinois, cut his throat in TIVE
gashes from ear to ear, opening the wind
pipe, and then jumped out the uppe
window. He is now dying. He ma
parents and wife at Martinsburg, Yves
Va.
Two Allentown, Pa, thieves went to
mans pen and took therefrom q fine ia
hog. Driving it to their wagon, shor
distance, they were unable to get piggy
into the vehicle. One of them returned
to the mans house and got him to go ant
help them. When he discovered, mex
morning, how he had been tricked hi
language asvery emphatic.
In the Milan cemetery pavilion ha
been put up for the cremation of bodies
which, being placed OH al altar, arc sub
jected to the action Of two hundred gas
burners, giving a heat of one Thousand
degrees. Thus a body is consumed Il
ashes in one hour. On January Is
Chevalier Albert Keller was burned, the
preparations having been made by direc
ton of his will.
HENRY SOMERvILLE DIGBY, known
also as Lord Disby," cousin to the Ear
of Digby, died at Bellevue Hospital
New York, recently. 1t appears that
while in fit of delirium, induced by
diphtheria, he had forced small bit o.
hard wood down his throat. He was Q
man of uncommon abilities, and was
able to maintain himself by writing ir
regularly for the magazines and news
papers, leading Bohemian life. He had
separated from his family in consequence
of extravagant habits.