The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

throughout the West. The snOW-pl0ws
were used freely, and trains were not greatly
delayed.
At Belvidere, N. j., Richard Ward, for the
murder of Peter Miers, in Phillipsburg, in
May last, has been sentenced to be hanged
on the Gath Of March.....Jo John Ritter, who
murdered his two children in Hacketts-
town, in October last, pleaded guilty OF
murder in the second degree, and was SEN
fenced to the States prison, at hard labor,
for twenty years on each of the two indict-
ments.. The snowfall on the Union Paci-
fc is reported heavier than at any time since
the building of the road ...... A son of Robert
Conner, aged eleven years, was killed by
lightning in his fathers yard, six miles
above Grandview, Ind, recently. OF five
other children playing with him four were
knocked down aud severely shocked......
Winslow, the Boston bank forger, has been
arrested in London. He was formally ar
raigned at Bow street. and remanded for a
week.
The Plymouth Advisory Council began its
sessions in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, on
February 10. Mr.. Beecher greeted all the
delegates on their arrival, and opened the
proceedings by an address. DIR. Bacon, of
New Haven, was selected as First Modera-
tor. ana Hdut uu duuFcsb no lOiioWs. ~ 10
proper to remark at the outset that we are
not here to whitewash either this church or
its pastor. IL they'need withdrawing they
should have called others than us. Second
We are not called to revise and correct the
Judgment of any former Council. Third
Not to amuse the public by drawing OIL their
attention to side issues. Fourth-Not to de-
eide or try the main question which has
agitated not only Brooklyn, but all English
speaking Christendom for three years. We
have nothing to do with that question,
the main question. 1t is not submitted
to us. 1t would be preposterous to submit
such question as that to any assembly like
this. Why, we are more numerous than
Presbyterian Synod, and more unfit for any
judicial function than the General Assem-
bly of the Presbyterian Church itself.
I Laughter.1 We are not here for the trial
of such case as that; even If this church, by
its committee, should invite us to try and
decide that question, we have nothing to do
with il. We are incompetent, or, as over
heard lawyer say. "Why,. appeal to the
Poor.house, and you wouldn't have more
unfit trial" In the fifth place, we are here
to advise this church concerning the manner
in which it has dealt, and how it ought to
have dealt, with what is known as the great
scandal, to rerise all proceedings OF this
church in relation to ito act on prlnci-
pies, not fact......The Independent State
Convention met at indianapolis February
l6. and passed resolutions tavoriDg the i'm
mediate and unconditional repeal OF the re-
sumption act and the issuing OF paper
money by the government In payment oi ex'
change for its obligations, directly to the
people, without the Intervention OF any
system of banking corporations. Franklin
Landers was nominated for Governor.........
The South Carolina House of Representatives
has unanimously adopted articles of impeach.
ment against Judge Montgomery Moses. The
charge is that he applied trust funds to his
own use. Montgomery Moses is brother to
Chief Justice Moses, and uncle OF ex-GOy-
ernor Moses. He has been on the Circuit
bench for several years. Marcus Louis, a
well known merchant of Holly Springs,
Miss, was found in the middle OF his store,
a few mornings since, horribly mutilated,
and bloody ak lying near. A. negro named
Miles Washington was arrested.
The rumor comes that there is strong in.
dications that our Minister to England will
be recalled. There is no doubt that tele.
graphic correspondence has been pending
for some days between the Department Of
State and Minister Schenck concerning his
probable resignation ..... Michael Murphy,
already twice sentenced to be hanged by
New York court, for the murder OF Matilda
Hujus, on the Hudson river, in the summer
of 1874, has been sentenced to death,
April z.
Notes from Abroad.
1t is reported that differences between
English and French fishermen have led to the
destruction of certain machinery of the
French, used in their operations at New
foundland, and the government has i'm
pressed upon the Colonial Office the advisa-
bility of stationing men-ef-war permanently
at st. Johns.......A special to the London
Standard from Vienna says letters from
Belgrade announce the triumph of the war
party in Servia. The appointment of
Ristich to the Premiership is most certain.
1t is reported that shortly before the close OF
the session the Skuptschina, sitting with
closed doors, resolved upon war in the
spring, appointed committee to watch
over the government, raise taxes, and adj
vance and issue paper money on the out
break of the war. Prince Bismarck has
thanked the United States Cabinet and
American Minister at Picking for supporting
the German claims for Furnishing Chinese
pirates who plundered and destroyed the
German schooner Hannah.
A dispatch to the London Post from St.
Jean de Luz, states that General Iona has
taken possession of the Carlist arms factory
at Elgoibar, and General Moriones has &C.
cupied Castona. The effect Of these move
ments is the seizure OF the Valley of the
Deva, and the imminent junction Of forces
of the two generals at Aspeizia....... Foreign
ambassadors lately complained to the Porte
of recent outrages against the Christians at
Broussa and Angora. The Grand Vizier,
replying to the complains, disavOwed the
conduct of the Governors of Broussa and
ADgora. The Governor of Angora has been
and will be prosecuted. The AS
sistant Governor has been ordered to remedy
the abuses. Mussulman and Armenian COM
missioners have been nominated to investi-
gate the circumstances.
1t is officially announced that the Carlists
were completely defeated on the 18th, by
Gen. Quesada, in the formidable positions
which they occupied at EIgueta. Don
Carlos and his forces fed towards Villa
Real and Summaraga, pursued by Quesada.
The latter passed the night at Vergan. Gen.
Moriones has occupied the Carlist line of
Notifications and entered Zumara......The
Pope, having granted dispensatiOn for the
of the daughter of the sculptor,
Story, Protestant, with Commentators
Pruzzi, Catholic and brother OF Syndic,"
of Florence, the grant is mentioned as o re-
exception to the rule never before
broken during the Pontifcate of Plus TX.
Some extreme Ultramontanists are highly
displeased.
Alexander MacDougall, chairman of the
board of directors of the Emma Silver Min
ing Company, of London, has caused writs
to be issued against Minister Schenck and
Trenor w. Park in an action for damages
for fraudulent Misrepresentation, ETC., in the
sale of the Emma mine.
The steamer Franconia ran into the
steamer Strath Clyde, Of Glasgow, off Dover,
February II, and she sank Immediately.
Smith, Sundius & Co., the steamers agents,
report that the Franconia has put into
Dover. She had her bows stove at the water
line. A large number of passengers were
by the sinking of the Glasgow. The
captain and twenty.eight landed at Deal......
A dispatch from London states that the
Liberals have agreed TO resist in Parlia-
meDt the ratification of the purchase of the
Suez Canal shares, believing that serious for
eign complications will arise. Mr.. Bradlaugh,
who has been consulted by Gladstone, is
lecturing to country audiences, and securing
signatures to a petition imploring resistance