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

Whatever may be thought of Belknap
there can be but one opinion of Marsh.
He was rich man. He amassed a for
tune after the war in the great firm OF
Tylor, Davidson & Co., Of Cincinnati,
and at the death Of Mr.. Davidson was as.
sociated with Mr.. PIosbasco, who gave
Cincinnati the $50, 1000 fountain which
adorns Fountain square. He came here
about 1868, and resides in an elegant
house on Fifty-seventh street, and is a
member of firm doing large business.
Yet this man takes advantage of the
needs and weakness of poor Secretary
to corrupt his wife with bribes to get q
trading post where his confederate can
sponge soldiers and officers and steal from
Indians and rob emigrants by selling
miserable goods at four times their worth,
that he may gild the edges of his showy
and costly establishment. He may try
to wriggle out of the responsibility by
turning informer, but his forced confes-
sion stamps him as a rascal of the
blackest dye. And not till such men are
punished az they deserve, both by law
and public odium, can we have entire
honesty in the public service. These rich
miscreants, who tempt poor and half
paid officials in order that they may
squeezs the last dollar out of the pocket
of suffering emigrants and sick soldiers,
ought to be branded with infamy and
compelled to fee the country, as this
Marsh seems to have done,-Ms,c Yorl
Graphic.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
She Knew Why it Was.

One of our citizens is blessed (or other
wise,) says the New York Erening Post,
with very stubborn wife. In his case
he finds that when a woman will she
will, you may depend ont, and when she
won't she won't, and that's an end ont.
This popularity of disposition in his wife
is no secret among his associates, and one
of them meeting him the other day,
asked:
w, do you know why you are
like donkeyY
"Like donkeyp echoed W,
opening his eyes wide. "No, don't"
Do you give it upT
az do"
Because your better half is stubborn
ness itself."
"That's not bad. Hal hal I'll give
that to my wife when / get home."
"Mrs. W" he asked, as he sal
down to supper, "do you know why am
like donkeyp'
He waited a moment, expecting hi,
wife to give 1t up. But she didn't. She
looked at him somewhat commiseratingly
as she answered:
ct suppose because you were born so.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
Hon. Geo. H. PendletOn.

There was an article in the Washing
ton Capital on the Belknap case, in which
reference was made to the Hon. Geo. II.
Pendleton, of Cincinnati. The substance
of that article was telegraphed to two of
our morning contemporaries. The story
is this: The Kentucky Central Railroad
Company had claim against the gov
ernment for over 100000, which Stan
ton, Scofeld, and Rawlins had success
sively refused to allow. Upon the ap-
pointmento of Belknap, or soon thereafter,
the claim was allowed through the in.
fluence of Mrs. Bowers, now Mrs. Bel
knap, from which she received con.
siderable sum from the representative OF
the railroad company-Mr. Pendletor.
This is the report. Upon reading it, Mr..
Pendleton Immediately telegraphed Hon.
Hester Clymer, Chairman of the Investi.
eating Committee, denying the state.
ment emphatically, and demanding an
immediate investigation. He also tele
graphed Senators Stevenson and Thur.
man, and Representatives Sayler and
Banning, asking them to enforce his re-
quest.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
The Reason Mrs. Belknap is Excused.

/ should like to know why General
Belknap should be made to suffer SO aw-
fully for that business, while his wife is
to be shielded and defended from every
ungentle wind. There is not a particle
of doubt in the mind of any person
know of that If General Belknapis guilty
his wife is at least doubly guilty. Yet
everybody says, "Poor Mrs. Belknap!
How sad it is she has to lose her place in
the gay society of the Capital :" and no
one has word of sympathy for the hus-
band whom, l believe in my soul, she
betrayed into all this crime and shame.
"Why is it that you men never have
anything to say about Mrs. Belknap's
crime? Because Mrs. Belknap wears
No. IL shoes and No. gloves. How is
il possible for woman in dainty little
French cap and rustling silks with the
faint odors of thousand flowers breath
ing incense to her and from her, to be a
criminal? Preposterous! Your female
criminals all have big feet and red hands.
They are knock-kneed and fat-busted.
They steal money to spend at the dollar
store on pinchback jewelry. Mrs. Bel.
knap's taste Is perfect. Her dresses were
the masterpieces of Worth. Her house
was furnished with the choicest Partisan
garniture. Her conversation was witty
and brilliant-her face beautiful-hel
| figure was"
"Six thousand dollars year for Fort
SILL" broke In the Admiral gruffiy.-
General Comfy IN Ohio State Journal.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
GOLD AND BLUE.
BY FLORA MARCIAN.

Living bits Of sapphire blue,
Through the riven clouds that show,
All, how high and distant you
Far and fadeless shine and glow,
Pierced with stars whose flames Of gold
Seem all desolately cold.
Far above earth's stormy skies,
Glimpse OF deep, eternal rest;
High, serene, and far II lies
A sure curtained paradise
Would Il hold an oracle
Answering to mans longing call.
But the God will never speak
Man is all too weak and frail-
And the silence will not break,
Nor mans feeble prayer prevail
We are quite as far from him
As the ages, old and dim.
Gone before us in the surge
Down eternity's dark tide
Other men did live and urge
Their petitions and then died
Yet along the voiceless shore
Comes no answer evermoIe.
Coldly, desolately blue,
Shine forever, fadeless deep,
What Is man to such as your
Why does he look up to weep?
Cold, eternal, high, and calm,
For mans heart you hold no balm.
-Neso York Graph
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

IF the Harrisburg Patriot speaks truly,
those who can not get along without an
occasional drink of water would do well
to keep away from the Centennial Ex-
position. The Patriot says: !" The
Schuylkill water which is prime ingre-
dent in all the food and drinko of the
Centennial city, we are assured, is al
most entirely unfit for drinking or culi-
nary purposes" According to a recent
analysis, made for the water department,
there were 9S.06 pounds of sewage in
every million gallons pumped into the
city reservoirs. The water of the Thames
at London Bridge, which is considered
too filthy for Briton to drink, only con-
tains forty-nine pounds of sewage per
million gallons. Mr.. Holt says It needs
no chemical test to detect the flavor OF
the drinking water, the taste alone is
enough. This malign fluid forms twenty
five per cent. Of the articles sold In Phila-
delphia as milk.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
How q German Doctor Secured a
Specimen for Scientific Investiga.
Nfn,,
fCincinnati Commercial

Cincinnati Commercial.
A respectable German family, residing
on Vine street, near InwoOd Park, have
been sadly afflicted within the pas
three years. First, the husband died
leaving widow and one child. A yeal
after the husbands death the widow
through deep grief, lost her reason. Al
times she was perfectly sane, and always
entirely harmless. Several of her neigh
bors have kindly cared for her, and she
was kept out of the asylum. About nine
months since the child, nearly four years
of age, was taken ill, and suffered greatly
from tumor in its left eye. The regular
family physician, a German, whom we
will designate as DIR. X, was called, and
did all in his power to relieve its suffer
ings, but failed, the tumor constantly
growing much larger and more painful,
until it reached almost half the size OF
the child's head.
Another physician, also German, DR..
H., for convenience, hearing of the case,
called on DR.. X, and with him visited
the little sufferer. After examining the
tumor, DIR. u. asked permission to per,
form an operation, which DIR. X. agreed
to. The operation was a failure. The
sack was opened, and found to contain a
spongy substance, firmly attacked to the
eye. This discovery caused DIR. u. to de.
sist in his operations, for fear of fatal
consequences. The foulest Odors issued
from the exposed tumor, making it al.
most impossible for attendants to remain
in the room. The child grew rapidly
worse, and finally died, about ten days
ago.
And now we come to the shocking part
of the story. Preparations had all been
made for the funeral, which took place
about week ago. DIR. H., probably with
view to making some scientific expert
ments, asked permission from some of the
friends of the dead child to remove the
tumOr. This was refused. On the morn
ing of the day of the funeral he visited
the house and found the insane mother
sitting beside the coffin, in which her
dead child was inclosed. He gently led
her to another room and asked her to re-
main with some friends who had as
sembled until he could make one more
examination of the tumor.
Alone with the corpse, Dr. u. opened
the coffin, and, with sharp knife, quick
ly severed the child's head from its body.
He then wrapped it up in some paper,
closed the coffin tight, and left the house
with his CHASTITY trophy. Before leaving,
he made a request OF those in attendance
not to open the coffin again, as the odor
was so offensive that it might cause sick.
ness. His request was complied with,
and the headless trunk was deposited in
the grave, the friends of the child not
for a moment suspecting the object of his
visit.
The doctor was so elated with his sue
cess in securing the Specimen" for
scientific investigation, that he told a
friend all about it, and that friend" told
it to a reporter, who was never known to
keep a secret with news in it.
The friends of the dead child are in
possession of all the facts now, and the
Coroner will, it is said, commence an in
vestigation of the case at once.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
GERMANY published more than twelv

GERMANY published more than twelve
thousand books last year II that nation
Is an index of what the whole world will
be when brought to the same degree OF
intellectual activity and culture, the
prospect Is that novels will 60 into the
background. OF the entire number only
nine hundred were devoted 10 fiction
and the drama.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

AN ugly editor publishes the following
in his paper: A professor who has lately
been lecturing in Newark, N. j., advised
young ladies never to marry men" whose
heads were fiat, whose necks were thick,
and whose ears were low down on the
sides of their faces" We should
think person of this extraordinary
physiognomy sufficiently unfortunate
without subjecting him to ungenerous
suspicious. He would be likely to make
slow work enough with the ladies with
out the hint that he would turn out a
wife beater. We dare say that there are
many excellent husbands at this mo-
ment whose heads are as fiat as pan
cakes, whose necks are bovine, and whose
ears are asinine. A man who is ugly,
and knows it, usually tries the hardest
to please. How do husbands who are
married for their beauty usually turn
Out2
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The Lower House OF the Legislature
of California recently voted to dispense
with the services Of their chaplain. The
State Senate, Mt its organization in
December, passed similar resolution.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The Chicago Inter Oceon contains this
item of newspaper gossip: "It is an
nounced unofficially that Wilbur F.
Storey is about to dispose of ferty-nine
hundredths of his Interest i'm the Chicago
Times newspaper for the sum of $500, 600.
The purchasers are announced to be
Cyrus ii. Mccormick, Perry III. Smith,
+. II. Winston, and certain Eastern in.
dividuals--all Democrats Of the most
pronounced stripe" Mr.. Storey, It is
alleged, will take a two years trip in
Europe TO allow the paper a chance OF
becoming Democratic.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

A LADY in Philadelphia has taught
the infant.class in Sunday-school for
forty years, and has only been absent
from IL two Sabbaths in all the time.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
THE HAPPY HOUR.

The busy day Is over;
The household work Is done
The cares that fret the incoming
Have faded with the sun;
And In the tender twilight
sit In happy rest,
With my little darling baby
Asleep upon my breast.
White lids, with silken fringes,
Shut out the waning light;
A little hand, close folded,
Holds mammals fingers tight;
And In their soft white wrappibgs,
At last In perfect rest,
Two dainty feet are cuddled
Like brides In nest.
All hopes and love unworthy
Depart ut this sweet hour
All true and noble longings
Renew their holy power !;
For Christ, who In the Virgin
Our motherhood hes blest,
Is near to every w0T IN
With baby on her breast.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
MINOR TOPICS.

In the seventh, thirteenth and four.
teenth centuries, under successive dynas.
ties, Mongul and Chinese, the inhab.
itants of the "Flowery Land" devised
and executed grand canal, opening a
water communication from Pekin to
Canton, distance of six hundred miles,
across two great rivers, and carried for
more than ninety miles some twenty-five
feet above the surrounding country.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The tobacconists of Constantinople are
styled tutungis. They are mostly Greeks
or Armenians, and have singularly en-
gaging manners, and sometimes, es-
pecially during the nights of Ramadan,
viziers, pachas, beys and ether dignita-
ries lounge familiarly in their shops to
smoke, talk and learn the news, sitting
the while upon low stools or the sur.
rounding bales of tobacco, like members
of the English Parliament upon their
w0Olsacks."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The effect of this formula will remain
in the soil for number of years, and
the expense is comparatively small. If
1t pays well on the first crop, as it can
not fail to do, then the manurial value
left in the soil for future crops is just so
much gain.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

REMOVE insects from the ear by tepid
water; never put q hard instrument into
the ear.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

GEN. JOE JOHNSTON, of Confederate
fame, writes from Savannah to an old
slave: Dear JIM can not tell you
how glad Mrs. Johnston was when told
her you had come to see me in Rich
mond. And we agreed then to send you
Christmas gift. But whtn Christmas
came people were so slow in bringing
me my money that 1 could not raise a
decent sum for you. At last, however,
am paid, and I send you $50 in check
on the National City Bank of New York.
with our best wishes for you, Mary and
the children. Remember, Jim, that you
can never find truer friends than Mrs.
Johnston and /.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

KANSAS is importing immense mum
bers of sheep.
DEEP SHOWS in Utah have caused the
death of four thousand cattle.
MANY families in Central Georgia use
only homegrown tea.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Maine
Farmer says: In breaking steers, place
the most dOcile one on the off,side, as he
can make good near.Ox of almost any
steer.
FARMERS about Johpstown, Pennsyl-
vania, fear that the geat number of wild
pigeons in that vicinity will remain long
enough to eat up all the seed that will be
sown.
In Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, there
is hog that is expected to weigh one
thousand pounds by the time the Gen.
tennial opens. 1t weighs eight hundred
pounds now, and is not fat.
SOME of the Vermont farmers are Or
ganizing a registry of pure-bred Spanish
merino sheep, and will confer with the
Ohio Woolgrowers' Association with a
view to the formation Of national
registry.
ACCORDING to the Macon (Ga.) Tele-
graph, the farmers in that vicinity are
buying all the guanO that they can pos
sibly get on credit, promising to pay for
it in cotton at fifteen cents per pound, to
be delivered next fall.
!. G. DRAKE, of Carthage, Me-, raised
the past season seventeen heads of oats
from one kernel of the seed, sown on new
ground, which happened to fall near the
edge of the piece; some of the heads
produced one hundred and seventy-fve
Kernels each, and the aggregate produc-
tiOn was three thousand one hundred
and three kernels.
A MONSTER OK, five years old, weigh
ing 5000 pounds, will represent Middle
town, N. Y, at the Centennial. He is
of English extraction, twenty-five hands
high, and measures twenty-five feet from
the tip of his nose to the end of his tail.
His exhibiting weight will be 5000
pounds. His owner has refused $4,000
for fourth interest in him.
THE following is very good formula
for manuring Indian corn, and when
other conditions are favorable, should
give maximum yield at a very moder-
ate cost per bushel
GuIn oS
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

THOUGH the Centennial will probably
not be honored by the presence of Queen
Victoria, there will nevertheless be two
royal personages who will give their at
tendance and countenance to the grand
Philadelphia show. The Emperor of
Brazil will come, of course, and the son
of the King of Sweden is also booked for
the trip. Though they will be equally
welcome, the visit of the Emperor will
be by far the more important. For years
those who look after our foreign re-
lations have called attention to the neces-
sity for closer intercourse with Brazil,
and better opportunity for promoting
friendship between the two countries was
never seen than will be afforded by the
coming visit of Dom Pedro.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The Canadian debt amounts to $134,-
$50, 1896.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The quantity of these may vary ac-
cording to the character of the soil.
The following formula for manurlng
root crops has been tried with marked
success by number of practical farmers:
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

A RECENT statement in regard to the
British navy, published in the London
Times, does not convince the reader that
Britannia rules the waves" 1t seems
that England has only twenty servicea-
BILE, sea-going iron-clads, six of which,
from constant use in foreign waters, are
impaired by worn-out boilers. Seven
iron-clads are in process of construction,
three of which will be finished some
time during the present year. Judging
from the rapidity with which the Van
guard went to the bottom last year, iron
clads of that magnificent size are not to
be depended on when coming in contact
with each other. Besides the twelve
iron-clads referred to, there are twenty
four smaller ones, fit only for harbor OF
inland service, and these are mostly
built of wood, thinly plated. Since 1856
England has spent the enormous sum OF
$4,000, 900, 900 on her war fleets, and the
vessels referred to are said to be the only
serviceable ones wherewith Britannia
may rule the waves.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The Maysville (Ky.) Eagle says that
w. B. Mcmillan, of Dover, bought q
cOoking-stOve at stove store in Ripley,
Ohio, and after using it for two days in
cooking the meals of the family, Mrs.
Mcmillan, on Saturday morning, found
that the draft of the stove was not very
good, and concluded to examine the in
ternal arrangements, and if possible
remedy the defect. On probing into the
ash or SCOT chamber in the rear part OF
the stove she drew forth package OF
one-quarter pound of blasting powder,
tightly and securely tied with twine, and
about dozen friction matches (in pairs
crossing each other) adjusted all around
the package, as If purposely to set it of.
How the powder came there is a question
but the most wonderful part is that
the magazine was not exploded by the
repeated heating that the stove had re-
ceived during the two days it was used.
As it happened, though, only two of the
matches had caught fire and gone out,
and the outside paper wrapping was
slightly scorched in places.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06

The amnesty bill came up recently for
discussion in the French Senate and
Chamber of Deputies. Victor Hugo
moved that amnesty be extended for all
acts committed during the Commune.
M. Dufaure proposed that the motion be
declared urgent. He said: "Amonp
those to whom the proposed ampesty ap-
plies are some who regret the excessps
into which circumstances led them. By
their tolls and their regrets they have
merited clemency." The President will
exercise the right of pardon in their
favor, but for those who committed
crimes, and who, while remaining enc
mics of society, employed upon the from
tier the most ingenious means for intro
ducing in France writings which
calumniate society and government, am
nesty is impossible, and the Ministry will
oppose it. The urgency was voted unani
mously. A similar motion was discussed
in the Chamber of Deputies, but no &C
tion was taken. The London Times
special dispatch from Paris states tha,
the French Government demanded
urgency" for the amnesty motions, sc
as to disarm irreconcilables. The lattel
had themselves resolved to demant
urgency, thinking they would thus bt
able to show their strength, as man,
Deputies would certainly have voted fo
urgency, which pledges them TO nothing
although resolved to vote against com
plete amnesty. In the Chamber Of Depu
ties M. Ricard said no member of th,
Ministry Is animated by feelings O.
hatred. "we oppose amnesty, but mo-
measures Of individual clemcncy."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-01-28
The Sun and the Weather.

The astronomers have been noting
that the sun of late has been remarka-
bly, free from spots, and during the
period there has been very warm and
spring like weather. About two weeks
ago, however. the sun was found quite
spotted again, and at the same time the
thermometer began to fall. This was
the case not only in this country but in
Europe, and the Paris correspondent Of
the New York Times writes that the
weather suddenly changed there to the
coldest, rawest and most disagreeable
weather of the season. This fact has
again given life to the theory that there
is relation between the sun spots and
the temperature upon this planet. Mr..
Lockyer, the English astronomer, re-
ported about the 1st of January that he
found the sun perfectly free from spots,
period of very mild weather. The very
same day Father Secei made the same
observation in Rome. Neither astron-
omer asserted that there would be mild
weather on earth because the sun was
spotless, but both inferred that this
might be the case. and such has been the
case in fact. The officially about the
theory ia to afford an explanation how
the greater heat of the sun. presumably
indicated by the absence of the spots, is
80 quickly transmitted to the atmosphere
of the earth.