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The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

LOUISVILLE Courier Journal: The
Mexican revolution seems to have suf.
fered shipwreck. In Oaxaca, where the
insurgents were most formidable, General
Alatone has completely defeated the
pronunciados, and the Diaz movement
has been thoroughly extinguished. tits
to be hoped that the presidential election,
which is near at hand, will be peaceable
one, and that the people of the Republic
will nee fit to re-elect President Lerdo de
Tejada, under whose administration
Mexico has certainly prospered in the
face of very great obstacles, the chief OF
which is the existence of a large popula-
tion of mixed bloods and illiterates, for
whom, however, liberal educational pro-
visions are gradually being made. The
detection which Diaz reported certainly
has not existed to the extent he asserted,
as it is now known that not single
State government went with the revolu-
tionists, who have evidently acted in
scattered predatory bands. They have
certainly failed in their. effort to establish
anarchy in the Republic, and If the
desperate movement of the robber
Cortina Is promptly crushed IL is not
likely that there will be a speedy re.
newal of the retarding work of the
Dronunciddos.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
The Suicide of AbduI Aziz.

COnstantinople journals report that
Abdul Aziz had several violent fits of
madness after his deposition, particularly
on the evening before he committed sui
eide. Midhat Pasha has been appointed
President of the Council of State. The
London Standards special dispatch from
Athens says the Turkish Minister there
has an official telegram stating that
Abdul Aziz committed suicide because
he was maddened by the seizure of thirty
millions Turkish pounds, his private
treasure. Special dispatches to the
Standard represent that at Paris the story
of the Sultan's suicide met with con-
temptuous incredulity. At Rome the
journals generally express the belief
that Abdul Aziz was murdered. The
Standards Vienna correspondent reports
that one of the last DEGREES signed by
the late Sultan was secret order for the
invasion of Servia, and the Austrian EN-
bassador at Constantinople succeeded in
having the order withdrawn.
The Paris dispatch to the London Ne,cs
says the French journals are singularly
unanimous in disbelieving the report
that Aziz committed suicide, and point
out many alleged discrepancies in the
official accounts. Although the official
telegram announced that the late Sultan
would have spendid funeral, it was
subsequently admitted that he was buried
by night, ard his death kept secret from
the public for fear of disorder. The
Tines dispatch from Rome says the
Bcrsagliere, italian newspaper, reports
that twenty thousand men were in readi-
ness to embark from Odessa when the
orders were countermanded in conse-
quence of the suicide of the Sultan.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
says, to judge from the spoken and
printed sentiments of the adherents O
the Austrian Government, it might be
assumed that Count Andrassy contem-
plates the possibility of abandoning
Russia, and adopting the English view
of Eastern affairs. The Ruski Mia, the
organ of the st. Petersburg Sclavonic
party, already regards war as imminent,
and begins to discuss in what localities
the Austrains will be concentrated to re-
sist the Russian attack. The fact of such
an article being published with impu-
nifty, is serious matter for reflection.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
Impressions Of the Frozen Regions.

In McGahan's "Under the Northern
Lights" we find the following eloquen
description Of the impressions produced
on the mind by the contemplation of the
frozen regions:
The islands of North Somerset and the
Prince of Wales Land, between which
we are sailing, are mere heaps of stones
and boulders. For hundreds of miles in
every direction it is the same. The whcle
north coast of America, from Behring's
Straits to Hudson's Bay, with the great
Archipelago north of it, is nothing but
stone and rock and ice, not only without
a tree or shrub, or blade of grass, but
without even handful of earth to hide
its savage nakedness. The water is ice,
the land is rock, the sea frozen corpse,
the earth bare, grinning skeleton, that
meets you everywhere; that seizes you in
its bony clasp, and will not let you 90,
the skeleton of dead world.
Nature never smiles here. In sunshine
or shadow, in light or shade, she is al.
ways gloomy and taciturn. When the
sun comes out bright and warm, as it
does sometimes, tinging the bare, bleak
rocks with melancholy yellow, she is
silent, sad, and mournful; when the gray,
leaden clouds are drawn over the sky
like a canopy, she is stern, inexorable,
implacable. She shows here no rich
carpet of grass and flowers to delight and
refresh our eyes no fields of waving
grain; no grand old forest with its ocean
of green foliage no rustic of leaves
whispering their mysterious secrets; no
chant Of birds nor hum of insects; no
murmur of life and love and Joy. Her
voices are hushed, her smile is gone, her
face is cold. We are used to a smiling,
bounteous earth, clothed in verdure and
flowers, that opens her arms to us, that
warns us on her breast, that gives us life
and light, and warmth and plenty.
Here we are like children looking en- the
pale, cold face of dead mother we are
struck with terror. There is something
fearful in the rigid features that were so
full of expression, in the closed eyes that
beamed no more; in the still hands that
moved not-a strange, dreadful mystery
which appals. This is the first impress
sion. 1t is succeeded by something far
more fearful and terrible-a feeling
have tried to seize and analyze without
success. 1t is as though you gradually
began to preceive sinister meaning
a darker signifcation in this lonely,
silent world. You began to feel that it
is endowed with a sullen kind of life
a somber intelligence that you vainly
try to comprehend. You feel that some
thing terrible has happened here, or is
going to happen.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
A Scrap OF Nova Scotia History.

The Halifax Reporter says: Some in
teresting facts in relation to the past his
tory of this province are occasionally un-
earthed in searching some of the dusty
old tombs in the Legislative Library.
Thus, it appears that during the Revolu-
tionary war-1776-83-that portion of
this province now known as Colchester
and Cumberland Counties was 80 strongly
disloyal, and sympathized SO much with
the revolutionists, that it was three
times disfranchised in that period. In
1777 the grandfather of our preser r.
popular Lieutenant-G Governor wae ;n'
dicted, with six others, for high erea.on
in affording comfort and assist ance a to : W.
rebel privateers, the Wash ,nvton and ID the the
Gates, that visited the Basin of Minas in
that year: The prosecution failed be.
cause sIncier.o proof could not be OBJ
ta,neu, vu. the progenitors of many Of
our cid families" were regarded
throughout the war with deep suspicion
by the British.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
The Sewers Of Paris as Seen by q
Lady.

had chance to visit the sewers with
a party from the house. l gladly availed
myself of it, and walked with them down
to the Madeleine, where we disappeared
through hole in the pavement, down q
spiral staircase, at the foot of which we
found nObly arched vault through
which canal of dark water was running
rapidly, with good foot-pavements on
each side. There were about one hun.
dred visitors, and we were all slowed
away in boats in the most systematic and
comfortable manner for a ride on this
canal. There was not the least impurity
in the air, for the Seine is turned into
the sewers above the city and let out
again into itself miles below, and the
current is rapid. Our boats were ele-
gantly lighted with kerosene-lamps with
ground-glass globes, and seats covered
with clear sail-clOth. Think of the
authorities of Paris providing such an
entertainment under ground for her
visitors.
AS each little boat received its compile
ment of persons, eight men in the newt
able blue blouse, four on each side, took
hold of our ropes and tramped off with
us down the Place de la Madeleine, down
the Rue Royale, through the Place de la
ConcOrde, to some point in the Rue de
RivOli. Our course was indicated by the
same little squares of blue, with letters
in white, that mark all the streets of
Paris above ground. The vault is at
least twelve feet high, and as wide as a
narrow street; the masonry is only ex-
celled by that of the Cloaca Maxima at
Rome. Large iron pipes were running
along on one side on brackets above us,
which, upon inquiry, found were the
city water-pipes.
At some point on the Rue de Rivoli we
were transferred from the boats to
beautiful open cars, lighted as the boats
were, and four men, two in front and two
behind, carried us along a tramway,
through narrow part of our road, still
over water and still down the Rue de
Rivoli. got out of my bearings when
l saw the sluiceways in the sidewalks
marked Rue du Roule, Rue des Lavan-
dieres, etc. but soon we made scientific
turn on railway-pivOt, and our course
was marked Boulevard de SebastOpOl.
The poor fellows who ran the cars-for
they did run them-were very warm and
q good deal out of breath, but they kept
at 1t until we emerged into full daylight,
as suddenly as when we popped out of
the salt-mines at Hallein. And where
do you think we were2 BY the Tour de
st. Jacquesl We were ushered UP
staircase into the street without even an
to see the men who had
worked 80 hard for us.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
Suicide.

Whether or not the act of suicide indi-
Gates insanity on the part of the self
destroyer, is problematical. Some of the
scientific men of the day are trying to
solve this question, but meet with MANY
difficulties, some of the chief of which
arise from the impossibility to place the
suicides themselves on the witness stand.
They find it impossible to get any but
inferential evidence of selfdestroyed
man, as to his mental status at the time
he killed himself. Some queer facts
have been brought to light, however.
One man has been told by fortune
teller that he would die within three
years, and having a great horror of
death, he took dose of strychnine to es-
cape it. That man was clearly of un.
sound mind. A case of almost the re.
verse of this happened in Paris. A man
bent on suicide climbed up the parapet
of bridge over the Seine, and was about
to jump into the river when sentry
pointed his musket at him and told him
he would shoot him dead unless he came
down instead Of staying on the parapet
and achieving death at the hand of the
sentry without committing suicide. Was
that man in his right mind2 A still
more singular case was that of an old
bachelor, who, in moment of weakness,
entered into marriage engagement. On
coming to what he called his right mind,
this unfortunate man resolved to escape
the consequences of his folly by COM
mitting self-destructiOn. Thus resolved,
he had his razor aimed at his jugular
vein, when word came that his Gin
tended" had eloped with younger and
handsomer man. Here was an unex-
pected deliverance; but now mark the
vagaries of perturbed mind. Jealousy
of his reval succeeded to the horror of a
betrothal, and after writing plain
statement of his grievances, the bachelor
resumed his razor and cut his throat. So
far as the sufIerings of certain methods
OF suicide are concerned, we have evil
dence. A man in Canada who took
dose OF strychnine, and escaped to tell
the tale, describes the sensation of diving
by this process. 1t is enough to deter
any person in his senses from selecting
this mode of suicide. He says he felt
succession of shocks and commissions,
each worse than being on the wheel and
after suffering terrible torments for
period that seemed of intimate duration,
he finally sank into unconciOusness, from
which he was rescued by the utmost ex-
ertions Of skiIlful physicians.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
THE MODEL CHURCH.

Well, wife, found a model church wonhiped
1t made me think Of good old times, before my head
The meetiS' '-Ioaso was fixed up more than the,
But then felt when went in, 1t wasn't all bull,
for show.
The sexton didn't seat me away back by the door
He knew that was old ana deaf, as well as oid and
He must have been Christian. because he led me
The long sisies of that crowded church, to nnd
place and pew.
wish you'd heard the singing, it had the Old-time
The preacher hers; :sid. with trumpet voice. "Lst all
The tune was Coronation, and the music upward
Till thought heard the angels striking all their
harps of gold.
My deafness seemed to melt away, my spirit caught
Joined my feeble, trembling voice with that melo
di0us choir,
And sang as IN my younger days, "Let angels pros
Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord
OF all"
tell you, wife, it did good to sing that song once
felt like some wrecked mariner, who gets glimpse
of shore;
almost wanted to lay down this weather-beaten
And anchor in the blessed port forever from the
storm.
The preachin'? Well, can't just tell all that the
know t@sasa i wasn't i' Written know it wasn't read
Went aashin' long from pew to pew, nor passed
sinner by.
The sermon sermon wasn't hOwery; twas simple gospel
1t fitted poor old men like me; it fitted hopeful
Twas full Of consolation for weary hearts that bleed
Twas full Of invitation to Chris. and not to creed
The preacher made sin hideous in Gentiles and in
He shot the golden sentences down in the finest
And-;thOush can't see very well-I saw the fall
That told me hell was some ways of, and heaven
very near.
How swift the golden moments fed within that holy
How beautiful beamed the light of heaven from
every happy face;
shall meet with friend,
When congregations ne'er break up, and Sabbaths
have no end"
hope to meet that minister-that congregation,
In the dear home beyond the stars that shine from
heavens blue;
doubt not I'll remember, beyond life's evening |
gray,
The happy hour Of worship in that model church |
to-day.
Dear wife, the fight will soon be fought, the victory
be won;
The shinin goal is just ahead the race is nearly |
run;
Der the river we are nearing they thronging to
the shore,
70 shout cur safe arrival where the weary weep no
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

The Boston Post remarks: If the
Centennial authorities should see fit tc
offer prize for the pink of politeness, il
is questionable whether American ex
hibitors at Philadelphia could stand any
chance by their foreign brethren. Take
for instance, the manner adopted by the
different exhibitors in giving notice that
their goods are not to be handled. The
blunt Yankee "hands off," printed in
bold letters and fastened in half dozen
places on every case, looks brusque be.
side the courteous "please not handle -
of the English exhibitors, and the still
more polite "visitors will confer a
favor" ETC., etc., which is the way the
request is worded by the French,
Egyptians and others.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

New York World.l

Miss Clara Morris, when at the Union
Square, gets 5000 a week, and $1,000
when she stars, furnishing her own
dresses. Miss Fanny Davenport is said
to have received as much as $3.50 week
when at the Fifth Avenue, and 81 1000
a week when starring, besides being pro-
vided, as all the actresses at this place
are, with two new dresses for each play.
Miss Rose Eytinge got $3.50 a week at
the Unicn Square; Miss Ada Dyas has
$3.50 week; Miss Kate ClaxtOn, $175 {;
Miss Jeffreys Lewis, 800; Miss Rosa
Rand, when in New York, $75; Miss
Emily Rigl, $75; Miss lone Burke, $75;
Miss Georgiana Drew, $50; Miss Ida
Vernon, 800; Miss Rose Wood, $50;
Miss Rose Lisle, $50; Miss Marie Cor
don, $75; Miss Ida Jeffries, $50; Miss
Sydney COwell, $75; Miss Effie Germon,
500; Mrs. Gilbert, 500; Mrs. Marie
wilkins, $75; Miss Mary Wells, $75;
Nine. Ponisi, 800; Mrs. John Seton,
800.
When George Clarke was in New York
he had 1925 and $3.50 a week. John
Gilbert gets $3.50; VIM. Davidge, 500;
D. Harkins, 1925; James Lewis, $3.50;
Stuart s Robson, $3.50; Harry Beckett,
$3.50; @. R. Thorne, jr., $3.50; Joan
Brougham, 5000; H. J. Montague, 1925;
Chas. Fisher, $3.50; G. A. Stevenson,
$75; J. w. Carroll, $75; Mr.. Floyd, $75
as actor and $25 as stage manager. All
these salaries are paid for seasons OF eight
months. Leading men like Thorne,
Brougham and Davidge, have. annual
benefits" in addition to their salaries
John Brougham netted $1,100 by his
recent benefit at the Fifth Avenue;
Thorne made 81, 900 by his benefit at the
Union Square, while the genial TOoker
surpassed them both at his recent benefit,
by which he netted $4,000.
George RignOld, during his engage
ment here, was paid $3.50, gold, a week.
Mr.. Sothern plays on shares, one-half the
house after expenses; and Lawrence
Barrett gets the same terms, and $3.50 a
week when OH salary. Edwin Booth is
the only American actor who gets clear
half of the hOuse-tO use a theatrical
phrase, meaning half the gross receipts.
While playing under engagement to Mr..
Ford, recently, in the South, Mr.. Booth
got 5000 week salary. George Fawcett
Rowe gets 5000 week. George Honey
got $3.50, gold, a week. f. l.. Daven-
port gets $500 a week. Fechter used to
get 81 600 week, but does not now.
Joseph Jefferson was once paid as much
Is SO, 800 week, and his managers were
'aid to have made money by the engage
nent. Miss Charlotte Cushman used to |
nave half the whole house. Miss Ade-
aide Nelson used to get 81 900 week
The now gets half the whole house. Mrs.
Rousby, when she was here, got $1,000,
,old, week. Lester Wallack, when play
ng under salary, under engagement to
lis father, used to get 1925 as actor and
S25 as stage manager. Barney Williams
Used to play on shares. Mr.. and Mrs.
Florence together get $500 week when
N salary.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

In planting corn upon moderately rich
soil, half pint of good unleached hard
wood ashes may be safely applied to each
hill at the time of planting, and double
or treble this amount of leached. After
the corn is up, and before second culti-
vation or hoeing, single handful addi-
tional may be applied with benefit.
There are few farmers who can afford to
sell their wood ashes for twenty-five cents
per bushel, especially when the land has
been cultivated for number of years |:
still, many do sell them for six to ten
cents and think they are saving money
by doing so. We would say keep and
use all the ashes you make and purchase
all you can at reasonable price, thereby
keeping up the fertility of the soil.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

A gentleman, having taken YER
active part in the Scotch rebellion @
1745, escaped after the battle of Preston
Pans to the West Highlands, where h
was received by relative of his, lady
who, being like himself attached I,
the Stuarts, was glad to offer him al
asylum. But as the search was yer,
strict after the rebels, who, if taken
were executed, it was necessary for hin
to be concealed where there would b
no danger of discovery.
He was therefore conducted by one o
the lady's servants to cave in seques
tered part of the mountains, and being
furnished with supply of food for some
little time, was left to take care of him
self. The only way of entering his re-
treat was by small opening, through
which he had to creep, carrying his pro.
visions with him, and feeling hisway with
one hand at every step.
A little way from the mouth the cave
became very lofty, and, still advancing
cautiously in the darkness, he presently
became aware of somthing that stopped
his further progress. Unable to see
what it was, and afraid to strike any
thing in the dark with his dirk, he
stopped, and felt carefully around for
the object, and soon perceived that it
was goat with kid. This would not
have been an unpleasant discovery, had
he not feared that the owner, following
the goat hither, would betray him to his
enemies; otherwise she might supply
him with nourishment.
Soon, however, he discovered that she
was in great pain, and then, carefully
feeling about her, perceived that one of
her legs was broken. Fortunately he
was not without some knowledge of the
treatment of animals; he therefore
bound up her leg with his garter, and
offered her bread to eat. But her mouth
was parched, and she refused the bread ;
he then gave her water, which she drank
eagerly.
Deeply interested in his suffering COM
panion, he ventured out at midnight,
pulled a quantity of grass and the tender
shoots of such trees as goats are fond of
browsing, and, carrying them to her in
the cave, had the pleasure to find that
she ate of them ravenously.
The goat remained for some time the
companion Of his solitude, and he had
the satisfaction of seeing, or rather know
ing, that she was rapidly recovering.
At this time it happened that the
servant, to whom was intrusted the Sc
cret of his retreat fell sick, and it was
necessary to send another with provisions.
The goat, on this occasion, happening to
be near the mouth of the cave, opposed the
mans entrance with all her might, but
ting at him most furiously. The gentle
man in the cave, hearing an unusual
noise, went forward few yards, and
then receiving the usual watchword from
his new attendant, came to the entrance,
and after few words of interpositior
the faithful goat permitted the me. a to
enter. So resolute was the an. '.mal on
this occasion, that the gent, ,.eman felt
she would have lied in his de.
tense.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

A CERTAIN Count Tschitschagow has
brought his extraordinary name into
notice in Europe by losing SOC, 900 francs
in two days at Monaco. When the last
piece of his fortune was gone the Count
lamented that he had nothing left with
which to buy his supper. The proprietor
OF the gambling-house showed his gen.
erosity and magnanimity by pushing
over to him FIVE hundred francs. The
Count took 1t, and invited all his CON-
panions Mt roulette 10 n fine supper.
When this was over he took carriage
TO go TO Mantou. Arriving at the desti-
nation, the coachman found that his
passenger had disappeared. The next
day the Counts body was found at the
foot of high precipice on the road. He
had opened the door of the carriage as
1t was passing the cliff and sprung out.
The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

THERE is a growing tendency toward
planting corn more closely together one
way. If the ground is we'll fitted, the
corn is as easily cared for in drills as
when planted in rows both ways, and the
yield is largely increased. At the last
meeting of the Western New York Far
mcrs' Club, the very best corn growers
announced their adherence To this plan I;
the stalks are more evenly distributed
over the ground, and thus the elements
of fertility are more readily taken up by
the plants. There seems to be some
division of opinion as to whether IL is
most profitable to place the drills three
or four feet apart.