The Lake County star., 1876-05-18

Dom Pedro was In washington on the oth
of May. He visited Congress and the Navy
ward, and exchanged courtesies with the
President. 80. The amount OF silver in the
Treasury Department at the time OF the
passage of the specie resumption act, which,
Secretary Of the Treasury, will be used In
ordinary government disbursements, is
about two and half millions.
The bill reported by the Special Commit
tee on the Levees of the Mississippi river,
with the recommendation Of its passage by
the House, Is q substitute for two bills in
troduced by Messrs. Morey and Gibson, OF
Louisiana. 1t provides for the construction
of leyees by the United States Government,
under the direction of the Chief OF En-
gineers, and appropriates the following
amounts for expenditures in this way, in the
States named, respectively: louisiana,
ST. 900; Arkansas, 900; Missis-
sippi, $447, 900; Missouri, 100000; Tennes-
see, 100000; Illinois, $4,000. Total,
$4,l72,OO0.
western Items.
John McGregor, First Sergeant of Com
pany X, Egan's Cavalry, was accidentally
drowned while out with two men trying to
find deserters recently. He was crossing
Laramie River, Wyoming Territory, when
his horse became frightened or ugly, and
when nearly across all control over him was
lost, and he turned back into the river, got
into deep water, and was swept under by a
strong current. McGregor was an excellent
man, aud was with Captain Egan in his
charge lately made through the Crazy
Horses village. He leaves wife and two
children, and was q member of Capital
Lodge No. 2 of Masons, Omaha.
southern Items.
Two stages from San Antonio to Kings
bury, in Texas, were recently stopped and
the passengers and mail robbed at about
eight miles west of Seguin. The passengers,
who arrived at Galveston, state that one OF
the robbers rode along side of one of the
coaches and inquired Of the driver If he had
noticed man on a sorrel horse pass; he
took good look at the coaches and their
passengers, and rode on. Soon atterward
three masked men, armed with re.
peating rifles and mounted, advanced
from each side of the road, and or.
dered the passengers to alight from
both stages, and to give up their weapons
first, and then all Of their money. They al.
lowed the passengers to retain watches and
jewelry. The robbers then cut open the
mail-bags and robbed the mails. The pas.
sengers state that the robbers secured about
six hundred dollars in currency, four revolv-
ers, two Spencer rifles, which were in cases,
beside the mail matter. There were four
men among the fourteen passengers armed
with revolvers, but, owing to the lady pas
sengers, did not fire on the robbers. 1t is
reported that company from kingsbury
started in pursuit.
Items In General.
The failure of Harvey Arnold & Co., of the
Adams, Mass, Print Works, is considered
very disastrous. Their liabilities, 1t ID
thought, will rise over, rather than fall be.
low, 81 ,250, 900, and not less than thirteen
thousand men, women, and children, in the
six mills, are thrown out of wOrk......Ths
Democratic State Convention of South Car
olina elected General John Britton, Hon. w
ID, Porter, ID. Wyatt Aikens, and General
ID. Kennedy as Delegate-at-Large to the Ma
ti0nal Convention, and Ex-Governor Perry
to be one of the District Delegates. Tht
delegates are uninstructed, and have differ
ent preferences as to candidates, but viii
likely to win......The delegates-atlarg'
nominated by the Georgia Republicans arr
HIP. Farrow, James Atkins, Ii. M. Turner
(colored), and George Wallace (colored)
The delegation is estimated to stand: Nor
ton, five; Bristow, six; and Blaine, eight
There are thirteen whites and nine coloret
delegates. The convention indorses the ad
journed without nominating Governor o
electoral ticket, and recommended con
vention for that purpose to assemble q
Macon before the LIST of August.
George H. Holt, a prominent Cincinnati
merchant, committed suicide at his HON
there on May 6.....A powder magazine ex
plosion, in Jersey City, on the night q
May 9th, put out all the lights in that cit
and Hoboken, and destroyed great amour
of property. The absence of dangerous il
Jury to many people is regarded as wonder
full. One man is reported killed.. Report
come from Leavenworth and Chicago of
terrible storm on the 9th of May, whic
swept the country from Kansas to LAX
was destroyed in the two cities mentioned
and a train of five cars was blown down a
embankment near Nation, ILL.,, injurin
several passengers.
A new York dispatch says that fe
nights ago, West Hoboken horse car W,
driven on the steam elevator at Bergen Hill
but before the brake-bar on the rear of Il
elevator had been placed in position Il
engine started, and the car, full of passe
gers, was thrown off the elevator and preciI
tated into the pit at the bottom. Two me
are reported killed; and several othe
wounded.
Great floods were reported on the Missi
sippi at st. Louis, about the 10th of Ma
Lowell, in the northern part of the cit
was completely submerged. More than
score Of dwelling houses and rendering q
adjustments were cut off from all commur
cation. In other parts of the city the dai
age by water was great, and immense qua
titles Of property were destroyed. Pesa,
N. Rubenstein, under sentence of death
the murder of Sarah Alexander last wint,
died on the morning of May in his cell
the Brooklyn jail......The Grand Jury Of II
District of Columbia has returned true b
of indictment against ex-Secretary Belkn
for accepting bribe while in office......
Whisky Ring were as follows: Louis KILL
man, Gauger, six months in the County j,
aud one thousand dollars fine; John
Howard, Gauger; John A. Mead, Gauger;
B. Jones, Store-keeper; Henry Armstes
Store-keeper, each fifteen months in I
County Jail and one thousand dollars fr
.....Three convicts, working on Presden
drowned lately by a skif capsizing. 4
colored.....At Minneapolis, Minnesota,
miller named Nugent was caught in the c
wheels of a mill, and horribly mangled....
Dufreuse & MCCARTHY, grocers at Montr,
and Ottawa, have suspended. Their lab
ties are between Two and three hundred tho
sand dollars. All claims will probably
met.
At Pittsburg, May 10, the day of the OPT
ing of the Centennial Exhibition, was
served as holiday. All banks were clos,
and business generally suspended in hor
of the occasion. At 11:4O a. m, the time
the opening Of the Exposition In Phi
delphia, the Fire Department struck
alarm-bell in the City Hall, and all the gol
of the department then rang until twel
o'clock, and with the chorus Of chur
chimes, and bells, and whistles of engir
and boats, made q noise seldom heard.
old bell, which has for years hung in
rotunda of the Courthouse a. relic, v
rupg for the first time in many years. IL '
cast in 1900, and is said TO be the oldest b
west Of the Allegheny Mountains. In old
times il was used TO summon children
school and alarm the citizens of ires......1