The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The famous Younger brothers are nov
engaged in the peaceful avocatiOn o
painting pals in the Minnesota STATE
prison.
GEN. ROBERT Z. LEES monument
seems to be now thing assured. Th'
treasurer of the monument association
reports that he has in hand in cash ant
estimated assets the sum of $14 ,993.o7.
CONGRESSMAN HILL is now fifty.thret
years old, is Georgian by birth, and 4
man of fine personal presence, being
above the average height, 1.-the anC
sinewy, without any appearance of lean
ness.
FRANK HADLEY druggist in MoOres
Vile, some days ago was stricken deai
and dumb, and 80 remains at present
He is aged thirty, of regular habits, per-
feet physical health, and his case is ex.
citing universal attention from the
medical fraternity. There is no known
cause for his calamity.
CDR. AVER, who makes pills, is hope.
lessly insane, and $2,00O.000 is as
good as orphaned. ."-Rochester Democrat.
This is not enough. His fortune is much
greater. His income is 81, 900 a day, and
we suppose there has never been time
in the last dozen years when he has not
had less than $500,000 lying idle and
awaiting investments.-New York Sun.
LONDON Telegraph: A novel wager
has been reported, which attracts atten.
tion in clubdom. An officer of the Royal
Horse Guards Blue has backed himself
against certain sporting barOnet to ride
ten miles across fair hunting country
while snail crawls ten inches on a
creased board. At last advices the snail
was in splendid condition, and taking a
daily afternoon crawl. Odds, five to
four on the snail.
TWENTY years ago there was a fight
in Josiah Fields's family, in Milton,
Massachusetts,, and Immediately after
ward son disappeared, who, it was Ne
ported, had run away. Lately the house
was searched, somebody having given
important information to the authorities,
and the missing son was found concealed
in room. He was idiotic, and is sup
posed to have been rendered so by a blow
on the head in the fight.
Two men sentenced to death in Cata-
lonia, Spain, were lately subjected to
the garrote. The first was executed, but
owing to some popularity in the neck
of the other, the instrument did not
press the locality intended. After re-
peated trials by the executioner, resulting
in horrible agOnies to the condemned,
the latter was recOmmitted to prison. In
formation of the event having been, in
the mean time, telegraphed to King Al
phonso, he RENTED the mans sentence.
The people of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, the birthplace of Robert
Fulton, who first applied steam to navi-
cation, propose to honor his memory by
acquiring and embellishing a piece of
ground, not less than ten acres, in which
to place a colossal statue of this distin-
guished American citizen and benefactor
of mankind, TO be called the Robert Full
ton Monumental Park. An association
has been formed, a charter obtained, and
their appeal issued to the country for
contributions.
DANIEL O'NEIL, the senior editor of
the Pittsburg Dispatch, died on January
80, in his forty-ninth year, from asthma.
He commenced his journalistic career in
Pittsburg in 1851, as local editor, in
which position he achieved fair repu-
tation. After the deaths of Foster and
Ferrow, of the Dispatch, he purchased a
partnership interest in it, changed it from
cent paper to three-cent paper, en-
larged it to eight pages, and made it one
of the best newspapers in that city.
PHILADELPHIA Press: Fletcher Web
ster, the second and last son of Daniel
Webster, after living a somewhat fast and
erratic life, was killed in battle near
Washington OH the 3Oth of August, 1862.
A melancholy remembrance of the
family was revived in the Senate the
other day by the introduction of bill
to increase the pension of his widow from
thirty dollars TO fifty dollars month.
This lady is now sixty-five years of age,
and Mr.. Boutwell, stated upon present
ing the bill that she was in a condition
of actual distress.