The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01

The English revisers of the Old Testa-
ment have held forty-one sessions. They
have carried their revision as far as
Ezekiel Xiv, IA. The English revisers
of the New Testament have held sixty
five sessions. At their last meeting
they reached the sixth chapter of He
brews.
DURING the Centennial Exhibition
there were sold at the Bible Pavilion on
the Exhibition ground 1884 Bibles,
8,4S9 New Testaments, and 1882 por-
tions of the Bible. In addition to these
sales, $4,000 copies were distributed OF
little book containing Scripture verse
in 164 languages.
The Anti-Mission Baptists are said to
| be dwindling away, and are likely soon
to disappear entirely. They have stead
fastly held that missions to the heather
were without divine sanction, and an un-
warranted intermeddling of human be-
ings with the counsels and purposes of
the Almighty.
THERE is body of Baptists in West
Virginia known as the Ihirty-Day
Baptists." They are SO named because
they have preaching only once in thirty
|
poor that they can not support the pastor
separately, and one man serves as many
as nine congregations.
REV. CHARLES G. MCLEAN, in late
article in the Methodist, considers mod
ern camp.meetings in many respects a
failure. Formerly the salvation of souls
was the great idea, but latterly the sub
iect is: First, to enrich the association ;
second, to hear star preachers third, to
have season of recreation.
A Young Man Turns Up in Omaha
After Twenty.fOur Years. Absence.
A dark, swarthy looking individual,
dressed in semi-Indian garb, arrived at
Omaha the other day, making numerous
inquiries in very imperfect English dia'
lect concerning the name OF Z. u. Gas
kill, who left some portion of eastern
Iowa for an overland trip to California
during the gold excitement in 1851
This half-wild fellow claimed that he was
the son of this Gaskill, and that he was
| about five or six years old when his father
set out with his family for the overland
7 wagon trip to California. The family
: two year later, were in Arizona, and one
night the Apache Indians made an at
D tack upon them, and carried him away
, while the others made their escape. Mr.
3 Gaskill has a very vivid recollection o.
the battle, and also the long wagon triy
r from Iowa, while he has little or no recol
4 lection of the home or just where it wa
e located. He was carried away by the
Indians and lived with them, sharing
r the same neglect and attention as thei
s own children, until he grew to manhood
i He describes his life as being pleasant
and one that he fully enjoyed. He be
a came acquainted with the great chic
e Cochise, and followed him in many o
r his battles. He painted, tattooed, ant
/ besmeared his skin like the savage
themselves, and until now he has tn
: same coppery color. He describes %
0 chise az being a great warrior and q mos
o wonderful savage.
e He remained with these Indians unit
d about six years ago, when he was ca!
tured by the Comanches in one OF thei
e battles with the Apaches, and with ther
n he led q wandering existence, frst O
1t captive, and afterward as one of The trib,
)f Last fall he became tired of such mod
l. of existence and left the tribe, and NAL
s. ing his way to the Pacific coast, made IL
A, ouiries concerning his family, but faile
to learn any thing of them. In his wal
r, dering, nomadic life, he has accumulate
considerable wealth in the form of gol'
W dust. and on the proceeds Of this he WI
y. travelling in search of his lost home an
IN friends.
Ks No one seemed to be able to give hi
in any information, and he started,
his way East to prosecute his search
VI. Iowa