The Lake County star., 1877-04-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| The Republican Secretary OF Stat,
has always come from New YORK.
IT is rumored now that ex-Presiden
Grant Will take up his residence on Slater
Island.
MRS. ELIZABETH ALLEN, Of Charles
ton, Vermont, is one hundred and hvt
years old.
FORTY thousand unemployed working
people are waiting for something to turn
up in San Francisco.
The first five Presidents of the United
States ended their terms of service In
the sixty-sixth year of their age.
Miss BRADDoN, the novelist, writes in
a cramped position on bit of card board
held in her lap. She wears tailor's
thimble to keep her fingers from being
linked, and her hand writing is as heavy
as a grenadier's.
If Mr.. Evarts serves out his term,
New York will have had the portfolio ol
State q score of years. Mr.. Seward
served eight years under Presidents
Lincoln and johnson, and Mr.. Fish
eight years under President Grant.
A NEW YORK school boy has disap.
peared, preferring to run away from home
rather than face a stern father, who pun
ished him for getting a low average In
study. The child was bare-fOOted when
last seen in the neighborhood of Castle
Garden.
GIvENs, O venerable Mohawk chief
died lately at Brentford. He fought at
the head of his warriors under Brock
and Tecumseh, became civilized, and at
the time of his death was interpreter
to the Wesleyan Conference.
The Queens state saloon on the
Great Western Railway, England, is
made entirely of boiler plate, and 30
lined and padded that if the carriage
were to 90 over an embankment and roll
to the bottom the chances are that the
occupants would escape uninjured.
IT is reported that Moody and Sankey
have been prevailed upon 10 spend lit
tie time at Amherst after getting
through at Boston. They are looked for
some time in May, though Mr.. Moody
gives out that they are not likely to
leave the Hub till June.
AN English Company, with $25, ,000,-
900 capital, is buying up 5000 square
miles of timber limits in Canada and
purchasing lumber mills on the Ottowa
and Gatineau Rivers. Sir John Rose, of
Morton, Rose & Co., bankers, of New
York and London, is at the head of the
Company.
A BROAD gauge chair capable of seat
ing two persons of ordinary size, which
was used by Dixon II. Lewis, a heavy
weight Senator from Alabama, about
twenty years ago, has been brought
down from the room of the Committee
OH Commerce for the use of Judge
David Davis.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, for fifty
years English Consul at BOulOgne, has
Just died at the age of eighty-three. He
had something of history in his early
days, having entered the royal navy at
thirteen, and being taken prisoner in
1903 was confined at BoulOgne, where
he was afterward so long Consul. In
1873 the Queen bestowed on him the
Order of the Bath.
A FEW nights since, the police raided
the celebrated Club House " in Wash
ington City and arrested large number
of persons who were there engaged in
gambling. Among the number was an
ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and a prominent judge of South Caro-
lima, United States ex-senator, and
several ex-members of Congress, who
were taken to the Tenth Street Station
house. Next morning the parties ar
rested were discharged upon leaving
collateral security, the proprietors being
held in $1,000 and the players in $50
each to appear as witnesses.