The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-05-03

In Slawson, on the 10th, Edwin Mer-
win put q charge Of shot In the back Of
his wife's father, under the impression
that he was SPITE dog--a most extra
ordinary mistake.
PRINCE GORTCHAKoFFi sseventy.nine,
Lord Beaconsfeld 10 seventy-two, and
Mr.. Gladstone sixty-eight. President
MacMahon Is nearly sixty-nine. The
Pope will soon be eighty-fve.
LAST spring Bob Crawford, Of Nor
NAL. was killed by train of the Alton
road, while he was intoxicated. His
widow has sued twenty saloonists of
Bloomington for damages for selling him
liquor.
CHARLES MUTT, who Is totally blind,
lived alone in house in st. Johnsbury,
Me. The other night the house caught
fire and Mutt would have persisted had
not his dog awakened him by vigorous
pulls and scratches.
In early May the statue of Fitz Green
Halleck will be unveiled in Central
Park, New York City. The unwilling
ceremonies will be made of more than
ordinary interest by poem by John G..
Whittier, which will be read.
AT the last opera ball in Paris, when
the dancers had departed, the watchmen
on making their rounds found the body
of we'll dressed lady in one of the pri.
vate boxes. She had been stabbed, but
whether her death was due to suicide OF
murder is not stated.
The Michigan farmer who shot at a
Treasury girl in Washington, the other
day, has been acquitted on account Of
insanity, and has been put in an insane
asylum. He will regain his right mind
when the affair Is forgotten, and about
that time will turn up at home.
A NUMBER of female teachers in the
schools of San Francisco have decided to
relinquish their present wearing occupa
ton for the healthier duties and plea
sures of farm life, and have bought Q
tract of land in Fresno County, where
they will engage in raisin growing.
A CITIZEN of San Francisco, who LEFT
several thousand dollars the other day
left them under peculiar circumstances
He left them wrapped up in a newspa
per lying on the seat of his buggy Will,
he went into the bank to make deposit
and when he came out they were gone
AUSTIN SHELDON, called the Hermi
of Lehman, aged seventy-One, who TO
the past f0rty-One years has made hi
home in deep and dismal cave in tn
mountains near Milford, Pennsylvania
living upon fish and game, was fount
frozen to death lately near the enJanc
to hiscave.
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butchers daughter heard that two O
her male acquaintance were circulating
stories rejecting on her character. Sh
did not tell her father, but providing
herself with raw hide she visited tn
young men at their places of bushes
and gave them such beating as the,
will not soon forget.
Or course Sir Rowland Hill has tn
credit for originating the penny-post
claims that he, and not Sir Rowland
was the author of the system. In 1884
he says, he submitted the plan to Lor
Althorp, whose private secretary wa
then Sir Rowland, who cribbed hi
scheme and got the credit for it.
| The real estate in Paris held by or il
trust for the Ex-Empress Eugene an
her son is officially rated at 81 ,065, 00(
on which there are mortgages to the ez
tent of $4,000. Her other estates ar
valued at like sum, encountered t
about the same amount. The persons
property of the exiled Bonapartes !
variously estimated at from five t
fifteen millions, enough, at all events, t
keep the wolf from the door.
THIS is the portrait Lucy Hope
draws of the Empress Eugene: Ssh
has grown immensely stout, dresses i
ugly English made black gowns, paint
her face pink and white, blacks unde
her eyes, and wears very palpable wi
of light yellow hair. 1t is said to hav
the image OF grace and sweetness an
delicate beauty once called up by tn
mere name of Eugenie-name replace
by such vision-a painted and bewie
ged old coquette, sort of royal Mr.
Skewton.