The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
An Inspection OF Some OF SchliemanD's
Discoveries.

An Inspection Of Some Of SchliemanD
Discoveries.
| TAthens Correspondence OF the London Times.
had a private inspection the othe
day of some of the art cles lately el
humed from Mykene. and now depOsite
in the national bank at Athens, but
more extensive exhibition of thes
precious articles is to take place o.
Monday next, when the officers of tn
feet will be permitted to see them. A
those of Monday may Outshine the glOrie
of what have seen to-day, l will onl,
mention some of the most striking
There were no articles absolutely il
gold, but gold wasa prominent featur,
in their manufacture, and had been tn,
metal used, curiously enough, amongs
other examples, to rivet The marbl,
bosses, which terminated The handles o.
the swords, to the metal shafts, which nc
doubt passed through wood long since
perished. A large number of these
swords had been collected, examples o.
the various :tterns Of which were un
covered. The marble bosses had evidently
been turned, but that need not detract
from their antiquity, as such small arti
cles have evidently been turned in re.
mote times in India and other eastern
countries by the bow and string. The
shapes and sizes of the swords were
various; still they were swords. And
there were also spears, of all shapes and
designs to which the eyes are not un-
accustomed; and assuming their an.
tiquity to be as great as that attributed
to them, it is manifest that in the manu-
facture of this weapon the moderns have
but copied the work of their predecessors,
as they have copied, and never excelled,
the architecture, the pottery, and the
designs, of the ancients. Several large
objects in silver were amongst the re-
mains shown-a stag having still one
magnificent antler, the whole figure
being about niue inches high; several
large vessels, also in silver, wrought in
rings of bands, and diminishing rapidly
at one end from their tenuity they
probably formed the casting to caskets
of pedestals on which some object of
extreme valre was raised for observation.
Other objects N different metals followed,
the purposes Tor which were not 30 mani
fest, and the whole gave a high relish
for the coming exhibition of Monday.
The king and queen visited Admiral
Drummond to-day on board his flagship;
the latter afterward entertained the
British minister and number of officers
at dinner. The weather is superb, not a
cloud being visible, and Athens is alex
citement. tits the height of the carnival,
and maskers have been parading the
streets all day. The night is so beautiful
that have been writing through the
whole of it, excepS when going to the
window to view larger or more vOcifer-
Gus or more muscaljy attended body of
maskers, who have perambulated the
town till six o'clock church bells cleared
the streets OF oily, and allowed the
peaceable passage OF docks of belled
goats going 10 their pastures on the sides
of the Acropolis, and the sober tinklings
of whose throat bells sound as if the
cap of folly were still shaking, but
with drowsy nod.
The excs yasions going Ou around the
AcrOroljs ale uncovering some substruc-
lures aud cemeteries that M ght otherwise
have greater interest but beside the
splendid ruins whose golden time tint
comes sharp and lustrous against the
deep blue sky, they lose their interest.
the fine weather here,
q storm ragged from Wednesday to Friday
among the Cyclades such as has not been
known since the great storm at Balakava,
which crippled our Crimean fleet.
An Interesting Game and its Sequel.
A bad story comes from DeadwOOd
about an old Denverite-D. Tom Smith.
The writer says Tom has been behaving
badly for some time past, threatening to
kill his wife and several other people in
town. Recently, on a certain evening,
he went to q saloon where the mayer,
city marshal, and two others were en-
gagged in game. He pulled of his
coat, took a corner from which he could
cover the players and the barkeeper,
and then cooked his gun and held it at
" present" upon whoever made mo-
tion to rise or change his position. He
told them that he came in there for
murder, and meant murder, but they
might go on with the game. The game
did go on with great deal of so
lemnity. The writer says, cit was
probably the most solemn game ever
played in the Hills" No one of the
five present wanted to be a martyr.
But the city marshal kept working his
chair around, and at last suddenly
ducked his head and made spring for
ID. Tom. At that instant the latter
fired. The shot passed through the
crown of the marshafs hat, out through
the side, through the rim, twice through
the back of his coat, crossed the table
and struck the marshal's late partner
square in the forehead, between the
eyes, where it split In two, and one half
traversed the skull in each direction,
finally stopping near the temples on
either side. But the marshal got Tom
before he had time to pull again, and
now he has gone to Yankton for confine-
ment and. trial. The man he shot is get
ting we'll. If he had been killed they
say Tom would have died rather sud-