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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
Some Very Remarkable Winters.

Now is the time to trot out paragraphs
about remarkable winters-winters that
have distinguished themselves by be-
ing either colder or warmer than the law
allows. No well-regulated newspaper
will neglect this duty. Referring back
tn our files we find that in 1172 the
temperature was so high that the leaves
came out on the trees in January and
In 1889 the weather was equally mild,
and the maidens of Cologne wore
wreaths of violets and corn.hOwers at
Christmas and Twelfth Day. In 1921
the trees lowered in the month of
March and the vines in the month of
April. Cherries ripened in May, and
little boys commenced to fall out of ap-
pie trees q little later. In 1872 the
trees were covered with leaves in
January, and the birds Matched their
young in February as in 1172. In 1886
the same thing was repeated, and it is
added that the corn was in ear at
Easter. To the best of our memory there
was in France neither snow nor frost
throughout the winters of 1888. 1907,
1909, 1917, 1869; finally in 1862, even
in the north of Germany, the stoves
were not lighted, trees lowered in
February, and outdoor bouquets were
shOwered on the newspaper offices with
out number. 1t seems but as yesterday.
Coming to later dates the winter of
1S46-1S47, when it Numbered at Paris
on the 2Sth of January, and that OF
1866, the year of the inundation of the
Seine, may be mentioned as very mild.
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The Florida Situation.

Tallahassee, January 2.-The Surname
Court met yesterday, but did not consider
the paper filed by The Board of Canyassers
the 9th inst. as such an answer to their
peremptory writ as the Court would accept.
1t was returned to the Secretary of State AZ
properly belonging TO the files OF that Office.
and the Court ordered the Board to answer
by four o'clock, to the plain language of
writ, by canvassiDg the vote for Governor.
and emitting in their return any votes cast
for any other Office, as the rights of Presi-
Dental Electors and members of Congress
were not matters before the Court. The
Board made return at o'clock, when
counsel for the relator asked and was
granted until to-day to examine the return,
and the Court adjourned.
January ga special from Tallahassee
states that the Inauguration of Gov. Drew
took place about twelve m, yesterday. The
oath was administered by Chief Justice
Randall. The address was short and very
conciliatory. It guaranteed full concession
and protection in the enjoyment OF all
rights and privileges under the Constitution
and laws Of the United States to the freed
men. A great many colored people took
part in the Inauguration, and but few Re-
publicans were absent. Nearly, il not all,
OF Gov. Stearns's Cabinet officers were
present. Gov. Stearns himself did not at
tend. The oath was administered to the
Lieut.. Governor also by the Chief Justice,
The Legislature is organized In both Houses.
and both Democratic.
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with the other two pancakes. Serve
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Useful Information.


Mr.. ARNOLD, a famous New York
dairyman, gives the following character
istics of properly ripened cheese: Well
ripened cheese has no elasticity when
pressed with the finger; it feels as If
breaking under the pressure, and the
dent remains; it has salvy, oily ap-
pearance when worked between the
thumb and finger, and melts on the
tongue like ripe pear; the cut surface
remains soft and oily for long time, not
readily drying up. Unripe cheese, on the
contrary. is elastic when pressed, and
hard or tough when worked between the
thumb and finger; soon dries and cracks
when exposed to the air; when tasted by
the tongue is found deficient in fat, and
does not dissolve readily.
The following details are given of the
use of raw Ignite in the blast furnaces
in Syria: In 1875 the furnaces of the
Syrian Eisenindustrie Company were
daily producing 800 cwt. dark gray Bes-
semer pig, from ores containing 46 to 80
per cent. iron. Per cwt. of iron the con-
sumption of coke was 100 h., and of
limestone 80 h., the temperature of blast
apoue 1VV uCS' Scue. 4uc COkc uuIucu
was 80 cwt., carrying 40 to AZ cwt. ore.
The furnace possessed six tuyers of three
in. diameter, and the pressure of blast
was about % lb. In April, 1875, the
manager had been able to replace 80 per
cent. of the coke by raw Ignite. He
considers as essential to the success of
this charge an increased pressure of
blast, an increased temperature of hot
blast, and the ore being in pieces and not
in dust.
SOUTHERN newspapers furnish &C
counts of recent trials of new methods
in the making of cane sugar, which are
esteemed important. Mr.. l. j. Mallon,
of East Baton Rouge, La, is the in
ventor. and his apparatus is said to be
exceedingly simple-only perforated
iron pipe lodged in the knife along its
whole length, communicating directly
with the boilers. There have been other
applications of a somewhat similar nature
known as "steam baths" or something
of the kind, but in all of these cases the
steam used was the exhaust of the en-
CINE, which in fact was not steam, but
vapor, and was totally deprived of the
powerful properties of steam. At re-
cent trial of this apparatus at the Hol.
lywood Plantation, a lot of cane was
weighed by alternate car loads into two
amounts each sixty-nine tons. The first
lot, ground by the old method, yielded
III grands of juice, weighing 8 deg.
Baume. The second lot, ground by the
steam process, yielded 2la grands, of the
same density, an advantage Of four
grands in favor of the steaming process,
equal to 22I per cent. These two lots,
juice being reduced to strip at 20 deg.
Baume, were collected in large iron
tanks, by 10 feet each, and gagged, the
first 30I inches in depth. and the latter
3S4 inches, clear gain of rs per cent.
in pure strip.
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The South Carolina Situation.

Columbia, s. G. Jan. Gov. HAMPTON
has issued an address calling upon all faith.
full, law.abiding, and loyal citizens who de-
choice, to come forward promptly and pay
ten per cent. of the amount OF taxes paid
by them last year. Gov. Hampton says:
aft is for the people Of South Carolina
now TO determine whether they will sup
port the Government they have Installed or
the attempted usurpation, which is only up.
held by the bsyonets of the Federal troops.
] am but the representative of the people of
the State, and TO their decision ! shall bow
with profound respect. As long as they
choose 10 support me ~ the duly elected
Governor, ! shall maintain that position;
and IL supported by them l feel safe in
assuring them that their rights will soon
be firmly established and fully recognized"
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Western Items.


Two hundred and fifty Sioux scouts, led
by Louis Richard, who left Camp Robinson
to join General Crook, returned there with.
out effectiDg junction with him. A party
OF five white men were attacked by Indians
on the head of Hat Creek. One man, named
Dillon, was killed, and two others wounded.
The fight lasted all day, and was a desper-
ate affair. The party made their way to
Red Cloud Agency, arriving there on the
9th ult.......,On the 9th of December, the
Indians made dash at Spear Fish, andirun
of large herd of horses. VIM. Smith, who
witnessed the transaction, gave the alarm,
and number of mounted men started in
pursuit of the Indians, and captured all but
twenty of the horses. The Indians, about
fifteen in number, escaped.
A snow slide occurred near Alto, Utah,
on December 2Sth, which destroyed the
Wellington Mine boarding house and buried
the inmates. At last accOun Is two men were
taken from the wreck in an exhausted con.
dition. -Four more persons are buried and
are supposed to be dead.
Disasters by Fire.
Frederick's photograph establishment, 5S7
Broadway, New York, which is about the
entrance of Tony Pastors Theater, was
burned the other morning. Loss, $50, 900.
1t was at first supposed that the Theater was
on fire, but when the flames were extin.
guished 1t was ascertained that the Theater
was only slightly damaged by water. A
great many valuable pictures were de.
stroyed.
Items In Gcneral.
A young man named John Binke was
instantly killed, and another man, Schwitzer,
probably fatally injured, at Finlay's Brew.
cry, Toledo, Ohio, by the bursting of an i'm.
mense beer cask, into which air was being
forced 6y steam pump, to facilitate the
In glove fight at Revere Hall, Boston.
between p. j McDermott and ID. Davidson,
the latter received injuries from which he
died in the hall. Several arrests were
made.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
Organization of Louisiana Legislature

New Orleans, January 1.-The Repub
licans organized in the State House, and re-
ceived a message from Kellogg. The Dem
ocratic Legislature met at st. Patrick's Hall
the Senate In the ladies' parlor, and wa,
called to order by Senator Ogden, a holding
over member. Nineteen, including nine
holding-0ver Senators, answered to their
names. This is the number required for q
quorum, and the Democrats claim that one
other, who is sick, will act with them, max
ing twenty-seventeen of whom there is nc
contest against.
The House was called to order about one
| o'clock, by Clerk Trezevant, and sixty.one
answered to their names on the list as
called, which being more than a quorum
the name OF Louis Bush was put in nomina.
ton for Speaker, and he was elected.
Under suspension OF the rules resolution
was passed by the House setting forth that
armed resistance to State authority exists in
the State, and calling upon the President To
afford the protection guaranteed by the Con.
stitution.
After the Democratic Senate organized, a
committee consisting of Senators Stevens
"a member holding Over) and Garland IRE.
Gently elected), were appointed to wait on
Governor Kellogg and notify him that the
Senate was organized, and ready to receive
any official communications, and at the
same time setting forth their reasons for
organizing at st. Patrick's Hall, as shown in
the protest. And it was while delivering
this communication that Stevens ives CAP.
tured by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Gerland,
not having been sworn in, and declining to
be, was allowed to depart.
The Republicans are jubilant over the
recognition of Kellogg, and ignoring of Nc.
Emery, by the Senators, some of whom, il is
said, hold their commissions from the latter.
New Orleans, January 2.--The situation is
unchanged. Everything is quiet. The
Legislatures are constituted AS follows
State.house Senate.-eight holding over
Senators, and eleven returned by the Board.
House--Sixty.eight members returned by
the Board, two of whom the Democrats
claim were not elected. st. Patrick's Hall
Senate---NOne holding over; eight returned
by the Board, and four who were counted
out but claim they were elected. House
--Forty returned by the Board, and twenty.
two who claim they were elected hut
counted out by the Board.
In the Republican Legislature, in Joint
session, Mr.. Burch read the RETURNS from
each parish, as furnished by the Secretary
of State, and compiled by the Returning
Board, and announced that Packard had
been elected Governor, aud Antoine elected
Northumberland.
In the Democratic Legislature a concur
rent resolution was introduced to notify the
President of the United States that the
General Assembly of Louisiana is now in
session at st. Patrick's Hall.
The joint session met, read the vote of the
State by parishes, and declared Nichols
elected Governor and Wilt Lieutenant.
Governor.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
"Down I'm the Mouth. ,


Where there is continual dropping down
into the back OF the mouth, with irritation
and Inflammation of the nasal cavities and
throat, with hawking, splitting, and q sense
OF fullness about the head, be not deceived
or fancy it simple cold. You are afflicted
with that scourge Of this climate, Catarrh,
the forerunner Of Consumption. In its early
stages q few bottles of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Kennedy will effect an entire cure. When
confirmed, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery should be used in connection with
the Remedy. These standard medicines
have been before the public many years,
and their use has been attended with the
most gratifying success. A full discussion
OF Catarrh and its rational treatment is con-
tanned in "The Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser" book Of over nine hun.
dred pages, illustrated with two hundred
and eighty.two engravings, bound in cloth
and gilt, price, post paid, $3.50. Address,
Publishing Department, Worlds Dispensary,
Ruf1alo New York.
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IIOusellOI Helps.

Boston CRACKER PUDDING.-Butter
literally enough split Boston crackers to
half fill large pudding dish. Drop In a
good allowance of raisins. Over this
pour custard made Of four eggs and four
spoonfuls of sugar to each quart of milk.
Lay plate over, and put in the oven to
bake after having stood one hour. When
nearly done, remove the plate, and brown
lightly.
BLACK FRUIT CAKE. One pound
butter, one pound brown sugar, and one
pound flour, ten eggs, five nutmegs, one
tablespoonful mace, enc table spoonful
cinnamon, one wineglassful wine, one
wineglassful brandy, one and one half
pounds of currants, one and one. half
poundc raisins, ane pound citron, The
fruit must be we'll prepared and Toured,
and the eggs must be beaten separately.
Icing for the cake.-Three-quarters pound
powdered sugar, the white of eggs beaten
very stiff, and add the sugar by degrees.
FRENCH PANCAKEs.-Half pint of
milk, two ounces of butter, two ounces
OF loaf-sugar, two ounces of flour, two
eggs. Put the milk, butter, and sugar
into pan 10 dissolve mot boiD; beat the
eggs and -four together till quite smooth
then add the other ingredients together,
and mix well. Divide this quantity,
and put IL in four saucers TO bake for
twenty minutes. Lay tive pancakes on
dish, aud spread preserves over. Cover
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

CHAPPRD hands, face, pimples, ringworn,
saltrhcum and other cutaneous affections
cured, and rough skin made soft and smooth,
by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be careful to
get only that made by Csswell, Hazard 4 Co.,
New York, as there are many limitations
made with common tar, all OF which are
woYthIesa
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

THERE is, probably, no way in which we
can benefit our readers more than by recon-.
mending to them for general use Johnson,
An0dyne Liniment. 1t is adapted to almost
all the purposes of Family Medicine; and
as a specific for coughs, colds, whooping.
cough, soreness of the chest, lame stoms Oh,
rheumatism, splitting OF blood, and all Jung
difficulties 1t has no equal that we ever
saw or heard Of
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

DURANG's RHEUMATIC REMEDY will most
positively cure any case of rheumatism,
govt, neuralgia, or lumbago on the face Of
the earth, no matter of how long standing.
1t is taken internally, the only way the dis.
ease can be reached, and cure, quickly and
permanently. Price, One Dollar a bottle.
For sale by wholesale and retail druggists
avervwhara
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

THERE can be no mistake about 1t,
"Matchless" plug tobacco takes the lead.
Old fine cut chewers say it gives better salts.
faction and is cheaper than fine cut. You
can not be imposed upon, as each plug has
the words "Matchless p. T. Co." on q
wooden tag. Try it once and you will al.
ways chewit. Manufactured by the Pioneer
Tobacco Company, New York.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

THE propriety Of giving condition medi-
cine to horses, cattle and sheep, was dis
cussed apd admitted by many Of the Agri.
cultural Societies throughout the State last
fall, and we believe that in every case but
one they decided in favor of Sieriddn's Cav.
airy Condition Powders. Good Judgment.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

Burnett's Cocaine.
Burnett's Cocaine,
Burnett's Cocaine,

For promoting The oro,cth Of and Beautyino The Hair,
c"d rendering Il Dark and Glossy.
The COCAINE holds, in a liquid FORM a large pro-
portion OF dcodorizcd C0COA-NUT OIL, prepared
expressly for this purpose. No other compound pos
sesses the peculiar properties which so exactly suit
the various conditions OF the human hair.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

Committee Of the whole, and made the
special order for Wednesday next.
The Committee on Pensions reported a bill
granting pensions TO certain soldiers and
sailors Of the Mexican, Florida, and Black
Hawk wars, and certain widows of deceased
soldiers and sailors of the same. 1t allows
a pension of eight dollars a month to all
who served sixty days in the Mexican war,
or thirty days in the Florida or Black Hawk
wars, and 10 their surviving widows, un.
married. The bill was passed.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
X a N S A s..

All about Is Soil, Climate, Resources, Products.
Laws, and its People arc given in the KANSAS
FARMER, n 10 Page Weekly, in it's 18th year. POST
ago paid, months. for 20 cts; Address
j. X. HUDSON, TOPEKA, KANSAS.
Has quickly taken high place ng q, leu tural
Journals N. Y. TriLune.;..wo have. considered II
anon. ne bost OF our exchanged and worthy rep.
resentati"e of tho West.-Pracficai Farmer, Phila
;..Ou- Kansas friends .hould feefmuch pride In tho
high character and sterling worth of their State
agricultural paper. Natonal Lire Stock Journal ..
We cheerfully credit IL with being one of tho best
edited .f cur Western agricultural excha ages
Spirit of The Times, ". y.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

From tho Capital.


A bill introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Douglass, authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury to purchase the Freedmen's
Savings Bank building, TOR Government
uses, at sum not exceeding 100000. lie
also introduced bill authorizing the Com
missioners now liquidating the affairs OF
that institution to buy in its own real estate
when the price offered for it at public sales
shall be deemed too low. Mr.. Douglass is
Chairman of the House Select Committee on
the Freedmen's Bank.
The subject Of outrages upon American
citizens on the Mexican border of the Rio
Grande by the revolutionists is occupying
the attention of our Government, and
orders will soon be sent to our army and
naval forces in that quarter with the view
to their protection, as there Is now no
government in Mexico to which an appeal
can be made for that purpose. As regards
Indian marauders who cross into Texas, the
question is likely to be brought to the atten.
ton of Congress, whether the outrages on
American citizens shall be permitted to
continue, or whether this Government shall
take into its own hands the measure of re.
dress.
The following is a recspitulstion of the
official statement showing the amount and
value OF the coinage executed during the irst
six months Of the fiscal year, ending June
80, 1877
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

AT our request Oragin & Co., Philadel-
phia, Pa, have promised to send any of
our readers gratis Con receipt of 16c. to
pay postage) sample of Dobbins' Elec-
trio Soap to try. Send at once.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

Publisher, will send every reader OF this paper
sample package of Transfer Pictures free. Send
beautiful aad easily transferred TO any object.
70 initiate the most beautiful painting. 4gtscamfed
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

90 wEARIsoME condition OF humanity" to De
consnually troubled with q hacking cough, to lie
awake at night when al the world's in slumber
merely to cough and spit. Deng's Cough Balsam
will prevent 1t all, i:ye you good nights rest, and
cure the worst cold. IS cents a bottle.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

Officers and Soldiers Horse CLAIMS will he PAL
Write Col. Il. BINGHAM Co., Attorneys for Claim
Patents, Land Titles, Washington, ID, q,
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10 MONTHS FOR 81.

To new subscribers, who wish to get the
opening chapters Of Thst Lass o. Lowrie's,"
we will send Is numbers for 81, beginning
with the magnificent Midsummer Holiday
number august, 1S76), and ending with
October, 1877. 81 year; 80 cents a mum.
Der. Postage prepaid. Send rs cents for a
specimen number.
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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
SICK HEADACHE!
AN EFFIcAcIoUS REMEDY,

can recommend as an sficacious remedy for all
disease OF the Liver, Heartburn, and Dyspepsia,
Simmons Liver Rcgulator.-Lewis q. Wundcr, lGsg
Master Street. Assistant Pest Master. Philadelphia
j. II. ZEILIN 81 CO..
Sole proprietors-simmons' Liver Regulator, Phila
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11

ASK the recovered dyspeptics, Bilious sufferers.
victims Of Fever and Ague, tho mcrcurial diseased
patient how they recovered health cheerful spirits
nInna' l.iYar nj ' -
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
BAD BREATHE!

Nothing is so unpleasant, nothing so common as
bad breath, and In nearly every II comes from
the stomach. and can DO so easily corrected IL You
will take Simmons Liver Regulator. Do not neglect
80 suro remedy for this repusive disorder 1t will
also improve your Appetite, Complexion, and Gem
eraI Health
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-12-21

A Lodge of Knights of Honor. to be
known as Vermont Lodge, was organized on
Saturday evening. the 10Th inst. by c. H.
Eaton, d. S. D., Of Boston. The following
officers were duly elected and installed: W.
2. Jones, d. Charles A. Briggs, vice d. ;
Ezra Stetson, assistant D.; NJ. w. Thayer
Guide L. II. Stetson, Il. O. H. Stickney
+. L. n. L. Stetson, Treasurer; L. NJ Stick
ney, Guardian; A. c. Stetson, Post d. The
order of Knights of Honor is a fraternity of
different grades and degrees, based on hui
name and benevolent principles, with only
enough Of secrecy to do its business properly
and safely. 1t is composed of substantial
men between y and % years of age from all
professions and occupations, proposing to aid
and benefit each other, intellectually, morally
and financially, and confer death benefit to
the extent of $1,000, on the families of deceas-
ed members, or as may otherwise be directed
and for the relief of sick and distressed MEM
beers. This Order has existed nearly four
years and now numbers over 500 lodges. and
more than 5000 members in all the States of
the Union, with few exceptions-over 90
lodges being in New England. The order has
rapidly grown, and is in very prosperous
condition, and bids fair to be one of the most
popular and useful organizations of the day
North River agricultural society will meet
ON Tuesday evening, Jan. LIST for the election
of officers for the ensuing year,