The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-21

number OF Gatling guns in Use is rapidly
increasing. The large iron-clads are
new all armed with them, and several
have been sent to Malta for the Mediter-
ranean feet.
A BRONZE statue was recently unveiled
at Copenhagen to Oersted, the discoverer
of electromagnetism, who died in 1851.
The monument, erected on a terrace of
the old fertilization, consists of hexag.
Onal pedestal surmounted by a statue of
Oersted, and on which are three female
figures representing the Past, the Pres
ent, and the Future. Oersted has in his
hand the wire of an electric battery,
which he holds over magnetic needle.
The death of Bishop James, of New
York, has made necessary rearrange-
ment of the residences of the Methodist
Episcopal Bishops. Bishop Harris, of
Chicago, will hereafter live in New York,
and Bishop Merrill, of st. Paul, Mime
sofa, embraces the opportunity to come
East to Chicago. Other Bishops will be
settled hereafter, as follows: Bishop
Scott in Odessa, Bishop Simpson in
Philadelphia, Bishop Ames in Baltimore,
=: Bishop Bowman in st. Louis, Bishop
). Foster in Boston, and Bishop. Wiley in
Cincinnati.
The Bianicki family in Austria pos.
sesses two 'sapphires of great value and
some historic interest. The first was
given to John Sobiaski, King of Poland,
when he rescued Vienna from the Turks
in 1858. 1t came by intermarriage with
the Sobiaskis into the Branicki family.
The other jewel, which was purchased
twenty years ago by the mother of the
present Count BraDicki, was secured at |
the pillage Of Hindoo temple during
one of the sieges of Delhi. 1t had been
used to decorate the stomach of one of
the idols. These sapphires are of i'm
mense value, each of them being larger
that silver trade dollar.
The last will and testament of jose
phine, dowager Queen of Sweden and
Norway, and mother of the present King,
has just been proved in London, on ac-
count of certain personality in England
covered by it. The document is relic
of the time when Napoleon was engrav-
ing new map of Europe, after plan
of his own, and speaks of the Duchy of
Gallicia, the entail of which estate was
created in favor of heirs male as christ
ening present to Napoleon 1. On fail
ure of heirs male the estate reverts to |
the Napoleon family, while the personal
ity remains in the possession of the
crowned descendants of Beauharnais.
The unfortunate ex-Empress Char
lotte of Mexico, who at present is cared
for in castle near Brussels, is or pre-
tends to be, Oblivious 10 everything and
everybody around her, and holds conyer-,
satiOns only with imaginary persons
When the Bavarian King and Queen
visit her she first gazes at them dis
tractedly and turns her back to them.
Her distaste to society is so great that
she will not even permit her maid to |
dress her. Her memory regarding some
things is, nevertheless, remarkable. On
certain days she orders her bath to be got |
ready; this she does by writing an order
on a slip of paper and laying it where it
will be seen; if her request is not at
tended to, the order will be repeated in
the same manner and attention called to |
the neglect.
THEg overnment prosecution of David
Banks, the driver of the engine that ran
over Chinese lunatic on the railroad
which has recently been opened in China,
has resulted in an ignominious failure.
The Chinese soldier was seen walking on
the rails towards Shanghai when the
engine was about one hundred yards
away; but on the whistle being sounded
he got off and stood near the rails. The
evidence was that he was perfectly safe,
and there was no necessity for stopping
the train. Instead of keeping oIt of
danger he deliberately returned to the
track and was run over and killed. The
British Minister at once instituted crimi-
nal proceedings against the engine
driver, seemingly to impress upon the
Chinese public the fact that Auglo-Saxon
justice has discriminating eye. The
local Judge dismissed the case rather con-
temptuously, after short hearing, not
caring to hold the engineer responsible
for the death of a man who was deter
mined to kill himself.
THE gold yield of California this year
will probably be about $40, 900, 900, or as
much as 1t was in 1875. Of this two
thirds may come from placer claims and
the remainder from quartz. The greater
part of che gold is obtained by hydraulic
claims in the channels of dead rivers, with
deposits of auriferous gravel several hun
dred feet deep and quarter or half.
mile wide. Although many acres of deep
gravel beds have been washed away to
the bedrock, large areas remain, and
promise to yield good profit for many
years to come, though the product will
doubtless decrease gradually. The
placer mining camps which have no
hydraulic washing are steadily declining,
if they have not already disappeared, or
If they have not some other resources.
The placer workings of Yuba, Shasta,
Tuolumme and Mariposa Counties
amount now TO little; in Plumsa they
are nearly as productive as ever. The
gold quartz mining industry of Califor-
MIA is stationary in its general character.
A large number of auriferous lodes, and
even of mines partly opened, are neg
lected because thegross average yield per
ton will not exceed ten dollars, and that