The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-05


wax, which is dug up near the large
coal-gas beds of Austria. 1t is very
combustible and with difficulty soluble
even In oil of turpentine. 1t exhales a
beuzine-like odor, and in its purest form,
after bleaching, is used for candles, wax
flowers. polishing, pomades and laun-
dries.
AT a Lady Washington tea party
given by the negroes of Columbia, Geor-
gia, few nights ago, General Washing
ton was dressed in jean pantaloons and a
gray sack coat, and wore boots and spurs.
Mrs. Washington wore black domino
and white nightcap. Mary, Queen of
Scots, appeared in a pull-back muslin
frock, and King Henry of Navarro car.
ried blue cotton umbrella. All the
guests were black, no mulattoes being
allowed to participate.
The largest diamond at the Centennial
Exposition, of unrivaled splendor, is
lemon color, and once belonged to the
Mad Duke of Brunswick. 1t may be
found in the Tiffany collection. This
gem, it is said, cost the Duke thirty
thousand dollars in gold. 1t now forms
the central portion of an ornament for
a woman's head, surrounded by white
diamonds, but over the pale stones the
great yellow king filings his golden rays,
and the whole ornament CLEANS with a
splendor entirely its own.
A COLOSSAL bust of Horace Greeley
has been made by Charles Calverley. It
will be Of bronze, and will be placed in
Greenwood Cemetery. 1t represents
Mr. Greeley as he was ten or twelve
years ago, and Z" the old white overcoat"
is used, instead of the toga, for dignity
of effect. The bust is to rest upon a.
granite pedestal, ornamented with bronze
tablets, one representing Mr.. Greeley as
a aprinter working at the case, and the
other bearing his name, together with
the simple record of his birth and death.
The monument is to be known as "The
Printers Greeley Memorial" and is to be
unveiled in October.
BRUNEL's THAMES TUNNEL has long
been thought failure. 1t is astonishing,
therefore, to learn that work on a new
subway under the Thames was COM
menced at Woolwich, August 25th, by
boring on the north side of the river
and it is expected to be completed within
six or nine months. The new tunnel is
being constructed under contract by
Messrs. Sharpe, of Cannon street, London,
under the superintendent of Mr.. Gil
bert, engineer. The scheme was started
in consequence of nine men being
drowned on foggy morning whilst
crossing the Thames to their work in
small boat, the steam ferryboat which
usually conveys some thousands per day
between North and South Woolwich, not
venturing to run.
The Pennsylvania oil wells are giving
out reduced quantity, and the demand
on them steadily grows. A correspondent
writing from the oil region says the aver
age yield isonly twenty-five thousand bar
rels a day, but that the average sold every
day during August was thirty-seven thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
According to this eleven thousand three
hundred and seventy-eight barrels were
taken every day from the reserve stock.
The increase of sales for August over the
corresponding month of last year was
two hundred and eighty-two thousand
two hundred and eighty-eight barrels.
The demand increases every day, and it
is no wonder that the prices continue to
advance. The price has advanced nearly
two dollars within a month-three dol
lars and ninety cents being demanded
and received. The probability is the
price will be up to five dollars in short
time.
In 1876 the total shipments of coal
from the anthracite coal region of Penn
sylvania was 1S,0S2, ,294 tons, being de-
crease of two per cent. on the previous
year. The falling off is in large measure
due to the depression of the iron trade.
Our enormous deposits of bituminous
coal may also have restrictive ten
dency. The only anthracite to be found
east of the Mississippi River is in Pennsyl-
vania, seven counties east of the Susque-
hanna. A high authority gives total
number of tons estimated to be contained
in this coal area at IL, 1856, 179, $50, which
at the present rate of consumption would
last four hundred and forty-four years.
There is no fear of an exhaustion of the
supply, but the limited extent of the
land offers temptations to the speculator,
to the great injury of the coal business.
At present it has little effect on the price
of the staple, but it may have a very
great influence at no distant day. The
production Of the mines is, of course,
limited by the demand, and there need
be no fear of short supply for some GEN.
turies to come.
SPEAKING of the extensive sale of arms
and ammunition to the Indians at Fort
Peck, Western papers affirm that not
many months since an active officer, sent
on a mission from the Platte River North,
encountered q train en- route to the In
dian camps with two hundred Winches-
ter rifles and eighty thousand rounds of
ammunition, against which he was not
authorized to offer objections. When the
roops were ordered to the Yellowstone
asst spring, it is reliably told that the
same boat taking the troops was heavily
loaded with cargo of guns and car
tridges consigned to an Indian dealer at
Fort Benton. As late as two months
ago, train of thirteen pack-mules, car
rying twenty thousand rounds of am
munition, was sent to form at Carroll,
Wyoming Territory, and start for the
seat of the Indian difficulty, in charge of
white Indian traders, 30 well known and