Smyrna times., 1879-12-31


said vacancy by appointment.
JAMES N. GEORGE,
Ida NJ. FARRow,
NATHAN GREEN,
Ii. NJ. ROSIN,
Committee.
ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDs.---It is announced
by cable that dentist at the great St.
Rollox chemical works, near Glasgow,
Scotland, after experiments persisted in
during thirteen years, has succeeded in
crystalizing carbon in forms which Mr..
Tyndall and other experts pronounce to be
veritable diamonds. There is no inherent
improbabi!ity in this report. though how to
crystallze carbon has hitherto been an inSol.
ubls problem to the savans, many Of whom
have to grasp it. The diamond is simply
pure carbon, crystalized in regular octahe.
dral forms, and it is the hardest and most
brilliant of all substances. 1t may be fused
and burnt with an intense heat or under the
galvanic battery, and when burnt yields
very good coke. The problem has been how
to make crystals Of carbon like the diamond,
and its high value has stimulated much
research in this direction. Sir David
Brewster concluded from certain exhibit
tOns of polarized light gwen forth by the
diamond that the substance was originally
in soft state, and that It's origin is proba-
bly, vegetable, like that Of amber. A good
many years ago VI. Despretz succeeded,
after great number of experiments, in
producing diamonds by means of long.con-
tinued voltaic action upon crystsllized rock
candy. These diamonds were only OBJ
tanned, however, in the shape of black
dust, nor could larger crystals be secured.
If the St. RolloX experiments should turn
out to be successful, and yield real and sub
stantial results in white brilliants of good
size, there will be serious panic in the
jewelry market, the like of which was never
before seen. Goleonda and Geraes Minas
will be desolated, the jewel dealers of
Amsterdam and Constantinople will pull
their boards and tear their hair, and
numerous suicides may be expected
amongst the comfortable old dowagers of
Europe and the tiara. crowned shoddy danes
of this country. 1t is probable that there
are several hundred millions of capital at
present locked up in diamonds.-Bah. Sun
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DEATH OF ANOTHER MILLIoNA1RE.-Alex
andcr Stuart. the once famous New York
candy manufacturer, who was born in
December 1910, at the corner of Chambers
and Greenwich streets, died on the same
spot Tuesday morning. He was the SON of
Kimlock Stuart, who began in 1905 the
manufacture of candy in New York city.
On his death his eldest son, R. L..
Stuart, continued the business until 1928,
| when Alexander was admitted to the firm
In 1856 the manufacture of candy was
abandoned, and, until 1872, the firm
engaged in the refining of sugar, employing
about three hundred men and making
nearly 40,000,000 pounds OF sugar annually
Their total sales from 1861 to 1872 were
nearly $36,000,000. r. l.. Stuart erected =
residence on Fifth avenue, but Alexander,
who was a bachelor, continued to reside in
the Chambers street building, though this
entire quarter has long been devoted to
business purposes.
For forty years, it is said, the brothers
had given to religious and charitable objects
an average of 100000 year. Their gifts
were usually made in the name of r. l.. g.
A. Stuart, for the brothers consulted each
other in regard to their donations. They
gave $4,000 toward the building of the Rev.
DR.. Halls church in Fifth avenue. About
| two years ago the brothers built hall for
the Princeton Theological Seminary that
cost 100000. They also bought the Potter
residence, adjoining Princeton College,
| paying S4O,UUO tor IL, ana presented II to
the college as n residence for the president.
Alexander Stuart on several occasions drew
his check for $4,000 for home missions,
and a like amount fer foreign missions.
The wealth Of the brothers has been esti-
mated at $l0,000000, all their property
being owned together in common.
Presumably by kind of unwritten party
law, Thomas B. Keogh finds himself promo.
ted to the secretaryship of the National
Republican Committee. For a number OF
years past he has been chairman of the
State Republican Executive Committee OF
North Carolina, in which position he has
exhibited no small degree of energy and
capacity as an organizer. He went South
from Wisconsin, after the war, but, unlike
the majority of political Northern immi.
grants to that section, he has always borne
the character of a gentleman. His name
does not appear on the dark and disgraceful
pages of the history of reconstruction. The
only office he ever filled in his adopted
State was that of Register in Bankruptcy
which he still held at the last accounts