A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTEREST.
VOL. V. 1.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
B. F. McLEAN Mayor.
H W MoNATT
It. if. BLOCKER,
W. S. BYRNES,
W. 3. CURRIE,
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Co' mm is
iioners.
J
X J BIRC'IC, Tctr Marshal.
Lodges.
KKIGHTS OT HONOR, No. 1,720 moots
-on wiond and fourth Wednesday's t
J.90P.M. J.B. WEATIIERLY )ir
tatorr B. F. McLEAN, R,,ort,r.
T. M. C. A., meets every Sunday nt 7 n
P. M. WJL BLACK; Presidnt
MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK
Captain, meets firt Thurstv nights of
each month at 8 P. M.
in earli m,,ni.
B"'1 -iiw, uiei counselor; s
Parhm, Scretarj' and Treasurer.
MAXTON
I'YTHIYS,
LODGE, KNIGHT of
meets everv PhiUv x
except first in each month, at s '
miu nTimiarv it I'nm 1 n Cn
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"EXECUTIVE COMMITTEF-1
.TFFinlayson, Jon MrCoimni,'
N B Brown, !r J h MtfJIUan
AUDITING f T) M M I TT K pjj'
J P Smith, D H McNeill, J A trfmphrev
Place of next met?tmg--Lumhu)n N C
Iimo of rxt meeting-TrMsd a v Mv
)th, 1HN5, atll: o'clock a x$f
,,f WhrrrnPdirtament8 Cftr,jfc -purr-hase.1
of m. Black, Depository. M&tor., N. C.
aii churches and Bibte
ieties in tbe
county invited tosead dh
Forward all collctioi
es.
to
Wm Black,
treasurer, Maxton. N
"URCaES.
TERIAN,"jREV. DR. II. G
"ILL, Pastor. .Services each Sabbath
4 P. 31. ftjnday School at 10 A.
M. Prayer,,jieeting every Wednesday
afternoon 5 o'clock.
iethodjst, rev. j. w. jokes
Pastorv Services each Sunday at 11
A. M,' Sun-av School at 0 80 A. M.
MASONIC.
VATON LODGE A. F. & A. M.
TTffc 1st Friday night in each
aorlh at 8 p. m.
GENERAL DIRECTORY" OF
Robksqn County.
Senator. J. F. Payne.
Representatives, T. M. Watson.
S D. C. Began.
1 E. F. M.cHae
I W. P. Moore
! B. Stancil,
j T. McBr;de.
I J. S. Oliver
Oo'iiity CotnoiiionerK,
C. S. C., C. B. Townsend.
heriff, II. McEachen.
Reg'r Deeds, .1. II. Morrison.
Treasurer, W. W. M.cDairmil.
J. A. McAllister
Board of Education - u J. S. Black,
S J. S. McQueen.
Supt. Pub. Instr'n, J. A. McAlister.
Coronenfc Supt. of Health, Dr. F Lis
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A good deal f indignation has been
excited in Englacd over the discovery
that a number of soldiers who took part
:.a the famous charge of the Light Brigade
it Balaclava are now reduced to beggary
uid almost to starvation. Of the survi
vors of the "noble sir hundred" it has
!een found that while a few are in com
fortable circumstances, there are nearly
;wo thousand in various almshouses, and
jver five thousand dependent on private
rharity. This, declares Miuxtat Weekly,
s a sad commentary on England's lack
oi generosity and on the veterans' lack of
reracity.
The British Government got about
1500,000 out of the English estate of the
late J. S. Morgan, of the American firm
of bankers, Drexel, Morgan & Co. , which
amounted to $11,000,000. The first duty
was the probate stamp, which cost $350,
U00. Another tax amounted to $40,
J00, and as Morgan had left a year's sal
try to every person in his employment,
nd there is a tax of 10 per cent, on
sach of these bequests as well as a tax of
I per cent, on the bequests to his chil
dren, and 3 and 5 per cent, to other rela
tives, another $110,000 was almost made
op.
There is a great diversity of opinion as
to the merits of carp as food, some pro
Qouncing them unpalatable, while others
like them well. The bulletin of the
United States Fish Commission of 1883
contained 242 opinions respecting their
?hble qualities, which were obtained in
answer to a circular sent out to ascertain
definitely how carp were liked. The
following gives a summary of the replies
received. Of these 242 reports, thirty
eight only contained the slighest reflec
tion upon carp. Many of these reflec
tions were decidedly slight. Being gross
feeders &ud rapid growers, the flavor ol
carp may affected by the water, they
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NEWS SUMMARY.
FltOH ALL OVER THE EfbUTHLAHD,
AocidenU.' Oal&mitiea. Ple&s&nt Kewi and
Kotes of Industry.
In a collision on the Norfolk and
"Western Railroad, near Max Meadows,
ten persons were injured.
The remains of the victims of thr late
mine disaster, -which occurred at Buena
Vista -ere interred at Neriah church,
ffcven miles above there. Mr. Marion,
the wounded survivor, is improving,
and it is believed that he will recover.
His wounds were cf a most serious
nature.
The Hon Thomas "Whitehead, Vir
ginia's commissioner of agriculture,
states that the reports from nearly every
section of the State indicate that the
torn will be up to the average. Whilf
the acreage, planted in tobacco is small,
the growiog crop promises to jield well
The oat crop is almost a failnre exccf.1
the winter oats of Tidewater. Wheit i?
not up to the average. The peach crop
is a failure, b"t there is a fine eron of
apoles in Piedmont and the mountains.
v Hay and grass will not vield so much s
last year, but the quality i better.
John, tloward, a young man employed
as a clerk in Captain Cooksej's office ;n
Newport News, roomed with a friend r.
the fourth floor of the Hotel Warwick,
and wai found early this morning lin
on the stone pavement in front of tin
hotel, with both legs broken, and injure!
internally. It is supposed Ire walked oui
of a window while asleep.
A well-dre8sod white man who
imagines himself a count and thinks he
has been robbed of $200,000 in gold was
arrested last night by the Noifolk
police. He gave his name as Count
Carle Levere and says he came to N r
folk from Washington, where he resided
with the Spanish Minister.
Bears driven by fire from the Dismal
Swamp are prowliug 'about the country
near Norfolk.;
Scotch capitalists are ready to invest
$2,000,000 at: Glasgow Va., if their geo
logical expert gives a favorable report.
, N0BTH OABOLUTA
A young women of Johnston county
eloped with the nephew of her intended
husband.
Governor Fowls has appointed Julian
S. Carr, of Durham, as paymaBter-gen-aial
of the North Carolina State Guard,
to rank as colonel. He succeeds
Charles S. Bryne, of New Berne, who
recently resigned.
Another big hotel iB to bfe built as
Asheville.
The Richmond and Danville road will
build a new depot at Hendsrsonyille.
Morganton is to have water works.
Nrs. Nancy Gragg died at her home in
Catlettsville, f Caldwell county, at the
age of eighty-three. She was the widow
of a Revolutionary pensioner, and a
sister of the famous bear hunter, Enoch
Coffee, of John river.
A negro orphan asylum has . been
established at Oxford by that race, for
the cate of their destitute children. Rev.
A. Shepherd is president of the organ
ization, and is sending out circulars for
help, which is said to be a worthy in
stitution. Lawson Dobbins, a young vrhite man
aboit 20 years of age, was drowned in
Main Broad River. Young Dobbin f,
was following a seine and got beyond
nis aeptn ana not oeing aDie to swim,
was drowned before help could reach
hira-
The North Carolim Tobacco Associa
tion has announced that its next anual
meeting will be held at Morehead City
August 5.
A circular issued from Jthe traiffic de
pirtmehtof ihe Atlantic Coast Lire an
nounces the appointment of H. M.
Emerson as Assistant General Freight
and Passenger Agent.
80TJTH 0AK0LINA
"W. P. Johnson, the proprietor of the
New York racket store, which recently
failed at Columbia was arrested ,on a
warrant suedut by B iron fc Kay, at
torneys for Clark, Perrey & Co., John
son' "late creditors. The charge against
him is fraud, lie gave oouu ior ,ov.
being twice the value of the amount in
volved. '
There wa a big fire at Gaffuey City.
Three stores and a printting orflee were
competely destroyed. Messrs. Woods,
Sol'.ison, and Lipscomb were the owners
of the store. I he fire commenced nt
10 o'clock in the printing office, and
continued to burn all night. The oiigin
of the .fire has not bten discovered, tut
it was thought to be incendiry.
Alex Rollings worth, formerly of Nf rth
Carolina, beat and bruised B. F. Lake,
recently from Edgefield County, with
an orn height in a street fight at Spar
tanburg. Lke was severe ly cul t on the
head and otherwise injured. Hoi mgs
worlh arrested and put in jail b.il
placed at: one thoiisand dollars
Ikis seriou-ly wounded.
Cduubia. istohayea $20,000 Y. M.
C. A. building.
Tbe South Carolina Railway has com
menced to operate a regular freight aod
oassen-er - schedule on the 0..1uiubia
Cherry and Laurens Railroad. The
new ueilJ th jine have been called
Si 'Wh S P nock. Ch.pl'.i Litt"
AllU. " line rivi,u h.,.inp!
Mi) iuti
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ou the In''-"
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been very goou ; uy
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MAXTON. N. G;, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1890.
interest of the Dummy Line Railroad.
A committee of aeven was appointed to
onvas for subscriptions to the capital
stock of $100,000. Col. J, H. Arerill,
of the Central Road, was present, and
issued the. friends of the road of the
financial assistance of the Central.
News has been reveived from Gaffneyt
of ths sad death of a young man, aon of
Nathan Moore. It appears that young
Moore was attending a saw mill rwned
by his father, when coming 100
near the saw hi Clothing caught
and threw him la. such a way
that be was litterally torn in two and
died in a few minutes.
Mr. Moore is a citizen of Thickety
neighlorhood and is highly respfctei.
The tragic death of hi son ) as
thrown a gloom over the entire im
munity .
GEORGIA
The peich crop will be almost a total
fail.T3 .
The Griffin Call reprts a light gTape
crop in Spalding county owing to ihe
la!e freeze in early spring.
The wreck oil the southwestern divi
siou of the Central railroad a few days
ago destroyed eight thousand water
melons. Another new bank has brea organized
in Aniericu', which will be called The
Bink of Sumter.
Brunwick has a new ice factory ith
apacilv of forty tons per day. 3
a capacity of forty tons per day,
Two police fficers of Brunwick arrest
ed, one Joha Harden, Mho is wanted at
Fort "Worth, Tex., to answer a charge
of rioting committer in
Mr. lohn C'Ook, of Miller county, 1 a
100 acres in cotton waists high and
locked in four and one-half foot rows.
He also has plenty of caterpillers, he
says, in their first stage, and he expects
them to eat all the foliage off his crop
in the course of a few weeks.
The Bainbridge pol'ce force were
instrumental in capturing a riegrow call
ing himself Joe Finley. He had is pos
session and stored around, . fourteen
children's dresces, cloaks and gowns,
and sixteen silk handkerchiefs. He i
wanted at G rctenville, South Cailina,
and it is supposed that he stole the
goods from J. 0. Cox, a merchant of
that city. The dresses are fine silk and
the oth-r goods of the most expensive
kind.
The oil refinery of the Southern Cot
ton Seed Oil Mill's, near Atlanta, burn
ed. The Los $100,000. Qyer 200.
000 gallons of il was released, and
ran in a stream toward the Atlanta
weter worKs.
The Georgia Melon Exchange, which
started cut to control the watermelon
output of Georgia, has gone under.
TENNESSEE.
R. L. C. White, of Nashville, has
been elected ke.perof records and seals,
of the supreme lodge? of the Knishts of
Pytbias.
The third tml of J. M. Barnes, for
the murderer of Lew Ownens in Chatta
nooga, in January 1888, ended in the
acquittd cf the defendant, Oa the
tirst trial. Barnes was sentenced to fiye
years in the state penitentiary, but a
new trial was granted by the supreme
court. The jury disagreed, standing
eleven for acquittal. The killing oc
curred in the store of Nix & Owens, now
Nix & Faust, on Market j-tieet. Barnes
and Nix hadle .n in the same business to
gether, and Birne'i interest had been
purchased by Owens. They had a dis
pute over some bedroom furniture,
which Owtnn c anned l e had puichnsed
in connection with the other goods.
A heated dicusion ensued, followed
by a difficulty which ended in Barnes
drawing his revolver and shoot
ing Owens inflicting a detith Wound.
The prominence of the parties in
business circles made the aHair one
of much interest.
0TB ER 8TATES.
The census of Birminghain,
county has brei completed,
Alu ,
and
and
the
figures are much m-jre s-a'isfactory than
the first estimation. The population of
the county is 100. OOO.and that of tbe city
and immediate suburbs 58.000.
Ths population of the county in
19S0 was 23,009 and of the city
3,800.
The first bale of Texas' ott n crop of
1800 arrived Galveston from DuaJ. It
classed good middling, good staple,
weighed 650 pounds, and sold for
$100.
It is announced that the Alabama
Terminal and Improvement company
will immediatiy build the Montgomery,
Tuscaleosa and Memphis railway fro u
Montgomery, Ala., to a connection
through Tuscaloosa with the Illinois
Central and Mobile and Ohio railroads.
The liOuisville Southern Bailroid
company at a meetiog of iu stockholders
atJLou svilk lesed its property to the
East Tennssee. Virginia and Georgia
road. This gives the latter road a route
into Lovisville. The term? are tht the
East. Tenne.ste, Virginia and Georgia
shall guarantee live per cent inteiest on
new bonds of the Louisville S: uthcrn
road, and if after paving all expenses
there i; a surplus, th.' -hll be divided
equally betwetn the two companies.
Bud Lowndesb rrv shot and killed
J. M. Iograbam, at Mtlligin. Fla.. over
a game of cardf. Lowndesbtrrj escaped!
Fatal Shoot rg ff or.
News has ben rrceived of a fatal
shooting affair at Tax ibaw, S. C, Lear
the Union county liu . John Kennin
tonwas shot twice oy Henry Maftey.
He died Saturday eight. .-4e7 f aa
ureiud &d re'csied oa bxil
PASSING EVENTS.
HEWS OF THE DAY 00NDEN8ED
Items of
Interest Pat In Sb
Pablio Beading,
For
Light frosts were noticed on the hills
at Brock way ville, Pa. The frost was
not enough to hurt anything, but suffi
cient to be a novelty in July.
Ex Senator Thos. C. McCreary died
at his home, neaf Owensboro, Ky.,
yesterday; in the 74th year of his age.
He has been a paralytic for a yeah
A London cablegram ays that a syn
dicate has leen formed there with a
capital of 400,000 to acquire possession
of ham and pork curing houses in Chi
ogo and Nebraska.
Colonel Beekman Dubarry, assistant
commissary general of subsistence, was
yesterday appointed by the president to
be conamissnry general of subsistence
with the rank of brigadier general.
The losses by (he destructive f 3 clone
at Fareo. F. D., will foot up about
$100,000,
Garrard, who killed Brennan in a prize
fight at Chicago, has been released by
the verdict of the coroner's jury, which
pronounced the fatal blow "accidental."
, D,,TID hA -T?r fort tW0 f.01"
, "c.eLYnd glft8 f mne' amoUDtlD
France has more than a quarter of a
million carrier pigeons trained for war
purpose.
The Congregation at Oxford has de
cided to include the examination for the
degree of bachlor of medicine in ex
aminations for women.
The new bridge authorized by Con
gress to be built across tbe Hudson
river bvtween New York and Jersey City
ill be 7,000 feet long and have one
cntral span 2, 850 feet in length.
The most densely populated fqinre
mile in the world is in the city of New
York. It is inhabited by 270,000 peo
pie, the largest part of whom are Itnl
ians, who speak only their native lan
guage.
Chief Justice Marcus Moiton, of
Massachusetts, is going to retire from
the Bench, after a continuous fervice of
thirty-two years. He was appointed.,
justice of the Superior Court in 1809.
According to the Eist Asiatic Lloyd
there are 7,903 foreigners arid 474
foreign business firms in Chinese ports
Great Britain has there 3,276 citizens
and 200 firms; Germany 596 citizens and
'72 firms; the Lnited States 1,091 citi
zens and 27 firms; France 551 citizens
and 20 firms.
The American riflemen visiting Ger
many paid a visit to Prince Bismarck
yesterday. The prince shook hands with
each one and expressed his plasure at
the visit.
Gen .Sherman receives a salary of $15,
000 a year as retired general of the army,
with nothing to do and a good, active
clerk to help him do it.
Toe venerable Prof Robert II . Bishop,
who was professor of La'in in Miami
University from 1852 to 1873, and pro
fesior emeritus and secretary of the trus
tee until his death, has died at Oxford
Ohio. The two hotels which Waldorf Astor
has decided to build in New York ar
not intended for transient guests, but for
rich families, such as can afford to pay
$3,000 to $5,000 a year for a suite of
rooms and board, ana it is believed that
there are enough of this class to fill both
houses.
IN GOOD GONDII!).
Statues of the Ootton Orop"The Avera- ?
by the States
Washington. The statistic-d ieor:
for Jure, of the department of agricui
ture, shows an improve:! e t in 1 lie st t'i
of cotton, the average of condition hav
ing advanced from b8. 8 to 91.4 since ti.
previous returns. Theic was geretalU
in excess o' moist-ire until about tin
10th of June, with fmo weather iuc-.
giving an opportunity for the desttu"
tion of gras and forthon-uh cultivati-ir.
On th Atlantic coast the cr p is g-r.eral
ly well advanced, while it is lite in th
southwrtt, where pUnti'ig was delay i
by the overflows and by heavy ra i:
That wh eh wa plante 1 early bean to
bloom from tbe 15th to the 25th, and in
thesouthwet some bolls are reported a
eatly as April 30th. While the pUnt i
in varion sti of advanceme nt fioru :
wide range of see ling, it is now a1m t
invariably in the full vior of growth, of
good color and high promise: very free
from nist, fr-e from worm t .v-pt weik
invasions of tl.e first brKda in the morr
iUthera belt. The present average of
the July condition b-s be-n exret-drd
only once ia the last fi.e yrar The
avewges are as follow- bf ktte: T
ginia 92, North Crol na 95, Scxith ( aro
lina95, Georgia 95. Florida 91. Alabam 1
95, Mississippi 89. Ixui'iin 81. Arkao
Tunes.e 93 N arlv tproiighout
the cotton ara f or tbre weeks f dry ,
weather is reported, ! itcarct!y fcny n I
Jury from drought. Since the IktM July
heavy rains have beeti reported oa the
fAtlaiitic coast.
A larg- liUoiber rf applications for
pensions under the disability pension
bill have already betrn filed in the pen
sjoo orfic. The haate ha been so great
that many of the application aie defec
tive and will not be accepted. A num
ber of applications have been received
agned by the attorney 00I j.
Tbe records of tb Paten? orhVr n
Washington show that 35i jtmt-iiave
been uauf-d to womec tn r the etid.ii
iseat of the ofice in
I
GElfeRlL FISK DEAD,
The ' late- Prohibition !r?Ment i!
CaiMlitlnte Die Siiilrirnljr.
General Clinton B. Fi diM at hi rwi-d-nce.
in New Y.irk city. .1 fe- Uy ai.
Hiitl. aUi u not xj vm-J, f.ir ireneral
health was -aM UtM gnr4. It,- na.l cur?erd
fnm an ntta-k of Lt (inpjv ine last wiu
ter, and hi death wa tine t a relapse.
'I.INTON B. JTK.
lic-neral Kik via lrn in Liviug-ti
Cotuitv. N. V.. n Ieofiid"r -i. Hi
jirnts n!inv-l ti Michigan during bt- in
fatu v. Aft'T a .i- .-.iful canvr as a iwr
eliant. mi'lor and hanker in that St.it- he re
moved to St. Lotii. Mo., in
Wht n the war tiroke our Mr. Fik went to
the frnt. and early in the tru?Kle waiitadt
Colon-1 in the Thi;ty-third Mt"-uri .liei
tnenr. He wa pouiorI to re Rriiradir
tiftieral in W?.'. and l-revettel Major (ien--ral
of Volunteers in l''.".
After the war he was Assistant Comrai-si.n-.r
under General O. O. Howard in the
management of the Kreeilman's Bureau in
Kentucky and Trnnessee. He reinove-1 to
New .Terw afterward.
General Ki-kaftivey aided in the establish
ment of th. Kisk lrnlveritr, Nashville. Tenn..
in 10. ami it vras naineA after hiin. He
has ever since leen identified with it finan
cial and etlu. atioiial interest8 and wa Presi
dent of the !ard of Trustee at In death.
He was also a Trustee of I)k-kinxm Col
lege, of Drew Theological Seminary and alo
of A 1 1 ion College, Michigan. He wa a
Tniste of the American Missionary Ajx-ia-tion
anl aloa inemljer of the Book Commit
tee of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He renderel conspicuous services to
Methodism in his efforts toward a reunion 'of
the Northern and Southern branches of the
church
He was particularly identified with the
temperance movement, and was the Prohibi
tion candidate for the Governorship of New
Jersey in lsxtf. He was also a candidate for
the Presidency on the same ticket in 1SHS.
Since 1S74 he was closely identified witt
the Board of Indian Commissioners, of whi h
he was President.
Staffing Japanese Lirin? on Straw.
John B. Ilall, an English barrister who
ha) been in Japan nearly a yeai, stopped
at the Richelieu for a few hours while on
his way from San Francisco to New York.
He predicts serious trouble as the out
come of the famine in certaiu jrarH of
Japan and cites one incident as an illus
tration. "The high price of rice and consequent
starvation," said he, "affect the greater
part of Japan. In some localities the
natives have for a long time been livint
on straw. The people in the cities art
so busy with improvements and . new eu
terprises that they don't hear the cries of
the sufferers. Il is certain that this con
tinned destitution will result in blood
shed." The native are planning to do
something desperate to better their con
dition. . ' :
. "At Tcttori-Ken one' day about thf
middle of April, twenty Shizaku'marchcd
with drawn swords to the house of Ki
mura Sahei, a rich rice merchant. ' auc
demanded that he assist the poor. Thej
charged the merchant with monopolizing
the nee crop to the detriment of the peo
pie and declared that they would behcac
him unless he stopped exporting the fooo
until after the wants of the sufferers had
been relieved.
"During thu menacing demonstration
the police arrived and arrested the dis
turbers." Chicago Tribnne.
Twenty Million Stars In YIcw.
Astronomers say that the fabulous
number of 20,000,000 stars, all aglow,
can be seen with a powerful microscope.
When we consider that the nearest of
these is 200,000 times as far from us as
the sun, and that it would take from
three and a half to twenty-one years for
the light which reaches us to ceate if
they were extinguished, we cannot
grap and hold the vast conception in
our mind. Yet it is suppoied tliat each
of these is a central sun, with its own
colony of planets circling round it,
which in size are vajtly superior to those
of our own solar system, and are travel
ing through pace with such speed that it
is imisible for us to comprehend it.
The star Sirius is said to be moving
fifty-four miles a second, or 194,400
miles per hour, a darning taw, leading
its brood of planets through illimitable
sirace?- AV10 York TeUyram.
A Novel Marnetle Clock.
A new French clock corUin a
novel
application of the magnet
The clock b
shaped. like a tambourine, with
cf Co wen pointed on its head.
a circle
Around
the circle two bres crawl, tbe larger one
requiring twelve houn to complete its
circuit; while the smaller one xnaJcet it
every hour. Different flower represent
the hours, and tbe bee, which are o!
iron, are moved by two magnates behind
the head of the tamlKuri ne. Ckic&p.
Herald. ;
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The steamer Yang Tse, whiea . arrlre-I
at Mar-rilh Fraticr. tb- o.ht-r da ir
por. patug through, i p the lied rx- t. u
veritable ink of hcut coyr.ng an -..
mated area cf 323 mile. It toV tbt
hip twenty-four hours to pas ihxvugti
the immfBsf goad 01 iaiecta.
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1.00. A YEAR I
RUSSIA'S TOWN OF FIRE.
V1YLD DESCRIPTION OF THB O BEAT
PSTSOLEUM CSNTBZ.
Vho Hain of the Caspian fie Rests)
tm a Subterranean Sea of aphtha)
A City Without House.
Tifti is midway on the railroad that
cuts the Caucasus in its whole width r
und pus the two ea in cotbrnuoicatiors
ihe port of Batoum on the Black Sea
with that of Bakou on the Caspian. As
wc leave the capital in the latter direc
tion, the eye is at first ravished and then .
desolated by the changing aspect of th
land. The track follows the Kour.
which roll its broad sheet cf water
majestically through wild forests ami
rich, tilled soil, while two chairs of
snowy ridges stretch away out of sight
in the distance the Caucasus to the
lert, the mountains of Armenia to th
right. Soon we leave the river, which
iroes t join the A raxes toward the south;
the plain gets broader and barer; tall
cages built of planks perched on four
tcj trunks rise in the midst of the rico
fields I i . ; e watch towers. The inhabitant
of the villages, who are all Tartars lis
this ugion, take refuge at night in ,
;hesc aerial aests; the marshy land ia
unhealthy that it is dangerou to
"ivcp there. In spite of them precau
tionv, the peasants whom we j see aro dc
vourexl by fever; their emaciated viwigc
remind us of thoe of the inhabitant ol
the Koman camjagna. After leaving
Hadji-Caboui, the new station in Moor
ish style where u new iice branches off-
' the Teheranlinc..' I am told by the eu
pincers who are building it. and wlw
hope to carry it intr the very heart of
Persia we enter an African landscape,
sad and luminous. The mountain chains
become lower; they are now fimpljr cliff
of gilded sandstone festooning against
crude blue sky. At their feet the desert r
1 sandy excuse, covered here and thrro
with a roe carpet of flowering tamarisks.
Herds of camels browse on these shrubs,
under the guard of a half-naked shep
herd, motionless as a bronze statue. The.
fantastic silhouettes of these animals aro
increased in size and changed in form by.
the effect of the mirage, which display
before our eyes, in the ardent haze of th
horizon, lakes and forests. From ti ma
to time we meet a petroleum train, eom
posed of cistern trucks in the form of
cylinder, surmounted by u funnel with a
short, thick neck. When you see thorn
approaching from a distance. you might
mistake them for a procifit . masto
don, vying in hapelesncs with tho
trains of camels which they pass. The sun
burnsi in space. 1 onder a greet band gbt
tcrs beneath its rays; it is the Caspian! i'
We turn around a Lill.nd behold! oa
this western shore, in this primmv
landscape, which eem like n corner of
Arabia Petraa, a monstrous city rises b
fore our eyes. Is it once more the effecs
01 mirage, tins town 01 uiaooucai a
i .a 1 s a W
pert, envelojied in a cloud of smok
traversel by running tongues of flami
at it were S xloui fortified by the dr
rnons in its L'irdlc of cast-iron towers?
can 1 nd but one word to depict exactly
the ,T3t impression that it gives. It is
a t wn of gasometers. There are no
li)' les the hoqsrs are relegated further
av ,j on the right," in the old IefV
Ciiy -normng. oui iron cyunuera
pipes and 'cliim'neys, scattered in 1
order from the hills down to the bsf
This is doubtless the fearful mod
what manufacturing towns will all.l
the twentieth century. Meanwhil
the moment, this on? i unique i
world ; it is Bakou the "town of
as the natives call it ; the jctroleuiti
town, where everything is devoted anrl
subordinated to the worship of tbe local
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The bed of the CasuiauSc rests tinoti t I
.1 ..,1,1 .-i.t.i. . i.. ,
its f3ods of naphtha under the whoh? 1
bd;n. (la the eastern khoie the build
ing of the Samareaod Hail way leJ fo tw
discovery of immense beds of mineral
oil. On the wetcrn shore, fiom therooat
re:note ages, the magi used to adore th
fire springing from the earth at tlw very1
ipot where its list worhiK.rs prostrate
theinelves at the present day. Hut,
after Laving long a lared it, impious men
begin to rnske profit by it romrut-rcially.
In the thirteenth century the tnpow
traveler, 3Iarco I'olo, mention, "on thf
northern side a great spring whence flow!
m lt.ntifl lfl.-& .tl tf t rr trrw-wt f f Ml
.ik. - . . .v u " l-i
ing, but Ss useful for burning and
other purpoe; and so the neighboring
nations come to get their provion of it
and fill many veseU without the ever
flowing spring appearing to be diminished
in any aranctr.'
Tne ral practical workiogs of toes)
oil springs date back only a d? yean.
At the pret-ent day.it yields '.'.oii.OO'l
kilogrammes of keroscn; per anuu:n and
dupute the markets of Europe against
the products of Kentucky and Pennsylvania.-
Tne yield might be increase ! tea
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all V
fold, for the exUting wells give on nJ
average 4'J,Uuv kilogmmme a ilay, aiq
in order to find new ones it mSio? tf
bore the ground, so saturate! is the wboto
soil with petroiearn. C. Marvin ("Th
Petroleuta Indatry in Southern H isJ
compares the Aspheron peainmU to a
Knge plunged in mineral oil. The soil
is continually vomiting forth the li Ui J
Uva that tonnenu it sntraiU, cither Irt
the form of mud volcanoes or of natural
spring. These springs over3o.e io
areams so abundant thai It is hopelevs to
restore their cooteals for to ant vt reser
voirs ; often they catch fire and bum fwr
week; the air, impregnated naptlu
vapors, i then aglow all round lUiioj.--
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