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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1890)
THE ANNIVERSARY The PEOPLE Know OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE (Telephone ----- THE VALUE OF----- A NEWS MEDIUM WILL BE CELEBRATED THAT 18 ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE TEI.EPHONE-REC’ IS TER ENJOYS THE LA RO EST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER PVB I.ISHED IN YAMHILL COUNTY By inning fl MAMMOTH EXTRA devoted entirely to McMinnville. Look for it. Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. REGISTER Established August. 1881. TELEPHONE Established June. 1886. M c M innville , oreqon , T hursday , J anuary Consolidated Feb. 1,1889. H. BALLINGER. ASTRAY IN A FOREST. OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA. VIA ATTORNEY AT LAW. Experience of a Traveler in the Coast Woods. Sondimi Pacific Company’» Lincs. THE N011T SBASTI ROUTE! W. E. Foot, of Stockton, who recently returned from the Oregon coast, was in McMinnville. Oregon Time Between San Francisco recently, and related one Portland and San Francisco, ¡ of his remarkable experiences in the E. E. OOUCIIER. J. F. CALBREAT1I. 30 HOUKS’ dense forests of the Northwest to a Call reporter. California Express Trains Run Daily Calbreath & Goucher, "'That reminds me,” he said, in course BETWEEN PORTLAND AND SAN FRAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, of a conversation about adventuie and CISCO ! travel, “of my experience on the west McMnonrnxE, - - - O regon . LEAVE ARRIVE. ern slope of the Coast range in Oregon. Portland . 4.00 p m San Francisco 7.45 pm (Office over Braly’s Bank.) San Fran. . 7:00 ¡> iu;Portland 10.45 y/n I had urgent business at the county seat Local Passenger Daily, except Sunday of Tillamook county. The stage road S, A. YOUNG, M. D. LEAVE. ARRIVE over the mountains waB covered with Portia id . 8:05 a mj Eugene. 2:40 p soft snow to a depth of six feet, so the Eugene. ... 9 :00 a in ¡ Portland . 3:15 p m Physician & Surgeon. roads were impassable and I took pass McMlXXVlLlX. - - - O rxgos . age on a steamer from Portland to As Tourist Sleeping Cars,] toria, hoping to finish the journey by sea Office and residence on D street. All For accommodation of Second Class Pas calls promptly answered day or night. from there on one of the vessels plying sengers attached to express trains. The S P. Company’s Ferry inakc-s con along the coast. That same morning a nection with all the regular trains on the violent rain storm set in and continued DR. J. C. MICHAUX East Side Division from foot of F street for several days. But Bhips were weuth- WEST SIDE DIVISION Tnis powder never varies. A marvel of bound by the heavy western winds I Practicing Physician and Surgeon, Between Portland and Corvallis. purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordina y kinds, and could not wait for the storm to subside, Mail Train Daily, except Sunday. cannot be sold in competition with multi so I boarded a little steamer which fer LAFAYKTTE, OREGON LEAVE ARRIVE tude of low test, short weight alum or phos ried me over to the Clatsop plains There Portland. 1 McMinn’ 10:13 a ID phate Sold only in cans. R oyal Jan.‘31,’88. McMinn’ 1( Corvallis ... 12:25 p m B aking powder. P owder Co , 10G Wall St., N. Y. I was lucky enough to find a wagon go Corvallis 1 McMinn’ 3:44 pm ing in my direction about twelve miles. McMinn’ 2 Portland. 6:20 pm The streams were swollen and would At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of Oregon Pacific. not permit of traveling on horseback. I Express Train Daily, except Sunday resolved to take my chances. DEALERS IN I.EAAE. ARRIVE. On foot. Three miles beyond where I Portland. 4:50 pm 8.00 p Ill McMinn’ 5:45 a m| . 9:00 a ID B, CLARK. PROPRIETOR. left the wagon I stayed over night in a Through tickets to all points South and farm-house, and after breakfast next East via California morning started out again on the trail Ticket offices. No 134, corner First and Alder streets, Portland, Oregon; corner Furniture of all the Latest Styles made to into the mountains. Just as I was about AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES. Front and F streets, Portland leaving the beach trail a sudden desire order in Oak, Ash or any Wood R KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS. came over me to go down to a place Manager. Asst. G F. & P Agt desired. where a ship was wrecked one dark night FINE WORKMANSHIP A SPECIALTY! upon the rocks and none of the crew es caped. I followed the shore southward o In building formerly occupied by Mu about a mile past the light house. Tar Sample rooms in connection. Minnville News Co Orders taken for all kinds of work and rying longer than I had intended at the o------ o satisfaction guaranteed. Call at factory spot the tide began to surround me and and sec specimens of furniture. Is now filled up in first class order. forced me to climb the cliff. But the Do not buy without first seeing the furni slope was steeper thsn it at firBt seemed. Accommodations as eood as can be ture manufactured here in your own state It took mo over two hours to make the found in the city. and county ascent of 600 feet. 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. It. CLARK. By this time my enthusiasm over the tramp began to weaken a little, but I set Prices Consistent with Good Work off, witli a light heart, expecting to in On Short or Long Time in Sums to suit. i tercept the trail at right angles from the Lowest Rates and no Commissions. AT THE verge of the cliff. Only a few paces in land I came to where some settlers had If so be sure and call for your tick been felling trees yearB before. The sun via the all on or address: You will find the most complete was then shining, but it shone no more stock of W. T. SHURTLEFF,! for me for two days following. I have Fancy and Staple Groceries, spent touch of my lifetime in the woods At J. I. Knight A Co.’s McMinnvile. Or. Crockery and Glassware, Stand and have hunted them through and and Library Lamps through in pursuit of game, and had Ever Brought to the City. learned to tell the four points of the com Fine Teas and Coties a special - THE— pass where 1 had ranged by the weather ty ; Roast Coffee ground free of charge. Goods delivered tree to marks on the trees, and thought I was Has the most complete stock of harness ony part of the city. perfeclty safe this time, but I was de in the county. At present 12 set of sin II J. H HENDERSON. Prop. ceived. gle harness, hand made, in prices “1 looked at the trees on the brink of ranging from $12 to $30, and 8 JOHN DERBY', JESSE EDWARDS. the precipice where they were exposed set of team harness as cheap I to the rain and sun, and got my bearings, AS ANY PLACE IN THE COUNTY It is positively the shortest and tin !3t and started east into the wilderness but line to Chicago and the east and south and Can be seen on tlie hooks in my shop. the only sleeping and dining car through as I went the marks became dimmer, tbe Proprietors of The McMinnville I have competent workmen employed line to ' trees taller, their tufted tops denser, tbe to do all kinds of repairing and to make any harness ordered I also keep a full Omaha, Kansas City, anti all Miss suri underbrush thicker, until I finally got to stock of oil and rubber robes, tap robes, Hiver Point. where the sun never shone, nor the rain horse covers, saddles, etc. A full line of extras for repairs constantly on hand. Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed Situated at the Southwest corner of the beat upon the bark. The trees looked just alike all around, and nature’s com* train service and elegant dining and Fair GrOunds. All sizes of sleeping cars has honestly earned fc r it the pass was obscured. title of First-Class Drain Tile “Added to this, trees that bad become kept constantly on hand at lowest living tired standing upright for a century past prices EDWARDS & DERBY, were lying prone upon each other on the I hn , 41- McMi invitte, Oregon earth’s bosom, and I had to deviate from the straight line to follow the meandering The Only Sign Writer in the County. Others may imitate,but none can surpass it TRIPLETT & BOND, elk trails. Our motto is “always on time ” Homes fitted up in the Neatest and Most Proprietors of the “I kept on, still thinking I bad the Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets Artistic Style. via this celebrated route and take none right course, but I found that I had made Designs furnished for Decorations. others. W. II MEAD, G A No. 4 Washington street, Portland, Or I The neatest place in the city Animals a complete circle and came back to Remember Paper Hanging and Inside Fur • carefully selected for killing—insuring the where I had first started from the cliff. 1 nishing a Specialty finest meat Poultry, etc , bought and felt chagrined, but started again, this Work taken by Contract or by the Day. Ex Notice of Final .Settlement. M«1<1 Highest market price paid for every time following the brink of the cliff down perienced men employed. thing. the coast but did not go a mile when 1 Third Street, McMinnville, Oregon. Notice is hereby given that the under came to a deep canyon in the bottom of signed, administrator of the estate of Elzira Notice to Taypayers. Stater deceased, has filed bis final account which I could see a little stream. Near Notice is hereby given that the tax books of his administration of said estate in the M c M innville national bank . county court of Yamhill county, Oregon of Yamhill county. Oregon, for the year this pla e I found where somebody had and said court has fixed the 7th day of Jan 1889, are now in my hands for the collection been before me—apparently lost also. In Corner Third and C streets, in Braly block. uary, 1890. at the hour of 10 o’clock, a in., of taxes, and that myself, or deputy, will the edge of a pool of water was a gallon at the county court room at McMinnville. visit the various precincts of said county m ’MINNVII.I.E, OREGON. Oregon, as the time and place for hearing as follows, between the hours of 10 o’clock coffee can ; on a stump with a pint bot a m. ard 4 o’clock p m. for the purpose tle that bad been emptied, a teacup on the same. Transacts a General Banking Business, Therefore, all persons interested in said of colleciing said tax : the ground, a walking-stick and 6ome Wheatland, Monday, January 27,1890 ostate are hereby notified and required to President............................ J. W. COWU appear at said time and place and show Dayton. Tuesday, January 28*. shreds of cloth and other signs. Lafayette, Wednesday, January 29 Vice President........... LEE LAUGHLlW cause, if any there be. why said estate be “I hurried away, crossing the canyon Dundee, Thursday, January 30 not finally settled and said administrator Cashier J. I.. STRATTON discharged through the thick brush and thornB and Newberg, Friday. January *31. West Chehalen ? Saturday. February 1. Dated this 28th dav of November. 18S5. over and under logs, tor I had been tolii Sells sight exchange and telegraphic ‘ F. W. FENTON. North Yamhill, Monday, February 3 transfers on Portland, San Franco and New (48) that the trail crossed this stream. On I Carlton, Tuesday, February 4 Administrator of said Estate. York. Bellevue, Wednesday, February 5. went for hours, wrestling away with Collections made on all accessible points. Willamina. Thursday. February 6. briars and thorns, but what was my as Interest allowed on time deposits. Sheridan, Friday, February 7. <0 have the Exclusive Control of Amity, Saturday, February 8. tonishment and dismay to find again that Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p A. North and Smith McMinnville, Monday very bottle, can, teacup, etc. o and Tuesday, February 10 and 11 “I started out on the same route again All persons are notified to be present at N M c M innville said appointments and settle their taxes, or for I knew that must be the right direc L pay the same to me at my office, within 30 days from the dates above mentioned. If tion, and it only needed to be followed to T not paid by the expiration of 30 days, costs find the trail. I crossed the canyon once CARLIN & HIGH, Proprietors will be added, as specified by section 2795, Revised Statutes—pay your taxes or costs more. Then darkness commenced t< Goods of all descriptions moved and care 50 will be made. settle, and the mist had laden the tall ful handling guaranteed. Collections will T J HARRIS. Sheriff. be mad? monthly Hauling of a 1 kinds trees with water, so that at overy recurr done cheap iug breeze their waving boughs seiv C down showers of rain. The bushes were E wet and I was soaked through. I saw THE NADJY BAR! N that I had to spend tbe night there, and IN TKE COOK HOUSE. T immediately went to work to build a fire. Stocked witli tlie Choicest Wines, Liq- A Journal for Adevrtisers. S But the rains had rendered everything ors and Cigars—Domestic and Imported. Anu don’t have to offer a prize to sell thfc PRINTERS’ INK is just what it incombustible iu tne woods, and I ba i Goods, for its the BEST MADE. Every Can holds TTa.e Best Ear izx tlie Citjr purports to be, “a journal for adver only a pen knife to whittle with. Dark WM. MARTIN. Proprietor. ONE AND ONE HALF POUNDS. tisers.” It is issued on the 1st and ness of the blackest Btate soon surround I. N. HENDERSON. 15th days of each month, and is the ed me, and tny attempt at building a fir- representativo journal—the trade was a failure. I bad not had a morse MC. MINNVILLE, ORE. journal, so to speak—of American since breakfast. There were plenty elk advertisers. It tells the intending signs, but the signs of bear were more and inexperienced advertiser in numerous, where they had come to the on a farm for are those put up by Cl I sou have an agency plain comprehensive articles how, marshy places and sought the esculen. A Co » alburns and publi- w D.M. FERRY SCO. d often make M a day.' when and where to advertise; how bulbs of skunk cabbage. All that wa- Who are the Largest w. II. G arrison . 14 to write an advertisement; how to eatable of anything I found were the ten Seedsmen in the world. William Kline, Ilnrrisburg, Fa . D. M. F erry & Co’s writes: “I have never known display one; what newspapers or der shoots cf fern just sprung up but that Beautifully Illustrated, Descriptive anything to sell like your album. 1 esterday I took orders enough to other media to use; how much to would not satisfy, and I was apprehen SEE dah KUAL n»e over \v. j. El- Ban gor, Me., writes: “I expend—in fact discources on ev sive that it might produce sickness. for 1890 will be mailed FREE to all ery point that admits of profitable “Tired and weary, I wrapped my over applicants, and to last season’» cus tomers. It is better than ever. Ev discussion. If you advertise at all, coat around me and laid myself down on ery person using Garden, Flower or Field SEEDS should send for it. Printers’ Ink can hep you. Per the damp ground in a cavity beneath a D. M.FERRYACO. one who takes bold of this ernn<! business piles up grand profit* haps you expend but Ten Dollars a fallen tree. When morning dawned I DETROIT» MICH. Shall we start YOU in this business, reader? Write to a« and learn ali about it for yourself We year in advertising; if so, Printers’ resumed my struggle for hours, till final are etarting many; we will start you if you doti t delay until another gets ahead of you in your part of the countrv ’ If y.m Ink may show you how to obtain Iy I came to tbe sea coast on a promoa- take hold yon will be able to pick up gold fa>t On account of a forced manufacturer s sale 125,000 ten double the service you are now get tory, which a hurricane had swept over <1ol!ur Photograph Album» areto be sold to the people for ¡Sti ea h. Bound in Koval Crimson Silk Velvet ting for half the money. A year’s a few years before and laid that p trt of Plush. Charminglv decorated insides. Handsomest albums in th j world. Largest She. Greatest bargains ever known. Agents tbe forest low. Gigantic trees were piled wanted. Liberal terms. Big money for agents. Any one can ¡subscription costs but $1; a sample become a successful agent. 8ells itself on sight— Utile or no í4e*tÍJ0 copy costs but five cents. Advertis upon one another in some places to the talking necc»snry. Wherever shown, every one wants to pur Perfect chase. Agents take th- usands of ordc-i with rapidity never ing is an art practiced by many but height of about 40 feet, and I had liecoiuc before known. Great profits await every worker. Agents are making fortunes, -adits make as much as men. You, reader, The conduct entangled among them. After I got free I can do aa well a* any one. Yuli information and term» free, , understood by few. to those who write for same, with particulars and terms for our ors of Printers' Ink understand it went out to where it was more open, hut Family Bibles, Book* and Period'-al*. After you know all, should you conclua * to go no furtr-?r, v by no harm is done thoroughly. Surely their advice, had not gone far when I came upon the Address E. C- ALLEN CC . A vgusta . M ains . based on an experience of more than can, bottle, teacup, etc. UnVEDTICE DC others,who wish to exam r- I 25 years will help you. Address: “I had described another and larger AU V fell I I'lJfellv this paper, or obtain estimates I circle. Without waiting I started upon GEO P. ROWELL S on ac'vertising space when in Chicago, will find it on file at Newspaper Advertising Bureau, tbe same course across the canyon again, the Ad verthing Agency of 10 Spruce St., New York, or I could think of no other way to go. Office in Fletcher building, Third Street, Pullman Buffet Sleepers POWDER Absolutely Pure. Furniture Factory, HEWITT BROS R ooks , stationery Musical Goods and Instruments of all Kinds. The St. Charles Hotel. Improved Farm Property ARE YOU GOING EAST? R R E Red Front Grocery E D D F F R R 0 0 INSURANCE NEGOTIATED. E. WRIGHT N N T T Edwards & Derby, XI FACTORY XI J. B. ROHR, Sign, and Ornamental Painter The Ttoyal Route PEOPLE'S MARKET. TRUCK AND DRAY CO., Printer’s Ink * LORD&THOMAS. ie, i890. : For hours again I toiled crawling on my ■ hands and knees under the brush, and again and »gain scaling logs, till it was , becoming late in the day. “The mist came up again, tbe trees were laden with their aqueous freight, and tbe zephyrs shaking it down. I saw by the fog that I was getting near the ocean. I thought surely that I had pro gressed this time. All at once I heard a wailing sound. “I listened: I heard it again—like a steer lowing for his mate. Tue sound re vived me. I thought I was close to the house where I had expected to lunch the day before. I started al most, on the run in this direction, when there was that can, teacup, etc., again. “I had reached the circle. The eleva tion I had clung to so long was only a circular table,land being in the shape of a horse-shoe. I waded the stream to that beach, but it was then late and darkness had settled on the lonely Bliore. 1 gath ered seme dry pieces of dritt-wood and built a fire and spent most of the night in wanning myself up and drying my clothes. After having taken a salt water bath in the surf I began to feel some what comfortable. I had got past being hungry, but was somewhat weak. Mus sels were my only food. I was safe at last, and able to contique my journey next morning without stopping at the lone house by the sea where I had ex pected to lunch two days before, and to the next house, sixten miles beyond, where, after another surf bath, I stayed all night. “I passed the bight in thinking of the can, bcttle, teacup, etc., and of the man who left them there. Perhaps he, too, had been lost just as I was, and had per ished.” Au Incident in Grady's Life. Little things show character, so the philosophers say. Then the following story of Grady, told by himself to a Iriend, and preserved in the Atlanta Constitution, proves that the strong man had a child’s heart. He visited his mother on Christinas a year ago an 1 he says: “I don't think I ever felt happier than when I reached the little home of my boyhood. I got their at night. She had saved supper for me and she had remem bered all the things I liked. She toasted me some cheese over the fire. Why, I hadn’t tasted anything like it since I put off my round jackets. And then shi ll ad some home-made candy she knew I used to love, and, bless her heart, I just felt sixteen again as we sat and talked and she told me how she prayed for me and thought of me always and what a brightness I had been to her life, and how she beard me coming home in everybody that whistled along tho street. When I went to bed Bhe came and tucked the covers all around me in the tear old way that none but a mother’s liands know, and I felt so happy and so peaceful and so full of tender love and tender memories that I cried happy, grateful tears until I went to sleep.” When be finished, says the narrator, his eyes were full of tears and so were mine. He brushed his hand across liis brow swiftly ana said laughingly: “Why, what are you crying about? What do you know about all this sort of feeling?” Grady was a real man, and in the p es ent crisis his wise counsels will be great ly missed. Attar of Roses. The manufacture of attar of roses fur nishes employment to hundreds of peo ple. A visit to the rose fields is some thing one will remember a lifetime. The largest rose fields in the world are al Kezan Dik, in Bulgaria. There the ros- as from which the perfume is made are -ultivated most extensively. The rose listrict extends for miles and miles, and the entire country' is a solid mass of flow ers. The district is, I should judge, about one thousand square miles. In procuring the attar of roses, nothing but he leaves are used. It takes 6,000 pounds of leaves to make one pound o* the attar. The rose leaves are picked in the proper season, thrown into piles and then taken up and placed in large coppei Kettles for the purpose of distilling the puieoilor attar. The kettles are ar ranged one within another, and the eaves are taken through twenty-five oi thirty distillations. Good attar of reset* can be had at from $12 to $15 per ounce it wholesale. It sometimes retails for $50 an ounce. The Richest Actress. I saw Lotta during the week and the I ittle actress seemed to be enjoying hei rs hugely. Although the richest single woman in the world who lias earned her own money she does not seem at all bur lened with business cares. She haB a hotel in Boston adjoining her Park Thea ter, which she owns. She figures among >er assets a flat-house in Now York and lots ot real estate in different parts of th* ountrv. Yet she does not bother with ts management. Her shrewd mother, who has saved all this money, takes all Die responsibility of its care and Lotta i eft to enjoy herself. After this year oi rest and pleasure in the United States, -he is going to take a trip to Europe and it has not get been decided whether she will work next »ear or not. She is old -nough and rich enough to enjoy the balance of her life outside of the theatre. Otiitla in Her Home. Guida’s shrine is a little room the walls of which are painted in the lovely old- fashioned Italian style, with birds and ■id age and trellis work covered with fl >wers. The center of the space is filled with a round table crowded with exotics, t iberoses and ferns in pots and v s s of eve y shape and hue. Two small wax i-andles, furnished with butterfly shapes just enable you, and no more, to make your wav through the fragrant twilight to the coi ner fenced in with a Japanese screen, where Ouida sits on a low chair, beside a low tea table and stretches forth a tiny, very pretty, perfectly ringlet® hand in welcome. She is gorgeously at tired, sometimes in bronze velvet and fur, when velvet and fur were the mode; sometimes in an enchanting tea-gown of blue or pink brocade gleaming in Bome rare fashion with silver or gold embroid ery. From under the rich stuffs her lit tle feet peep forth—feet which might have been owned by Cinderella. The costume also would have been most ap propriate for Cinderella when site went to meet the prince One thinks it a piiy —for Ouida—that she is not going to meet the prince. romance ’ of riches . A Town Where an Acre of Land Was Worth $2,000,000. This is the oldest town in the Pennsyl vania oil region, having been the first town to spring into life under the won derful stimulus of the oil excitement. It is located on Oil creek, two and a half miles above Oil City, and it was here that the third well was drilled for oil, and on the McEibanny farm, a short distance above Rouseville, the first real “spouter” was struck. This was the famous “Fountain wel’,” which flowed a stream of oil over the top of the der rick, high above the tallest tiees in the neighborhood, and started the great rush of people into this wonderful region. This was once a great oil metropolis, with banking offices, scores of hotels and all the commercial facilities of a city. Being so near to Oil City and Pe troleum Centre, its population never got above 10,000, if it reached that figure, but it was one of the most active cities in the belt of oil. It was surrounded by some of the wonderful flowing wells of early oil days. The Widow McClin tock farm, which fell into possession of Johnny Steele, afterwards known to the world as “Coal-Oil-Johnny,” is within sight of tliiB town. Like all other oil towns, Rouseville has been swept by fire a number of times, and there is but little of the old town left- What is left of it is a curious old relic in which there is but little to suggest the bustle and ex citement and the fortunes lost and won in former days. “Coal-Oil-Johnny” is by no means ;he only man who found an easy fortune within sight of this queer old town. The first great oil fire here was when the Rouse well was burned and Henry Rouse, after whom the town was named, was burned to death, along with sixteen other men. It was the most appalling tragedy in the history of oil fiies, and being tbe first, created a won derful Bensation. There lias been talk o' erecting a monument on the site of the tire to honor the memory of the sixteen men who were the first to perish in the development of the oil region. Colonel Drake, who drilled the first oil well, has no monument yet, and the citizens of Rouseville do not believe that either will ever be erected. If oil were found in a literal lake, in stead of in a porous rock, Rouseville like Petroleum Center would have been situ ated over a lake of oil. A number of big wells were struck within tbe limits of the town, and great “gushers” surround ed the town on every side. Not only were the Oil creek flats here wonderfully prolific, but Cherry run, which empties into Oil creek at this point, produced some wells only second in richness to the Oil creek wells. Some of the largest of these were near Rouseville, and it can be said that the wells in the vicinity have produced enough oil to have sub merged the town. Tbe money value of the oil taken from the ground near Rous- ville is above $50,0>X),00J. Tlie Storey farm alone has produced about $10,000,- •00 worth of petroleum, and still has a small production—perhaps 100 barrels a month. The first well drilled at Rouse ville, the third on that creek, as stated, was put down by the primitive method uf a “spring-pole engine.” Thia was no engine at all, but a stout sapling or ■*pnng pole to which the toola were at tached. Three or four men would pull the spring-pole down and its springs would lift the tools for the next stroke Tliis was called “tramping a well down” and as many of them were tramped down to the depth of 500 or 600 feet the opera, tion was very slow and tedious. No less than 150 wells were put down on Oil creek in this crude way before steam was ipplied in thiB work. Where three months were often required to drill a well then, one is drilled now in ten days or even less. The history of one of the big wells near Rouseville is the history of many, and will serve to illustrate tbe amazing richness of tbe oil belt in this section. The Reed well, on Cherry Run, was struck July 17, 1864, It was located on an acre of leased ground. The land in terest was to receive one-quarter of the oil and the ownets of the well the bal ance. One well was put down, and in ninety days from the time of starting the Irill $785,003 had been realized from it by the working interest alone. The Mingo Oil company of Philadelphia bought out one quarter of the land inter e**t in the well for $280,000, after the owner had already sold $30,000 worth of >il irom it. Mr. Reed, after selling $75.- 00 worth of oil from his account sold to Bishop Russeli <k Co., half of his interest fur $203,000. A man named Frazier had n interest in the well that netted him »100,000 in oil, and he afterwards sold his interest for $100,000 cash. Most of these sales were cash in hand. The Mingo Oil company paid $280,030 for their interest in one payment. Three other wells were dulled on this one acre if ground, and from the four wells $2,- 030,000 were realized. This is perhaps • he richest acre of ground ever developed n the oil Country. The original owners were uteri of email means, and all be came weelthv from this single transac tion. Even tbe Philadelphia and New York companies who bought them out at -uch extravagant figures realized hand somely from their invest meet. There is no sign of the Reed well or any of its rich neighbors now. The places where the derrick ami lank stood are grown high with weeds and bushes, and from the mine of wealth the spot has returned to i s primitive wildness and worthless ones. VOL. I. NO. 50. The Newspapen of the World. WHEN TRAIN WAS YOUNG. A large number of statistics have been collected in connection with the Paris Exhibition, and of these probably the most interesting are those which deal with tbe total number of journals pub lished in the whole world. These have been collated by La Nature. The facts given show that Germany has the honur of publishing the largest number of per iodicals in Europe, these numbering 5,- 500, of which 800 are dailies. Jou n ils devoted to special religious dogmas, creeds and scientific theories, abound more in this than in any other country. The oldest German journal is the Ga zette det Postet oi Frankfort, founded in 1816: the most widely circulated, tbe Berliner Taegblatt. issues but 55,000 cop ies. After Germany comes England, which publishes over three thousand newspapers, 809 of which are dailies France follows with a nearly equal num. ber, of which only a quarter are dailies, bi-weeklies or tri-weeklies. Italy holds the fourth rank by publishing 1,400 jour nals, 200 of which appear at Rome, 140 at Milan, 130 at Naples, 94 at Turin and 79 at Florence. Of these, 170 are dai. lies. In Austria Hungary there are 1,200 journals, of which 150 are dailiee. So far as other countries are concerned, Spain follows with 850, and Russia 800, 200 of the latter appearing at St. Peters burg and 75 at Moscow. In Greece jour nals are proportionately numerous, every little market town and village having one. Athens publishes 54, all of which arc dailies. In Switzerland there are 450 journals published, and Belgium and Holland furnish an almost equal num ber. In Swedon, Norway and Portugal journalism is but little cultivated, while in Turkey it is quite active. Altogether, Europe is credited with 20,030 newep*' pers. Turning to Asia, the figures show that no fewer than 3,000 papers aro issued, most of which appear in Japan and the British Indies. China is veiy poorly supplied, having but the King-Pau offi cial journal of Peking) which issues three editions a day on paper of differ ent colors ; and one journal at Shanghai, and one in Corea. Japan, on the other hand, publishes 1500 journals. Africa makes but a very pool Bhow, having but 200 newspapers, thirty ol which are published in Egypt, and the rest in European colonies. America haw a large share of repre sentation in the world’s press, the Unit ed States alone issuing 12,500 papers, 1000 of which are dailies. In Canada 700 journals are published, most oi which are French. Besides Mexico and Brazil, in which quite a large number of papers are published, it may be stated that the Argentine Republic has about 60 jour nals. Australia is credited with TOO papers, all of which are English. Flies in the Snow. A week since, in the company of a friend, I made tlie ascent of Benmore from Crianlarich. We found the cone well powdered with snow, which got deeper and firmer as we ascended, and when we had reached say 500 or 600 feet of the top, we came upon a solitary fly, quite dead, but which had evidently been very recently in the full enjoyment of life and health. A few feet further on we found five or six more, some alive and some dead, but higher still, and within a very short distance of the top, we were surprised to find hundreds, all alive and apparently enjoying tliemselves though few of them seemed able to use their wings. At this elevation the ground was pretty deeply covered with sn iw and all the rocks thickly crusted with ice and we noticed that it was i articu’.arly where the ice was thickest th it the in sects were most nunten us. On the south side of the mountain, where we descend ed, we saw none of our little friends. I am not a naturalist, and Benmore may perhaps be the ordinary winter resort of the fly, but it appears curious that an in sect which is so generally associated with the idea cf waimth should be found in such numbers in winter, at an elevation of 3,800 feet above sea level. An Ohl War Home. George Francis Was A Favorite With Lords of High Degree. In 1857, during the Sepoy rebellion in India, Col. Green, when editor of the Boston Pott, took a trip to Europe. In London he fell in with Mr. Train and tol*l him Uiat he was altout to make an application to Mr. Buchanan, who was then the American minister at the court of St. James, to procure him a ticket of admission to the house of commons. “It is not necessary," sai*l Mr. Train; “besides, it will take the old fool half a lifetime to put his specs on, and the other half to procure the ticket. Come with me; I know the speaker," When they arrived at the vestibule of tlie home Mr. Train scut Lis card to tlie sj»eaker. In a few minutes an official with a long rod in his hand courteously *alute*i Mr. Train an*! conducted him and the colonel to seats on the floor ot the house, where Mr. Train introduced tlie colonel to sev eral disti'uruislied members, with whom he seemed on intimate terms. After satisfying his curiosity the colo nel wished to withdraw. “Now." said Mr. Train, “I will show you some of the live lions of the British empire, generals, admirals and statesmen, who are taking their ease in withdrawing rooms to which few are admitted.” Here tli?y found men of all ages sitting in gioups at ta les, some reading, others writing and others talking. Mr. Train introduced the colonel to lords and others of high degree with an ease and familiarity that astonished him. All who rember Col. Greene know that he was eminently handsome, above the middle height, well proportioned and of pleasing ad dress. He made a favorable impression wherever he went and was treated with marked courtesy by tlie gentlemen to whom he was introduced. An admiral, who bad served on the North Amorican station and who had visited Boston, in vited the colonel to take a seat by him »nd entered into conversation with him about several families whose acquaint ance he hail made. As a conversation alist tlie colonel had few equals, and in a very little time he ami the admiral were chatting away like old friends. Their conversation, however, was inter rupted by loud talking at the next table. Mr. Train and an old Indian were dis cussing the Sepoy rebellion. ”1 tell you, sir,” said Mr. Train, “you will never suppress the rebellion by your tactic*. on have not men enough ; your com mander-in chief is an old man, kept down the best pait of his lifetime, and before lie gets ready to move his army will be gobbled np. Your Clives and Weslevs are names of tlie past." The Indian calmly replied, with a pleasant smile, “Whv, Mr. Train, you have but a limited knowledge of the vigor of Sir Colin Campbell, who lias served many years in India, ami I think a little more knowledge of India will lead you to a different conclusion.” “My lord,” re joined Mr. Train, with energy, "I know all about India, its history, resources, castes, etc. I studied tliem all, for I was three weeks in Calcutta.” This drew forth roars of laughter, but George was not abashed. He contended with increated vehemence that India was lost to England He had the last word. Col. Greene felt embarrassed and whis pered to Train that ho had an engage ment to meet and must be punctual. At parting the gentlemen sho?k Mr. Train cordially bv the hand, and some of them invited him to call at their houses. He was evidently a great favorite with the whole party. George was then young anil hsndsome, had made the circuit of the globe and seemed to know* everyone worth knowing. Where now is the ir repressible George? For years lie has lieen a solitary man, whose principal business in summer was feeding bird» with crumlrs of bread and amusing chil- ■Iren, and now he shells the radiance of his intellect on the whitened atone which makes hideous to the tiinid tho Charles street jail. ■ a, ----------- Holland’s Youthful Princess. The heiress to the throne of the Neth erlands, the Princess Wilhelmina, is a few mon*hs past her ninth birthday. A* the onlv Queen Regent of the future she is a very interesting personage, the most important young lady that now figures in European politic*. Young as »he i*, the question of her marriage has already lieen mooted and widely discussed, and it is probable that very few more years will pass over lie: childish head before she will be solemnly betrothed to some one or other of the many pretendant* to her hand. She is at present a pretty, fair-haired little girl, very closely and carefully guarded by her watchful moth er, Queen Emma, who superintends her self the course of education which i* destined to make the future queen of Holland one of the most accomplished princesses of Europe. There recently died on the farm of Colonel Craighill, near the city of Lynchburg, a horse that enjoyed the supposed distinction of being the only survivor in the South of the cavalry steeds of the civil war. He had reached the age of 33 years but almost up to his last hour, at the very time when he had fallen into extreme decrepitude, it is said that his spirit would at once revive at the sound of cannon or musketry or the strains of martial music, al though so long a period had passed since he had gone into battle. His original owner, having been a mem ber of the famous Stonewall Bri Parnell at Home. gade, had christened him “Old Charles Stewart Parnell, when at home, Jack” after the immortal Stonewall conforms to local style in dress. Hi* and the old horse seems to have breeches are tied at the knee with ribbon been worthy of the name he bore, vividly green in hue. btout, brown which was the familiar title that worsted stockings, a little the worse for the soldiers of Jackson gave their »ear, cover bis shapely limbs, ending in a pair of brogues that have not recent!v great commander. “Old Jack” re been submitted to tlie blacking brush. ceived two wounds in the various A waisti oat left unbuttoned display* a charges in which he took part, but blue cotton shirt; a high collar, such as neither could have been very severe, Mr. Gladstone wears in holiday time, i* as he had vigor enough left to live loosely tied with a kerchief, green, but not so decidedly patriotic in tone as th« to a very advanced age for a horse. noiHins that knot tlie breeches at tbe From the hour that the war ended knee. A high hat with exceedingly »mall brim is rakisblv set on one side of he had been required to perform but iris head, nn<i you do not fail to notice very light service, it being very the “cuddy” stuck in the rusty band that the base of the crown, and ha* properly thought that no heavy bur confines oraved many storms in the lovelv Wick dens should be imposed on an ani low mi untains. mal that had so distinguished W. 8. Grady, Jr., brother of tlie late history. Upon his death his owner Henry W. Grady, is now at Toledo, Ore- i gon. He was until quite recently a clerk gave him an honorable burial, and st the Siletz reservation. He came to we understand ho proposes erect Oregon on account of Iris health, and cor.templaies returning East. The young ing a suitable monument over his er brother of the great editor also pos grave. sesses great journalistic abilities.