The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-31

Il hab NntNu CAOltts u1u IL iHO NoIuillDu
of life, is differences. The progress of
development is through diversity. The
end is harmonious unity, allowing all DIFF
fercnces, Municipalities, but subordinating
them to a superior aim. Thus may strong
national unity grow out of wide indiyid-
ual diversity
Erie in the past, as the terminus of
branching railways, has been a city of
great hopes. But, as Josh Billings says,
hope is hen that lays more eggs than
she can hatch out. And Erie has been
compelled to see sister cities, which were
not not long since unfeared rivals, grow
into the wealth, trade and position, which
she expected and craved.
From Erie we soon reach Painsville.
This is the seat of the Mount. Holyoke of
the west. Fashioned in discipline and
. plan much from the Alma Mater at the
east of some of its founders, its intent is
to do for the young women of the interior,
what Mount Holyoke has done for those
at the east.
Next we are borne on to Euclid. "The
shades of night were falling fast" and we
gladly seek their protection, for we fear
the shades Of an old fellow of that
name whom we gave shabby treatment in
our college days. And quietly passing
through the village of his home, we pass
into Cleveland.
, Here we enter one of the largest and
finest depots of the States. OF this the
| city may be proud. In architecture,
, commodiousness and neatness it can scarce
: ly be surpassed. But to all the other
boasts of this city it may add with oderi-
, ferrous unanviableness that of its petro-
, lium reineries. These, situated just with
in its suburbs, are claimed to be the most
, extensive in the world. Here thousands
r of barrels of kerosene are distilled from
t the crude petroleum. This is usually
0 found in close proximity to coal fields,
| yet not always. 1t is generally believed
: to be product, formed in or by the pro-
duction of coal, from the distillation Of
o organic matter beneath the surface of the
a earth. This mineral oil, like the salt wa
), ter of Syracuse, n. Y, appears to be COL
e lected in immense underground basins.
These basins are tapped by artesian wells,
It and the oil is brought by its own weight,
$ or by means of pumps to the surface. At
a some Of these wells it is run at once into
IS the tank-holds of canal boats and taken
|, to Cleveland for refinement The strong
e odor and many impurities units the
J. crude oil for household use. 1t is puri-
"a GoJ la, J;et;llo+;o, DloonJ -,
r watts or retorts, it is brought to high
&c heat. That which passes over at the
II lowest temperture is called naphtha As
l. the heat is increased there passes over
c next the kerosene oil for illumination, and
g lastly the lubricating OIL The kerosene
J. is deodorized and decolorized by the use
of sugar of lead and other chemicals
lie These are stirred into the oil, after which
it is redistilled, when it is ready for re.
Ig transportation and use.
p The oil wells of northwestern Pennsyl
b. vania, and of Trumbull Co., in eastern
ct Ohio are the most pro6tably and extern
le swell worked.
y From Cleveland we soon reach ODER
:, y, lin, where fourishes the famous College
IL of the same name. Famous because
II founded upon the pioneer plan of wei
H. coming and inviting all, without regarc
III to sex or color, to labor and compete fo
IL the discipline and equal honors of higl
, college course. There are few but wha
- can herald with pleasure this innovation
10 in old college customs. True it is, tina
d all deviation for reform, from old wei
y beaten paths, is an uphill work, attend
= ed with faults, which time and experenc,
alone can correct Yet few will be fount
!" hostile to the sentiment, long may tn
- standard of Oberlin wave over worth,
1t earnest officers, and recitation rooms wei
40 filled. On from Oberlin we pass through
II the cities of Toledo, Delta, Rome, Pal
80 myra, Sylvania, and other cities, who's
az name in the language of the French,
full of history Each declares in its nam
- that its founders or manners were men O
ny some reading or culture. History is found
= but it tells different story in the name
n Elk Horn, Panton, Barnstable and Wey
hu bridge. Could the hard shell of forget
nc fulness, which time has grown round man.
~ ofthese familiar names, be cracked ,amuse
=, ment and instruction might be found TO
10 10 many an hour picking out the histor.
=" :, meat which they contain.
vo Chicago. The great mushroom city
The boast of the west. The city, as it
~, would be rival, Milwaukee, says, of grea
,lo pretentions and expectations. Built in
" mud hole, its unpaved streets offer
~ cheaper and more direct route to China
b'e than the Pacific railroad affords. 1t i
~ the rich estuary of.the west, and it will
.so despite its rivals, receive the golden wash
he ings of many wide stretched prairies. Ii
90 history seems not like that of growth, bu
~ of Minerva like birth. Strong and full
~ formed from the first. But for NOR
ST. ready and powerful pen We leave til
~. praise or blame Of Chicago, and soon W
i are fast speeding across the grand vas
prairie of northern Illinois, one hundre
no miles into Wisconsin. This is the harves
.on season. The fields are dressed in thei
golden robes. Long fields of grain jus
ro ripening for the harvest stretch BROAD
IS out on every side And hundreds G
n acres are gathered in thickly standin
shocks. At no other season of the yea
- can the lover of the farmers life receiv
m. greater pleasure in visiting this country
e. than now. The rich scenes of the autun
W. nal harvest greet his view in every d
,f,o rection.
This season, excepting corn and whea
Ike, the farmer is reaping richer return tina
scarce ever before. Corn from the col
wetness of the season, promises with
very late fall only fair crop. Whea
which but a little since, favored by tn
season. promised an immense Weld, wa