The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-08-23
armies, to which all the people say
amen!
HORIZONS OF yEsr sAoHRA,


From the London Times. islHgu
Towards evening the Balkans began
to loom over the, horizon, and about
ak we arrived here (Yeni 6aghra). IT
Is Q strange sight, and not easily to be
forgotten. A plain Of about half Q
mile wide separates the railway from
the town, and on this 10 encamped Q
Turkish army of some two thousand
or three thousand men. The whole
place seems one vast scene OF disorder,
and everything IL Uttered about, while
Q horde Ofirregular horse are biv0uack.
ing on the open ground, and half Of
them scampering about for no imagin-
able reason. Fnf. 800. lt.E. -5Ts II
On the other side of the railways
sight that Is quite heartrending-is o
great crowd ofupward Of 500 to 700 I'm.
fortunate women and children huddled
together with the few miserable chat
ties they have been able to save from
the sack of their homes lying around
them. Right r wrong, whether they
are Bulgarian or Turk, the heart cam
not contemplate so much undeniable
misery without q pang. It was hard
to know for which one felt most--the
poor old lettering crones, who, at the
flag end of their lives, are cast out des-
titute and beggaIs, their homes rified
and nothing left In the world but what
they stand up In, or the small children
who were crying and clinging to their
mothers, without even knowing what
they are afraid of, but probably with
some Terrifying recollection of the
night before last, the red flames, and
the fierce plundering devils, the smoke
and din of town being sacked.
went off Immediately to explore the
town, and saw q seene of desolati0n
and ruin that years will not efface
from my memory. A large quarter of
the town is complete ruin, utterly
destroyed, with the smoke still curling
up among the stones and rafters, the
baths, mosque, and other public build
ings destroyed, and the whole of the
rest of the town, every shop and every
private house completely Quilted, furni.
ture destroyed, and things lying pell
NELL all over the place. There is no
doubt, however, that q great many
things were removed by the first of the
refugees. The silence and desolation
were quite saddening, and the only
living things were q few wretched
looking dogs, q great many ducks and
geese, cocks and hens, and a few stray
cats. -
At the entrance to the village we met
q Turkish escort bringing out the last
remaining inhabitants, all women and
children, who had been found lurking
about after the order to depart had
been given-poor unfortunate creatures
still lingering about their homes with
O despair as to what Is In store for them.
n Ss.A for "a lie tnr-
rible situation at distance-the hope
less misery of these hundreds of people,
packed away like cattle In trucks and
luggage vans, and disembarked In q
strange city one hundred miles away.
I went into every kind Of home, and all
sorts of shops I saw bedding and
clothes, broken looking-glasses, pots,
pans, plates, musical instruments, let
tiers, account books, children's toys,
dolls, packs Of cards, and an infinite
number of other things, all lying
broken and pell nell. d.
In the grocers' shops. salt, sugar,
beans, stone Jars, lanterns, nails, red
ochre, everything that is to be found In
bdkaI In these lands, all scattered
about; in other shops, millinery, all
torn and spoiled, and in every kind of
out-Of.the-way corner one came across
things out of their place. So complete
is the destruction, even TO doors and
windows, that one cannot imagine how
it could have been done In SO short q
space of time. a
INDUSTRY OF THE DULdARIANs.
The correspondent of the London
Standard writes 81 wish that our
English mountain roads were as good,
our bridges as handsome and Is solid,
as those in wretched, oppressed Bull
garia. wish our peasantry, as rule,
owned such marvellous crops, such
fruitful orchards, such comfortable,
well-built houses. Mile after mile one
travels through the standing grain,
yellow wheat, grey oats, ''smiling bar.
ley" and dark green maize. The land
Is parcelled In squares, and no space
remains for pasturage upon the slopes;
but there are fells and meadows for the
cattle. The very woods are cut and
followed with mathematical exacti-
tude, that no ground may be wasted.
No landscape like this Is to be seen
wherever have travelled--so full of
natural beauty and 80 richly cultivat-
ed. But how the people work. II
there be n number reaping or hoeing
maize they may waste q precious mo-
ment In one glance towards the road
but If they be but man and wife In
their own patch an Earthquake
might roll unheedingly away Such
country and such o people, wisely
administered. should bring an mex
haustible fortune to the sovereign who
obtains them in the scramble. Rus
sian soldiers take advantage Of the en-
thusiasm they cause, and on the road,
as In Tirnova, they lay q grateful peo-
pie under tribute. u Whilst trader
was showing me with pride q marvel
of ugliness which he called q Bulgar
carpet, two soldiers entered asking
money from their brother, and re-
oeived 1t, not without q grimaceI from
their affectionate relative. Fourteen
francs, he told me, had liberty cost
him that day. The men asked me
also, and would hardly be denied on
the assurance that was q foreigner. /
do not insist ut all upon these facts, nor
much upon certain burglsries and at
tempts committed. The townspeople
aet mOnetrousIv had examnle Of fhe