The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-12-24

in the regular army, soon after the surrender
of Vicksburg. Agents are now delivering the
first volume.
The numbers of The Living Age for the
weeks ending Dec. 9TH and 18th have the fol-
lowing contents: Dawn of Creation and of
Worship, by Rt. Hon. W. f. Gladstone, Nine
teenth Century; Dualism in Au>tra-Hungary
Fortnightly Review; The Great Lama Temple
at Peking, Gentleman's Magazine; The Wes-
leys at Epworth, Longman'> Magazine; 4 Ret
respect, Fortnightly; Grace, Spectator: Culture
and Science, Macmillan's Magazine: A Scotch
Physician. Blackwood; Rambles in Canton.
Belgravia; Some American Notes Macmillan:
Hydrophobia Nature; A Dangerous Point on
the East Coast of Africa Chambers journal;
The Duke of Newcastle, st. Stephens Review:
with instalments of "a Home Divided AGAINST
ITSELF" by Mrs. Oliphant, "Fortunc's Wheel"
and Mrs. Dymond," by Mrs. (Thackery)
Ritche, and poetry and miscellany.
Mr.. w. d. IIowells will occupy the editors
study in Harper's-the new editorial depart
hrSt time in the January number. As Mr.. Cur
It's has entertained Harper readers for years
from the easy chair with his chats about social
matters. and Mr.. Warner. for the past two
years has spread before thema pleasant cuuserje
of humor, 50 Mr.. lioweIl> will talk chattilv to
them about books and matters Of literature in
general. Mr.. Curtis himself, in hi, New Years
greeting, rises from the easy chair to open for
the gentle reader 1.-The door which admits him
to the editors study-a room which he has not
seen before; an apartment designed for his de-
light, as the easy chair is intended for his re-
pose; IA retreat in which hi> wake cfunc>> will
be as refreshing as his sumber> in the chair.
The geHiuS ioci who welcomes him.
he adds, pleasantly, "i~ not one whom the
guest has ignorantly wor>hpped, but whose
fine and penetrating power has 1T once charm
ed his fancy and touched his character and re-
fined his life.
Oil is to be the subject Of the fourth of the
Harper papers on "Great American Industries
in the January number Great is oil. But great
er still is the ''btlSineSS' done in it: for it is
stated that on the New York Petroleum En-
change alone the yearly ''sale>" amount to over
one hundred and fifty times the entire product
above ground. This is the very acme ID specl-
lation. There are said to he now about 10000
wells in this country; but since several of these
can be attended by one man, the industry, de
spite the magnitude Of it> product, reaching 90
600 barrels day, employs only 21l1 skilled and
S,1S4 unSkilled workmen in product ON. and o.
500 in refining, paying from Sl.15 to S3.:0 per
day. '''The best paid men in the oil business"
says the writer Mr.. George Il. Gibson. of the
Exchange. ''arr those who own and control the
Standard" The mysterious ''Stndari Oil
Trust" with its capital of ~10.O0O.OO0, which
controls the Standard Oil companies existing in
four States, As well as the National Transit
Company. owning the pipelines, and a great
number Of retiucries (hut no wc~), i, described
a ''neithcr partnership nor corporations,
but an ''agrccmcut creating a trust - CONF
mercial secret society" by this ingenious pro-
cc>S defyin- alike courts. legislatures, and
newspapers. The writer gives some yauah,
hints a. 70 the household use of kerosene in
lamps and stoves, and ,li>cu>>c, fully the po>>i-
blitic~ Of lhc u>c II oil a. motive power for
steamboats, and locomotives.