IV.
WHERE THE BLUE-GRASS GROWS.
Interesting Petroleum Developments in Kentucky and Tennessee—The Famous American Well—A Boston Company Takes Hold—Providential Escape—Regular Mountain Vendetta—A Sunday Lynching Party—Peculiar Phases of Piety—An Old Woman’s Welcome—Warm Reception—Stories of Rustic Simplicity.
“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”—Dryden.
“Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events.”—Coleridge.
“Coming events cast their shadows before.”—Thomas Campbell.
“In Cumberland county, Kentucky, a run of pure oil was struck.”—Niles’ Register, A. D. 1829.
“Indications of oil are plentiful at Chattanooga, Tennessee.”—Robert B. Roosevelt, A. D. 1863.
“Ever since the first settlement of the country oil has been gathered and used for medicinal purposes.”—Cattlesburg, Ky., Letter, A. D. 1884.
“Everythink has changed, everythink except human natur’.”—Eugene Field.