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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-12-16
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reported discovery of the pickets wa,

reported discovery of the pickets was
not believed. 5t
The brigade was speedily mounted
and put in motion. But scracely had
the advance guard CROSSED the brow
of the little hill and commenced the
descent toward the ruined bridge. when
a puff of white smnke was observed
beyond the stream, instantly followed
by the deafening boom of gun and
the wild shrek Of SHE'LL That can.
uon shot destroyed in an instant all
hope of surprising Richmnud; and
being too weak n numbers 10 hope for
snccess'ul assault, the expedition
was reluctantly abandoned. aud tho
troops, weary, disappointed and dis
hearieued, returned leisurely to vii.
liamsburg. ,-.,,- .... -.t
For long time it was matter Of
proinund wonder how the secret of tho
expedition was carried to Richmond.
Men of high rank were suspected, and
more than one staff officer was drop.
| ped from the rolls because of sus-
| picion that he might have impaired
the inlj,rmation 81 valuable. At last,
however, the facts came out; and here.
in is the really curious part of this
chapter on the history of our late war.
Boyle, the escap ped murderer, had OBJ
tained his liberty Just as the expedi-
ticn was collecting From the guard
who connived at his escape he had
learned the prevalent rumors Of a con-
'emplaied dash on Richmond, In his
hght which wns toward the threatened
city, he gained more information, and
reached Richmond soon enough to
give timely alarm, and strong deiach. /.
meuts from Lees army were hurried
forward to defeat thek movement BY
such singular Circumstance was
Richmond saved. Boyle enlisted in
,he Southern service, hut of his snbse.
quent life nothing is known. 1t is
possible that he yet Lives, and may
learn from this paper the injury he in
Aicted upon the country he betrayed
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Mr.. Radcliffe Gates looked uneasily
around at the crowd of gaping clerks.
"James," said he, "call me hack.
NV dear, let me take you home"
mot until | have sold the rest of
my Strawberries" saucily retorted the
young wife.
"I1l take 'em--at any price" i'm
patiently exclaimed the banker.
'' Cash down?"
ayes; anything, everything-only
come out of this crowd"
SO Mr.. and Mrs Gates went home /;
and that evening the banker agreed to
make his wife a regular allowance. Of
so much per week, to be paid down
every Monday morning at the break
fast table. .ii ..
"But we'll have no more selling
Strawberries" said Mr.. Gates nervous
ly.
"To be sure not" said Milly. "All
| wanted was little money of my
own" s- ..f.
And Mr.. Radcliffe Gates respected lis
wife all the more because she had con-
quered him in q fair battle.
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Skates, sonny? Why yes, bless your
heart, you shall have pair of ten
inch club skates for your feet, and
pair Of six inchers for your hands, and
a couple of hand sheds for your knees
a hard rubber cap, aud II bushel tf ex-
celsiar to upholster your trousers
basement. Let your cnnrse be on'
ward an upward, my soE, and when
you drag your tired, hungry frame
homeward, Bridget shall have quail
on toast ready lar you, wpIm irum tho
oven, aud your little sister shall yield
her place al the register. BE an hon
or to your family name. Hence, get
the tu the frozen lake. How different
twas in 'thuse days" when We were
young 1t WAS bard to get pair, even
of odd skates; la rder yet tn get them
fastened ou light, and hardest of all to
limp home with an ache in every ST
lent point, only to hear u "GOod
enough for you"
A sweet little hoy, only eight years
old--bless his little he rt--Nalked in
to the sceue of teachers ex9mina-
iion at Oswego. last week, and bawled
out, "Anne your feller is down to the
house r.
Hoops are still in fashion in Du.
buque. A eogper recently barreled up
his SC lldiug wife, aud then rolled her
around the shop until she burst out in
tierce, aud promised TO reform,
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Tlonesta House.

NJ ITTEL, Proprietor, Elm st. Tle-'
WI. nssta. Pa, At the mouth Of the creek,
Mr.. Ittel has thoroughly renovated the
rfsas1ta House, aud re-furnished it com
slstsly. All who patronize him will be
sroll entertained at reasonable rates. ~ ly
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DR.. I. L. Acomb,

physician AND SURGEON, who has
/ had tifteen years experience in large
and successful practice, will attend all
Professional Calls. Office in his Drug and
Grocery Store, located in Tidioute, near
Tidioute House.
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Lawrence House,

T,IONESTA, PA, WILLIAM LAW
i RENEE. pRoPRIEroR. This house
"a eenrally v located. Everything new and
wall fzrnished Superior accom- moda-
sioaa and siriet attention given to guests:
voestsblas and Fruits of all kinds served
- their season. Sample room FOR COM
nseroial Agents.
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FOR EST HOUSE,

@ A. WARNER PRorRIEroR. Opposite
-. Court House, Tionesta, Pa. Just
opc~sd. Everything new and clean and
fcssh. Tho best of liquors kept constantly
en- hsna. A portion of the public patron
a-~ 1. rsspsctfully solicited. f-l7-ly
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Empire Rotel.

TIDoUTE, PA. II. EWALD, PRoPRIE-
k-roR. This house is centrally located,
has bssn thoroughly reGVted and now
boasts A. good table and heds az any Ito
tel in the oil regions. Transient only 2.OC
per day. 22-6m
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c. q. Weber,s Hotel,

rTYLERSBURGH, PA. C. b. WEBER,
l. has possession of tho new brick hotel
and will bo happy 10 entertain all his old
customers, aud any number OF new ones.
Good accommodations for guests, and ex-
eellent stabling. lo-3m.
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DVERTISERS send 25 cents to Geo.
"A p. Rowell & Co., ~ Park Row, N. Y,
for their Eighty-page Pamphlet, showing
cost Of advertising IS n
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KINNBAR g SMILEY,
CENTRAL HOUSE,

DoNNRR q AGNEw BLOCK. l..
ID AsNEw, Proprietor. This IL new
houee, and d-has just beon fitted up for the
accom- mmodation of the public. A portion
~ the patronage of the public il solicited.
46-ly
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RLACKSMlTh AND WAGON SHOP.
NEW HARM Ess SHOP.
NE Wv m A R N u s $

A Specially Keep on hand fine assort-
ment OF furry Combs, Brushes, Harness
Oil, Whips aid Saddles. Harness of ali
kinds made 10 order and cheap as the
cheapest Remember the name and plaOe
W. WEST Roberts Building,
22-Iy Oppesite Rural House, Tionesta.
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IN HIS STORE Will BE FOUND

A fun assortment of Medicines, Liquors
Tobacco, Cigars, Stationery, Glass, Paints,
Oils, Cutlery, all of the hest quality, and
will be sold at reasonable rates.
DIR. CHAS. O. DAY, an experienced
Physician and Drug list nom New York,
has charge OF the Store. All prescriptions
pat up accurately.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
Railroad Across the Andes.

ONE of the grandest works of this age
is now being constructed across the
Peruvian Andes, connecting the Pacific
Ocean with the Amazon River by means
of railroad, and opening the whole in
terror of Peru to the commerce of the
world. Hitherto that rich and immense
ly productive country, so graphically de-
scribed in the United States reports of
Lieuts. HerndOn and Gibbon, has been
virtually locked up to foreign trade; the
transportation of one ton of freight from
the interior of Peru to the seaport, Lima,
costing about three times as much as the
transportation of the same amount of
freight from Lima to Europe. The rail
road in question was begun in 1870, and
has already cost over $70,000,000. 1t is
estimated that it will be finished in 1876
Over 10000 laborers, mostly Chinese, are
constantly employed on it. The enor-
nous difficulties that have to be overcome
in the construction of this road may be
estimated from the fact that the Andes
rise there to height of 90, 800 feet above
the level of the sea. The road itself rises
1900 feet, and is by far the highest rail
road in the world. Even the Mont Gents
Railroad sinks into insignifcance when
compared with this Peruvian undertake
ing. The road has also the highest via
duct in the world, it being $50 feet long
and 300 feet high in the center 1t rests
on three pillars, of which the first is 1866,
the second 1873, and the third 253 feet
high; is built of iron, and was manu-
featured in the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
New Houses.

The coincidence of man moving into
a new house and dying soon after has
frequently been subject of remark, and
there is an avoidable cause.-The house is
moved into before the walls and plaster
and the wood are sufficiently dried
Sometimes the cause of death is the poi
sOnOus character of the water conveyed
through new lead pipes. No water for
drinking or cooking purposes should be
used in building supplied with new lead
pipes, in whole or in part, for at least one
month after the water has been used daily
this gives time for protecting coating
to form on the inner surface of the pipes,
when their chemical change from contact
with water generally ceases.
But the damp materials r. Giie house
have the most decided effect, especially
on persons over fifty years old or of frail
constitution; whereas, if the person were
N the full vigor of life and health, not
even an inconvenience would be expert
enced. In building d new house, or on
going to live in another locality where the
water supply is not far from the house, it
should be ascertained with the utmost
certainty that the spring or well is higher
than the privies or barnyards. Insidious
and fatal forms of decline and typhoid
very often result from drinking water
which is drained from the localities
named. The safest plan, and the only
safe plan, for furnishing dwellings with
the most healthful and unobjectionable
water is to have water-tight cistern and
let the water from the house or barn, or
other outhouses, be conveyed into it
through box of sand several yards long,
this box to rest on a board, or cemented
bottom and sides, So thatno outside water
could get into it. Halls Journal of
Health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02

came. He carried nothing; neither
land nor money, nor yet did he
carry with him the blessing of the
needy; the grateful tears of an
orphan; the benediction of the poor. He
left all-he carried nothing AWAY with
him" But his neighbor has died man
who was not known on Change nor in
the tax list "And what has he left ?r we
may, perhaps, curiously ask. LEFT? he
has left nothing; but he has taken much
with him. He has gone to heaven laden
with blessings and the gratitude of the
poor, of the helpless, of the young, of the
aged, of the widow, of the friendless; of
those whom he by his counsels and his
acts and his prayers had blessed: of those
whose poverty he relieved, whose igno'
rance he had enlightened, whose dark
ness he had dispelIcd, whose bodies and
whose souls he had fed" When WILDER
force died, Daniel O'Connell said: "He
has gone up to heaven bearing a million
broken letters in his hands" Happy he,
whatever he may leave or not leave on
earth, who goes thus freighted into the
other world.-G0od Words.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
Real Puff Paste.

THIS recipe, although too rich for ordi-
nary family use, should not be entirely
discarded, as it is an indispensable finish
to many elegant dishes, and not unwhole-
some as an occasional indulgence to per
sons in good health. Allow one pound
of shortening to heaping quart of flour,
viz: half pound Of butter and
half a pound of lard; season with
a teaspoonful of salt; mix half
the -four with a quarter of the
shortening and enough cold water Qet it
be ice water in summer) to make it just
stiff enough to bear rolling out with a
well-foured rolling pin, and with knife
cover the dough with bits of butter and
lard alternately; then with a dredge-box
sprinkle thickly with -four; double over
and roll out. Again stud the dough with
bits of butter and lard, sprinkle with
flour, ETC., until the proportion allowed
ofall are exhausted. 1t is very desirable
to have marble slab for pastry board,
but failing this common biscuit board
answers. A low temperature is best suit
ed for success in the art of pastry-making.
Good pastry should be white, light and
ttaky, which result can only be secured
by a careful attention to each step of the
process by light handling, and baking in a
moderately heated oven. Experts say
that the rolling out should be repeated
at least five times, and seven times if th e
paste is expected to be superlatively nice.
-Westor' paLrGL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
The SpiGer.

ONE Ov the most ingenious and hardest
workers amung the whole lot ov little
bugs in creashun, IL the common spider.
They will do more work on a web, in
six hours, than a man could do in hiz
whole life time, and do a mulch better
job into the bargain.
There amt nothing that the meanest in
sex in the world duz for his necessity or
convenience that man could do half az
well, even if he was paid hiz own price for
the work
This il funny, but it IL true, and that IL
the best joke ov all.
Spiders are the meanest reptiles that
hang around this earth, for they are the
only ones that kan now think ov who set
traps for their victims.
They are az bad az a man in this re-
spekt.
Ihare IL no moral fun in a spider; he
IL as lonesum az a mizer; he spends hiz
whole life making nets and watching
them, and allwuss lays at the mouth ov
hlz hole reddy to back in out ov dan
ger.
A man will step one side rather than
step on kriket, and would rather skare
fly than kill him, az sassy az he il, but
he goes for spider with both feet at once,
and seems TO feel dredfull sorry if he
misses him.
Spiders hav no friends in this world,
and the reason must be because thew are
both visciOuS and cunning.
Theze two traits will make even q man
an outlaw, and they akt just the same on
a spider-J0sh Billings, in N. Y. Weekly
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women shall live sensibly, dress sensibly,
eat sensibly, morally speaking, they will
have more influence over their husbands.
Perhaps, could we look into the remote
causes of the late panic, the fault would
be found to lie with those women who did
not feed their husbands senslbiy. For
speculation, for thought, for business,
men need the proper kind OF food. Let
women feed their husbands on oatmeal
porridge and apples. Food should be
chosen with reference to the season. In
the spring vegetables and in the summer
fruits should take the place of heartler
food. Men do not wear well IN New
York; they are at their prime at thirty
eight, instead of at fifty, because their
eating is not properly regulated. II din
ner must be served at six, seven, or eight
o'clock, let it be light and the heavy meal
eaten in the morning. l am not vege-
tartan. Vegetarians are often from ne
cessity COMMANDERS, because they must
eat so much in order TO obtain sufficient
amount of nutriment. | believe in an oc-
casional piece of good roast beet. Fish is
an excellent article of food, but oatmeal
is the food par excellent. The Scotch
possessing the largest brains, the highest
degree of Intellectually, and fine ply
1que-are nation of oatmeal eaters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
A Victim of Circumstantial Evidence.

THE other day. LAWYER johnson went
out of town for the afternoon and left the
Office in charge of the boy. As soon as
he had fairly got out of sight the boy
hailed Scoville's boy, and bringing him
into the office the two sat down to game
Of seven-up. They were playing with
great spirit, continually accusing one an
other Of cheating, and getting up and
throwing books at each others head, and
sitting down again to resume the game
and generally enjoying themselves as
much as if they had both been orphans
and there were no apple-tree switches in
the country. After this had gone on for
an hour or two, and Lawyer Johnson's
boy had nearly broken" Scoville's boy
by winning five of his seven cents, the
Rev. Mr.. Smiley happened in to ask Mr..
johnson about when he ought to have a
donation party. The two boys were caught
and there was no use in lying about it,
although Lawyer Johnson's boy showed
the effects of his legal education by at
once beginning to swear that he could
prove an abb when the proper time should
come. Good Mr.. Smiley thought he would
just talk kindly to the boys, and so he sat
down with them at the table, and picking
up the cards began to ask them if they
had any mothers, and if so what those
mothers would say to see their sons
gambling, and whether they were prepared
to die with their hands full of aces and
jacks, and how they would explain this
matter in future world Just then old
Biggs came in, and said, Hello! PLAY
ing the boys little euchre, are you?
Don't mind if take hand myself" Mr..
Smiley replied, very sternly, that he
didn't know the game to which he
alluded. "Don't know it, hey?" said old
Biggs; "well, what was you APPLYING,
boys?" "Seven-up," answered LAWYER
Johnson's boy, with great promptness.
well, WELL" continued old Biggs, I'm
sorry to hear it. Seven-up amt no game
for a minister, Mr.. Smiley. Euchre, now,
is a nice, genteel game; but I never
thought you'd play seven-up, and for
money, too. If you're goin' to play for
money, poker's your best hold. I'll play
you myself now for half an hour-ten
cents ante and dollar bets. Here's my
pile, You see"-and that graceless old rep
rebate pulled out his pocket-book and
drew up another chair to the table. Mr..
Smiley sat speeches., holding the cards
in his hand, when in came Scoville and
collared his boy. As he dragged him
away to execution, he remarked to Mr..
Smiley: $50 Pm backslider, am I? All
right. After I've done my duty as
parent I'll call on your deacons to ask
them what they think of minister who
teaches boys to play cards Oh, yes I'm
backslider, l am! To be sure. OF
course | am" Uttering this and other
writhing sarcasms he withdrew, and the
question which now agitates the village
is whether old Biggs did lose fifty dollars
on flush to Mr.. Smiley, who held full
or whether Mr.. Smiley's four jacks were
the hand that really broke old Biggs.-
DAILY Grqphsc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
HeaIthfuI Dwellings.

AMONG the indispensable requisites of
a healthful dwelling are, that it shall be
absolutely free from damp; because dam o
house is most potent, active and ever
present cause of disease, especially of
rheumatism, neuralgia, colds, coughs,
consumption and such like. The Site,
therefore, if not naturally dry, must be
rendered so by means of asphalt or ce-
ment throughout the foundation, and the
roof, cutters and drainage must be per-
feet All the house-drains should termi-
nate outside the house on an open grid or
trap; that is, they should be cut off from
the street drain, and they should be ven
tilated BY having pipe run up from ev-
cry soil pipe and every bend in the house.
And, second, that the house shall be so
placed that the direct rays of the sun
shall have free admission into the living
apartments; because the SUMS rays in
part healthy and invigorating quality to
the air, and stimulate the vitality of
human beings as they do those of plants,
and without sunlight human beings, as
well as plants, would sieken a-5 die. The
aspect, therefore, should be sou nc ,st.-
Rural Neu Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
A Situation of Extreme Horror.

II once" says a celebrated writer
read most horrible story of some
French travellers who attempted to ex
plore the vaults of the Egyptian pyra
mIds, which revives some of those terri
lying distractions we sometimes meet
with IN disturbed dreams. These per-
sons had already traversed an extensive
labyrinth OF chambers and passages; they
were on their return, and had arrived at
the most difficult part of ia very long
and winding passage, forming commu-
nICatIOn between two chambers; its open
ing narrow and low. The ruggedness of
the floor, sides and roof rendered their
progress slow and laborious, and these
difficulties increased rapidly as they adj
vanced. The torch with which thew had
entered became useless, from the impos-
sibility of holding it upright, as the pas
sage diminished its height. Both its
height and width, at length, however, be-
came so much contracted that the party
were compelled to crawl on their bellies.
Their wanderings in these interminable
passages (for such, in their fatigue of
body and mind, they deemed them
seemed to be endless. Their alarm was
already great, and their patience ex-
hausted, when the headmost of the party
cried out that he could discern the
light at the exit of the passage, at a
considerable distance ahead, but that
he could not advance any far
Their, and in his efforts to press
Oh, in hopes to surmnunt the obstacle
without complaining, he had squeezed
himself so far into the reduced opening
that he had now no longer sufficient
strength even to recede! The situation of
the whole party may be imagined; their
terror was beyond the power of direction
or advice; while the wretched leader,
whether from terror or the natural effect
of his situation, swelled so that if it was
before difficult it was now impossible for
him to stir from the spot he thus misera-
bly, occupied. One of the party at this
dreadful and critical moment proposed,
in the intense selfishness to which the
feeling Of vital danger reduces all, as the
only means of escape from this horrible
conference.-the living grave-to cut in
pieces the wretched being who formed the
obstruction, and clear it by dragging the
dismembered carcass piecemeal past them
He heard this dreadful proposal, and con-
tracing himself with agony at the idea
OF this death was reduced by strong
muscular spasm to his usual dimensions,
and was dragged out, affording room for
the party to squeeze themselves past over
his PROSTATE body. The unhappy creature
was suffocated in the effort, and was left
behind a corpse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
Healthy Food.

The female lecturer, DR.. Everett, ives
the following advice about food:
As one-half of nervous matter is phos.
phorus, food must tend to produce phos-
phorus. | must ease my mind on the
question of teeth. Children under six
teen years of age should be reared largely
on brown bread and milk; then they will
possess pearly teeth, brilliant eyes,
healthy compilations. Condiments are
denominations. Mustard, vinegar and cat,
sup should be discarded and salt INDUCED
in sparingly. Sugar and molasses come
under the head of Condiments. Although
some chemists and PSYCHOLOGISTS advocate
sugar as an article of food, yet, because
the body makes sugar from the starchy
food eaten, the pure article is unnecessary.
Neuralgia is an indication of deteriorated
blood, and should be cured by eating
brown bread, oatmeal porridge-anything
containing much bran.
No variety of wine should be drank.
Ever since the world was created women
have been mems tempters, and should
avoid encouraging them in the use of
liquor. Women who in any sense of
the word indulge in alcoholic stimu-
lants seem to lack refinement and true
womanliness. Perhaps because of my
Quaker education / hold this idea.
In the good time coming, when