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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-07-22

Squire Fleming an old resident
of this place, in fact one of the oldest
now living, is at present in town on a
visitto his friends. He irst came here
in 1926, when there were but three
families here, to.wit; Mr.. Ranges,
who lived on the site of the present
town, Poland Hunter, who lived on
the property now occupied by Geo.
Hunter, his grandson, and Mr.. Noble,
who lived across the creek, on the
property now occupied by VIM. Hood
Mr.. Fleming and j. G. Dale built and
occupied the house where Jos. Grove
now lives were married on the same
day, and lived there several years to-
gether. 1t is pleasant to meet these
old landmarks who occasionally come
back to look over the improvements
they did so much to start, and we hope
they will live many years to enjoy the
honors of their early labors.
By direction of the Chairman OF
the Republican County Committee, we
publish the rules of the Crawford
Coucty System, taken rerbatim from
The Bee of 1868. 1t is claimed that
there has been some changes in the
rules as first adopted by the Republi-
cans of this County, but just when, or
in what particulars they were changed,
we know not. We suppose we shall
be fully posted on the subject, and
will try to post our readers before the
primary elections.
Whit. Davis has disposed of his
property, on the hill east of the Sher-
ifs house, to Alex. Henage. The
terms were private. Mr.. Davis will
commence next week another building
just south of the one he has sold, and
it will be finished az soon as the work.
men can accomplish the feat.
burgess Ittel's residence is loom.
ing up in good shape. The frame is
up, and about half enclosed. II
finished up in as good shape as it is
commenced it will be an ornament to
that part Of the town.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-07-22
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The Treasurer Sales have been
adjourned to the 4th of August at !
o'clock p. NJ.
The Primary Meetings take place
on the 10Th of next month. Repub.
licans don't forget it.
Wheeler & Duscnbury cut about
40 tons of hay last week at Hickory
and about 35' tons at Ncwtown.
MIR. Craig and family are away
on visit, and Mr.. Wood is acting as
Station Agent during Mr.. C.'s absence.
Trolling is now occupying the
attention of our fishermen. No very
large results have yet attended their
-endeavors.
Miss Eva Knox, who has been
for year past visiting at Bingham
ton, n. Y, returned home last week,
looking we'll.
jacob Hood is around collecting
road tax. 1t is uphill business, but
he is bound to make it come, or sell
all tho property in town.
Lemonade made with brown sugar
is much better than that made with
white; so says one of our friends who
was caught at it other day.
---Hydrophobia is prevailing in
some of eur sister cities. If it comes
here it will cause more excitement
than the White and Campbell canvass.
Gen. Hunter has been fixing the
dam on Hunters Run, but whether for
the purpose of grinding cut votes for
the Democratic Primaries we are not
yet certain.
Hon. w. II. Shortt, of Warren
Consul at Cardiff, Wales, has arrived
at home; whether for a visit or per.
manenrfy, our informant neglected to
state.
The political air is somewhat
heated for the last week. Nearly every
one is more or less interested in them,
and manifest their preferences in a
manner that cannot be mistaken.
Our Commissioners went to Fa.
gundus yesterday for the purpose OF
running the line between Warren and
Forest Counties, about which We be,
lieve there is some difference of opin-
ion.
Dan. Rice's circus exhibited in
Oil City on Monday last. We suppose
he is on another farewell tour Sever.
al years ago We bid him good-by, and
we arc not going to repeat it every
year, Hr'
Now do new potatoes tickle the
.palates of those who think them a
rare treat when the first ones make
their appearance. AS for us, give u:
old ones until the new ones are firm
and dry.
C. ". Dithridge is putting up a
building about 20x100 feet on the
bank Of the creek, just above the mill
for the purpose of putting in lumber
to keep it from the weather and in
good shape for market at all times
The lumber can be put into the water
without moving outside the house. The
Superior mill is perhaps more conveni
lent than any other in the lumber re
Sions.
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FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.

President Jndgc-w. p. JisSKs.
associate Judges-J. 4. PROPER, An
DREW Cook.
Sheriff.. J. VAN GtBsEN.
Jredsurer-FRED. GLASsNER.
frothonotory, Register G Recorder, &C.
j. u. AGNEw.
C6mmissioncrs-T. d. COLLINS, JoIIs
THOMPSON, JAS. X. CLARK.
County Superintendcnt--S. +. RoHRER.
District .AuOr7sy--S. u. IRWIN.
Jury Comnissioners-JAs FLYNN, VIM
PATTERSON.
{ County ,SHrUcHOr-S.D. IRWIN,
Coroner-M. ITTEL, in.
tduniU Auditors-T. Il. Conn, L. WAR
MEN, u. JAMESON.
MemJeroJ Congress 18Th DiStrict--C. u.
CURTIS.
Assembiy--MARTiS WILLIAMS.
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New Millinery Store.

Mrs. N. +. Stevens has opened q
FIRST class millinery store, where can
be found a full assortment of Hats,
Bonnets, Ribbons, Straw Goods,
French Flowers, Ornaments, &c. All
fresh and new. Sales room same build
ing with Stevens Shoe Store, Tidioute,
Pa. S-tf
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Jeffe-son's Instructions.
BRooKvLLE, July l6, 1874.

\ BRooKvLLE, July l6, 1874.
MR. Dunn =
l see by your paper of
the 10th inst, the statement that JEFF
ferson County had given second in
structions for Gen. White. Allow me
to say that you were misinformed, as
% second instructions we're given for
any one. Respectfully, II. A. d.
I'VE would just say that this mis-
take was made as our correspondent
supposes: we were misinformed. We
will cheerfully make corrections where
We have been misled or state other
wise than facts.-ED.]
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-07-22
H. *. TIKOMPSON'S
SWEET WORM POWDERS,

are doing more good than tongue can tell
or pen write in relieving children and
adults of intestinal parasites or worms.
Children seven months old have dis
charged large worms after a few doses.
Not Injurious in the least pleasant totalio
containing no csLomol, Put mp in glass
vials, with name of proprietor blown in
glass. Inquire of your Druggist, and tako
nothing else; or send to T.. X. Thompson
II Co., Titusvillc, Pa, Box l1SJ. Price, %
cents. t.i.'t---t- "..
TirUsvILIE, Pa, November 3, lS7l.-
f. X. Thompson's Dandelion and Man
drake Pills have acted like a charm in
curing sick headache, pain in the bones,
cold and constipation of the bowels, and
induced a well regulated action of the liv-
er. CHARLES RUST.
Pills sent by mail ON receipt Of 25 cents.
Dri ggists and dealers should send for
list and prices. ....- 70 .H l5-it
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-slFhc attention Of oufFcadefs Who


fheatention Of our Fcaders VINO
reside, or own lands in Tionesta Town
ship, is called to the report of the
Auditors of that township, which is
document which should he read and
preserved by every taxpayer within
the territory it embraces.
The Council have opened a street
from Elm, in front of Jacob Hoods
residence, to the river. The street is
to be thirty-three feet in width. P.
d. Thomas donated % feet and S. ID.
Irwin IL feet off their respective lands,
for this purpose.
We noticed an item in the Clear
field Journal credited to the Altoona
Tribune, and another just following
credited Ibid. We showed the credit
to chap in town and he wanted to
know "where the ID the Ibid was
published"
The report that a stone thrown at
dog on the street, in front Of the
Central, knocked down six candidates,
one day last week, IS strenuously de-
MED BY several men who have madeit
theig business to ird out the truth or
| falsity of the story. on 2 y
H.
We have heretofore neglected to
mention the fact that Jno. Cobb, the
large lumberman, had two of his ribs
broken on the 9th inst, by being thrown
from buggy. He is now nearly over
his injury and is at work with all his
old energy. rilr15
Attention is called to the adver.
tisement of Z. Klein, of Tidioute, who
has changed it for this issue. 1t viii
be seen that he is selling off watches
clocks, jewelry &C., at cost. Give hin
call when you to go Tidioute.
-Somo of our young men are talk
ing of taking an excursion to Chau
tauqua Lake in the course of a few
days. We would like to 60 along, bu
we are terribly interested in politics
just now, and cannot possibly leave.
"A social hop was given at thu
Central House, on Friday evening o
last week, which we understand wa
we'll attended, and enjoyed by all whit
were present. The Fagundus Strin!
Band furnished the music. T
w. J. Roberts is at work on hi
new residence, which from the appear
ance of the foundation will be a spa
cious and shapely mansion. Improve
; ments in Tionesta will go on, spite o
hard times. rr-rr ..-s
Some large wells have been strucI
: in the lower district within a fe,
) weeks past. They don't appear t
; lower the price of oil much, however
) Probably because the bottom price
reached.
;, Mr.. Jos. G.. Dale and Miles w
D Tate, Esq, are at Erie this week al
0 tending the U. s. District Court.
/ ..,t.1 in linz y
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-07-22
A PICTURE WAN TED.

We have been requested to inquire
for a daguerreotype of Mrs. DIR. Whit
ley, deceased, who, during the latter
part of her life was resident of this
place. The picture was in DIR. Whit
ley's possession when he was last here,
and it is supposed that he left it with
some of his friends. If this notice
meets the eye of the person having the
picture, he will receive the heartfelt
thanks of the daughters of the deceased
by leaving it at this office. Any one
having a knowledge of the whereabouts
0: the picture will please leave word
with us.
r. to Rohinsnn a. ROuner IL Won
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Bhs 3arsst Espa6lifalt,..
BOROUGH OFFICERS.

. TIw7cess.-M. ITTEI., in.
I Cbunciimen j. Wolcott, r. ]. Van
Giesen, j. T.. Blaine, d. =. Knox, j. =.
Hood, J. A. Proper.
Z Justices OF The Peace-w. p. Mercilllott,
y. y. Knox. HN
COnstdbte--II. Swaggart
School Directors--n. y. Knox, II. O. Dn-
Wis, S. J. Wolcott, $. II. Haslet, 4. Is.
Kelly, ID. Clark.
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Mr.. Jos. G.. Dale and Miles w.
Tate, Esq, are at Erie this week at.
tending the U. s. District Court.
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SHERIFF'S SALES.
TIDIoUTE, PA.

DT VIRTUE of sundry writs of Test.
ID Ven. Tx. issued out of the District
Court of the City and County of Philadel-
phia, and sundry writs of Ficri Facias
and Alias Fieri Facias issued out o.
the Court of Common Pleas of Forest
County, Pa. and to mo directed there will
be exposed to sale by public vendue oil
outcry, at the Court House in the borough
of TioneSta on
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NOTICE.

DR.J. n. BOBARD, Of Tidioute, has
IL returnsd 10 his practice amer am alb
sence Of four months, spent in the Hospi-
tails of New York, where ha will attnnd
calls i'm his profession.
Ofhce in Eureka Drug Store, Sd door
above the bank, TidiOute, Pa. 49tf
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-07-22

Glass jars, tin cans, sealing wax,
&C., for putting up berries and fruit,
at Robinson & Bonner's. 16tf
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
CaDitaI Punishment.

About 1907 poor woman with two
children, one at the breast, stole from
inside shop door in London piece
of linen worth seven or eight shillings.
She, however, had not proceeded lar
when she repented of her crime, and
was returning to the shop with it when
she was arrested. She was tried at the
Old Bailey, convicted, and condemned
to death. The jury and the prosecutor
unanimously recommended the woman
to mercy, on account of her husband
being pressed as a sailor, her starving
condition at the time, and her previous
unblemished character. But all in
vain. The Judge refused to indorse
the application, and the woman was
executed at Tyburn, the child being
taken from her breast at the foot of the
gallows. In the minds of large ma
iority of the public this execution
created great indignation, and bill
was brought into Parliament to abolish
the death penalty for stealing in a
shop to the value of five shillings. This
bill was at first thrown out in the House
of Peers, the judges being against it.
The bill subsequently passed into law.
On the introduction into the House of
Lords of bill for the abolition of the
punishment of death for stealing in q
dwelling-house to the value of forty
shillings, the majority of the judges
we're against it. Lord Peterborough
was particularly energetic in his opposi-
ton, arguing, as the law stood ii
worked we'll, and why then should it
be altered? One of the peers was SO
struck with the validity of the learned
lords arguments that he said, "We
shall not be able to place our heads
with safety on our pillows if that bill
passes into law !" In the thirty years
from 1899 to 1929, for offenses against
the Bank Act alone, 629 men were
capitally convicted and 1,161 were
transported; yet, It'll public opinion
became too strong to be disregarded
the Judges offered little opposition tc
such atrocious cruelty.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
Died in HIS wlfe's Defense.

An itinerant peddler entered the
house of James Tolin, living in Min
gaut Valley, n. Y, Baltimore paper
says, and proceeded to display his
wares to Mrs. Tolin, despite her asser-
tions that she did not wish to buy any
thing. Mr.. Tolin was confined to his
bed and had been so confined for many
years, being so crippled with rheuma-
tism that it had been long impossible
for him to leave his bed unless carried
from it. After showing his goods, and
Mrs. Tolin not buying anything, the
peddler commenced conversation in
the course of which he learned the
helpless condition of Mr.. Tolin. Final
ly, he made an insulting proposal to
Mrs. Tolin, and she Indignantly order
ed him to leave the house. Instead, he
approached her and seized hold of her,
saying, with an oath, that she was in
his power, as her husband was as good
as dead. Mrs. Tolin, being a delicate
woman, ran screaming into another
room. The peddler followed her, and
before she could escape by the door,
caught her again. A desperate struggle
ensued between them, and Mrs. Tolin
was thrown violently to the floor by the
powerful villain. Mr.. Tolin had been
all the time a witness of the struggle,
lying powerless in his bed. At the
sound of his wife falling on the floor,
however, and her frantic shrieks for
aid, he seemed to be endowed with
superhuman power. Under the in
fiuence of that power he sprang from
the bed he had been unable to leave for
years. Selling heavy crutch that
stood near the bed he rushed into the
room where the struggle was going on.
Mrs. Tolin had succeeded in regainine
her feet, but the peddler had grasped
her around the waist, and was endeav.
oring again 60 throw her. AS Mr..
Tolin entered the room the singular
spectacle of bedridden cripple hasten
ing to the defense of his wife seemed
to paralyze the scoundrel, and he stood
staring as if in trance at the approach
of the husband. Mr.. Tolin, nerved by
unnatural strength, brought the crutct
down over the head of the peddler and
felled him like an OK to the floor. The
next instant the excitement and super
human effort that had supported The
husband left him. With a shrek tina
told of the intense agony of the relapse
he clasped his hand to his forehead ant
dropped to the floor and almost in
stantly expired. Mrs. Tolin succeeded
in getting the body of her husband
back in the bed, and then started TO
assistance. She was obliged to 60 owe
mile before she was able to Obtain
any. When she returned with severa
neighbors the peddler was gone. 81
had recovered consciousness and fed
leaving his pack in the house. Whel
the news of the attempted outrage ant
the tragic death of Mr.. Tolin sprea'
throughout the neighborhood the mos
intense excitement prevailed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
Ont In the Cold.

The Dubuque Times relates that the
other night a prominent citizen being
arou sed by the FIRE bells rushed 10 the
door in his night clothes to see where
the fire was. The door was provided
with a night lock, and when ne closed
it, it fastened itself, and there he was
out in the night, with no way to get
back. His wife was out of town, the
servants were of to a dance, the son
was down TO the fire. Several desperate
jerks of the bell and frantic pounding
on the door-the more frantic by the
thought that his property on Main
street might be burning or endangered
failed to bring response. Notwith-
standing his cool attire, sweat dropped
from every pore. Just as he had
reached that nearly crazed condition
which would render him unaccountable
for any act, one of the servants came
rushing home. The woman, shocked
at finding her master in so slightly clad
condition, put her hands over her
eyes, gave a slight shrek, and started
quickly away. "Come back here, con-
found you. Let me in" fairly Kissed
the master. But the woman, now
frightened, ran, and then there was a
foot race, and a lively futter the
ghostly garment kept up, as a cadence
to the swift-fying feet of the man. Just
as the man had been brought to a sud
den stop by a painful bruise of his
foot, and was nursing it with curses
loud and deep, his son put in an ap.
pearance with key.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
The Good Old Ways.

At the West as we'll as at the East, it
seems to me that the happiness and
prosperity of farmers would be in
creased by the return, if such return
were possible, to the "good old ways"
l do not mean, nor do I believe that it
is desirable, to produce everything con-
sumed so far as possible upon the farm
itself, for cloth can be woven in mills
cheaper than in private houses, and
there are better advantages for selling
home produce than existed before the
era of railroads. At the same time
money is too important factor in the
life of modern farmers-we have all of
US become more or less corrupted by
the high prices and flush money of the
war times, and of the plentiful paper
dollars prevailing since then, SO that
we have made our comfort depend too
much on the ability to spend money.
A farmers income, to be sure, substan-
tial, and satisfactory, must be very
largely in other things than money.
An improved home, richer land, more
convenient buildings, and more care
fully bred and reared stock-these are
within his reach without the outlay of
much ready money. Home labor and
the capabilities of the farm will supply
them if properly directed, and if
patiently waited for without the hiring
or buying OF outside helps. The ten
dency to measure prosperity by the
amount of money that farmer has in
outside investments, or that he is able
to spend for his pleasure, is giving
wrong tendency to the whole system.
Farmers cannot hope to compete in this
respect with merchants and manufac-
turers, whose business is much more
speculative and full of risks, and who
too often give fictitious evidence of
wealth, by spending the money which
they hope to earn, and which is not sell
dom lost by farmers and other pro-
ducers who have trusted them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
Can 1t be True 2

Within the last few months a con-
siderable number Of persons have called
upon DIR. Walker, the proprietor of the
popular medicine known as Vinegar
Bitters, and assured him that, in their
belief, his preparation is an infalGble
antidote for rum and tobacco. The
minute details which have been fur
nished him forbid him to doubt the
accuracy of the statements. This new
claim of a great remedy to the conf
dence of the public will give vast and
well-deserved impulse to its popularity.
Heretofore the bitters have been recog-
nized as a pure vegetable tonic and
corrective, devoid of alcohol, and
thoroughly adapted to the cure OF
stomach and bowel complaints, nervous
disorders, bilious affections, muscular
diseases, and, indeed, majority of the
ailments within the reach of medicine
but if it will also cure the craving fol
liquor and tobacco, philosophers, states.
men and theologians ought to unite
their voices in its praise. Can the good
news be true? 1t is easy to test the
question. Com.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
Cold Applications to the Neck.

DIR. B. B. Richardson recommends o
neck-bag of rubber, with constant
stream of cold water through it, as an
efficient means of applying cold locally
to the neck. He says I have used this
method of applying cold to the cervical
region now several times, in pyrexia,
with increasing confidence in its useful
ness. In q case of apoplectic seizure,
with commissions, in lady of middle
age to whom was summoned, found
temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit,
with deep Inconsistencies, rapid pull
sation of the carotids, and intense full
ness and tension of the juglar vein. In
this extreme instance had the cervical
region enveloped in bladder of crushed
ice, with result of fall of tempera-
ture to the natural standard in six
hOurs
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
Exports Of Musical Instruments.

Official records of Custom House re-
turns at Washington show that the
total value of musical instruments ex-
ported from the United States during
the year ending June 80, 1874, was
$3.50, 1877. OF this, $258,176 were for
pianos and 1892, l51 for parlor or reed
organs. OF this latter amount $685.
1859, or more than one half Of the whole,
were of the cabinet organs made by the
Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., which
bid fair to become as famous in Europe
as they have long been in America.
This company certainly have reason to
be proud of the fact that the European
demand for their organs is larger than
that for all others combined. Boston
Traveller,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-14
Benjamin Franklin's Bequest.

Benjamin Franklin died in 1900, and
in his will he bequeathed to the cities
of Boston and Philadelphia each one
thousand pounds stealing, to be invest
ed in temporary loans to young married
artihceYs. For convenience sake we
will express the transaction in dollars,
at the round rate of five dollars to the
pound. At the end of one hundred
years, according to Franklin's calcula-
ton, each of these legacies would
amount to 1866, 900, and as the sum in
1890 would thus have become incon-
veniently large, Franklin directed that
at that time each city should spend half
million of the amount in "fortifca-
lions, bridges, aqueducts, public build
lngs, baths, pavements, or whatever
may make living in the town more con-
venient to the people and render it
more agreeable to strangers resorting
thither for health or temporary resi-
dence." Moreover, Philadelphia.
which by that time would probably not
be able to depend upon street pumps for
ITS water supply, in consequence OF the
pavements preventing the rain from
sinking into the springs, was to bring
q water supply by pipes from the
Wissahickon creek !
Half million being thus iudiciously
expended in 1890, the remaining $685.
600 is to be continued to be let out at
interest, and in 1890 it is to reach the
handsome sum of 800, sos, 900, when the
odd $685. 900 are to be placed abso-
lutely at the disposition of the city of
Philadelphia, and the remaining $15,-
600, 900 goes to the State of Pennsyl-
vania, Boston disposing of its like sum
in the same way.
Franklin's noble bequest was accept
ed by the city of Philadelphia, and we
believe the trust has always been hon.
estly administered. We are now within
fourteen years of the first century of its
operation, when, according to the au-
thority which, according to Parton,
"knew precisely what money can dc
and what it cannot do" the fund should
reach 1866, 900, and we should be able
to supplant the town pump with the
water of the Wissahickon. At the
time of Mayor Stokley's last message
the amount had not quite reached the
precise amount anticipated in fact il
was more than 100000 short of that
amount, being exactly SAG, 1876