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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-02-11


Admiral Porter has invented a won.
derinl torpedo. Its likely to revolu
ti1hize' naval warfare completely. II
consists of a large boat, armed with
one or twn guns, and carrying ire
mend"us percussion shell in It's n"se.
You get into this boat with a picked
crew of thirty or forty Ipeu; then yon
row up under the enemy's. guns, L"
which you pay no attention, h0ri your
l,nat nose foremost like clap 0fthun-
bder against the hull of, his vessel.
when the shell explndes, carrying
wreck. ruin, death aud destruction to
everything and everybody within five
miles around. "And what" it may
he asked, ',l'eermes of the boat aud
crew." Well. that's none of our bus
,iness.. and Admiral Psrter dnesL't
.een. to think it is any Of his either.
jeff Davis is in trnuhls with ex- x-Sen.
alor Fonte not only, but with Aleck
Stephens. II reached the ears of Dav
is that Stephens Was about, tu cham
pinn the cause of the Cuban patriots,
and he remarked that he was "giaa
Stephens had at last got up to the
fighting point" rhe words came
back to Stephens, aud he has written
a Ions and vindictiye le,ier TO Ge"r-
gia paper. in which Davis is handled
without gloves. There is popular
impression abroad that Mr.. DAVIS
talks too much. and it is certain that
the time for the Snnthern brethren to
dwell tngether ia unity hSs gone hy
The ampunt Of liqunrs made aud
consumed IN Austria is very large.
The empire is said tn contain 1922
hreweries.- .Jroducing annually 1,136,
480. .S06 litTes of heer. or alOut 249,.
l50,797 gallinis. In ad'liiiou 10 this,
the wine production amounts 10 about
243 10000 gallons annually. The
population Of the country is about 40,-
600. 900, sn that the average consump.
tion uf every man, woman aud child
in the empire is about six gallons of
wine and six aud one quarter gallons
Of bser. 9'-' r1 .1-f ~
The English 0pern Trnup, organized
by rappa Rosa in 1870, was the most
suecrzstnl that ever appeared befure
1 the public. IL ChIiagn the gross re-
ceipts for thirty Perk'rmaures were
S66.000, in Boston i'r twenty perE,r
mHnces, they were S75,000 la Phila.
delphia they to6k $4,000 in eight
nigh:s. aud in Baltimore sll,600 in
one week. At the end of tho season
she had cleared the enormous sun Of
$4,000.
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MARK TwAIN's BUcKING HORSE.

Moncure ID. Conway writes from
London of Que of Mark Twaiu's latest
stories as follows: "The talk of litera-
ry London Just now is Mark Twaip's
account, in his new lecture. of the
'hucking hsYse which he purchased IN
Nevada. 1t is impossible To put it on
paper. AS half-nf the effect prodaced
by the stnry depends upru his maHner
Of telling il. IL would appear that
before purchasing this steen he had Ne
idea what 'bucking' meant. .but was.tuo
proud to ask for iDinrmation. ThA,
hhweyer, he obiained through ihe dis
cipIiue Of experience. lie mounted
the horse. This animal then gathered
its four feet in bnsseh beneath it,sni
by u sudden upward fling, srnt him
(Twain) iuto the air-just $50 yards.
When the auhience smiles NJ this.
Mark looks troubled at their incredul.
ity, but procs eds. From this ascent
he returns, slights IN the saddle, and
the horse gives Sndher fling-Twsin
going $50 yurds in the air. lie then
| tells his smiling audience that he
Judged it was that distance BY the
look Of the-stteples; but cnntrsses
he did mt 60 into details. This ascent
being repeated he remembers, while in
the air, hearing some one on earth say,
HE might have known that was u
buckIug hnrse np'n which the fact
flashed upon hun. While he Was ab-
sent the last tima snme one rut tho
horse, viii II started forward. and when
hr came dnwn it was upon the ground.
He could not say he regretted it.
| There was no rrasnn for the hnrse re-
maiuiDg 6u his account. Frlepl!sgslh>
cred around .Ilim after his descent, as
they always do when Que wants To be
let alone. and asked If he wanted this
or w.nted that. What he really want
ell was 10 sit dosn. He did 81. He
placed one baud on his head. pnpther
ON his stomach. aud, indeed. thinks
that if he had ha sixteen hands he
could have found suitable places iar
their application. Bes a. for. the
horse, he assures his audience that this
and its other antics--steA as walking
about on its hind feet wiih lite thunbs
Under its arms. like Lead Mayor
were all natural talent, Tie morse
had been brought up. in The wild
West, AMI never had any advantages
10 develop these gifts, AS have said.
the way in which this story il told ia
admitted to be one Of the must unique
pieces of grotesquerie ever kpowp in
these parts. t....y r, .-..,
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vas nearly strangling under the cover
keep from laughing out loud.
We soon went off to the land of
lreams, with the hore of waking early.
{ wish 1 could tell ynt my dreams,
MT il would take too long. One md-
nent would fancy myself by the side
r Sadie, slipping nectar from her
heaven bedewed lips. and the next L
would he flying aIr"m the oid man.
while he was h,urishing his cane above
my head. go. = ra %, ss.
This all came1to an end by John
giving me kick. :
On waking aud looking around l
saw Johns eyes as big rs fists, while
the sun was beaming in at the window.
What to do we could pnt tell for we
heard the old man having family
prayers in the Kitchen 70 ~ i5l
John looked out Nf the window and
! said he could get down over the porch
r,mf.
"Get out and dress as quick as pos
sihle," he said. ..... ,4.. ...yy .'t.
In my hurry my fnot got tangled in
the bed clothes, and out ! tumbicd,
head foremost, turned over, aud rolled
down the steps until | struck the door,
which was fastened by sw,n,len hut
ton; il gave way, and out rolled
right il front of the did man.
He threw up both hands and yelled
out, Lard save us!' for he thought
! it was the devil. or..-'- -..p
{. The old lady screamed until you
could have heard her a mile.
= | WAS So scared and bewildered that
+, / could not get up at once. II was
warm weather, and didn't have ON
anything but shirt. 4, ,,.,t o.s
F. When | heard the girls snickeriug
il m,de me mad, and jumped up and
rushed out of the door, leaving the
greater pait of my shirt ON the old
ir.n ,lnor latch. ~rv.s ... %. ~
Off | started for the barn, hut when
halt way through the yard the dog
set up a howl and went for me,
When | got into the barnyard / had
to run through f"ck of sheep, and
among them was an old ram. who
backed of litsls and started for me.
With 1ene bound escaped him. sprang
into the barn and began to climb ul
the logs into the NOW, when an old
ptother hen p"unced on my legs, pick
ing them till they bled. ita =,
threw myself upon the hay. and
after John had slid down the porch'in
to Il h"gshead Of water, he came TO me
with one of my boots. my coat, and
one Of the legs of my pants. yinuol
.y5y He found me completely prostrated
q Part of my shirt. my ha', one leg ci
my pants, my vest, stockings, necktie
aud one boot were left behind. aa ; ;-
! vowed then and there ttat Id
never gu to see another girl, and I'll
die bef,,re will. -tI.at
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SUPERSTITION IN TIE PALACE AT
BERLIN.

A curious superstition prevails in
Berlin. The state of the Emperor of
Germany is precarimOs, and an old le.
GENT is revived by the credulons. A
Berlin correspondent Of the London
Daily News writes :-u' e r'
ut is ssminous EIr many that the
White Lady has lB,ely been seen at
the castle. Did you ever hear the le-
gend of the White Lady of Berlin
! castlef Many. nlsRv years ago there
was Hohenznllern Princess. a widow
with two children, who .eh in love
with-'became enamored Of is per
hHps a more eourtly phrase IA foreign
| Prince, rich, handsome and brave. She
sent him proposition of marriage.
But this brave and handsome Prince
declined her suit, explaining that tour
ives 'stond between him an acceptance
He referred to his aged parents, hom
he WAS unwilling to leave, or whose
consent he could not obiaia--the YER
sicns nf the legend vary little here
But the, Princess understood him t.
/ refer to the four eyes of her ,two chil'
hren; to his Willingness, in fact, tn he
come u strp.iather. So, like Richa rd
The Third, she promptly suffncated the
infant obstacles, AMI wrote to her lover
that the way WAS clear. He was strick
en- with horror at the cruel deed He
| revealed her fatal mistake to her and
died cursing her blnodthirsty rashness
I H. D.,,,n,,.s -, H.
wifelmed with remnrse. After linger
! ing a day or two in indesrr,ba abl,
anguish she, lon. died, and, was buried
un.ler the old castle at Berlin, But
not to rest quietly in her unhappy
grave. AT rare intervals she appear,
at midnight, clad in white, gliding
ghost-like about the castle; aud tn
apparatinn always f;,rehndes The death
uf some member of the HohenzJlIerI
family.
The White Lady has been seeu
three times with1n ah,ut year, onc'
in October last year, just before tn,
death "f Prince AibrechI; last spring
lagain to anrouhce the end of PINE
Adelhert; and the last while Queer
Elizabeth lay on her ath,he,l; There
is, however, some duubt about th'
meaning of the last visit Tn, Qneel
Dnwagpr was not born Hdhenzallern
and the doctors are not certain tha
her death can he regarded us the an
swer to the White Lady's appearance
Ii not. thore is yet another virtiIn t.
he expected, aud the srperstitioui
/ know what that means. The profess
.ors OF the University are trying Il
solve this knotty problem, and yol
shall know the result at the earlies
moment"
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Some fellnw whn has overtsxcd lis
digestive faculties discuTVses ss follows
on apple Iies: ..', .'.,..a
j loath, abhor, ,letest de.pise, Abcm.
mate, dried apple pies! like, good
bread. l like good meat, Or anything
that is fit to eat; B of all poor grubs
beneath the skies, The poorest is dried
apple pies, Give me the tpolha, he, or
sore eyes, In preference TO dried apple
pies. ~. ..,.', .'
The farmer takes his gnarlie,t fruit,
Wormy, bitter. and hard 10 boat;
Then leaves the bdlls In make us
cough. And don't take half the peel
ing, OF. Then on, dirty string tis
strung And ,from chamber window
hung. To form a roost for ants and
flies, Until it's ready to make pies.
Tread on my corn, or tell me lies, But
pass me not dried, apple Pits.,r oT
hi Mr.. Hiram B. Coffin. nf Mtssachu.
setts, Ekssilo know whsni people are
apt tn be put into coHins. lie has
been engaged far several years in the
cheerful pursuit If collecting 'tteath
statistirs, aud he finds that gentle
man" lives, 0n an average. 6S years,
! Judge 90. a carpenter 40, II painter
A., and faciary OperaIipe- 80 The
Importance of being, u gentleman is
thus strikingly illustrated. lt,IS fur
1unate that. while We cannot all he
Judges, and so escape death .tnr q65
years. We ran with much hess trnubls
shun It's darts for THREE years lUnger.
Gail Hamilton is great believer
in pedigree. a child, she thinks, is y
SORT of mosaic, made up nfthe traits Of
his ancestors He gets, for. instance,
brightness from his mother, deception
from his father. a furious temper frum
his unrle, self restraint from his
aunt" &c. so far rs the. parents are
concerned. physiological laws e-tab-
lish the correctness ot this. But We
fail TO see how. IN any we'll regulated
family. a similar influence on the
part of uneles and aants can be eK-
erted.
The three fnnt narrow gauge rail.
road system is rapidly becoming pnpu.
lar in this cnunLry, aud hul fvw p-O-
pie are aware Of the fact that since it
came in vogue during the last three
or four yoars, no less than l.145I
miles of narrow gauge railway have
been buift in this country aud in Can
ada, which roads, when completed will
have mileage of 4.562l miles, while
there are l ,29l miles under oonstuc.
tion.
A Western paper Of the reaclionary
schaol Of politics has Il long arIic.s on
Putty" The editor made it Gus sf
! bic own head.
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Rates of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.al
All bills for yearly advertisements col-
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
menis mus be paid for in advance,
job worx, Cash on Delivery.
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FRENCH POLITICAL TOYS.

A Paris correspondents of the New
Yirk Herald. writing under date of
D4cemhef %, SAYS: The ,tnys given
Ia children 1T this time assume many
shapes. but it is much the rage to fab.
ricate playrhings hearing political al.
lusions. Mannikins dressed up aud
featured like leading political person
ages are very c"mmon; Prussian sol.
diers carrying off clocks are still more
so, and in the games Of leaden soldiers
where the French used always To he
arrayed against the English. the
French are now made to do battle
against Germans. and, judging by the
fugitive attitudes of the e'la;ter. Ia ropt
them. 1t may be doubted how far
French children ere benefited by hav.
ing lessons eff national rancor aud po
liiieal hatred instilled into them thus
early through their toys; hut it has
always been the habit in this count:y
to -fiil Juvenile heads with this sort oi
knowledge which is Most nseless and
dangerous To them. Boys are taught
Ia abnminste the Prussians before they
know where Berlin is situated, and 10
cal, France abe soyereign nationzzhe-
fire aseeltsinipg what other natiuns
the w'rld may p'ssess.ss - 81 o. -ss
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Dr. /. = blaine.

OFFICE aud residence opposite the
" Lawrence House. Office days Wednes-
days and Saturdays. 6-tf.
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Tionssta House.

NJ. aes@. Pa. ut the mouth nfthe creek,
AAr. T.. has thoroughly sren'Tated the
rionasta uousn. and re-furnished il COM
tleteiv. All wh, pstrnize him will be
we'll entertained at reasonable rates. 81 ly
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= ID
In an account nfihe marriage cere-
monies of th& lEsquinIaHx. given hy
nr. Hayes, he. says: The match is
made .hy the parents of the cnuplit
The bridegroom must 60 out and cap
ture a polar hear as an evidence of
manly cOurage and strength. Then
he is told he can marry, if 50 inclined,
aud like most bachelors he is general
ly 80 incliUed. He sneaks behind I he
dnor of his inamorata, and when che
comes out he pounces upon her and
undertakes to carry her away to his
dog sIedge. Size screams, bites, kicks
and breaks away fInm him. He rhases
her and the old wnmen of the
settlement come lut With tr0zen strips
of seal skin and give her twark.
Alter running the gauntlet of these
old women she. falls down exhausted
and suTrenders- The bridegroom then
ties her u his siedge. ond whipping up
his dogs, they fly Over the frozeIf snow, ,
aud lhe Wedding is consumated.
An old lady in Washington was re-
cenily heard 10 observe, on taxing up
The morning paper. IL wonder IT any
body has besn born that ] know"
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FCREST HOUSE

~ BLACK P8oPRIEroR opposit.
~. Csirt Horse. riopesta, Pa Iusl
opened. Everything new and Mean and
frssh. The bsStof liquors keYt con Ntantl,
On hand. A portion of the n1'9ic patron
age i-rsapsctftilly solicited. 4-H-ly
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National Hotel,

SrIDIoUrE, Pas .SRsa5. Elliott. proprie-
i tor. This house has bsen-newly furn-
sshed and iS kept In good style Guests
will be made com nfortable here al reason -
kls rates. s-ly
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Lawrence :, House.

rT,InS EsrA. Pka %. %. BUTTER
ELD.ssraopRtkroR. This hous'
t~ centrally loeated. Fvervthing new and
vel furnishsd Sn1cgiqr accom- mods-
Son, and strict attention given 10 guests.
vesetsblss and Fruits or al KINDS served
in ,hsir sesShn. sample room for Com
Asrcial Agents. -.
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CURG EoN DENTIST. in Schonblom's
- Rundinw, betwcsn Centre aud Syca-
mere Sts., Oh CITY. pa
All.o operations 1ons in q careful manner
and warrantrd. Chlorofnrm an ethsi al.
-ain,stsrsd when required II the case viii
p.rnit. 15-iy
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-03-26

seldom we'll read even in his own party 1 journals.
 But we like to believe that with wider range of general education, with increas-- ed facilities for intercourse between peo- pie of different sections of the country. and with the softening of the more ruggei manners of our ancestors, las Cont q much broader toleration of political, ,relig- ions, and other partisan differences than an older generation could have reached. It is always the most intelligent man of a political party. CT religious denomina- tion, who can most thoroughly understand the need there is of wide and an honest difference of opinion. With wider reach of experience and of information we be lieve that there has grown up charity for differences of faith and practice that our forefathers could hardly have con- ceived possible. What just pride this re- fection may give us will be readily toned down, however, by consideration of the very low average of political and denoaaina- tional charity that still prevails. With our vastly improved opportunities. the standpoint we have reached is not high enough even yet to bring the rules that control the intercourse between politi- cians and political journals or even be- tween sectarians and sectarian journals, anywhere near the fairness, the charity and the good feeling, that characterize our social and business intercourse.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-03-26
April MonthIies. &c.

ScR1BNER's contains: Mary Buffers Ride; The Great South, Ramble in Vir- ginia, by Edward King, Qllustrated); A Magdalen of the Dresden Gallery; Kath- erine Earle (continuedD: The Maiden and the Lily; Christ's Resurrection, Scientifi- cally Considered; Old and Blind; Con- cerning Some Imperial Booty; Farther Pitchers (concluded); Spt.ng and Winter; The Mysterious Island (commenced); }; Parepa-Rosa; John Hay; Bellies Demoi- selles Plantation; English and American Women.
 Scribner & Co.,, New York. s4O0 8 year; see Enquirer clubbing rates.
 OLD AND NEW contains: Old and New; The Way we Live Now, by Anthony Trol- lope; Henry W Longfellow; The Liquor Trade Two Hundred Years Ago; Country Sights and Sounds; Achsa's Possibilities; My Bird; The Church and its Pretensioas; The Modern Cleon; Our Sketching Club; The Rights of Tweed and Other Convicts; Scrope, or The Lost Library. by Frederic B. Perkins; Capt. Dorr and MT. Muir; Charles Sumner; The Examiner.
 Roberts Brothers, Boston, Mass. s4.0O year, see Enquirer clubbing rates,
 The ATLANTIC containss Prudence Pal frey, by T, B. Aldrich (continued1; The Lord's-Day Gale, by c. stedman; Mis- tral's Calendeau; The Midnight Hour; In Weimar with Liszt; The Old Sexton; Life in the Backwoods of Canada; The Lay of Thrym, or The Hammer Recovered; A Modern Financial Uptopia, How it grew
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-03-26
New Preston.

The Dramatic entertainment of last week was decided success, that is if one can judge by the appearance of the audience whose several eyes sparkled with apprecia- tive enthusiasm. The parts were very we'll sustained; especially notable was that of ''Solon Shingle" by E. H. Beardsley. The house was filled to its utmost capacity, which could hardly have been expected on a very dark and stormy evening. The mud could not have been fathomed. The orchestra consisted of seven instruments and discoursed most enlivening and ap- propriate music is 1t is the desire of many who did no. t..attend last week, to see these plays acted, they will be repeated on Thursday evening the 26th inst. Those desiring tickets should procure them as soon as possible, as the halls seating ca pacity is limited This will undoubtedly be the final entertainment of the season.
 On account of the sickness of one of road commissioners the suit for the new highway from F. Bolles' mill connecting with the Bee Brook road, which was to have been tried on the 23d inst, is indefi- nltely postponed.
 No one appears to be excited over the coming elections. Duo.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-03-26
PartisanshiP.

An interesting letter which We pub fish this week from Bethlehem. gives us an lnkliIg of the extent to which party feeling was carried by our fathers. We believe that the friends of progress can justly claim very material alleviation, during the last half century, of that mis- conception of each others character. that hatred of opposing persons as we'll as of opposing opinions, and of that awful lack of charity regar ling the motives of oppo- nents, that characterize American parti- sanship in it's evilest aspects. During the late war there were most vital differ ences of view between the two great parties. Under no oircumstances could partisan hatreds have found readier ex- cuse than during the past twenty years.
 Yet VIC doubt whether there has ever been that bitter personal dislike between Re- publicans and Democrats that used to ex- ist between the adherents of Clay and Jackson. Still less did the bitterness of olr war politics equal the savage brutali- ty, the harsh misconceptions and the shameful islanders. that embittered the contest between Hamilton and Jefferson.
 The occasion of this wholesome im- provement no doubtlies in the greaterintel- ligence and the better means ofinformation of later generations. The newspaper of fifty years since famed with most in tense bitterness of opinion, but gave it's readers none of the facts on which req sonabie opinion could be based. There is enough of bitterness between our par tisans journals. but the worst of them dis seminEte also minute and fairly accurate details of all important political occurren- ces, give full reports of congressional and
 legislative doings, and dare not suppress important facts and documents damaging
 to their party interests. Hence the man who is 2 bitter partisan in these days is