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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-06-10

be an awfal bore. I've iast come from
Egypt old country antiquities. you
know.
"Yes. replied the poet; many
interesting remains Of past ages.
"Ah. yes-jg.. 50, exactly ; heaps OF
old ruins like ruins. Now. every
things new here IN America. you know
can't find any old ruins-.o thoaght
Ii come and see you. "--Bosten Com
naerrlsl! Hnllstia.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
GEORGE WAsHINGToN.

George Washington was a conspic.
uous and beautiful instance of man
that minded his own business. Sup
pose an intelligent person living in
one of the European centres of civ
ilization had been asked, about the
year ITO, what man then over thirty
seven years of age was most likely to
be the typical great-and good man of
the modern world Would he have
singled out the Virginia militia Off
Ger, at that time busying himself with
the care of his plantation on the Po-
tomac, and whatever social duties and
delights, or whatever polite politics
were convenient and appropriate
The strong point about Washington
was, that the duty or the pleasure, the
ceremony or the self.sacrifice, that lay
in his way, he. enjoyed or performed
without shrinking, and to the very
beet of his ability. He did not, as a
youth, lie awake o. nights wondering
"what he you'd be when he grew up
to be a man." When be became d
nan he showed neither imagination
nor genius, but he had one trait of
genius, namely, concentration. He
put his mind upon his present occupa.
ti0n, without looking back or look
ing ahead. He engineered, fought
the Indians, rode horseback, wrote
letters, went fox hunting, attended
church, proposed to young women.
conducted campaigns, and governed
the United States--each at the proper
time, and each with sincerity Of pur-
pose and assiduity. We do not hear
of his swearing often; but when he
did, it was thoroughly and effectively
done. If he seems not TO have been
as successful in the matter Of matri.
moDial proposals as in other occnpA-
tions, we must remember that the cen
tennially revived old wives tales of
early and indiscreet refhsals of Wash
ington by the said old wives themsel-
yes, must be taken with few grains
of deferential allowance.-The Old
Cabinet; Scribner for april.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
TREAsURER's SALES.
SEATED AND UNsEATED LANDS
In Forest County, Pa.

By yirtue of sundry writs ofthe Gener-
al Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania relating 10 the sale of Seat
cd and Unseated lands in the County of
Forest, etc, for taxes due and unpaid,
will offer at public sale, at the Court
House, in the Borough OF Tionesta, Pa,
on the =
SECOND MONDAY OF JUNE, 1876,
at 10 o'clock a. M, the following described
pieces of land, or such part thereof as may
be necessary TO satisfy the amount of taxes
and costs due and unpaid against the same,
and continue the sale from day 10 day, as
the same may. be found necessary.
TERMS OF SALE:
The amount of taxes and costs must be
paid when the property is struck off, or
the sale may be avoided and the property
put up and resold.
All tracts not otherwise marked, are ad-
yortised for taxes Of 1874 and 1875.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
IT WAS HE.

A man forty years old ard as long
as rail went into one Of the banks
Saturday to get the cash for S13
check drawn by a party living il
Nankin Township.
"You will have to be Unidentified,
said the cashier as be looked at the
check.
"I'm the man." was the reply.
"But ] don't know who you are"
"But l do"
"You must bring some one hero
who knows you"
Don't l know myselfS" exclaimed
the check-tenderer.
"But / must know you. You may
be Tom Jones for all ! know"
"YOu must be oonsarned fool 20
think l think TN some one else 2"
growled the man in response.
"You must be Unidentified" ," observed
the cashier.
"That's my name, tell ye, and
this is me, and if this bank gifts me
riled I'll lick the hull crowd of YOU
over behind that railingl"
The cashier wouldn't pay, and the
man couldn't find any one who kiew
him, and at noon be was waiting ior
that feller who sassed him to come
out."-Detrot Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
W. c. conURN, N. D.

EELT CARPETINGs, IS cts. per yard.
Plaster. FELT ROOFING and SIDING
For samples. address c, j. FAY. Camden,
Nov Jersey.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
1.awrenco House,

TTONEsTA, PA, WILLIAM LAW
L RENEE. Proprietor. This housa
Is centrally located. Everything new and
well furnished Superior accommoda-
tloas and strict attention given to guests.
Vegetables and Fruits of all kinds served
sn their season. Sample room for Com
JneroiAl Agents.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05

The Sultan of Turkey has made au-
olher concession in favor of the Eo
men. Hereafter DO Turk can divorce
his wife without giving her time 10
pack her trunk and buy her railroad
ticket.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
FOREST HOUSE,

q A. WARMER PRoPRIEroR. Opposite
.. Court House, Tionesta, Pa. just
opened. Everything new and clean and
fresh. The best OF liquors kept constantly
on hand A portion OF tho public patron
age Is respectfully solicited. 4-l7-ly
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
Rates of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements coll
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for in advance.
Job work, Cash on Delivery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
"a AwOman fair to look upon"
SARA. THE PRINCESS.

Facsimile of Celebrated Oil Painting by
BROCHARr, in 2I oil-colors-size IKE
inches. Tho royal beauty of face and
form, rich Oriental costume, romantic
Eastern landscape background, with its
Well, palm trees, focks, tents, and long
stretch of desert and distant boundary of
mountains, combine to form a rare and
lovely picture. 1twould grace the walls
Of any public. or Rriyqte gallery. Can
yassefs are wild over II, and are compet-
ing for the Cash Premiums. Senu for our
splendid offer. Address,
- St }. B. FORn & Co, \. \. City.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
Tionesta Housa,
CENTRAL HOUSE,

DoNBER & AGNEW BLOCK. l..
ID AaNEw, Proprietor. This is a new
aense, and has just been fitted up for the
accommodation OF tho public. A portion
Of the patronage OF the public II solicited.
ld-ly
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05

Asssrnsys At Law. Franklin. Pa.
DRACTICE In the several Courts Of We
mango, Crawford, Forest, and adJoin-
Tag counties. 39-iy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-04-05
MRS. G. n: HEATH,
DREssMAKER, Tionesta, Pa.

Itl this place for the purpose Of meeting
a want which the ladies of the town and
county have for 4 long time known, that
OF having dgessmaker Of experience
among them. l am prepared "a make ali
kinds Of dresses in tho latest Styles, and
ing and embroidery done in the best man
ner, with the newest patterns. All ask
is q tsir trial. Residence on Water Street,
in the house formerly occupied by. Jacob
Shriver, I4tf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
Anything to Beat Blaine"
What n Democrat Thinks OF the Mud
Singing Organs of His Party.

To The Editor of the Press
am Democrat and do not write to tell
you that am going to vote the Republican
ticket, or that am tired of what you fippant-
ly denounce as the Bourbon party. Such is not
the case. / have voted my party ticket, and 1
propose to do SO in the future. l have no sym
pathy with your crowd, and have no intention
of voting for James G. Blaine if the Republi-
cans nominate him for the Presidency.
But as Democrat who has known Mr..
Blaine for a number of years, and know some
thing of his reputation as business man and
citizen, can but express my disgust at the
course many Democratic papers are pursuing
and have pursued towards that gentleman for
several years. This is true of the Argus in
particular. For twelve years it has pursued
him with the malgnity of one apparently
frenzied. 1t has accused him of almost every
possible offence The other day it unwittngly
declared its policy to be "Anything to beat
Blaine"
In pursuance of this policy, the other morn
ing, that paper headed sensational despatch
accusing Mr.. Blaine with some irregular rams
action in connection with the Pacific
lhdltOdO3 OduSub db ldSt, anu LQ6 ike
Other papers printed the prompt denial of the
parties who were connected with Mr.. Blaine
in the scandal and stated the denial in
their headlines. Not so the Argus 1t did
not even print the letters, but as obscurely as
possible said that Mr.. Blaine had received let
ters from the parties denying any knowledge
of the transaction. They made the utmost of
the charge and the least possible of the refuta-
tion. Not content with this, the editor fol-
lowed the despatch the next day with an
editorial ignoring the denial and adding to the
latest scandal the old Credit Mobiler charge,
which, so far as Mr.. Blaine was concerned, was
refuted by Democratic Committee
This is only sample of the misrepresenta-
ton of Mr.. Blaine by the Argus and other
Democratic journals. Week after week, col.
umn after column, of abuse and slander are
published about Blaine
One would think that these editors would see
that they effect nothing. Mr.. Blaine from
being an obscure man has risen to a national
reputation, and to the leadership of his party
in the national House. He has been investi-
gaten, hunted, DETAINED and abused, yet he
stands better with the people of Maine to-day
than ever before, and is best appreciated by
the men who have had business relations with
him aud know him most intimately.
Now, for policy's sake, isn't it about time
that Democratic papers give up this TRADE
against Blaine until something has been prov
ed against him? Hasn't the man thrived on
it? Isn't there danger that Democrats will
become disgusted with this constant "Any.
~ csg
thing to beat Blaine?' MAINE.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15

the new crossed the old to the eastward and
in the course of a mile recrossed to the west
erly side and from point almost six miles
north of the Houlton and Woodstock road,
diverged from the old line leaving it TO the
east. AT the point where the new line inter-
cepts the st. John, it was 1888 yards west of
the old. The point of divergence was seventy
miles south of the st. John. 1t was for
this wedge-shaped tract of land that the state
of Maine and Massachusetts, made a claim
upon the general Government and obtained
the sum of money which the European &c
North American Rrilroad received. The
claim of Mr.. Drew is based upon the same
ground He claims that those he represents
were actually deprived of a portion of their
lands by the adoption of the new line.
But here comes a fact which should put
Mr.. Drew out of the lobby and in that place
provided for swindlers. BY agreement be-
tween the contracting parties and to avoid
continual difficulties in adjusting claims, the
inc was actually established on that first sur
veyed and all surveys of land made by Maine
were made with the line OF 1918 as the easter
lyl bound. No proprietor lost a foot of his
land and consequently no proprietor or set
tier has shadow of claim against the
United States.
We desire It to be distinctly understood
that the above is the substance of statement
made by as accurate and careful an officer as
there is in the army-one who assisted in
making the survey from first to rlast and
understands thoroughly the entire subject
and he has no hesitation in declaring the
Drew claim fraud and the money if he OBJ.
tains it, a steal,
The Senate will do well to inquire into this
fraud before it endorses the action of the
House. 1t isn't good time to buy off per-
sistant Lobbyists at the rate of S35, 900.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
Recent Publications.

HABITATIoNs OF MAN IN ALL AGES. BY Eugene
Viollet-Le-Duc. Boston: j. r. Osgood s. Co.. 1876:
This is very instructive book, full of curious
knowledge and suggestion. 1t begins with q
description of the earliest shelter devised by
man and carries the reader through the dwell
iDgs of almost every people aud time from the
Aryan of the hovel age to the renaissance
mansion of modern times. 1t is beautifully
embellished by more than hundred illustra-
tions, showing the methods Of structure adopted
in different climates and the changes produced
by increasing knowledge and wealth. Ground
plans and elevations, and many details. are
given of the houses of the Egy yptians, Assyri
ans, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Scandinavia
ans and Saracens. Egyptian and Indian pal
aces are depicted together with the feudal cas-.
tie and the humble lake dwellings, of pre-
historic times. In reading this book one is
particularly struck with the wonderful power
of habit in man. Long ages after the prima-
tive material has been given up and wood has
been displaced by stone, you may trace in the
solid and indestructable product of the quarry,
the shapes, constructions and expedients which
are no longer needed, but which were essential
in the earlier time.
The descriptions are ehlivened by the discus
sions between two imaginary persons, Epergos
and Doxius, who persouify Progress and Con-
servatism, and give US much philosophy, which
has wider range than architecture. Epergos
breaches progress and Doxius contentment.
If, as we presume, the Illustrations of this
book and of the other works of Violet Le-Duc
published by this house are by their heliotype
process, that process bids fair to be great
benefaction to all lovers of art, by bringing
works like this within the reach, of all.
For sale by Bailey & Noyes.
DEAD MEMS SHOES, by Miss NJ. E. Braddon. Har-
pers, New York. From Loring, Short & Harmon
A young wife secretly leaves her husband in
order to secure the inheritance of an Indian
Nabob; but the wealth turns out deceptive and
she finally returns foiled to the deserted hus-
band who had in the meantime, without guile.
been favored by fortune with legacy. Her
return is FASTENED by scheme of the nabob to
marry her to "horrid East Indian" who turns
out to be his son, and undutifully posons the
old man. The novel is thrilling and we'll
MANAGED
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
Current Notes.

Mud doesn't stick TO Mr.. Blaine any better
than 1t does to- Mr.. Bristow. The SANDER
peddlers are having bad season.
Mr.. Blaine's rivals, and their next friends,
had best be quite sure of their facts before
spreading them out in public prints for pop
ular inspection. A presidential candidate
can ask no better luck, in this epoch of ''dis-
closures" than an unjust charge and con-
elusive vindication.-Sprinafetd Republican.
If another of the gentlemen whom Senator
Simon Cameron characterizes as "those liter
ary fellows" is to be nominated for the
English mission, we would recommend Mr..
Walt Whitman. Mr.. Whitman is held in
high respect in England, and his nomination
would be welcomed with shouts of joy in that
country. And nobody would bring up a
charge of literary piracy against Whitman. He
never wrote line that came within thou
sand miles of resembling anything that any
one else ever Chronicle Times.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

The Trenton N. j. Gazette warmly congrat-
ulates the Republicans of that city upon the
substantial victory they achieved on Monday.
1t says that the election has resulted in
the most complete and overwhelming de-
feat that the Democracy of Trenton ever en-
countered. By carrying the Common Coun-
Gil the Republicans secure the entire patron
age af the City Government, with the excep-
ton of the Mayor.
Perley in his Washington dispatch to the
Boston Journal says that the Virginia Re-
publican Convention pronounced very strong
ly in favor of Mr.. Blaine for the Presidency
In a convention of nearly two hundred mem
bers, there were only six dissenting voices.
The twnety-two delegates to Cincinnati were
selected from BlaiRe's original outspoken
friends. The South Carolina delegation is
also believed to be for Mr.. Blaine by large
majority, though no instructions were passed
1t is claimed here that Mr.. Blaine will have
more than half the Southern delegates on the
first ballot.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15

IT is said that the visit of Queen Victoria
to Germany has for its object the surrender
to Prussia of Prince Alfred's right of success
sion to the sovereignty of Sake Coburg-
Gotha. The Duchy contains SIG square
miles, and was inherited by the Prince Con-
sort. He however, relinquished his right of
succession to his son, the Prince of Wales,
who in turn refinquished it to his brother,
the Prince Alfred, now Duke of Edinburgh.
Prussia desires the little State, and English
opinion as well as German favors the trans
fer, for England has lolg been impatient of
the German titles held by her rulers. OF
course handsome price will be paid for the
Duchy, and ii is thought that the Duke Of
Edinburgh will be recompensed for the loss of
the ducal title by the revival in his person of
the office of Lord High Admiral of England,
last held by William w, when Duke of
Clarence. As he cannot we'll keep his Duchy
out of the clutches of Prussia he does well to
make the exchange,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
That Land GIaim-A SWindIe,

A few days since we gave somewhat eX
tended account of the boundary land claim
recently allowed by the House of Representa-
tives, in which it was intimated that the same,
to say the least, was apocryphal. Since the
publication of that article an official of the
United States Army whose name is most
honorably known, not only in the the service
but to our citizens generally, has furnished
us with accurate information relating to the
subject. He was one of the corps of army
engineers who established the line and he
now has all the notes, reports and memoran-
da incident to that survey. He has also con-
versed with Mr.. Webster respecting that por-
tion of the territory relating to the disposition
of the lands affected by the establishing of
the line under the treaty of August 1912. He
is, therefore, fully competent to give an opin-
ion as to the validity of the claim which Mr..
James Drew and his skilled talent in Wash
ington have got through the House. This
officer has no hesitation in declaring the
claim of Mr.. Drew a sheer fabrication and
the appropriation of $4,000 to pay it a sacin-
dte-an opinion which corroborates those we
have already heard from gentlemen living in
that section and familiar with the subject.
As we have before said the Drew claim and
those of the states of Maine and Massachu-
sets grew out of the diversity between the
boundary lines run at different times from the
head waters of the st. Croix to the point
where such lines strike the st. John river.
The first line was run, says our lnformants in
1917 and 1918 and was determined by the
ordinary instruments used in surveying. The
second line was run under the treaty of 1912,
and was as accurate as science could make it.
The timber was felled along the first from
the head.waters of the st. Croix to near the
north line of Houton and from that point ii
was 'bazed" through the woods to the st,
John. The engineers of the commission to
establish the line, found that the old and new
lines corresponded for eight or ten miles then
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
Magazine Notices.

The american Journal Of the Medical Sciences
for April contains among other articles of
great interest to the medical profession the
second in the series of papers entitled A Cen
tury of American Medicine. 1t is devoted to
surgery, is contributed by the eminent surgeon
s. D. Gross, and is an exhaustive review, fifty
pages in length, of the subject. Professor Gross
acknowledges his indebtedness to Professor
Greene of Portland, among others, for materi-
al embodied in the paper, Published by Henry
G. Lea, Philadelphia.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15

SMITH, the journal clerk Of the House,
who is accused of bribery, says in defense
that since the proposed reduction in the sala-
ries of officers of the House would make it
impossible for him to retain his place, he in
tended to tender his resignation at an early
day, and engage in business as claim agent in
Washington. He was simply making prepa-
rations for entering into business. The idea
of the Democrats appears to be from the STEP
ping stones of their dead offices to rise to bet
ter paying things, and to make of govern
ment employ opportunity for jobbery.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15

Now that Messrs. Morton, Bliss & Co.
distinctly state that Tom Scott never gave
his note to them for $4,000 and deposited as
collateral Arkansas Railroad bonds and never
had any transaction of any kind with Mr..
Blaine, the Indianapolis scandal appears to
be of no further account except to the Argus.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
STATE OF MAINE.
BY THE GOVERNOR.

A p r o Q L A nj A TION
Following the established usage, hereby appoint,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council
Thursday, the Twentieth Day of April
Next,
as a DAY of PUBLIC HUMILIATION, FASTING AND
PRAYER; and earnestly recommend that the day
be observed in manner beftting the solemn pur-
pose for which is set apart-the strengthening of
allegiance to Him in whose hands are the welfare
of men and the permanence of states.
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta this
thrty-first day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy
States of America. the one hundredth.
SELDEN CONNOR.-
By theI9overnor '-t4-rf 4
SD. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State.s
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
PAID NEARLY
$4,000 i! 4!
JANUARY 2, 1875.


III. r. STEVENS, ESQ:
Dear Sir: When about six months old was vac
cinated. The parties who where vaccinated from
the same virus died from the humor. The humor
spread over me to such an extent that was rolled
in bran to prevent me from scratching my person:
The disease finally settled In my head. remained
in this condition about twenty years, troubled all
the time with sores breaking in my head and dis
charging corruption from my ear. At this time
small kernel appeared on my neck, gradually in
creasing in size until a tumOr formed of such i'm
mense size could see it by turning my eyes down.
ward. Ali this time was taking various remedies
for my blood without any substantial benefit.
l then went to prominent physician in Boston,
who during his treatment of six months, lanced the
tumor eight times which cost me nearly $500. This
left me with rough aggravated sore, without at all
diminishing the size of the tumor, and in sckly,
feeble condition. consulted another physician in
Natck, who, after considerable time, succeeded in
healing the sore without reducing the size. At this
point commenced to use VEGETINE, through the
earnest persuasion of friend. After had taken
this medicine about one week experienced wonder
full sensations. My whole body seemed to be under
going radical change, until finally, the tumor broke
and discharged frightful quantities. From this time
decreased in size until the bunch disappeared but
my neck still bears the ugly scars of the sore and
lance. am now healthy and strong and able to
work every day.
1 Will also.mention that have been an, acute suf-
ferer from infammatory rheumatism ever since can
remember until commencing the use of VEGETINE,
when almost Immediately all rheumatic pains ceased
This statement volunteer for the purpose of bene-
fitting other suffering humanity, and you will confer
favor by giving it as much publicity as thought
proper. Very gratefully,
y. M. SAVELS, Ashland, Mass.