The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-04-25

years, died at her residence in this
| place on Friday night. Her funeral
took place on Sunday. The services
were conducted by Rev. Elliot in the
Presbyterian Church. Mrs Henage
was hard working, diligent woman,
and undoubtedly her death was has.
tened by the vast amount Of heavy
work she did upon sewing machine.
She was a woman who was entitled to
aud had the respect ofall, always at
tending religiously to her own affairs
and those Of her household. She was
a member Of the Presbyterian church
Of this place, and died with the hope
Of u blessed Immortality. She leaves
two small children.
Roll on thou mighty temperance wave,
Until every inebriatcd soul is saved.
- Clarion JacksORian.
We have seen men awfully drunk
We have heard Of men being soaked,
picked and preserved in whiskey, but
these expressions referred to the body
the mortal coil but, Great Bacchus !
how fearfully and wonderfully drunk
man must be whose immortal soul is
inebriated! However, if there are any
such extreme cases in Clarion county,
we hope the wave will roll on until
their inebriated souls get sober
Jas. Iluddleson and Wm. Reck
came down street one day last week
with the news that there was large
swan Oh Fleming Bar, seemingly
waiting for some one to go up there
and shoot it. So couple Of our
chronic sportsmen shouldered their
shot.gu and loeandered up that way.
When they got where tho swan was
they found it was an old gander OF
Judge Dale's, which had swan the
river to get drink.
The trouting season has come
and there is not q stream within sew
eral miles Of here Which has not been
Gshed a dozen times, and still the
suckers do not get rest. Nearly
every day (Sunday excepted) Kepler
shoulders his rods, lights his pipe, and
seeks some deep bcle in the river in
which to angle for this gameless fish
There's no estimating how many ho
hns caught this spring.
REV. D. T. Carnohan, Of South
Oil City, on Sunday evening last
preached a sermon suggested by the
Carson Mikesell tragedy, which was
published in full in Mondays Derrick.
it is an able effort, and should be read
by all, and its precepts put into prac-
tice. Over five hundred were turned
away on the evening the sermon was
preached, there being no room for
them in the church.
Col. VIM. T. Alexander has sew,
cred his connection with the Clarion
JackS0aian. We shall miss his States
Rights articles and his learned dis
cussions Of issues that haye-been dead
and buried for 10! these many years.
The editorial pages of that paper
always heretofore read like some old
forgotten manuscript, and were very
interesting as relics Of by-gono days.
From the Meadtlle Republican
we learn that Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Roudebush, of Coon's Corners, Craw-
ford Co., are the happy parents of
triplets, all healthy, and every baby
getting along finely. The Derrick
once blamed Tionesta with triplets,
but such thing never happened here
in the human family.
The old Dale Store, on River ST.,
caught fire on the roof on Monday
morning. An alarm was given, and
everybody rushed with pals, ladders
&c, but some one got on the roof be.
fore the crowd arrived, and with 4
few pals of water put out the flames
-Wm. Y. Siggins, caught a trout
in Stewart's Run one day last week
which measured about thirteen inches
in length, lie had no means of
weighing it, but is inclined to believe
that it will beat DIR. Coburn's large