The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-11-07
ALARY OF NEWS.


Condersport, Ps. lie had been in in health
for some time.
The National Liberal League met in Conven-
tion at Rochester, N Y. L. Il. Abbott, of Bos
ton, was elected president. Among the forty
vice-prosidents elected were many prominent
men from all parts of the country platform
was adopted advocating total separation of
Church and state, national protection for
national citizens, and universal education on
the basis of universal suffrage
The New Jersey Presbyterian synod con-
cluded its labors after a FIVE days session at
Newark.
The Philadelphia grand jury found a true
bill of indictment against John S. Morton, the
defaulting pres dent Of the West Philadelphia
passenger railway, and also against the secre-
tary and treasurer Of the company. The bill
charges them with conspiring to defraud the
company out of 5000, 900, and another bill ac-
cuses them Of embezzling S2OO,00O the prop
erty Of the company. Morton was taken into
custody.
According to a dispatch from New Bedford
Mass, late arrivals from the Arctic regions an
nounce that the whaling vessels Three Brothers
and w. a. Fsrnsworth have been lost in the
ice, and the whaling fleet appears to have had
unusual trouble in battling for safety.
Moore's cooper shops and keg factory at Pitts
Uhrg, Pa, were destroyed by fire, causing loss
OF $50. 600; no insurance. A few minutes la er,
stable was burned on Cliff street and about
twenty minutes after the Clancy cooper shop
was destroyed by fire. These fires were all Of
incendiary origin and they we're thought to be
the result of a concerted effort to destroy that
city.
Eight months after the death of Edward
Southworth treasurer Of the Brocton Mass
savings bank, an investigation into the affairs
OF this institution disclosed that by his opera
tions $50, 600 had been wrongfuLy spent.
Edwin Adams, the celebrated actor died of
consumption at Philadelphia.
Louise A. Bowen, a girl aged twenty
years discovered Benjamin +. Muzzy in her
room at Norwich Falls, Conn.,, and, mistaking
him for burglar, struck him six times over
the head with base ball club inflicting fatal
injuries.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, will devote De-
cember to revival work at Providence, r. /.
More cigar manufacturer in New York have
yielded to the demands of their striking en-
ployees.
An unknown negro was standing in front of
hotel in Red Bank, n. j., dancing, when an
officer ordered him to move on. Upon his
refusal to comply the officer arrested him. On
the way tothe station house companion of
the prisoner handed him pistol, whereupon
ne shot the officer, and turning upon the crowd
fired into it, mortally wounding one man and
seriously injuring another. After emptying
the seven chambers of the pistol the man fled.
Three students Of Rutgers College, New
for burning college property.
The striking cigar makers of New York held
a mass meeting at Cooper Institute. An inn
mense throng Of men and women were present
and 1t was decided to hold out until their de-
mands were acceded to.
President Eliot, of Harvard College. WAT
married to Miss Grace Hopkinson, at Cam
bridge, Mass.
The Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States held the first business session
of its fourth annual congress in New York,
Bishop Odell, of Ohio, delivering the pre-
liminary address.
At meeting of the board of directors of the
Pennsylvania railroad, held in Philadelphia, it
was resolved not to pay any quarterly dividend
at present, in order to make up for the losses
of the Pittsburg riots.
P. F. Lynch and wife were injured SO Sc
verely by the explosion of a kerosene lamp at
their residence in Wilkesbarre, Pa. that Mrs.
Lynch died on the following day.
Western and Southern Stat es.
Anunknown person entered the house of f.
s. McVey, toll-gate keeper on the Circleville
,'pike, six miles north of Chillicothe O., and
shot McVey through the heart and his wife
through the head, killing both instantly. A
little girl, the only other occupant of the house,
hearing the shooting. jumped out of bed and
escaped. The murderer, after ransacking the
house for plumber, set fire to it and escaped to
the woods
General Bedford Forrest, the well-known
confederate cavalry officer died in Memphis
Tenn.
The Chicago Savings Institution and Trust
Company has failed and been put into the
hands of a receiver.
passenger train ON the Utah Central rail
road was lifted from the track and turned
upside down by the wind, and number Of per-
sons were more or less severely injured.
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went to Richmond, Va, to attend the State
Ialr. The7 were welcomed to the city by acting
Mayor Meredith, and addresses were delivered
by the President Secretaries Evarts, Sherman
and Thompson, and Attorney-General Devens,
after which procession was formed embracing
all the white and colored military organizations
OF the city, several visiting companies the fire
department, city officials and thousands OF
citizens in carriages and on foot. In the
evening the PRESIDENT held reception at the
Exchange Hotel.
A meeting of the American Association OF
short-horn Breeders was held in Lexington.
Ky, and delegates from all parts of the eoun-
try were present
President Hayes and party visited the Vir-
ginia State fair at Richmond, and were well
coined by Governor Kemper. In the evening
the President held State reception at the.
governors residence
From Washington.
secretary SHERMAN, at Cabinet meeting
stated that the government expenses were run
ming behind the receipts, and that this decrease
in income demanded the most rigid economy in
ordinary expenditures
The annual report of the commissioner of
patents states that the number of patents ap-
piled for from October /, 1876, to October 1,
1877, was 1929; trade marks registered, 1924;
labels registered, $40. The number of patents
allowed, but not issued on account of failure
70 pay the final fee, was 4,271; patents issued,
1922; trade marks and labels, 1.517. This
shows decline of about 900 in the number
Of patents insured as compared with the pre-
States patent system is contemplated al
present.
A bill recently introduced in tue Senate by
Mr.. Howe provides that no cattle, sheen.
swine or other animals shall be confined in aIy