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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
Lynch Law--Its Origin.

James Lynch was mayor of Galway,
ireland, in 1473. He had made several
voyages to Spain, and on one occasion
brought home with him the son of a re-
spectacle Spanish merchant, named
Gomez. Walter Lynch, the only son of
the mayor of Galway, was engaged to a
beautiful young lady of good family and
fortune. Preparatory to the nuptials
the mayor gave splendid entertain
ment, at which young Lynch fancied his
intended bride viewed his Spanish friend
with too much regard. He accused his
beloved Agnes of unfaithfulness to him,
and she, irritated at his injustice, dis
dainsd to deny the charge, and they
parted in anger. On the following
night, while Walter Lynch slowly passed
the residence of Agnes, he observed
young Gomez to leave the house, he
having been invited by her father to
spend that evening with him. In the
madness of jealously Lynch rushed on
his unsuspecting friend, who fled to a
solitary quarter of the town near the
shore. Lynch maintained the pursuit
till his victim had nearly reached the
waters edge, when he overlook him,
and stabbed him to the heart, and threw
the body into the sea, which cast it back
again on the shore, where it was found
and recognized the following morning.
The wretched murderer surrendered him.
self; and his father, being chief magis.
trate of the town, entrusted with the
power of life and death, found himself
obliged to condemn his son to death.
On the night preceding his execution,
his mother went to the heads OF hel
family and prevailed on them to attempt
a rescue. The morning of the execution
an immense crowd had assembled, who
cried loudly for mercy to the culprit
The'mayor exhorted them to submit to
the laws; but, finding them determined
on rescue, he, by a desperate victory
overcame parental feelings, and finding
that his efforts to accomplish the ends o.
Justice in the usual place, and by the
usual hands, were fruitless, he became
executioner himself, aud, from the win
dows of his own house, launched his un
fortunate son into eternity.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
4 Heroic NnrSe.

One OF the nursing sisters of the
Order of Troyes succumbed recently at
Paris to an attack OF hydrophObia, con-
tracted under circumstances of no ordi-
nary heroism. A month ago she was
taking walk with five convalescent
children, the eldest OF which was only
eight years of age, when they were sud
denly assailed by n sheep dog, whose
Jaws were running with foam, and who
attacked them with fury. She instantly
saw the danger of her charges, and,
resolutely interpOsing between the ter
rihed children and the furious animal,
bravely withstood its attack. She was
severely bitten, and the dog, excited by
the cries OF the children, endeavored to
rush upon them. Then followed a
splendid act OF devotion. Protecting
them with her body the children, who
hung on to her petticoats shrieking with
terror, this brave girl threw herself
courageously upon the dog, and for ten
minutes grasped it, rolling over with it,
and thrusting her fist into its mouth to
prevent its biting the children. Some
peasants, who came up at last, beat of
/ and killed the dog. The sister was
/ found to have fifteen deep wounds on her
hands, and lacerated arms an import
ant artery was wounded. Skillful care
was given to her wounds, ligatures were
applied, the parts torn were cauteriSed,
aud for short time after her return to
Paris some hope existed that she might
escape the ultimate fate which there was
so much rea son 10 fear. Later, how
ever, the pharyngeal spasm, vomiting,
and hydrophobia in all its characteristic
symptom appeared ; and the nurse dieG
from this fatal and fearful disease, find
ing consolation in the certitude Of hav
ing saved, at the price OF her life, th'
1--WE children who had been cOnhded 4
her.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
Items Of Interest.

Life is made up ov sunshine and
shaddo," says Josh Billings" about
five shaddos to one sunshine"
More than 100, 600, OO0lemons, oranges,
and citrons are consumed or exported by
the inhabitants of various parts of Asia
Minor.
Professor" IL one evening counted
twenty-seven meteors sitting on my
piazza" Glass expresses great aston
ishment at the sociable characteNof the
heavenly bodies.
In Cincinnati, on recent Sunday
evening, four public balls, three musical
entertainments, three variety theatres,
and Sardanapalus in the Grand
Opera House, were all numerously at
tended.
The ancestry of Senator Voorhees,, of
Indiana, on his fathers side, was Dutch;
on his mothers side, Irish. He had
Indian fighters and Revolutionary SOL
diers for his grandfathers and great
grandfathers, and he is fifty years old.
A young man who left home in Con-
necticut some years ago to seek his for
tune, recently wrote from Texas, saying:
"I've settled here" It has since trans
|
at twenty cents on the dollar.
Zone of the Kentucky minstrels is sit
ting for his picture in character. y
| Operator: CHOW, sir, look pleasant
smile little" (Minstrel smiles.) ooh!
that will never do. It's too wide for the
| instrument.
! The Anti Horse Thief Association is
! an institution in northwestern Missouri,
| southeastern Iowa and northwestern
! Illinois, whose object is pretty clearly
/ indicated in it's name.
The loss OF human life during the
great food in Bengal, following the cy-
clone of 1875, has lately been ascerJained
to have amounted to 165, 900. 1t was
estimated at the time at near 300, 900.
Bucks county, Pa, has smoker who
claims to have averaged seven cigars per
day during the last fifty-seven years,
which would aggregate lao, 900 cigars,
worth, at five cents each, 81, $50.
In Breslau, Germany, successful at
tempt has been made to erect paper
chimney about fifty feet high. By a
chemical preparation the paper is rem
dered impervious TO the action of fire
or water.
A little five-year old fellow came up to
his mother the other morning, and with
great earnestness said " Mother, / saw
something run across the kitchen foo,
this morning, and it hadn't any legt
either; what do you suppose it was ?
The mothers curiosity was excited a.
the apparent strangeness of the supposed
animal, and, not knowing what else u
: say, she said she supposed it was {
worm, or something of that sort, she die
not know what Having for some time
enjoyed his mothers inability to solve
the problem, he said: cit was some
water"
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Power Of Example.

Speaking of recent suicide in New
York, correspondent adds : The natu
raj inclination TO follow an evil example
was illustrated by the monument sui-
cides in London. The monument is 200
feet high, and its summit once was open
to the public, with buta small protective
railing. More than seventy years ago,
however, q man leaped over the rail and
was picked up dead. His example was
soon afterward followed by another, and
the monument suicides became so fire.
quent that tall railing was built,
which effectually prevented any further
attempt.
Similar instances of the power OF ex-
ample have occurred in this city. A man,
for instance, leaped from the wheelhouse
of steam ferryboat some years ago and
was drowned. Immediately there was
run of "steamboat suicide" Another
striking case was that OF DR.. Wells, the
once noted Hartford dentist, and (as it is
claimed) the discoYerer of chloroform.
He came from Hartford to this city to
attend to his discovery, and in the even
ing walked out 10 see New York by gas
light. He became, no doubt, slightly
| intoxicated and was includedin number
OF arrests made that night. When he
came to, he found himself the inmate of
q cell, and he knew that as soon rs this
dreadful fact became known his reputa-
tion would be destroyed. Unable to
contemplate such result the unfortu-
nate man opened vein and then dosed
himself with chloroform, and was found
in the morning dead. That season a
large number of chlorofonn suicides took
places. Hotel suicides have also been
much in vogue since they were at first
started. Paris green suicides also had
an extensive run. One finds that there
il a fashion in .Jelo de Sc just as there If
in everything else.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
Rome Buying Back Converts.

A great sensation has been caused at
Geneva by the sudden departure of two
priests who had become converts to the
Old Catholic doctrine, but who appear
to have repent.d of their conversion, for
they left Geneva, addressing to the Pres
ident of the Church Council the follow
ing letter "Having found that at
tempts TO establish a national Catholic
Church at Geneva have only political
end, we declare our intention Of separat-
ing from them, of returning TO The
bosom OF the only Catholic Church, and
of making submission to her authority as
the sole guardian of the Christian faith"
The Ultramontane party exulted very
much over this declaration, but it now
appears, according to Swiss papers, that
these two priests, before leaving Geneva,
went to see MonsignOr Mermillod, the
exiled bishop, who is living on the French
frontier, and received from him the sum
of 1000 each to recant This accusa-
ton was first made in an anti-Catholic
journal, and would, it was supposed, be
at once repelled as calumny. But,
upon the contrary, the Courier de
Geneue, which ~ Monsignor Mermillod's
own organ frankly admits that money
passed, and adds that a Catholic associa-
ton had been formed for the purpose OF
buying back the perverts.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
sIamese Twins in an Oyster Bed.

The clerk of the steamer Maggie, OF
the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company,
has brought to the city remarkable
oyster that had been caught in the Ches-
apeake. The oyster is, apparently, two
oysters fastened together, as is often the
case. The peculiarity, however, is that
while there were two distinct oysters,
they were fastened together ligature
running from heart to heart, the shell
that divided them being very thin, and
showing that there was really but one
oyster contained in ths three shells. The
same gentleman has also an old bottle
into which an oyster had become imbed-
ed, remaining until it was too large to
get out. Baltimore Bulletin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
An Idol Shop.

An Anglo-Indian journal contains an
advertisement, of which the following IL
a free translation "Yamen, the god OF
day, cast in pure copper and tastefuily
executed. Nirondi, the prince OF de-
mons, great number to choose trom J
the giant upon which he is mounted Is
boldly designed, and his sabre is fash
ioned in the latest style of art. Baron
MIA. the god of the sun, is lively repre-
sented his crocodile is of copper, with
tail of silver Bouaberen, the god "a
riches this god is Of the finest work
manship. Little demi-gods and oii'ft
inferior gods in the greatest abund.pf
81 select from No credit is glvfp
dise0ul is allowed for ready none
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
The Coming Man.

A pair Of very chubby legs,
Encased in scarlet hose
A pair Of little stubby boots,
With rather doubtful toes
little kilt; a little coat,
Out "a mother can
Aud 10 before ms strides in state,
The Futures coming man."
his eyes, perchanoe, will read tho stars,
And search their unknown ways;
Perchance the human heart and soul
viii open TO their gaze;
Perchance their keen and flashing glance
Win be a nations light
Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On some big fellows" kite,
That brow, where mighty thoughts will dwell
In solemn, secret state;
Where fierce Ambitions restless strength
Shall war with future fate;
Where Science from now hidden caves
New treasures shall outpour-
Tis knit now, with troubled doubt,
Are two, or three, cents more?
Those lips that, in the coming years,
Wlll plead, or pray or teach
Whose whispered words, on lightning dash,
From world to world may reach;
That sternly grave, may speak command,
Or, smiling, win control
Are coaxing now for gingerbread
With all baby's soul
Those hands-those little busy hands
SO sticky, small and brown;
Those hands, whose only mission seems
To tear all order down
Who knows what hidden strength may lie
Within their future grasp,
Though now tbs but a tafIy-stiek
In sturdy hold they clasp2
Alb, blessings on those little hands,
Whose work is yet undonel
And blessings on those little feet,
Whose race is yet unrun
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plAn
WEateer the Future hold in store,
God bless the looming mani"
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Forbear to Judge, for we are all sim
uers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05

Men are generally more honest in
their private than in their public capac-
ity, and will go greater length to serve
party than When their own private inter
est is alone concerned. Honor is a great
check upon mankind, but where a con-
siderable body of men act together this
check is in a great measure removed,
since a man is sure to be approved of by
his own party for what promotes the
common interest, and he soon learns TO
despise the olamors Of adversaries.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
Rates Of Adver ll1'

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements COLI
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for in advance.
Job work, Cash on Delivery.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
RAILWAY WREcKING.

A Brief Chapter on a Gigantic Swindle.
New York, Dec. 10.-Charles e.
Smith, president of the Reading Z, r.
Co. during the eight years ending in
1869, publishes letter tomorrow dis
closing the startling report made to its
managers years ago, but which has
hitherto been suppressed. The report
was made by Smith s. Lippincott, the
publisher, and Issac Hinckley, rs a
committee of the managers, and en-
braces statements and statistics which,
Smith says, show that the real earnings
of the railroad and the coal and iron
company since 1871 have been only S2,-
347, 900, while the dividends paid by
the railroad were S1s,04O, 600, or more
than seven times the real profits. Also
that the amount of floating debt was
concealed by transfers made on tue
books for the purpose, and that the loss
on colleries worked by the company
has been S2,05o, 900, and the gain on
those leased were el,750,000. Smith
pleads i'll health as the reason for not
sooner discovering and exposing the
bad condition of the company.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11

Rea introduced constitutional
amendment, providing for direct vote
of the people to elect U. S. senators.
Wood, chairman of committee on
Ways and Means. reported the usual
resolutions for the distribution Of the
various subjects of the Presidents
message to the different committees.
To the committee on Foreign Affairs
are referred the Russo-Turkish war; re-
newal of the American and Italian
treaty; naturalization and commercial
relations with Germany; the French
Exposition; the English-American ex-
tradition treaty of 1912; recognition of
Diaz and the Mexican troubles; the
Cuban insurrection and other unsettled
questions with Spain and Venezuela,
and recognition of the Samoan Islands.
After some discussion on referring
the matter in relation to Mexico and
an amendment modifying it having
been agreed to, the resolutions for dis
tribution of the message We're adopted.
Adjourned.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
NEW YORK.
swsensy,s swag SURRENDERED.

Sweeney's Swag Surrendered.
New York, Dec. l0.-Peter b.
Sweeney to-day paid the last INSTALL
ment of the 100000 and interest
which he agreed to pay this city in set
tlement of the Tweed ring suits against
him. At noon Judge Noah Davis va
Gated the attachments upon Sweeney's
property, and immediate transfers of it
were made to Jay Gould and other pur-
chasers, who furnished the cash for the
settlement. This arrangement Swee-
ney's friends declare strips him entirely
of his real estate and leaves him TO be-
gin anew the search for fortune. He
is lawyer, being formerly associated
with James 7. Brady. He now resumes
his profession, and has already some
important suits on hand here, and in
Philadelphia, as counsel for Tom
Scott.
1t is Il singular coincidence that the
chief property to-day transferred by
Sweeney to Jay Gould was bought by
Sweeney originally with the $3.50, 900
fee paid him as the Erie railroad re-
ceiver IN the days of Gould's connection
with that road.
The assumption that "A settlement of
the Dick Connolly ring suits has been
also effected, is erroneous. Connolly's
counsel, when judgment was confessed
last week, hoped to be able to effect Il
settlement on the same terms as Swee-
ney's, but Charles O'Connor put his
foot on the proposition so effectually
that Connolly's son-in-law, Hutchins,
abandoned the negotiation and left for
Europe last Saturday.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
PLEVNA HAS FALLEN.
Osman Pasha Succumbs After
Being Wounded at the Head
of q Forlorn Hope.
A Laeonic, bu, Sententious Telegram =
Great Joy in Bucharest.

Bucharest, Dec. 10.-After severe
engagement, yesterday, before Plevna,
Osman Pasha, who was wounded, sur
rendered unconditioDal!y.
The Turks in Plevna were dying of
hunger.
There is great joy here. Bucharest
is covered with flags.
Plevna is now III the hands of the
so-Roumanian armies. The Agence
Russo makes the following announce
ment:
Osman Pasha attempted To break
through i'll the direction of Widdin.
He was attacked in front and rear, and
was compelled to lay down his arms
after glorious struggle, in which he
was severely wounded. All with one
voice praise his conduct.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
A Belliuerent Editor.

Judge j. w. Lytle, mortgage of the
printing material of the Herald, up the
gulch, turned over the property to W.
ID. Knight, and the latter, with the
Judge, went up to Central this morn
ing and demanded the property, where
upon bartholomew approached with a
double-barrelled shotgun, loaded and
cooked, and ordered his visitors out,
threatening their lives if they returned.
Messrs. Knight and Lytle accordingly
decamped, and will, probably, call the
hostile. editor t?) to legal account.
[Deadwood Times, 9th.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
MILITARY MATTERS.

Companies B and c, Fourteenth in
fantry have been ordered to take sta
tion at Cameron, Utah.
The resignation Of Second Lieuten-
ant Henry F. Wells, Fourth infantry,
has been accepted by the President, to
take effect Dec. 1, 1877.
Captain Albert E. Watson, Fifth
cavalry, is appointed special inspec-
tor, to inspect at Camp Brown, W., T.
unserviceable ordnance and ordnance
stores.
Major Henry G. Thomas, and Capt.
William s. Collier, Fourth infantry,
have been relieved from duty as men,
bers of general court-martial, recent
ly convened.
The leave of absence granted First
Lieutenant Rufus p. Brown, Fourth
Infantry, from heaI quarters depart
ment of the Platte, Nov. 90, 1877, has
been extended six months, with per.
mission to go beyond the sea.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
TELEGRAPHIc TICKS.

The Carlist general, 1.izarrasa, died
at Rome Monday.
The loss by Saturday nights fire in
Louisville was $4,000.
The seminary at Yysilanti, Mich,
was destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The City of Chester will sail from
Liverpool on Thursday next, in place
of the City of Berlin.
A number of the members of Con-
gress are preparing to leave for their
homes before the holiday recess.
Several counterfeiters and burglars
broke Jail in Nashville, Monday MORN
ing, by saving the bars OF n window.
The brigantine G.. NJ. Jones, from
New York for Halifax, has been run
down at sea. All hands except one
seaman, were drowned.
The schooner Joshua Grindle, which
arrived in New York Sunday from st.
Jago, reports the loss of six of her
crew at sea by yellow fever.
DR.. Albert II. Bledsoe, editor of the
Southern Review and former profes-
sor in the University of Virginia, died
at Alexandria. Va, on Sunday night,
of paralysis.
y barn near IIackensack, n. j.,
owned 10y Peter Alderman, was des-
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
ALABAMA.
A Fatal Accident.

Nashville, December 1U.-A Decatur
(Alabamal special to the American
says: An unknown tramp undertook
to steal ride on conductor Lewis
train, which left here for Montgomery
this morning. lie was put off several
times, but rs often got OH again. He
undertook to get on after the tririn was
in motion at Oxmore, fell upon the
track, and the whole train passed over
his body. cntting it into fragments.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
TAKEN IN TOW.
Safety of the City of Berlin.

Queenstown, Dec. l0.--The steam
ship City of Berlin, from New York,
Nov. oath, for Liverpool, has just
passed here on her way 10 the latter
port, all well. On the Both Of Novem-
Der, when two days from Queenstown,
her shaft broke, and the steamer made
little or no headway under sail owing
to eastern gales. On Saturday night
she spoke the steamer City of New
York of the same line. from New York
November 2Sth, for Liverpool. and was
by her taken in tow.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11

MINISTER WELSH, due at Liverpool
to-day, will remain there twentv-four
hours. On the arrival of the Adriatic,
the Dock Board tender will take out U.
s. Consul Fairchilds and others to
meet him, and the government will
FIRE a salute. The mayor will welcome
the new minister on landing and enter
tain him in the town hall, where the
Chamber of Commerce will present an
address of welcome.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11

GEN. JOHN NJ. HARLAN, the newly
appointed associate justice of the U. S.
Supreme court, met the other justices
in the robing room, Monday morning,
and had n cordial welcome. He sub
scribed to the iron-clad oath, and after
the usual formalities took his seat on
the bench.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11

AT the surrender of Chief Joseph
General Miles received ponies enough
to mount his entire regiment, the Fifth
Infantry, and, instead of ordering them
sold at auction, for the benefit of the
government, as is usual in such cases,
the ponies will be kept in the regiment,
which will hereafter serve as mounted
infantry.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11

THE Vicksburg Commercial is fu-
rious over the admission of Senator
Kellogg. 1t says the fault lies on the
soul of Governor Nichols, and that
"the men whose blood Redeemed the
streets of New Orleans on the 14th of
September, 1874, died in vain.''
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11

THE Secretary of War has received
from an Indian at Standing Rock
Agency letter addressed to Sitting
Bull, in which the latter is entreated to
surrender to the United States, and to
come to the agency, the advantages of
such a course being portrayed in glow
ing terms. The Indian wants the let
ter forwarded by the government to his
friend Sitting Bull.