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National Republican., 1878-07-26

THE next important question to decide in
arranging the details OF the District govern
ment under the new bill is, Shall there be
any dead-head dossp The matron of o
ch Iritable institution having petitioned the
authorities to grant free tag to the dog at
tached " the institution, the question has
come in q formal way to the attention of the
Commissioners and it will probably be re-
ferrcd to tie law officer Of the District for
an opinion The Importance of the question
is apparent All the charity dogs of the
city are anxiously awaiting the decision.
Then, if this ladys dog is exempted, tho
dogs attached to educational institutions
will also probably howl for exemption, and
clerical CANNES will be seeking the protec-
tion of the church. On its face, the request
of the lady matron is q simple matter, but
to grant it will be setting dangerous pre-
cedent.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

SAM Cox has declared his preference for
THURMAN as the Democratic candidate in
1880. This is the most damaging feature
that has yet appeared in THURMANs can
didacy for the nomination. SUNSET, it
should be understood, is the mere echo Of
JOHN KELLEY, and Cox is notorious as :
false political prophet. He knew that TIL
DEN wouldn't be nominated at st. Louis he
did
National Republican., 1878-07-26

THE Post alleges in substance that the
editor of The REPUBLICAN, is daily perco-
lating his wealth through its columns.
Well, ii that should prove true, what of it e?
Isn't it quite as honorable for him to filter
his own wealth through the columns of his
paper as it is for the editor of tho Post to
percolate somebody else's money through
til" arid aud impecunious columns of the
PoS' We commend this couundrum to
its digestive organs
National Republican., 1878-07-26
EVEN WITH THE YANKEES. AT LAST.

WIZ" hhNhEh4S, LAST.
The best illustration of Southern loyalty
that we have seen lately is to be found in the
recent uttennce Of the Charleston -. c.
Journal Of Commerce, that if the South
could leave the Union without firing
shot she would not do it. The Union now
means to her profit and domination be-
youd her hopes and at the expense of her
" bitterest foes, who have been blown up by
" their own torpedo That's it, exactly.
She-that is, the South-is realizing under
the mud-sill, sycophantic condition of
Northern Cancellation both profit and domi-
" nation beyond her hopes" and Is thereby
getting revenge, the sweet revenge, she
seeks at the expense of her bitterest foes"
the hated Yankees and the Northern people
in general 1t is not very long ago since
the Gushers, Conciliators, and Liberals of
the North hoOted and scoiled at the idea
that the Coniederates would seek to gain
within the Union what they failed to obtain
outside of it. But here we have blunt, out
spoken, proud boast that this sought-for re-
suit is being and has already been accom-
plished. There's no use crying over
Spilled milk" is the homely saying peril
nent to this condition of affairs but we
add that there is some Use in remembering
who spilled it, Step by step under the bull
doing efforts Of the Liberals the Republi-
can party has yielded the vantage ground
II held at the close Of the war until at last
1t has lost or finally relinquishcd its hold
upon every Southern State, and the Confed-
erate power is regnant not only in the
South but in other sections and is about to
grasp control Of the entire nation. This
would not have been possible il the party
had remained true to itself and its princi-
constitutional amendments; and true to
the impulses and motives which led to the
enactment of tine reconstruction acts.
We repeat what we have said before
that the increased representation of the
South in Congress, and the Electoral College,
due TO the counting Of blacks in the appor-
tionment aud their disiranchisement ut the
polls has enabled the Southern Confederate
Democracy to win this signal victory over
the loyal people of the country at large. In
fact, the enlranchiscment of the blacks has
proved to be u perfect political boomerang,
the recoil Of which has mortully injured the
organization for whose interests, in the SER
vice of loyalty and good government, it was
prepared. Out of 'OOd has come evil, and
the enemies of the country are using its very
safeguards for its destruction. Can any rea-
sonable man who pretends for a moment
the slightest regard for Republican prin-
ciples, tolerate any longer the des-
picablc, trucking and suicidal policy of Con-
ciliation which Is responsible for these de-
plOrabe results? Verify, the time for
temporiHing has past, and, although we can
not regain our lost ground, we can at least
show Stalwart inclination to resent the
insults offered us by our conquered (?)
foes. Let Liberalism and namby-pamby
Cancellation be shelyed for awhile, and let
us try the experiment of firm adherence
to principle, no matter If some deceitlul, in
National Republican., 1878-07-26

SENATOR VOORHEES,, in a letter to CASEY
foUNG, Of Tennessee, recently made public,
limits that the contest in Indiana is very
close, and pleads that fact as an excuse for
his non-attcndanee at political barbecue,
to attend which he had been invited. The
truth is the entire Democratic party Of the
North is about to be barbecued itself, and
VOORHEES, has pressing engagements to par
ticipatc in the roasting in one of the hottest
corners.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

WHEN Secretary THOMPSON reaches the
White Mountains, in his present tour of
naval inspection" the ultimate success of
modern seafaring science will have been &C.
complished The Tallapoosa is q staunch
vessel, and will, no doubt, serve every re-
quirement of the trip-especially under
civil-service reform commanders. But the
idea Of this inland voyage is not altogether
new. There was the man-of-war of our
Pacific squadron that was carried inland on
the South American shore. But she had o
tidal wave to aid her, while the present eff
fort is supported solely by desire to reform
things and show that junketing at the Gov
ernment expense should not be INDUCED in
unless compensatory benefits follow there
from. Verify, this is an age of discovery.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

GENERAL GRANT talking history and
reeling it of in sententious criticisms of
men and measures presents new phase of
his character to his fellow-citizens. The
faithful and friendly pen of JOHN RUSSELL.
YouSG served to record his conversations as
reproduced in our Yesterdays issue.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

IT il said that the Stccdmanites out at
Toledo, Ohio, will bolt the Democratic Con
grcssonal nomination if HURD succeeds
over STEEDMAS. We have heard this kind
MAN was in Washington pending the last
electoral count in the capacity of Major
General of the Veteran Copperheads who
proposed to inaugurate TILDEN or die in
National Republican., 1878-07-26
Lurid Glare Of Jimanderson.

The Philadelphia Press, which Is not always
humorous, Is responsible for the statement that
James T.. Anderson, the talented midnight editor,
has connected himself with the Washington Post.
We have not observed the lurid glare Mr.. Ander.
sons intellect hickcring through the columns OF
the Pot, though there was ono tremendous false
hood the other day about hucklcbeTrics in MaSsa
chusetts having been bred 10 the size OF All OK:
heart cherry. That may Lave given rise to the
story that Anderson had 'ClinChel on."
National Republican., 1878-07-26

latter remark true Of our detective corps.
Its numerous and prompt arrests, including
that of the NATHAN murderer, the $4,000
Treasury robbery, and It's frequent recovery
Of stolen Government rs well as private
property speaks fjr itself By all means
their pay should not be reduced.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

IT doesn't cost the people any more, 1t is
true, to maintain the Potter Committee at
Atlantic City than it would if its sessions
were held elsewhere; but what is the use of
the expenditure anyway The committee
is simply mud-mochine in General Ben
BUTLER's hands, and Perjury.Mill when
POTTER takes hold of tho crank.
National Republican., 1878-07-26
Chsorfulness Even In tho Grave.

Dead men tell no tales but dead party speaks
with loud voice In the address of the Republican
State committee of North Carolina. The address
begins with the declaration that the committee has
decided To have no convention and mako no nonli.
nations this year. and concludes with the state.
ment that the Republican party In North Caro-
1876 and that II cannot and will not die" There
Is nothing llke chcCrflIlncss even In the yraYe-
National Republican., 1878-07-26

THE wild, wild Western style of journal
ism, before its rough edges are rounded of
by the attrition of Eastawn culchaw, is
something unique. The editor of the
Omaha lNeb.) Herald, for example, desig-
mates his cotemporary of the Omaha Bee as
a Bohemian baboon," which is allitemtive,
If not elegant. He should come East and
start Democratic organ on borrowed cap
ital, by all means. But this epithet is not
his best effort. lie dismisscs the "Bohc-
mian baboon aforesaid with scorn in the
following exemplary style:
This is the bul.ring into which we jerk the
stub noscd and web.foOted creature who de.
fes all chronological classification. and ask a
civilized community to note the performance
Of the thing for whom a United States Senator
Is playing the part Of unwilling sponsor and
reluctant stool. pigeon.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

We are to have Poor Peoples Excur-
sion down the Potomac at last. The Frank
lin Legion has adopted the suggestion of
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN looking to this
result, and has fixed August prox. as
the day. Let it be rouser!
National Republican., 1878-07-26

1--WE rely on the Republicans of Chicago
fohaid in rcgaining the next House we may
expect to realize our hopes about the next
Centennial. 1t took them q year and half
to find out that they had beaten CARTER
HARRISON.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

the attempt. But he didn't do either. Pre-
viously he had been at st. Louis, and threat
ened to bolt If TILDES got the nomination.
But he didn't do that either.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

THE Memphis Appcd' and other Southern
Democratic papers are using General BEN
BuTLER's name as q bugaboo to frighten
discontented Democrats from joining the
Nationals. Says the Apped:
Ben BUTLER Is Nationalist. lie made tho
confession to New York World reporter last
Friday. Who Is Ben BurLER4 Let every
Southern man answer for himself, aud then we
want some one to count the Nationalists In this
part of the LORDS vineyard.
1t may be added without violence to the
truth that similar influences are of avail in
the North to produce similar terrifying re-
suits.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

THE Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore San is responsible for the state
ment that ox-Postmaster PARKER, of New
Orleans, was the single Federal official in
Louisiana who approved the desertion of
PACKARD by the Administration, and who
upheld tho policy. To which we remark
that he was in the eternal fitness Of things
the single Federal official in Louisiana who
deserved removal for political reasons" II
this statement is true, and we do not doubt
1t. But 1t seems that no was O faithful and
efficient official. Why, then, was he re-
moved, unless IL was for personal reasons ?
National Republican., 1878-07-26
FRIDAY

CARTER HARRISON says there is mo 60.
ing behind the returns :" returns, he means,
Of the salary he received for his stolen scat
In the House. Danish the thought
National Republican., 1878-07-26

J IT Is gratifying to know that our neigh
Dor of the Post ha, hit upon the expedient
OF making libel matter of book account
between us. Having long score of half q
year standing against that paper, and being
advised that recorded judgments for any
considerable amount would prove inefficient
as to reaching indemnity or realizing dam
ages, We have been at u loss how to proceed
to secure proper recompense for its libellous
assaults We now thank its inventive
genius for suggesting q plan under which
we may get even by trading out the heavy
balance that exists against 1t, and if our
legal adviser thinks that the best alterna-
tive, we may draw on it occasionally, and
thus reduce the indebtedness. We could
have used half the alphabet in filing ex-
hibits wherein the Post has grossly and
maliciously libelled the present editor of
THE REPUBLICAN, but we have too much
respect for the letters that compose the
English language to thus abuse them sep
arately. There is matter of some $50, 600
In the way Of libel which we have
cnhHou against IL, anu WHICH must DO ac-
counted for in our settlement. Will the
Post be kind enough to inform us, under its
new system OF keeping books of libel ac-
count between u.s. what an apology and
square back-down are to count as credits ?
Some months ago the editor of that paper
backed down under some evasion and more
prevarication from very serious charge,
and we want to give him credit for that on
our books. And now we want to apologize
to the Post for having permitted the COM
munication to appear in THE REPUBLICAN
which has given oilense to its editor, with
the remark that if the epithets contained
therein had been noticed it would not have
appeared. 1t was permitted without due
care and consideration, beyond the fact that
it announced valuable acquisition to its
staff, which we thought il would be pleased
to have the public understand, and the
earlier the better for It's interests.
National Republican., 1878-07-26
Crime Clearly Proven.
Lsyraonse stAndard.l

No alleged crime has ever been more clearly
proven than the alleged Democratic terror ntlm.
ldation, murder, violence, and fraud, by which a
fair and free election was prevented IN many OF
the parishes of Louisiana.
National Republican., 1878-07-26
He Thought So In II.

Boston Traveller
Murlt Halstead thinks General Grant Is not
wanted by the people Of this country. lie thought
80 In 1871 but the mistake was IN not knowing
that Halstead was the person not wanted.
National Republican., 1878-07-26

As THE sunlight dissipatcS the shadows and
makes all nature beautiful so Is the human face
freed from those dark BlOtChes and Pimplcs and
Blood Mixture
National Republican., 1878-07-26

DIED.
MORRis-ln this city, July ~, alter a short Illness
mAhhlhf, willow OF the late Commodore Charles
Morris, In the Sith year Of her age
Funeral from her late residence 1915 ii street Fri
day AFTERNOON Mt SD o'clock, Friends oI the family
are Invited to attend without furl her noiics ssS
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18
OninIn.

Opium is the dried juice of the poppy.
1t is prepared in Asia Minor, Turkey,
Egypt and India, in which country the
poppy is cultivated for the exclusive
purpose of making opium. 1t forms
staple commodity of many provinces in
India, in which the following is the
mode of treatment commonly used. 1t
is an object of careful attention to keep
the plants at due distance from each
other If the seed happens to be thick
ly sown, some of the young plants are
pulled up and used as pot-herbs, the
leaves OF which when boiled have fla
vor of peas but when they have attain
ed eighteen inches in height, they are
unfit for that use from their intoxicating
nature. The plant flowers in February
and the opium is extracted in March
or April, according to the period of SOW
ing. When the flowers have fallen and
the capsules assume a Whitish color,
four or five incisions are made in them
with a three-toothed instrument which
is drawn from the top to the bottom.
The incisions are always made in the
evening, as the night-dews, by their
moisture, favor the exhalation of the
juice, and the opium is gathered next
morning. The wounds in each capsule
are repeated for three successive days,
and in general, fifteen days suffice TO
gather all the opium in a field. From
the incisions milky juice exudes, which
thickens upon exposure to the air, and
is carefully scraped off with a shell, or
a small iron instrument previously dip
ped in oil. 1t is afterward worked in
an iron pot in the heat of the sun, until
it is of a consistency to be formed into
thick cakes Of about four pounds weight.
They are then covered with the leaves
OF the poppy or some other vegetable 10
prevent them sticking together, and in
this condition they are dried and packed
swRY toS expectation,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18
Baby Faces.

/ passed pretty cottage on my homeward
path one night,
And its windows glowed like crystal in the
mellow evening light;
And between the crimson curtains stood an
infant bright and fair,
With my own dead darling's hazel eyes and
waving, sun-tipped hair.
paused to gaze upon him, and my heart was
filed with woe
At thought of my dear one lying meath the
winters frost and snow
And 1 longed TO. kiss the sweet lips that we're
pressed against the pane,
For sake of the buried baby-lips that 1 never
shall kiss again.
Oh, babies with happy faces, and eyes SO
tender and true,
May God in His mercy guide you lifes devious
windings through
MAY never a shadow of sorrow, and never
thought of guile.
Chase the angel-hgbt from your sunny eyes,
nor darken your baby-smile
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18
Items OF Interest.

A muddy country road is something
to add mire.
Sleight of hand-Refusing charms
ing young lady.
A bouquet is a good soent-piece for
the dmner-table.
SunHowers originally came from Peru,
and we're sacred emblem with thea
devout.
The highest navigable water on this
continent is Chatauqua lake, New
York State.
When the Arabs kill hyena, they
bury the head lest it should be used in
a charm against them.
"Do fishes go crazy?" is conun-
drum proposed by Seth Green. Some
times they get in seine.
"a lie which is all lie
Can be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is half lie
Is harder matter to fight"
Chan Put Nam is the name of the
Chinese consul general who is to watch
over the interests of his countrymen in
California. He is no relative to old
Israel Put Nam.
Aunt Prudence, in the Pulaski Denao-
ordt, says: There is not particle of
satisfaction in telling man he is a
liar for if he is he knows it, and if he
isn't who does the lying3
Birds build their nests in the seaweed,
which grows and floats with the gulf
stream, and in many instances are found
q thousand miles from any land. This
weed is sustained by pods grown upon
it, which act as air floats.
A German paper asserts that prussic
acid only causes suspension OF life at
first, and that one who takes it can be
restored to animation by the pouring Of
acetate of potash and salt, dissolved in
water, on the head and spine. Rabbits
have been so recovered.
Three hundred and forty distinct
species of humming birds have been
classified. These little feathered crea-
lures are found only in America and it's
islands. There are humming birds
which, when stripped of their feathersi
are no larger than humble bee.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18
TERMS, 800 A YEAR.
The Coming of the Snow.


Ihs clouds we're copper-dyed all day,
AMI struggled in each others way,
Until the darkness drifted down
To the summer-forsaken town.
Said people, passing in the lane,
It will be snow" or "'Twill be rain y
And school-bairns, laughing in row,
Looked through the panes and wished for
snow.
The swollen clouds let nothing fall
But gath'ripg gloom, that covered all
Then came the wind and shook his wings,
And curled the dead leaves into rings.
He made the shutters move and crack,
And hurtled round the chimney-stack
Then he swept on to shake the treep,
Until they moaned like winter seas.
Soon he went whistling DER tho hill,
And all the trees again stood still
Then, through tho dark, the snow came
down,
Aud muftied all the sleeping town.
The keen stars looked out through The
night,
And flecked the boughs with flakes Of
light;
And moving clouds revealed the moon,
To make on earth fairy noon.
Then winter went unto his throne,
That with million diamonds shone
A crown Of stars was on his head,
And round him his rich robes were spr ca d
At morn the BARNS laughed with delight
To see the fields and hedges white
And folks said, rs they hurried past,
"Good winters come at last. ;
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18
The HnmmIng Of TeIegraph WI

AS to the cause of the sounds
quently heard TO proceed from telegk
wires in the open air, il has been Cd
tomary to accept the wind-producin
the sound by direct vibrations, similar "a
those Of the Eolian harp. A writer i
an Australian journal, however, calls 81
tention TO the fact that one who gives
close observation to both the wire and
sounds will find that the latter make
themselves obvious likewise when there
is a total absence of wind; and in a quiet
morning in winter, when the wires ap'
pear covered with frost to the thickness
of the finger, they nevertheless carry on
lively vibrations and swinging, while the
air is totally quiet. According to this
writer, therefore, the vibrations re due,
not to the wind. but to the changes OF
atmospheric temperature, and espeei-
ally through the action Of cold, as a
lowering of the temperature induces
shortening Of the wires, extending over
the whole length of the conductor. a
considerable amount of friction is pro-
dneed on the supporting bells, thus in
duoing sound both IN the wives aud che
S0lsh
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18

/ was alone with my brother. 1 heard
the light breathing of his children, and
mine now, in the room close by the low
voices of David and Hulda reached me
once in while from the lower floor. 1
might have been a hard and bitter
woman, but as at last the day went out
and took Bob with it, felt grim de-
light in my sore and aching heart that
he was beyond the reach of the Marleys.
--.HdTDeT's MuQdziYe,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18
A COMPLICATED Case.

Herr Bohren lived in Switzerland and
married him a wife. He afterward lef6
both her and his native land and cane
to this country. The wife heard nothing
from him until word came that he waa
dead. She then married Herr Zambrunn
But few weeks ago Herr Bohren re.
turned and claimed her for his wife
By the law of that country it was no0
perfectly clear whether she was his win
or Herr Zumbrunn's. Herr Zumbruns
refused to give her up, and she refuse..
to go. A lawsuit was begun, bu
while it was in progress, Herr BohIe
armed himself with pistol and shot tl.
second husband in the arm and chef
wounding him seriously. Thus culH
GUS situation may arise. A civil eouFt
is engaged in ascertaining 10 wbleh
these two men this woman is lega
welded, and criminal court will
occupied with the trial of her first hHA
band for the attempted murder of het
second In the event of her being de
clared the wife of Bohren, and if, az
likely enough, he should bo condemne
to imprisonment for life, she will be
the unfortunate position of having lce
her second husband, and found her fir1t
only to lose him, and without possibilii
of marrying another 80 long as the iaI
ter may live.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18

:
HERE LIETH THE BoDI OF LAWRENCE
WASHINGTON soNNE AND HEIR OF
ROBERT WASHINGTON OF sovLGRAvE
IN THE CoUNTIE OF NORTHAMPTON '
ESQUIRE WHO MARRIED MARGARET
THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM
BUTLER OF TEES IN THE CoUNTIE
OF sUssEXE ESQUIRE, WHO HAD Issu
BY HER 8 soNNs AND 9 DAUGHTERS
vTifca LAWRENCE DECEASED THE Is
/ -, ~ DECEMBER A. DNI 1916.
Those that by chance or choyce
- Of this hast sight
~ Know life to death Iesignes
as daye to night;
But as the sums retorne
Revives the day
So Christ shall US
Though turnde to dust d clay.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-12-18
Origin of the Stars and Stripes,

A New York Herald correspondent
sends to that paper an interesting &C
count of visit to Brington, seven miles
from Northampton, England, the home
of George Washington's ancestors.
Referring to the church at Brington
where the Washingtons were buried,
the correspondent says: There are
there two tombs. The one in the chan
Gel covers the grave of Lawrence Wash
ingtOn, who died in 1922. The inscrip-
tion on the grave of the former reads
as follows: