The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-11-26
TIMELY TOPICS.

Wayne township, in Ohio, contains a
tract known as Big Woods, the i1habi- |
tants of which lead somewhat un-
life. A party of masked men |
from this locality lately whipped two |
thieves severely and then posted the +,
Resolved, that courts be a
useless expense. and hereafter the coun-
Gil of safety is going to punish all
like they deserve"
The hostile Utes of Colorado did
almost unprecedented in In
dian warfare in surrendering the women
and children captured at the Meeker
agency safe and unharmed into the
hands of the United States authorities,
after having held them captives for
nearly three weeks, and Buffalo paper
says that this fact does something to
mitigate the barbarity of their revolt,
and if the government can induce the
Ute chiefs to surrender the Indians
guilty of the brutal murder of agent
Meeker and his male assistants it will
be triumph for the peace policy not
easily over estimated.
Five and a half millions of dollars are
spent every year by the Russian gov
ernment upon the military schools.
There are twenty sergeants' schools,
twenty-five military gymnasiums, two
military teachers seminaries, seven Off
GERS schools, the institute of the inn
perial pages, the military Typographical
school, the naval school, the naval
academy, the naval artillery school, the
naval engineer school, the military gen.
eral academy, the military artillery
academy, the military engineer academy,
four military veterinary schools, the
military medical academy. the military
law school and academy; in short,
there is only wanting a military theolo-
gical academy.
Moiada, the new Ell Dorado, which is
attracting thousands of Americans to
Mexico, includes parts of the States of
Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango.
The district has long been known as rich
in gold and silver, but the utter lawless-
ness which formerly prevailed, and the
frequent revolutions and forced. loans,
deferred capitalists and prospeCtors from
developing it. Things appear to have
changed for the better; life and prop
erty are reported comparatively safe
under the strict rule of President Diaz
The stories told of the richness of the
mines seem almost fabulous. 1t would
be well, however, for those who thirst to
become millionaires suddenly not to
rush too hastily into that foreign and al
most unknown region.
A murder that for GOODNESS and delib-
Grafton is not often surpassed is reported
from Breitenbach, Germany. A married
couple having quarreled, the wife left
4 ho AaxrS cfo
away, sleeping at night in barns or
wherever she found it convenient. Mean
while the husband remained calmly at
home. This indifference eXasperated
the wife to pitch of diabolical hatred,
and about eleven o'clock one night she
returned to the house, and while her
| husband lay asleep in an adjoining
room, went into the kitchen, started Il
| fire, filled the kettle with water and put
it on the stove, waited patiently until
| it steamed, and then, taking it to her
| husbands bedside, poured the contents
over him, scalding him so badly that he
lived only few hours.
Speaking ofmysterious disappearances
| in London, the correspondent of a pro-
vincial paper says: ''At the time of the
discovery of the remains (and before
their Identification as those of Miss
Hacker) in Euston square, Chief Su-
.perintendent Williamson OF Scotland
Yard received upward of one thousand
photographs of females who were miss
ing from various parts of the country
the bulk of whom had been traced tc
London, where the clue was lost. The
theory entertained by the officers is that
in many instances, after the victim has
been marked down, advantage is taker
of the lax state of the present lunacy
laws, certificate of lunacy, signed b!
two INSCRIPTIONS practitioners, is OBJ
tanned, and the unfortunate creature il
conveyed to one of the sO-called privat
asylums (scores of which exist unsus
pected in our large tcwns), and detained
where help or discovery is next to i'm
possible"