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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16
The Violet.

Lonely and sweet violet grew
The meadow weeds among.
One morn a rosy shepherd maid,
With careless heart and idle tread,
Came by,
Came by
The meadow lands and sung.
Ah," said the violet, "would were
Some stately garden flower
That / might gathered be and pressed
One little hour to her sweet breast.
All, me
All, me
Only one little hour!
On came the rosy shepherd lass,
With heart that idly beat,
And crushed the violet in the grass.
1t only said " How sweet!
How sweet" it said, with fainting moan
"If must die, TO die alone
For her.
For her,
To die at her dear feet"
From the German Of Goethe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16
TIMELY TOPICS.

The microphone as a thief-catcher has
proved very useful to an English resident
in India, who found his store of oil rapid
ly and mysteriously diminishing. He
fixed microphone to the oil cans, carried
the wire up to his bedroom, and. after
the house had been closed for the night,
sat up to await the result. Very shortly
he heard the clinking of bottles, follow
ed by the gurgling sound of liquid being
poured out, and running down stairs he
caught his bearer in the act of filling
small bottles with oil for easy conveyance
from the premises.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

Gone forever !" thus the bell
Swayed in slow and solemn llnell
Till its voice was stilled and the faithful hands,
OF the old clock fell; and ruin stands,
With drear and melancholy face,
Over the once-ihmiliar place.
With the fieeting time and into the past,
The old town clock has vanished at last.
Monroe Commercial
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16
Rates Of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements col-
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for i'm advance.
job work, Cash on Delivery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

The Mandalay correspondent of the
CdlcuttG EI1gljSlin1dn thus describes the
massacre of the royal family of Burmah
by order of the king: A council was
held by the king and his young advisers,
and the conclusion come to was that eX-
termination was the only means whereby
he could obtain safety. The immediate
execution was, therefore, ordered ofevory
one in prison. EXecutioners were easily
obtained, and with darkness commenced
the scene of slaughter. 1t being, how
ever, found inconvenient to get through
the job in one night, division was made,
and some twenty were chosen. These
were severely beaten and kicked, the
women being shamefully treated. When
lifeless they were hurled into large well
in the garden. Children were torn to
pieces before their parents eyes, and the
parents then put to death. The Meckra
prince was made witness of the most
atOcious conduct toward his wife and
children, and saw his aged mother beaten
senseless to the ground and then dragged
to the well and tumbled in. Thongya's
family Jared the same, as also the two
Menghees, the Myodawlaw, his two
sons, and the PhawOon. The princes,
instead of being put in along with their
families, were killed last and thrown into
the river.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

Connecticut, with school population
Of l3s, ,407, had. during the past year,
l3O,9S7 children in her schools.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

"Time is feeting," but naught heed they
Who carelessly hear the bell each day;
"Ne'er retreating" the thoughtless and guy
Who make of their lives holiday.
"Time is fleeting," but they forget
Who laden their moments without regret
AS they onward fly, with earthly gaining,
With worldly care and sad complaining.
'"Gone forever" the steady knell
Over and over Seems to tell;
And they who dwell both far and near,
Can oft the quiet teaching hear,
As through the quaint and shady streets
The echo fingers and repeats.
Down the river that waIiders along,
With Il murnuring, ever-changing song,
I'LL its shallow waters deeper grow,
OF float the bell-tones faint and low,
Till they startle the dreamer idly afioat
Who tranquily in his gliding boNt,
+, Drifts where the shadows and suabeams lie,
Between the islands Meath summer sky;
And the fisherman hears them down in the
bay,
And the hunter notes the hour of day
AS the soft breeze lightly carries the sound
Over the marshy hunting g-ground,
Where the lotus flowers, with spreading leaves,
A rare and antique beauty weaves.
Sadly, ah ! sadly, through the air
They come TO the hillside, still and fair;
Over the lonely, sacred spot
Where many rest who hear them not;
Unheeded falls the echo there,
Unheeded wavers in the air,
Unheeded now, but once each tone
BY them was heard, and loved, and known.
= Hour after hour of their lives had been told,
Now resting together, the young and the old,
SO calm, so hushed, no earthly sound
Will cqll them from that sleep profound
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

When a safe gets into the hands OF
burglars it is no longer safe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

English newspapers announce with con-
siderable interest the discovery, made by
the Paris Acclimation society, that Jap
anese wheat, planted in April or May,
is ripe and ready for the harvest quite as
early as European-grown wheat, sown
some five or six months earlier, and the
yield is equally large with that produced
from any of the varieties of European
wheat. If the same result can be obtain
ed in other places, says the Toxic Times,
the use of Japanese wheat, it is presumed,
will become universal, though no expla-
nation of the phenomenon is yet supplied
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

The Don Cossacks of Russia have a
peculiar way of detecting thieves, and
the result of it are some times peculiar.
Five thousand roubles of the government
money, appropriated for the equipment
of body of Cossacks, was locked in a
trunk, which, for safe keeping, was de-
being intrusted to a judge. After time
the attaman required portion of the
money, but the judge who went to the
church to obtain it quickly returned with
the report that the whole of it had been
stolen. Following the custom of the
Don Cossacks, the attaman ordered the
villagers to send him their handkerchiefs,
which he delivered to a fortune-teller,
sYho was required to identify the thieves.
She was blindfolded, and at once seized
two of the handkerchiefs, exclaiming:
These are the thieves" They belong
ed to the judge and the priest
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16
TERMS, sI.5O A YEAR.
The Old Town Clock.

Upon the square in the quiet town,
The courthouse stands, and looking down
From the tower above is the well-known face
on the old town clock. From its lofty place,
oFer the tree tops swaying TALL
Il patiently tells the time to all.
In summer days, from the streets below,
So close and dense the green leaves grow,
1fs pointing hands can scarce be seen;
But over the rustling boughs of green,
And mingled with joyous song of bird,
It's warning voice is ever heard.
Throughout each day and silent night
Nhile the stars oerhead are cleaning bright,
Ever and ever sounds the bell
And ever it's lesson seems to tell,
A lesson rung with every tone,
To the midnight watcher sad and lone.
Time is fleeting,
Ne'er retreating,
Another day
Has passed away;
Gone forever,
Returning never;
Every treasure,
Every pleasure,
That it carries,
Never tarries;
Time is fieeting,
Meier retreating.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-16

DIR. Jacob S. West, resident of
Boerne, Texas, prints letter in a local
paper on the manner of the introduction
of yellow fever into the United States.
He cites instance after instance to sup
port his theory that the fever is trans
mitted by means of coffee. Four-fifths
of the coffee consumed in this country,
he says, comes from the very hot-beds Of
the yellow fever pestilence. 1t has fallen
under his observation that towns by
which the most watchful quarantines
were kept were caught by the smuggling
of little innocent" coffee.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24
Recipes for the Stable.

Paragoric. say , vi. put into pint good
whiskey is excellent for colo.
Spirits of turpentine, 3 ": tar, oz ::
whale oil, : o. makes a good hoot- bound
wash. NiX and apply to the hoots often,
When soaking horses feet put a pack
age Of common baking soda in water fair
ly not; be very careful to dry the feet
thoroughly,
White lead and linseed oil mixed as for
paint, is almost umivalled for saddle or
harness gals and bruises. it forms an air
tight coating Apply with a small brush.
For magnetic ointment take lard, rails
ins icut in pieces, and fine cut tobacco,
equal weights Of each Simmer well to-
gether then strain and press from the
drcgs
A practical farmer tells how to keep
the bowels Of horses loose in winter as
follows; j." At each feeding give him
about quart of the middlings Of shorts
of wheat. as well us what grain and hay
he will eat. This has been used for five
years, and has never failed in effect.
Good things to have handy where there
are horses: White lead for bruises or
breaks in skin, saddle gals, sc. Bath
ing whiskey with about , o. of turpen-
tine, , oz. hartshoTn and a little camphor,
for sprains, stiffness, &c. Leaf lard for
cuts. Coal oil applied to a Slight strain
is also good.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24

The Baltimore sun (dem.) says that the
democratic leaders in Ohio feel that Gen.
Ewing's prospects will be materially in
jured if the democrats in Maine adhere to
their announced purpose of voting for the
grcenback ticket rather than for DR.. Gar
cclon, since any indication of the greater
strength of the greenback party i'll Maine
will give fresh courage to that following
in Ohio, which will take thousands of
votes from Gen. Ewing and give them to
the regular greenback candidate, Dem
ocrats in Maine, therefore, who desire the
success of Gen. Ewing and Mr.. Tilden,
should forego the pleasure of voting for
Mr.. Smith. But it is pretty generally
understood that the bulk of the party i'll
Maine will vote for Smith. 1t looks as
though the soft money democrats Of Maine
will be made to serve the important pur-
pose of helping to kill off Ohio democrats,
which perhaps is as good use as can be
made of them. Lewiston Journal.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24
NUMBER 80.
A Tornado in Massachusetts

Wednesday was intensely hot in Bos-
ton and vicinity, and in the afternoon
dark clouds began to appear and at F.
NJ. tempest, the scverest ever expert
cnccd there, burst upon the city. Hail
fell in large quantities breaking windows,
and the wind blew hurricane, unrOofng
buildings, uprooting trees, and blowing
down chimneys. \ planning mill in the
city was struck by lightning and set on
fire, and tiremen buried in the ruins Of
falling ChimneyS and are not vet eteXtricated.
The duration Of the storms greatest Vi
| Olence was about twenty five minutes
| and in that period great damage was
done to life and property Reports from
various points down the harbor contain
accounts Of serious damage and distress
ing accidents Many small boats and
yachts were capsized. The most serious
disaster vet reported was to the small
schooner Myrtle of CharlestoWn, having
on board -four women, a man and boy.
The schooner capsized Oft Bird Island and
all hands excepting the man, who chung
t. the top mast We're drowned
The tornado did great damage at Pitts
field, Three persons were kiilrd and
| three or four wounded. some fatally.
Buildings We're unroofed ana blown down,
! hundreds Of trees leycllrd and fully : 10
600 OF so 900 worth Of property damag-
ed. The tornado first stuck the Kellogg
place occupied by Thomas Payncs The
wall Of the kitchen part % the house was
blown in and the BARN completely ,,emol-
/ lshcd wagons smashed and hay blown
I away Following along the VALLEY 10 the
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24

LINING PROOFS OF THE SUCCESS or
THE GOLDFISH HATCHERY. Thousands Of
young Goldfish may be seen around our
wharves, measuring from one and a half to
two and half inches in length. These
are no doubt from the hatchery of the
fish commission put in the water last
winter, and are living proofs of the enter
prise 1t is hoped that these young cod
may remain and grow up in this harbor
or along this shore. 1t is calculated that
in three Years Goldfish will attain a
weight Of four pounds The female com
menccs to spawn at the age Of four years.
Some specimens Of cod hatched a year
and a half ago, now in possession Of the
en- inches. Cape Ann Advertiser
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24
Tllden and Hendricks.

From the assembling of the ST Louis Couvcu
tion until the end of the Potter committee MIR. Til
den has followed one course and MIR. Hendricks
another. Mr.. Tllden spent thousands Of dollars
for champagne at st Louis and it flowed like
ter and what delegate could till himself with tn"
wine OF a candidate and then vote against him
The Hendricks party confident that they
spent less than the legitimate OUTLAY OF a candidate
before such convention. Mr.. Hendricks did not
want the nomination given him. and he accepted
upon the voluntary promise of MIR. ,Hldeu and all
of his friends, including the entire executive com
mittee that they would all work tor his nomination
in 1890 Ii did ask this. He had no demands to
make on any one But they, in turn, asked him
to carry Indiana for the ticket, and he did Every
expense OF the campaign was charged up to him.
and most Of the money spent came directly from
his purse The disagreement between himself and
Governor Tiden as to the management Of the can
yass was SO wide that Mr. HENDRICKS holding the
second place on the ticket, stepped into the back
ground and gave word of counsel, except in his
own state, and even then Tlden sent a special
agent to Indiana to watch and report, and after
wards disowned the man because he exposed Il
cipher entrusted to him Tilden's plan to
"make combinations, arrange and set up things
in fact, trckerv. Hendricks wanted an open, hon
est, manly fight, direct appeal to the sense and
patriotism of the people, but Tlden, whose politi
cal training had been acquired In fixing up the
wards of New ork city, insisted on dark lantern
campaign, and Cooper and Hewitt, pupils of the
same school, sided with him. The results of their
work can be seen in the official testimony taken
by the Potter committee cincinnati Enquirer
A Woman living in Berkshire, VT, has been
badly poisoned by drinking the milk OF a COW that
had eaten potato tops sprinked with Paris green.
Though in critical condition hopes are enter
tanned of her recovery.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24

If there is anything which makes life
desirable it is to sit by the side of a man
who has fourteen different diseases and
hear him tell how he caught them and
how much he has suffered from them.
The dullest man flashes into elOQuence
when he speaks OF his personal complaints.
If YOU begin to talk to him about the
Scriptures he reminds you that Noah had
an attack fintlammatory rheumatism af-
ter debarking from the ark, and because
he was compelled to lie on the cold
ground. This is an open door to his own
sufierings in the same direction. Indeed
there is nothing which makes you think
your birth was a nice fortune as much as
the acquaintance of a man who has been
thinking for the last ten years of the many
diseases with which he is afflicted, and
whose genius lies in the direction Of call
ING your attention to them.
Conscious guilt will help man more
than anything else to argue against the
Bible and to prove that there is no truth
in religion.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24

State elections will be held this year in
the following order: kentucky, August
4, state officers and legislature; Calitor-
tornia, Sept. 3, state and judicial officers,
four congressman and Legislature ; Maine,
Sept. s, state officers and legislature !;
Ohio and Iowa, Oct. Z, state officers in
part and legislature; Maryland Massa-
chusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virgin
il and Wisconsin, Nov. 3. Governors are
elected in all the states named except
Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin,
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24
At Sea.

Worn voyagers, who watch Tor land
Across the endless wastes OF sea,
Who gaze before and on each hand,
why look We not to what ye flee
The stars, by which the sailors steer,
Not always rise before the PROV;
Though forward nought but clouds appear
Behind they may be breaking now.
What though We may not turn again
TO shores of childhood that we leave,
Are those Old signs we followed vain
Can guides so oft found true deceive
On. sail we to the South or North,
Oh, sail We to the East or West,
The port from which we first put forth
| our hearts home, is our ite's best
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24

PRODUCTIVE SOIL. A correspondent
at Easton says: AS a sample Of what can
be done in Aroostook | will state what
Mr. Eben J. Hill, of Monticello, raised
last year on fifty rods of ground without
extra care 30 bushels potatoes , bushels
shelled corn; 2 bushels beans 20 bushels
carrots; 5 bushels beets; 3 bushels par
ships ? bushels onions; ton pumpkins !;
60 heads of cabbage; 40 squash, besides
cucumbers, tomatoes, &c. The piece also
contained large flower bed, while there
was considerable space next to the fences
and in the corner that was not cultivated.
Who says that land in AroOstook doesn't
produces Wing.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24
BELFAST MAINE, THURSDAY JULY a. 1870

q group playing cards, ''Won't work, and
haven't for several years
"HoW did they all come here ?" asked
the reporter
"Most of them came on the Erie rail
road, one and two at a time They beat
their way on the trcights, and from what
they tell me, most of them agreed to
meet here When they leave. one lot are
gong to the berry farms up the river
where the raspberrieS are, Others are
gong to make d strike back in the coun-
try. Nearly all Of them are going to meet
i'll place called Hornellsyille, in the lat
ter part Of August, somewhere along the
Erie
what DO you know about that boy
they call the Young Tn ?"
Nothing; I've tried to coax him to
tell Inc where he is from. Sometimes he
cries like baby, and then the Boss, if
he sees him, sWears at him. Just as
soon as the boy gets a load of Whiskey in
him, he IS pretty near as bad as the rest.
| sometimes think the Boss stole him
Any way, the boys afraid Of him. \
stranger has been around for d day or
two, and | can see it makes the Boss I'M
easy. Maybe. that's the reason they are
breaking camp"
How about the burglaries pcrpetratcd
IN and near the city 7"
Don't ask me about that The Whs-
Key them fellows swallow isn't all cot by
tattoOlng. Often in the night some Of the
gang 20 somewhere When they come
back, sometimes they had sIathrrs OF
money. wouldn't have told So much if
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24
How to Manage Picnic.

~ thc HlNl lIdtc' I"I llr success "l q
NllIdH pI'-hIt, iIlc pFnInt IluHl l' toh-
?tliIai PcoP oPr Nh' Mll mi IlhtiN Io tn-
Jol cAcII "ILl"rS sotlrlI alld ~ entertain
cach "thtf a-rteablN. NtAt II import
anrr T." thr people Of thg pr-mc \ thr
l'l3tc NH'Ir y i IrId. ne Spoi NIlouiO
h' to"I ana Hhdl>' WIN grass dhd water
dI Manu. anu II p"NNIpI''' WIN ii mouse
near enough TO serve aS NI't!lrI III jIt
event oI >u''ItIl shower II tIl' -aII-
tFin7 IS genuine country Pr-h'' among
hcI-up"rS. some one must, "l course, see
tlldt tllr ground ls cleared ~ piuNh illu
dcad wood, alld that seats 1lt proNIdrd
bcioIrllahd. FaiIeh i"-S dnd PHI StulnpS
make picturesque resting places, but aIt
APT ~ &c infested WITH aIitS ana "tlltr In-
StrtS whose proximity : hot pleasant
LullcnroM may ht eaten tlthel On lci"tllS
spread on tlt ground oT on l"U-H tahitS
erected loI tLt purpose | hl> VIII, ol
course. I've drcIded hY circumstances. IN
any event 1t should he abundant fresh
ar 3nd exercise sharpen the appetite
wonderfully. Let II bt definitely agreed
upon beforehand what each one OF the
party Is t. contribute, and give the COM
lulAnall department Aito tht haluA oi Y
committee VINO small br responsible ior
the meal. lcc can bc easily KEPT tor
hours II tlrNt Wrapped ~ several thcE-
nrs~es If newspaper. then N an lcr
blanket, and the whole packed ln z baSk-
et. \ print or tWo Of butter may be put
in TN can anu lald next tine Ice lnSld"
the blanket. IN lce-plck >hould be pack
rd In the same basket where 1t can GtddI-
The Republican journal., 1879-07-24
My Diamond.

MY Diamond
could give You the pedigree OF the
stone, but the details are SO long and so
many they might tire You. Sufficient to
say that | bought il many wears ago from
an old jew in the lower part of Broadway.
who told me a curious story concerning
il. He said it was 4 talisman that four
hundred Years ago it was owned 10y a We
netian family OF ruined fortunes, Who had
long guarded it With Jealous care: it had
passed from them III many ways To broth
ers Of his in the money lending way. and
should he mine if would pay him his price
for it.
In truth the stone had Il Strange and
fiery gleam. AT the first glance it seemed
ofthc purcst water; in an instant it chang
ed 10 pink, blue and pale green and
then irrdrSccnt opal hucS, emitting sparks
OF fire
watched it curouSly for nearly an
hour, talking iIrclcyantly the while ON
other matters, and reluctantly coming 10
the conclusion that if ever 4 precious
stone possessed umcunny properties this
one cctainly did. Thought ySrltvicd-
m- to foolish SuprrStition or that my eyes
We're tired With long gazing al the gcm.
and to rest them | turned my glance 10
other diamonds in the ease To compare
them with the GaiSluan. The jew di-
Nincd NIX thought, for he took from his
side pocket Il wallet and opened ii, and
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