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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-29
THIRTY ACRES,

In jerks Township, Forest county; ten
acres cleared: small orchard growing :.
comfortable house well watered. Cheap.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-29
SIXTY ACRES,

One mile from Neilltown; about Is or 20
acres cleared, partly fenced. Some good
oak on the balance.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-29
FORTY ACRES,

Near Trunkeyville, Forest county. Part
OF the Daniel Jones place. viii sell cheap.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

farms of the largest size, where MANY
hundreds OF acres are ploughed annually,
that these large double-engine sets Of
apparatus are used, but there are COM
panles and associations of farmers in III
parts of England who own one or more
sets to be let out for hire, so that even
small farmer may have his plorehing
done by steam at a cost much less than
that of doing it by horse labor, when it
is considered that he is relieved from the
cost of maintaining his horses through
out the year. The mere matter of econ
omy: however, is a secondary considera-
ton as compared with the quality Of the
work done. The greater speed of the
stcam-p]ough gives much more thorough
pulverization and aeration to the soil,
the treading of horses feet is entirely
done away with, and the condition of the
land generally is greatly improved,
especially as the subsequent operations
may, where fields are sufficiently large,
all be done by steam-harrowing, rolling
and seed drilling. Indeed, the only
drawback to this system seems to be the
very large amount of capital that is
necessary to invest-a pair of twenty
horsepower traction engines, an eight.
furrow plough, aud 800 yards of steel
rope costing no less 1892 ($l1, $500.
To give an idea of the scale of the whole
system it may be stated that six-furrow
balance-plough is about thirty feet long,
and weighs over TWO tons.-Harper' 1
/ 1fnD0Zinp
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
The Water-Spider.

The insects that frequent the water
require predaceous animals to keep
them within due limits as we'll as those
that inhabit the earth; and the water
spider is one of the most remarkable
upon whom that office is devolved. To
this end her Observation-Disclosures her to fab
ricate kind of diving-bell in the bosom
of that element. She usually selects
still waters for this purpose. Her house
is an oval cocoon, filled with air and
lined with silk, from which the threads
issue in every direction, and are fastened
to the surrounding plants. In this CO.
coon, which is open below, she watches
for her prey, and even appears to pass
the winter, when she closes the opening.
1t is most commonly, yet not always,
under water; but its inhabitant has filed
it for her respiration, which enables her
to live in it. She conveys the air to it
in the following manner: she usually
swims on her back, when her abdomen
is enveloped in bubble of air, and ap-
pears like globe Of quicksilver. With
this she enters her cocoon, and displac-
ing an equal mass of water, again ascends
for second lading, till she has sufi-
GENTLY filed her house with it, so as to
expel all water. How these little ami
mails can envelop their abdomen with an
air bubble, and retain it till they enter
their cells, is still one of natures mys-
teries that has not been explained. tits
a wonderful provision which enables an
animal that breathes the atmospheric
air to fill her house with it under water,
and by some secret art to clothe her
body with air, as with a garment, which
she can put off when it answers her pur-
pose. This is kind of attraction and
repulsion that mocks all inquiries.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Furnishing Prisoners With Electric
itv

Some philosophers contend that cleo
tricity is life, the cause of all things.
Every month or two we see that it is ap-
piled in some new way as a helper of
mankind. Recently it has been used as
punishment in the Ohio penitentiary,
at Columbus, and the method is thus de-
scribed: The apparatus is in box ten
inches long, three high, and three wide,
and contains an electromagnetic. The
prisoner is taken to the ducking-box
formerly used in the insane department;
is stripped and blindfolded before COM
ing in sight of the water. box, then led
around a corner of the interior cell
building and put in the box handcufed,
though not shackled at the feet. He
sits down-the room is warmth three
inches of water, in which one pole of
the battery is placed, a sponge being
fastened to the other pole. While a
crank attached to the apparatus is
turned, the bare flesh of the prisoner is
touched with the sponge, and being
blindfolded he has no idea when or where
he is to be touched, and consequently is
not nerved against it. The application
often makes the convict scream, though
it does not hurt him, and has proved so
effective as to reduce, it is said, visitors
to the room IS per cent. The dungeons
in the prison have been diminished to
five, about one convict week being sent
there. Electricity has been substituted
for the ducking-tub and the report that
prisoners exposed to it suffer more than
by ducking is authoritatively denied.
Physicians say that its application is
often beneficial physically.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
That Old Coin.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.


Some three weeks since the Enquirer
published an account of the Fourth
National Bank Of this city receiving
$4,000 in new silver coin of half.dollar
denominations, which had been minted
half a century or more ago. At the
time but little was known about the his
tory of the coin, though many wild
guesses were made, among which was
one that it was thieves "plant" just
dug up. This, as we'll as all other theo-
ries about it, was incorrect. It is now
we'll known that the money is part of
$4,000, all in half-dollars, which two
miser bachelor brothers in northern
Pennsylvania purchased from the minis
and secretly buried. The money was
buried with a mutual agreement that
neither should disclose its hiding place
while they lived. One of the two died,
and the secret was kept inviolate until
the second one came to his death-bed.
In his last hour he revealed the secret of
the hidden treasure to his friends. It
was dug up, and the sum found intact,
though the coins we're rusty and needed
furnishing. Some of them dated back
as far as 1919, and all were rough and
unworn as when they dropped from the
mint. The inheritors bargained ard
sold the coins to the Fourth National
Bank of Cincinnati at half cent dis
count: This is the history of the money.
They have bought some OF it at the GUS
tom house, and paid it out in change.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Dean Stanley on America.

Speaking at Birmingham on the 10th
ult., Dean Stanley expressed some
thoughts suggested by bis recent visit 10
America. He noticed in Americans, as
a marked popularity, apparent almost
from the first, the singular buoyancy
and elasticity both of the national and
individual characters.
1t light be the product of their bril-.
liant, exhilarating, invigorating climate;
it might be the accompaniment of the
vast horizon opened by their boundless
territory; it might be partly the youth
of the nation; but its existence was I'M
questionable. If at times there was
something almost of levity in the reali-
cation with which misfortunes were
thrown off and life begun over again; if
at times the more sober part of the ma
ton was depressed by the sense of the
difficulties which they had to encoun-
ter; yet, on the whole, this spring of vi.
tality, if turned to good account, must
be of incalculable virtue in this work
ing world, where the imagination still
played so large part, and where so much
was given to confidence of victory, even
more than to victory itself. If per-
chance the United States had too much
of it, we, it might be, had too little; and
this confidence of Americans in their
own political, ecclesiastical and social
system was a warning to us to rise above
those doleful lamentations with which
in these days we oftenheard citizens, and
churchmen, and Christians of England
despair of our country, our church and
our religion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Fishing for Porgies.

The porgy is going to claim the atten-
ton of the Maine legislature this winter.
The law passed last winter, but which
has not yet gone into effect, prohibits the
catching of porgies or menhaden in the
small bays, inlets harbors or rivers of the
state. The fishery lhas almost entirely
been the growth Of fifteen years. The
" Association of Menhaden Oil and Gu
ano Manufacturers comp ises eighteen
factories, employing 48 steamers and 727
men. The capital of the association, in
factories and gear, aggregates 81 ,0s3, 612;
the association also employs between
two and three hundred vessels in freight
ing oil, guano, fish and other products.
The average catch per season is 1901
barrels. This yesr quite large part 81
it has been taken within he,prescribed
limits, and those interested are going to
the legislature for the repeal of the law.
1t is claimed, though the manufacturers
deny it, that these fish come inland to
spawn, and that eeining them at this
time is destructive to their young.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Balzac's Dun.

In recent number of the Temple Bar
there is story about Balzac, which is
probably new to many readers. He was,
like Dumas, always in debt, and dread
fully worried by duns. Once, when he
had gone to bed, one OF these unpleasant
personages presented himself, and insist
ed On seeing his debtor. In vain was he
told that NJ. de Balzac was i'll, that he
was out, that he was in bed-he refused
to bulge. At last the servant, in des-
pair, told Balzac who was down stairs,
and to his great Amusement received
orders to show the importunate visitor
up. The tradesman, already little
Modified, is ushered into the sleeping
apartment. NJ de Balzac sits up cour-
teously in bed, makes his creditor a
charming bow, and inquiries to what
circumstance he may attribute the
pleasure of his early visit. Flattered
by the warmth of his reception, the
journisseev murmurs something in which
the word "money" is alone audible.
" Money, my dear fellow" cries the
man of letters, with his broad smile, full
of bonhomie, "n1oney do you want?
Look in the right-hand drawer of the.
dressing tablet" Becoming instantly
supple as glove, the other runs to the
drawer, opens it, examines it, puts his
hand to the back-there is nothing.
'<Ah," says monsieur from the bed,
" perhaps the left-hand drawer" Same
scrutiny, same result. "Or the middle
one" Still nothing. II must trouble
you to look under the dressing-table."
IN. de Balzac is so polite it is pleasure
to listen to him). The creditor puts his
head down-no! In this way the whole
furniture of the room is examined, and
even the chimney. "Now," says the
author, turning sternly upon the crest
fallen tradesman, in all the majesty of
tasselled night-cap, eff there no money
in the left-hand drawer, or the dressing
table, nor the right-hand drawer, nor
the middle drawer, nor under it, nor
under the bed, nor on the wardrobe, nor
up the chimney, how the devil do you
suppose am to give you any?" With
that he lies down fiat upon his back, and
the creditor departs anathematizing the
poet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
The First Murderer.

A star playing the guilty Thano in a
very small company, where each men,
Der had to sustain three or four different
characters. During the performance,
the man appointed to play the first MUIR
derer was taken ill. There was not
another to be spared, and the only
resource left was to send on a supernu-
merary, supposed to be intelligent, to
stand for the character. "Keep close to
the wing" said the prompter; "Pll read
you the words, and you can rereat them
after me-" The scene was the banquet;
the super was pushed on, and Macbeth,
striding down the stage, seized his arm
and said in stage whisper, "There's
blood upon thy face" "'Tis Banquo's,
them" was the prompt. Lost and
bewildered-having never spoken in his
life before upon the stsge-by the trag-
edian's intense yet natural tones, the
fellow, initiating them in the most conf
Dental manner, answered, Is there, by
God?" put his hand up to his forehead,
and, finding it stained with rose pink,
added, "Then the property mans
served me trick! "-Belqravia.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Christmas in Morocco.

As we sat chatting round the tea
table, to us entered Hamed, bearing,
with honest pride Illuminating his
brown features, great tray of richly
engraved brass, heaped up with curious
but tempting-looking cakes. Gracefully
presenting themto = the senora," he in
timated that this was his humble offer
ing or Christmas token of good will to-
ward the family, and that his mother
(whom the good fellow maintains out of
his modest wages) had made them with
her own hands. The cakes were made of
long, thin: strips of the finest paste,
plentuully sweetened with delicious
honey, twisted into quaint shapes, and
fried in the purest of oil. need hardly
say that the children were delighted,
and Immediately commenced to court
indigestion by vigorous onslaught on
the new and tempting sweets. Nay,
why should blush to confess that my.
self have very sweet tooth in my head,
and such liking for all things saccha-
rine that my friends say jokingly that |
must be getting into my second child
hood-an imputation which, as I am
only little on the wrong side of thirty,
l can bear with equanimity. However,
l firmly decline to inform an inquisitive
public how many of those delightful
Moorish cakes ate; truth to tell, I do
nos remember; but enjoyed them
heartily, nor found my digestion i'm
paired thereby.-London Society.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Sfudpnfh' RiOfA In Russia.

An account Of the riots of the students
Of the University of Kief, Russia, says the
students, in meeting outside of the town,
decided to protest against the closing of
the university. A number of them,
we'll armed, proceeded to the university,
forcing their way in after disarming the
police, and fixed on the blackboard an en-
ergetic protest against the arbitrary pro-
ceedings Of the authorities. The companies
OF local militia tried to dispense the stu
dents. A collision ensued, and eighty per
sons were killed and wounded. A cavalry
force finally cleared the square in front of
the university. Many students were ar
rested. Similar riots on smaller scale
broke out in other university towns. 1t is
believed there is an intention of proclaim.
ing state of siege in Kief and kharkoff.
The police are instructed to stop the SNUG
Cling of revolutionary pamphlets and pre-.
vent the entrance of revolutionary emissa-
ries from Germany.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Ahikm0RN-

James S. Rockwell, one Of the best known
and wealthiest citizens of Brooklyn, N. Y,
died on the Sd inst, of scarlet fever and
diphtheria. He was sixty years OF age.
Caleb Gushing died New bury Port, Conn,
on the night of the End inst.
Judge Charles T. Sherman, brother of
secretary and General Sherman died at
Cleveland on the 1st inst
Robert w. Mackey, ex-treasurer of the
state of Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia
on the LIST inst.
Rev. Samuel c. Aiken, D. D., for thirty
years pastor of the first Presbyterian Church
at Cleveland, o., died on the LIST inst, aged
IS years.
Judge Henry Smith dropped dead on the
night of the 31st ult. at his residence in
Memphis, Tenn. He was at one time Judge
of the Supreme Court Of the state.
Mrs. Harriet Grote, widow of Geo. Grote
the historian of Greece, is dead. The lady
was we'll known as the authoress of Life
of AIRY Schetter."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
A Tale of Four Pins.

We find the following rom Antic yarn
in very readable letter from the Her.
aus Paris correspondents:
Apropos, there is breach in the win
dow of one of our best jewelers. to which
curious tale is attached. The breast
pin is mounted with great art and set
with gems. 1t is divided in four parts
and shows four twisted, bent and blunt
ordinary pins under a transparent en-
amel. Where were those four found?
Did they hold a fichu, shawl or flower?
The poetry Of the breach had to be
looked into, and the following has been
ascertained: A foreign count was years
ego one night hurried out of bed and
arrested for political offence. Ere his
dreams had been quite forgotten he was
dressed by those who had spied out his
abode and dragged him to prison. 1t
happened to be rather dark one. The
day after this occurrence he began to
think how terrible it would be to live
long in such a location with nothing to
do, and as he thought he fumbled about
his coat pockets. While doing so he
discovered four pins which he had stuck
in the lining of one of his frock tails in
case he might require one. He held the
four for some moments, then flung them
right and left about his narrow cell. 1t
was quiet one, but, listen with all the
intensity he could, there was no way of
knowing where they had fallen. He
therefore went down on all fours and
carefully felt about, sprawling in every
direction until he had recovered them.
Then he got up and recommended scat
tering them for the sake of another ex.
citing hunt. Well, readers, this he did
six and seven times day and when he
was sleepless, for six long years. Napo-
leon III. died, then Victor Emanuel,
and the count was set at liberty. The
four pins we're kept, and a comtesse is
to wear the brooch they are enshrined in.
. This story seaches that all must take an
; interest in life, and the most exciting
the best under the pressure of grief.
The comte has related that had he lost
one of his four pins he could not have
endured captivity. Each time he flung
them about he fancied they were quite
lost, and the ardor with which he
crawled over his nude floor was equal tc
that of the chase. Books papers and
pens were denied him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

A cold wave swept over the southern
states on the 4th and 9TH inst. At Ei"ks.
burg, Mss, on the 4th, the mercury ranged
at about 20 above with about six inches Of
snow on the ground. At Shreveport, La,
the thermometer registered 1S0 above with
snow the entire day. AtJacksonville, Fla,
the mercury went down to 800, the lowest
point reached for over thirty years. Snow
fell in considerable quantities at Du-
DOnt Ga.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Late Murders,

George Einsig murdered his wife at York,
Pa, on the Sd inst, because she would not
live with him, owing to his dissolute habits.
On New Years day at party in the vii.
lage of Middle Creek, Floyd county, Ky, a
dispute arose between Noah Watkins and
Greene Wade Hamilton, when the former
plunged knife into Hamilton's neck,
causing death shortly afterward.
At South Byield, Mass, on the night of
the 30th ult., John II. Caldwell, aged IS,
while kneeling in family prayer, was in.
stan.ly killed by his insane wife, who split
his head open with an axe.
At San Francisco, CAL, on the 3lst ult.,
Thomas Crossley, shoemaker, shot and
fatally wounded his wife, and then cut his
own throat with shoe knife, causing in.
slant death. Mrs. Crossley refused to state
the cause of the tragedy.
Edward Jobbins, aged 81, me- ,ter stone
cutter of St. Roehs, was murdered at New.
burypoct, Mass, on the night of the 30th
ult., by two brothers named Clavet and a
man named Chamberlain, for refusing to
treat them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
The A.neer,s SiiuatiOn.

The ameer of Afghanistan has fourteen or
seventeen regiments at Herat, and if he can
retain his hold over them and maintain his
supremacy in Afgban-Turkistan, he may
still offer formidable opposition to Yakoob
Kahn or whatever ruler England sets up in
Southern Afghanistan. The ameer released
Ydkoob under pre- sure from the Ghizai
chiefs who would not allow him to leave
Cabul without appointing his successor.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Methodist ministers of the northwest, was

Methodist ministers of the northwest, was
destroyed on the I'd inst. Loss $25, 900. Ar
A large cotton warehouse was destroyed
ut Charleston, S. c., on the LIST inst. Loss
on building and presses, 100000; insured
for $50, 900. Loss on cotton, $475, O00 insur.
anos $472, $50. sss<,ss,.- s, ,azss.- .asszsss,s
The Minnesota hotel and eight smaller
buildings burned at Portland, Oregon, on
the night Of the 3lst ult
Nearly block OF buildings in Tuscarora,
Nevad !, burned on the night Of the 3lst ult
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
A Fight with Thieves.

Two men, Noah Williams and Modoc
Carney, living in Green county, Ind, made
arrangements to burglarize the store Of
Walls Bond, at Oaktown, 40 miles south Of
Terre llaute, on the night OF the I'd inst.
The citizens previously obtained informa-
ton of their intended visit, and large
party waited in a saloon near Bonds store,
having put out the lights. The burglars ap.
peared soon after Midnight, but went first
to the saloon to get liquor. The citizens
opened fire and in three minutes over
thirty shots were exchanged. Williams
was shot through the neck and killed.
Gainey was dangerously wounded in the
breast and arm, and will probably die.
Henry Norton, one Of the citizens, was shot
in the face by the thieves and slightly hurt.
With the robbers was captured a complete
set of fine burglary tools.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Liberty or Death.

On the morning of the I'd inst. ten convicts
in Anomosa, Iowa, penitentiary broke out
of the stone cutters shed and made des-
perate effort for liberty, the yard being
closed Only by board stockade. One of
the convicts was sho dead by the guard,
another shot through the bowels and will
die, and two dropped with broken
legs. The five others we're soon recaptured.
John Donahue, three year man, being the
only one now at liberty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

REPORTS. concerning the winter
wheat out look throughout the north
west are generally of an encouraging
character. In many localities the acre
age has been reduced by reason of the
unusual. drought which has prevailed
during the fall months, while in others
the acreage has been largely increased,
ane prospects are good for an abundant
crop.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

NEITHER druggists nor their clerks
have any right to make Il mistake and
issue laudanum for rhubarb, or any
other poison for a harmless medicine.
Aud if they do, and fatal results follow
they should be deemed guilty Of man.
slaughter, and punished accordingly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
A Praver Meefine

At prayer meeting at Stone Lodge vii
lage, Michigan, On the night of the 2Sth ult.,
a desperate ARRAY took place between VIM.
Myers and four other roughs, who attempt.
ed to break up the meeting, and Jacob Grow
and Charles Wade, who attempted to put
them out, were both stabbed with long
hunting knives. the blades entering their
lungs and abdomens. Neither of them can
possibly live. Myers party are under ar
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Scarlet Fever.

Scarlet fever is decim ating the miners on
Silver Islet, mere rock in Lake Superior
with rich silver mines. OF 100 there 16
died in a month.
One hundred and eighty deaths from
scarlet fever occurred in New York city
during the past week, ending Dec. 2Sth, an
increase of eighty over the previous week.