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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-16

HAS the "15" puzzle got anything
to do with the rain? 1t does look as
If Jupiter has sat down 10 work it and
forgot to turn off the top.cock.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-16

THOMAS ought to have remained In
Cincinnati to hear Sam. Tilden play
his liars next summer.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-16
MARKETS BY rEi,ksRAPn.
New York Hou,y rarRet.

NEW YORK, March I5.- Money 81 ,O5.
l.06t, Exchange, S4S42 governments
quiet and steady; Sc, 81 OBJ; 49's
ST. 073; As, 81 06s. States dull.
NEW YoRK, March Is Cotton
net receipts, 542 bales gross, 2 92l
bales. Failures closed steady; sales
15l 900 bales. March, 1306Al3 o.
April, 1912; May. 10 3lal3 80; June
l3 49al3.50; July, 13.G1al3 90; August
l3 69a18 20; September, Is S2413 81
October, l2 44a12 46; November, IL 0S1
al2.l0; December, 1904.
Now York Cotton Market
NEW YORK, March Is Clifton
dull and easier; sales, ll6 bales; up.
lands, 13 16c; New Oil, ,ans, 10 5-l6c,
Consolidated net receipts, 13, ,435 bales
exports to Great Britain, Is $40 bales;
continent, S,3lO bales
General Market.
NEW YORK, March IS s ,uthern
-four quiet and unchanged. Wheat
futures 142c. lower and heavy; cash
opened lower and closed active; un-
graded red, 81 40a1 4S2 Corn dull and
heavy, ! 1c. lower; per steamer, 593c
Oats heavy. about lo. lower; No. !,
46ls46Ic. Coffee unchanged, in mod
crate demand. Sugar steady, with a
fair inquiry; Cuba, Muscavado, 73c;
Manila, 6 l3-l6e; fair TO good refining,
72a75c; prime, SC; refined firm aud in
fair demand; standard A, OF 92c. Mo-
lasses quiet and firm; New Orleans,
4Oa0Oc; Porto Rico, 35l50o. Rice In
fair demand, 6ta74c. Wool active and
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-16
Weather Report.
KNOXVILLE, March Is, 1880.

MaXImum TntTInOInbJtfi OI ! MIL
imum, Al 50; Rainfall, l20 inches.
INDICATIONS For Tennessee and
Ohio valley, cloudy weather and rain
In Tennessee, followed by clearing
weather In the whole district, winds
mostly from northeast to northwest.
falling, followed by rising barometer.
with slight changes of temperature.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
EdisOn,s System of Electric Lighting,

Mr.. EdiSOn's idea in regard to the
electric light was that, in all respects,
it should take the place of gas. Follow
ing the analogy of water, the inventor
conceived OF system which would re-
semble the Holly water works. AS the
water is pumped directly into pipes
which convey it under pressure to the
point where it is to be used, so the cleo
tricity is to be forced into the wires and
delivered under pressure at its destin-
alton. In the case of water, after being
used, it flows away by means OF a sewer
pipe and is lost. But it iS.easy to imag-
inc that the water used in working
machinery, for instance, instead of be-
ing lost, might be returned to the pumps
and used over and over again With
such system us this, we should have a
perfect analogy to the Edison electric
lighting system. The electricity, afser
being distributed under pressure and
used, is returned to the central station.
AS the light results from no consump-
ton of material, but is mere transmu-
tatiOn OF the energy exerted in the
pumping process, it is therefore seen
that all which is essential to an electric
lighting system is the generator (or
pump, the two lines of wire, one dis
tributing the electricity, the other bring
ing it back, and a lamp which trans
mutes into light the energy carried by
the electricity when it passes from one
wire to the other, and in which the
energy of the pressure expresses itself
as the light. In Edison's invention the
amount of electricity delivered ia the
lamp is determined by the size and re-
sistance in the carbon. just as in water
the amount of flow is determined by the
size of the openings. AS a great many
small jets of water can be supplied from
one pipe, so great many lamps OF small
escapes for electricity can be furnished
from one wire. .-Sclf6ner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
Shocking Cruelty to Children.

Christian Schaeffer has been sent to
Jail in Philadelphia for almost starving
his two children. The story came out
through the attempt of Josephine Chris
tian, aged fourteen, to end her life by
jumping into the Delaware river. She
was rescued by a passing boat. Schaeffer
is a miserly, repulsive man of thirty
five. He has lived for several years with
his two daughters in dilapidated little
shanty in Salmon street, not far from the
Bridesburg arsenal. Dirt, inches thick,
carpeted the floor. The only ventilation
was from door and q window, three
of whose panes were stuffed with old
rags. They had no visitors or friends,
for the father allowed no intercourse
whatever with the neighbors. They
never went to school or to church. The
mans only means of livelihood was
catching stray dogs, which he would
kill and boil and render the fat. He
compelled his children to live on the
meat of the dogs he caught. From their
infancy he had taught them to use the
fat for butter, and they do not know the
taste of real butter. He made consider
able money from selling the dogs bones
and skins, but never spent cent ex-
cept for rags to cover his children's
backs or to protect them from the cold
when all three lay down at night in the
one miserable bed made ofrough boards.
At meal time their dog meat was poked
out of an old iron boiler and they sat on
boxes to eat it, The girls often contem-
plated suicide. They were put in the
hands of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
Words of Wisdom.

When a man is wrong and won't adj
nit it, he always gets angry.
The best part of beauty is that which
a picture cannot express.
Art must anchor in nature, or it is
the sport of every breath of folly.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; I;
the passions are the voice of the body.
All other knowledge is hurtful to him
whS has not honesty and good nature.
A merry heart doeth good like medi-
cine, but broken spirit drieth the
bones.
Let no man presume to give advice to
others that has not given good counsel
to himself
Beauty and death make each other
seem purer and lovelier, like snow and
moonlight.
Hatred is so durable and so obstinate
that reconciliation on sick-bed is a
sign Of death.
Some one has said OF fine and honor
able old age, that it was the childhood
of immortality.
Circumstances form the character
but like petrifying matters, they harden
while they form.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
Sudden nenths.-ApOplexy.

In apoplexy blood vessel of the
brain gives way, and the blood accum-
ulates near its base, and pressing on the
cranial nerves, on which the action of
the vital organs depends, cuts ofathe
flow of nervous force TO the latter.
A sighter eifusion may cause only
paralysis, from which tho patient may
recover, the wound healing, and the
blood being gradually taken up and
carried off by the absorbents.
Sometimes the Serious portion of the
blood escapes through the pores of the
vessels sufficiently to occasion a similar
result.
Free-livers are especially liable 10
apoplexy. They keep the vessels too
full and the current too strong. More
blood always goes to the brain than else
where; its vessels are particularly weak,
and as age approaches they grow brittle
through n tendency to become more or
less ossitied. Besides, the vessels of the
brain are subjected to a special strain in
consequence of the contraction of its
vessels during sleep and the sudden in
rush of blood on waking.
There is no doubt that some persons
inherit n tendency to apoplexy, though
it is quteslikely that they have also in
herited tendency to luxurious living.
Let them ahjure their habit in this re-
spect, and probably the sudden stroke
which prostrated father in death may
never overtake them.
The use OF wine or spirit with ones
dinrer increases the tendency to an
apoplectic attack, rs it greatly quickens
the action of the heart; augments the
power with which that central forcing
pump throws the blood into the enQorped
cerebral arteries.- Youths Companion
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18

Within half dozen years business
in connection with postage stamps has
grown up, causing at times n very
aggravated amount of worriment and
labor. Some one informs child or q
benevolent adult that the sum of one
hundred dollars will be given for one
million stamps that have been already
used on letters. The use to which they
are put is not generally explained.
Sometim es it is said they are for the
manufacture of papier- At
other times it is solen.nly stated that
they can be sold to persons whose lives
are devoted to the endowment of hos
pital-beds at one hundred dollars
apiece. Again it is said there is an ex-
tTaordinary demand for Cancelled old
stamps in part of China where they are
used to paper walls of houses, the style
of decoration having some mysterious
effect in averting calamity, and especial
ly in saving the lives of little children
who would be devoured by their hungry
parents or friends but for the saving
charm of the old stamps on the walls.
There is probably scarcely one OF our
readers who has not assisted in the col
lection of old stamps to make up the
million that some friend has undertaken
to gather; but no one that we have ever
heard of has been able to ascertain that
it has yielded a hundred dollars which
have been applied to n real or pretended
benevolent object. A strong presump-
tion exists in reasoning minds that there
isa fraud in the business. Everyone
knows that many stamps go through the
mails uncanceled. or with the canceling
marks so indistinct that they can easily
l,a Y.o,,,O,vo1 D,..Nho1D1xy of lr Nov,
cent. of the whole number used could
be made serviceable a second time. In
1000, 900 old three-cent stamps, costing
500, LOG, 900 could be used over again,
and these would be worth $4,000 to the
parties buying the million stamps for
500. The profit from the business is
thus seen to be enormous.
The British postoflice department has
for some years found that the amount OF
stamps upon the letters it carries ex-
ceeds the amount issued to the public,
and of course the excess must consist OF
old stamps from which the cancellation
has been obliterated. A new penny
stamp has been devised, printed with
inks that are intended to set at defiance
the various devices by which an old
stamp is made to look rs good as new
Whether the plan will succeed is un-
known. But the fact that more stamps
are used on letters in Great Britain than
are issued by the department shows that
the fraud is extensively practiced, and
leads to the inference that a consider
able number of each million of old
stamps collected and sold are used
again on letters, instead of helping to
endow hospital-beds and save Chinese
children from cannibalism.-Ph PhiLddeL-
plsiG Bulletin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
AM AstOnished Professor.

A former president of New England
college, after getting seat in a horse
car, noticed one of the freshmen of his
college curled up in front of him, and
exhibiting obvious signs of vinous ex-
hilaration. a close inspection revealed
the fact that the state of inebriety was
not hastily put on Qike hat) but had
been worn closely (like an undershirt)
for several days. For few moments
the president surveyed the undergrad
miseration and disgust, and finally he
exclaimed, Been on a drunk" The
half conscious student rallied his stray
ing senses, and with a CLEAN of good
fellowship in his eye, somewhat un-
respectfully calculated, " "So-hic -
have Iw
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
Guard Against Disease.

II you find yourself getting bilious,
head heavy, mouth foul, eyes yellow,
kidneys disordered, symptoms OF piles
tormenting you, take ut once few doses
OF Kidney-Wort. 1t is natures great
assistant. Use it as an advance guard
don't wait to get down sick.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION.


The following persons have used the Indian
Blood Syrup, and add their testimony in its
favor:
Moses Strome, OF Lebanon, says alt
entirely cured me OF Rheumatism and Head
aohe.0
Joseph Biner, OF Cornwall, says: " For
years / suffered with Pleurisy and Liver
Complaint, and 3 short t-ial ci the Syrup
cured me-"
Mrs. Reuben Eekerd, of Lebanon, cured Of
Dyspepsia in its worst form,
Henry Smith, of Lebanon, says; My wife
and child have been entirely cured OF Scroiula
by the use OF the Blood Syrup"
VIM. Donley, OF Bismark, says; " 1t cured
my son OF rheumatism"
Mrs. Levi Young, OF Mannheim, relieved OF
Heart Disease, alter the doctors failed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18

M. Say, the FreDchman Of leisure
who. on pleasure bent, started around
the world in a private yacht recently,
but was driven into the Chesapeake by a
storm, concluded that his yacht is too
small for the undertaking, and so has
ordered IA 5000, 600 ship from a Balti-
more firm
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
Worthless stuff.

Not so fast my friend; ifyou could see
the strong, healthy blooming men,
raised from beds of sickness, suffering
and almost death, by the use of Hop
Bitters, you would say. "Glorious and
invaluable remedy. Pres.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18

There are about 60, 900 Mennonites in
America. They have 500 meeting
houses. They abstain from taking the
oath, do not infict punishment, do not
accept public Office, and never go to
law. They are nearly all farmers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
REMEDY FOR WORMS.

BUsHKLL, PIKE Co., PA.
Dear Sir-I have used your great IndiaI
Blood Syrup in my family for Worms anC
summer Complaint, and it has proved effee
tual in all cases, Tmos. CORTRIGHT
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
news and Notes for women.

Mrs. Grant says that the prettiest girl
seen in all her travels was at Reno,
New, railroad station.
Al,egra Eggleston, a young Brooklyn
artist takes a portrait by only looking
at the subject for few minutes, and
then draws picture that every one re-
cognizes.
Manchester. England, has a society
of women painters, to which the other
sex is not admitted, not even at the
yearly exhibition.
Mis- M. E. Gage, daughter of the
poetess, has established a ladies' ex-
change for mining stocks in New York.
A generous Iowa lady. Mrs. Cordelia
Miller, hos given $4,000 to the Garret
Biblical Institute, at Evanston. III.
Madame de Witt has just completed
sequel to her fathers ON. GuizoD his.
tory.
The widow of G. 2. James, the nov
elist, is living at Eau Clare, Wis. She
is now eighty years old, and is well
cared for by her sons.
A London correspondent writes that
American nationality is accepted in
Eng gland as presumption in favor of
a lazy singers success.
There are nine ladies on the London
school board. :.
Princess Alexandria, wife of the
Prince of Wales, is somewhat deaf, and
has ordered an American audiphone.
Lady Burdett-Coutts lately gave a
tea party to over two hundred London
cabmen and their wives as n means to
induce the cabmen to treat their horses
with kindness.
The lady principal of Michigan
school has resigned her position to COM
mence the study of medicine.
The American Sunday school, OF New
York, has been presented with 500, 600
by Mrs. j. G. Green, of that ely, the in
terest only to be available. This is to
| he devoted to 1.-THE development of Sun
day-school literature of high merit" !"
Mrs. Gladstone and Lady Roseberry
attended all the Gladstone meetings
at Edinburg, and sat in front of the
| platform listening attentively to every
word and occasionally nodding assent,
which sight was said to be very pretty
and interesting.
There was married recently in De-
! troit a damsel who had been several
Jcttl S1L p4Oy GU III ~ ltti &c MISUNDERSTANDING
establishment. Her marriage had been
for some days a subject of pleasant con-
graduation by her employers and fellow
employees. One day one of the pro-
| prietors, who always wears "bed
tick" apron in the factory, said to her,
g, if you will wear this apron on
your wedding-dress when you are mar
ried will make you present of $50. 2"
YES" added the foreman, "and I'll
give you So" The girl accepted the
challenge, wore the apron, and pocketed
her $50.
Gambetta says that :" if girls are not
educated up to the level of the republi-
can ideal the republic will fall down to
their notion of what it ought to be >
That the best advisors he ever had, not
alone as to the conduct of his private
life, but in politics, we're good women
whose minds were emancipated from
sacerdotal tyranny, and it was of vita
Importance to the commonwealth that
the fullest justice should be done to the
girlhood of France.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
LIVER COMPLAINT.

SHARON, MERCER Co., PA.
Dear Sir-This is to certify that your Iu-
dim Blood Syrup has greatly relieved me OF
Chronic Liver Complaint, of four years
standing. do not hesitate to recommend it.
WILLIAM WILKs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
DYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTION.
WEAvER's OLD STAND,

WEAVER's OLD STAND, =
WEsTMoRELAND Co, PA.
Dear Sir-I have used your excellent In.
dian Blood Syrup for Dyspepsia and tndiges-
tiOn, and think it the best medicine kno wn
1t is not possible for any other remedy G
have the same medicinal virtue.
JOHN CLENDENEN.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18

On recent voyage from Hong Kong
to San Francisco the captain of the ship
had one son washed overheard and
drowned and another born to him, so
he landed with as many as he started
with.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18

DR. MAkCHISIS IIEkINE UATHOLICON VIII posi-
lively cure Female Weakness, such as Falling of the
Womb, Whites, Chronic Inflammation or Liberation OF
the Womb, Incidental Hemouhage or Flooding Painful,
Suppressed and Irregular MenshuatiOn &C An Old and
reliable remedy. send postal card for pamphlet with
treatment cures and certificates from physicians and
patients, 10 HOWAilH q BALLARD JiIcA, n. Y,
Sold by all Dusgsts Sl5o per bottle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18

An agent of the Mormon Church has
been down in Mexico looking for good
location in which to make a Mormon
settlement. 1t is to be hoped that he
will find one.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
LIVER COMPLAINT.

SOUTH BETHLEHEM, NORTHAMPTON Co.
Dear Sir-I was ior long time afflicted
with Liver Complaint, and after the doctors
failed to relieve me l began the use of your
reliable Indian Blood Syrup, which entirely
cured me. Mrs. FRED. VoGEL.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
EOR TIE FAIR SEX.
Manner OF Making Mourning Dress,

Manner OF Making Mourning Dresses.
The simplest designs used in making
cOlOred dresses are repeated in those
worn as mourning. The coat basque,
theround overskirt very simply draped,
and the short round skirt, is the model
for most costumes. For the deepest
mourning broad habit of Grape is
used tor trimming the basque and both
skirts, dispensing with all founce-like
plaitings on the lower skirt. The Gus
tom of covering the entire basque with
Grape, also all that part of the lower
skirt visible below the overdress, is
confined to widows, and is not even for
them so generally adopted as it formerly
was. There is tendency to tighten the
unwholesome heavy mourning attire
lately worn in the somber English
styles, yet to retain its simplicity and
nun-like plainness; thus the neck of the
dress is worn very high about the
throat, the sleeves are tight and with
out cuffs, the shoulder seams are short,
the bust is not draped, and the beauty
of the corsage depends upon its fine fit.
Grape, however, is worn but few
months, and lustreless silks are chosen
for dress from the first period of mourn
ing. Whilepaniers, sashes, fussy drap-
cry, flounces and open throats are, of
course, avoided, yet a dinner dress of
mourning silk and Grape is fashioned
very much as a colored dress of silk and
brocade would be. Thus the short
basque and the front breadth are covered
with English Grape, and the flowing
train is of the rich silk, with perhaps
some panel revers of Grape down the
sides, and anticipating of the same
on the edge. Very rich and appropriate
suits for the street are made of Henrietta
cloth or of imperial serge after the
models in use for cloth costumes this
winter; the basque is coat-shape and
double-breasted, with a deep collar,
cuffs and square pockets of Grape. The
skirt has q full straight back breadth
without drapery, and is widely bordered
with band OF bias Grape, while in front
is deep round apron, much wrinkled,
and falling quite low, yet disappearing
in the side seams where the full straight
back begins. The wrap with such a
suit is long coat-shaped garment made
of the material of the dress, warmly
lined, perhaps with fur, or else with
wadded silk or flannel. There are also
figured cloths that are used for wraps
with mourning dresses, and many of
those have deep collar and wide cuffs
of black fur. A border of fur is not
liked for mourning cloaks, Us used in
that way the fur is only a showy trim
ming, and not for comfort, and detracts
from the severely simple look given by
the deep collar and cuffs. Sealskin
cloaks are now worn in the deepest
mourning, and furriers select those of
the darkest hue for this purpose. The
large circulars of cashmere cloth with
fur lining are worn as carriage wraps
by ladies in mourning. -HGrpe1is Bnznr.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
Some Inierestinr Firnres.

In an interview at Chicago with
Robert p. Potter, the well-known statis-
tician, who has been appointed by Census
Superintendent Walker to have charge
of the collection of statistics concerning
the debt, wealth, and taxation of the
United States, Mr.. Potter said The
facts which have collected give sort
of comparative view OF the growth of
the three sections of the country, and
bear especially on the economic changes
that have taken place in the past decade
in the East, West and South. In 1860
the population of the nine Eastern
States (including New York and Penn
sylvania) was 1854 800; the nine
Western States Excluding Ohio), 6,752,-
1868; and the thirteen Southern States,
l0,259, ,0l6. BY careful estimate | find
that mt the close of 1879 the population
of the Eastern States had reached IA
303, ,000 that of the Southern States, A.
295 600, and that of the Western States,
1855. 900. Thus, while the population
of the South probably increased 4, OPS, =
984, and that of the Eastern States 8, $685.
706, the nine Western States have in
nineteen years gained 1902, ,632-an in
crease nearly equal to the aggregate in
crease of the Eastern and Southern
States in the same period. The increase
of population on the shores of the great
lakes With the past quarter century is
without a parallel in history. / have
made a series of investigations of the
manufacturing populations of the West
ern States (Ohio omitted), of the thir-
teen Southern States, and of the six New
England States. including New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Having
ascertained by the census figures Of
1850, 1860 and 1870 the actual gro tn of
the manufacturing population of each
State, the percentage of growth for each
decade was easily found out; then by
taking the average decennial growth
between 1850 and 1870 for the increase
between 1870 and 1880, have arrived
at the following approximation
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
DYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTION.

BUSHNELL, IIhE Co, IA.
Dear Sir--The use of your valuable Indian
Blood Syrup has elfectually relieved me OF
Dyspepsia. l have also used it in my family
Tor Sick Headache and Worms, with the mosi
beneficial results, SAMUEL EsHBACK.