The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-08-02

close, but we suppose the snake made
a mistake and discovered it when it
was too late. There ought to be a
bounty on these reptiles.
The campmeeting season is almost
upon US. The number throughout the
country will not fall anyways short Of
former years, judging from newspaper
reports. The Lickingville meeting
will begin some time during the latter
part of this month we have not
learned the exact date.
The farm of Mrs. p. Danse, in
jerks twp, this county, will be for
rent on the first of September to a
farmer tenant who can give satisfac-
tory reference. A house, suitable for
a small family, on the place. Apply
to or correspond with Mrs. p. Danse,
4 Eighth St., Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Western Pennsy lvania River
Improvement Association will meet in
Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Pitts.
burgh, Pa, at 2 p. m, sharp, Monday,
August 7th, 1882, to elect officers for
the ensuing year, as required by the
Constitution, and to transact other
business of great importance, but no
set speeches. A full attendance is
requested.
Martin Beck, of the Mansion
House, Tylersbugg, and James Rutter,
of the Tylersburg and Clarion stage
line, had warm dispute one day last
week, during which, it is alleged,
Martin attempted to enforce his views
by the persuasioS Of u revolver. The
case will come up for hearing at the
August term of Court. - Clarion Jack.
sonjan.
The Clarion Republican says of
the little road now running through
the eastern portion of this county {:
"The extension Of the Pittsburgh,
Bradford q Buffalo Railway to Kane,
is being pushed forward to completion
as fast as possible. A large force is
working on both ends of the line, and
it is expected the same will be ready
for the locomotive early in September"
Grand preparations are being
made for the reunion of the SD reg
iment, Pennsylvania volunteers, to be
held here in September, says the War
rem Ledger, and we hope the veterans
of this gallant regiment, as we'll as all
old soldiers in this section are making
preparations to attend. An effort is
being made to secure excursion rates
on the B. P. & w. r. r., for all who
wish to attend. Tuesday, Sept. Y, is
the date.
Some persons do not know that
the oleander, so much priced for its
flowers, is deadly poison. A very
small quantity of the leaves have been
known to kill horse. The flowers
have produced death in those persons
who have carlessly picked and ate
them. The branches, divested oftheir
bark and used as skewers, have poi.
soned the meat roasted on them and
killed seven out of twelve people who
partook of it.-Er.
The duties of the genuine dye.in-
the.wool simon.pure editor are multi
farious and multitudinous. His work
is not only to "do little writin," as
is sometimes supposed, but to Gull, to
CLEAN, to select, to discriminate, to
decide, to forsee, to observe, to grasp,
to explain, TO illueidate, to initiate, to
boil down, "to be, to do, and to suffer-"
and several hundred other verbs, with
a large number of districts yet to hear
FROM Warren Ledger.
j. N. Craft, cashier of the Ex-
change Bank of Franklin, is short in
his accounts some $4,000. 1t is the
old story; He stood high in the
peoples estimation, was an exemplary,
christian gentleman, but dabbled in
oil and lost. Kept on dabbling, ex.
pecting to get even, bat got iu still
deeper. The stockholders are indi-
vidually liable and represent over
$3,000,000 of capital, consequently the