The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-02-21

ChOf VII Oo., OF w afren, received
letter dated London, Jan 20, and di.
rected "Messrs. The Anchor Oil
Company, Cooper Tract District, For.
est County, near Pittsburgh, u. S.,A."
The lumbermen are prepaAiug
for the spring rafting, the creek now
being comparatively clear of ice. The
struggle among the timber owners
now is, TO get to market first and se-
cure the cream of the season on prices.
"A furious storm, accompanied
by sharp flashes of lightning and
heavy bolts Of thunder, swept over
these prats last Wednesday evening.
This is the first Of the season, and
coming thus early is said by old OBJ
servers to denote severe cold weather
before spring opens.
F The Oil City Derrick mentions
the fact that "seven members of the
present Legislature we're born in Clar-
ion County" and in another item it
says; Thus far this year Clarion
County has sent FIVE patients to the
Insane Asylum. Last year that coun-
ty furnished the institution with more
patients than any other county in the
district" There is considerable food
for reflection in the above.
Another railroad through Forest
county. The Venango Citizen says
The engineer corps ofthe Buffalo Pitts
burgh q Western Railway left Oil
City Monday morning, their destina-
ton being President. Starting from
this point they will survey route
through Forest and Clarion counties
and strike the Low Grade Division Of
the Allegheny Valley near Brookville,
Jefferson county.
w. H. Steffee still continues very
i'll from the dropsical affection with
which he is suffering He has 10 the
last three months been subjected to
tapping upon twelve different occa.
sions, and relieved of forty two gal.
Ions, or three hundred and fittv.two
pounds. of water. = Clarion Jdksonian.
Mr.. Steffee has many old friends in
this place who will he sorry to learn
of his critical condition.
-Petersons Magazine for March
is out with its brilliant pages brim
full of the choicest selections calcula
ted to interest and instruct the ladies.
The principal steel engraving, "In the
Hay Now" the colored steel fashion
plate aud pattern for tidy on Java
canvas are all as lovely as they can be.
Every lady should read "Peterson's." f"
Only $500 year. Address ,Cbas. j..
Peterson, 306 Chestnut ST., Pbiladel.
peia, Pa.
The consolidation of the B., P. &
W., the B., N. Y. q p, the Oil City
& Chicago and the Olean & Salaman-
ca railroad systems was consumated at
a meeting of the officers held at Phila
del phia last week. The title will
hereafter be the Buffalo, New York &
Philadelphia Railroad. j. w. Jones
was elected President at the same
meeting. The capital stock of the
company is over twenty millions of
dollars.
Mr. Jno. H. White, Of Barnett,
was in town one day last week. He
! informs us that the loss TO the lumber.
men of Barnett township, by the big
food was not as great as at first repor-
ted, and that aside from three or four
coal boats and few sticks of timber,
nothing left the landings at Claring.
ton or Cooksburg. At Milestone, how.
ever, considerable loss was sustained
by Hall q Co., in the breakihR&6f
booms, and the getting lOOse'Of several
thousand logs.
An exchange remarks that the
man who sells pieces of chalk wrapped
in red flannel and attached to a string,
which he claims when inserted in the
oil 10 lamp will prevent explosion, is
victimizing people "tOo poor to take a
paper" in neighboring county. and
is very liable to get into this section