The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-02-07

~ bellies its name. With $4,000 head of
live cattle yearly, 1000 quarters
weekly from Chicago, and 1000 car
casses weekly from one firm in New
York going to the London and Liver
pool markets, it is plain that the roast
beef OF America is comingto the front
on English dinner tables.
General Lew Wallace, United States
minister to Turkey, accepted a COM
mission at the close of the civil war in
he republican army Of Mexico, with
view to organizing legion of Ameri-
can soldiers to aid in driving out the
Emperor Maximilian. The legion was
not raised, but Wallace rendered
efficient service, for which he got no
pay, because the Mexican treasury was
drained. His claim for pay, however,
has been pushed, and he has recently
received $4,000 in gold in full of ac-
count.
Illiteracy, as shown by the census
of $780," was the subject of a recent
address by Mr.. John Eaton, United
States commissioner of education, in
the hall of the Union League club in
New York. He said that in 1880
there were 100000 white persons and
3,OOO,OOO colored persons in the United
States who could not write. He
thought that it behooved the nation
TO become the patron for educating
the 100000 children who do not at,
tend school. 1t would take $1,100,. |
600 and $4,000 teachers to start the
work.
According to Professor Sargent, of
Harvard college, Michigan and Wis
consin will some day find rivals in
Massachusetts, and other New England
States in the production of white pine,
which is a second growth in those
States. The product sawed in Massa-
chusetts in 1880 was worth 100000.
Vermont and New Hampshire pro-
duced 100,000,000 feet, and Maine as
much more. This, of course, to Mich
igan or Wisconsin lumberman of to-day,
Is a trifing affair, but in the future,
when the pine resources of that region
are exhausted itmay seem quite import
ant.
An appeal in behalf of the starving
goats of Michigan may be looked for
shortly. A Detroit man has built
furnace in which refuse tineware, such
us oyster cans, fruit cans, ETC., may be
treated in such a manner that the
solder is restored to commerce and the
sheets of tin, being rerolled, are avail
able for binding the edges of wood
trunks. From five hundred pounds of
old cans he obtains about thirty-five
pounds of lead and solder, and from
old boilers, pals and other tin dishes a
considerable amount of wire and other
iron, all of which can be sold at a fair
price.
Vermont is said to produce more
marble than any other State in @he
Union or than any country except
this. The business has expanded.with |
marvellous rapidity since 1870, when
comparatively little Vermont marble |
was to be tound in the market. The |
aggregate amount Of the States pro-
duction the present year is 100000 I
The number of men employed in the
quarries and mills exceeds 1890, and
1t required 10000 cars to carry the
marble away. Nearly 100000 was
paid for the labor of workingmen by
the quarry owners.
A sorrowful story comes from Louis
vile, Ky. The W ife of the late Chief
Justice Hardin, Of Kentucky, has been
found living on the fourth floor of a
tumble-down rookery in absolute want. |
Her only companion is ! er seven-year-
old daughter, the rest her family of |
live children being scattered through
the world the whereabouts of two of |
~ children being unknown TO the
mother. Mrs. Hardin 9iyess~in one
room, and when found b. tie reporter
was without fire or food. The poor
woman has beer struggling for years
to keep hersclf and little child from !
starving to death, and has barely sue
cecded.
In the natural course of events the
eleven general officers will retire from
active service as follows: General Sher-
man, February s, 1884; Lieutenant
General Sheridan, June. 1884; Major
General Hancock, March, 1888; Major
General Schofeld. November, 1895;
Major-General Pope, July. 1886; Briga-
nler-General Howard, June, 1895
liriRadier-General Terry, 1892; Briga-
diei-General Anger, August, 1885
bfigadier-G Crook, July, 1898
hrgadier-GeneraI Miles, July, 1895
brigadier-General Mackenzie, August,
1874. This win prove interesting to
he army, as the records of the ages of
'fficers are guarded as sacredly at the
sar department as if they were jewels.
Among the various uses to which
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