The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-05-23
HERE AND THERE.

When a mortal from the path of virtue
strays they say the angels weep, but his
fellows here below gloat DER his fallen
state and say 81 told you so."-[Punxsu-
tawney Spirit.
The Bradford Oil News says: "a gen.
uine brook trout weighing three pounds,
four ounces and measuring eighteen inch
es was taken out of Ischua creek, near
Franklinville, N. Y" Rats.
Little Grover will spend Decoration day
with the Grand Army boys in Brooklyn
and New York This will be good deal
like small boy getting his face washed
with the expectation of receiving a piece
of pumpkin pie afterwards. - [McKean
Miner.
Three or four barrels of oil rolled from
a wagon opposite the Oil Exchange this
week, and created the greatest consterna-
tion. Such thing as a barrel Of actual
oil near the exchange had not been known
in years. A meeting of brokers was at
once called, and resolutions passed de-
nouncing the accident as an outrage, con-
trary to the rules of the exchange and in
furious to the "busmess interests" there
carried on.-[Titusville Citizen.
An exchange says: Duke Center, in the
upper oil regions, is going the way of Pit
hole, Petroleum Center and other whilom
oil towns. The citizens of Duke Center
have petitioned court to revoke the bor-
ough charter, alleging that so many peo-
pie are moving away that the expenses OF
borough cannot be paid by those who
remain. Thus one after another of the
towns in the once famous Bradford oil
region arc being blotted from the map,
"pulled up and hauled away"
A Foo Choo delegate to the Methodist
Conference asked that body on Thursday
if a convert from heathenism having more
than one wife could retaiu more than one
wife and at the same time be good Meth
odist. 1t is to be hoped that if the answer
shall be in the negative those who may be-
affected by the decision will not follow the
example OF a certain Fiji chief. Upon his
conversion to Christianity that worthy
having been admonished to abandon po-
| lygamy, shortly afterward informed the
missionary that he had disposed of his
extra wives by eating them.
Hon. S. p. Johnson, of Warren, attend,
ed argument court in this place this week
! If he lives until his next birthday he will
be eighty years old. He is the oldest law.
yer in active practice in this section of the
State, if not in the country. 1t is nearly
if not quite fifty years since he commenced
! practicng i'm the courts Of Mexican and
| Potter counties. From the organization
of Elk county in 1913 and Forest in 1878
| he has been in almost continuous practice
in the courts of the five counties, includ-
ing Warren, excepting ten years that he
| served as judge of the Erie and Warren
| judicial district. II is interesting TO hear
| him relate the story of his travels through
the wilderness in the early days of his
/ professional career, and he must have
been possessed of an iron constitution tC
| have withstood the hardships and priva-
| tions of those days and yet be as vigorous
at so as most men are at 90 years OF age
His many friends in Mexican county hope
that he may retain the full vigor of hi,
mental faculties and the perfect healu
with which he has been blessed through
life, for many years TO come. .-[Smethpor
| Miner.