The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-06
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| Albion, asked for work, was hired, and
got Mr.. Tripp to write his name so that,
he said, he could remember it when he
came TO work, Next day the signature
turned up on check for $500, the amount
being paid by the Orleans County Nation
al Bank.
There is certainly place in Hades heat
ed seven times the usual warmth for such
miscroants as the fiends who have been
mutilating horses in Indiana county for a
year past. There is no punishment too
severe for such damnable villains. Cutting
off tails, cutting out tongues and slashing
the abdomen until the entrails protrude
have been done in number of cases.
The good people of Indiana should catch
the fiends and start little Inquisition Of
their own.-ReynoldsU Paper.
From an exchange we take the follow
ing which may be beneficial to some Of
our readers; An ingenious swindler is
going the rounds and passing off two
dollar bills for five dollars. With a stamp
or die he cuts out the large figure 2 and
replaces it with cut out with the same
stamp and exactly fitting the opening, a
slight tear is made on the bill and a piece
of pink paper is pasted over this, holding
the figure in its place. The small figure
2's are then blurred and the bill is passed
off rs genuine.
Congressman Scott's private car has Just
been turned out of the shops at Manches-
ter, Va, and it is a daisy. It's sleeping
rooms have double beds, hot and cold
water, and all the appurtenances OF a
bridal chamber room in a small hotel.
Dining room, sitting room, kitchen, ice
room, library, smoking room-everything
complete-and one may live luxuriously
in the car, missing nothing he could get
at first class hotel. The bath room is
elegant, the lighting is by electricity, and
the heat by steam. But the feature of the
car is The open CRATE in the general room,
in which on cold days cheerful wood
fire is burning.
The stockholders of the Presque Isle Gas
Company of Erie, have decided to aban-
don the deep test we'll for natural gas be-
gun in that city in October, 1887. The
we'll is now $500 feet deep, next to the
deepest drill well in the world, the West
inghouse well, near Pittsburg claiming to
be lis feet deeper. Thus far the well has
cost something over $4,000. The tools
were lost last week and their recovery,
even if possible, would cost several thous-
and dollars more. The test was made to
tap the Trenton rock, and samples of the
drllings for the last 200 feet, submitted to
State Geologist Leslie, are pronounced to
be Trenton rock.
| fl,o a
gist, who was convicted in Mercer county
of selling liquor without license and sem
fenced to 80 days imprisonment in the
county Jail and pay fine of $500, has ap-
pealed the case to the Supreme Court. He
has been released on $1,000 bail, by a
special allocatur pending the decision of
that body. Mr.. Fleming was convicted in
the Mercer county court on technical
point of law. He sent liquor to pur-
chaser there by express, collect on deiv-
cry. This, the court held, constituted a
sale in that county, and conviction and
sentence followed. Mr.. Fleming is one Of
the most extensive druggists in the city
of Pittsburgh.
A native of this part of Pennsylvania,
says the Franklin NeigS, who is located in
Seattle, Washington Territory, writes
home as follows: "Pennsylvania people
out here appear to be doing first class, but
my advice to anybody coming out here, is
to stay at home, unless they have 81 900 in
cash or have position before they come.
This is a frst-class place for a man who
has money, but a very poor place for a
man who has to work days work for
living. Wages are good, but the purchas-
ing power of money is about one-half of
what it is in the east and besides there are
ten men for every job there is in Seattle.
If our Pennsylvania moneyed men were
as willing as Seattle's to invest their lucre,
their towns would be far ahead of this
place."
An Erie county exchange says: A re-
cent important decision of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania has caused con-
siderable talk in Erie. Justice Sterrett
has decided that all institutions exempt
from taxation must be founded, endowed
and maintained entirely by public or pri-
yate charity, otherwise the property shall
be taxed the same as private property.
At the present time no tax is collected
from these institutions in Erie. The Erie
Academy has never been assessed, al
though it is maintained by tuition fees,
and the st. Benedicts Academy, on East
Tenth street, has also been exempt, the
latter having always come in under the
constitutional provision that church prop
erty shall not be taxed. Both these insti-
tutions at present time charge tuition
fee and are supported thereby. There arc
several other places in Erie which never
paid taxes. Mr.. Benjamin Whitman, a
member of the Erie Academy, said that if
the academy was taxed uuder the decision
it would be quite burden for the institu-
ton, as the academy takes up considera-
BILE ground right in the very heart of the
city. Parochial schools where any tuition
is charged will be taxed under the deci-
sion of the Supreme Court. All property
now owned by churches, and from which
money return is received in any way, will
also be taxed The decision was made in
Philadelphia case, being an appeal by
the County Commissioners. The Erie
Commissioners will proceed to collect the