The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-13
NEWSY NOTES.


The next national Grand Army En-
campment will bo held in Pittsburg.
Johnson, the Tidiouto colored ballist,
is doing some good base ball playing for
Punxsutawney.
A Greenville man found a snake coiled
up in his yard and attacked it with an ak.
Next morning he found his lawn hose cut
into foot pieces.
Since the records have been kept, the
G. A. r. of the United States has expen-
ded 50, SOC, 900 for charity. Last year the
organization gave sl7s,s45.52 to that
cause.
And now it is reported that an applica
tion for the pardon of Ralph Crossmire
will be presented to the Board of Par
dons. On what grounds informant say
eth not.--Mt. Jewett Herald.
To he photographed while you doze in
a corner of your pew at church is one of
the latest terrors. The kodak has made
its way into the pulpit. An Irish clergy
man the other Sunday during the service
took a snap shot of his congregation.
The resetting of the boundary monu-
ments between Pennsylvania and New
York has begun. The Commissioners
will travel on foot along the entire line
between the two States from the Dele
ware .River to Lake Erie, and are re-
quired to carefully examine every mon
ument.
The Commission appointed by Gov.
Pattison to select a site for the asylum for
feebleminded children, has decided on
a location near Polk, Venango county,
on the Lake Shore railroad. The state
board of charities will visit the place in
few days and ratfy the selection if it
suits them.
A Pittsburg cigarette fiend set his best
girls dress afire while courting her the
other night and indulging in his favorite
habit at the same time. This is only an
other evidence of the impossibility of
doing two things well at the same time,
even two things requiring as little brain
power as smoking a cigarette and court
ing a girl.-Meadville Gazette.
Hon. Isaac G. Gordon, ex- Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Pennsy lvania,
died at his home in Brookville at l o'clock
p. m, September 4th, of gastric catarrh.
Judge Gordon had been sick for several
months, but his condition was not deem
ed critical until very recently, when he
was taken down and began to sink rapid
ly. He was in the 18th year of his age.
We have received from friend in
New Orleans a specimen copy of the
seventeen-year locust. And he's a bird
about the size of humming bird. The
sender says they make noise like bass
horn and are difficult to capture. The
specimen received looks as il he might
make good bait for fishing and the
chances are he may end his career dang
ling at the end of line.-Blizzard.
About year ago Calvin Bruner was
convicted in Venango county for aggra-
waited assault and battery, and while
awaiting sentence disappeared and has
not been heared from. A few days ago
Judge Taylor sentenced Bruner to pay a
fine of $500 and costs and undergo i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for two
years. No doubt as soon as Calvin learns
this piece of intelligence he will make
haste to get back.
George Wilson, aged %, whose parents
live near Cory, was arrested a few days
ago at Grand Valley, Warren county, on
charge Of stealing horses. He tried to
commit suicide 10y drinking a bottle OF
linment, but was pumped out in time tc
save him. Although so young he has d
big record as "A crook. He has confessed
to stealing number of horses near Cor
ry, and is suspected of the murder of q
young woman.-Franklin News.
David Henderson, a farmer living five
miles east of Erie, Pa. after working his
poor old horse nearly to death and abus-
ing him, turned it out into the woods to
die of starvation and thirst The poor
animal wandered about for three weeks,
without feed or water, before death ended
its sufferings. Brought before Alderman
Swalley the two-legged brute plead gull
ty, and was fined ten dollars and costs
That was very mild dose for such an in
human act.
The late Chief Justice Gordon, OF
Pennsylvania, whose death occurred on
September 4, intended TO be an iron
founder, and was only driven to study
and finally lawyers life by an accident
from some molten iron. Judge Hagen
man, of Berks county, was driven by q
similar accident from the same pursuit
into the same profession and also became
Judge. Their success should be an en-.
couragement to those who are disposed
TO yield to misfortunes.
If, as seems to be demonstrated beyond
a doHbt, an average man weighing l5l
pounds contains within his physical or
ganizatiOn, inter ala, thirteen pounds
three ounces of calcium, which at the
present market price is worth $500 an
ounce, it seems mighty tough in these
Democratic times that poor man has tC
carry around with him SlS,3OO worth o
marketable goods and can't realize on it
Few men realize how much they are in
trinsically worth. Let no man hereafter
say, 1 am poor.-Mercer Dispatch.
A manly man, says the PunXsutawney
Spirit, will not only stick to his princi
pies, and what he believes TO be right
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