The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-07-11

mer and claims to be hunting for coun
terfet money, and demands that the far
mer submit his coins for inspection and
test to ascertain if he has any spurious
coin in his possession. The stranger us
Jfnlly selects one or two pieces which he
says look suspicious" and subjects
them to a test that turns them black, and
he then alleges they are spurious. of
course the farmer has no right to carry
counterfeit money and the stranger, in
his capacity of a government officer,
walks of with the coins. The swindle is
being worked quite extensively.-E
The bride looked very well in travel
ing dress, but all eyes were centured on
the groom. He wore dark suit that
fitted perfectly his manly form, large
boquet decorated his coat label and in
his daintily gloved hand he carried
boquet of American Beauties. His hair
was cut close, and delicate odor of bar
ber's oil floated down the aisle as he pass
ed. The young people will miss him
now that he is married. He is loved by
all for his many mplishments, his
tender graces and his winning ways.
The bride commands good salary as a
bookeeper in st. Joe, and the groom will
miss none of the luxuries to which he
had been accustomed. A crowd of pret-
ty young men saw them off at the depot.
A sample of wedding notice of ten
years hence. j-Atchison Globe,
The Philadelphia Inquirer, which is re-
producing its war news of thirty years
and more ago, recently contained this bit
of history, which event will doubtless be
remembered by many of the "old boys"
of the SD still living in this section;
Moving out of Middleburg this morn
ing, the troops under General Buford
took a road to the right, leading to I'M
ionville, when General Gregg moved up
the main road towards Ashby's Gap,
passing through Rectors Cross Roads.
| Colonel Vincent with the Eighty-third
| Pennsylvania, Sixteenth Michigan, For
| ty-fourth New York and Twentieth
| Maine Infantry were moved up the main
road in advance, two companies in ad-
vance of each regiment deployed as
| skirmishers while other companies acted
as supports. Fuller's regular battery
was placed in the first favorable position
| west of tbe town, and fired several shots
before receiving any response. The en-
| OBtlbu lIb WIFI bWO guns
and brisk cannonading was kept up for
half an hour, when the caisson of one of
the enemy's guns exploded by a shell
| thrown from section of Fuller's battery
commanded by Lieutenant Kelly and
another shell broke the timber of ano-
thor piece. Both guns were captured by
| the cavalry.
About 8 o'clock on the evening of the
4th John McAndrew, aged II years,
newsboy on the Dunkirk 81 Allegheny
Valley. road, was foully murdered in
Spruce alley near Brown Street, Titus
vile. The fatal wounds were inflicted
on the head by compiling pin, and the
throat was also cut, severing the jugular
vein. The murderer is supposed TO be
one Fred Mcdonnell, and the crime was
evidently for the purpose of robbing the
victim of his 4th of July money. A
short time after the murder f. w. Trus-
delPs wife informed him that a man had
run through their yard in the direction
of Walnut street. Mr.. Trusdell hastened
around TO that street, and in cornpatch
on the premises of II. w. Potter he in
tercepted the fugitive, who proved to be
Mcdonnell. The latter had thrown a
bundle in brush pile, whore Trusdell
found it. 1t was a coat and vest, cover
ed with blood, and was identified as be.
longing to Johnny. The suspected MUIR
derer was handed over to the officers
His collars and cuffs were stained with
blood, and the two boys had been seen to
gether in the vicinity but short time
previously. The murdered boy was al
ways known to be exemplary in his hab
its. The evidence against Mcdonnell il
very strong, and it is not thought that h'
has any accomplices.