'..) U II'. .H . ' ' ' ' ' Mi c. ' Rates of Advertising. One Square (1 inch,) one inertlon - 1 M f rtTBUIiTKO KTCHT WEDNESDAY, BY W. R. DUNN, moi ci Bonnraoir Knnna'a Bunjjnra, ILM BTIECT, TXOHfl3Ti, fa, TBRMH, fLOO A YKAR, V rtabaorlptlon received tor shorter perlsd than three m on tin. Csarreariondeuoe solicited from all part f aheeotinlry. No notice wtU be taken of ewmnymons enmmtinications. i.i - .BUSINESS DIRECTORY. One Nquare " one month - s 00 One Bouare " three months . Off One Square " one year - Two Squares, one year - -' . Quarter Col. - Half " " . . One " . . . . 10 to 19 Oa so oa so OS 100 ot VOL. VII. NO. 22. TIONESTA, PA., SEPTEMBER 2, 1874. n PER ANNUM. 1 TI05E3TA LODGE Jfo.309, 'I. O. of O.F. MEKTrt every Frldsy evening, at 8 o'clock, In the Hall formerly occupied W the Oood Templars. W. It. DUNS. N. O. O.W. SAWYER, Sec'y. 27-tf. Dr. J. K. Blaine, OTTICK and residence, opposite tlie Lawrenoe House. Ofltoe day a Wednes days and Hat a relay a. So-tf. W. P. MerclUlott, TTORNEY AT LAW, cor. Kim and jtV Walnut 81., Tlonesta, Pa. I have associated navself with Hon. A. B. Rich mond, of Meadville, I'a., In the praotloo of law ! Forest County. 10-ly . wawroa7 rams, uium w. tatb, PKTTIS A TATX, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, A1mmrt, TIOXESTA, PA. F. W.Haya, A TTORNKY AT UW, IfOTAKT A Co.'s 10-ly l Public. Reynolds r a Iluklll Aloek, Beaeca St., Oil City, Pa. r. KIKHBAJt. ST. B. SMILKT. XIXXKAJt 0 SMILEY, .ttorasys at Law, ... Franklin, Pa. PRACTICE In the aereral CourU of Ve nango, Crawford, Forest, and adjoin ing eoantiea. zt-iy. K. ARSIS, . . FAMBTT, IIAIMI8 A FA3SETT, tbernsye at Iw, Tltusvula Penn'a. PR ACTICR In all the Conrta of Warren, Crawford, Foreat and Venango Coun- ttaa. CENTR.AL HOUSE, BOXHKR A AONKW nLOCK. I Aobrw, Proprietor. Thia in a new houae, and has Just bean fit tod up for the ateroniinodatlou of the public. A portion t the patronage of the public la solicited. Lawrence House, TIO!KTA, PA., WILLIAM LAW RENCE, Pbopbibtob. This fcous ta eentrellr locatod. Everything new and wall furnished Superior aooommoda tiona and atriet attention given to guests. Yegetables and Fruit of all kinds served tn tbelr season. Sample room for Com mercial Agents. FOREST HOUSE, D BLACK PROPRIETOR. Oppoelte . Court House, Tlonesta, Pa. Just peaed. Everything new and dean and fresh. The best of liquors kept constantly a hand. A portion of the publio patron age 1 respectfully solicited. 4-17-lT Tlonesta House. GT. LATIMER Lessee. Elm St. Tie . nest. Pa., at the mouth of the ereek. Mr. L. hae thoroughly renovated the Tleaesta House, and re-furninlind it com aletelr. All who patronlxe him will be well entertained at reasonable rates. 7-ly a B. Weber's Hotel, m m wr wnonltTinlf T. . i1 Tt VU IT T TT T) I h nmunssion of the new brick hotel and will be happy to entertain all his old customers, and anr number of new ones. a nod accommodations for truest, and esllent slabllnir. 10-3m. Dr. J. L Acorrb, PHYSICIAN ANDSUROEOX, whehaa had fifteen years' experience In a large sua eucoossiui practice, win aiiena an Professional Calls. Office in his Drug and Urooerv Store, located lit Xidioule, near Ttdioute House. IN HIS STORE WILL BE FOUND A full assortment of Medicines, Liquors' Oils, Cutlery, all of the besi quality, and will be sold st reasonable rate. DR. CIIAS, O. DAY, an experienced PhTsiclanand DruBiUtfrom Kw orK has charge of the 8ure. All preaorlptions put op aoourately. a. a. bat. jo- r. nsa. a. b. isllt. MA Y, PARK B CO., BAHKBBS Corner of Elm Walnut Sta. Tioneata. Bank of Discount and Deposit. Interest allowed en Time Deposit. CaUeoUon madeon all thaFrlnaipal polnU of the U. S. CollsHlent solicited. 18-ly. D. W. CLARE, (OOMMtBnlOMKB' CLBRK, rOBEST CO., PA.) SEAL ESTATE AGENT. HOUSES and Lota for Rale and RENp WUd Lands for Sale. 1 I have superior facilities for ascertaining inie condition or taxes ana tax aoens, o, nd am therefore aualiued to act intelll aisntlv as airont of those living at a dis- VXuicc. owninir lands in the Comity. Oltloe in Commissioners Koora, Court Ilntwe, Tlonesta, I'a. a-41-ly. D. W. CLARK. -NEW BILLIARD ROOMS! ADJOINING the Tionoata House, at the mouth of Tlonesta Creek. The tallica sind room are new, and everything kept in order. To lovera ef the ame a cordial javhation is extended to coins and play in the new room. 37 H O. T. LATIMER, Lossee. Tl Republican Office) KEEPS constantly on hand a large as sortment of iilank Deeds, Mortgage, hiibiiiHi.as. WsrranW, SuuuneiiM, Ae. to be solii cheap tor t a-sh. tf. UINTAUltAXT. JACOB RMEAKDAUGIt has fitted tip the store-building north of Tom's law office, for a rnatatirnnt, and will be pleased to soe his friends there. Froah beer on draught. Also ale, domcntlo wines .to. Oild lunches at all times, and oysters in all stylon, in their season. 1A-Iy WM. F. BLUM, IB LA CKSM ITH AND W AOOtf-M AKER. Corner of Church and Elm Streets, TIONESTA PA. Thlsrm is prepared to do all work tn Its line, and will warrant everything dona at their shops to give satisfaction. Par ticular attention given to iionsE-siiOEism, Diva thsm gret it. trial, and yom will not re- 13-ly. ,. noToaRApn gallery. ILM alTEBRT, SOUTn OF ROBINSON A BONNER'S Tlonesta, Pa., M. CARPENTER, - Proprietor. Pictures taken 14 all the latest styles the art PAPA BAliDlVIlV ,7 Has openod a SEWING MACHINE DEPOT In his BOOT and SHOE STORE, And In connection with his other business he has constantly In store the GROVER A BAKER, DOMESTIC, VICTOR, WILSON SH (JTTLE, WHITNEY, HOWE, BLEES, WHEELER & WILSON, HOME SHUTTLE, r and will FURNISH TO ORDER any Sowing Machine In the market, at list J prices, with all the GrTJJEi, AJSm EES which the Companies give, and will f a DELIVER THE MACHINES f In any pst of Forest County, and give all necessary instructions to learners. Nestles f.r mil Maclilaea, Silk aad Tkread always tn htore. TIDIOUTK; PA., June, 1874. Il-tf NEW JEWELRY, STORE In Tloncata. M. SMITH, I WATCHMAKER & JEWELER, At SUPERIOR STORK ) ALL WORK WARRANTED, A Irge and Suporlor Slock of Watokcs, Cloclcai, and Jewelry, CONSTANTLY ON HAND. M R. SMITH haa fin machinery for making all parts of a watch or clock mat inav ne missing or Droken. tie war rants all his work. The patronage of the uitisens of Forest County is most reapect- rullv solicited, All he asks is a rnir trial tf NOTICE. DR. J N. BOLARD,r of Tidioute, haa returnsd to his practice atlr an ab sence of rViar months, seut in the Hospi tals of Now York, where ha will atUmd calls in his nrnfeHMion. Oltice in Km-eka Drug Store, 3d door tbuve the bank, itaioutv, l a. iti CONRAD'S LOVES. A trrcat. (.tranninc. muscular fellow was Conrad Midburger and he was ad mitted to be tbe best dancer and swordsman in the village. His com plexion waa darker than that of moat of his neighbors, for there was a tra dition of Magyar blood in the family and his face was by no means lacking in intelligence, of a merry and iace- ful sort. The village itself had a look of hav ing been tinished long ago: dui a "reader of men" might have looked at Conrad, if he saw him there and said : "liut that fellow s only half done yet. He doesn't half understand him self. Fity there's nothing in this sleepy ii. . i.:. r If. however, the process nf waiung up was to imply any sortof shaking, there had been little enough of that in the life which Conrad bad thus far led. The greatesr events of the outside world had been only as storms on the ocean, sending hardly a ripple of their uproar into the little land-locked cove of the old doll village. Uotllieb Midburger, Conrad a lath er, with bis old crony . and partner, Franz Hoferdahl, had made and mend ed watches iu the same dingy and time-worn shop where their fathers had fired and hammered before them ; and one lifo was as like another and about as unvarying as the ticking of the fatfaced time-pieces behind the cobwebs in the shop-window. Just now, however, as it tbe course of Nature were being disturbed, va rious ripples were beginuiug to come. Rumors there were, for instance, that tbe king, "God preserve him 1" was pre paring to fight a war .with somebody and that all yuung heroes like Conrad Midburger would soon be needed lor the army. Stranger still and utterly unaccount able, considering his time of life, old Irani Hoferdahl had caught the emi gration fever and made up his stead fast mind to join the great uermao tide that sets pepetually toward the shores of America. Already he had sold whatever he had to sell, except his big pipe, bis flute and his daughter Christiue, for these he intended taking with him to the Western Eden. "Perhaps," thought the villagers, "it's not so strange for old Franz as for some of us. llo's been lonely since his wife died and then ho was a great traveler in his younger days." That was true enough, for Franz Hoferdahl had been to Berlin and America could not bo so very much beyoud. " , The old man had sold his share in the shop to h.s friend Gottlieb and had made as good bargains as he could for his house and movables; but none of his anxiaus neighbors kuew exactly how much of ready cash he look with him when he and his weeping Chris tine set out upon their long pilgrim age. . Christine wept, indeed, as if she meant to ruin her pretty blue eyes en tirely ; for the little old village had been very dear to her and her mother's grave was there. If there were other reasons for her sorrow, Christine kept them to herself; albeit she may have woudered why one person, at least, had not asked her a question or so con cerning them. As for Conrad Midburger, be had said good-by, with all the rest, to his father's old frieud and to the tearful Christine; and he had rubbed bis great black eyes, afterward, in a way that looked as if tbe whole thing was a good doal of a dream to him. . If it was, there was no help lor it since Christine and her lather were far enough away before he woke up. .Nevertheless, when Conrad missed, day after day, the accustomed form of old r ranz in tbo shop, as well as the cheery voice of Christine Hoferdahl calling her father home to dinner, the expression of his face would change, at times, and ono would almost have said he was beginning to think. - Hot quite so much as Ufutt, perhaps at least, not yet ; but pretty soon Conrad s eves took note ot a growing difference in the ways and seeming of old Gottlieb Midburger hiniselt. , Just what it was would nave been heard to sav: but. by decrees, lue oiu roan came to neglect his pipe and then his glass of beer and then his work, and, finally, he took to hi bed and died, and the neighbors said, almost with one accord, that "Franz Hoferdahl had broken his old friend's heart by going away. ,. "Broken his heart!" said Conrad to himself. "But he did not break miuel Apd I have a heart, too I can feel it beat. And I loved old i ranz and loved my father very much, and I feel as if I could cry all day, if I were not so very big a man. The strongest evidence that Conrad bad a heart, however, was yet to come, A tbe days went by, after his father's death, tbe shop and everytniug in and about it became utterly distaste ful to him. Unv after day he sat down by the bench and tried to work, but the very ticking of the watches was insufferably oppressive, while again and again he started up and dropped his ill or his bammer in re newed astonishment at the continued absence of these two old men. "If only Christine would come," he said to himself, "and call old Franz home to dinner !" But she did not come and the silence and loneliness grew more and more irksome; and so when, by-and-by. a good customer opportunely made his appearance, Conrad Midbur ger almost gladly closed with his ofler to purchase the shop and the house. He soid, too, everything else that his father had left him, except tbe old man's pipe and sword, and the medal his father before him had won in the old war with the French. Neither did Conrad, any more than Franz Ho ferdahl, tell any of his neighbors bow great or how small was the golden store he found himself possessed of; but the Midburgers had been a care ful, saving and close-mouthed race for generations. And when the sales were all com pleted and the transfers duly made, and Conrad stood in the moonfight.one fine Spring evening, and gazed at tbe home that was no longer bis, he said to himself : "I think I could almost break my heart now, after all, for I did love that house and loved the shop ; but I could not stay there with the empty places. There were too many voices there that did not speak. That was it. But what shall I do now?" Conrad's question was answered for him by the great French emperor and by the king ; for Napoleon had de termined, in his old age, that he must fight the Germans, and so a great many quiet people had to march away from their homes 16 be shot at, with out the wisest man in the village being able to give them a good reason. It was a sad thing for many, but Conrad Midburger felt as if he was al most glad to go. He was sure beloved his "Vaterland" in every bone of his body, and, if the king called for him, he was ready. Still, as they marched away from the sleepy old village, Con rad said to himself: "There are the old house and the shop, and the church steeple, and tbe trees, and the graves in the church yard. I did not know my heart was so big, for I'm sure I love about every thing I can see." He could not see any thing very clearly just then, however, for his eyes were 6trangely dim. No doubt the sun was iu them and tbe gliut and gliter of the bayonets; but, if anyone had looked in the young man's face, he might have said : r.T : .1 i.r..i r. I 11 is a very luuugutiui im-o nuu there are lines of strength beginning to show in it." And then there followed swift march- ins. comfortless camping, all kinds of severe and trying soiaier-wors, ana a good doal ot very hard lighting. What ever the newspapers and reports might say about it, Conrad -Midburger and his comrades learned that tbe french men were bravo fellows and that the glory of beating them was never very cheaply won. Being big and strong and brave, a good swordsman and every day grow- ne more and more intelligent, Con rad himself won glory that is three or four slight wounds, a medal, pro motion Irom the rauks, the compli ments of his commanding officer and the envy of his comrades. Being a man ot property, ot respec table parentage, of fair education, Conrad might havo looked forward to almost anything attainable in tneuer man army by a man of less than no ble blood, if the war had not boen so very brief aud if the crops to wbicb he belonged bad not been among the first to be ordered home. Before a great while lie found himself almost his own master again, although still within the scope and control of army regulations, for no German of Conrad s age is ever beyoud them and be said to himself: "Well, i loved tne army, almost loved fighting. I know I could love glory with all my heart. I know 1 am ten times as much a. sol dier as that little white-mustached ape of a baron that commanded my corn- pany. mat is it. That is it. I think I could lova a country where there were no barons. Let me see. I think my heart must have been growing a good deal during this war. 1 here is more room in it than 1 knew ot and yet u is always full. 1 think there arc some things in it That I never saw there in the old times. I will go and take a look at the little village first, and the bouse and shop, and I will listen again to see if I can bear Christine call her father home to dinner. Then, if I dou't ber hear, what then? Well thiuk I will lust ask 'my heart about it." Now. all this time, old Franz Hofer dnlil and his daughter bad known very little of what had taken place iu the village they left behind them. They had found their pilgrimage long and weary enough, and they had reached a resting-place at last they had written home to their old neighbors, as all Germans do, but little information had come back to them. They knew that old Gottlieb Midburger was dead and that Conrad had given up the home and the shop, and that he had gone to the great war with the French and that was nearly all. Franz Hoferdahl bad not landed on the shores of the New World a paoper in anything but youth and strength, and he found friends readily enough to take the place of the old ones as far as might be, and, after he had got over his first daze and bewilderment, and become somewhat accustomed to the racking changes in all his habits and ways of life, he tred to settle down as a man of property and sub tan ce, and be happy. "It only old Gottlieb Midburger wre with me," he said to Christine, "I think I could do it. I would bive a good doal jujt to see the old fellow lay downl)is pipe and look into a dir ty watch. Christine said very little, but her bright American borne became dreary enough at times, when she shut her eyes and let her thoughts go back to the old sleepy German village. She read all tbe accounts of the great war, too, wondering if any of her old neigh bors had been in this battle or that, and she listened very silently wjien her father said : "If Conrad Midburger was in .any of that fighting, I'll be bound he be haved himself well. There's good blood in the Midburgers and Conrad is a fine boy." "He must be a man by this time," said (Jbristine. . And then she thought what a very tall, fine-looking man he must be and how well be would appear in his uni form. " But whea, after a while, there was news Of peace and they hears" that the army was going borne to be disbanded, old Franz Hoferdahl grew strangely thoughtful and Christine tried all in vain to arouse bim, or amuse him, un til one Autumn morning, he said to her: . "All tbe other old soldiers are go ing home, l tbiok it is pretty near time for me to go too." "To Germany, father!" exclaimed Christine, with a sudden light in her eyes. "O father!" "No, Christine," solemnly repliad the old man; "Germany is not the on ly fatherland. I am a very old sol dier and I think this is my last cam paign. Christine understood him then, but all in a dreamy and unreal sort of way, until, a few weeks later, she found herself sitting alone in the house, while the chilling wind that whistled by the windows was freighted with the first white harbingers of the Winter. It seemed a cold, forlorn and empty sort of a world to Christine and, when she tried to think of the village where she was born, that, loo, seemed, empty and deserted and. she imagined the old shop shut up and the snow-flakes beating against tbe spider webbed windows. The door-bell rang, but Christine did not hear it, nor did she know the servant had admitted anybody, until she was conscious of a heavy step, almost beside her and a deep, clear voice, full of manly strength, but that trembled in a thrilling musical way said to hei : "Christine! Christine!" - She looked up then in the face scarred and war-bronzed face of a tall, erect, noble-looking roan, who wore a medal of honor on bis breast and whose large, dark, penetrating eyes were absolutely radiant as they looked down into her own. "Christine, be said again, "do you understand roe I 1 have come. "He had come !" she thought, for one brier, burning moment, and it seemed as if light and lifo, and happi ness and strength, and tne old uer man home itself, had come with him She now had an odd, quick fancy that the door of the old shop opened and tbe sun beiran to shine, and she could see the two old men at their work, but she rose and threw her arms around his neck, and only said, between her sobs, "O Courad, I'm so happy! so glad you have come! It was a sober day and asooormeei ing, after all, but, some Lours later, as they sat by the grate in the parlor, where the fire burned warm and cheer ilr. while the first merry snow-flakes of the opening winter flitted softly by tbe windows and iney exenaneeu sw ries of all that had happened to them Conrad said to her: "Ah. Christine, I did not know my elf when vou went away, I did not kuow 1 had a heart, but I soon began to find it out. I found that it was a irreat. big heart, too. with wonderful thiuirs iu it. One love after another seemed to wake up and speak to me. Legal notices at established rates. Marriage and death notices, gratis. - . All bills for yearlv advertisement eot lectcd quarterly. Temporary advertise' ninnts must lie psld for in advance. Job work, Cuih on ltolivery, to tell me it wn there, until at last the biggest love of all came to life and it grew and grew till it crowded out all the others and filled up everything, and then I had to come across the ocean to find you. But who would have dreamed that you had kept any thing for me, waiting all this time lor me to come? I was terribly afraid about that." "Oh, I don't know," said Christine. I don't understand it at all. All the while it has seemed as if I were only waiting waiting and that, if I wait ed long enough, you would sure come." "And here I am. said Conrad. "on ly . I thing there is a good deal more of me, somehow, than in those dear old sleepy days at borne. William O. Stoddard, tn A pplelon't Journal. "HHC'S COJtlSG 1JI.W A resident of New Haven bas given p steamboat travel. Not long ago. having occasion to visit New York, ha started for the steamer's landing, with a carpet sack in one hand and a cane in the other, in what he supposed to be ample time. But when be came within sight or tbe wharf be observed the boat apparently swinging away from ber moorings, and amid the shouts and jeers of the bystanders bo broke into a frantic run lor the land- ng. The boat was eight or ten feet from the Vharf when hs reached the place where he had hoped to find a gang plank, bnt nothing daunted and trusting to the momentum acquired aunog tbe run, be leaped into tbe air and gained the vessel's deck. Not without accident however. The car pel-bag struck one passenger so vio- ectiy in tbe etomach that bo doubled up like a jack-knite, and absorbed a whole flask of brandy in getting straightened out, while the cace struck another man in the face with sufficient forco to induce bim to get down on his knees to look for his hat When he had recovered it, the man who had occa sioned all this commotion said to bim. in a tone ot mingled apology and self- congratulation : "Well, I made it!" "Yes, you did," said the sore-beaded passenger, ''but, you old fool, this boat ain't goinj out, she's coming in 1" A member of tbo Saginaw county bar was recently in one of our thriv ing interior towns on professional busi ness. In the office of tbo hotel he was accosted by a very agreeable gen-" tleman, evidently of tho genus drum mer, who wanted to kuow "where ho was from." "From Detriot" Tho next question was: "For whatbouso are you traveling?" "My own." "You are! May I ask your Lame?" "You may." Pause enjoyable to tho law yer, embarrassing to the other. "Well (desperately,) wliat is your name?" "Jones." "What line are you selling" (impatiently) ? "Brains ' (coolly). Tbo drummer saw his opportunity, and looking at the other from head to foot, be said slowly : "Well, you appear to carry a dr-d small line of samples." Blackstone says be owes that drum mer one. Spilkins returning Lome from tho lodge about 2 a. m., called his spouse s attention to the fact that he had just discovered another comet, visible just over the eaves of his opposite neigh bor's house. - Mrs. S. vouchsafed a con temptuous glance in the direction in dicated, and saw the glaring eyes and moon-illuminated tail ot a prowling torn cat. "Ah", Koderick," she mur mured, "has it come to this? . To bed with you, at once, sir." . A young lady at Norristown put a piece of wedding cake under ber pil low, and went to bed with tbe happy belief that she would dream of seeing ber future husband. That evening, however, she bad eaten two plates of ice cream, about a pint of strawber ries, several sweet cakes, and two largo pickles, and she now Bays she would rather remain single all her life than marry the man she saw in her dream. A man tried to smuggle a wagon load of tobacco across the Belgian frontier recently, by driving at full speed, but the custom house soldier brought down the bcrse with his riflo. There were (GOO worth of tobacco in the wagon, and the horse was in armor and so armed with knives about the bridle that one could not have stopped him by hand without being cut to pieces. "Oh gracious, no I" exclaimed Mrs. Marrofat to Mrs. Quoggs, raising her hands and speaking in a verf excited tone. "She was so ill when her bon net came home that she couldn't get up; but, dear sakes, Jane, that didu't matter nothing, for she just put tho hat on, and lay with her head out tho front window the whole afternoon." A geatleman, on presenting a laco collar to his adored one, said, careful lv. "Do uot let any one else rumple it." "No. dear," she replied, take it off." jo."" w ' V T- Bg f
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