Che cxt$t gltjrofcton. J. E. WKN1C, EDITOR. WEDXr.SD.IT 310RS1SG, FEB. f, 1SS4. Announcements Tho following lntcs will bo charged Tor announcing candidate I Congress, 8-0; Assembly, $10; Associate Judge, $10; Pro thonotary, $10; Sheriff, 8; Commissioner, fi; Auditor, $3; Jury Commissioner, $2. County Superintendent, $5. These tonus ttt-0 8TIUCIXY CASH IN DV; IrANCK. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, are authorized to announce Wm. R. COON, of ltarnott townslrip, ns a candi date for A sRociate judge, subject to Re publican usages. We authorised to' announce LEWIS ARNFH, of Kingslov township, as A can didate for Associate Judge, subject to Re publican usages. COUNTY AUDITOR. We are authorized to announce JAMES A. SCOTT, of J enks township, as can didate for County ' Auditor, subject to Republican usages. Republican County Committee. The following named gentlemen constituting said committee, are res pectfully requested to meet at my office on Tuesday evening, February, 26, at 7 'o'clock, to transact important business relative to the campaign of 1884. As it is an importaut meeting let there be a good attendace: Barnett Twp Wm.'R.' Cooo. Jenks J. J. Parsons. Howe, upper A. P. Anderson. Howe, lower L. Agpew. Hickory L. Keister. Hickory, Bracevilie E. Witberell. Harmony, nipper P. C. Blocher. Harmony, lower John Thompson. Green Lyman Cook. " Kingsley Geo. W. Osgood. Tionesta Win. Lawrence. Tionesta Boro F. F. Whittekin. Let us thoroughly organize for this important campaign. Samuel D. Irwin. Chairman. Tionesta, Pa., Feb'y 11, 1884. Josef McDonald is in Washing ton, for tho purpose, it is suspected, of telling the horizontal reductionists that they have made a mess of it. The Hon. Samuel J. Randall, Dem ocratic Congressman for this State, gets a little boost for the Presidjncy over in Jefferson county, the boys having recently instructed their dele gates to the State convention for him. . Tiie Augusta, Georgia, Chronicle is of the present opinion that stranger things have happened than would bo the nomination of the Hon. Samuel J, Ranball for the Presidency. That is true. The Democrotic party nomina ted ureely. There would be a little propriety in nominating Randall, there was none in making Greely their standard bearer. Randall only differs from his party in his pretended protection principles. But from his .first political action putting Fernan do Wood at the head of the Commit tee of Ways and Means, for instance his protection principles are not even skin deep. Little Eaton, ofConnecticnt, who objected to the Philips resolution, did so, not because it conflicted with any rule of the House or violated any well established parliamentary precedent, but because Philips iu his day and generation did so much to destroy American slavery, the corner stone of the confbderecy Eaton was so anxious his friends should succeed in erecting. Any ODe who was conspicuous during the war for loyalty to the Government incurred thereby the undying hatred of all the copperheads of the North little and big and they leave no opportunity pass without manifesting it. Daniel W. Voorheeh, who is press ing bis bill to make it penal for office' holders to contribute to political pur poses, is in favor of Payne, and oc ' what does the Payne boom rest? . Money nothing but money. Payne t has a fortune, his sons have another ' the Standard Oil Company a score at their disposal. Tilden furnishes moo ey at the New York end. Willia m L. Scott, another Payne man, is not unfamiliar with the use of money in politics , Mr. William H. Barnu will be found not far from the front whea it comes to carrying Connecti cut for Payne by the free use of nion ey. II. B. Payne, by the testimony of his own party, has already bought one office, fhe Dtmocratio party ex pects to ask him to buy another, through an expenditure whose like h not been seen in American politics. J'hila. Press. LETTER FROM TEXAS. Ed. Republican : As I sit in my shirt sleeves with the window and door open I cannot help thinking how much pleasanter this climate is in winter than that in the Keystone State. Men are to-day wearinjr straw bati and linen dusters, women are carrying fans and parasols while the delicate dude may be heard to ex claim Ibat it is "deuced hawtye knaw." The farmer is plowing and sowing, the cow-boy is feeding his kine upon the verdant grass and the spring poet is abroad in the land. San Autonia is one of the old est cities in the United Staeti, it being formally laid out in the year 1682, or at the same time that Will iam Penn and bis followers founded the- city of Philabelphia. It was chartered as a city by the King of Spain ov6r 150 years ago, and it now presents many interesting relics of antiquity to the lover of tho old and curious. The streets of the city are extremely narrow and as crooked as the tracks as a Star Route politician. Like all cities of castilliau origin, San Antonia is not without its plazas, or public squares, of which there are three, respectively designated as the Main, the Military, and the Alamo plaza. Tho city abounds in many ancient buildings of Spanish con struction, but within the past few years a large number of fine business bloeks and private residenpee have been erected in the latest style of ar chitecture. San Antonia has a popu lation of about 32,000 but during the winter season this is augmented by at least 5,000 persons who come here from the north and' east. The ener getic Spanish Catholics who first set. tied this country have left many en during monuments in tho shape of missions which were erected by their Indian converts and used both as places of worship and as fortresses of defence against their enemies. There are several of these ancient structures in and about this city, but the one around which clusters the greatest historical interest is the celebrated Alamo, in the defence of which the gallant Davy Crocket and his noblo compatriots lost their lives. The history of this remarkable defence is familiar to all, and as an exhibition of human bravery and patriotic devo tion it should certainly be ranked with Thermopylae. Of the 182 fear less men who assisted in this heroic defence not one was spared to tell the tale, but it cost tho lives of at least 2000 Mexicans to accomplish the capture of the Alamo. The rec ords in this famous mission show that it was founded in the year 1703 by the order of St. Francis, and although now over 180 years old, it is at pres ent in a fair state of preservation, and its massive walls of stone are as firm as when first erected. The several churches of the city frequently hold festivals within the sacred walls o this old building, and on the occasion of my visit the place was strewn with wilted wreathes, semi-petrified sand wiches, and other evidences of an ecclestical frolic. The Alamo has given a name to so many organizations and business firms of San Antonia . I. A -i 1 i -t ..r.. .. that it has been nicknamed "The Ala mo City." Next to the Alamo, in point of interest, is the Cathedral of San Fernando, which is situated be tween Main and Military plazas. The front part of this enifice has bsen recently rebuilt, but the rear has stood for over a century. A few miles be low the city are to be seen the mis sions of Espanda, San Juan and sev eral others that are somewhat more ancient than the "Sage of Greystone." A mile north of the city are situated the militery post and supply depot of the United States army for the department of Texas. San Antonia was selected by the Spaniaids as a military post in the year 1716. Af terwards it was used for tbe same pur pose by the Mexicans, then by the United states, next by the Confederacy and again by the United States. This city has become a great health resort, and many persons come here from the north to spend the winter. The San Pedro Springs, which are within the city limits, afford a most excelleut place for recreation and the water is said to possess eplecdid me dicinal qualities. It appears to a casual observer, however, that more go theie to imbibe "Budweisser" from the haud of a williug caterer than to drink of the healing water of San Pedro Springe. Allow me to state parenthetically, that "Budweisser" is to the Southwest what "Ph. Best" is to tho East. San Antonia is situated in a lati tude about fifty or one hundred miles farther south than TSt. Augustine, Fla., and although oranges are not cultiva ted here to any great extent, it is said that tliey can be grown as successful ly as in Florida. The great trouble with the poople of Texas is that they are too much like Adam and Eve be fore the apple episodo took place extremely shiftless. It is so easy for a Texas farmer to exist without much labor that he seems to have grown careless about providing any thing but the bare necessities of life for himself and family. A northern man is surprised to see how the farm ers of this State live. The farm houses are low, dirty, unpainted, frame buildings, often without glass in the wiudows and rarely provided with any of the modern conveniences. "Hog and hominy," with an occasion al feast of bread and raolassess, corn- price the menu of the Texas farmer's daily billof-.are. The floors of his house aro uncarpeted and his victuals are cooked over an old-fashioned fire place, the chimney of which is built on the outside of tbe house. The walls of his house are unadorned with pic tures or ornaments of any kind and his furniture is of the most primative design. His wife and daughter in dulge in the filthy habit of chewing snuff, while he and bis sons devote what spare change they can mus ter to tbe support of tbe neihbor ing ealoonist. The Texas farmer does not waste auy money on the education of bis children, tho planting of fruit trees on his farm, the beautifying of his home, the purchase of useful books, or in any other extravagant way, but he regularly deposits it with the bank er who stauds behind the bar or sits beside the gaming table. Alas, that this is true of 6o many men every where ! There are exceptions to all rules, aod of course there are many exceptions to this one, but a careful consideration for the truth compels me.to state that for dowuright lazi ness, abject poverty and general tie pravity the avetage Texas firmer has no equal among the tillers of the soU in the other States. I would like very much to pay a gallant compliment to theludiesof the "Lone Star States," but unless it be an accomplishment to dip snuff, to whitewash the faco or to be extremely ignoraut, I cannot pay much of a compliment to the women oi lexas. nere again mere are man- ny exceptions to tbe rule, but in the estimation of one who modestly claims to have investigated the sub ject to some extent, the average girl of the North is worth a dozen times as much, both mentally and physic ally, as her siBter of tlfc "Sunny South." f do not doubt that ultimately Texas will be us tar advanced in civilization as any state in the Union, but until the laudlords cease to light me to bed by the dim glare 'of a flickering caudle, I shall think it their etate is either behind the times or. else that the Standard mouopuly discrimiuatea unjustly against it. Texas is making great progress, and those who have lived here a few years are satisfied with the present . . - when they compare it with the past, but there is surely much room for improvement. The school fund of so maoy million acres of laud must be brought into practical use.so there may be free schools everywhere instead of there being almost none as at present. Immigration of the best classes of society must be attracted by friendly invitation and substantial induce ments. The pistol and the shotgun must give way to the spelling book and the grammar. The Texas farm- er must become more industrious, more intelligent and more temperate raisii-j more crops and less devil tryand then will Texas take the exalted staod atoong the galaxy of slates to which its productive soil, its salubrious climate and its vast extent i . ... oi territory entile it. A. II. S. San Antonia, Texas, Feb. 5th '84. Some of the Washington correspond euts are again in distress. They tbink there ought to bo Cabinet changes and yet they do not come. They know so much better thau President Arthur how he ought to run his admiuisjra tion to make it popular, that the sur prise is he does not remove the pres entincumbeuts and fill the Cabinet with correspondents. ; in T WtTS CO OX0 1 TO MAKE ROOM FOIt epins (5ftiet A T . IT. J. HOPKINS & CO'S. TIONESTA, COUNTY AUDITORS' REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1883. N. S. FOREMAN, Treasurer of Forest Uouuty lor tho y To balance lust settlement $0,419 To reo'd from Green tp. on ac count oi S3arahShoup,lm.atic To ree'd for county lauds re deemed '; To reo'd from Shapero for junk . To reo'd from II. VV. Ledebur on ao'kof John Clary, lunatic... To seated lands roturned county tax 18a.....,;.. To ree'd from O. W, Konts for brick , To reo'd from II. M. Foreman for brick , To seated lands county tux To seated lands 1883, county tax To ree'd from Harmony tp, on ac'tof M. Calliuan, lunatic. To sixty clay list. 1883 To reo'd from RobinsonttBonner for redemption of land ,. To balance due on State account 3 a,4ii4 25 47 80 857 253 17 382 20, 04 $18,686 41 $18,0.88 41 N. S. FORAM AN, Treasurer of Forest County, In noeount with the fund:) of tho Com- inonweaim tor tne year To balance last settlement (530 20 To state tax 188:$ , 250 69 $786 81) (THO 80 N. S. FOREMAN, Treasurer of Forest county. In account with tho Redemption Fund of said County for the year ending January 7, 1884. To balance last settlement $2,393 18 By paid individuals $001 12 To reo'd from Individuals 688 45 By transferred to Win. Suiear- bauli, Trunsurer 2,420 51 $3,081 63 $3,081 03 COMMISSIONERS of Forest County, in account for tho yoar ending Jannary 7, 1884. II. W. LEDEUUR. To county orders drawn $109 80 By 4') days' sorvico $147 00 By 228 niiles travel... 22 80 $109 80 HENRY A. To county orders drawn $109 80 uy Mines uavui ,, $169 80 JAMES HENDERSON. To county ordors drawn $134 80 By 87 days' service By 238 uiilos travel. $134 80 C. W. CLARK, Sheriff of Forest County, in To county orders drawn $392 99 JUSTIS BHAWKEY, Frothonotary of Forest County, in account lor the v.w endinir January 7, 1881. ' B To county ordors drawn $24 1 85 By fees '. $i 85 FORESTCOUNTY,bs: We, the undersigned Auditors of Forest County, do hereby certify that we met at the Commissioners' Ollice, in said county, according to law, anil did audit and adjust the several accounts of the Treasurer, Sheriff, I'rothonolary, and County Commissioners for the year ending January 7. 1884, and lind them as set forth in the foregoing report. In testimony wnereof we bave hereunto bet our hands and seals this 18th day of January, A. D. 1884. O. W. WARDEN, LS.) . . T m . R.B.8WALLEY, L S.I County Auditors. Attest J. T. Brknnan, Clerk, JAMES A. SCOTT, L M.J J EXPENDITURES of Forest County Treasurer's commission $120 82 Witness fees. Ac 0 00 Auditors and Cleik Ill 40 Counsel fees 122 64 County Commissioners 474 40 County Couimii'sioners Clerk 720 00 Cat and fox bounty H44 30 Jury fees ; ; 1378 27 Jury Commissioners aud Clerk 60 30 Assessors 327 50 Printing . 655 45 Constables and Tipstaves 201 98 Court Crier 6-j GO Road view 4 07 Fuel and lights 209 79, Elections 404 00 Commonwealth costs 69 53 Books and stationery 203 09 Repairs 172 86 Warren Hospital 789 81 Sheriff's fees ffici 09 Prothonotary'a fees 241 85 FINANCIAL STATEMENT of Forest County, for year ending January 7, 1884. I ASSETS. Balance due on Coucty account and transferred to Wm. 8mearbaugh, Treas.. S.455 93 Seated lands returned for 1883 4117 r.i .ouniy ihxcs on unseaieu lanas lor 1883 3 444 7 Due by Harmony township on account of M. Calliuan, lunatic 338 07 Due by (ireen township on aocount of John Clary, lunatic i 78 Duo by Tionesta borough on account of Samuel Hawthorn, lunatic lm 14 Due by Tionesta township on account of Andrew Kalsgiver, lunatic 145 19 Due by Hickory township on account of Olive Noble lunatic kq $13,814 02 LIABILITIES. Liabilities NONE forest county, ss: '. - . .... Pursuaut to law we the undersigned Commissioner of For est County, publish the toregoing exhibit of the receipts and expenditures of said of January, A. D. 1884. yu,., .u. . ttoi cuuiug jauuary , io. JI. W. LEDEBUR, LS.) Attest Jas. T. BiiENNAjr, Clerk. County, In account with tho Funds of Mild ear ending January 7. 1884. 65 By count v orders redeomod, 1S83 $9,205 08 By seated lands returned by col- 103 23 lectors..- 4:17 28 By exonerations allowed collec- 224 40 tors ISO 19 13 82 By 3j per cent on $9,205.03 coun ty orders redeemed 324 27 300 00 By Si per cent on $001.12 re demption money paid 21 14 995 71 By 81 per cent on $3.22 Tionesta bor. poor order redoeniod 11 3 00 By credit on balance of school liiiirt ot Tioi:estH borough 43 By amount transferred to Wm. SmeiM-baujfb, Co, Treasurer. $3,435 03 ending January 7, 1884, By publishing Mercantilo Ap praiser's list for 1882 $23 PO By State Treus. receipt, Juno 20, 1883 120 08 By 8tuto Treas. receipt, Bent, 6, 18S3 232 m By 5 per cont on 3(12.24 18 11 By cburged in county account... 382 04 ZUENDEL. $109 80 By 49 days' servioe 147 PO '. .,.1. :.- . 22 80 $109 80 $111 00 , ' 23 80 tlZi so account for the yoar ending Jan. 7, 1881. By fees $392 Ml for the year ending January 7, 1884. Janitor J.k3 05 Bridge repairs aiu m Postage and box rent 17 m Collectors' commission 324 27 Expenses ho Court Auditor for 1882 and 1883 20 00 Stenographer lso 00 Refunding orders 415 04 District Attorney 35 00 Coroner sj 40 Western Penitentiary 65 44 Lunacy cases, , 87 75 County Institute t7 00 Appeals 7g 34 New Indices 291 75 Sale of Struy , 26 60 Reward for Bush boys , a5 00 Depositions in Cook Estate and Ag- new A Rogers case 11 50 Transcribing Treasurer's Unseated Land Book 80 00 vviluess our Hands and seals this 21st day J 4MB ii ENDKRSON, L 8.1 V Co. Com mi H. A. ZUENDEL, LS.ji issionets. RAILROAD. TIM.KTAm'K TN KKF W'TNov. 18,183. Wcstwnid.l RivkTi Division Eastward, P. M . 8 00 4 38 4 27 3 10 V. M. V. M. 2 3I 12 13 12 05 12 02 A. M. 7 J.0 4 30 4 20 f3 10 A. M. ar Pittsburgh lv Pui'kor Fox burg nr.. Franklin , lv A.M.; 8 45 1'. M. 8 2 i2 n;n 64 12 40i 12 40 2 00, fl SO P. M P. m 3 10 13 81 A. M. A. M. 7 00 H. M : 0 20 ar...Oil Clty....lv Oloopolin ...Enpln Itork... President Tionesta Hi'korv .. Trunkcvvillo.. Tidio'uto ...Thompson ... Irviiietoii Warren lv...Kln?.un....ar 12 07118 58, 11 51 '8 50 13 40,17 2 t3 42:f7Hl 4 00 7 4 4 16 8 03 14 22 8 11 4 301 8 24 II 4S;8 47 1 4ft 1 30 11 22 I 10 12 60 12 35 12 It II 40 A.M. A.M. 10 00 A. M. 1 1 30 1 1 05 10 17 10 42 10 2.; 10 10 55 9 44 9 27 11 17 10 52 10 3h; 10 ir, 8 28 8 12 f8 03 7 60 17 28 7 10 6 40 0 15 P.M. l M. 9 42 1) 15 14 64 (8 44 ft 16 9 on 6 HO fl 00 P.M. P. M. 8oo P.M. II 10 (( 82 0 45 0 61 9 20 0 60 A. M. A. M. 11 35 A.M. -i'ilv" 1'radroril ..nr A. M, 11 30 10 14 ! 40 I) 20 8 51 7 50 7 10 l M. 6 19 ar...Kinzun.... 5 40 Corvdon.. 5:i0....Wo f Run, lv A. M. id Off 10 32 10 37 10 42 6 31 Quaker Bridge. 5 17 5 04 4 60 441 .. KfHI House.... .. Salninancn.... So. Ciirrollton.. ..So Vandalia... ....Allegany 7 05 1(1 67 7 21 111 12 7 35; It 2t 7 40111 8 02ll 6J 8 10,12 00 P.M.I M. it r.' o lr 4 20 0 20 C 00 4 20, lv Oloan ... .hi P. M.I A.M A.M Additional TliAii Leaves Kinxtia HtjOnm, Warren .-.15pni, Ifvlnoton 2:3W pin, Tidiotfto 3:54pm, Tionesta 5:20pm, ar rives oil aty 7:00pm. Appitionai. Tkain Loaves Oil City 6:10 am, Oloopolis 6:61 am, Eagle Rocis 7:01arn, President 7:15nm, Tionesta 7:48am Hickory 8:37am.Trunkeyf ille 9:04am,Tld oute 10:15am. Thompson JI:06, arrive Irvinoton 11:55pm. PiTTsBt'iiaii Division Train lenv Oil City 2:05. 7:00, 10:15 n. in., 2:45, 4:5r p. m.. arrive Oil City 2:80, 7:45, 0:45 a. m.. 2:20, 3:15, 8-30 p. m. t Flag stations, stop only on signal. Trains run on Eastern 'I'ime. which Is 10 mlnub's faster than Buffalo timff. Pullman Sleeping Cars nod Through Coaches between Buffalo and Pittsburgh on trains nrriving IMttsburgh 7:50 a. in., ind leaving Pittsburgh 8:20 p. m. Parlor Cars and Through Coachrs be tween Pittsburgh and Buffalo on trains leaving Pittsburgh 8.45 a. in., arrivii.i Pittshnrgh 8:00 p. 111. .Tickets sold mid baggage checked to all principal points. - Oct time tables giving full information from Company's Agents. wai. h. iiAi.uwifi, uoii'l ntsa'r Ag't, OEO. S. OETCIIELL, Oen'1 Hup'. Nos. 41 A 43 Exchange St., Buffalo, N. Y. J. L. CRAIU, Agent, Tionesta, Pa. SMEARBAUGH & CO., Dealers in NOTIONS, CCTS SHOES, HATSAKD CAia. GBOCEBES! TOBACCO, CIO ARM, HAKD WA R E, i U E E N S W ARE. i LASS WARE, TOYS, STATIONARY, WALL. PA PER, FOREIGN FRUITS, VEG ETABLES, BAKERS BREAD, OYS TERS, Ac. Goods Alwavs First-Class. ELEGANT BOUND FAMILY BIBLES, 82.50, 1 3.50, $4.50, $0,50 ai'd upwards. Buckeye Force Pump CALL AND OET PRICES. lEX). HiJlBEL, TIONESTA, PENN 'A. XOT1CU. We wish to notify all parties having ob structions in the Tionesla Creek between Balltown and Tionesta that wo Jiave con tracted to run lunilioi and baric out of said creek. All owners of such obstruc tions will be held responsible f .r damage. W. A J. COOPER. Balltown, Pa. Jan. 28th, 1884. 30jan0 S. H. HASLET & SONS., DEALERS IN General Merchandise. FURNITURE. And UNDERTAKERS. mm . ... i o , , sy ""ill1- cr. M ,fS II K 8 1 1 I H j - -a w . (I .'H j alio in Tionesla, Pa. , F