HARVEY SICXLER, Publisher. VOL. VIII. PPMITIG PNNOMIT A Democratic weekly _ __ paper devoted to Poll t Ol eics News, the Arts j sad Sciences Ac. Pub lished every W'aJnes- s* day, at Tunkhannock " Wyoming County, Pa ' ' \ i j__[ ' BY HARVEY SICKLER J&FSS - 1 Terms—l copy 1 year, (in falvanoe) *'2,00; i( not d within six months, a'2.jo will be charged NO paper will be DISCONTINUED, UDtil all ar -1 rt ingests paid; unless at the option of publisher. RATES OF ~AT>VERTISING. TEN LINKS COSSTITI'TK A SQIAHK. One square one or three insertions SI 50 Every subsequent insertion less tffau 8 00 KEAL ESTATE, PERSONAL PKOPKKTV, and UENEKAL AIIV KKTISIXG, as tnav be agreed upon, PATKNT MEDICINES and other advertisements oy the column : One column, 1 year," s<'o Half column, 1 year-.. 25 Third column, 1 year, 25 Fourth column, 1 year, '2O Business Cards of one square or less, per year with paper, SB. |.i?f EDITORIAL or LOCAL ITEM advertising—with out Advertisement—ls ets. per liue. 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L'|R Al' LAW, Nicholson, Wyoming Co-, l'a ta r cci.il attention gr.en to settlement ef ucce dent's estates Y kolau*, Pa. Dec. 5, IC,,T1 C ,,T -vT-ilß.'l \ ATI'O. NKY AT L*kW. Col .!• Itcting and Real L.-tate A D oi.t. lotva l. nds ;.i sale. Sc-ranton, Pa. Se'ft. i wTKHOADS, PHYSICIAN A SUR J. mil attend ptuinptly to all calls in his pro '.-•-iuc. May be loui-cl at l.i-Utiice at the Drug Mme, or a; his residence on l'uluiau sreet, lonueriy . spied by A. k Beckham F-q. SENTISTRf. 7 : vi -rTv /Ait.-" 'A -j- h S.l'_ M W-V*. ' Ta T. BURNS ha? peru.ubu?i> !•-. ;.tc I in Tunkha&nocli Borough, and respectfully tenders pr>ite.N*ioDal Ferviee? lu it." citizen*. ■Mfice aQ Fecund Hour, formsrly occupied by Dr. I man. *6O3OTF. >OBTRAiT, LAMBSSAFE, 0 E EF £ MUTT TIL TPYVTINRTXRVRO. liy If'. 'ItZ'GL'/t, Artist. f.' tn over the Wyoming National bunk,in Stark's 1 .s block, TUNKHANNOCK, I'A. !. ?■• z Portraits painted from Amb'oty;•••. or 1 graphs Photographs Painted in Oilt'i lors A r ler. for paintings en a uted according to or r no charge made. iV Instructions given in Drawing, Sketching, ' crait -in.l Landscape Painting, in Oil or water I -- and HI all branches of tiie art, ■unit. July 31, "j;" -vgnso-tf. IIL KFORi) HOUSE. ~NKHANNOCK. WYOMING CO., PA. rni< ESTABLISHMENT HAS RECENTLY I ac n refine 1 inl furnished in the late-t style, ifv sttentn n will lie given to the comfort and ' '■ ctijc ot those who patronize the 11.. u- -. 11. lIUFFORD Proprietor, lajkhannoek, Pa., June 17, l~b8 —v 7041. BOLTON HOUSE. llAltlUSlt riUi, I'ENNA. The undersigned having lately purebnsed the • ! KIILER HOC-E " property, has already com- Ht eil-u h alterations and iiuprovcments as will ' '' .-nll an 1 popular House equal, if not supc ' t" am Hotel in the City of Harrishurg. A oia;.. e of the public patronage is refpect ■ ; Sa.i-.itcd. GEO. J. BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TI K, W YOJIISG CO., I'A. 'IB establishinent has recently been refitted an el in the latest style Everv attention -ien to the comfort and convenience ol those - 1 a*r-niie the House. : T. B WALL. Owner and Proprietor'. September 11, 1861. MEANS' HOTEL. TOWAJXTDA. RA.. B. BAKTLKT, "BnAf.AltD IlolSl, lil.il 111 A, N. Y. PUOI'KIKTOiI. MEANS HOTEL, i-one of the LARGEST ARRANGED Houses in the country—lt , 1 'P 'n the most modern and improved style ■y pains are spared to make it a pleasantaud ' 'hipping p[ace for all, 'stidl-ly. FOR SALE CHEAP, fS,pKiNG W AGONS, i CAMPBELLS', Tunkhsnnock, iM.tl. TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA.-WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5, 1868. iOctricks Column. Spring Trade for '6B Will open on or about the Ist of May, AT TUIHAKNOIX PEI'A. if -°- O. Detrick., (srccEsson TO BCXSELL A BASNATYNE,) ) , Proposes to establish himself permanently y in trade at this place, at the Brick store house in Sam'l Stark's Block, where by fair dealing and fair r prices he expects to met it and receive the public patronage. a I :o: 1 Attention is called to the following in Dry Goods : % 5 SILKS, POPLIXS, ALPACAS, 1 LUSTRES, DELAINES. GINGH \MS, PRINTS, SHAWLS, INDIES' S.U (IITINOR, DRESS TRIMMINGS, BLEACHED AND BROWN MUSLINS, CLOTHS AND CAS3IMLKES GENTS' FUR N I SUING GOODS TOILET ARTICLES. NOTIONS, AC. Groceries. SUGAR, TEA, COFFEE, MOLASSES, RICE, SYRUP, CANDLES, SOAP, STARCH, FLOUR, FEED, SALT, PORK, BUTTER, CHEESE, DRIED BEEF, HAMS, . FISII of all kind?, 1 BEANS, ' ! AC., AC., Hard ware, A FULL ASSORTMENT. Cutlery OF ALL KINDS, , MEN'S AND BOYS' Hats and Caps. Boots TINWARE. i in great variety. All kinds of Produce taken iu exchange for Goods The above articles will be kept in full assortment. I mean to make the cxferiuient of goods fold in quantites cheapor than ever lefore in Ibis vtciuity, I shall be bappy to see you, and you can depend up on Coding bargains In every ucpartment. Goods re ceived every week. Respectfully yours, 1 C. I>J£Ts/CA. THE JUDGE, THE DETECTIVE, AND THE SILVER TEA-POT. Mr. Justice Mullen, of the Supreme i Court of Now York, is distinguished for great simplicity of manner and superior i abilities as a Judge. The exigencies of ju dicial business frequently demanded his presence iu this district. On a recent vis it he brought with him a valuable silver tea pot needing a little repair, and requiring nicer manipulation than was obtainable at his rural residence. On leaving the St. Nicholas Hotel, where he was stopping, he did precisely what he would have done at home—took the pot ir. his hand to carry !to the silversmith. On coming out of the door, however, lie thought he would slip it under his overcoat, which he did, but did it just at the moment a detective happen to be passing, who noticed the movement, and thought he would "pipe" the old gent After doing this a few rods, and noticing that the party frequently ca-t furtive glan c< s at different objects, he became sati-fie.l that that the put must have been purloined from the hotel. lie therefore quietly tapp ed the judge on the shoulder and said: "I want you !" "For what sir!" '•Oh you know ! Just you come along with me !*' "Come a'ong with you ! What do you mean ?" slightly indignant. "Oh, no use to tiy that on me; you come quietly to the station house, that's all! That tea pot under your coat —you under stand ? ' "Why" (assuming a more decided tone) "that's my tea pot." "Oh, certainly ? by all means ! of course it's your tea pot: won't do though; that dodge is played out; come along, don't bother!" Here the justice stopped and said: "Sir, I am Justice Mullen, of the Supreme Court. I don't know fon, nor what you ttieau, and don't don't wish to he anoyed." "You Justice Mullen T Oh, certainly! no doubt about that ! of course you're Jus j tice Mullen ! Justices of the Supreme Cotut are always goint with, " Hang the things!— Why d<>n'i y u have buttons as we do ? " Let me think! What else is there he can't do? He can't make tatting, or crochet; lie can't wear crinoline, nor man age two yards of trail; he can't wear a " love of a bonnet, " or a balmoral boot; and last and best of all ite can't say " no ! " to an offer of marriage and that's the blvesedest privilege we woman have. ROMANCE OP A RING. The following story of infatuated love for a sprangled knight of the sawdust ring is told by a western paper: Some time since a lovely and highly educated daughter of a clergyman in Al bany, New York, disappeared from her home, and no trace of her could be found. A friend of the family at Quincy, Illinois, w hen Yankee Robinson's circus was ex hibiting there, discovered the girl in the ballet troupe of the ciaeus, going through the evolutions of" Undine.' The gen tleman immediately telegraphed to the girl's father, who came on, aud met the circus in another town, and found his daughter was really there. He discover ed also, that the girl, who had been at boarding school, had become infatuated with tinsel o! the circus-ring rider, had eloped with him upon ths stage for a liv ing. The father met the daughter and entreated -her to leave the troupe and go home with him, promising that all should be forgiven. 'J he girl readily consented if her husband could go with her, hut one of the provisions was that she should leave him. This she refused to do, preferring to cling to her husband and the Mage rather then to enjoy the comforts ot a home at Albany. The distress of the father was not sufficient to overcome his prejudices against the husband, and as the tears and entreaties were unavailing, Le was forced to leave his daughter in the exciting life she had chosen, and return sorrowfully home. Mr. Robinson pictur ed to the girl the vicissitude of the life she was leading, and advised her to fol low the advice of her father, but she per sistently refused, declaring that nothing would iuduse her to desert ber husband. She is described as a girl of striking beau ty, not yet twenty years of age, very mod est in ber demeanor, but completely full of the romance of life, and infatuated by the cheap dazzle of the ting. Her hus band is a young man of sober and indus trious habits and an excellent performer. DON'T RE A LOBSTER ! —Your lobster, when left a high and dry among the rocks lias not sense and energy enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If H does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest exertion would enable him to reach tho waves which are, perhaps tossing and tumbling within a yard of him There is a tide in human affairs that cast men into " tight places, " and leaves them there, like standard lobsters. Jf they choose to be where the breakers have flung them, expecting some grand billow to take them on its shoulder and carry them back to smooth water, the chances arc that their hopes will never be real zed. Nor is it right they should he. The social element ought net to be expected to help him who makes uo effort to helf himself. " INJUNS AfcOUT." A Texan correspondent of the New Or leans Picayune, tells a good story in one , of his letters, " a stirly-faced, grizzly-hair ed, cuffy and moon-eyed chap," who per secuted a certain roguish damsel with his attentions, but was finally thrown off the course of true love, by the following ruse : It being the watermelon season, and Betty's father having a fine supply, all the youngsters for miles around, assembled there on the holiday, to feast on melons. C. was prominent in the circle, till the afternoon. Betty held private interviews with the other young men, and arranged that C. should be decoyed from the house, and frightened by the cry of Indians from some of his comrades, which was thought would wound his pride and drive him away. Five young men with C. walked out.— A bathe in the river, three hundred yards distant, was proposed by one, and seconded by several. Of course poor C, was " in." They went down to the ford, near the melon patch, and began undressing. In the meantime eight or ten others, with guns, hud gone down under cover of the bank, arid secreted themselves along the path, from the bathing-place to the house. " Now , bovs, " said one " who shall be the first to dive in that "ere pool ? " " I'd says C.; " ain't I first with the gals/" Off went pants, coats, shoes Ac. Just as C. hid doffed everything, barring a long flannel shirt —bang! bang! bang! VVho-wo-yeh ! Bang ! went two, three, tour guns—loud and shrill went the Indi an yell in the dease brush, and now under the bank, "O, Lord ! lam a dead man, boys !" said James Simpson. '•My leg is broken. O, save me! " cried George Williams. "Hun for life men ! Run—for mercy sake run !" cried Jack Parsons. •' One of my eyes is out! " all being said in an instant. Do you see that red blaze along the path ? Look a moment—what velocity ! That jagged liaii all straightened behind— that's C, a streaking it for the house, shirt and all. See him about the corner of the field, by the thicket. Bang —bang went half a dozen pieces ; louder than ever, rose the hideous war cry. " O, Loid ! " shouted C„ redoubling his speed—the red blaze getting larger— bunches of his bushy hair dropping out as he " spread himselt." See him leap tin yard fence —high in the air—red shirt and all. The porch was full of ladies—off went two oi three more pieces. C. glanced at the ladies then at his short red shirt. " Run for your life, C., " screamed Bettythe house is full of Indians! Father's dead and brother Sam is wound ed. Run, speed ! " In a twinkling of an eye C. was out of the yard ; and supposing the premises sur rounded, off"be shot, the red blaze more brilliant than ever, and striking directly into a thicket, thorny bottom, lie reached and swair the river; and although it was near ?unset, C. got into a settlement fifty miles distant, to breakfast next morning still retaining the sleeves and collar of bis red shirt, and reporting all the family visitors, kc., among the slain. As for hiutself, he said he fought as long as fight iug would do any good. It is uunecessary to inform von dear reader, whether or not Betty was troub led with C. alter that snap. THE FLOW OF LAVA.— Baynard Taylor writes from St. Vesuvius : " I had al ways imagined a thick, sluggish stream, with a tolerably smooth surface, some thing like the flow of a melting furnace but here were moving mounds rough and shapeless, the chief power ot which lav in their base hidden (rom sight— strange creeping, mining forces, moving forward with a horrible, pitiless certainty in their locomotion, If the scene was less grand in its features than one would expect, it was at least diabolically impressive. It expressed only destruction, and that of the most cold-blooded, deliberate kind.— The main stream had raised a ridge some twenty feet in height, apparently cold on the surface, tint 1 some squirming move ment in advance shook off the crust in scales, and showed the fangs and thioat of the intensest tire. The Iront of this ridge, was constantly hurling masses, some of them dowuthe gorge. The nearer stream was not more than four feet in height, and allowed us to approach near enough to poke it with a stick. Ail along the edge, boys, were busy roasting eggs for travelers, or embedding coins in the fluid lava, which tliey snatched out of the mass and twisted off, very much as I have seen children manage molasses candy. The heat, even at a hundred yards distance, was uncomfortable, and I could not stand beside the moving lava for more than a few seconds at a time." (J3T The aggregate shooting of the fes tive gentlemen who are at present burning powder in Jones' Wood, is about fifteen hundred ball cartridges per day. As to each shot fifteen glasses of lager beer is spilled it follows that the shooters alone dispose of upwards of twenty-two thous and drinks during the hours devoted by them to boring holes in targets. " Westward, bo ! " exclaims a western exchange. We should say a fellow might as well hoe westward as eastward, since he has got to dig for a living wherever he may be. HOW GOOD TEMPLARS INITIATE CANDIDATES. The following must have been written bv a chap who got tight on lager without knowing it would intoxicate. It refers to a lodge of Good Templars. It is a graphic description of an "initiation ceremony," as the writer understands it: ! In the first place, the victim for initia tion is blindfolded, bound hands and feet, avid thrown into a caldron of boiling hot : rain water, and boiled for five minutes. Tbis is done for the purpose of clearing his system of "old drunk.', lie is then ta ! ken out of the caldron, and by mean of a | force-pump gorged with cistern water, af , tor which a sealing plaster is put over his month, and he is rolled in a barrel four or : five times across the room. The choir at the same time singing the j cold water song. lie is now taken out of the barrel, and bung up by the heels till the water runs | out through his ears. He is then cut down, and a beautiful young lady hands him a glass of cistern water. A cold-water bath is then furnished him, after which he is showered with cis terned water. He is then made to read the # water-works' act ten fimes, drinking a glass of cistern water between each reading. After which the "old oaken bucket" is hung around his neck, and fifteen sisters with squirt-guns deluge him with cistern water. He is then forced to eat a peck of snow white the brothers stick his ears full of ice cles. He is then run through a clothes-wringer, after which lie is handed a glass of cistern water bv a beauteful young lady. He is then g-rgc i agai i wi:h cistern wa ter, his boots filled with the same, and be is laid away in a refrigerator. The initiation is now almost concluded. After remaining in the refrigerator for the space of a half an hour, he is token out and given a glass of cistern water, run through the clothes-wringer again, and be comes a Good Templar. Sidewalk Etiquette. Only villagers, or persons with rural ideas, any longer contend that 1 .dies shall always be given the inside of the pavement in pas sing. The rule adopted in all cities is to turn to the right wether the right leads to the wall or gutter, and an observance of this common sense rule would obviate mncfi ' unpleasant crowding by over gallaut gen tlemen who persistently crowd for the out side of the walk. Another common custom —not required even by fashionable eti quette, and one which is Dearly as unex plainable and absurd as the practice of a w hole string of men filing out of a church pew, making themselves as rediculous as an awkwaid squad practicing at "catch step," in order to give a woman the wiong end of a pew—is that of a man when at promenade walk with a lady, to keep him self on the outside of the pavement. A little exercise of judgement will convince any person of the utter uselessness of this bobbing back and forth at every corner. The common rule is this : "If a man and woman are walking together, sne should always be at his tight artn, whether it be toward the inside or outside of the walk, then the woman will not,get shoved against the passers.- Ex. The Deserter Act. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has delivered an opinion declating the de serter act to be unconstitutional. Tiie Court say that the act of 18t36, could not disfranchise a citizen who bad not been tried and convicted ot desertion, and that the refusal to receive the vote of one who bad failed to report, was illegal. This decision settles the deserter act. Thus one by one, the contrivances of the Radicals to prevent a free ballot, are brush ed away by the Supreme Court, aud the rights ot the citizen vindicated. DURING the four years of President Polk's administration, which included the Mexican war, the expense* of tiie War De partment were $90,540,788. The expenses of that same Department for the year end ing the Ist of July, 1808, the third year of peace, aie $128,808,491, or over $38,000, 000 more during one year of peace than they mere during four years of Democrtaic rule with the Mexican war on their hands. Is there any wonder that the cost of living remains at an oppressive figure to the me chanics aud laboring classes of the country. IMPORTANT.—The people wish to know of the majority in Congress whether the enotmons amount taken from the Treas ury to support the Freedmen's Bureau was for the purpose of bettering the con dition of the niggers, or to erect them into a political machine to be controlled for partisan interests onlv ? The people want to know of these Radicals why the army costs §90,000,0C0 last year—s2,ooo a man—and why they are asked to ele vate the head of that artny to the Presi dency? They want to know why the Ex- I ecutive has been stripped of all his con stitutional power ? Callicott, who is serving out his ! sentence in the Albany Penitentiary, is still Collecor in the Third N. Y. District. The President has done all in his power to remove, him, but under the Tenure of- Office biil the Senate roust concur in the ; suspension, or it amounts to nothing. — j What possible object has the Senate in re 1 taining a Radical malefactor now in prison ' in an important office ? * . TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance. Pise auto pjjerfoiie. A love that is never reciprocated—A neu ralgic affection. - Why are the letters "oz" like an adver tisement 1 Because they are for an ounce meot, A man from the Auburn prison says h lost there all his admiration lor auburn locks. "Let us remove temptation from the of youth," as the frog said as he plunged into the water when he saw a boy pick up a stone. An old lady hearing of a pedestrian'# : 'great feat" wondered why theydid'nt inter fere with his fast walking. What is the difference between charky and a tailor ? The first Covers a multitude of sms ; the second, a multitude of sinners. An editor says another twist to the pres ent mode of doing up the ladies' hair woti'd take them off their feet. There is one kind o' ship I always steer clear of," said an old bachelor sea-captain," and that's courtship, cause on that ship there's always TWO MATES and no captaia." "Have I not offered . . every auvantage7" said a doting fa'her to his son, ' Oh, yes," re plied the youth ; "but I could not think of taking advantage of my father." "Mr. Jones," said Mrs. J., with an air of triumph, "don't you think marriage is a means of grace ?" "Well, yes," growled ./ones, "I suppose anything is a mean? of giace that breaks down pride and leads to repentance." A little girl having tor the first time no ticed her shoulder blades, came running irt one day, and said : "Oh, Aunt Mary, I gueas I'll be an angel soon, for my wing boues are beginning to grow." A veritable story of a youngster who,while attending Sunday School for the first time, was a>ked : "Who went into the lion's den T 1 The child appearing puzzled, the teacher commenced spelling, to awaken the boy's memory, "D an—" "Oh, I know now," exclaimed he 5 "it was Dan Rice." Copy of a sign on an aca B eat : "Freeman &. Ilugg : Freeman teaches the boys and Iluggs the girls." INVENTIVE GENIUS.—A Frenchman, who was boasting of the inventivo genius of his country, said, "We invented lace ruffles." "Ay," said a Yankee, "and we added shifts to them." STONE TPLITTING.— A man was mafrietf ; be lost his wife, and had a atone erected over her grave. He married a second time, and when she died had the gravestone split, and it thus served for the two departed. He proposed to a third, and the lady quaintly remarked, "I do not believe that stone will split again." HARD II EADED. —An old gentleman was relating a story of one of the St. Lawrence boatmen. 'Heis a hard head," said he ; "for he stood under aa oak in a thunder storm, when the lightning struck the tree, and he dodged it seveiiteen times, when,find ing he could not dodge it any longer, he stood and took nine claps in succession ou his head, and never flinched." BORES. —OId gents who sit down in aa editor's sanctum and read newspapers to him. A stuttering man drunk. A drunken man that does not stutter. The man who reads all the newspapers, but never buys one. A man that wants to borrow money from you. Why is a beautiful and fascinating girl like a butcher ? Because she is a "kili.ng creature." On a recent trip of one of the Illinois rivrr packets—a light draft one, as there was only two feet of water in the channel—the pas sengers were startled hy ihe cry of ' Man ; overboard !" The sieamer was stopped, and ; preparations made to save htm, when he was ! heard exclaiming : "Go ahead with your darned old steamboat ! I'll walk behind yuu !" The arm of a pretty girl wound tightly round your neck has been discovered to be an infallible remedy in case of sore throat.— It beats |>epper tea all hollow. % An editor at a dinner-table being asked if he would take some pudding, replied in a fit of abstraction : "Owing to a crowd of other matter I am unable to find room for it. The oldest luuatic 011 record—Time out of. mind. NO. 1.