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WILSON, ATTO-iNFY AT LAW, Col • lectiug and Real Estate Agent. lowa Lands fir sale. Scranton, Pa. Rstf. T VV. 880 AIM. PHYSICIAN A SUBfIEON, J . will attend promptly to all calls in his pro ession. May be lound at bis at the Dru a kure, or at bis residence on Putmau Sreet, formerly Kcupied by A. K. Peckham Esq. Office on second floor of NEW JEWELRY STORE, on fiooa St. vB-nlB-6m. PACIFIC HOTEL," 170,172,17* Sl 170 Greenwich Street ■jx* DOOR ABOVE cortlandt STREET, SEW YORK.) The unperiigned takes pleasure In announcing to Is numerous friends and patrons that froin this ite, the charge of the Pacific will be $2.50 PER DAY. Being sole Proprietor of this house, and therefore *• from the too common exaction of an Inordinate ret, be Is fully able to meet the downward tenden f of prices without any falling off of service. It will now. as heretofoie, be his aim to maintain iimished the favorable reputation of the Pacific, Mch It has enjoyed for many years, as one of the t of travelers" hotels. THE TABLE will be bountifully supplied with •(•ry delicacy of the season. THE ATTENDANCE will be found efficient and A obliging. . . , THE LOCATION will be found convenient for use whose business calls them in the lower part of e city, and of ready access to all Rail Koad and .eamboat Lines. JOHN PATTEN. Oct 10th 1868. n 18-681. HUFFORI) HOUSE. UN KHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA "HIS ESTABLISHMENT HAS RECENTLY 1 i en refitted an I furnished in the latest style. 'try *"en , '...n will be given to the comfort end ivee cnre of thoao who patronize the House. 11, HT'FFOUD. Proprietor. Trr khacn ck, Pa., June 17, 1368 —v7n44. BOLTON HOUSE. IIAKHISIIL'KH, PKNNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the bI'EHLER HOUSE " property, has already com n-el such alterations and improvements as will tiitt tbiroid and pipular House equal, if not sape '''■ to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. Ac .atinuance.of the public patronage is refpect 'llj solicited. GEO. J, BOLTON WALLS HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ r, '\!vH AN NOCK, WYONIHG CO., PA. p"< en-aldUhinent has recently been refitted an t fsrnished in the latest style Every attention l ■ ' ziven to the comfort and convenience of those '• patrunixe the House. T. R. WALL, Owner and Proprietor.; j '•akhannoek, September 11, 1861. MEANS' HOTEL.~ t OWANDA, PA. „ lb B. BARTLET, <- ie ol i. RRRAINARD Horse, ELMIRA, N. Y. PKOPKIETGK. HOTEL > i" nne of tbe LARGEST 4 5,. I ARRANGED Housee in the country— It k: r' ID mo,t mo( lern and improved etyle lft ' P*" l ' re spared to make it a pleesantand j ' t ' l ' ppi " K Pl " c * for *"• - ! N ! AS ' 'j** bis customers tbe benefit of hie i'vlu taeilities, and saves to them (be k-'id to Jobbers, Middlemen and •WWe dealers. TDNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. -WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9, 1868. JLatest JVewSa Late arrival of New Goods. Great Bargains at the New Store of O. Detridi,' in S.'Stark's Bri;k Block ! AT TUNKHANNOCK. PEI'A. Having just returned from the City, I am now opening an entire New Stock of FALL GOODS, and one of the lorgest and richest assortments ever offered in this community. Consisting of RICH AND FANCY COL'RD DRESS SILKS, FRENCH AND ENGLISH MERINOS, EMPRESS AND PRINCESS CLOTnS, POPLINS, PARKMETTOS, BLACK AND COLORED ALPACCAS WOOL, ARMI"RE, PEKIN AND MOUSELIKU DELAINS, INPORTED AND DOMESTIC GrNGUAMS, PRINTS <J Bsst Manufactures and Latest Style's, i Ladies Cloths and Saoqueings, Cloths, | Cassimeres, Vesting* Satenetts, T weeds, Jeans, Cottonade*. Drills, Denims, Ticks. Checks, Stripes, Sheetings Shirtings, Bleached A Brown. Shawls, Sontags, Hoods. Furs, Ladies' Reticules, Shopping Bags and Baskets TRUNKS, VALISES, and TRAVELING BAGS, Latest J Styles, Kid, Silk, Lisle Thread, Cotton Gloves, Hosiery, Notions, Toilet and Fancy GOODS, , FANCY SOAPS, PERFUMERY, SfC , (J-., Black end Colored Velvets, Ribbons, RuJJles, Frills, Fringes, Braids, Beads, Ball and Bugle Trimmings A Larg? qu.intitv ofß EST STYLE IIOOPSKIIITS and OOKSETTS. scleect from M mufiicturers, at greatly reJu-e.I prices, FLANNELS all Colors and Qualities READY MADE ClottLingr, AND GENTS Furnishing Goods. HATS AND CAPS of Latest Styles, :o; CALF, KIP, and HEAVY, BOOTS *;SHOES. Ladies'. Misses', and Children's Kid Prunelle Mo rocco nnd Calf Gaiters, Shoes, and Slippers, Wall and A'indow Pap* Window Curtains. A Curtain Fix tures. Carpets A Oil - Go ths. Chins, Glass, and Stone Ware, Tinware, — made expressly for this Trsde, and warranted to give satisfaction, 20 per cent. Cheaper than the usual rates in this section, Nails, Spikes, Iron, Steel, Horse Shoes. Horso Shoe Nails, Nail Rods, Paints, Paint Oils, Painteri Material, Putty, Winston Glass, Kerosene O Hall, jParlo}', Ntand, and Hand Lamps, Lanterns, Lamp Chimnies, Shades, and Humers. COAL, ASH TON, TURK ISLAND, \ HDL . SALT FLOUK. FEED, MEAL, BUTTER, CHEESE, LARD, PORK, HAMS, and FISH. SUGAR, TEA, COFFEE SPICES. SYRI'P, A MOLASSES, WOOD tc WILLOW WARE, ROPES, CORDAGE. BASKETS, BROOMS, PALS* TUBS, HASH BOARDS, CARPET wWEEPERS, BRUSHES, of all kinds. . PATENT MEDICINES. DRUGS, and DYES FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Ac., Ac, ——— :o: These goods have been selected with great care to snit the wants of this community, and will be sold as heretofore, at the lowest living rates for cash or exchanged for conn try produce at market prices. Thankful for the past liberal patronage, I shal endeavor by strict attention to my business, to merit a continuance of the same, and will try to make the future still more attractive and ben etioial to customers. C. DETRICK. HERE'S YOUR NEWS 1 by mas oossip. Good morning to you, Mrs. Smith, I've been to neighbor Morse's ; Poor But Cut Is kicked to death By Charley Cannon's horses. I thought I'd call around, you know, But I have no time to tarry, For Betsy Jane has got a beau, And's just about to marry. A charming day to run away, It Is so cool and shady— -1 suppose you know that Mary Drew Has'got a little baby. Annie Fall and Rufus Hall, They were so grandly matted, Have had a falling out, they say, And now they've separated. Old Jimmy Sing—the drunken thing— Who stole from Mr. Freeman's, And Harry Mott—another sot- Are dying with the tremens. And by the way, last Saturday. When I was out walking, I heard that Deacon Potter's Sue Had sued old Farmer Stocking. • I do not knuw how true It Is, But they tell awful stories Of that affray the other day, That happened out at Morey's. You've heard about the gay White Fawn, And how sumo people praise It ! I never go to any show, Or would I go to see it. Hut 1 must go—l cannot stay— I left my bread arising; But what this world is coming to. Is moro and more surprising. SOLILOQUY. I wonder if he loves met I'd give the world to know If what he said the other night Is true anil really so. He said that I was pretty, And look'd extremely weil— I wonder if he meant it ? How I wish that I could tell. 1 wonder i! he meant it, Or did it for a lark. . When going home to dim the light And kis? me in the dark. I never can get angry, He's such an awful quiz ; And then he comes so often— I don't know how it is ! I wonder if he meant It f The saucy, endless tease, To place his arms around my waist And give me me such a squeeze. I'm sure he thinks I love him, Because I don't refuse To please and entertain him Whenever he may choose. I really think he loves me, For, just before he went. He kissed me twice and once again. And said 'twas only lent. To-morrow night he's coming. To tease me just the same; So If there's any damage done I'm not the one to blame. To heal the wound a bee had made Upon my Nellie's face, It? honey to the part she laid. And bade me kiss the place. Pleased, I obeyed, and from the wound Sucked both the sweet and smart; The honey on my lips I found— The sting went through my heart. XSPJosh Billings writes from Loner Branch : The Grecian Crook is prevailing here just now among the young Indies ; the bend seeins to be some where near the small of their back®, the same as the an cient Greeks had, although I think their walk resembles too much a sore footed goose. Thirty-two months' girl accosted her parental relative a day or two ago : "Papa will you buy me some holes to put in my ears so lean have some earring?" Papa is now looking for the holes. X-rTAt a Methodist meeting the singer who led the psalm tune, finding that his concluding word, which was Jacob, had not syllables enough to fill up the musio ad equately ended thus: "Ja-a J-a—-folde. riddle ccb !" "My dear," said an affectionate spouse, "am 1 yotit treasure!" ' Ou. ye," was the cool replv "and I'd willingly lay it up in heaven."—What a wretch ? Mr. Spinach asserts that there are no shooting siars comparable to the two eyes of his MI s®ianna Arabella they shoot straight to his heart and hit every time. Macnagan, with a wheel barrow, ran a race with a locomotive, and as the latter went out of sight, Mac observ ed : "Aff wid yez, ye roarin' blaggard, or I'll be after runnin'into yez !" XtT"Now, George, yon must divided that cake honorably with Charlie." "How do you mean by honorably, moth er r "Why, that you must give bim the lar gest piece." "Then, mother, I'd rather Charlie'd di vide it." "Doctor," said a despairing patient to bis physician, "I'm in a dreadful state-- I can neither lay nor sit; what shall Ido ?" "Why, then," replied the doctor, ''You'd hotter roost." " To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Right. " PHIL'S MISTAKE. 11T W. SCOTT WAV. A wet and stormy day it was—a day that made a warm room exceedingly com fortable, and caused one to shiver to look out. The rain beat again3t the windows and ran in torrents from the porch roof; and the cold, fierce wind shook and twist ted the tall tree? that grew around the Ilinsley Mansion. Phil Hinsley looked very comfortable, though, seated in a large easy chair before a bright coal fire ; his feet on a stool, a cigar between bis teeth, and a newspaper before bis eyes. He was deeply absorbed in the paper, there was DO doubt of that, for the Hav ana in his mouth was entirely neglected ; and by and by tbe blue smoke ceased to curl up from bis lips, and his cigar was out. He was oblivious to everything that i day—Uit the three column 6'ory he was reading—when the fire left bis cigar ; and when Phil forgot his Havana, there was a cause, and a good cause, too. "Well," he soliloquised, laying down the paper when the three coluins were j finished, "that story is like all the rest she ! writes ; grand, sublime and true to nature. ! I'd give half my fortune to know her; | I'd go five thousand miles, and make her , Mrs. Ilinsley to morrow, if I could find ! her, and she'd have me." i lie lit a fresh cigar, leaned back in bis i easy chair, and took tip the paper again. | "Blanche Burton," be continued, "of course i that isn't her right name, for literary ladies i always have a tson do plume, and I can ( toll Blanche Button is a non de plume by the sound of it—come in ! " A knock at the door had caused Hins l"V cut short hi soliloquy, and the next , moment a man waked in as though he was perfectly familiar with Hinsley's house • as Ilinsley was himself. "How are you, l'hil?" he exclaimed, seating himself before the fire. "Wet day j-out —wet enough to drown ducks, and 1 iam wet to the skin. Got so blue and so | lonesome at home today I couldn't stand j it any longer, so I mounted mv horse and iode over. And I have got something , eapital to tell yon—but before I go on I'd . like one of those prime cigars. Now wait till I get a light, and I'll tell von all about it." Frank Carles lit his cigar, puffed out two or three volumes of curling blue smoke, and then said : "You know I've got an uncle down in \\ estvilic— a capital old chap, too! and he's got a? pretty a ward as ever lived.— She's got the bluest eyes, and sunniest face, and reddest lips t ever saw, and when that worthy chap who has the hon or of being her guardian and my uncle departs this life, she'll get the large end of his handsome fortune !" "I don't see anything very capital about that," said Phil, stroking his brown mous tache and blowing out a wreath of smoke from his mouth ; "come to the point, old fellow, and let us know what the capital part consists of." "In due tme Phil. Everything must have a beginning, you know: but I'll tell you all directly. As I said before, this little girl of seventeen summers is just as pretty as it is possible for mortal to be, and 1 wouldn't be afraid to bet ten dollars she is prettier than an angel, and my wor thy uncle wants me to come down to West ville, bringing a friend or two with me, and spend a month or so at least; and Blanche seconds the motion." "Who?" exclaimed Phil, immediately getting interested, and throwing away his cigar. "Who seconds the motion ? " "Blanche, of course," replied Carles, "and I want you to pull up stakes with me. Y r ou'il fall in love with her of course —every one does that. I fell in love with her myself when I was down in Westville last summer, but she didn't fan cy me at all, and told me so, too. So you see if you do give your heart into her keeping, I won't interfere , and her near est relation is a maiden aunt of uncertain age, who, by the way, resides with uncle and Blanche, vou need not be afraid of anv tyrannical father's Hoot toe Say x'on'll go down to Westviile with me, old boy, and if we don't have a capital time skat ing and sleighing with the girls of West ville. there's no piosquitoes in Jersey." "Phil said he'd think about it," nnd when one savs he will think about doing a thing, lie is very apt to do it. It was so with Phil Hinsley. He tlio't of tbe sleighing, tbe skating and tlie West ville belle?, but lie thought more particu larly of Blanche—Blanche who ? He hud forgotten io ask. "If it should happen to be Blanche Bur ton," lie mused after Frank left, "If it should happen to be her I have loved for the past six months but know no more about her than tbe inhabitants of the planet Jupiter, only that she writes the most charming stories in the world, and signs herself Blanche Burton. But I'll go down to Westville with Frank, anyhow, and if the Blanche he speaks of should turn out toTie the Blanche I think of, whv Pshaw ? What am I thinking about ? " and he rose, put on his hat and went out on the long shaded porch. "L Two days later Phil and Frank left the Westville depot and, with travelling bags in their hands, walked down a poorly pav ed street to the house of Mr. Layton. They were welcomed cordially, and Phil to his great surprise and delight soon found that the name of Frank Carles' par agon of beauty was Burton ! Frank had not overdone the thing when he described Blanche Burton, for she was suerly beautiful in face and figure, and besides the witchery of her laughing blue eyes, and poutiug lips, she had a sweet, tinkling, silvery voice, which at once took the masculine heart by storm. They soon got to be great friends, I'hil and her, and Mr jpyton looked on pleas ed, and Aunt Burton, the maiden lady of utfcertain age, smiled, and Frank Carles flirted with the Westville ladies, and was as happy as it is possible for mortal to be. Mr. Hinsley was satisfied io bis mind that Blanche Burton of Westville, who rode, sleighed, skated and talked with him every day in the week, was the same fair being who had charmed him for several months with her pen, but he concluded to say nothing about it to her; not for some time, anyhow. Weeks flew by—weeks of heavenly bliss to him, for surely did pot his angel, the being of his dreams for six months, sing and play the rosy hours of the evening away ? And one clear moonlight night, as the sleigh flew over the snow covered road, and the bells jingled clear and silvery, be told her the old story—too old to repeat, and she laid her hands in his and answer ed "yes." Lncle Lay ton, as Frank dubbed him, was delighted when Phil asked him for his fair warJ ; he had no objection ; and Aunt Burton, when she heard it, was pleased, and Frank went into ectacies. " W ell I want credit for all this, old fel low,"'he said to Phil. "You know if it hadn't been for mc you'd never came to Westville, and if you'd never came down to Westville, you'd never have won little Blanche." "Indeed,l'm very much obliged to you," said Phil : "and if you will be my first groomsmau. I'll be still mote in your debt.'' "I'll do that," replied Caries ; for when there's a wedding on hand, I always like t Le in it, and if I can't be groom, which I'd prefer, 1 like to be the next best thing which is groomsman. So, my boy, count me in." liie night before the wedding, Mr. Ilinsley and bis betrothed sat in Mr. Lay lon's cosy little parlor. Their conversa tion was of love, of course. Could they talk < i" am thing else when their wedding was so near ? Phil at last resolved to broach the subject of his fair intended's storv writ- "I loved ''on, Blanche, before I knew or saw you." She looked surprised, blushed, and re plied : "How could you do that ? How could you love me before you had seen me ? " "Flow about those stories in the Week ly? " "What in the world are you alluding to, Phil ? " returned Blanche, very much puzzled. "\Y hy," continued Phil, "I read several ef Blanche Burton's charming sketches, and—" He stopped, for she had begun to laugh immoderately. "I see it all now," said she; "they were Aunt Burton's* sketches you read. Her name is Blanche too, and she is quite an authoress. Why Phil, I never could write a sensible letter, let alone a story. He saw it all now, too, and laughed, and then kissed the little girl beside him, not caring three cents if she couldn't write her own name. It all leaked out after the wedding, and Frank came near laughing himself into as well as Aunt Burton herself, over PHIL'S MISTAKE. POWERS OF VELOCITY*—If a tallow candle be placed in a gun, and shot at a door it will go through without sustaining any injury; and if a musket ball be fired into water, it will not only rebound,but be flattened as if fired against a solid sub stance, a musket ball may be fired through a pane of glass, making the hole thej size of the ball, without cracking the glass ; if the glass be suspended by a thread, it will make no difference, and the thread will not even vibrate. Cork, if sunk two hundred feet in the ocean, will not rise on account of the pressure of the water. Smythe spent two whole days and nights in considering an answer to his con undrum : ''Why is an egg underdone like an egg undone ?" lie would suffer no one to teli hiin, and at last hit upon the solution—because both are hardly done. JL'-fT Two rival* belles meet at a hop. " How well you look under caudle-light ?'' exclaimed one, with a stress on the can dles . " And how charming you are in the •dark 1" answered the other. /'ST " My dear doctor," said a lad v, '*l suffer a great deal with my eyes." "Be patient, madam," he replied, " you would probhbly suffer a great deal more without them." SOT A gentleman just returning to this country from a tour in Italy was asked how he liked the ruins of Pompeii. "Not very well," was the reply, " they are so much out of repair." Some descendant of Solomon has wisely remarked that those who go to law ; for damages aie sure to get them. A Connecticut " merchant" placed the following notice over his door when about to be absent one afternoon: '* B back about T time." — JCST Cider makers are properly mem j bers of the press. A WARNING TO DRINKERS. Jinks drank too much, as all his friends knew, but like many another good fellow who drinks, it was bard to convince Jinks ! that he ought to let up on it. lie board ed at one of the* hotels, and night after night he would remain until past mid night at the saloon bar "bissing" it in, ren dering it necessary morning after morning to have a cocktail brought up from the sa ; loon before he could get out of bed, and then another to brace him up for breakfast. Finally, the bar tender, who brought j up the the drinks, remonstrated with him, telling him that if he continued his course much longer, he would certainly have tbe "Jim-Jams." "The what ? ' asked Jinks, not exactly comprehending. "The man with the poker— get snakes after you — j see things—have the tremens." "Oh, i nonsense," said Jinks, "you can't scare me. I have drank just so for fifteen years. It | never hurt me. A cocktail or two in the morniDg, and I'm all right, always," The bar-man had more sympathy for a man on the downward road of iutemper ance than most bar men have, and he de termined to give Jinks a fright. Accor dingly, the next morning, when the well known ring from Jinks' room was heard, the bar tender prepared a very enticing gin cocktail, and placing it on a waiter, surrounded it with sundry toads, lizards, 1 small snakes, etc. This he conveyed to Jinks' room, that individual, who had loaded himsolf with "benzine" the night before rather more heavily than usual, ner- ! vousiy awaiting it. "Morning," said Jinks, stretching out a | hand that trembled some, "glad to see you : —devlishdry this morning—what's tbeui?' starting back in horror, "Why, what do you mean?'' said the man, in innocent wonder. "Why the toads, snakes, and things around the tumbler '' said Jinks, shrinking to the back of the bed, and viewing the loathsome reptiles with aver sion and dismay. "Why, Jinks, my man. there is nothing around the tumbler—no thing on the waiter except the cocktail." "I tell you there are. I see snakes, toads, and lizards there." "Ah, Jinks (with a sigh,) I was afraid how it would be. I told you yesterday morning, don't you re member You arc seeing things when there ain't things to see. You've got "em sure." Jinks raised himself up in bed. "Do you mean to tell me," said he, that there ain't no snakes and things there?" "Most assuredly I do." Jinks considered a moment, and then lying down, said in a sorrowful voice, and with a mild repellant wave of the hand, "take away your cock tail !" The story got out. Jinks found he was sold ; but he quit drinking, for every time he put his nose into a saloon where he used to "infest," some one would sing out, "Take away your cocktail!" WHEN WIVES FADE. Women do not lose spirit upon the first intimation of cooling fervor on the part of those who bold their destinies. So long as the wife believes in the good faith and sincerity of her husband she believes in her own power, by increased watchfulness in love and duty, to restore in him that aidor which her ignorance or folly has fempted ; and so long as hope lives the heart does not break. But it is when she herself has lost confidence in him as truth ful, generous, tender and noble, consider ate of her feelings and interests —when she no longer reverences him as her friend and protector, but regards him merely a? her provider—possibly her enemy, assert ing the prerogative of husbands and place of friend ; when she holds ever his caresses in contempt, preferring his coolness rather than his kisses, and likes his presence less than his place, that his wife's lite tiegius to fade. She may not herself be conscious that it is not the absence of his affection, but ber own absence of faith which crush es her; but sounded to the depths, the cause of nine-tenths of the white, despair ing faces we see among wives would be found to be in the quiet coolness and dis trust of their own heart?. Women want constancy and kindness, and it is strancre how the gravest philosophers arc some times the most unreasonable idiots in love. Let those husbands who consider wistful ly the blooming faces nnd vivacious hab its of married ladies, nobler men's wives, rueing the roses and smooth brows that have withered in their own rude keeping, scrutinize themselves vigilantly and ques tion who of tjie delicate could preserve more of themselves so fostered. And let them secure cheerful companions and hap py homes by virtue of making their vows good rather than by looking to the chan ces of a divorce, and a fresh marriage, which must be sin and can end in nothing but misery,— Bishop London, "DON'T STAY LONG." It is rarely, indeed, that we have read anything more truthfully pathetic than the subjoined waif, which we find floating among onr exchanges. Would that every husband in the land might read and profit: "Don't stay long, husband 1" said a young bride, tenderly in my presence one evening, as her husband was preparing to go out. The words themselves were in significant, but the look of melting tender ness with which they were accompanied, spoke volnmes. It told the vast depths of woman's love—of the grief when the light of his smilp, the source of all her joy, beamed not brightly upon her. "Don't stay long, husband !" and I fan- TERMS. $2.00 Per. ANN uM. in Adv&nca. NO. 19. cied I saw the loving, gentle wife, sitting alone, anxiously counting tbe moments of ! her husband's abence, every few moments ' running to the door to see if he were not ; in sight, ipid finding that he was not, I thought I could hear her exclaiming, in disappointed tones : "Not yet 1" "Don t stay long, husband !'' and again I could tee the young wife rocking ner vously in her great arm chair, weeping as though her heart would break, as her thoughtless "lord arid master ' prolonged his stuy to a wearisome length ol time. Oh, you that have wives to say—"Don't stay long" when you go forth, think of them kindly when you are mingling in the busy hive of life, and try just a little to make their homes and hearts happy, for they are gems too seldom replaced. You cannot find amid the pleasures of the world, the peace and joy that a quiet home, blest with such a woman's presence, would atford. "Don't stay long, husband !" and the j young wife's look seemed to say : "for here j in your own sweet home is a loving heart ! whose music is hushed when you are ab ; sent —here is a soft place to lay your wear y head upon, and her pure lips, unsullied |by sin, that will pay kisses for coming j back so soon." — SCENE AT A HORSE AUCTION. Auctioneer on the block shouts "Bring forth tbe horse !" Enter two attendants i lea ling, or rather supporting, a dilapida ted equine specimen too weak and emacia i ted to possibly walk in without assistance. ' He has a head like a base viol, his back- I bone is even too sharp tor chickens to I roost on. and not hairs cuough in his tail to make a fiddle-bow. There are bunches big as watermelons on his knees, and gut ters down his sides to carry off the rain water. Auctioneer. —"Ah ! gentlemen, here we have a fine specimen of that noble animal, the horse. 1 sometimes think that the horse is in away related to man. [Bystander—"This horse is a devlisb poor relation."] Talk of the sagacity of tbe dog, that of the horse far surpasses it Look at him. See how lie pleads for sympathy. [ Bvstander—"Pleads for oats, more lik^ \v hat shallT hear for this noble animal ? [Rude boy—"Hear tbe bells tolling in a day or two,"] A direct descendant from Bucephalus; he was sired bv Lexington, Kentucky, and damned by [Bystander—"Everybody that has own ed Inra.] Ilis maternal ancestor. Come, gentle men, make a bid. If you want a family horse, ola gentle and atfectionate disposi tion, not disposed o run away, [Bystander—"Or walk away, cither.] This is your animal, Any gentleman, by leaving a deposit of five doHars for se curity against fast driving is welcome to take and try him. [Bystander—"For soap grease ?'] He is warranted not to pull when hitch ed in the stable, [Hostler —"Or when hitched in the wagoti.] And can go single or double. [Bystanders —"He would go better with a horse on each side of him to bold bim up.] Gentlemen, do I hear an offer ? If you don't want him now you could easily dis pose of him for a cavalry horse in the next war. He may be considered the ne plus ultra of a horse. [Bystander—"Yes, the knock kneeplut n/tru."] "What Hm I offered ?" A voice—'Seventy-five cents." Auctioneer—"Sold !" The bidder cries "sold," and then all the people raised up their voices and cry"8old" also.—[ Ex. JOSH BILLINGS osr MILK. —I want to say something, I want to say sumthing in reference to mittv az a fertilizer. There are various kinds of milk. There iz sweet milk, sour milk, skim milk, but ter milk, cow the milk of human kindness; but the moetest best milk iz tbe milk that, hazzent the most water in it. Butter milk izzent the best for buttur. Milk iz spontaneous, and has done more to incouiage the growth of human folks than enny other likwid. Milk iz lacteal; it iz aquatic, while un der the patronage of milk venders. Milk iz mistcrious. Cokernut milk has never been solved yet. Milk iz also another name for human kindness. Sometimes if milk iz aloud to stand too long, a scum rises tp the surface, which iz apt to skare folks that live in cities, but it duzzent foller that milk iz nasty. The scum iz called kreme by folks who inhabit the country. Kreme iz the parent ov batter, and but ter iz 70 cents a pound. The most kommou milk in use, withont doubt, is skim milk, skim milk is made by skimming tbe milk, wich iz considered sharp practiss. I forgot to state, in conclusion, that cow milk, if well watered, brings ten cents per quart, of food is as essential to the health of chickens as to anything else and if left to support themselves they will ob taiu it. In the winter when they are de pendent npon man for subsistence, the de mand of their nature should be as fully complied with as possible.
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