CUBJLENT NEWS.
Mrs. Schuyler Colfax is tliirty.
BRIOHAM vorxo, is said to be dangerously
ill. *
One fourth of the entile population of j
Chicago is German.
Gen. Grant refused to receive the hos
pitalities tendered to him by the Hub.
An old lady recently died in Massachu
setts, who had eighty-eight bring grand
children.
A-youth at Komlout, N. Y., recently
stole his pockets full of powder and met the
fate of bod lioys by blowing himself up.
American women, it is alleged, auually
wear 1150,000,000 yards of calico, and nearly
as many dollars' worth of silk.
There is an old lady in Columbus, Ohio,
eighty years old, who is cutting her third
of teeth.
One of the Hartford papers anuouucod a
Grecian Beud ball in that city, with a prem
ium of $lO for the largest,, bend."
An Indian was hanged for murder in Wis
consin a few days since. His whole tribe
came to see the execution.
. A man in Louisville was killed last week
by a tight boot. Mortfieatiou set in on the
instep of his foot, and ho died in three days.
On the Union pacific railroad the cry is
"look out for the Indian," instead of" look
out for the engine."
• Beta to the amount of two millions of dol
lars are said to have been made on the Elec
toral vote in Califonia.
A New Orleans couple, bent on mat
rimony recently had to elope, because some
body was alw ays dying in the bride's family
and prevented a wedding in proper style.
GOT MIXED. —A person named Porter
being very drunk, a friend asked him what
he had been about, "Only turning a little
gin into Porter," replied he.
The Prussians, men, women, and children
according to a correspondent, are now all
in the harvest field digging potatoes with
their fingers.
Ono hundred and fifty thousand hogs
heads and boxes of sugar have been landed
in Boston, since January 1, the largest re
ceipts ever known.
Philadelphia has taken steps to import a
thousand Engbsh sparrows, which will lie
let loose in the pubhc squares and parks
next spring. •
A game cock recently attacked and so
severely pecked a little daughter of J. W.
Brown of Vincoton, N. J,, that lockjaw
act in and resulted in her death.
• Dreadful naughty boy wasThad. Ste
vens. A correspondent of the Albany Ar
gus intimates that he was the father of
eleven illegitimate children.
The daughters of the late Chief Justice
Taney earn their living in Washington by
copying reports and papers for the Secre
tary of the Interior.
Phillips hays the greatest danger to the
country is., peace with the South.,, Peace
is as great an enemy to such rascals as
Phillips as righteousness is to the devil.
A citizen of Belfast, Ireland, thirsting for
fame, has climbed the spire of a chureh there
and been photographed while staudidg on
the ball
A crazy woman in Rochester, recetly, dress
ed up in male attire, went to a social party,
killed two of her relatives, and then poi
soned herself.
In reply to a young writer who wishes to
know "which magazine will give me the
highest position quickest," the Petersburg
Express says, "a powder magazine, if you
contribute a fiery article.
A little boy of 13, having placed a penny
on the railway track at Brunswick, Maine,
to see the locomotive crush it, one of the
train hands threw a stick of wood at him
and he was instantly killed.
A lady recently advertised for employ
ment as follows ; "A young widow lady
wishes to superintend a widewer's house
hold, and would not object to the supervi
sion of a child."
Parson Brownlow, srys he,, would rather
go to hell with loyal negro, than to go to
heaven with a copperheads.,, The scoun
drel's wish will, we have no doubt be re
spected by the Almighty.
Prof Brooks went up in a ballon from
Memshes, and at the height of eight thous
and feet accidentally dropped a dog. The
animalis supposed to have sustained intenal
injuries as no extenal marks were found, or
injuries or dog.
A lady in Bangor, Maine hung her hoop
skirts on a nail in her chamber, and a mem -
ber of her houshould, while exploring the
premises, was so unfortunate as to get his
head caught therein, and being unable to
extricate liimself, soon expired. The name
of the victim was Thomas Cat.
While a young couple were out buggy rid
ing in the District of Columbia, the l>eau
began to smoke, and a spark from his cigar
falling upon his companion,s dress and set
ting it on fire, he had to take her from the
buggy and roll her in a mud puddle in order
to extinguish the flames.
At a Mongrel glorificating pow wow in
Shelby ville, Ind.' the leading orator, J. Q.
Thompson,commenced his speech with these
choice words:—„ we have beaten the trai
tors of Indiana, and the Ood d—d Dutch
and Irish thrown in." The brute ought to
be a member of Beecher's or Bollow's church.
F.lroira has a genius in the bhape of a
saloon keeper, who has trained a number
of rats to run across the floor and waken
his customers who sleep about on the chairs.
The startled drinkers see the rats ; the bar
hseper declares there are no rats thsre ; and
the former, thinking delirium treuums up
cfiivkty start fur ho mo.
&|)e Jlcmocrat
HARVEY SICKLER, Editor.
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TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, Dec. 16, JBGB.
The President's Message.
The President's Message which was sent j
to Congress on Wednesday last, is full of j
telling points against the radicals. We j
cannot tind space for it in this issue and |
therefore give our readers a brief abstract t
taken from the Bloomsburg Columbian.
The President opens by referring to the
non-representation of Virginia, Mississippi,
and Texas in Congress. After a fair trial,
he says the reconstruction acts have sub
stantially failed, and proved pernicious in
their results, and there seems no good rea
son why they should remain on the statute
' books. States to which the Government i
guarantees a republican form of govern
ment have been reduced to military depen
dencies. He elaborates this fact and its
consequences, and goes on to say briefly
that experience has demanded the repeal of
the Civil Tenure bill. He recommends al
so that the act of March 2, depriving
the President of power to issue military or
ders except through army headquarters, Is
repealed, and all other obnoxious laws re
stricting executive powers. The message
reviews Secratary M'Culloch's report and
speaks at length 011 finances and substan
tially in the same vein of the report. He
pictures the evils of a depreciated curren
cy, the necessity for a return to specie pay
ments. and indorses the main propositions
of the finance report. The President then
gives a resume of the annual reports and
calks attention to the recommendations
therein. He makes but slight reference to
the negotiations for the settlement of Ala
bama claims. Our relations with Mexico
have been marked during the year by in
creasing growth and natural confidence.
The Mexican Government has not yet act
ed on the three treaties for adjustment of
claims, regulating consular power and es
tablisliing the rights of naturalized citizens.
Negotiations are pending under the auspi
ces of the United States for tha construc
tion of a ship canal across the Isthmus of
Darien, and I hope to be able to submit
the result to the Senate. The President
says he has been compelled to ask expla
nation and satisfaction for national inju
ries committed by the President of Havti,
and in speaking of Cuba says : "It cannot
be long before it will be necessary for the
government to lend some effective aid to
the solution of the political and social pro
blems which are kept before the world in
the Island of San Domingo, and which are
now disclosing themselves in the Island of
Cuba. The subject is commended to the
earnestness of Congress liecau.se lam sat
isfied that the time has arrived when even
so direct a proceeding as a proposition for
an annexation of the two republics of the
Island of Domingo would not only receive
the consent of the jieople interested, but
would also give satisfaction to all foreign
nations."
Regarding other foreign matters, the
message relates to consular ami commer
cial matters, ami is not important, imleed,
hardly worth printing. In concluding liis
message, the President recommends the
following admendments to the Constitution
of the United States. First. For the elec
tion of President and Vice President bv
the direct voice of the people, and making
them ineligible for re-election. Second.
For a distinct designation of the person
who shall perform the duties of the officeo of
President in case of the death of the Presi
dent and Vice President. Third. For elec
tion of Senators by the people. Fourth.
For the limitation of the term of years of
offices of Federal judges. The President
hopes that when his term of service expires
with those whom he now addresses, that
the Union will be blessed and prosperous.
A NEC.RO CONGRESSMAN. —The Radicals
have at length socceeded in accomplishing
one of their most cherished projects. By
throwing out the votes of twelve Democra
tic parishes in Louisiana they have man
aged to secure the return of a negro to
Congress. The name of the happy darkey
is Menard. By the patent Radical method
of rejecting what votes they please and
counting only what suits them, this Afri
can representative is sent to Washington to
fill the unexpired term of a dead carpet
bagger named Mann. We congratulate
the Republican party on this fnagnificent
triumph of their policy. Let them rejoice
now that they succeeded in accomplishing
their most dearly cherished purposes.
#aT"The destruction of Fort Lafayette
by fire will not be regretted very much
by the victims of Radical hatred and per
secution who, during the war, were thrown
into its noisome dungeons. On the part
of "loyal" contractors its destruction will
l>e hailed with delight, l>eeause they see in
its rebuilding some nice little speculations.
But then the country will not grumble, al
beit the popalar pocket will suffer to the
extent of a million or two.
IXDIAX W.ut. — A report from General
Sheridan, announces a battle with the In
dians, near Beaver Creek, Indian Territory,
in which over one hundred Indians were
killed, two white children recaptured ; with
A loss of thirty-Ave of Sheridan's men.
Official Report of General Sheridan—
Fight with the Indians--A Large Num
ber Killed—Black Kettle one of the
Dead.
ST. LOTUS, Dec. 2. —The following offi- j
rial report of the recent Indian battle has ,
been received;
MLLITAUY HEALKJI ARTES, J
INDIAN TERRITORY, N0v.29. )
To llreret Major (leneral .Ye hols, „!. A.
C. Military l)i ris ion of the Missouri.—
GENERAL :—I have the honor to report
for the information of the Lieut. General '
the following operations of General Custar's
command, tin November 23<1 I ordered
him to proceed with eleven companies of
his regiment and the Seventh cavalry in a
southerly direction, toward the Antelope
Hills, in search of hostile Indians. On the
26th he struck the trail of a war party of
Black Kettle's band returning from the
north, near where the eastern line of the
Pan Handle of Texas crossed the main ]
Canadian river. He at once corralled his 1
wagons and follow up in pursuit over to !
the head waters of the Washita, thence
down that stream, and on the morning of
the 27tli surprised the camp of Black Ket
tle and. after a desperate fight, in which
Black Kettle was assisted by the Arrapa- '
hoes ; under Little Haven, and the Kiowas,
under Sautala, he ruptured the en tin; camp,
killing the chief, Black kettle, and one
hundred and two wawiers, whose bodies
were left on the field, and also capturing
their .stock, ammunition, arms, lodges,
robes and liftv-three women and their
children. Our loss was Major Elliot, Cap
tain Hamilton and nineteen enlisted men
killed. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Bar
nitz was badly wounded. Brevet Lieuten
ant Colonel J. \V. Custer, Second Lieuten
ant C. March, and eleven eulisted men
were wounded.
Little Haven's band of Arrapahoes and
Santatas baud of Kiowas were encamped
' six miles below Black Kettle's camp.
About eight or nine hundred of the ani
mals captured were shot, the balance kept
for military purposes.
The highest credit is due to General Cus
tar and his command. They started in a
furious snow storm and traveled all the
while in snow about twelve inches deep,
Black Kettl's and Little Raven's fami
lies are among the prisoners. It was
Black Kettle's band who committed the
first depridations on the Saline and Solo
mon rivers, in Kansas.
The Kansas regiment lias just come in.
They missed the bail and had to struggle
in the snow storm, the horses suffering
much iu flesh and the men living on Buf
falo meat and other game for eight days.
We will soon have them in good condition.
If we can get one or two more good
blows there will be no more Indian trou
bles in my department. We w ill be pinch
ed in ability to supply, and nature will pre
sent many difficulties in our winter opera
tions, but we have stout hearts and will do
our lest.
Two white children were recaptured.
One white woman and boy (ten years old.)
were brutally murdered by the Indians
when the attack commenced.
Signed, P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major General.
A VERY GREAT MISTAKE. —A young man
can hardly make a greater mistake than to
place himself in antagonism to his employ
er's business, by the too common error of
trying how little service lie may render for
the pay he receives. The matter of remun
eration should have nothing whatever to do
with the fidelity and efficiency of the servi
ces rendered. It is a fatal error to presume
that it is the policy of an employer to get
the most lie can out of a clerk for the small
est pay. There is no intelligent employer
who does not know and act ujaui the
knowledge that money is of very little con-
sequence in comparison with integrity and
ability ; and young man who does his
whole duty in these essentials cannot fail
to draw upon himself the attention and
confidence of his employer. When these
are secured the other desirable thing must
follow.
We would advise no young man to be un
mindful of his own present interests, or to
submit to indignities or injustice of any
kind ; but we feel constrained to say that,
in nine cases out of ten, where clerks imag
ine they are not appreciated, or are unpaid,
or overworked, and, from any such case,
undertake to mend matters by making per
emptory demands, they are In the wrong,
and if they fail they only meet their just
deserts.
A little patience, a good deal of persever
auce, and an undevinting fidelity to tlie
best interests of an employer, are more po
tent in securing advancement in position
and pay than any other kind of self asser
tion.
These remarks will apply with equal
force to those clerks or employees who are
thoroughly conscious of having unappreci
ativo, exacting, and even unjust employers;
for Diogenes was never more earnest in his
in his search for an honest man than are
business men of the present day in quest
of honest and capable clerks ; and these vir
tues cannot exist inactive form without
being found out by somebody who will ap
preciate them, and be only too glad to pay
forth them .-^-Exchange.
£r&- The gold fields said to have been
discovered near Ilhinebeck, Dutchess coun
ty, New York, were recently examined by
a party of engineers with satisfactory re
sults. The evidence of the existence of
gold is believed to be undeniable. The ore
is described as & ferruginous quartz with
the metal interspersed. The veins, it is
claimed, are more extensive than those of
North Carolina, and form a part of the au
riferous deposits extending from Nova
•Scotia to Georgia. The extensive outlay
of capital required to work the gold mines
of Georgia nud the Carolinas. it is highly
probable, will also be demanded in New
York.
HESTER VAUGHAN'S CASE.
The Philadelphia View of it.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12, 18G8.
To the Editor of the Wyoming Democrat,
SIB :—ln the Democrat of the 9th, inst.,
I have read nearly a column of extracts
from the New York World commenting
very severely on the action of the people of
this City, in the case of Hester Yaughau. To
show you, and the numerous readers of
your widely circulated paper, the injustice
of these comments, I enclose you a full
statement of thi f case, taken from the Eve
ning Bulletin of December sth, also an edi
torial of the Daily . \ye of the same date,
which, 1 very respectfully request, you
will publish,—if not the whole of said arti
cles, at least so much of them, as vindicate
the fair name of this "City of Brotherly
Love." 1 especially ask. that you will pub
lish the reply of Gov. Geary to the Com
mittee of N. Y. ladies, who waited on him.
The conduct of the N. Y. World in lending
its columns to the publishing of a slander
on the inhabitants of a sister City, for the
purpose of political effect,' has surprised
and grieved its many readers in this City.
As the A'je truly remarked, "all that hu
manity demanded, and perhaps more, had
been quietly done in the case here, before
our N. Y. friends saw their opportunity for
a 'grand flourish."
Very Respectfully,
G. B. M.
( From the Philadelphia Age of Dee sth. )
We really thought that the New York
(tapers had exhausted this subject, but they
1 are still engrossed with it, and the Press of
1 this eity now takes up their strain. It is
| utterly unjust, so far as it assumes or iu
: sinuates tnat the woman was not fairly, pa
tiently, and justly dealt with by the Phila
delphia Court. Judges Ludlow and Brew-
I ster sat together at their term, and Mr.
! John Goforth defended the prisoner, ably
and faithfully, and with a persistency, that
elicited*the approbation of the Court. Of
course, all the matter now abdueed by the
Press and other papers was wholly irrele
vant to the question at issue, which was
the alleged murder of the infant by the
woman indicted for it. The prior misfor
tunes of the accused, her desertion by her
husband, and by his successor, the father
1 of the child, could not be even given in evi
j deuce. They were, as we have said, wholly
i irrelevant. The legal evidence in the case,
1 in our judgment, heavily preponderated on
| the side of the woman's guilt. Such evi-
I donee would be irresistible in a civil case,
and would ensure conviction from most
juries in criminal cases, in which the hu
manity of the law requires not merely a
preponderance, but an exclusion of rea
| sonable doubt, by the evidence. But in
1 the appeal for Executive clemency, the age
i sex, and circumstances of the unhappy
! woman, may all lie properly considered.—
Nay, we are willing, as we have said before
that the Governor shall concede more
weight than the jury did to the hypothesis
that the child's skuil may have been crush
ed, in the manner described in the testi
mony, without a willful malicious intent
'on the part of the mother. We perhaps
! thus yield too much to natural and local
feeling : for we assure the ladies of New
i York, who sat in harsh judgment on our
1 city and Stab", that they know very little
! of the sentiment that predominates, in such
i cases, at least in this community. We ad
-1 | mit that if the prisoner had been a negro
woman, there are those among us who
; would have taken a more noisy interest in
I her ; still, to be a woman is enough. We
have not been in the Governor's confidence
hut we assure our New York friends that
his long delay in issuing the death warrant
1 | was perfectly .well understood here. In
' the case of Bridget Moran, who threw her
• child into the river, governor after govern
• or -dipped out of office, without giving his
signature to the fatal order, though they
I were as much embarrassed about signing a
• i pardon, for our law requires a governor to
> i set the reasons for the pardon upon the
! face of the instrument, and "consideration
of the fair sex," where that is the sole rea
son, has an odd look in an official docu
' ruent. Yet, that is our weakness. No
- i woman was ever •hung in this vicinity for
. | murder ; nowhere is there more liberal al
lowance accorded to the gentler sex. In
• heinous cases, we hang a man in their stead,
to satisfy the ends of justice. Thus we
I hung Lieutenant Smith, who married Mrs.
. ! Carson, and, at her instigation, it was un
| I charitably said, shot her first husband.—
We hung Mr. Minn for poisoning Mr. Chap
i ! man. but their spouse, Mrs. Chapman Mi
-1 na, was acquitted. Indeed, the hulies do
| run here the fancied risk which made them
clamor at the New York meeting for the
| right to elect the Sheriff who was to hang
them, Ac.; for the Woman's Bights Asso
, eiation there RESOLVED :
! That this Association demand that in all
, civil awl criminal cases, woman shall be tried
I la/ a jury of her peers ; shall hare a voice in
\ making the lairs, in electing the Judge trho
j pronounces her sentence, and the Sheriff mho,
l in case of execution, performs for her that
j last dread office.
If to be hung is one of their "rights," it
|is one that womah will not easily obtain
i here, and there is, indeed, no great readi
i ness to concede it to her anywhere in this
. : country. Only a military tribunal has
! courage enough to chain, handcuff, and
hang a woman, and the daring of that act
! was enhanced by the fast that the woman
! was innocent. The probability is that the
heroine of the New York papers is guilty,
| but there is just room for us to cherish a
! doubt, and she is a woman, we are well
j content that the Governor shall, after the
' approved fashion, "withhold his signiture,"
or pardon her outright, That he would do
so has been so perfectly well understood
here, that it has given an artificial,facti
tious air to the New York excitement.—
jlt seemed here as if Hester Yauglian was
i conveniently affording a chance for wo-
I man's rights meetings and sensational ar
| tides, upon a bald pretence of actual and
| apprehended severity to a woman who had
already received the full measure of merei
! ful consideration which, be it right or
i wrong, their sex always assures to such of
i fenders. All that humanity demanded,,
j and perhaps more, had been quietly done
lin the case here, before our New York
j friend* saw their opportunity for a "grand
| flourish."
COLE ACQUITTED. —Gen. George W. Cole,
who was tried the second time at Albany,
New York, last week, for the murder of L.
H. Hiscock, for the alleged seduction of
1 Cole's wife, was acquitted on Monday.—
i The jury came into Court on Monday
morning, when the foreman stated that
they found the prisoner to l>e sane at the"
moment before and the moment after the
lulling ; but they were in doubt as to his
sanity on the instant of the homicide.—
The Judge said they must give the prison
er the benefit of the doubt, and thus in
( structed they rendered a verdict of acquit
tal.
J
Doings in Congress.
The Fortieth Congress commenced its
last session on Monday, the 7th inst., and
from the following synopsis of the first
day's proceedings, it will be seen that it
went to work, jh'll mell, without order or
system. The negro,occupying the first place
in consideration.
In the Senate the new members present
were Haines and Kellogg, of Louisiana ;
Rice, of Arkansas ; Robertson, of South
Carolina; and SfK-ucer, of Alabama. The
usual committees to wait upon the Presi
dent and the House were appointed. The
credentials of Mr. Hill, of Georgia, were
presented, but Mr. Drake moved to refer
them to the Judiciary Committee, as the
State of Georgia was in rebel hands. A
debate ensued and the credentials were
finally laid on the table. Mr. Sumner in
troduced a bill to establish negro sufirage
in all the States, which, on his motion, was
laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Sumner also introduced bills provid
ing for a return to specie payments on the
4th of July, 1869, and for cheap ocean pos
tage, and a resolution congratulating the
people of Spain on the overthrow of their
ancient royalty. Kills and resolutions
amending the naturalizations laws, pro
posing constitutional amendments relative
to universal .suffrage, providing for the is
sue of arms to the militia in States lately
in rebellion, and relative to vacancies in
grades iu general, lieutenant-general, ad
miral, and vice admiral were introduced
and the Senate adjourned.
In the House 161 members answered to
their names. A bill was introduced by
Mr. Bontwell, providing for universal suf
frage in all the Stales, and two resolutions
for an amendmcntof the constitution to the
same effect were introduced by Messrs.
Kelley and Broomal. A resolution of cen
sure against Reverdy Johnson, Minister to
England, and requesting the President to
order his immediate recall, was referred to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs by a vote
of 94 to 41. A resolution, appropriating
S5(),00(1 to reimburse President Johnson
for his expenses in the impeachment trial
was laid on the table. A resolution look
ing to amendments in the naturalization
laws was adopted after a strict party vote
of 32 democrats to 125 republicans. Mr.
Robinson, of New York, offered a resolu
tion, calling for correspondence on the
subject of American citizens imprisoned in
Ireland, but as a motion to refer prevented
him from making a few remarks in reply
to Lord Stanley, as he wished, he with
drew the resolution. 'The House then ad
journed.—E.r.
Report of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue.
Mr. Rollins, the Commissioner of Inter-
I nal Revenue, sent his annual report to
j Congress on Monday. From it we learn
1 that in the fiscal year, ending June 30,
i 1808, the sum of one hundred and ninety-
I one million dollar? was collected from In
| termd revenue, the expense of collecting
j which was five per cent. The heavy items
;in this account arc the taxes paid on the
' indulgence of popular appetite. The
amount received, for instance from the tax
jon chewing and smoking tobacco was, in
round numbers, fifteen million dollars.—
j All the railroads paid together less than
j seven millions, the insurances companies
less than two millions, and the telegraph
j and expres. companies not a million be
! tweou them, so that chewing and smoking
I tobacco—our small Gees, as they are call
j ed —are really "bigger tilings" in the Com-
I missioner's report than all the railroads,
i telegraphs or express and insurance com
-1 panics in the United States taken together,
i The number of cigars taxed was six hun
i dred millions. The tax on distilled spirits
; and brandy netted fifteen millions, and
I other liquors run the total of the figure on
i stimulants to fully twenty miliums. It is
| estimated by the Commissioner that the
| income from internal revenue for the next
! fiscal year will reach one hundred olid for
ty-five million dollars. Some important
recommendations are made in the report—
among them one urging the erection of
this portion of the Treasury Department
, into u department of itseif.
REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL.—
Postmaster General Randall also presented
his report to Congress, on the first day of
The session. From it we learn that the
oriliuary revenue of this department, for
the year ending, June 30, 1868, slightly
exceeded sixteen and a quarter millions of
dollars, thus leaving a deficiency of over
! six millions. Congressional appropriations
| however, to reduce these figures to a defi
! ci'ffiey of not quite three quarters of a mil
! lion of dollars, if it even does not do away
■ with the admitted fact that the expenses of
! the Post Office Department arc about one
I dollar and forty cents to every dollar rc
j ceived. Mr. Randall does not believe that
, the postal service can or should be made
| self-sustaining for fifty years to come.—
I He estimates that ten years hence the ex-
Lpenses will he forty millions and the re
' coipts only thirty millions, but he express
| es the faith that when the country is fully
j developed there will be no deficiencies for
j Congress to supply.
A Kentucky schoolmaster fell in
love with one of his pupils in 1860, and
married her, although she was only thir
teen. As he used to scold her like a child
she was, she went hack to her mother and
Ihe roamed off elsewhere. After a while
each was informed of the other's death, and
! each preceded to marry again. The girl's
second choice, very kindly, died in a year
l or so, as did the schoolmaster's, when he
married a third time only to be divorced.-*
About two weeks ago, this much married
i pair met by chance, joined their fortunes
again, and as the girl has arrived at years
of discretion, they expect to be happy.
New Orleans has an infant prodigy
, in short dresses who, lias written u book on
entomology.
DO you want Npriug, or Clot Beds, you can find
them at Buck A Sterlings', and they won t
charge you such priees for theta that rou cu't af
ford to buy.
IF there is any article in the line ot Furniture
you want, Buck A Sterling will supply you at
| pricss that will leave bo chance to gruaible.
ONE roAson why people go to Beck A Sterling.'
to buy their furniture is because they sell first
class goods at about, half the price they have usually
been add for in this country.
DON'T fail to go to Buck A sterlings', to look at
tfeeir large stock of Looking OUsse*. the largest
ever kept in the place, an 1 then the prices esn t help
but sait.
STERESCOI'ES, Views. Picture Frames. Pictures.
Brackets Ac., for the llollidays. f'.r sale at Buck
A Sterlings , at your own prices
IT will pay you to call at Buck A Sterlings', and
look over their .Stock of sools, the assortment is
as good a* can be found in North- rn Pennsylvania-
SELECT SCHOOL.
Notice is hereby given to tho citizens of Tunkban
nock and vicinity that a Select School will com
mence in the Brick School House, in Tunkhaanock,
on Monday, Dec. 14th 1668. No pains will be spar
ed to make the same both interesting an I profitable
to all
RATES OF TUITION
Primary Department, $3.00
Common English, 4,1 0
Higher, •' 7 00
One halt Tuition payable in advance remainder
at middle of term
JAB W.OUERNSEY,
nl9-w3 leather
SILVER ELATED WARE.
D AlcKown respectfully announces to the people
of Wyoming County, that he has made a specialty of '
HEAVY SILVER PLATING, lor yoars Heavy
plaiting is much more economical than light. The
more Silver put on the g-ods, the cheaper it is done
in proportion to tho amount of Silver used. Spoons
and Forks, snould not be of less than 16 oz plate
36 or 48 01. would be lar more economical Yet
4oz plate is called a good plate by the trade , and
poor a; it is, but a small portion of all the goo is
made come up to this standard. "Ounce plate." in
platers language means tue numoor of ounces of
silver, to the gross of table-spoons. All otber sul
fates are estimated by these. For example, des
serts are estimated at 3-4 ; and tea spoons at 1-2 the |
surface of table-spoons Fix'een oz. plats is 16 ozs.
of fine silver to the gross of table-spoons or dining ;
forks. 12 oz to tho gro.s ol dessert spoons or forks ;
and 8 oz- to the gross of te-.-j>ons This quality
of plate will cost, on tho average, twice as much I
4 oz and will have four times the amount 01 silver i
on it. Thirty-six oz- plate will cost abcut three
times as much as 4 oz . and will contaiu nine times
the amount of silver .in it. Thirty-six oz* plate is j
the lightest that will allow the engraving on i', of |
name or initials, without cutting through unto the ,
metal beneath. Forty-eight 01 plate will cost about
four times as much as 4oz platu, an i will contaiu ;
12 times the amount of silver. This plate costs
about olio-hall as much as solid silverware of orji- -
linarv weight, and for every day ue will be more
durable than light, solid silverware .Most ot the |
solid silverware is made much too light to he dura
bio in constant use. 'l'ho terms "double." "treble" I
Ac Ido not use to designate qualities —there being
too much ambiguity in their use.
All goods, made by me, having my name and Sg- !
ores denoting the oz, plate, stamped on tbem, will
be guaranteed full weight of silver on first quality
of metal on them.
I will plate to order, goods of any thickness of
plating desired, from 4 to 43 ox
011 goods, (Ist quality of uietal) plated any thick
ness required.
P. C. 151 RNS A 15R0, Jewelers, at Tuakhannoek,
Pa., are agents fur the sale of these goods.
All orders lelt at their 3:ore, will receive proper
attention.
DAVID McliOW.V
Pittston, Pa., Dee. Ist 1363,
r po PHYSICIANS.
1- New YORK, Augu.-t 15th, 1567.
Allow mo to call your attention to my PREPA
RATION OF COMPOUND EXTRACT BUCHU.—
The component parts are RUCHU, LONG LEAP.
CUBKBS, JUNIPER BERRIES.
MOOR or PREPARATION —Buchu. in vacr.o Ju- 1
niper Berries, by distillation, to form a fine gin.—
Cubebs extracted by displacement by liquor obtain
ed from Juniper Berries, containing very little su
gar, a small proportion of spirit, and more palata
ble than any now in use. The active properties are
by this mode extracted
Buchu, as prepared by Druggists, generally, is of
n dark color. It is a plant th.it emits its fragrance j
the action of a flame destroys this (its active princi- i
pie,) leaving n dark and glutinous decoction. Mine
is the color of ingredients. The Buchu in my prep
aration predominates ; the smallest quantity of the
other ingredients are added, to prevent fermenta
tion; upon inspection, it will be found not to be a
Tincture, as made in Pharmacopcea, nor is it a Syr
up—and therefore can be used in cases w here fever
or intlauimation exists. In tiiis. you have the
knowledge of the ingredients, and the mode of prep
aration.
Hoping that you will favor it with a trial, and
that upon inspection it will meet with your appro
bation, With a feeling of confidence,
I am, v ry respectfully,
U. T lIELMBOLD,
Chemist and Druggist of 16 Years' Experi
ence iu Philadelphia, a 1 nuw located at
his Drug and Cbemic.il Warehouse, 594
Broadway, New York.
| From the largest .Manufacturing Chemists in the
World ]
"I am acquainted with Mr. H. T. llelmbold; he
occupied the Drug Store opfosite my residence, and
was successful iu conducting toe business where
i others had not been equally so b-fore him I bare
been favoiably impressed with his character and
enterprise.
WILLIAM WEIGH!MAN,
Firm of Powers and Weightinan, Mauuf.ic 1
turing Chemists. Xinttfani Brown Streets,
Philadelphia
HELM Bonn's Ft, LID EXTRACT BUCHU, for weak
ness arisiug from indiscretion. The exhausted pow
ers of Nature which are accompanied by so many
alarming symptons. among which will he found, In
disposition to Exertion, Loss jf Memory, Wakeful
ness, lloiror of D.seaso, or forebodings of Evil, in
fact. Universal Lassitude, Prostration, and inability
| to enter into the enjoyments ot society.
The Constitution, once atfueted with Organic
Weakness, requires the aid of Medicine to strength
en and invigorate the system, which iiKLMBOLD'b
EXTRACT BUCHU invariably does It no treat
ment is submitted In. Con-umption or lusautity eu
sues.
HEI-MBOLD'S l't.t tu EXTRACT BUCHU, in affec
j lions peculiar to Eemalcs, is unequaled by any oth
er preparation, us in Chlorosis or Retention, Puin
tulnes. or Suppression of Customary Evactualons,
i Ulcerated or piato of the Uterus, and all
; complaints incident to the sex. whether ausiug from
the habits of dissipation, imprudence iu, or tlie <te-
I ciine or change ol life.
II ELM Bonn's FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU ASH IMPROV
i El) ROSE WASH will radically exterminate frotn the
system diseases arising from habits of dissipation,
1 at liitlo expense, little or no change in diet, no in
| conreuieuce or exposure ; completely superseding
those unpleasant and dangsrous rente lies, Copsiva
and Mercury, in all these diseases
Use UELMBOLII'S FLUID EXTRACT Be CIIC iu all
diseases of these e-gans, whether existing in male
or female, train whatever cause originating, and no
matter o! how long staiiding. It is pleasant iu
taste and odor, ''immediate" in action, and more
strengthening than any of the preparations of Bark
or Iron.
Those sutfering from broken-down or delicate con
stitutions procure the rewudy at ouce
The reader must be aware that howevar slight
may be the attack ot the above disease, it is ceatian
to affect the bodily health and mental powers-
All the above diseases require the aid of a Diur
etic HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU is the
great diuretic.
Sold by Druggists everywhere. PRICE — 51,25
per bottle, or 6 bottles for $6,50, xdelivered to any
address* Describe symptoms in all communications.
Address 11. T. HKLMBOLD; Drug and Chemical
Warehouse, 594 Broadway, N. Y.
NONE ARE GENUINE unless done up in steel
engraved wrapper, with fae-stmilee of my
Chemical Warehouse, and signed
11. T. HELMBOLD.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE,
Notice is hereby given that Letters o' Admlnis
tration of the estate of Daniel Treible, late of Wash
ington township, deceased, have been granted to
the subscribers. All persons indebted to said estate
are notified to make payment to the subscribers;
anil all persons having vlaiina against Mid estate
r? ue . s .i present the same, duly authentica
ted lor settlement, to tho subscribers, or either of
them, at their residences In said tovnshlp
a,,™, JOHN u. ACE, t
I"-""*
Ayer's Cat'aarlio PiU ;>
For ail tae purposes of a
Madicina
4;-. Ferhaps uu on,
JBU cine 1* *0 Uuivers.u.,
quired bv *vervl,.,<i *
I ** a catharii.-. ..orVuYe*
Tativ liefore ?i nm vtr%*
mly adopted
• every country and
all cLuses, us tU./i. J
but efficient i,
i'Ul. The ol,*,?£•
eon is, that itictuiurriT
liable auil fur more
tual remedy truu iLY
I other. Those who hive
tried if, kiiovr that it curod them: those who hjt e
; cot, know that it cures their neighbor* au.l fnen-U
' ana all know that what it dues nin eit does a!* a '
that it never fails through any fault or negtenor
its composition. We have thousands upon thu,'.
suiuls o. certificate* of their remarkable curesof,
following complaints, but such cures are known m
every neighborhood, ;uid we need not publish tliea.
Adapted to all ages and conditions in all climate-'
containing neither calomel or any deleterious
' tliey uiay bu taken with safety by anybody. Tuelt
j sugar coating preserves them ever fresh and i Ll u,
j them pleaa it to take, while being purely vegetable
: no harm can arise front their use in any quantity
They operate by their powerful influence oa'tli*
internal vis-era to purify the blood and stimulate g
into healtliy action remove the obstructions of u
stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of tae
i bodv, restoring their irregular action to health, oud
; by correcting, wherever tliey exist, such derange
ments as are the first origin of disease.
! Minute directions are given in the wrapper oa
! the box, for the following complaints, which the*
Fill* rapidly cure;
For Ilripppila or Indigestion, Idstlrw.
nm. Languor ar, I Loss of Appetite, i;. eT
i should lie taken moderately to stimulate the stom.
ach and restore it- healthy tone and action.
For Liver <' m plaint and its various synin.
toms. Ilillou* llrsdackr, Mich Hesdsdir
Jaundice r tircea hickneu, llllloa,
Colic and Ilillou. Severs, they should be
diciously taken for each case, to correct the iu*eaq
action or remove the obstructions which cause it.
For Dysentery or Diarrhoea, out one mill
dose is generally required.
For ItheomatUm, <>oal, Crsrel, Pals'
tation of the Heart, Pain in the hit.
Rack anil Loin*, tliey thould be continuous!?
taken, as required, to change the diseased action of
the system. With such change those corapiaiau
disappear.
For Drvnty and Dropsical Swellings tier
should lie taken in large and frequent doses to pre
duec the effect of a drastic purge.
For Kuppresaion a large done should be Ultra
>s it produces the desired effect bv sympathy.
As a Dinner Pill, take one or two Pill* to pro
mote digestion and relieve the stomach.
An occasional dose stimulates the stomach ani
bowels into healthy action, restores the appetite,
hid invigorates the system. Hence it is often ad
vantageous where no serious derangement exist*.
One who feels tolerably well, often finds that adots
of these Pill* makes him feel decidedly better, from
their cleansing and renovating effect on the diges
tive apparatus.
Tilt. ./. C. AYER & CO., Practical ChcmltU,
LOWELL. MASS., V. 8. A.
Sold by C. Detrick, Tunkliannock, Pa. Sterling
&. Son, Sterlingville, C. C. Berge. Nicholson, Fret:,
Dean A. Co., Factory ville, and all Druggists an:
Dealers everywhere.
/rrff/T/fJ A LECTUItIO to
YOUNG MEN
(Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope. Price 6 eti
A Lecture on tile Nature, Treatment and
R idical Cure of Sperißatarrbuet or Sentinel Wit
uess, Involuntary Emissions, Sexml Debility *:, i
Impediments to Marriage generallv ; Nervous-lew
Consumption, Epileps. - , and Fits ; Mental ani l'a-i
ioal Incapacity. resulting from .Self-Abase. Ac, -Bi
ROBERT J. CI'LVERWELL, M D . Author of ths
•'Green Book," Ac.
The world-renownel author, in this admits,t
Lecture, clearly proves from his own experience -be
the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may be .
ually removed without medicine, and without ii ■
gcrous surgical operations, bougies. instrument
rings, or cordials, pointing out a mode of cure :
once certain and effectual, by which every tuff r*r
no matter what his condition may be, may curt
himself cheaply, privatetv, and radially Tin
LECTURE WILL PROVE A BOON To "THOUS
ANDS AND THOUSANDS.
Sent, under seal, in a plain enveloi e, to any a:
dress, postpaid, on receipt of nix cents, or two [/*
stamps Also, Dr. Culverw#||'s '"Marriage iluiJe
price 25 cents. Address the Publishers.
CIIAS J. C. KLINE A CO
127 Botvr), Netv York. Post-Office B-il
SB6 v"nsoly
5000 Yards IJest Prints, f.:
l?}<-t*par l ard, nt C. DKTRIOK -
manufacture* ev-try variety of il a
J and Shies and retail* at wholesale pri p* lis
member the place, Tiogi .treat, ne" cori.-a
Warren
1"" ASTMAN'S Water-proof Baits are warrant*
a not to rip, crack, run over. They are jus' 1
tiling for teamsters, lumbermen and others ■ a
subject to out-dour exposure.
Q>y WILL purchase a pair of Eistiaan'-*
I proof Bo- ts, certain to keep auy mat'> ■**'
try who wears them, for a tvrelva month.
. liamal Satires.
1 ■ A*
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE.
Whereas, letters of Administration to the r-:n
of John F. Wintermute, late of Forkston tp., .
have been granted to the subscriber. All pera, it
debtee! to the said estate are requested to ma 1 it :
mediate payment, and those having claims : !
mands against the estate of the said decedent.
make known the same duly authenticated w
delay to JULIA A. WINTER-MUT L
Forkston. Dec. Ist 'fts—nis-flw. Adminiitr."
NOTICE.
The Stockholders of the Wyourng Nations'
-e hereby notified th.it there will be 1 rueeti I'
t their Banking house.lll the Coro. of Tuukl. 1
on the 12lh day "f Jan. 1369. at 10 o'clock ' '
for the purt-o-ie of electing dire tori to serve .'."J
tnsu ng year.
SAM'L STARK, C'as it
Tank., Dec 7, '63- ul9-tf
AUDITOR'S NOTICE
The unders'gned having been appoints 1 b'
Orphans' Court, I>r the County <•( Wv . . ; :
Auditor, in the master of exceptioav t.i tin
of C. M Manville. executor of the ei'its
Peckham. dec'.!, will attend to the datm#
peiutinent at hi. ofli -e in Tnnkhanni x
the sixt > .lay of Jan A. D-, I3ij9, a one
the afternoo 1, at which time ani pU-e all •'
interested therein may appear ani ir* j • "i
claim* or be forever a ter dsnar e L- if
JOHN \ SiTTSEIk Vi M
nl9lw. &
CORPORATION NOTItI. |
Whereas, applicttion h.n be-n mi J- t > e a
of Coiuinon Plias of Wyoming County,.or in'i E
ing of :i Charter o! Incorpirat on t > the M<" ;S
Water Company of Meshopjten. in sni 1 ' J ■ K
same having been filed in the office of the 1'" *
tary of said Court. Notice is horubv g • 1 m
uo sufficient reason to the contrary ts "v fi'
bo lawtul lor the sai-1 tsiurt, at thu nsx' W:
of to declare that the par/m* . 1 asmci s" •
cording to the articles and e--,nli!i::s >■*' §?"
stid Clisrter l>ecoms su.l be . con .<•• < ft
politic in law and in fact, avd tho ouri • #
such other directions as the o i-e tuav >• 11
E. J KEKNEV ■
funk. Dec. 8, '63. nl9-*4 S
NO riCE. §
Heeling of Storkltoldera of the
nock Bridge to. ®
The stockholders of the Tunkhaan id. l.'i ." S
I piny, will meet at the office of ths >■• ' ' 9
I Borough of Tun khanmck on §1
MONDAY, JANUARY -ItY. 1" 1 '• , ■
for the purpose of chosmg One Prcd I* ■' "' H
: agers, a Treasurer and such other oil) c> >' H
| required undor the Act of In.vrp.r"i- ,| > •
! by-laws of tho company jp
A full attn l.in' , e is requettel jn|
I llarvkt SICKLBR, m
Sect'y 2
i T '9' ,v Wf
AN sells go . 1 Hsm ■
J Kip Boots at sa.7i ; French call !'•• S
j at 96 ; Imported French Calf. lai' ' H
| Toes, at $lO. and every other artl-lo !1 jflt
j eqda'ly low prices _____ H
est manner tluirinteel cq' ' • -■
Has all the strength ot oil rosin - t B
and lalherißgqualitie : g- ' " '"' > M
splen Id S>ap. S-ll > ia< A ~.<&* ■'
I WORKS, 4* North Frv-ut Street.^ uu- • m
y9 Jnf. 1V