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Dee. 5, l&g7—v7ul9jl , IT J. WIIASON, ATTOKNFY AT LAW, Col ,11. lading and Real Estate Agent. lowa Lands rssle. Scranton, Pa. 38tf. ASTERIIOUT A DF.WITT, Attorneys' at Law— U Office, opposite the Bank, Tunkhannock, Pa. "t M. OsTERHOCT. O. B. DEWITT j I WT KUOADS, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, J. will attend promptly to all calls in his pro sion. May be found at his Office at the Drag re, or at his residence on Putman Sreet, formerly i-eupied by A. K. I'eckham Esq. • 3R, E. F. AVERY'S,Cap! DENTAL Off ICE. •rer Barn's Bros., Jewelry Store. Tunkh.-u.nock, Pa. All the various styles of Dental work scientifically tone and warranted. Particular attention given to J Kraightening irregular or deficient teeth. . Examinations made, and advice given without •srge Bthereal Spray administered when desired, c Chloroform administered under direction of a Fhyst elzn. The advantages of employing a local and re ijioaslMe dentist are apparent to all. vBn'Z7t. 1 Prof. J. Berlinghof.j iasljionflblf Barber & siir-€ttfr, AT TUNKHANNOCK, PA. HAIR Woven, and Braided, foe Switches, or Curled, ] tod Waterfalls of every site and style, manufactur ed to "(wdsr. Tbe highest market prices paid for Ladies' Hair. All the approved kinds of Hair Restorers and brtssing constantly kept on hand and sold at Man aftctursrs retail prices. Hair *nd Whiskers eolured to every natural ■had*. * JACOB BERLINGHOF. Tonk., Pa. Jan. 5, '69 —vBn2i-tf. t PACIFIC HOTEL, 170,171,174 At 176 Greenwich Street. (ONS POOR ABOVE CORTtoANPT BTREBT, *BW YORK.) The üßpenigned takes pleasure In annonnclng to ha numerous friends sod patrons that from this date, the charge of the Pacific will be $2.50 PER DAY. Being sole Proprietor of this hoise and therefore fret from the too common exaction of an Inordinate tut. he is tully able to meet the downward tenden cy o! prices without any falling off of service. It will now. as heretofoie, be hi* aim to maintain W'H'alshed the fhvorable reputation of the Paclflo, *hieh it has enjoyed for many years, as one of the vest of travelers' hotels. THE TABLE will be bountifully supplied with every delicacy of the season. THE ATTENDANCE wIU be found efficient and "id obliging. THE LOCATION will be ionnd convenient for t-oee whose business calls them In the lower part of the city, and of ready aoceas to all Ball Road and 1 btestnboat Lines. JOHN PATTEN. Oct loth lses. nis-sm. HUFFORD HOUSE. RUNKHANNOCX. WYOMING CO., PA THIS ESTABLISHMENT HAS RECENTLY - been refitted and lurnished In the latest slyle. tvery attention will be given to the comfort and of those who patronize the House. H, HUFFORD Proprietor. Tubkhatinock, Pa., June 17, 1860.—v7044. BOLTON HOUSE. HAKUISRUhGy PLNNA. j The undersigned having lately purchased the ! : ' EHI.ER HOUSE " property, has already com- ! ®eacej m-h alterations and improvements as will ; this old and popular House equal, if not supe- , n "t. ti any Hotel in the City of Harrieburg. teooimuance of the public patronage i* mfperi sh solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON- j WALL'S HOTEL, . LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ T| -*KHAN MOCK, WYOMING CO.. PA. eetaUivhrnant has recently been refitted an • i . farni * h,J in the latest style Every attention ■ he given to tbe comfort and eonveaienee oi tboea iu Halronize the Houee. T __ T. B. WALL. Owner and Proprietor i u to*n&tr, l f. MM. ' TUNKHANNOCK WYOMING CO., PA. -WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 1869. *|The new Broom still new! , - • AND WITH THE NEW YEAR, Will be used with more rteeeping effect than bereto i fore,by large additions from time to time, of Choice ann desirable GOODS, at the | New Store r OF C DETRICK, in S, Stark's Brisk Block , AT TUNKHANNOCK, PAI'A. Where can be found, at all times, one of the Largest and Richest assortments ever offered in ibis vicinity, Consisting of BLACK AND FANCY COL'RD DRESS SILKS, FRENCH, ENGLISH and AMERICAN MERINOS, EMPRESS AND PRINCESS CLOTHS, POPLINS, SERGES, and PAREMETTOS, BLACK LI'SHE AND COLORED ALPACCAS WOOL, ARMURB, PEKIN AND MOUSELIEU DELAINS, INPORTED i I AND DOMESTIC GINGHAMS, PRINTS of Best Maoufaetures, :o: ■ Ladies Cloths and Sacqueings, FURS, SHAWLS, FANCY WOOLEN GOODS, &C.. LADIES RETICULES, SHOPPING BAGS and BASKETS, j TRUNKS, VALISES, and TRAVELING BAGS, :o: ' Hosiery and Gloves, Ladies' Vests, White Goods, and Yamkee notions in endless va riety. HOOPSKIRTS afiy, sir." Physician (energetically)—" Why are yon not married ?" Young woman i timidlv) —"No, sir, not yet." Physician (comprehending the situation) —"Well, my dear young woman, I don't think you will do for a wet nurse." Y'oung woman—"Perhaps not at first, sir ; but I am perfectly willing to learn." Bow "Martha, dost thou love me V" asked a Quaker youth of one at whose shrine his heart's finest feelings had been offered. "Why, Seth," answered she, "we are com manded to love one another, are we not J" "Ah, Martha, but dost thou regard me with that feeling the world calls love ?" "I hardly know what to tell thee, Seth, I have tried to bestow my love on all; but I have sometimes thought, perhaps, that thee was getting more than thy share." "To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Right-" BETTING ON A SURE THING. A large steamer was being repaired and repainted near one of the wharves of a western city. A single narrow plank serv ed for communication with the shore. A large quantity of white lead was provided for the painters, and one night before go ing ashore, two of them, whom we will cali Smith and Jones, though they would ap preciate some of it to their own use. So they tied a strong twine around their over alls to the ankle, and filled in the space be tween their trousers and over-alls with for ty pounds, more or less, of white lead. Going ashore in the dusk of the evening, and walking clumsily in consequence of the unusual load, Jones fell overboard into the lake. Of course he sank like a mill stone. The aloriQ given, and immedi ately there were boats got out, and every preparation made for rescue. Meantime, Smith stood on shore, loudly bewailing. "Oh dear ! Jone3 is drowned I His poor wife and five little one—what will become of them '? And Jones is dead ! Oh, dead, dear!" m "What are you blubbering about," said a bystander. "Don't you see that they are getting ready to haul him out ? He's got to rise three times, you know ?" "Wh —what's that you say !" asked Smith. "I tell you Jones ain't drowned—he'll be rescued. He's got to come up three times.' "Got to come up three times," repeated Smith, pulling ont his money and chang ing his whining tone to one of excited in terest : Bet you at temps he don't come up once.' GUNPOWDER AND PRINTING. It has been curiously remarked that whereas gunpowder was invented by a priest, the peaceful agency of printing came from a soldier, and the singularity has met the explanation that, by the substi tution of fire-arms for the cold steel, war has been rendered so much more terrible as to have become far less destructive, while from the printing press has poured forth such a llood of antagonistic books, papers, and.pamphlets, moral, political, social, and religious, as to have set the whole of Chris tendom by the ears, not to speak of the im petus given to the carrying of civilization, with its attendant ills of unknown vices and diseases, into heathen lands. From this the cynical conclusion is reached that old Bacon was indeed true to his priestly culling of good when devising the operative principle of these vile guns, these caps, these mines, these magazines, cliassepots, Sniders, needle-guns, Paixhams, Napole ons, Laneasters, Whitwortlis, while, in hit ting on the printing press, and thereby in finitely increasing the conflict of minds, tighter Faust set more squadrons in the in the field than were ever hairs upon his head or thoughts in his brain. ft®;" A correspondent of that mild rhan nered journal, the Anti-Slavery Stuuthrd, tlms lifts up his voice and howls at the abominations of earth : "Mammon bullies us from the bench of justice, cajoles us in our halls of legislature, and not unfrequently grins at us out of the pulpit. The daily press, with a few excep tions, instead of instructing us, has become our betrayor, the advestiscr of all abomina tions, and the debancher of the morals of the community. The theatre follows suit. Instead of holding the mirror to nature, "showing virtue her own features, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time its form and pressure," it has become a place of assignation, where blas phemy and lewdness pass current for wit, where Shnkiq>eare is crowded off the boards by troops of half-naked women." ftapA bashful youth was paying his ad dresses to a gay lass of the country, who hail only despaired of bringing things to a crisis. He called one day when she was at home alone. After settling the merits of the weather, the girl said, looking slyly in to his face: "I dreamed of you last night." "Did yen now ? why now ?" "Yes, I dreamed that you kissed me." "Why now I what did you dream your mother said ?" "Oh, I dreamed that she was not at home." A light dawned on the youths intellect, a singular sound broke the stillness, and in less than four months they were married. WIFE WANTED. —A resident of "Sugar Hollow," advertises lor a wife in the fol lowing manner : "Any gal what's got a cow, a good feath er bed, with comfortable fixins, five hun dred dollars of hard pewter, one that's got the measles and understands tendin' chil dren, can find a customer for life, by writ in' a small bilit/ dtw , addressed O. Z., and stickiu' it in a crack of uncle Ebenezor s barn, back side, joinin' the hog pen. JgyAn exhange says the man who takes a newspaper for a number of years, and then refuses to pay for it, would steal a pas sage to Heaven in u secret comer of a streak oflightning, and smuggle gold from the streets of New Jerusalem to buy stumps of half-penny cigars. hath no heed needs no heart. HEARING OF THE BLIND. —The blind boys | in school know the step of all their school fellows with unerring certainty. Thus, a boy haVlng missed his friend at play, he watches for liim as the ranks file past, walking round the green sward, or march ing in to dinner. He hears the tramp of , his friend amid the din and scuffle of the other boys long ere he lias reached him, and pounces upon him with the same cer tainty as though he saw him. Indeed, the blind speak of hearing as gpeiug. If from the sound, they know that the master has lolt the room, they say, "I saw him go out." It is a curious fact that blind peo ple never run against each other. Tims when playing prisoner's base—a name which leads to some rough jostling, even amongst boys gifted with their eyes—those sightless little fellows but rarely come into collison with each other. Each boy, when he enters the work-shop in which he is employed in basket making—a room twenty feet wide by one hundred and fifty in length —marches up to his own seat and box, nev er by any chance mistaking his place.— If they are in search of a friend and they happen to call out Ins name in an empty j room, they never stop for aq answer, their sense of hearing telling them that there is no one in it. Air. Anderson, of Edinburgh tells a tale that will illustrates this point: "1 had occasion, ' he says, "to send out a blind man with a mattress. I gave him a bill with it, that he might receive payment. But to my surprise, lie returned with the account and mattress too." "I've brought back baith, ye see, sir, ' said he, "How so ?" "Indeed, sir, I dinna like to leave't yonder else I am sure we wad never see the siller— there's uae a stick of furniture within the door ' "How do you come to know that?" "Oh, sir, twa taps on the door wi' my stick soon told me that; " and the man's esti mate proved to lie correct. Anvi< E TO YOUTH. —Live as long as you may, the first twenty years form the greater part of your life. They appear so when they are passing, they appear to have been so when.we look back to them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them. If this be so, how important that they should be passed in planting good principles, cultivating good tastes, and strengthening good habits; fleeing from all those pleasures which lay up bitterness and sorrow for all time to come. Take good care of the first twenty years o£ your life, and you may hope that the last twenty years will take good care of you. * COFFEE AS A DEODORIZER. —Coffee is spok en of in high terms as a deodorizer for the neutralizing of foul odors that emanate from organic bodies in a state of decay, as it can be used to advantage where other diseufect ing agents would be inadmissible. In cases when rats die in the spaces between the floors of dwellings, the intolerable odor arising therefrom can be effectually remov ed by placing a pound or two of fresh burnt and ground coffee between the floors. For the purification of a sick room it is incom parably superior to burning rags, as it has a lienetieial chemical action on the atmos phere of the room, and gives besides an agreeable perfume. THIS YEAR AND THE METHODISTS, —The year 1869 is destined to be the most impor tant in the annals of American Methodism. During the year the people will be called upon to decide whether or no they will ac cept the measures proposed to them by the General Conference for the admission of lay representatives to that assembly and tlip Annual Conferences. It is also an im portant fact that a new constituency has been created by the late General Confer ence : all members of the Church over twenty-one years of age, whether male or female, will l>e eligible to vote on this ques# tion. B'rip "Vigorous economy" has been adopt ed as the rallying . cry of expiring Radical ism. A few days ago, Mr. YVashburno, of Illinois, made public the following exhibit of the way the Radicals practice "vigorous economy" in the National House of Rep .resentatives : "Capital police, 56,1,000 ; "clerks, £80,000; sergeant-at-arnis, £6,000 ; "postoffiee, £20.000; laborers, £l6, 000; "folding room, £60,000; door-keepers, £l4- "000; clerks to committees, £36.000; pages "£B,OOO, total, £315,000." It would be im possible to find a better specimen of "rigo rous economy" than the above. THE I'UIDE OF DRESS. —Du Cliaillu de scribes the customs of the court of King Diops in the following manner: "The King wore a dress coat and nothing else ; his first minister wore a shirt without sleeves—and nothing else ; his second min ister wore a necktie—and nothing else ; the third was adorned with a hat —and nothing else ; but the Queen varied the fashions by wearing an umbrella —and nothing else." fieu" "That's very singular," said a young lady to a gentleman who had kissed her.— "Oh, weU, my dear miss, 1 can make it plural." If nature abhors a vacuum, why does she permit so many empty headed people to live ? The Public Debt. The following is the statement of the public debt of the United States on the Ist day of February, 1869 : Debt bearing coin Interest *(2,107,350,050 51 Dobt bearing currency lntereit 71,-UO.Ooo oo MutureU debt not presented lor payment 0,910.#5ti G4 Debt bearing no interest 424.191,720 00 6 per cent, lawful money bond* issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies 52.017,000 IK) Total Debt *2,862,379,707 Amount in Treasury 106.174,049 10 Amount of debt less cash in Trca'y *2,558, 205.658 08 The warrants issued by tho Treasury De partment during the month of January, 1869, to meet the requirements of the Gov ernment, amounted, in round numbers, to the following sums, viz ; Civil, Miscellaneous and Foreign Inter ests *44.419,000 00 Interest on Public Debt 30,704,000 00 War Department 0.524.000 00 Interior, Pension and Indians # 832,01) 00 The warrants issued for the redemption of the public debt are not included in the above. The National Debt is officially reported at 82,556,20J,U58, bhowing an apparent in crease of over Fifteen Millions during Jan uary. All know that this occasioned by the payment, on the Ist of January, of six months' interest on a large portion 0 the Debt, and that most of the apparent in crease is as illusory as was the decrease re ported for December, when little or no in terest was paid. Still, tho fact remains] that we owe more and have less cash j than a month ago, and that the issue of j new bonds to the Central line of Pacific I Railroad is keeping the market gorged with ' Government securities at prices far below I their real value, and that we are constantly j importing fabrics and gewgaws that we ought j to do without, and meeting the bids by ex- j porting and selling at twenty per cent, dis count six per cent, bonds which our child" 1 ren and grand-children will have to pay. This cannot always go on, and should be stopped at once. Men in Congress I what do you propose to do about it ?— X. Y. Tribune. A Picture for a Poor Man, Don Piatt, the Radical correspondent of that Radical sheet, tho Cincinnati Com mercial will some times tell some ugly truths in reference to Radical officials. He thus speaks of a certain well-known Senator: "I look across the street and see in front of a Senator's house the carriage of another Senator. The pair of blooded horses cost some thousand dollars. The gilded harness is in keeping. The close, handsome shin ing coach Is one of Brenton's best, lined with silk velvet, and graced with the choic est and thickest of plate-glass. On the coachman's seat sit two of Gods creatures, called men ; one a bright mulatto, the other a white man, and both in lively*. Sitting in solemn silence, under their robe of furs and white glove* Directly the door of the house opens, and two ladies carrying a poor man's fortune on their backs, descended the steps. The footman swings down and opens the door, with an easy grace the mas ter cannot imitate. The door closes with a bang, the footman mounts, and the coach rolls away. Well, it seems but yesterday that the owner of all this came here a poor man. YYe remember the fairy tale where the old witch touched the pumpkin and turned it into a coach, and touched the rats and turned them into horses. And so the ugly witch of the lobby touched the poor man, and out of fraud came the coach, and out of theft came the horses, and swindle drives, and stealings oil and burnish. Like tliat witch, I could touch that man with this delicate little pen of mine, and carriage and horses, coachman and footman, would all disappear. For honor and honesty would claim their own, and the very clothes would fall from tho backs of wifo and daughters." Mrs Surratt. The remains of Mrs. Surratt, who was murdered by military commission, in vio lation of civil law and legal testimony, were removed from the arsenal grounds, by di rection of the president, on Monday last, and given up to friends for decent burial. The proceedings were quietly performed. Seven carriages entered tho enclosure, and taking the remains, proceeded to a Catho lic cemetary. accompanied bp Miss Annie Surratt. brother, and friends. How far this will relieve President Johnson of the stain upon his soul for not putting a stop to that infamous proceeding ; or the mock court for murdering an inoffensive woman, when they had tangible evidence of her in nocence, we are not prepared to surmise. One of the parties, a shiuing light in the Republican ertmp, has already gone to his final account, a self-murderer; driven thither by the cries of distress from a heart broken daughter of the victim, and which, doubtless, ever after haunted liis sleeping and wakeing dreams. The lxxlv of Mrs. Surratt. was compact and firm, the features perfect except in col or, the dress looke d well, and her gaiter boots appeared not the least soiled. Upon the day of her murder her daughter Annie ; put a steel arrow upon her mother's dress, close to the neck ; it was also there perfect. A bottle with the name of Mrs. Surratt written on parchment and sealed therein, was also found in the coffin. — Ex. Stitf ' A little boy being asked in Sunday School—What is the chief end of man ? an swered, the end what's got the head on. • TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance IBisf & flttier&iis£. t®" Men are said to dress '"within an inch of their lives." "Women may 1* sniil to undress within an inch of their knees. '"This world is nil a fleeting show," said a jifitwfc to a culprit on the gallows.— "Yes.' was the prompt reply; "but if you have no objection, I'd rather see the show a littl<*ioj]ger." B&~ "Did I understand you to say that I was lousy, sir ?" "Oh, no I merely told my friend that when it rained lice in Egypt I thought YOU must have been walking about there without hat or umbrella—that's all." ■fcUJ" At a medical examination, a young aspirant for a physician's diploma was ask ed, "When does lnortiiication ensue ?" "When you propose and are rejected," was the reph that greeted the amazed ' "What are you doing there, Jane ? " "Why pa, I'm going to dye my doll's •pinafore red." ' "But what have you got to dye it ? " "Beer." "Who on earth told von that beer would dye red ?" "Why, ma said it mm brer that made your nose sored, and—" "Here, Susan, take this child." * AN* TP.ISU PAT. A ex. --5 A railway contractor overheard one of his party lamenting his hardships since coming out to America, drawing for a contrast, a bright sketch of his life in the "auld count! lry." "Oil, said the com plainer, with a sigh. 'MY I was only book ngiu to me father's palish !" "Your father's palish, is it ? " responded a fellow workman, with a jollv squint of hi-, eyo at the distressed "noble scion." "Sure an cvye wor there, ye moight stlian' on tli" groun' an' reach yer han' down the chiru blpy an' open the door ev it." T RVTVO TTTK OOT.OR.—An old lady from the country went recently to a linen-dra per's shop and began examining a piece of cotton-print. She pulled it this way and that, as if she would tear it to pieces, held it up to tlio light in different positions ; wetted a corner and rubbed it between her lingers, trying if the colors fwere good.— Then she paused awhile, seemingly not en tirely satisfied. At last she cut off a piece with a pair of scissors she had dangling at | her side, and handing it to a tall, gawky -1 looking girl, of about sixteen, standing be- I side her, said : a '•litre, liizey June, you tike an' chaw that, n' ace if it fades." liizrr Jane put it into her month accord ingly, and dutifully went to work. 10. 29.