North Branch democrat. (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, December 23, 1863, Image 1
H-A-rLVZSTir SICIIIiEIIj Proprietor.] NEW SERIES, Hortli Brand) Bnnorrah I *l w O w 4 weekly Democratic , ft per, devoted to Pol -5_ •ICS, News, the Acts Jj|,- l%r •.fid Sciences Ac. Pub •.shed every Wdnes- VA •ay, at Tuakbannock, i Iri 'i Wyoming County, Pa. /A', N jfeftijf i l ' BY HARVEY SICKLER. -1 *Ter to 1 *— 1 eopv Ivo ir, fin adv nv-cl SI. 'O. ff not pain within six months, 82.00 will be charged ADVETtTISTTuG. "TO lines or 1 / less, make three four' tiro three] six > one one square icccks icccks moUh ino'lh mo'tL year 1 Square 1,0", ',25 2.25 2,-7 S.Oiq 5.00 2 do. 2,00; 2.50' 3.2 V 350 4,5b 6,00 3 do. 3.00 3,75 4.75 5,50 7,00 9,00 i Column. 4,00 4,50 6.5!' ' 10,00 15,00 do. 6,005 7,00 10 00 12.010117,00 25.00 do. 8,00 9,50 1 1 0"118,00 25,0il 35,00 1 do. 10,00'12,00 17,00 22,00,23,00 40,00 llusiness Cards of one square, with paper, S3. JOI3 XVOXIIS of all kinds ueutly executed, and at prices to suit the times. susin?.ss fotlffs. BACON STANlK—Nicholson. Pa C L Jackson, Proprietor. fvlt.lOtl ] ITS. COOI'KR. PiITS iri \ N >1 KG EON I 1 ■ Newton Centre, Lur.crnc ('nitiify I'a. pEO. STUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, v.T Tunkhannoek, Pa. Oliice 111 Stark's Brick Block, Tioga street. YYTM. M. PIATT. AT'IORNKY AT LAW, Of- VV fice in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St.. Tunk hanneck, Pa. n"lt..iiS, W, lAi iI.E AT'fil'.Y'S AT. JLL LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tunkhannoek Pa. nARVF.V SK KLF.R, ATTOTINFY \T LAW and GENERAL INSFRANPE At. KNT - Of fice, Bridge street, opposite Wall's llutc!, Tunkhan noek. Pa. DR. J. C. CORSKI.IIJS. HAYING LOCAT ED AT THE FALLS, WILL promptly attend all calls in the line of his profession—ma vbe found at licciuer's Hotel, when not professionally ab.-eu!. Falls, Oct. 10, 1361. 12X1. .T. C TTECKFJI A* (Ok, PHYSICIANS v\; SURGEONS, Would reypoetfully announce to the citizens o! TTy • ruing that tiicy have locale 1 at Tunkh • !.::• k v.lier hey will promptly attend to a': calls in tho line of heir profession. May be found at his Drug Sturo when not professionally absent. T M. ( Alt 1.4 , 35. I). (Graduate <-f the q •J • M. Institute, Cfftcinnati) would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wyoming an 1 Lir/crne Counties. that he • ntinucs Ids regular pr.ictii-o in the various departments of his pvofo.-i. n. Mlv 1 e found • t his office or residence, when not profe.--i.>uu!!y ab tut "ff Particular attention given to the treatment Chronic Discus. enfremorclaud, Wv.iinir.g Co Pa.—v2o2 WALL'S HOTEL, 7 .ATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUNKHANNOCK, IV \ OMING CO., PA. rllT? Citabli.-hinent has re xnttv ban refitted and furnished in the hi rest style Kc< ry a'tonfion Will be given to the comfort an 1 ennven nce o t!o..p rbo patronize the lloti-e. T. 15. WALL. Owner nn 1 Proprietor. Tunkhannoek, September 11, 18451. MaVhaßß'S hotel, TI'N'KT r WN'OCK. WYOMING fOI'NTY, PKXNA. JOHN MA YN A III), Proprietor. HAVING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannt <•!;. recently oecunii ! t>y Riley Warner, the proprietor respe •ifu'lv soli.i'- .1 sh-ne of public patrunnge. Tlie House ii-is b"-n tliorousriilv repaired, an 1 the comfort* an 1 aecoiro-hitions of a first class Hotel, will be found by all we. may favor t with their custom. ?ejteHit>e.' 11, l?tll NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, AIE3HOPPEN, WYOMING CO'M Y. PA AVni. 11. C.'ORT RIGHT, Prep'r HAYING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to fender the house an ugreen 1 le place ot sojourn for all who may favor it with their custom. Wm. II CCKTRIIIHT. June, 3rd. 1P63 " M. GILMAN, &ENTI3T. \ 7 IVT GILMAN, has permanontly located in Tunk '4-1 ■ hanncck Borough, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and Urrourriiiins country. ALL WOKK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. ' [ ff Office over Tutton's Law Office, near ta e Pes Dfiice. Dec. It, IPGI. TO NERVOUS SUIT- Ul{|;ilS OF HOTII SEXES. A REVEREND GENTLEM \N HAYING BEEN festered to health in a few days, after undergoing all the usual routine and irregular exjiensive modes of treatment without success, enu.ri lets it his sacred du ty to communicate to his afflicted iellow creatures •he means of cure. Hence, 011 the receipt of an ail dreesed envelope, ho will send (free) a copy of the prescription used. Direct to Dr John* M. Da on all, 153 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York. v'2n'24ly the confessions and experience OF A NERVOUS INVALID. Published for the benefit and as a caution to young Then.|nnd suffer lrom Nervous Debility, Early Decay, and thetr kindred ailments—supplying the means of self-eure.. By ono who has cured him self after being a victim of misplaced confidence in medical humbug and quackery. By enclosing a post raid directed envelope, single copies may he had of 1 the author Nathan Ikl Mavkau,, Esq., Bedford, ! Kings County, New lork —Vo-nlo-Iy. Corner. [For the Democrat.| OUR I.IVES. D v STELLA OF I.ACS AW ANA, VI hat wearying tasks a e ours to boar I Nor friend, nor neighbor, rot can say, •'My life glides bright and glad away, Without a sorrow, or a care." No doom for living human heart,, But loveless toil, and ceaseless j>ain, And hopes iliat lived to die again, And lives that only meet to part. No rest to-day ; to-morrow none ; M hat hath a soul to do with rest, With frailties to itself compressed ? Hut one unceasing round goes on. W hat low thoughts vex us every hour, And wrest from us our angel wings, And bind our feet to sordid tilings ! Is there no way to flee their power 7 Nor yet, 'mong all this lovely scope Of teeming earth, and gleaming sky No single gift to satisfy Hie soul that starves on earthly hope 7 No lack of nature's kindly smiles, Of silent dew, and dropping rain ; And corn, and wine; and golded grain Heaped high, in most luxuriant piles. Nor death of beauty for each sense, And over all. a spirit-lire Steals tortli. from some impassioned lyre, Till life scorns all uiagnifficcnee : And yet some lack, the spirit cries, And turns, dissatisfied, from all. That must with sordid chains enthrall, And for a nobler birthright sighs. NEVER AGAIN. Hr ken the golden chord, Severed the silken tie ; " Never again will toe old Jays come, Darling, to you and I. Dead the beautiful Past! Scattered nround its bier Pale thoughts lie thick, and memories 01" days that were so dear. Memories ? Fold theiu up— Lay t' em sacred bv. What avails it to dream of the Past ! That future ! For You and I. Broken the silken chord, Severed the golden chain, Linking us with the beautiful uays That never can couu again! MEBfa rJHßkii a4Wr.'mJWgU!^VJLUi!i'lMag^P3^^PaKJq Select Stonj. Til POOH IJUHEIWBMAS. " I declare, I have half a mind to put this bed-quilt into 'he wash to-day. It does not really need to go, either; but I think I will I send it down " " Why will you put it in, Mary, if it does not need to go ?" asked her good old aunt, in her quiet and expressive way. " Why you see, aunt, we have but a small wish, to-day ; so stnail that Swsan wi 11 get through by 0113 o'clock, at least, and I shall have to pay her the same as though she worked till night; so—" " Stop a moment, dear," said the old lady gently ; " stop a moment, and think. Sup pose you were in the situation poor Susan is, obliged, you tell me, to toil over the wash-tub six da 3's out of the seven, fur the bare neces saries of life ; would you not be glad once in a while, to get through before night, to have a few hours of daylight to labor for yourself and family, or, better still, a few hours to rest ? Mar\', dear, it is a hard way for a wo man to earn a living ; begrudge not the poor creature an easy day. This is the fourth day in succession she has risen by candle light, and plodded through the cold here and there to her customer's houses, and toiled away ex istence. Let her go at noon, if she gets through ; who knows but that she may have come from the sick bed of some loved one, and counts the hours, yes, tho minutes till she can return, fearing that she may be one too late 7 Put it back on the bed, and sit down here while I tell you what one poor washerwoman endured because hei ateploycr did as you would to make out the wash ?" And the o'.d woman took off her glasses and wiped away the tears that from some cause had gathered in her aged eyes, and then, with a tremulous voice, related the promised story. " There never was a more blithesome bri dal than that of Ida 11. None ever had high er hopes ; more blissful anticipations. She married the inan of her choice ; one of wlioin any woman might be proud. Few, indeed, had a sunnier life in prospect than she had. •' And for ten ysary there fell no shadow on her path. Iler home was one of beauty and real comfort; her husband the same, kind) gentle loving man, as in the days of court ship ; winning laurels every year in his pro fession ; adding new comforts to his home, and new joys to his fireside. And, besides these blessings, God had given another; a little crib stood by the bedside, its tenant a golden haired baby boy, the image of its no b/e father, and dearer than aught eles the world could offer. i( Rut I must not dwell on those happy littijsj my stofy lias to do with other days* "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1863. Ic was with them as it has often been with others ; just when the cup was sweetest it was dashed away. A series of misfortunes and reverses occurred with startling rapidity, and swept away from lliem everything but love and their babe. Spared to each other and to that, they bore a brave heart, and in a distant city began a new fortune. Well and strongly did they struggle, and at length be gan once more to see the sunlight of prusperi ty shine np n their home. But a lit tie while it stayed, and then the shadows,fell. The husband sickened and, lay for many months upon a weary couch, languishing not only with mental and bodily pain but often times for food and medicine. Ail that she could do, the wife performed with a faithful hand. She went from one thing to another, till, at length, she who had worn a satin gaiinent upon her bridrl day, toiled at the wash-tub for the scantiest living. In a dreary winter, long before light, she would rise morning, af ter morning, and labor for the dear oues of her lowly home. Often she had to set off through tlre cold, deep snow, and grope her way to the kitchens which were sometimes smoky and gloomy, an l toil there at rubbing, rinsing, and starching, not unfrequently wad ing kine deep in the drifts to hang out the clothes that froze, even ere she had fast ened them to the line. And, when night came, with her scanty earnings she would again grope through the cold and snow to her oft times bghtless and fiteless houie; for her hu-band was too-sick to tend even the fire, or to strike a light. And oh, with what shiver ing heart she would draw near, fearing ever she would be too late. It is a fact, that for six weeks, at one time she never saw the face of her husban i or her child, save by lamp light, except 011 1110 Sabbath—flow glad she would have been to have had once in a while, a small washing gathered for her. " One dark winter morning, as she was preparing the frugal breakfast, and getting ev erything ready before she left, her husband called her to the bedside. " Ada," said, he in almost a whisper, " 1 want you to try and come home early to night; be home before the light goes; do, Ada ,' I'll try," answered she, with choking utterance. "Do try, Ada. I have a strong desire to see your face by daylight. To-day is Friday; I have not seen it since Sunday. I must look upon it once again." "Do you feel worse ?" asked she, anxious ly feeling his pulse as she spoke. "No, No, I think not. but I do want to see your face once more by sunlight: I cannot wait till Sunday." "(iladly would she have tarried by his bedside till the sunlight had stolen throngh : he little window, hut it might not be, mon ey was wanted, and s he must go forth to la bor. She left her husband. She reached tlie kitchen of her employer, and, with a troubled face, waited f-r the basket to be brotig ht. A smile played upon her wan face as she assorted its contents. She could get trhrough easily by 2 o'clock; yes and, if she hurried, pernaps by one. Love and anxiety lent new strength to her weary arms and five minutes after the clock struck o.ie, she was just about etntying the tubs, when the mistress came in with a couple bed-quilts saving; "As you have a small wash, Ada, I think you may do these yet." "After the mistress had turned her back a cry of agony, wrung from the deepest foun tain of the washerwotnans heart, gushed to h< r bps. Smothering as best she could, she set to work and rubbed and rinsed and hung out. It was half past three when she start for home, an hour to late!" and the aged narrator sobbed aloud. " An hour too late !" continued she, after a long pause. "Her husband was almost gone ! lie had strength given him to whis per a few words to his half frantic wife, to tell her how he longed to look upon her face; that he could not see her then, he lay in the shadow of death. One hour she pillowed his head upon her suffering, heart and then he was at rest!." "Mary, Mary, dear," and there was a soul touching emphasis in the aged woman's words, "be kind to your washerwoman.— Instead of striving to make her day's work as long as may be, shorten it, lighten it.— Few women will go out to washing daily, unless their needs are pressing. No woman on her bridal day expects to labor in that way ; and be sure Mary, when she is con strained to do so, it is her last resort.— That poor woman, laboring now as hard for yon, has not always been a washerwoman.— She has passed through terrible trials, too.— I can read her story in Tier pale, sad face Be kind to her ; pay her what she asks and let her go home as early as 6he can." ***** # * "You have finished In good time to-day, Susan,,' said Mary, as the washerwoman, with her old cloak and hood on, entered the pleasant room for the money she had earn ed. "Yes, ma'am, I have : and my heart is re lieved of a heavy load. I was afraid I should be kept till night, and lam needed so at home." ' £ ls there sickness there ? " said tho aunt kindlr, Tears gushed to the woman's eyes as she answered. "Ah, ma'am ! 1 left my baby almost dead this morning ; he will be quite so to morrow. I know it. 1 have seen it to many times, and'none but a child of nine years to attend him. Oh, I must go, and quickly !" And grasping the money she had toiled for while her babe was dying, she hurried toiler dreary home. Shortly after they followed her. the young wife who had never known sorrow, and the aged matron whos hair was white with trouble, followed her to her home—the houie of the drunkard's wife; the drunkard, s babes. She was not to late. The little dying knew his mother. But at midnight he died, and then kind hands toik from tho mother the breathless form, closed those bright eyes, straightened the tiny limbs, and bathed the cold clay, folding about it the pure, white shroud; yes, and more they gave what the poor so seldom have, time to weep. "Oh, aunt," faid Mary, with tears in her eyes, "if my heart blesses you, how much must poor susan's? had it not been for you, she would have been to late, lthasb.en a sad, yet holy lesson. I shall now always be kind to the poor washerwomen. But, aunt, was the story you told uie a true one—all true, I mean?" "The reality of that story whitened this head, when it had seen but thirty summers , and the memory of it has been one of my keenest sorrows. It is not strange, there fore, that I should pity the poor washer woman." TRNR.MW •>.UTWTL gpsmlamw. Playing Into Each Others' Hands. Not a year ago, Tiiurlow Weed, the Re publican leader, uttered in the Albany Jour nal', these startling and true words : " The chief architects of the rebellion, lie lore it broke out, were aided iu their infernal designs by the Abolition.sis of the North This was too true, for without such aid the South could never have been United against the Union. But for the incendiary recom mendations which rendered the otherwise useful Helper Book a fire brand, North Caro lina could not have been forced out of the Union. And even now the ultra abolition press and speech makers arc aggravating the horors they helped to create.£2*f*thus play in into the hands of the leaders of the rebell ion and keeping down the Union men of the South, and rendering re union dilflcult if not impossible. If this was true in 1802, how doubly so is it now ! The two extremes of agitators and factionists are playing into each other's hands. The Richmond Enquirer and New York Tribune, agreeing in common hatred of the Democracy, play into each other's hands now as before the rebellion. The Enquirer pub lishes insulting articles to inflame and unite the North, and the Tribune utters doctrines which consolidate the South. Those two organs started years ago upon this dishonest work. Each inflamed to the utmost the fanaticism of its followers Each taught them to hate the opposite section. While the Southern States were hesitating on the brink of secession Greeley came out and proclaimed to them that they had the same right as the Colonies had in the revolution. lie assured them they might securely try the experiment. Thus urged on, they took the fatal plunge. Now the question before the country is, whether the slaveholding States will he al lowed to return. Neve r , cry the radidals except upon the basis of emancipation r.nfl toe simulation or :\-A ro rights. All State constinutions must bo abolished, as already the Federal Constitution lias been broken down by the violence of fanatics. Such men are indeed " the architects of ruin.' But are we contentedly to 6it by and contemplate their work ? Are the great ma jority of the people—the masses who loved the old Union, the conservatives who dread revolution, to set supinely by and see this monstrous work of desolation go on ? No, Let the people rise and confront these fanat ics, who have no strength but imposture, and no courage but the insolence of ephemeral power— Albany Argus. The Hartford Courant says of the firemen in that city ; " The men were dressed in their new uniform, consisting of a shirt, hat-front and belt, and looked admirably." Comfortable, that I Any lady spectators ? THE UNlON. —There is but one Union There never has been but one Union the Union under the Constitution. lie who akss violent measures against that is a trai tor. A Dancing Master was taken up in New York Intely, for robbing a fellow-board er. He said he commenced by cheating a printer, and after that, everything rascally came easy to him. RATHER CLOSE. —The Tribune, figures the House of Representatives : Democrats and Border State members. 90 ; Aboliti n. 92. THE FIRST MARRIAGE. We have always thought Adam, in his courtship, a sensible man. lie fell asleep r. bachelor, and awoke and found himself a married man. Tie apreared to have popped tho question almost immediately after meet ing Md'slie Eve, and she, without any ILrta- ! tion or shyness, gave him a kiss and herself. Of this first event in this world wo have, j however, onr thought®, and sometimes in a poetical mood we wish we were the man that did it. But the deed is done. The chance was Adam's, and he improved it. Wc like the notion of getting married in a garden. It is good taste. We like a private wedding.— Adam's was private. No envious beaux were there ; no croaking old maids ; no chat tering aunts or grumbling grandmothers.— The birds 01 heaven were the mmstrels, ane the glad sky Hung its light upon the scene.— One thing about the wedding brings queer thoughts to us, spite of scriptured truth.— Adam and his wife were very young to be married—some two or three days old, occord ing to the sagest speculations of theologians —mere babies—larger, hut no older, without a horse, without a pot or kettle—nothing but love and Eden. Speaking of love and lovers, here is an instance of street simplicity : A good looking, honest faced country girl came to town with her "beau" one day to do a Utile shopping. The magnitude of the shop, the piles 011 piles of goods, the dazzling array of articles, the rows of shop men, quite overpowered our good friend who scarcely knew what to do. Her "beau" ob stinately refused to go in, but loitered about the door. The shopmen being all busy at the time, the young woman was obliged to remain standing a few moments. At length a dapper fellow with a gold chain and llour ishing whiskers, came bowing and smilng up to the blushing customer with— "Anybody waiting on you, madam !', The color deepened on her cheeks as she ; hesitated and" drew a long breath, till finaly, with a nod of her head towards the door.she faltered ent. "Yes, sir : he is." ' i A Chinese boy who was learning English came across the passage in bis Testament, . " We have piped unto you. and ye have not danced," rendered it thus : "We have toot toot to you, what's the matter you no ! jujnp." A runaway thief having applied to a black* smith for work, the latter showed him hand cuffs. and desired to know if he made such kind of work. "Why, yes, sir," answered the fellow, scratching his head, ''guess I've had a hand In 'em," CI'KRAX said of the liberty of the press : That great sentinel of the State, that grand detector of public imposture; guard it be cause when it sinks there sinks with it, in one conmon grave, the liperty of the sub ject and the security of the crown." Among the novelties of the ago is a seedless apple. A tree lias been found in Duchess county, New York, bearing this fruit. There a r e no blossoms; the bud firms and without any show of petals, the fruit sets and grows entirely destitute of seeds. Tn outward appearance the apples resemble Rhode Island Greenings. RATHER SUPERSTITIOUS. —An o!<7 ladv, of rather superstitious proclivities, remarked the other day that she " had a resentment that she should eventually die in a trance, adding that the resentment troubled her a good deal, but that she expected to finally get immured to it!" FAlTH. —Recently a backslider from tcm pocßnce, who wan in a condition somewhat mellow, found himself at a gathering of so ber people, at Benny's and attemped to ad dress them.— "Brethren," said ho, " 1 been thinking of that passage which says , ' if you only have faith like a mountain you can tip over a grain of mustard seed—hie—most any time!" When Cromwell first coined his mo ney, an old cavalier, looking upon one of the new pieces, read this inscription on one side: "God be with us on the other, "The Com monwealth of En'gland." "I see," said he. " God and the Commonwealth are on diff erent sides.' Mrs. Fitzdragon had been waiting to visit Ilighgate Cemetery, and the other day sho u'aid to her husband," You have nev er taken me to the cemetery." " No, dear" said he, " that is a pleasure I have yet in anticipation." SPST M"e appreciate fine writing when it is properly applied, so we appreciate the fol lowing burst of eloquence in one of our ex changes : " As the ostrich uses both legs and wings when the Arabian courser bounds in her rear, as the winged lightning leaps from the hcav ens when the thunderbolts are loosed, so does a littlo nigger run when a big dorg is after him." TJ-f" Revenge is a punctual payraas 'fi than gratitude. ITBHMB: 81.QO PEII AMiraM Oejteral Meade wrote to a friend in New Jersey immediately previous to his late movement across the Itapidan, in which occurs the following paragraph: '• I am filly aware of the great-anxiety in the public mind that something should be done. I am iu receipt of many letters, soma from persons in high positions' telling me I had better have my army destroyed,and the country filled up with the (lead bodies of the soldiers,than remain inactive. Whilst Ido not suffer myself to be influenced bjr such communications, I am and have been most anxious to eflect somthing, but am determ ined,at every hazard, not to attempt anything unless my judgment indicates a probability of accomplishing some object commensurate wit the dest ruction of life necessarily Involved.— I wonld a thousand times rather be charged with tardiness or incompetency, than have my concience burdened with a won ton slaughter, uselessly, of brave men, or of hav ing jeopardized the great cause by doing what I thought wrong." These are the words of a true soldier and' a wise and prudent leader. Whatever the fiight-at-any cost people may 9ay, we believe that the country at largo will warmly indorse the course of General MEADE. He is at least a safe general—j-ust the sort of one we Watrt 1 in front of Washington. AN' HONEST DEACON". Deacon M. was an honest old codger", n kind neighbor, and a good christian, believing in the Presbyterian creed to the fullest ex tent ; but lack aday ! the deacon would oc casionally get exceedingly "mellow," and mostevery Sundav at dinner.he would indulge his favorite cider brandy to such an that it was with difficulty that he reached his pew in the broad aisle near the pulpit, and between the minister and the villiagti' squire's. One Sunday morning the parson told his flock that he should preach a ser mon touching many glaring sins so conspic uous among them ; and he hoped they would' listen attentively and not flinch if he hap i ppned to be severe, The afternoon came and the house was full; everybody turned out to hear their neighbors "dressed down" by thV minister, who. after well opening his sermon, commenced npon the transgressors with' ft loud voice, with the question "where is thb drunkard ? ' A solemn pause succeeded. .the tnqni rv. when up rose Deacon M., his face red from frequent draughts of his favorite' drink, and steadying himself as well as f he could by the pew rail, looked up to the par son and replied in a trembling and piping voice. "Here T am.'' Of course a consterna tion in the congregation was the resuit of the honest Deacon's response ; however the par son wont on with his remarks as he "had written them, commenting severly upon the drunkard, and closed b v warning hfm to for sake at once such evil habits if he WOu'd seek salvation and flee from the coming.syrath The deacon then made a bow and seatcibum self. '•Anil nnw. sul tlio preacher in his . loud -091 tones."where is the hypocrite?" A pause, but no one responded. Eyes were' turned upon this and that man, but the most dances seemed directed towards the squire's pew, and ended the parson seemed to squint hard in that direction. The deacon saw where the shaft was aimed, or where it should he aimed, and rising once more, leaned his pew to the squire whom he tapped on the shoulder, and thus addressed : 'Come, squire Why don't you get up ? I did when he call ed on me." NOT A Frrriov—Newspaper subscriptions are in fa liable tests of men's honesty. If a man is dishonest he will cheat the printer in some way-say that he has haid when he has not—or sent money and was lost by mail or will take the paper and will not pay for it on the plea that he did not sub scribe for it, or move off, leaving it come to the office he loft, Thousands of professed ( ori>.tians are dishonest, and the printer's hook will tell fearfully on the final settle ment of the judgment day. llow many who read this paragraph will be guiltless of the offence. — ■■ , i ITS" Bust of A. Lincoln and Dan Rice Rice were placed together at the great fair In C hicago, and labeled, "the two American hu morists." It is said Dan intends to bring a suit for libel. — *** 9 JC3£"Poor Rrown, who is married, says the only peace he ever has is a piece of his wifes mind. ■ - - • * Sit" Punch says women first resorted to tight lacing to prove to men how well they could bear squeezing. &"2T" The pleasure of doing good is the art of being contented with what we have. S2ST Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of it ; but it is a good natured euough if roit meet it like a man. A modern tourist calk the Niagara Rlyer "the pride of rivers." That pride cer tainly has a tremendous fall. £3T The payment of the troop, called out to suppress tlie New York riots will cost that city £227.fc15,G 4 ; extf-ii; ve'rf the hoifcl bilk. VOL. 3, NO. 19. i