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Tke und-rsigried having lately pur. based the " BUEHLEU UOI'SE " pioperty, has already com menced such alterations and iinproveinents a will render this old and popular House eounl, if not supe rior, to any Hotel in the Cit, 'I org. d sontinufir.ee of the puLl: :• is refpeet f !v solicited. . J. BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, X..4TJB A PHI. N C * V HOUSE, lIXABANNO'k. - '.MING < >., PA. \ Mi* ♦fctaV'liihn ■ W been refitted au . irftished in a* Every attention 4# : to t' - ■•<! t-onvenience of those ■■ ".*-uer *nl Proprietor . .'• 1861- -_.i-.TL fit HOTEL, ..YLNG cor STY, PA * > ->).* HIGIST, I'rop'r • •. v, ,iroprie'or.ship of the above ■ .-. uudersigue.i will jare ao tfi'-rt to .►. ais w ait agreeable pia eot sojouru for v i j .<r it with their custom. Win H COKTRIOIIT. j IdaaJcd. 1E63 il<. ~j. <;. Hi'.t'Ki .H PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, - iuM respectfully announce to the citiieni-01 Wy w< g. that he has located at Tunkhmnock where h will promptly attenl to all call;- i:i the line of his orofession. T Will b fvtwd at batue on Saturdays of trh week JKIIIBI jßitfl, rOWAKTDA, PA. D. B- BARTLET, .• Of t p IRAIXABn llorsß, ELMIRA,N.\. PROPRIETOR. ts MEANS HOTEL, i one of the LARGEST V! B.BT ARRANGED Houses in the country—lt < up in the most modern and improved style, ( a ocit". re spared to make it a pleasant aud iiptng-plaee for all, ■* -.21. v fi.LAAXS,KEEH EY,&fO., NAXFRACT KUIW ANU WUOL'.SALE DEALERS IN UDIKS', MISSES'& GENTS' filkaali Cm Inure flats AND JOBUERSIN HATS. CAPS. FURS, STRAW GOODS, PARASOLS AS D UMItRELLAS. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, • ■4,9 BROAD W AY, COKNEB OF LKONAKD STREET, saiotw St B CLARK, . A. • KBBRBT, B. LCBBBKT. ) M. OILMAN, DENTIST. AC OILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk le banaoek Borough, and respectfully tendered a ' 'esaional services to the citircne of this place h n • unding country. t LL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS ▲ TION. Law OBce, near the Po •b11.1I*! "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. " —Thomas Jefferson. * -* i J- ■** * . '-•* left's ©ariter. THt; ssow! Oh ! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below ; Over the house-tops, over the streets, Over the heads of the people you meet, Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along ; Beautiful snow ; it can do no wrong, Tljing to kiss a fair lady's cheek, Clinging to lips in a frolicsome fruak, Beautiful saow from Heaven above, Pure as an angel, gentle as love ! Oh! the mow, the beautiful snow, j How the flakes gather and laugh as thy go Whirling about in the maddening fun, Jt plays iu its glee with every one, C'hasiog, Laughing, Hurry irg by ; It lights on the face and it sparkles the eye ! And even the dogs with a hark and a bound, Snap at the crystals that eddy arou ud ; : Ihe town is alive, and its heart in a glow, , Jo welcome the coming of beautiful enow! ! How the wild crowd goos swaying along, i Hailing each other with humor and song ! How the gay sle Iges, like meteor.-, fl teh by, i Bright for (he moment then lost to the eye ; Ringing, Swinging. Dashing they go, , Over the crust of the beau' 'ul snow; Snow so pure when fat!® a. the sky, j To le trampled iu -.moi ■ > f. crowd rushing by, To be trampled aud tracked by the thousands of feet, Til! it blends with the filth in the horrible street. On-e I was pure as the snow ! But I fell! I I el! nke the snow-flakes from heaven to hell ; Fell to bo trampled as filth of the street; Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat; Pleadiug. , Cursing, Dreading to die, , S-'llmg my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a msrsel of broad, H.uir.g the living and fearing the dead ; M'Wciiul God ! have I fallen so low 7 And yet i was once I;ke the beiutiful snow. , C'nee I was fair as the beautiful snow, \\ ith an eye like its crystal, a heart like its glow ; j Once I was loved for my innocent grace— | I 'uttered and sought for the cbartns of my face ! Father, Mother, Sisters all, God, uni myself, I hove lost by my fall ; The veriest wretch that goes shivering by, \N ill lake a wi te sweep lest 1 wander to > nigh ; j 1 or all that ts on or above me I know. There is nothing as pure as the beautiful snow. lluw str:mge it shiul 1 be that this beautiful sn. w ; Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go ! llow strange it should le, when the light come* again, If the snow and the ice struck my desperafc brain, Fainting, Frceking, Dying alone, Too wicked for a prtrer, too weak for a moan, To be hear I in the stieets of the crazy town, G n j mad in fh 3 joy of the snow coining down, | do J e, aud so die in mv terrible woe, t With .a bed an 1 a shroud of the beautiful snow. I Select IHflrg. TUG HAUNTKI) HOUSE, lit BIN. FRANKLIN lIOLLIS. RaJ r, flit! you ever see a prfiost —a real live ? Ifi'l you ever know of a hauntet] Louse where hohgoblins and other unearthly things held their reveries?— , DuiiT tun nw—• he liim, liare patience and read. Maiysville is a beautiful citv ; T might sav, the most so in all the land ! which mirrors the Occidental sea! Her gard its of clustering vines, bespangled with rosy petals, poetically termed ' the ; children of the sun," ,sift their fragrant breath along the shady walks, and the ! thrilling notes of feathered songsters com mune in exquisite melody. Still Marvs ville had its haunted house, its hobgoblins I and ghosts. The slough which runs through the j north-westcin portion of tlie cily is not d fi'crent perhaps, mechanically speaking, from <'tlier sloughs as the thousands who have crossed the bridge whieh spans it will testifv ; there were some, however.who thought ciitlerent, as this narative wi'l show. Just above that bridge stood an old dilapi dated bouse, which, while we knew it, bad only been inhabited at intervals, and its tenants invariably left the premises after on- night of terrible hallucinations. You will find brave men i< all communities, and we shall now proceed to show how the courage of our her or rather victims was tested. Tlmre resided in Marysville, a beautiful girl, whom we shall call Rose Beaumont. In features she was prepossessing, in man ners courteous and obliging, showing no distinction between wealth and poverty, position or profession. Tn her eyes all men were equal who conducted themselves with propriety. For the poor apprentice boy, or honest mechanic, her smiles were as warm and unreserved as for the "no j blest lords in the land." Everybody loved ! Rose, and she had reasons to know it.— , i Like most of girls, she liked fun, and knew how to on]ov it. .She had heard of the haunted l ouse often, a.itl formed a plan to j try the courage of some of her lovers, by ' ferreting out, if possible, the strange and I mysterious truths concerning the same.— TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 1866. It was soon known among those it inter- j ested, that Rose had promised her heart and hand to whoever might solve the prob lem ; and as a result, the bouse in question was literally beseiged on a certain night by brave men and smitten hearts. It so happened that no ghosts made their ap pearance on that night, no raps nor thumps were heard, save the din and rattle of voices from those present. The whole party left at daylight in a dis contented mood, and in no manner wiser to. their sleepless adventure in the spirits' mansion Billy thought a world of Rose ; so, on the following night, soon aft er dark, he concluded to visit the ghost, or whatever they might be—and we shall let him in here, to tell his own story : "I moved cautiously toward the building and entered a side door. There were four rooms on the first floor, and as 1 wanted some way to escape if things did not suit me, I held the impression tlfct I should stop where 1 was, so closing the door but still retaining my hold on the knob, 1 stood perfectly silent for half an hour.— No unnatural sound was heard during that time, and now that I had broke the ice, I ventured a little deeper and reached the middle room. My feet had scarcely cross ed the threshold, when thump! thump! thump ! greeted tny ears, followed by a most unearthly yell which proceeded from directly over my head, 'ln the the name of all that is mortal!" I exclaimed, "make yourselves known whoever you may be, or 1 shall try the virtue of cold lead in your case. Rap! -ap ! rap! was the only answer which I received, and raising my revolver I sent a bullet through the ceding. The report was instantly followed by a he vy thump, like the body of a person would cause falling on tire floor. A gleam of triumph shot from my eyes ; I was sure I had dispatched the supposed ghost; I listened again with breathless assurance ; no sound prevaded the deathly stillness which followed, and I struck a match in order that I might ascend the stairs ; I had almost reached the top when my match went out, and simultaneously I was seized bv two separations, bound hand and foot, and dragged to a side room. I could not speak, for so unexpectedly overpowered, the shook stiffled and choked inc. Presently I opened my eyes, *nd with the aid of the moon's pale glimmer I saw one of the strange objects remove a robe which covered t' e head,and reveal a hu man face ! and such eyes—they seemeif like balls of fire moving about at leisure, stopping occasionally to gaze wildly down, t.< my terror stricken| vision. Slowly re covering my self-possession, I raised iny head partly from the floor, and cried out: For the love of God, give me liberty or kill me on the spot! Then came a voice in a thrill and rum bling tone, which w ill never be eradicated from my memory, saying: '•Silence —silence while you live, for soon you will die!"' "Oh,'' I thought to myself, "where was my courage now ? Lost, lost !" 1 mur mured, and sank back in despair. I lay thus completely prostrated for sometime, when a new sense of my posi tion nerved me to desperation. * I resolv- ' ed that it I mu9t should not be with- 1 out a struggle, and remembering that I ' had a pocket knife with me. I managed to get in* hands iu such a position as to reach ' u,which I did, and cut the cords that bound me, and sprang to mv feet. If my cour- 1 age had been renewed I must acknowledge ' it predominated for a moment only; at the first glance I observed the ghost preparing ' for my execution ! A huge block and a glittering axe was all I remember seeing, ' when I fell senseless to the floor. 1 Again I returned to consciousness and again I raised my head to look about inc. The preparations were near completed,the apparations stood about the same distance from the stairs as myself—life was precious ' and with one bour.d I cleared the stairs . and sped out of the door. ****** ' I did no! relate this adventure to anv ' on ft. If I had, I was certain thev would < laugh at me: I therefore kept rntfni, and 1 concluded that if this was the road to wo man's affection. I would go the othfer way, and live and die a bachelor. The next victim wa* George .who I being dailv sworn, dcpoeth and avs : T ] would do anything to win Rose Beaumont ( and I earning of proposition she had ( made, I expected there would beatremen- ] dons rush for the haunted house ; so I'd ] wait for a few davs. and then ascertain if ( there be such things as ghosts in the vicin t.V; and, if so, whether I could not compro mise with them, in order to arrange things with the charming Rose. I waited until Saturday evening, and about eight o'clock on that evening. I 1 swung a large bowie knife at mv sidp,and went forth to* meet the foe. I believed j too, that "a faint heart never won fair la dy." and feeling mv heart to be in the con dition to win Rose, T was confident of suc cess. As I opened the front door, I called out: "/f there be any spirit present; they will please make manifest by rapping three times." The response came immediately, for three decidedly strong knocks on the top of mv head laid me sprawling on the floor! j Before I had time to seize mv knife, or de-, fend mvself in the least, I was bound hand J and foot, and lifted by two strange-locking objects. White as a sheet. I was carried Inp stairs. All the courags I thought 11 possessed was now frightened out of me and I became docile as a lamb. I did not 9hout murder, or struggle, as most persons would under such circumstances, for I knew I was powerless, and deiermined to use the persuasive plan to be released from the perilous situation. In a straightforward manner, I said : "Whoever you may be, either of earth or heaven, let me plead to you for mercy I did not come here to harm anybody, but at the earnest solicitation of one who is the life of life—the purest and brightest hope of my heart, and who alone could make my life a blessing." But I was interrupted here by one of the objects, who exclaimed: "Silence —silence while you live, for soon ye will die!" "Die !" I retorted. "Ob, heavens, you will not murder me!" But there was no response. 1 was left alone. They soon returned, one with a large bowl, and the other strap ping a keen-edged razor on the palm of his hand, lt was now evident that I was to be butchered —slaughtered like an ox ; a trembling began to crawl over me from head to foot, my teeth chattered together, and oh. I cannot describe my feelings, or utter the thought which passed tny pobr brain. A box was now brought forward, on which I was placed in a sitting position One of the objects now took bis place lie hind ine, and placing his baud on my fore head, pressed my head back, which q..tok ened my breath, and I expected even breath drawn would be iny last. Judge of my surprise when I felt the razor's edge ploughing through my hair, and the lock* which Rose had so often admired fell upon my face, and glided to tlie floor ! I was mute, and never flinched; finally every vestige of hair was shaved from my head, and both mv tormentors went to another room. Casting my eves downward, I saw the razor had been left on the box at my side, and with great exertion I managed to | secure it, and sever the cords which bound me. There was aw indow near where I was i —it was my only chance, and 1 sprung ■ through it to the ground, some fifteen feet; below. I was not hurt otherwise than bv spraining my wrist 1 still held on to the j razor. I found the name of a well known person written on the handle. The mys tery was solved, and, although I lost my hair, 1 spoiled the reign of ghosts in that house. It appeared that certain paities had re- j solved to have sport over the proposition | of Rose Beaumont, with the result we! have stated. The evidence was satisfacto-! ry that George had won the maiden, for i •the parties whom the lazor exposed had , discovered that the peculiar noise, so often j heard, was caused by the large number of i rats who held their court within its walls. J George and Rose still reside in Marysville j but the haunted house passed away duung the floods which, a tew years since, sub merged the valleys of California. FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING. It is worth while for all farulers every where, to remember that thorough culture is better than three on their farm. That good fences always pay better than lawsuits with neighbors. That hay is a great deal cheaper made in the surnme.i, than purchased in the wiii tet. That more stock perish from famine than founder. That a horse who lays his cars back and looks like lightning when any one approach es him, is vicious—don't buy liiin. ' That scrimping the feed of fattening hogs is a waste of grain. That over fed fowls won't lay eggs. That educating children is money lent at a hundred per cent. That one evening spent at home in study is more profitable than ten lounging about a conntry tavern, That cows should always he milked reg ularly and clean. ulThat it is the duty of every man to take some good reliable entertaining paper, and —pay for it promptly —of course The address from the Council of the Irish Republic, at Dauphin, was pub lished yesterday in New York. It says the work of preparation is done, and that the goal can be clearly seen, and calls for a loan to be paid six months after the estab lishment of Irish independence. The ad dress is endorsed by Colonel O'Mahony, who urges prompt action by the Brother hood. A fact highly honorable to tvpos is disclosed by a late report of the New York Inspector of State Prisons ; while ;dl other occupations sr- represented in their large number of convicts, there is not a single printer. Is it because they are mote mor al than other people, or are they smarter and so escape detection ?—well, any way it is creditable to them. <s* The lawyer's motto —be brief.— The doctor's motto —be patient. The pot ter's motto —beware. The type-setter's motto —be composed. The lady who made a dash, has since brought her husband to a full stop. "i People behiud the time should be fed on ketchup. THE CIRCUIT OF CARBON THROUGH ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LILE. Among those operations of nature whicbt may go contemplated from new points of view with ever-renewed interest, in the cir cuit which carbon is perpe ually running through animal and vegetable organises. Upon the continuance of this circuit de pends the existence of all life upon our globe If it were suspended, all animals would cease to breathe, and all vegetables to grow; the sea would become a lifeless waste of waters, and the earth an uninhab ited desert, with no leaf or flower, or liv ing thing upon its plains or mountains. Here is a piece of eliaicoal that was ve ry lecently an essential portion of a grow ing oak tree. If we set it on fire and ex pose it to a currant ot air, its color chang es from black to red, and it slowly vanishes from our sight—vanishes, not by some trick of legerdemain, but by actually be coming invisible. The miracle would ex cite D"r wonder but for the fact that we have seen it performed so many times be 'fore. To the imperfect observation of the un aided senses, it seems plain that the char coal is annihilated ; but the power ol mod ern science can follow in its invisible flight and can ascertain positively that every ounce end grain of its substance is still in existence, and that it weighs precisely as much now as it did when in a solid mass, before undergoing its miraculous transtor © o mation. The simple explanation of the disap pe,trance is that the charcoal in burning combined with the oxygen of the atmos phere—that the two elements, thns com bined, constitute carbonic acid—and that [ carbonic acid at ordinary temperature* is a colorless gas. The charcoal in its combi nation with oxygen has been changed from the solid to the gaseous state, and has, by this change, become transparent and invis ible. The same combination of carbon and ox ygen is always going on in the interior of our bodies, a given quantity of carbon gen erating, in this case, the same amount of heat—though not of the same intensity— as when charcoal is burned in a fire. It is in this way that the body is kept warm, and the vital functions are Icept in operation The lungs are made up of numerous min ute sells of extremely thin membrane, on one side of which delicate blood vessels are distributed, while the air comes in con tact with the other side. This membrane has the property of obsorbing oxygen from the air, and of passing it through by en dosmosis into the blood. The blood, thus supplied with oxygen, returns to the heart and is forced through the arteries all over the system. The digested food, being also poured into the blood, is brought in contact with the oxygen, when the carbon of the food combines with oxygen, forming carbonic acid, and generating, heat. On tlie return of the blood to the lungs, the carbonic acid passes outward through the membrane by ex osmosis, and is expelled through the nostrils into the atmosphere. This carbonic acid floats in the atmosphere until it comes in contact with a growing leaf, when it is instantly absorbed, and un der the combined acticn of light and veg etable life is decomposed, the carbon is carried inward to help build up the struc ture of the plant, or to aid in the formation of fruit and grain, to be again used fer food, while the oxygen is set free in the atmos phere to be again breathed by some animal, again combined with carbon to keep up the slow tire of animal life, and again restored to the atmosphere. Thus carbon runs its perpetual circuit from the animal to the vegetable world, and from the vegetable back to the animal keeping up, in its course, both forms of organic life.— Scientific American. A BF.AUTIF.UL EMPRESS, —The Em press of Austria is said to be one of the most beeutilu! ff the Princesses of Europe, and, from her description, would certainly seem to be a very charming woman. She is tall, slender, graceful, with a very white skin, a god deal of color, large, limpid blue eyes, and an amazing head of ligl t hair, which she wears in eight massive braid*, wound round and round her head, forming a magnificent diadem of hair, such as very few women could match from their own resources She speaks all the principal tongues of Europe, and is partic ularlv fond or the English language, which she speaks as perfectly as though it w< re her native dialect. The Empress is an excellent musician, paints and draws ex tremely well, and is one of the boldest horsewomeu of Au*tria. She possesses a ' stud of very valuable horses, and a pack of splendid hout.ds; and she is said to take the warmest interest in the racing and hunting of all Europe, and to know by heart the names of the heroes of the turf, biped and quadruped, of all the countries of Europe. In addition to all these attrac tions, she is said to have a remarkably good temper. A young man somewhere in Chica go, has been discovered to be heir to SIOO. 000, lie is missing, and they are advertising for him to come forward. Several young ladies hereabouts are looking for a young man just like him. Punch says that a Yankee baby will crawl out of his cradle, take survey of it, invent an improvement, and apply for a j patent before he is six months old. TERMS, 52,00 PER AXNUM ;T. ; I WOKUS IN LSE. —The pcasanls of Eng land hare Hot tnore than 300 words in (their vocabulary. The ancient sages of so far as we know from their hiero glyphic inscriptions, used but GBS words. A well educated person in England or America seldom uses more than about 3,W0 or 4.000 words' in actual conversa tion. Accurate thinkers and close reason crs whe avoid vague and general expres -1 j sions, and wait till they find the word that ' exactly fits their meaning, employ a larger 1 stock ; and eloquent speakers may rise to a command of 10,000. Shakspeare, who displayed a greater variety of expressions than probably any writer in any language, wrote all his plays with about 15,000 words. Milton's works arc composed of 8,000; and the Old Testament says all that it has to say with 5,042 words. TVRLS OF GOSSIP. —I have known a country society which withered away all to nothing under the dry-rot of gossip on ly. Friendship once as firm as granite, i dissolved to jelly, and then run away to I water, only because of this ; love that promised a future as enduring as heaven and as stable as truth, evapora ted into a morning mist that turns, to a day's long tears, only because of this ; a father and son were set foot to foot with the fieri breath of anger, oidy because of this; and a husband and hiss young wife, each straining at the heated lash, •that in the beginning had been golden bondage of a God blessed love, sat mournfully by the side of the grave where all their love and joy lay buried, and only because of this. 1 have seen faith transformed to mean doubt, hope gi?e place to grim despair, and charity take on itself'he features of blank malevolence, all because of the spell words of scandal, and the magic mutter ings Agossip. Great crimes work great* wrongs, and the deeper tragedies of human life springs from its larger passions, but woeful and and most melancholy are the uncatalogued tragedies that issue from gossip and de traction, most mournful the shipwreck oft en made of noble natures and lovely lives by the bitter winds and dead salt waters of slander. So easy to say, yet so hard to disprove—throwing on the innocent, and punishing them as guilty if unable to pluck out the strings they never see, and to si lence words they never hear Gossip and - slander are the deadliest and the cruelest weapons man has for his brothers hurt All the Yeor Round. .#' • " COMMON* CRIERS. —It is surprising {says a late wriier) how infectious tears are at a wedding First of"all the bride cries, be cause she's going to be married ; and then of course, the* bridesmaid* cry. perhaps, because she'll 1 1 lose her d d darling; and then the fond papa cries, because he thinks its proper; and then ail the ladies cry, be cause ladies, as a rule, will never miss a chance of crying; and t) en, perhaps, the groomsmen cry, to keep the lauies compa ny ; and then the old pew-opener cries, to show what deep pecuniary interests he takes in the proceedings ; and then per haps, the public cries, the public being, of course, composed exclusively of petticoats But notwithstanding all these Niobes, who make quite a Niagara of eye water around them, we own we never yet have seen the bridegroom cry, and should about as soon expect to bear the beadle whimper. Oca TURN MUST COME. —"Generation after generation," says a fine writer, "have felt as we feel, and their lives were as ac tive as our own. They passed like a vapor while nature wore the same aspect, of beau ty as when hor Creator commanded her to be. The world will have the same attrac tions for our offspring yet unborn as she had once for us as children. Yet a little while and all will have happened. The throbbing heart will have been stifled, and we shall be left alone in silence and in darkness to the worms. And it may be for a short time we shall be spoken of; but the things of life will creep in, and our names will soon be forgotten. Days will continue to move on, and laughter and song will be heard in the room in which we died ; vnd the eyes th mourned for us will be dried, and glisten again with j<>y, and even our children will cease to think of us, and will forget to lisp our names." A SHORT LOVE STOUT —Here isa story by one Morgan, a sea captain, concerning • a husband at sea, which may atfoid a om fortable hint to young ladies : Single ladies cros> the water under the special care of the captai.i of the ship, and if a love affair occurs among the passen gers, the captain is usually a confidant of one or both parties. A very fascinating young lady had been placed under Mor gan's care, and three young gentlemen fell desperately in love with Iter. Tltoy were all equally agreeable, and the young ktJy was puzzled which to encourage She ask ed the capt. ins advice, "i ome on deck," he said, "the fiist day it is perfectly calm. The geiith men will ol course be near you. I shall have a boat lowered, and do you jump overboard, and see which of the gen tlemen will jump after you. 1 will tako care of yon." * A A calm day soon came, the captain'* suggestions were followed, ami two of the lovers jumped after the lady at an instant. But between these two the lady could not decide, so exactly had been their devotion. • She anain consulted the captain. "Take the man that didn't jump ; lie is the most 1 sensible fellow, arid will make you the best husband." — Chamber• Journal. VOL. 5 NO. 27
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