North Branch democrat. (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, March 14, 1866, Image 1
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The undersigned having lately pur. hase l the •• BUEHLEU lIOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements us will render this old and popular H .use equal. -.1 not supe rior U any Hotel in the City of RarrisUurg. A*continuance of the public patronage is refpect fall/ aolicited. } BOI.TON "WALLS HOTEL, • LATE AMERICAN HOU3K, TL'Nlili ANMR h, M l OMING C 0. PA. THIS establishment has recenMy been refitted an famished in the latest style Every attention mil he given to the comfort and convemei.ee of those whe patronice the House. T. B. WALL, Owner sol Proprietor . f—hhannack. September 11, 1361. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COl Ml, PA H. CORTRIGHT, I'rop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship ef the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to paader the house an agreeable place ot sojourn for *"> f - r " " Uh '^T^TRISHT. fane, 3rd, 1663 T> R7 .tT<7. 11 p. <'KI '. 11 . PHYSICIAN BURREU*. Would respectfully announce to the citizcnwf Wy miag that he has located at Tonkharnock where he will promptly attenl to all calls in the line of kia profession. , py will bo feand at home on Saturdays of eaek week fjtas mr OWANBA, Jf-A.. p. B- BARTLET, (ialeeft. p BRAI.MARI lorse, ELIIIRA, M Y. PROPRIETOR. Tha MEANS HOTEL, i- one of the LARGEST aad IRST ARRANGED Houses in the country-It itte4 p in the moßt Modern and improved stjle, ad ao paias are spared to makt it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for all, v 3, ntl, ly. CLARKE,KEEN EL&COm ■ ASUrACTCKERS AND WHOLESAI.B PEALERS IN LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' §ilfeair^€assiiiurf|)<its ASH JOBBERS IK ■ATS, CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS. PARANOICS AND UMIIREIXAB. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, BAO BROADWAY, CORKER OF LEONARD STREET, a. r. CLARK, 1 4. 0 KREKKV, C 8. LCKtRKT. ) M. GILMAN, • DENTIST. AT GILMAN, has permanently located in Tun ■ I* bannock Borough, and respectfully tendersd , c t Visional services to the citizens of this place h n • 0 eandicg country. B.L WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS •fwj t ICkN. La* Glis iff; a ?• sT psea. __ , I I ■ iiUL..rnPWTTX" AIR. PINK'S NERVES. BY ANNIE SURREY. Theopliilus Pink was afflicted with nerves,and had been from the time he came into the world. Joined with this nervous ness, perhaps the result of it, lie was con stitutionally suspicious,and would turn pale with fright at the merest trifles. One day, just as he was about to com mence carving lie was seized with a horri ble suspicion, and laying down the earr ing-knife, looked into his wife's face with very nervous anxiety. "What is the matter, Theopliilus ?" in quired his wife, surprised. "Did you observe Bridget's face ?" in quired her husband, wiping the perspira tion from his brow. "No. What is the matter with it ? I perceived nothing out of the way, except her large nose, and that may be said to be very much in the way." "Mrs. Pink, this is too serious a subject to jest about," said Theophilus, with as much sternness as he could command. "Lor, Theopliilus, what's the matter ? What's out of the way with Bridget ?" "1 will tell you, Mrs. Pink. But first, are you aware that Bridget is a Catho lic ?" "Certainly." "Well, I read to day a paragraph in which it was stated that priests, for pur poses of their own, are prevailing upon the Irish domestics to poison their employers in order to gain possession of the money, and get the upper hand throughout the country." "Ail nonsense." * "Mrs. Pink, you may think as you please. I think otherwise." "So you think Bridget means to poison us all ?" "You have said it. Such it certainly my opinion." "And von judge from this paragraph alone !" said Mrs. Pink, with a little good natured contempt perceptible in her tone." "Not wholly. I watched Bridget's face, and 1 am certain, from the expression, that ••he meant something evil. Her face was fairlv red with confusion. 5 * "More likely with being over the kitch en stove." "You mar sneer if you please, Mrs. Pink. It will not move me any." "What do you propose lo do about it Mr. Pink ?" "I will tell you." Mr. Pink proceeded to cut off a slice of the meat,and requested his wondering wife to put on the plate, in addition, vegetables fro.n the various dinlies. He then rose,and with as much dignity as a tow-headed little man of four feet eight inches in height could muster, rang the bell. Bridget answered the bell. "What's wanting, muiu ?" asked ihe maid Erin, looking toward her mistress. "Mr Pink rang for you. He will tell yon." "I want you to sit down at the side table, and eat what there is on that plate." "Right here now ?" asked Bridget, her evts rolling in her head with amazement. "Yes," said Mr. Pink, in a stern triumph fancying that the indications of surpriae were marks of guilt. "Oh, it isn't 1 that'll back out," said Bridget ; and receiving the p!*te from the hands of Mr. Pink, she fell to, with an ap petite which seemed to have been accumu loting for this special occasion. Of course even Air. Pink could not doubt of this He with a slight feeling of shame helped his wife and children from the different dishes, and with a feeling o security partook thereof himself" "A little ir.ore. av ye plaze," said Brid get, extending her plate, her utterance by the way being a little thick in consequence of her mouth being full. "You CN finish your dinner in the kitch en, Bridget," said Mr. Pink. "We shan't need you any longer." Bridget left the room, thinking it a "mighty quare" family. This, however, was a common, every. dav occurrence. I now proceed to narrate a thrilling inci dent which befell Mr. Tlieophilus Pink on a journey to the West. Tlieophilus had been talking of the jonr ney for several years, but had found it dif ficult to muster sufficient courage to under take it. lie was afraid that the cars would run off the track, or the steamboat would blow up, or something equally fatal would happen, lie staid in Buffalo two days, be ing unable to decide whether it would be safest to go to Detroit by cars or boat. He decided to go by boat, when he chanced to read of an accident which happened to a Mississippi river steamboat. Tins decided him to take the cars, when unfortunately tidings came of a train running off the track somewhere in Georgia. Accordingly he, with many doleful apprehensions, took pas sage in the boat, and, considerably to his surprise, was landed in safety at Detroit. However, lam not going to detail, step by step, all that happened on the journey, Suffice it to say, that one evening Mr. P. found himself riding in a lonely part of Illi nois. Night was approaching, and Mr. Pink would not for all .the world have rid den through the night, exposed to thieves, wild beasts, and all the terrors that night naturallvlbrings to a nervous man. Fortunately this was not needful.— There loomed up before him a respecta ble looking house which HO doubt, were the occupants so disposed, would offer him eouifortable shelter for the night Jumping frem his horse, he knocked at tho door. "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT." Th#m Jeffersou. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1866. A buxom woman presented herself at the summons. "I am a benighted traveller," explained Mr. Pink, "and should be very glad it you would provide me with a night's lodging." "You are welcome, stranger," said the woman, heartily. You, Jim, come here and take the stranger's horse. Step right in, sir. We can accommodate you as well as not." Moat men would have considered this a very warm and respectable fwelcoine ; but Theophilus Pink felt troubled. "She's a good deal too glad to see me," he thought. "I am afraid she has some de sign upon me. Perhaps she thinks I've got money, and means to steal it during the night, I've heard of snch things before." To the jaundiced eje of Mr. Pink, the good natured face of his hostess assumed the expression of Lady Macbeth, just as she is about to use tire dagger. However, he had got himself into a scrape and could not very well get out of it.— Better remain than arouse the woman's suspicions of his knowledge of her purpose by proposing to go. She would undoubt edly dispatch emisarics after him who would waylay and murder him. Ugh ! it made him shudder to think of such a thing. Y • In a very desponding state of mind, Mr. Pink partook of his supper. He declined taking any tea. "Likely as not she lias put a sleeping po tion into it. I've read about such things. Oh dear me! Why did I ever come out Wast? It's as much as anybody's life is worth. If I only get home to Mrs. Pink in safety. I will never again tempt Prov dence as I am doing now. Mr. Pink sat with his back to the wall. He thought that by so doing he should gtgird against an attack from behind,though for that matter, there was nobody to make it except his hostes* already mentioned, and ber son "Jim," a "boy of ten, who in deed was stout of lii age. and might pos sibly have proved a match lor Mr. Pink, who in a contest would have been afraid to use what little strength he had. At length, in came a burly farmer, a stout man, full six feet in height, clothed in a blue frock. "How immensely strong he must be !" thought Theophilus Pink, with his teeth chattering in affright." Suppose he sho'd knock me down with that sledirc-hammer fist of his, take my money, ana burv me in the cellar." This thought made him shiv er, so that Mr. Armstrong, the new comer inquired —"Got the ague, Mister?" "N no. What makes you ask ?" "I saw you shaking. Didn't know hut what you'd got it. We have got it a good deal out this way." The farmer had a frank, open manner, this Mr. Pink admitted to himself, but felt little" doubt that it was only meant to mask deceit. He was half apprehensive that no attack would be made before lie retired, and therefore expressed a desire to be shown to his chamber at once, though it was but eight o'clock. "No doubt von are tired with your long tramp," said Mr. Armstrong, the farmer. "Well, we keep early hours here. Shall I carry your carpet bag for you ? ' "N no, I guess I'll take it. There isn't much in it." "But that little valuable, said his host jokingly." "Not at all," said Mr. Pink, hastily, un willing to convey such a dangerous im pression. "f ?nly a few shirts.' "Those are valuable to you, I reckon, for if they were lost I don't think mine would fit you." Mr. Pink laughed nervously at this joke but said nothing. "Hope you'll have a quiet night," said Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Pink looked around him nervously. There seomed to be nothing very peculiar about the room. It was a large square room. Mr. Pink discovered, to his dismay, that there was no lock on the door. "That is so he can get in better," thought he to himself. Byway of guarding against the contem plated attack, he piled up whatever mova bles there were in the room, consisting of an old chest and a couple of chairs, against the door, though he felt, that this would af ford but small impediment in case an at tack was made. He discovered that by leaning down with his car to the floor, he could hear what was said down stairs. In this uncomfortable position he re mained for some time without any result. At length lie heard words that made his blood run cold. "When do you propose to kill him V It was the wife who spoke. • Early to morrow morning was the hus band's reply. "Then you had better sharpen your knife over night. "That is a good idea, wife. I'm glad you spoke of it. I might have forgotten it." Directly afterwards, to Mr. Pink's par alyzing terror, he heard the noise of a knife being sharpened. "Oh, what shall Ido ?" groaned The ophilus Pink, wringing his hands in abject fear. Shall I stay here to be murdered by these blood thirsty villains ? No, 1 will jump out of the window first." He opened the window, and jumped, in his blind tciyor, regardless of the conse quences which might ensue. The height was not great, but he tell directly upon his arm, and broke it. Of course he was una ble to stir. Hearing the noise the farmer and his wife hastened to the spot "Don't kill me!" groaned Mr. Pink, who | now looked pink with terror. "Who thought of killing you, and what brought you here?" sxclaimed the farmer, with unfeigned amazement. "I heard you and your wife talking of killing me, and when I heard you sharp ening your knife, I couldn't stand it any longer, and I jumped." Mr. Armstrong burst into a hearty laugh "It was our pig I was going to kill.—. That was what we were talking about." "Was that all ?" groaned Mr. Pink, with mingled pain and shame. He was at length persuaded that such was the ease. But he had to pay bitterly for his ridiculous suspicions, being detained in the neighborhood several weeks by his broken arm The Blood Hounds in the West Indies. Esquemeling, who wrote a history of tbe buccaneering expedition in which he had his lawless comrades engaged, says that lie bad found in these hiding', places, hesps of human remains; and that in this time the island of Ilispaniola was invested with large numbers of blood hounds, which ran wild in the woods. These dogs de stroyed enormous quantities of cattle, and so nearly exterminated the race of wild boars that the hunters of that island had much ado to find any. Monsieur Ogeron the Governor of Tortuga, in 1788, sent to France for a store of poicn to destroy them. Horses were killed and empoisened, and laid open at certain places where wild dogs use to resort; this being continued for six months there was killed an incredible num ber; and yet all this could not destroy the race, or scarce diminish them, their number appearing almost the same as before. In stinct taught the blood hounds to hunt in packs. Esquemeling and a French bucca neer of his acquaintance once heard them coming through the woods, and took refuge in a tree, whence they looked on while the pack ran into a wild boar and killed him. As soon as the boar was dead the whole pack lay down and waited till the hound who had first grappled the enemy had sat isfied his hunger, before they presumed to begin their own repast. AN ILLINOIS LAWYER "DOING WELL," There were few' abler lawyers in the State of Illinois during the past quarter of a century than the late Judge Purple, of Peoria, lie was the autholr of several law books. By his entire devotion to his pro fession, he had attained merited celebrity as an advocate and jurist. Some years since Judge P., when in the city of Washington, met a gentleman from Boston, who, upon learning that the Judge was from Illinois, made particular enquiry as to the success ofa young sprig of the law by the name of 11 , who had emigra ted West some five vears before. "He is doing well," very promptly re plied the Judge. "He is ? well, I am glad to hear it—glad to hear it, indeed." "You think he has a good practice, do you, Judge ?" " Don't know anything about his prac tice," replied Purple ; "but he is doing well succeeding finely." "Making money, then, is lie ?" persisted Boston. "I tell you 1 don't know anything about his business," said Purple. "Well," said the Boston man, " you seem to thing that he is doing well, and yet you know nothing about his practice or busi ness. What do you mean ?"' "I mean this," said Purple, " that any man who practices law in Illinois five years and who keeps out of the penitentiary, is doing well, whether lie has practice or not. NOBLE SENTIMENTS. —Condemn no man. says John Wesley, for not thinking as you think. Let every man enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since ev ery man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in every kind of degree,"to the spirit of persecution, you cannot reason or persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force him into it. If love will not compel hiin to come, leave him to God, the Judgo of all. " Ah, dear Doctor how is my wife to-day?'' The doctor shook his head and said—"You must prepare for the worst!" " What," said the husband, "do you think she is likely to get over it V' why are you so wicked as to tell me a lie about that knife ? Why did you not remember what I tolji you about Washington ?" "Oh!" said Johnny, "Washington said he couldn't toll a lie, lie couldn't anil I could !'' A man named Jameson, in Cincin nati, wishing to curtail household expen ses, adopted a novel mode to effect his ob ject. He kissed the servant girl one morn ing, when he knew Mrs. J. would see him. Results—discharged servant girl and twelve dollars per month saved. "Ah, doctaw, does the choleraw aw fect the highaw awda?"' asked an exquis ite of a celebrated physician in New York. " No, but its death on fools, and you'd bet ter leave the city immediately." The Love of Knowledge, I solemnly declare, that, but for the lore of knowledge, I should consider the life of the meanest hedger and ditcher as prefera ble to that of the greatest and richest man in the world, for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains—it flames night and day, and is immortal, and not to pe quenched. Upon something it must act and feed, upon the pure spirit of knowledge, or upon the foul dregs of polluting passions. Therefore, when I say, in conducting your understand ing, lo7e knowledge with a great love, with a vehement love, with a love coeval with life; what do I say hut love inno •cence. love virtue, love purity of conduct— love that which, if you are rich and great, will sanctify the blind fortune which has madfc yon so, and made men call it justice —love tliat which, if you are poor, will render your poverty respectable, and make the proudest feel it unjust to laugh at the meanest of your fortunes—love that which will comfort you, adorn you, and never quit you—which will open to you the king dom of thought, and all the boundless re gions of conception, as an assylum against the cruelty, the injustice and the pain that may be your lot in the outer world—that which will make your motives habitually great and honorable, and light up in an in stant a thousand r.oble disdains at the very thought of meanness and of fraud. There fore, if any young man has embarked his life in pursuit of knowledge, let him go on without doubting or fearing the event —let him not be intimidated by the cheerless beginnings of knowledge, by the darkness from which she springs, by the difficulties which hover around her, by the wretched habitations in which she dwells, by the want and sorrow which sometimes journey in her train; but let him ever follow her as the angel that guards him, and as the genius of his life. She will bring him out at last into the light of day, and exhibit him tortile world comprehensive in acquir ments, fertile in resources, rich in imagin ation, strong in reason, prudent and power ful above his fellows, in all the relations and in all the offices of life.—llsv. SYDNEY SMITH er A pious old farmer reading Gover nor Fenton's proclamation for the seventh of December as a day of prayer, and thanks giving,to be observed throughout the State of New York, read, by reason of misprint of the word t oiler, as follows: "Never be fore had a people so much cause for thanks giving. Every tailor in the realm of hon orable industry is inspired with new en couragement and mnfideace." "But why tailors inspired with new encouragement" interrupted his better half, f'more than oth er people ?" "Oh I suppose," replied the pious parent, "because the President was once a tailor, and every tailor may yet be come a President." "Oh!" replied the pious old lady, "how I wish you was a tailor." FAVORITES.—" I have ever found," says a sensible writer, " that men who are real ly most fond of the society of ladies; who cherish for them a high respect, nay, rev erence them, are seldom most popular with the sex. Men of more assurance, whose tongues are lightly hung, who make words supply the place of ideas, and place com pliment in room of the sentiment, arc the favorites. A true respect for women leads to respectful action towards them; and re spect is usually a distant action, and this great distance is taken by them for neg lect and want of interest." — ■ * WITTY. —The father of Mra. Siddons had always forbidden ber to marry an act or ; and of course, she chose a member of the old gentleman's company, whom she secretely wedded. When Roger Kerable heard of it, he was furious. "Have I not," he exclaimed, "dared you to marry a play er !" The lady replied, with downcast eyes, "that she had not disobeyed." "What Birulatn ! have you not allied yourself to about the worst performer in my company? "Exactly so," murmured the timid bride ; nobody can call him an actor." &W An old man by the name of Hop kins, living in Adrian, Michigan, has just been made the happy father of "triplets," all girls. A young lady, commenting on the wonderful prosperity of this family, says that siie knows many young married men who are not one third as smart as old Mr. Hopkins, R A lady, a regular shopper, who had made an unfortunate clerk tumble over all the stockings in) the store, objected that none were long enough. . ~ "I want,'' she said, "the longest liosc that are madiy" "Then, madam, was the reply, you'd better apply to the next engine house." A dashiag young bachelor lately appear ed in Central Park with two handsome po sies, whose tails were done op to look lik a lady's waterfall, and cooped up in small fish nets. The resemblance was capital, and the team created a great aensation/) gliT A shrewd confectioner in Water burg has taught bis parrots to say "pretty creature" to every lady who enters the store. His custom is rapidly increasing. — When is a prison-door like an es caped thief ? i Wheu its bolted. TERMS, tfi.OO PER AlffNt3li ESJOYINO A PRAYKE MEETING.— Somo thirty years ago, in a town in New Yoxk, long since noted for "stated preaching," old Deacon Bemont was conducting a prayer-meeting in the church. His seat was in front of the pulpit, where a door opened into a small closet. The worthy old deacon, leaning his chair back against the door that opened inward, happened to slip his chair beyond its balance, trusting, to the treachorous door, when down he went, heals up, into the dark closet, to the no small consternation ot the audience. — The poor old deacoo had to be drawn out by his legs, chair and all, amid the ill-con taincd tittering that greeted his advent, — Some time after this episode, a noted re vivalist was holding a series of meetings in the same church, and iq conversing with the young people on the subject of person al piety, amongst other questions he asked a young lady whom he was anxious to in terest or. the subject. ".Did you ever eu jov prayer and conference meetings ?" She replied she thought she did once enjoy such a season. The minister then anx iously inquired, "When and where did you experience this senaation ?" She replied, with perfect sincerity, "It was when old Deacon Bemont fell into the aloset, and was dragged out uninjured by the heels." The minister appeared so well satisfied with this conversation, that he asked no more questions in that quarter. CHARACTER. —Not two leaves in the for est are exactly the same in form and text ure. No two grains of sand from the sea shore or the great African desert are iden tical in bulk and culture. Even the two drops of water most alike in £,the universe will exhibit some marks of distinction when submitted to a powerful microscope. The law that excludes duplicates from the visi ble kingdoms of nature is also a law of the moral world. From Adam to the last man no two faces will be found exactly the same; and variety in trait ?nd lineament of hu man character is as inexhaustible as in man's ouiward appearance. The power which iu one man's moral composition is ardent, demonstrative, predominant, in an other lies dormant or dead. The craving which in one breast concentrates upon itslf the whole mind and will, before its voice can be silenced or its yearnings appeased, is never felt, scarcely understood, by a be ing of a different organization. The weak ness of the weak man is laughed at, in scorn by the strength of the stroDg; moral pulp and ateel travel side by side, and souls of fine porcelain and delicate cuystal tremble in the near presence of iron and granite. STASD ALONE. —Society is much infest ed with adult babies who canr.ot, or will not, stand alone. These weaklings are de cidedly more troublesome than the little toddlers who stagger from chair to chair in their first attempts at unaasisted loco motion. The grown-up infant makes no effort to support himself, He insists upon having hold of somebody's hand ; and if he has nothing to cling to or to lean against, he lies down and gives up. There are few energetic, prosperous men who are not em barrassed with one or more of these dead weights. The best service that any man to whom they attach themselves can ren der them, is to shake them off, providing them, if possible, with an opportunity to exercise whatever ability, whether of the head or hand, they may possess. There are indolent, irresolute men who can be taught to stand alone. But he who is in capable ot making any effort by which suc cess can be achieved is a hopeless case. Lie is a mere "cumberer of the ground," and without value in society. CANDOR. —There is nothing sheds so fine a light upon the human mind as candor.— It was called "whiteness" 1 by the ancients, for its purity ; and it always won the es teem due to the most admirable of the vir tues. However little sought for, or prac ticed, all do it the homage of their praise, and all feel the power and charm of its in fluence. The man whose opinion makes the deepest mark upon his fellow-men, whose friendship is instinctively sought where all others have proved faithless, is not the man of brilliant parts or flattering tongue, or splendid genius, or commanding power ; but he whose lucid candor and in eeaius truth Jransmit the heart'a real feel ings pure and without refraction. There are other qualities which are more showy, and other traits that have a higher place in the world's code of honcr, but none wear better or gather less tarnish by use,or claim a deeper homage in that silent reverence which the mind must pay to virtue, <■ *. On the 13th inst., Chief Justice Chase, introduced the negro Fred Doug las, in flattering and complimentary terms, to a large and densa auditory, iu Dr. Sun derland's church. The negro delivered himself of a two hour's speech on " the as sassination and its lesson." Judge Kelly, M. C. from Philadelphia, made a speech atter the nigger was done, declaring him self unconditionally for amalgamation. Jt-fT Why is a horse like the letter O ? Because G makes it go. And what is the difference between this conundrum and my aunt who squints ? One is a query with an answer; the other is an auut, Sir, with a queer eye. 2W He who lives for himself ahm fires for a mean fellow. VOL. 5 N0.31