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"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA-, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1867.
WISHING TO BE MARRIED.
The latest innovation in the usage and
cus'om of the Established Church of Scot
land is the celebration of marriage at the
church, instead of privately at the resi
dence of the parties, the former mode, it
is alleged, being in conformity with the
directory of public worship and the an
cient practice of the Presbyterian Church,
Appropos of this innovation may be rela
ted the following incident
The afternoon services had ended, and
the congregation were arranging them
selves for the benediction, when, to the
manifest interest of the worshippers, the
good parson descended from the pulpit to
the desk below, and said in a clear, calm
voice:
"Those wishing tc be united in the holy
bonds of matrimony will now please come
forward "
• A deep stillness instantly fell over the
congregation, broken only by the rustling
of silk, as some pretty girl or excited mat
ron changed her position to catch the first
view of the couple to be married. No one,
however, arose, or seemed in the least in
clined to rise. Whereupon the worthy
clergyman, deeming the first notice un
heard or misunderstood, he repeated :
"Let those wishing to be united in the
holy bonds of matoimony, now come for
ward."
Still no one stirred. The silence be
came almost audible, and a painfuf sense
of awkwardness among tho?e present was
felt, when a young gentleman who occu
pied a vacant seat in the broad-aisle during
the service, slowly arose, and delinerately
walked to the foot of the altar. He was
good looking and well dressed, but no fe
male accompanied "his travels. When he
arrived within a respectable distance of the
clergyman, he paused, with a reverant bow,
stepped to one side of the aisle, but neith
er said anything r.or seemed at all discon
certed at the idea of being married alone.
The clergyman looked anxiously around
for the bride, who he supposed was yet to
arrive, and at length remarked to the
young gentleman in an under tone :
"The lady, sir, is dilatory."
"Yes, sir."
"Had you not better defer the ceremo
ny."
"I think not,"
"Do you snppose she will be here soou"?
"Me, sir," said the young gentleman,"
how should I know of the lady's move
ments f
A few moments more were suffered to
elapse in this unpleasant state of expectan
cy, when the clergyman renewed his inter
rogatories.
"Did the lady promise to attend at the
present hour, sir?
"What lady ?"
"Why the lady to be sure, that you arc
waiting here for."
"I did not hear her say anything about
it," was the unsatisfactory response.
•'Then, sir, may I ask why you are here,
and for what purpose you thus trifle in the
sanctuary of the Most High ?" said the
somewhat enraged clerical.
"I came, sir, simply because you invited
all those wishing to be united in the holy
bonds of matrimony to step forward ; and
I happened to entertain such a wish. I
am very sorry to have misunderstood you,
sir, and wish you a very good day.
The benediction was uttered with a so
lemnity of tone very little in accordance
with the twitcbsing of the facial nerves,
and when, after the church was closed, the
story got among the congregation, more
than one girl regretted that the yonng gen
tleman who really wished to be united in
the holy bonds of matrimony, had been ob
lidged to depart without a wife.—London
derry Standard.
AN ITEM WHICH EVERT MAN SHOULD
Read. —We have probably all of us met
with instances in which a word heedlessly
spoken against the reputation of a female
has been magnified by malicious minds un
til the cloud has been dark enough to over
shadow her whole existence. To those
who are accustomed, not necessarily from
bad motives, but from thoughtlessness, to
speak lightly of ladies, we recommend
these "hints'' as worthy of consideration :
Never use a lady's name in an improper
place, at an improper time, or in mixed
company. Never make assertions about
her that you think untrue, or allusions
that you think she herself would blush to
hear. When you meet with men who do
not scruple to make use of a woman'?
name in a reckless and unprincipled man
ner, shun them, for they are the very worst
members of the community—men lost to
every sense of honor, every feeling of hu
manity. Many a good and worthy wo
man's character has been forever ruined,
.and she heart-broken, by a lie manufactur
ed by some villain, and repeated, where it
should not have been, and in the presence
of those whose little judgment could not
deter them from circulating the foul and
bragging report A slander is 60on pro
pagated and the smallest thing derogatory
to a woman's character will fly on the
wings of the wind, and magnify as it cir
culates, until its monstrous weight crushes
the poor, unconscious victim. Respect
the name of woman ; your mother and sis
ters are women, and as yon would have
their fair name untarnished, and their lives
unembitterd by the slanderer's tongue,
beed the ill that your own words may
bring upon the mother, the sister or the
wife of some fellow creature.
THE BEAR'S TAIL.
Did you ever see a bear ? If you have
you know that it has a short tail, One
would think to look at it, that it had been
broken off. The Norrefolk have a legend
which claims to tell how the bear's tail
came to look like that. I'll tell you the
story.
The bear one day met the fox. It was
carrying a string of fish that it had stolen.
Where did you get those fish ?" asked
the bear.
"I've been fishing," said the lying fox,
"and I caught them."
"Caught them, did you !" asked the bear
"why, I'd liae to learn how to catch such
fish,"
"Would you, really ?" asked the fox.
"Why it's easy enough."
"Tell me how," rejoined the bear.
"Why," said the fo.t, "it's as easy as ly
ing. You can soon learn. Just you go
on the ice, and cut a hole in it, and then
stick your tail through, right into the wa
ter."
"Ain't it cold ?" asked the bear.
"Well, yes," said the fox, "it isn't over
and above hot; but never you mind that.
Let it stay just as long as you can. By
and-by your tail willjbegin to smart. Never
mind that either."
"But why should I not mind it ?" asked
the bear, "I don't quite understand,"
"Why, because when it smarts, that
shows the fish are biting it." said the fox.
"Bless my soul," growled the bear, "and
how does that help the matter ? I don't see
the propriety of allowing the fish to bite
my tail. Do you know ?"
"But, bear alive," said the fox, "the
longer you let 'em bite the more you will
catch."
"Oh . ho !" answered the bear, "circum
stances alter cases."
"Yes, truly," answered the fox ; "and
mind you, when you can't keep it in the
water an* longer, pull it out quickly—
pull it sideways—aud pull it with all your
strength."
"Thank you, fox," said the bear, "I'll go
do it at once."
The tox laughed when the bear's back
turned, and ran of with its string of fish as
fast as he could go.
The bear went down to the ice and did
as the fox told it to do. He kept his tail in
the water so long, that it froze in hard and
fast. Then he tried to pull it out> as the
fox had told it.
You can guess the end of the story. The
poor bear's tail snapped off quite short, and
that's the reason —if yon choose to believe
the legend —why the bear has had a stump
tail ever since.— Little Corporal.
JOSH BILLINGS ON LINCH-PINS.—I want
to bet three dollars that no njau ever
matched himself against the what
he got beat.
Aim hi, if you stiike low. The man
who undertakes tew jump three hundred
aud seventy-five feet abed will certainly
make a good try.
I never knu a man who was alwuz anx
ious tew repent of his sins before be bad
committed them who did'ut want the
khaipest kind of watching.
I never bet on enny stamps on the man
who is always telling what he would have
did if he had been thare. I have notised
that this kind never get thare.
Faith don't appear to me tew be enny
thing more than tip-top good sense ; and
the faitb there is in this world now won't
keep a man from falling to the bottom of a
well if he lets go uv the curb to spit on his
, bands.
When I get to not having any good
luck, it does not seem to me that I kan
have more of it than any man I ever knew,
and not half try ; I suppose it seems just
so to you, my friend, don't it ?
I kan't think ov enny talent now that iz
so apt to descend from father to son untar
nished as the gift of exaggeration.
A man may have a pefck right to be
born single, but 1 dought whether he has
a right to continue on so.
An old Dutch farmer had a hand
some daughter, named Minnie,who recent
ly joined the Methodist Church, against
which the old farmer was somewhat preju
diced. The young minister under whose
instrumentality Miss Minnie was converted
visiting her frequently, excited his suspi
! cion that all was not right. Accordingly,
he visited the church one Suhdav night,
and seated himself, unobserved, among the
congregation.
Soon after taking his seat the minister
who was preaching from Daniel, sth chap
ter, 25th verse, repeated in a loud voice
the words of his text, "Mene mene, tekel
upharson," upon which the old farmer
sprang to his feet, seized the affrighted
girl by the arm, and hurried her out of the
meeting bouse. Having reached the
church yard, ho gave vent to his feelings
in the words:
"I knows dere vas sometings wrong, und
"now I schwares to 'em."
"VH.iv, father what do you mean," re
the the bewildered and innocent girl.
"Did'nt I," shouted the old man, strik
ing his ftsts together, and stamping with
his foot "did'nt I hear deparson call out to
vou," " Minnie, Minnie, tickle the par-
Un."
"1 believe that mine will be the fate of
Abel," said a wife to her husband one day,
"Why so?" inquired the husband. "Be
cause Abel was killed by a club, and your
club will kill me, if you continue to go to it
every night.",
CALIFORNIA WHEAT.
The importance f California as a source
of supply for a superior quality of w heat
is just beginning to be felt. This season
for the first time New York is a market
for the San Francisco grain merchants.
From a letter from the latter city we learn
hat the crop this year is not far from 7,500,
000 bushels, and up to this time, since Ju
ly 1, there have been exported 2,021,594
sacks of 100 lbs. each. The stock now iti
store in San Francisco is 1,500,000 sacks,
and estimate 1,000,000 sacks, in the inte
rior, making 2,500,000 sacks, or 7,500,000
bushels. The season is very propitious,
and the crops to be harvested this July
will reach fully 12,000,000 bushels, not in
cluding some 2,000,000 bushels of Oregon
wheat. California wheat,it is lobe under
stood, is, owing to the peculiarity fo climate
the best in tub world, and is produced at
relatively less expense than elsewhere.
The soil is very prolific, and thisty to forty
bushels per acre is not a large yield. It is
the climate, however,which faciliatcs the
work of the farmer- The rains usually
cummence in October, lightly; in Novem
ber they are generally heavy, which soaks
the ground completely and prepares it for
the plow.
The grain is then got in and the rains
continue through January and February
very freely ; they then are less frequent
and heavy, generally ceasing altogether in
April. From that time to the first of July
the grain gels no water. It results that
the grain ripening in the midst of drouth,
becomes very hard and free from moisture.
It is then cut and left in the field with
out danger of any rain until October. It is
gradually harvested and sent in sacks.
Owing to its dry nature it never heats,
uever requires rebanding, nor docs it re
quire to be sheltered, thus saving a great
expense U> the farmer. The same quali
ties of wheat make the flour fit for any voy
age and for any climate without the least
danger of spoiling. Where the wheat is
first introduced it is supposed to be bard,
flinty and very dry. When used alone
many millers damp it to make it more easi
ly 'lured, but mixed with other wheats no
diu.. lty is encountered in treating it.
Rev. Samuel Clawson; a Methodist
preacher manners, sometimes
called the "wild man," was very popular in
Western Virginia some twenty years ago.
I He was cross-eyed, and wiry made, and
| very dark skinned for a white man. At
I times he was surprisingly always excitable
and once in a while extravagant. He once
; accompanied a brother minister, Rev. Mr.
R—, a prominent city pasor, in a
# visit colored church. Mr. li. gavd the
colored preacher the bint, and of caurse
CiaWson invited to preach. He did so,and
during the sermon set the impulsive Afri
cans so shouting all over the house. This
in turn set Clawson to extravagant words
and actions and he leaped out of the pulpit
like a deer, aud began to take the hands of
the colored brethren and mix in quite hap
pily, He wept for joy. Then pressing
through the crowd he found brother K. and
sitting down beside him, he threw his arms
around his neck, and with the tears stream
ing down his face, he said; " Brother R.,1
almost wish I had been born a nigger.
These folks have more religion thau we
have." "Well, well." said brother R.,
"you came so near it that you needn't cry
about it."
CONVERSATION. —FuseIi, the painter, had
great dislike to that species of conversation
familiarly known as tattle. Once, while sit
ting for a long while amongst some trifling
visitors, who were discussing the wearher
and such-like interesting subjects, after re
maining a longtime without speaking, he
bnrst forth wi ha ''We had pork for dinner
to-day! " Dear Mr Fuseli," exclaimed
one, "what an odd remark!" " IFhy," re
plied he, "it is as good as anything you have
been saying for the last hour."
An Irishman carrying a heavy bundle
upon bis shoulders, was riding on the front
platform of a Boston horse car, and was
asked why he did not set his load down up
on the platform. "Be jabers," was his re
ply." the horses have enough to do to drag
me ; I'll carry the bundle,"
" Don't be afther making fun of the bird,
said a newly imported Hibernian to a lad
whom he discovered annoying a land ter
rapin with a bulrush."haw do you know
but he has blessed fine feathers under his
over coat ?'
A young lady being engaged to be mar
ried, and getting sick of the bargain, ap
plied to a friend to help her untie the knot
before it was too late. „Ob, certainly,' he
replied,.'it's very easy to untie it when it's
only a beau."
A dancing master, on being cast away
on an island, lived six months without any
other food than that which he derived from
"cutting pigeon wings,' and stewing them.
"There's our Jeremiah/'said Mr. S., "he
went off to get his living by his wits."
"Well, did he succeed ?" inquired his
friend."No," said the old man tapping his
forehead,"he failed for want of capital."
The day is coming, says the London star'
when throughout the whole country wo
men shall be clothed with the elective
franchise. Rather a thin costume! and
hard on dry goods dealers and hoop skirt
manufacturers,
TEAMS, 82.00 PER. ANNtJI®
VOL. 6 NO. 48.
A RU>TIC COURTSHIP.--! hitched my
cheer up close to her'n, shet my eyes, and
tremulously said :
"Sal, you're the very gal I've been han
kerin' arter lor a long time. I love you
all oyer, frohl the foot of your bole to the
head of your crown, and I don't keer who
knows it; and if you say so, we'll be jined
in the holy bonds of matrimony. E pluri
bus onions, gloria Monday morning, sic
temper tyraunis, non cotnpi mentis, world
without end," sez I ; and I felt aa I tbo' I
had throwed like an allygater, I felt ao re*
lieved.
With that she fetched a scream, and af
ter a while she sez :
"Peter!"
"What is it, Sally V' sez I.
"Yes," sain she, a hidin' of her face.
You may depend on it, I felt orful good.
"Glory! glory !" sez I. ' ! must holler,
Sal, or I'll bust open. Hooray ! hooray I I
can jump over a ten-rail fence. I can do
anything a fellow would, come or orter do.
With that I sorter sloshed myself down
by her, and clinched the bargain with a
kiss. Talk,about your nite-blooming sen
oils, talk about sngar, talk about yonr
molasses ; tbey wan't no where; you 90uidn,t
have got me to come nigh 'era ; they would
have tasted sour after that.
Oh! broomstraws with sorgum Lasses on
'em ! Ef SaJ's daddy hadn't bahled oat—
" It's time for all honest folks to be in bed.
1 do believe I'd stayed all nite.
A SWEET TEMPER. —No trait of char
acter is more valuable in a woman than
the possession of a sweet temper. Home
can never be made happy without it.
It is like the flowers that spring up in our
pathway, reviving and cheering us. Let
a man go home at night weary and worn
by the toils of the day and how soothing
is a word dictated by a good disposition ?
It is sunshine falling on his heart. He
is happy, and the cares of life are forgotten.
A sweet temper has a soothing influence
over the mind of a whole family. Whore
it is found in the wife and mother, you ob
serve kindness and love predominating
over the natural feeling of a bad heart.
Smiles, kind words, characterizes the chil
dren and peace and love have their dwell
ing there. Study ; then, to acquire and
retain a sweet temper. It is mere valua
ble than gold'; it captivates more than
beauty : and to the close of life it retains all
all its freshness aud power.
MARRIAGE. —The Albany Alias in the
course of a sensible article on marriage,
says : "Look beneath the surface, examine
the heart, and strive to choose what will
confer lasting happiness rather than tem
porary gratification. Marry a heart and
soul, not a form nor a mind ; act for your
self and not for others ; cousult reason,
not passion ; and think marriage an affair
of years, not moments; a period whose
freshness and glittering will soon wear
vway; and let sincerity and worth form
the foundation upon which you are to
build your life and happiness. Then will
marriage be a gift from heaven, blessing
him who gives, who receives, and those
who share its obligations, its pains and its
oys!''
THE Shenandoah Valley is said to hare
almost recovered from the desolations of
the late war. Notwithstanding the rava
ges of the many armies that passed through
it, and the almost total destruction of
houses, fences, and agricultural implements,
it is said that this year the farmers will
probaly have the finest and largest wheat
crop ever raised in that region. The low
er counties are filled up with Pennsylvania
Germans, who are quietly buying up all
the farms they can get
.
GaT "Conductor," said an overdressed
dandy, the other day, in an omnibus, "do
not procrastination, but, urge your equine
motive power to the greatest velocity, for
I have an engagement in the city at a sta
ted hour, which I must fulfill or expire."—
"Jem," shouted the conductor to the driver,
"push along. Here's a lunatic in side,
swearing away like mad.'
-a M _
—Gen. Hannock, with an armed guard
is escorting drunken Zach chandler Laflin, .
and other Radical sores on the Govern
ment, to colordo, How the thieving Rad
ical nabobs splurge about—at the people's
expense ! "My Lord the Duke chandler*
will soon be the prevalent style of address
ing shoddy aristocrats.
An Indian passing up the streets of Nat
chez, a few days since, was asked the rel
ative position of white man,lndian and nig
giving a usual "ugh ! he said , "Fore de.
War,fust cum white man, deninjin, den dog
wen nigger; now cum nigger, den dog, dan
injin, and white man last.
A housemaid who went to call a gentle
man to dinner, found him engaged inusimz
a toothbrush.
"Is he coming ?" said the lady of tha
house, as the servant returned.
"Yes, ma'am, directly," was the reply,
"he"isjist sharpening his teeth."
"Have 'Blasted Hopes!'" asked a lady
of a green librarian, whose face was mnch
swollen by the toothache.
"No, ma'am, bnt I have a blasted tooth
ache," was the reply,
df A country editor describing the bon
nets now in fashion saya : "Tbey hadb a
downward slant that reminds one of a vic
ious cow with a board across her eyes."