North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-10-25
TOWN TALK.
"1f there's a hole in a your coats
| rede We tent it:
A chiels amang you taking notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it."


EY What a beautiful appearance the oods pre-
sent. Antumr looking her rosiest and is as fckle
and changeable any other woman y wreatbing her
face one moment in smile and the next all frowns
and tears Friday she had high old time in fat a
regular "blow out.'' The leaves took advantage of
the music. ofthe Winds" and went whirlfng down
the streets ard Up in the slrn the tnaddestand most
aband oned of galIo pades and waltzes. Crinolines
and fancy rufied skirts, took an upward tendency,
much to the embarrassment (no pun intended) of
such ladies happened to be upon the street. We
felt sorry for them. They looked so don't-know-
wh a-to-do- with myself;sh that cut of pure COM
mi seration We never cast single "sheep's eye"
tow ards them although the ttmIstion was great
We hope they will appreciate our forhearance, and
come other time other place nobody by-rewsrd
oh
Our feelings are too great for utterance.
H Drunk again, Saturday light, and pretty
Of them powerfully strong They could throw down
all creation, and New Jersey besides "Bsr keep"
dssented He had a SOD. q fair and lovely boy
that he thought could send any OF them ITO grass"
So sure was he that he offered to bet any amount
''Sbort boy was disposed to take him up, but was
4 little DUBIOUS where the needful was to come
from he. however procured a twenty dollar
greenback and presented it, when bar keep mani
Tested desire TO collect little bill that was due
him out ufit. 'All right" says sbort-toy. :'An
wong" says bar-keep Who found the bill counter
felt He shook the terrors of the law ovr the Young
mans head awhile. ard then returned the legal ten
der. Short-boy's friends had some idea of splicing
and ehastising bar-keep for his hardihood in daring
to lecture one of their namber, but concluded that
he carried too many guns Cor them, both mentally
and physically.
~ Ahwanetuuk, ':bi g indian much b:e,r with
his troop of red, men, slhte mcn, and souaws
showed here on the nth inst Town Talk vent
every body else went from the infant ;'mung and
puking in the nurses arms" TO the old man. with
his big manly voice tirn'ng again towards childish
treble, pipes and whistles in its sound - The hall
full to overHowirg that it WIS impossible for
good many to wi n 'ss thu performa nee We tried
il awhile-peepiDg one min ute over IA Iady's borpet
the next taking a squnt aroand some mans bat
who wasn't gentleman enough to take it off
punched now, severely IN the ribs by some pdig-
nant female whose crinoline was being smashed in
to the m osf inconceivable of shapes-then having
some boys shock head of hair thrust into our face
and eyes until We gave up in despair of ever seeing
that shoF, and turned 1onr I attention to another
rs. There was the little boys and girls with their
round chubby faces sprinkled all over with smiles
and exclamation points, pleased with a rattle
tickled wi th straw'the young man "sighing
like furnace" who IN bending over and gazing into
the eyes of some false but fair' one forget there
was such thing in existanee an indian show -
'ThOse eyes were heaven enough for him"-the
middle aged man unused to such sights who had
outgrown sentiment and busily intent on seeing
the show; his eyes protru ing from his head and
his mouth as wide open as it possibly could bs-
But the last whoop was sounded and the show was
out The Young f6lks clsa re4 out the hall and had
'festive" time among Themselves after the red
men had disappeared, which passed off most har-
moniously'
Eg, A great unwisldy mass of human flesh with
scarcely energy enough to keep himself out of the
fire. numbered around the streets all last week,
deavoring to p.OcuIe subscribers for lie .ture, A
few were gulled into subscribing. and on Thursday
night Union h II was illuminated, and the eminent
leetyrerstood Etxths door and Waited patientiy for
the twenty fve cen piecesto in but nary
come, and the "member of Convention - sutton
graduate-Yale,' - was forced deliver bis gre't
lecture upon the theological formation of the State
TO "beggarlv account of empty boxes" Unap-
preciated genius, go somewhere else and bore the
people! %DN H. 81
eY- ELDER Johnathan Melvin, an ordained pas
tor Of the Baptist petsnasion. sentenced to ten
days Imprisonment for vagrancy, by Esquire De-
witt Fridiv last. Religious fanatcism had
somewhat unsettled his intellect. and he had an
idea that he was appointed to 60 into the highway
and preach and get his living by "asking'' from
door TO door For years be has supported himself
in this way, but lattery on account of his beastly
habits people have objected to receive him, and
his mportunites becoming anything but meek and
lOwly, led TO his inca rceration.