North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-11-01
TOWN TALK.
"1f there's a hole in a. your coats
rede ye tent it:
A chiels amang you taking notes,

chiels amang you taking notes,
And, faith, he prent it"
EY There hasn't much of anything that de-
mands particular attention occurred within the
week jnst past. There one or two sprees in one
of which a gentleman whose shape somewhat re-
sembles the name of the author of Hiawatha, being
Long fellow took leading part, highly edifying
gaping crowd of loafers and boys, by his ridicu-
lous antics. Saturday night young man went
rather deeper into the pictures than called for
But whiskoy does not have such a loud effect upon
him upon the generality of spreetes around here
He stands at the bar fills his skin full, and weaves
back and forth his tongue thickens up, articula-
tion becomes indistinct, and he stands. or rather
leans udcrous and helpless object, with all traces
of what might be gentleman completely obltera-
ted What an intense disgust he must have of him
self the next morning
There has been considerable of a stirring among
the would be bloods y" since last publication day.
Dire have been the anathemas showered upon
| Town Talks meddesome and impudent head
Noses, which nothing but the smell of whiskey has
affec tee for years, received the most hostile and
blood-thirsty shifts Town Talk must be squeched.
They would wait upon the edit and see if his pa
! per to be made the vehicle for conveying all
the vile scurrity of the bar-room into the family
| circle. Keep your tempers gentlemen. The best
way to "squelch" iown Talk is to give US no occa-
sion to pen sort of rod of correction
the transgression of your passions. Stop making
the nights hldeous with your drunken carousals.-
Stop degrading and destroy ing yourselves by
ciating with those vile reptiles in hu FORM who
| avpl III dap ~ fI,a CO. opJT
Talk will cease to trouble you. Your threats will
not d. particle Of good ,..-,.. -.. -
ET WON are considerable of an Institution
after all the Grabbed old bachelors may say to the
contrary. They have a humanizng and refining
tendency. They will take man that is careless
| and slovenly, nd before month of married life
has rolled by, have him look as sleek and clean as
new button with his neck tie in place and neatly
tied buttons all sewed on and general air of I'll
din ess about him to which he formerly a stran-
ger and the selfsats6ed and conscious air he has
| about him, and the manner of speaking of "My
wife" :" is partcula ry stunning. We have been no.
ticng this change come over one of our friends who
not long ago took unto himself rib and have also
observed the great improvement in his habits. All
| honor, say we, to the cause. There is q number
of young men laying around town sort of loosely,
that we would advise 10 "go and do likewise"
D Hasty Twombly spread what they called
q Polyorams of the War, before o crowd of the Gu
rious on Wednesday and Thursday evening last.
1t was evidently meant to represent fight of some
kind, but whether some Of the great battles of our
civil war, of the Crimean war, or a Tunkhannock
plug muss, we could not determine. Their closing
scene, Unnamed Heroes was good, and worth the
| price of admission /; the rest was q BORE