North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-05-23
Local and Personal.

"Ice Cream," words which sound str.,..,.
considering the weather for the past few d.,
One day last week when the thernSuretor .,ood
little above the freezing point, VIZ were invited 10
psrtake of some very 6ne Ice Cream at Stemple,s
Saloon We accepted the invitation and ..partook.u
When the ice thaws out John proposes to make
enough to supply the town. Lovers of this delicious
erea my dish should not fail to call and hyit.
schoois.--Are we to have any schools !? - Who
are our school Directors7 Where are .hey7 Whs.
is done with school taxes? What about our maepis.
cent munifcent system Of education which costs the
taxpayers Of the State, halt million yearly q
Has it snmered down to sixty da, annual school
keeping" oy some ,impering half witted MIST
No answer expected.
TxaUIRHE
new Bakery.--The Landaeur Brothers, from
scranton have establish ed a bakery on Bridge
street, below T. M Bucks Grocery, where our citi-
zens can be furnished at all times with Bread Ria.
cult Rusk Rolls Cakes and Pies of the finest ouali
ty, at live and let live prices. Such nm establish
ment has long been needed at this place, and our
citizens should show their appreciation Of it BY ex
tending to it their patronage 'ss
The Bridges across the canal in. town are dis
graceful to somebody and dangerous to everybody
We are not much iufavor of a canal without watsr
ut would prefer it to su h insecure diispidatsj,
bridges We move to move the canal or move the
e'nal company in the matter of repairing their
bridges Who seconds the motion
John II Osterhout Esq, formerly OF tbi.
County, but for several years last a resident OF
Texas s a candidate, without opposition, for the
position of President, Chief Justice of the Coun
ty Of Austin John is q reconstructed" rebel and
surrendsrs gracefully to the powers that be-
'hfroSraphIc --Ppf C. D Blakeslee, late Of
E"stmans COmmerciai College, N. Y. is securing Q
class which he proposes to instruct in plain and or
bamen: al penmanship As far az we can Judge.
there is great room for improvement in this art
among all classes of our people We have many
graceful and elegant, dancers among as, but few
graceful an elegant writer's Both are desirable &C.
compl ishm. nts-thc latter, the more useful Ger
tainly one should neglect to acquire a neat and
legible style of writing. From specimens exhibited
to US We judge Mr. B. is master of the art. Hs is
certainly the talest specimen of teacher ws have
ever seen ..
Terms 50, fpr twelve lessons.
Go in Boys and Girls.
La Luck.--Eiward Proves. Esq, living near
Russell Hill in this County, met with an extraordi-
naTy streak of good luck getting span -
hcrses on Sunday night of this week shortly aft
er retiring and before his daughter had gone to
sleep, he was aroused by her, and told that two
men, who drove past ,he house, short distance.
with team, had stopped, lef, their team, and had
come back past the house and gone to his barn.
Nr Provost made hasty visit to the barn and
found them, with one of his horses oat Of the stall
and another nearly out. Of course he vetoed this
transaction, and the rogues-we think we are safe
in thus calling them male hasty retreat IN an
opposite direction from their or somebody slse's
team. After firing gun to add to the fright hs
hal given them, and securing his horses, he took
possession of the abandoned tenn which be found
had been kindly fed with hay by their drivers.
6ne large, we'll m ,tched span of dark. chestnut
colored horses, with white feet and white in face
rather old in years and apparently roadstsrs with
a lead cooyei light spring two horse truck wagon,
harness ami fixtures complete. Two satchsls
founl in the wagon, neither of which contained
much of value, or anything to identify the owners
except valentine, which was rose scented, gilt
edged, rcd-enveloped, anonymous oillet-doux, ad-
dressed to Alonzo d, Horton. Mainesburg. Tioga
Co. Pa. post-marked Covington Pa, Feb. lith,
1856 We mention this, that the writer whoever
she he, may know how basely her gentle AlonEo
treated her L,ve-lnes by running away and leaving
them dark hollow" to be captured ana afford
fool for criticism and gossip, by an unsympathiz-
ing pu lie; and that AlonzO. who it seems does not
care much for horse. and wagons Iasy call and
get his satchcl by proving property, payiag
charges &c