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North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-08-22
COURT PROCLAMATION

IXTHEkEAS, the Hon. WM ELWELL Presi
w dent Judge of the Court Of Common Pleas AMI
Court OF General Quarter Sessions Of the Peace, and
the President Justice of the Court of oyer and Ter
miner and General Jail Delivery. for the trial Of cap
ital and other offences for the twenty-sixth Judica
District of Penn'a J. Y. Smith nd n Fl. Wells Esqs
Associate Judges Of the Court Of Common Pleas and
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace. and ASSoci-
ate Justices of Oyer and Tcruincr AMI General jail
Delivery of the County of Wyoming, have by their
rrecept to me directed, ordered
A GENERAL COURT OF OYER AND TERMINEH
AND GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY.
t. be held at TunkhInnJck Monday the 10th day
Aug. A. D.. l766.
Notice is therefore hereby given to the Coroner, al
Justices Of the Peace AMI Constle within the Coun
ty of Wyoming tha; they be and appear in their pro-
per persons the time a al place above mentioned
with their rolls records nquisti0ns, examinations
recognizances and other rememhrances, to do those
things waich to their Offices in that behaireSpectye-
ly belong.
Notice Is also given that those who are bound by
recognizan,cs prosecute the prisoners that
shall lie in the jail Of Wyoming County, thatthey be
then and there t. prosecute them ~ shall be just
AIIIRA GAY,
She riff.
SheriT's OfHce,
Tunkhrnnock Mar % 1865
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JAIL BUILDING.

Sealed Proposals will b, received at the office o
the commissioners Of Wyoming County, in the Bo
rough of Tunkhaunock. unit Wednesday October 3
1856. at noon fer the furnishing Of materials
building and completing JAIL and SIERIFF's
dwelling. for the said county Of Wyoming.
Proposals will he received in two forms, to wit
One to include the old Jail and the material there
in the other without each lid specify whether or
not the old jail and its materials are nclpded IN
said bid.
The commissioners of SAID county reserve the
right to rel iect any or all bids if it be deemed to
the interest sf sail county to 10 80.
Security will he required for the full and faithful
performance of TIA" contract
Plans AMI specifications an he seen At any time
at the Office Of the said commissioners.
Commissioners eff i.e. EDWIN STEPHENS
Tunkhannock Aug. : HIRAM B0DLE,
18th 1866 LEW Is COOK.
Commissioners of wy c.
Attest Wm I TERRY. Clerk.
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Good ButIdinqs,
WANTED. $27.6Oper day.

AGENTS wanted, ladies and gentlemen, in every
County in the United States to sell the Ink Powders
of the American Ink Company. The powder sells
for forty cents per package, and will make ink enough
to fiji fifty bottles the size usually retaied at ten
cents per bottle A smart agent can sell gross of
it "a day, and clear S27 so The ink he made
from the powder in three minutes in common boiling
water. 1t perfe black ink, the best in tie
world. 1t flows easily. does not corrOde the pen
particle, never gums up is not injured by freezing.
AMI its color will last for Every family in
America will buy it, as package will last family
70 years, and ink be made in small quantities
wantei With each gross we send a thousand
circulars with testimonials from eergymen lawyers
teachers merchants commercial colleges, editors,
&c, and the agents name on the bills, Only one
person will be made agent for a county. The first
sending $50 for gross of the powder will receive
it by return express together with thousand cir
ulars and the right to sell in the county he she
d. signates If others send for the same county, the
money will be returned to them of expense To
make sure had better designate several counties
either of which he she will take. Send for trade
list and circulars if you dare the risk of waiting
or send the money for gross Letters addressed to
the Mayor Postmaster. cashe Of the banks, the
express agents this city will show that the bust
is hOnOrably and squarely conducted. An INK Pow
der will be sent by mail to any address, free OF
charge, on receipt of forty cents.
Address, wiring your name, town. county and
State distinc ~.
AMERICAN INK COMPANY, Manchester, N H
THOMAS W. LANE.
Clerk for the Company and Special Agent
y5n46 .. -f at F.
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TO CONSUMPTIVES.

The advertiser, having been restored to health in
a few weeks 10y very simple remedy, after having
suffered for several years with severe lung afec-
tion and that dread disease, Consumption is anx-
ious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means
of cure.
To all who desire ii, he will send a copy of the
prescription used free of charge with the direction
for preparing and using the same, which they wilt
find SURE CURE tor CoNsUMPTIoH, ASTHMA, Bros
CHITTs, COUGHS COLDS and all Throat and Lung A.
tections The only object of the advertiser in send
ing the Prescription TO benefit the afflicted, and
spread information which he conceives to he invau-
able, and he hopes every sufferer will try his remed
as II will cost them nothing, and may prove bless
ing.
Parties wishing the prescription, FREE, by return
mail, will please address.
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON.
Wiiliamsburgh, Kings Co., NswYor K
v5n2l-lyear.
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The DAILY AGE contains the LATEST 1SrBLLl-
eEEcE FROM ALI PARTS OF THE WORLD, with articles
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,o,7STY FOR SOLDIERS.

The act of Congress July 28th 1866, allows slOO,
ira mount, to soldiers and to soldiers discharged
o tbe account of wounds to Widows Minor children
or Parents of any soldier who died the service,
Papers prepared to procure bounties by
w. NJ PIATT
Attorney at Law
Tunkhanuo X Pa
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To Contractors.

Sealed proposals will he received until Monday the
2Cth inst AT o'clock p. NJ, for building PREsBr-
TERRAIN CHurcH IN TUNKHANNoCK the material to
be either Brick Stone.
The plan aud Specifications can he seen at the
store of Mr. Daniel Wright ip Tunkhannoek after
the 18th inst. Information be obtained also OF
G. W. Lung Esq, Scranton.
Building Committee, 1bEAHAM \ H HAAS
o. NJ OSTERH0UT,
Tuukhannock, Aug. 7. 1865
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Office.

Whereas certain Judgment note dated Feb l6
1866 for one thousand dollars with interest &c.
against Theron Detrick taken from my posses
sior about the 9Th day of July. 1866. by some
person persons. All persons hereby forbidden
from purcha si sid note and said Theron Detrick
is hereby forbidden TO pay said note TO any persons
except myself, my executors, administrators as
signsr.
GEORGE DIETRICH.
Falls, Wyo. Co Pa, July I, 1866.
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G3AZET 0GMODA
AT MEHOOPANY,

AT MEHoOPANY,
VIII commence in the new School Building, on
Wednesday the 5th Vi Sept. 1906,
TERMS.
Tuition in Common English Branches, S4.oO
" Higher 5,UU
French German and DR. wing. each 200
And for InciGenal-, sum not exceeding oO
All bills to be settled at the middle of the term
and scholars who attend school only part Of term,
will be chaIged by the week, 10 cents for Common
and so cents for Higher Eng, Branches.
F. VOSE.
Nehoopany, Pa, July 25, I966---v5u50
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THEMAsoy HAMLrN.CABINET OPGANs forty
different styles adapted to sacred and seuars, music
for So dollars 70 600 each Fifto-one gold or silver
medals or other first premiums, awarded them
Illustrated Catalogues free Address, MASON &
HAMLIN Eoeton, or MASON Brothers, New York.
y5n5lY
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Special Notices
EStTay.

Came to the enclosure of the SUB SUBSCRIBER. @ IN
North Branch Township, July 5'h, looo, oaomI .od
to &C come and prove property, pay charges ana 'ake
her away, D,q,pTCE STAFFORD
N,rtb Branch, Aug 9-h 1906
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nkhanuo3k Pa.
NOTICE.

All persons indebted to account Of READY
p,np CLOTHING are notified to call on Geo. S. Tut
ton ESQ with whom the accounts are left for set
tlement-an nd sett the same. By doing they
Will certainly save costs,
s, BALDWIN
A. q. STARK.
TunKharnock Aug 7, lo66 Agents.
ycDl IF
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WHISPERS! WHISPERS !!

DR. L. 0 MoNTEZ COrr0id the greatest stimu la
for in the world, will force Whlskefs or MuSt1ches
to grow on tn G smoothest face chin known
to fail sample for ruel sent free to any ore desr-
Gus of testing its merits. Address, REEVES & Co.,
rs Nassau St, \.
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six months, S4 80 !; three months 81, SO; for any
less period, at the rate of ONE DOLLAR per month";
Payment required Invariably in adrancc. Pos
tage On the Daily, thirty cents per uarer or one
dollar and twenty cents per annum, if prepaid.
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GET STN~ PER YEAR!

$l.SOO We PEE Eaat aa.h;. 1EsR' sS
erywhere to sell our IMPROVED S2G Sewing Mpchines
Three new kinds. Uuder and upper feed. Warran-
ted five years. Above salary or large commissions
paid. The ONLY machines sold in the United States
for less than $40, which fully licensed by Howe
Wheeler j. Wilson, Grover Baker, Singer Co.
and Bachelor. All other cheap Machines are in
Engagements and the seller user liable to ar
rest fine and imprisonment. Circulars fr e. Al
dress or call upon Shaw Clark, Biddeford, Maine.
y5n2l-lpear.
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ERRORS OF YOUTH.

gentleman who suffered for years from Nervous
Debility Premature Decay. and all the effects Of
Youthful nliscrction, will tor the sake of suffering
humanity. send free to all who need it, the recipe
and directions for making the simple remedy by
which he was cured Sufferers wishing to profit by
the advertisers experience, do 50 by addressing
JOHN b OGDEN,
No. Il Chambers ST., New York.
y5n2I-Iyear.-S NJ. =. 4 Co.
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The Publishers of TIE AGE respectfully call at.
tento to the Daily and Weekly issues of their pop
uIar Journal;
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Y THE WEEKLY AG E will be the great CAM
paign paper of the Democratic Conservative Party
of Pennsylvania aud will earnestly support the
President in his Patriotic efforts in behalf of Unlon
Restoration and Constitutional Liberty.
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The WEEKLY AGE will be COMPLETE ooMpES-
DUN OF THE NEWS OF TIE WEEK, and besides the
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SheriT's Othce,
Tunkhsnnock Mar. Is, 1866
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-03

j B. Lippincott & Co. send us "The History of a
Little Ragamuihn," by Greenwood, which Harper
& Brothers have just published.
We find on our able pamphlet copy of q lec-
ture by DIR. A. d. MUpe on the "Choera," delivered
before the Homeopathic Medical College, in which
the disease treated of in manner at once indica'
ting thorough study of the subject, and suggesting
new and, doubtless, excellent ideas.
The New York Herald is to be enlarged on the
LIST of July. 1t will appear sixteen-paged paper
nearly as large the London Times, and larger than
any newspaper in the United States Mr.. Hudson,
late managing editor of the Herald is now in Europe
arranging for mail and telegraphic correspondence
from every capital OF the Old World.
Dr. R. } Trail, retires from the editorship Of
Herald of Heath next month.
The Charleston South Carolinian for April g.
speaks of the National Lyrics" of Whittier az "a
series of most vigorous bursts of mind gone mad-a
cold yet fanatic, fierce yet feeble and fantastic mind
utterly undOne by political crotchets of which he
knew nothing and Of social fancies in which he can
only roar, not soar-sPlutter, not sing harsh crude
fierce anatieal frenzles, in which drunkenness OF
mind is mistaken Tor ITS inspiration-in which the
author exhibits only the ntoXcation of the prestess
with none of the divine intimahoDs of the god"
Charles F. Brown (Artemus Ward) has com
menced legal proceedings for the purpose of putting
| an injunction upon tue sale of a work recently
issued in New York under the title of "Betsey JAM
i Ward, husband Of Aitemus." The book in ques'
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-05-11
faEin and aluMselola.


- The oat is tho best grain fir feeding
Horses. Is s,reng gthcns the muscles instead
of producing Fat. IL il not heating Hence
for working animals II Is highly priced, aud
in some countries, the meal as common
food, is extensively used by the laburing
classes. Il will keep well, hot being liable,
Ike Indian oorn, 10 hoat or become bitter
from tho rancidily Of lis Of.
The oat crop is, likewise, valuable for
eoiling, especially for mitch cows. | is it
for this purpose ai a period of the summer
when erase Is apt 70 be scant OF at least
driod up. A dairy region is generally a
good one Tor tlie oat crop, for il ruccccds
best in cool, moist climate, and on some.
what heavy land. 1t aflorde large quantity
OF feed 10 the acre, and when designed to
be used for soilng, il should bo sown at
several periods, so as to have a succession
vt crops. When the crop is grown for the
grain chiefly, it should invariably bc cut
early, before tho straw is wholly ripened
for tho grain begins TO fdll from The head.
Cut in thls way aud wcl cured lie straw ia
valuable for fodder
infour climate oats should ho sown only
they can hardly be got into the ground too
soon 10 receive tho benefit vt the spring
rains, aud IN grow during tho cool weather
which prooedes midsummer Ths uat plan |
grows SLOW previous TO the period off
shooting into Lead Nutrimont Is 0ccumn |
lated IN the roots, whence II is sent mto
the stalk aud head in tho latter stages Of |
its growth. Wheh the head begins to shoot
its growth is extremely rapid, and il every.
thing has boen favorable up to this period,
there is little danger then OF harm result.
ing from dry weather. Wet wonther N d
rust are far more liable to iHinre the crop.
Broadcast sowing, if the ground is sun
clently rough to ensure good covering, is
equal TO drilling. We boli ", likewise, in
rolling From three to four budhcls Of
seed per acre are gctcrally used. aud cx
perience teaches that il is about the righ
quantity It il impossible to say which OF
the several varieties is best, but II is gen
orally considered profitable to change seed
often, and il is svisahle to procure it from
Il considerable Distance and rom adllTont
sol Of land Tho cat plant is Vigorous,
feeder, having a power similar 70 rank
weeds OF appropriating nuiriment in thu!
soil. II sonds It's roots into the subsoil to
a greater extent than barley, aud il docs
not seem TO be SO favorable a crop ~ the
latter, to immediately prsce le whea.--Ra
"dl .3ep forker.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-05-11
Get the implements Ready.

As the season for thcir use is at hanl /.
all farm and garden tools aud implements
should now be put in order without delay.
Here is a good item on the subject from
friend Arnold, of Illinois. Though the
Westis especially mentioned, the advice is
good for ali sections. Mr.. A. writes;
Now is good time in the year to got
out the tools to be used in the coming sea.
sons work. After putting them in repair
cover them with coat of paint il casts
but little compared with the amount that
may be saved thereby. Nearly all tool,
used on the Western praires are exposcd
10 the weather through the summer season
and many for the whulo year 1t farmer
cannot aiibrd shelter for his tools. tho least
he ought TO do is to keep them well painted
The wagon whoels aud tongue ought TO be
painted every year, No matter il the
farmer connot stripe them quite as nice as
the professional painter, 1t viii do as mucl
good, and stripes are of very little show
when the wheels are covered with mud, a,
they usually are on the prairies.' I-.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-05-11
Onr Strap S9OOk.
THE ARMY DLUE.

old coat we've seen right stirring times.
You've been friend to mo most true,
Aud OF IN sunny Southern clmes
You've kept my body from the dew
When night came on and stars shone bright
DO sure, old friend, hugged you tight.
On the lone picket. YOU and
Have often stood The dark night through ;
The cold wind passed mo needless by,
As stood vol wrapped up IN YOU,
And wished The hours far more brief
Between me and the next "relief"
For The bullets wlished DER our heads,
And now aud then, they hit NJ too
The "JOhnnies" didn't like MS I" Feds
Indeed, they hated armv-buo;
Aud though 'gninst rain III pit your wOof
Old friend, you're not quito mimic proof.
Strapped tight upon my kuapsack,
Have carried you for trcsome miles,
Halt tempted Oft to throw you by
When skies above wore checry smiles,
Aud woaried out with gun and pack,
marched along the dusty track.
But bright days cannot always last,
So still ! clung 10 you old, Bluei
Aud altor, in the piercing blast
Some boys" looked enyiotfsly at you,
As round In bivouac we sat,
Aud heard the rain fall pt-a-pat.
We hnvo lain beneath lhd'oppn sky,
Within n Southern prison pen,
And there I've heard The bitter cry
or slowly dying, fnmishcd mon;
Poor starving wretchos, but still true
God bless them Ito tho army bluol
So long kept you that At Last
foolish iondncss grow for you,
! really had no heart to cast
Away, my coat Of army blue;
Aud said, ri take you home, to bo
Hereafter cherished tendcrly.
You laugh, Pm suro, Mt my old coat,
Ragged and useless, hanging there
! know It's hardly worth q groat,
Aud qdiie unfit for man To wear
Yet dcnror far It's To my eyes
Than any garment meath the skies.
Upon the breast you 500 stain,
Bright blood it was that gave the hue
II poured that day like summer rain,
AMI dronched my coat of army blue,
For in these arms, that fearful day,-,
Out Colonel's life ebbed fast away.
lie talked Of hom, the night before,
OF faces dear he soon should see
Our time wia out in one week moro
And evnry heart beat mcrrilv,
Thinking again huT soon thoy'd stand
On their dear, rugged Northern land.
] think | said those arms s-nh well
Some time ago ! hal pair
But then fragment OF she'll
Has given me now ono sleeve 10 spare
See whore it cut its fell way through
Ny poor old coat of army blue.
A relic Of the fearful past,
a memory of toll and pain,
OF freedoms fight we'll done Rt last
The noble army Of the slain
What thoughts come o'er me as | view
My woll-worn coat Of army blue
Almost ms useless now as you
A battered crippled, sckly weight,
Whose years Of life are very few
! still keep up heart as light
AS when ! donued you, bright and new,
And showed with pride my army blue.
Aud while life boats within this breast,
Old friend, You'll not hang far from me
Aud when at last | 20 to rest
Perhaps some one will kindly see,
That he who iuught this vile war through,
De buried with his army blue.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-05-11
NInguets.

To make cast-irou maguot, take a smooth
bar OF oast.iron, place the middle OF il To
tho north pole of magnet aud draw il to
the end, repeating the stroke always from
the middle 70 tho end aud rubbing in the
same way each time. Then place the mid
die OF the bar TO the south pols Of the mag
net and rub toward the opposite end OF the
bar, repeating as before, Magnet can be
made in this way Of steel as well as OF
cast-iron, aud may be in the form OF hors
shoe or star as well as a straight bar.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-05-11
How i Raise EARLY Potatoes.

Thoroughly plow the ground as oarly as
the spring will permit, put il n uics condl.
tion, aud strike out the rows the slmo as cor
corn, three feet apart, and shallow. Then
drop the seed about fifteen inches apart
and cover il with hoe about one inch
deep is sufficient to keep ont frost, adl the
heat Of the sun on the surface soon sprouts
the potatoes.
generally grow buckeyes for early pota,
iates. There may be earlier varieties, bu,
not so good. Last season used them con.
tinually from tho olghth of June, aud that
was before there was any potatoes III
market except few from Norfolk,
don't want any long manure about my
potatoes wou'd sooner have none. THIS
plan of raising potatoes ia equally good fol
late ones, on stiff or wet land Cor Ger
manio,VA Iele9rGpa.