North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-09-05
: Local and Personal.

Next Saturday will be good time TO cali On
the printer, Subscribe for the Democrat or pay up
arrearases, We hope our friends who may DO In
town will improves the opportunity
non,t Forget to come ana see the Great Me-
r.,sr;s and Circus at this place Saturday next.
The opportunity to see SO hne collection OF unlmas
NAV not occur again in years. Bring along the
GOOD omen and the little 'urs, and give them one
Say. of pleasure and sight seeing. ..... d.,
Hon, Heister Clymer, the Hon, Montgom-
cry Blair---and other distinguished speakers will
be present ut the Democratic Mass Meeting to be
heldat iunkhannock. on Tuesday the 18th inst.
Let the Democratic conservative, union loving citi
gems of the county, turn out en- naasse:
Circulate the Democrat. will not our read
ers take the pains to ask some one of their neigh
bors to subscribe for this paper If each of our
readers will send us just one name, there will be
more Democratic papers to read, more to lend, and
more good, resulting We kindly ask our readers to
aid ia the circulation of the Democrat, to get every
to subscribe, who is able to pay for it, and if
you meet men who too poor to pay for one, lend
it to him. ask him to SO nd it to his family, to his
brother taxpayers or send the names f such per-
sons and we will supply them. Let us all work to-
gether in the good Of dealing blows to the abo
lition disunion enemies of the country.
DIR Frankiin--in his autobiography, gives :
graphic account of his purchase, when boy, of q
musical instrument in, the shape of a whistle-how
he emptiei his pockets to the cove led przo-
how he went home making all sorts of aiseordant
sounds-how he eventually learned "that he had
paid to dear for his whistle In reading this story
we should bear in mind that the writer lived in the
city of Boston, and made his purchase more than
hundred years ago. Had be lived IN these times and
in this vicinity, he could have purchased anything
IN the shape of a musical instrument from a Grand
Piano, down to tin whistle. without incurring the
risk Of paying too dear for it. But then the world
would have lost the heneft of that great practical
Lesson which Franklin drew from his boyhood exper1-
enee. People, now -adays. who read the story and
profit by the lesson purchase all their musical instru-
msnts sheet music and everything in that line, at
the New Music store Of L. B. Powell, in the city of
Scranton.
Auzerne Democratic Convention The
Democracy Of Luzerne met at Wilkes-Barre, on
Tuesday of last week and placed in nomination the
following ticket ...-
For Congress. s.--Hon. Chas. Dennison.
associate Judges Thomas Collins, of Dunmore,
and Hon. George P. Steele, of Wilkes barre.
Assenbty.---D. s Koon, of Pittston, Capt. VIM.
Brennan, of Carbondale, and James McHenry, New
Columbia.
Recorder,- Charles Erath.
Register. Lynch,
rCommiSsioner.---W. w. Smith,
,Auditor,---B. D. Koons.
The Republican COnven which came off
at this place on Monday last, decidedly rich
affair both as to what it did and what it did'nt---
Want of space prevents from noticing It's doing
this week further than giving simple list of its
nominations which were follows:
.. For Congress, Ulysses Mercur
e. Representative, Jacob Kennedy,
60 g. Sheriff, r. W Bauatyne.
~. g. Prothonotary l. S Little
s-- " Register Recorder. D. Edwards
j" Treasurer, Chas. Harding.
Z" Commissioner, Chas, Frear,
- " Coroner G A Dann
I" Auditor T A. Miller.
The Circus--so. calIed-traveling under the
name, style and title of "The Great International"
on Saturday last came, and ''skedaddled."-
They came looking, about had anticipated and
advertised that they would they the smallest
crowd in this place at a circus and left,
every animal" Of them, with dropping caudal ap-
pendage. 1t began to dawn upon their obtuse minds,
for the first time. that there were such things as
Newspapers in these back woods. The idea didn't
strike them forcibly enough however to induoe WIS.,
it to the editor. Their clown declared us to be a
meaner man than himself; which, if within forty
rods of the truth establishes the fact that we are
mean enough for everything laid down in the "Pi-
rates Own Book" or, anything under heaven, ex
cept perhaps travelling with such caravan of sneak
thieves and mountebanks Of eouse we didn't at
tend Our devil-being imp of darkness -.did
in the evening, and more than confirmed our opinion
of the affair, Although moral sort of devil, and
Though accompane by little female angel of light
n nd beauty, he came home ''danging' and ''darn-
ing" only deluded (printer's) devil would dang
and darn at being fooled out of the last dollar in