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North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

A GENTLEMAN AND Two LADIES GO
OVER THE MILL DAM AT PH1LLIPsBURG.--
A short time ago, during the high waters
a gentleman unaccustomcd to the use of
oars, whilst on visit at Mr.. Benz Hulse',
residence, ventured out upon the Waikiki,
above the Phillipsburg Milldam, in a skiff,
IN company with two ladies, one of them
Mrs, Hulse, the name of the other we have
not learned. When fairly out upon the
stream the current was found to be so
strong as to entirely battle the efforts of
An inexperienced oarsman to head the
boat up stream, and presently it was watt
ed rapidly downward towards the falls,
and passing it, the boat turned over, pre-
cipitating the parties in the angry waves
some ten or twelve feet below the top of
the mill dam. The gentlemen managed
to get to the shore, but the two ladies'
were rapidly carried down stream by the
water, Mrs. Hulse most of the time under
water, but her companion was more for
tuuate, and was able to keep her head
most of the way above water. In this
condition they tioatcd down to the vicinity
of the Phillipsburg Bridge, some two or
three hundred yards below,the falls, into
shoal water; At this point Mrs. Hulse
was rescued, in drowning condition, by
Mr. John Mead. who had witnessed the
concurrence from the mill door, while Mr..
George White, plunging into the stream
from the opposite river bank, performed
the same friendly office for the
other exhausted and drowning lady.
Mrs. Hulse, however, suffered most,
and, for a time gave way to fainting
first from violent purging and vomiting.
The whole party may congratulate them.
selves upon their rescue, and will proba-
bly, long remember their boat excursion up
| on the WaIIkill.--Ronesd Monitor.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

To PURIFY A S1NK.-ln hot weather it
is almost impossible to prevent sinks be-
coming foul unless some chemical prepar-
alton is used. One pound oficopperas dis
solved in four gallons of water, poured
over sink three or four times, will COM
pletely destroy the offensive odor, AS a
disinfecting agent to scatter around premises
affected with any unpleasant odor, nothing
is better than mixture of four parts dry
ground plaster of Paris to one part of fine
charcoal, by weight. All sorts of glass YES.
sells and other utensils may be effectually
purified from offensive smells by rinsing
them with charcoal powder, after the gross
er impurities have been secured off with
sand and soap. ..
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

ET The Cincinnati EaguIers keeps it
before the people that 100000 Radical
votes have ZIG members of Congress.
while 100000 Democratic votes have
but sixty members. Well. what of it p
7Smes
There is thin about it:
l. 1t stops, or should stop, the assertion
of ignoramuses, that the people of the
country are opposed to the Presidents re-
storation policy. They are NOT, bat a mo-
jority of a million are in favor Of it.
2. 1t shows that the pretended req
resentatives OF the people, no longer repre-
sent their will, but fagrantly misrepresent
it.
8. 1t intimates that there is something
rotten in Denmark something that must
be corrected or else we must abandon all
claim to be cons idered a country under
Democratic inststutions;a 90 ~
A. ItissPretty conchsife evidence bat
our government, as alHpresent administer.
though nomihally a government of the
msjority-is big swihdle, managed by
and for the benefit of the few, at the cost
of the many.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

ca The Judiciary Committec-that is,
the Impeachment Committee--have been
taking the testimony of the employees
around the White House as to the Presi
dent s personal habits, and especially as to
his abstemiousness. 1t is reassuring to
learn from dispatch in the Boston 7ran-
script that one of abe employees ''swore
that he never knew the President to take
a glass of liquor since he occupied the
White House" Now, we dou't like that
phrase "glass of liquor" 1t is not sufi.
ciently definite. II he never took glass
of liqnor, did he ever take mug of beer /?
Let the Committee 60 into this matter
thoroughly, and clear it up. What the
country wants is precise information as to
what the President drinks.-Er.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

BILLINGS PHlLosoPHY.--I want 70 bet
'sHree dollars that 40 man matched
himself against The devil but what he got
beat. - ~
fsAin hi,fi you strike lows The man
who undertakes to jump three hundred
and seventy five feet ahead. will certainly
make o good try. So 49,
never knu man whoswas alwus anx-
US tew repent of his sins, before he had
committed them, who didn't want the
sharpest kind NV watching.
never.bet emmy stamps on the man
who is alwas telling what he would have
did if he had been thare. have notised
that this kind never get thare.
: Faith don't appear to me to be.any-
thing moEe-tkan tip-top~ good. sense ;.and
the faith That isip thus world qnyw won't
keep a man from falling TO- the bottom. Of
a well if he lets 60 of the curb to spit on
his hands.
When get to not having emmy good
luck, it does seem to me that kan have
more Of it than any man l ever knew, and
not half try; [ suppose it seems just so to
you, my friend, don't it!
kant think of emmy talent now, that is
SO apt to descend from father to son, un.
tarnished, as the gift of exageration.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

-s More About the JEFF Davis DiM@MAse,
The Portland Argue publishes the fol
lowing:
am no admirer Of jeff Davis; I am 6
Yankee born between Saccarappa and Cor.
ham Corner, am full of Yankee preiudlces
but I think it wicked to lie even about
him, or, for that matter, about the devil
was with the party that captured JEFF
Davis, saw the whole transaction from its
beginning. Inow say, and hope that you
will publish it, that Jefferson Davis did
not have on at the time he was taken, any
garment such as is worn by women. He
did have over bis. shoulders water proof
article of clothing something like "Have.
lock-" 1t was not in the least concealed.
He wore hat, and did not carry pail OF
water on his head, nor carry pail, bucket
nor kettle in any way.
To the best ofmy recollection, he car
ried nothing whatever in his hands,
His wife did not tell any person that her
husband might hurt somebody if he got
exasperated. She behaved like a lady,
and he as gentleman, though manifestly
he was chagrined at being taken into Gus
tody. Our soldiers behaved like gentle
men, as they were, and our officers like
honorable, brave men; and the foolish
stories that went the newspaper rounds of
the day, telling how woIfshly he deported
himself, were all false. l know what |
am writing about. l saw Jefferson Davis
many times while he was staying in Port
land several years ago. and think that I
was the first one who recognized him at
the time of his arrest
When it was known that he was certain
y taken, some newspaper correspondent
| knew his name at the time-fabricated
the story about the disguise in an old wo-
mans dress. I heard the whole matter
talked over as a good joke, and the officers
who knew better, never took the trouble
to deny it. Perhaps they thought that the
Confederate President deserved all'the
contempt that could be put him, I think
so, too, only would never perpetrate a
fasehood that by any means would be-
come history.
And father, | would never SANDER a
woman who has shown so much devotion
as Mrs. Davis has to her husband, no
matter how wicked he is or may have
been,
I defy any person to find single officer
or soldier who was present at the capture
Of JEFF. Davis, who will say upon honor
that he wassdisguised in woman's clothes,
or that his wife acted in any way unlady-
like or unladyIike or undignifed on that
occasion. 90 for trying him for bis
crimes, and if he is found guilty, punish
ing him. But | would not be about him
when the truth will certainly make it bad
enough. JAMES "a. PARKER,
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26
'Ehe Bridge.

The rebuilding OF the bridge across the
river, at this place, which it was hoped
would be commenced at an early date in
the season, so as to insure its completion
this year, it is feared may be delayed un-
til too late for such a result Some of our
citizens, especially those on the other side
ofthe river, who should be more directly
interested in it, than any other class, seem
to exhibit strange apathy in regard it
But few of them have come forward to
subscribe to the stock.
BY taking advantage of the liberal Of
fer made by the bridge company a few
weeks since, which is still kept good by
them, more than one third Of the cost of
new and original bridge can be saved to
the stockholders. In publishing that Of
fer we then endeavored to prove and think
we did prove to all who gave the subject
their candid consideration, that the stock
would be better paying investment to
monied men than any other legitimate use
of their money. The advantages and con.
veniences, to all, of bridge at this point
in view of the speedy completion Of the
Rail Road, and the resulting increase to
the value of all kinds of property arising
from both these improvements-should
furnish sufficient incentive to all proper
ty owners within many miles of it, to secure
its prompt rebuilding.
1t requires but little reflection, for any
farmer on the west side ofthe river, whose
nearest point to the Rail Road and to mar
ket will be this place, to see that good
bridge here would make his property far
more valuable, either to sell or to keep
than without it. We believe there is
enough money slowed away in old stock
ing legs, and in Old musty money-drawers,
Low worse than useless to its owners al.
most within the sound of the voice of the
luckless wight, who by the half hour hal
loos, "Over! Over! Over !! TO build
the bridge. This money should be drag
ged forth from these hidden recesses and
made to do its mission in this moving
world of ours. Certainly every man who
has any of it and whose business or pleas
ure requires him to cross the river at this
point, would do well to invest enough in
the bridge to balance bis expenses for tolls
To a tradesman mechanic or business
man hers-no matter how small his bust
ness may be, it should require no argu
ment to prove that the bridge would not
only be benefit to him in his business,
but would add greatly to the value of his
property.
Ifsll The people interested in this matter,
would do what they can in aid of it, large
subscriptions by any one or more individ-
uals would not be required. The tolls
could be put and kept at reasonably low
rates; to avoid the too common and some.
times just complaint of extortion by soul
less corporation.
10 presenting this subject again to the
consideration of the people of our County
and Town we have no personal ends to
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

- 1t is intimated that the reason the Pre-
sident was not impeached was because Ben
Wade would have been his successor, thus
standing in the way of colfax and half a
dozen other greedy aspirants. 1t is gen.
orally understood that if Ben once got in
he couldn't be cot out during life.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

SMALL Pox.--The people of Danville
are unduly excited over the fact that the
Small Pox has broken out in that place
The Borough authorities have issued a
proclamation forbidding the assembling of
pnblic gatherings The schools, and even
the churches have been closed. Some
thirty or more cases had been reported up
to Saturday last but only one had proved
fatal, ,--Berwick Gezette.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

the people of this city, and, in fact, of the
4Go@menwealth,s are dae~to the Ghief~Uf
Police, Bernard Campbell, and officers o.
Ter and Black, for the arrests made, and for
the prompt discovery of facts, which, we
hope, will eventually lead to the punish
ment'of the guilty parties.--Pat. d. Union.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

A Gentleman who suffered for years from Nervous
Youthful iniscretion. will for the sake of suffering
humanity, send free to all who need it the recipe
and directions for making the simple remedy ~
which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit oy
the advertisers experience, can do so by addressing
in perfect confidence,
JOHN B, OGDoN, "a osdafstrsst New Y0'A
ySn40
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

A negro, told that Congress was going
to give land to darkies, said "Land rs
free, and don't want no land. rs gwine
to git worms and 60 fishin.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

wsAn Ohio editor had q new shirt
collar presented him, and he is now wait
ing for some one to give him shirt.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

subserve, no motives except those which
should iuhuenceteyery one.sinterested,in
the success and prosperity of the whole
people,
We most earnestly hope there may be
no further hesitancy Of delay in this most
important and desirable Improvement. !
The Books are now open toreceive SUBJ
scriptions in amount large ar small, as may
best suit the convenience and many ofthe
subscribers. ALI are invited to take stock
which cannot fan to be remunerative.
There should be no further delay, if we
expect to have the bridge built this season.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

tax en- at the highest market rates in exchange for
Goods or Cash at the option of the seller,
H. N. SHERMAN,
I, B. LATHRoP,
Tunk Pa. Apr. l6 1867.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

Are now opening o large stoclkot
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-06-26

-. More About the JEFF Davis Disguise, -.
The Portland Argue publishes the fol-
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-12-25
JohastOnyiIIe.

EDITOR CHRoNICLE:-We feel that
your invitation for news from the -espec
tive towns should be accepted.
The "whisky traffic." thanks to the
court, has about ceased in our town. n
sobriety reigns. Great efforts for moral
and Intellectual improvement are being
put forth in our midst this winter. A
regular old fashioned revival is progress
at the Methodist Church in the east part
of town, known as Mt. Pleasant But
with what success we are not informed
The meetings are conducted by Rev. Mr..
HodgkInson, the pastor.
Our district schools are all in operation
and going off satisfactorily; most of them
are in charge of lady teachers. The
young people of the town have organized
q literary society, meeting weekly at the
Town Hall. 1t promises q pleasant and
profitable season to all connected with it,
and is an Institution which should exist in
every town. A singing school at the
Centre, taught by Dr.. Mayhem, is anoth-
er feature, showing the enterprise of u
young folks. The splendid sleighing that
we are enjoying, gives o great imoetus to
to these respective meetings, and added to
this, the long winter evenings, we are in
a fair way for much enjoyment the pres
ent winter. Business matters are as quiet
here as elsewhere, and every one is settling
down to the convection that we are TO have
a dull time, financially, for some time to
come.
The e~nterprisihg young firm of Hol-
comb & Langley, in the mercantile bust :
ness, as successors to T. L. Finney, Esq,
are doing a good business and deserve 10
meet with large success.
There are many rumors that there is to
be q Station built at johnson Summit
next season. How rue this may be none
but the a. s. G. W. R. r. know; there
fore we wait developments. z.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-12-25
CIeveIand WholesaIe msrket

MONDAY EVENING. Dec. q 1867.
FL0UR-XX red from No. 2 wheat S1l,509
l2.25: Xxx redfrom No / wheat $13.009l3.50=-
Xxx. white $l4.N@l4.50 Xxx spring SlO.50@Il.
Blekgheat Flour Ss.5O9l0.OO. Rye Flour S.
WHEAT-DuI. salss7 cars No 1 red winter
at 500 from store; No i Milwaukee spring
held at 3. 15a4.20 in car lots.
C0Rh-Quiet and steady; sales 200 bu new
No q ISL 2 tron stors; car ears AT goo Of
State at Sc from store.
DRESSED HOGS-ContinueH in liEht receipt
and dullat 74asHc for choice. dividing on 200
P0RK-In moderate demand and Unchanged.
Sales 40 bbls Mol mess. city packed, at $22,00-
No 2 do $2l.0 Claar S24.00; Prime mess 5000.
LARD-City-rsndsred in moderate trade de-
mand and steady; sales l500 lbs at l3al31<c in
tieress and frkins ; country-readered lIkall1E
BUfTek-In moderate local demand and
steady. Choice Western Reserve S6aS3cs COM
CHEESE-Duli and steady Al 11915c for good
to choice dairy and factory.
DRIED APPLES-Quiet at 6aSc for old and
new, packages included
GREEN APPLES-Quist at $2.OO@s,OO, ae-
cording to quality,
sEEDs-QuieI. Clover held at $7.25; limo
thy held az SAG Flax $2,25@2.S.
POTAT0ES-Quiet and steady at S5ag0c for
Peaehblowsi in car lou; 95ea$1.O0 from store
81 per bu and 500 per bbL-
BEANS-In fair demand. 6rm at $S,25a3.0
dunn.
-TALLow-Quiet and steady at 9La1Cc for
city and country rendered
FEATHERS-In fair demsnd at s0a95e. &C.
cording to quality.
LIME-Water Lime, Akron and Osuego,
steady at 500 per Dbl. White Lime, CleVe-
land and Fremont. $3.50 per Dbl.
PLASTER--In good demand and firm. Ala
b1ster white $500 from store; PowelPs $1,000;
Alabaster ealeinsd $500 per Dbl; PoWell's do
$500
~SALT---Stsady and firm at sS.5 for Fine and
Coarse--Leddsr
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-12-25

On Saturday last, q frightfuI accident
took place at a saw mill IN Cherry Valley,
by which Mr.. AMI LOWE, lost his life
The Mill is one of Blandy's Portable
Mills, and had been recently set up q lit
tie north of Steele's Corners. In the
gearing, was a belt tightener, hung to the
collar beams of the shed, which beams
were spiked up. At noon on Saturday,
two of these collar beams to which the
tightener was attached fell across the
main belt running to the saw, while Mr..
Lowe was measuring a board the full
length of the log from the Jaw. The belt
carried the beams forward, sweeping him
along with them onto the saw, and throw
ing him beyond it, soma fourteen feet
Both his arms were Gu: of, the left one in
three places, besides bad cuts on the head
and one thigh. He lived till Sunday
morning about nine o'clock, retaining his
consciousness to the last, though suffering
great agony. Both arms were amputated
on Saturday afternoon by Drs. Hawley,
Fricker and Gibbs; but his internal inju-
ries were too great, to allow any hope of
recovery.
Mr.. Lowe was q native of Cherry VAL
ley, about thirty years of age, and highly
respected among his aequaintances-Ash-
tabuLo Sentinel, Dec. is.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-12-25

81 AmsEg the many awsrds Of Firsl Prizs
Gold Medals ct tha Paris Expedition, ttoo only
were Fiven to manufsotuTers of Organs. The
recipisnts wers Messrs- MEcELtK 4 ScHuT. Of
France and Belgium, for large organs. who also
received the decoration of the Lesion Of Honor.
and Messrs. ALExAEDRE 4 Son, OF Ferris. Tor
The hsrmoniums Of Alexander organs" Of
the latter house. have had . world-vide noto-
riety for many years, but they have meyer OBJ
tanned popularity in the United States or ac-
count Of their loud and reedy quality of tone.
yet the inteTnal mechanism II very Ere and dl-
rable, and has been greatly commended BY all
who have inspected these instruments.
Competent and disinterested judges who are
we'll informed IN relation to the merits Of rsed
DREAMS mRnufacvred in Europe as well as In
this country, and who have carefully examined
IN AHERTcAT ORGANS, manufactured by Messrs.
s. ID. e II. W. Smith, Of Boston, have pro
nouncsd them unexeelled even By the " Alex
andre Organ" in the beauty and perfection of
the internal F~0fkRsnship, while in the quality
OF tone, whether soft. smooth or powerful, in
variety Of c~omhinationso o. delicate expressive
effects, they have been adjudked far superioT.
though they we're not on exhibition 'at thePArR
Exposition,
Ne Learn that tbs new Masonic Temple is to
be furnHhed With tpo 81 these nnriYalled in
BtrHnaen6 which ars now IN process Of eonstruc-
t1on.-Roa0n Journal dee25-2t
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-12-25
what Happeaed to an EaItoT

The employees of the CHRoSIOLE Office,
as the evidence ELECTED fully proves, en-
tered into q conspiracy, afew weeks since,
10 victimlze It's ~unsuspicio1s and ~conHding
editor and proprietor. By means of some
very clever management they carried
$ their scheme to a successful issue on Mon
day evening, on which occasion they
closed their a'columns," '1ocked Up" the
editors form, put him t. "press" sad
made an impression, by informing him
that he had been adjudged deserving.a
.e'canelng." After the first shock of sur
prise had subsidized, we discovered ourself
confronted by u foreman. Mr.. Sherman,
who held in his hand an elegant ebony
cane, which he said he was authorized to
present Us on behalf of the employees Of
the CHRONICLE Office. as & mark of their
esteem and good viii, &c, &c. The few
words of response attempted wholly failed
50 express our thoughts and feelings, and
the great value which the recipient shall
always place upon the elegant testimonial
of the kindness felt towards him by the
donors. car embarrassment was relieved
Fby the th0ughtful i~nterposition of our
ibetter-half, who invited ali to the dining
uOon, where undHg FIAT takes" of s.inside
espy" were enjoyed, sad 3 good time gen
erzIlg WAS had. An allusioe 70 the finish
Of the cane may not be ont Of place. 1t is
trimmed Ei& q nice ornamental gold
head, bearing the inscription: Presented
to WuLIAM RIrEzEL by his Employees,
Christmas, ls67,"-whieh Vas engraved
BY Thad. Ackley. in his best style.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-12-25
New York Cattle Market.

December %, 1867.
Receipts. 5,6sl beeTes ; 2O7l6 sheep and
lambs ; 26,111 swine. ?
BEEF CATTLE-Market dull and
prices of all but the choicest grades were
le lower, with a large number of poor
stock on sale. Christmas cattle sold as
high as PIC, but there are few of such on
sale. The market is dull and very slack.
Poor to medium 9@11c /; medium to fair
steers l2!@1Sc; good steers and fat oxen
l83@16c; prime TO extra steers 15@l7c.
Majority Of sales al 14@16c; average,
price 15c.
SHEEP s. LAMRS-Demand for good
stock quite fair, while poor stock contin-
ues neglected. Best sheep sold as high as
&c, with few Christmas sheep at 10@12c.
To-day the market has been very quiet
for common stock, while prime stock was
in fair request at very full figures. Some
very choice sheep selling as high as &c. =
We quote common 10 fair at HOSE:
good to prime at 6@64e; extra sheep 10
Sc; Lambs at 5i98e.
H0GS-The market opened firm. with
free demand. and prices showed 9 singh.
improvement but q decline IN deessed
hogs weakened prices, and the market
closed very dull and heavy, with upwards
of 90 car loads OF sale. Prime heavy
corn fed at 6f@7sc; medium as@6Sc;
common ea96se dressed S.. 90