Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-12-23
By order of Committee.


AlIinvited to attend.
BY order of Committee.
y, paper next week.--The season for the
,-inters holiday having come around, paper
will be issued from this office next week
Ne tenders our friends the congratulations of the
season. wishing them Merry Christmas and q Hap
yy Near Year!
The jury Commissioner s&-IIenry Roberts
and lanes g. Fassett attended to the duty Of filling
tbe wheel with the of persons for jurors for
the ensuing year, and to the drawing of the juries
t,r the January term. last week. The list for next
court xhch will be found in todays paper, is good
one.
RR, Little, Esq, has wi thdrawn from the
law practice in the Courts IL this County, except
as to unfinished business. The business, with this
exception passes into the hands of the firm o.
william f. Little * John Sittser.
The mail on the T.. " X. Rive learn bv
the Pttston Gazette that the mails will be brought
20 this place the L. V. II. r., on and after Jan
uary lst:, 1869 This will give us the mail about
three hours earlier than by the other route and will
Le a decided improvement in the mail aecommoda-
tons to Offices along the route.
The Gazette man being the Postmaster at his
every Family Needs ir.--The Eureka
Waher ard Boiler di,penses with labor aud wear Of
cota,s Use il. try it, buy it. Manufactured by
Wm. II. Poyj L Co. Montrosr. ! have tho sole
E.ght Of SGSquehanra County, Pa.
Gro C HILL
Donation. - Ther" will be a donation at Il e
NJ T. Parsonage, in Meshoppen, on Thursday
afternoon and evening, Dee oath, for the benefit of
Rev L. Peek. 1t being Christmas eve, there will
be a Christmas in the NJ. L. Church free for all
to put pres ents on for their friends
A aIuSir al Convention will hs held in Tun-k
hammock Borough, commencing on Monday De
2sth., TO continue three days.
Two concerts will be given at the close of the
Convention the 3lst Dec, and on New Years eve
ning-At which Bradbury's beautiful CANTATA OF
ESTHER, together with choruses, anthems, glees &e
will be performed
The Convention and Concerts will be under the
direction of Prof. Louis Pratorious of Wilkcsbarre
a general invitation Is extended to singers in the
County and vicinity to whom the Convention will
be free.
Tickets to the Concert scots. children under Il
half price.
The proceeds will be applied the purchase of an
organ for the New Presbyterian Church at Tunk
hammock.
BY ORDER OF COMMITTEE
Tunkhannoek Dec 18th 1865.
Blanks B'anks!! Buanks!!!
We keep on hand, for sale, at this office, Blanks
follows:
Deeds Leases
Marriage Certificates Inventories,
Teachers Contracts, Warrants
School Cols Bonds, Subp0naes.
School Trea'rs Bonds, SummOnses.
Executions, Constable's Returns,
Towns'p Officers Bonds Constable's Sales,
Guardians Bonds, J. P's Attachm'ts Rules
Guardians Petitions and Interrogatories,
Justices and Constable's Fee Bills,
Sheep Damages License Petitions, and
Collectors Letters. Bonds,
Judgment Notes, sc, Sc,
and print to order, Township Officers and School
Directors Order Books and Blanks of every DescriP
Jion.
Talk about improvements in Tunkha mock.
As the year is about closing, we propose TO take
tramp about town, and make a note of what our
townsmen have been doing for the past few months.
We shall confne ourselves to the business affairs
and improvements of oftown-leavng a retrospect of the
improvements in the morals of this part of the
vineyard to those who have had these matters more
particularly in charge
Now my good reader, you who have been absent
from our little town for year past, and whose con
temptuous remark returning, was, that ''Tunk
hannocEhasn't improved any for Is years >" Start
ing with you from Office door, and contining our
examination to what has been done in one, or at
fcO years will test the truth of your asser
tion.
You point in confirmation, do you, to the old cor
ner building across the way, with its ten fifteen
smaller houses and shops surrounding it This is
known the property OF the nicholson Heirs"-A
square acre of dilapdated, imprinted, shabby look
ing buildings, occupied by tradesmen and dealers Of
various kinds, who pay groundrent to the owners Of
the soil for the land upon which their buildings
stand Under such circumstances no better class Of
buildings could well be expected. Many Of these
houses are secondhand ones which have been moved
on to this merely for temporary occupancy
and in Of fire, a sale Of the soil, will be
burned up or moved again, at the word .gon True,
there has been but little change in this Old corner
house, now called Fort Sumpter." 1t stands there
the clrner of the acre. like old hen, surround
ed With its brood of black, white, yellow and brown
chIckens-Thcse chicks are mostly 'oi age" and
might without any violation Of maternal rights,
leave the old hen.
The same huge staring letters, a. w. RENsHAw.
STORE" painted the north side of the old fort.
main there apparently as bright they fifteen
years ago-an enduring monument to the honesty
and skill Of the painter Miles Robinson and to the
enterprise Of the man who had them painted there.
But We promised to look at buildings and i'm
proyements? Here go, up Toga street!
Standing, if at the end OF the street. and in its
line-bUt really at angle Of it, and Just opposite
the old Sl0cum House, so called. commanding a
view Of its entire length up and down, is the fine,
substantial looking, new house of VIM. b. Overheld.
But we are looking too far. there evidences OF
Improvement nearer us. We have come in our walk
opposite the ''Stansbury House" Judge Stansbury
Jullt It, believe OF late IL has been occupied by
various persons as dwelling. About year ago it
was purchased by the Burns Bros; and now. how
changed! new two story front has been built,
plump out to the street, and several additions the
rear. In the front lower story through the fine
glass windows evidences Of an elegant jewel
~ store. over the centre of the door l., a large
clock dial. the hands Of which keep moving around
and admonshing the passer-by that-time fiics.-
In the second story a suite Of finely fitted up
dental rooms. where Displayed in ali their terri
fying brightness. such set Of tooth carpenters
tools and stump pulling machines that even the
sight of them, will instantly put to flight the jump
iHgest toothache that afflicted mortal man or
woman