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Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

ALAsKA.-The present prospect is that
our purchase Of the Russian American
possessions is TO be failure, even after
taking possession. The payment Of the
money was TO be made on the goth, of
April. But the Radical Congress, purely
for the sake of notifying Mr. Seward,
and thus hitting him a back-handed slap
in the face, has put off the consideration
of tie question of the necessary appro-
priation until the Goth of May next
Thus the honor and credit of the nation
is to be dishonored simply to subserve
partisan malice. If the treaty be wrong,
10 the estimation of the House, why is it
not maufully and publicly declared Why
sneak behind delay until after our ma
tional credit is dishonored
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

A BEAUTIFUL SENrIMENT.-Mr. Chal-
mers beautifully says: "The little that
have seen of the world and know of the
history of mankind, teaches me to look
upon their errors in sorrow, not in anger
When take history Of one poor heart
that has sinned and suffered, and represent
to myself the struggles and temptations il
passed through-the brief pnlsations oi
ioy, the tears of regret the feebleness oI
purpose the scorn of the world that has
little charity the desolation of the souls
sanctuary, and threatening voices within
health gone, happiness gone-I would fair
leave the erring soul of my fellow-mer
with Him from whose hands it came.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

HICKMAN AFTER THE NEGRO WOMEN
OF HARRIsBURG.-lt might have been
supposed that llickman's remarks at Har-
risburs, few days since, in which he de-
clared that '' may probably see the day
that may walk side by side with a color
ed woman. have seen many colored
woman that | would rather walk with
than great many men, would have
prodnccd some comment or excitement
Whatever it may have done elsewhere
we are free to say that here, where he i:
personally known, and where his habits are
familiar to the people, it has excited NJ
remark whatever West Chester Jefer
SOllian.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
Tho wiEa of a rncobanio died lately ir

The wife Of mechanic died lately in
Detroit, and on the night after the body
had been laid out one Of the watchers tho't
she discovered evidences of life. Restora-
tives were applied, and the body warmed,
and at the end of FIVE days life was re-
stored, the patient opened her eyes, and
is now in fair way of recovery. The
coffin had been prepared, and the body
placed in it, and but for the discovery O
the watcher undoubtedly there would have
been case Of burylng alive
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

Dryden was SO bound up in his books that
his wife one day exclaimed, Il wish / were
a book that | might always be in your So
eiety." Il wish you were an almanac, so I
could change you every year." ho ungallant>
ly replied.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

"Cufee, wat you tink de most useful OBJ de
Plannets-de sun or lie mune 2"
"Well, Sambo, tinh de muDe orter take
dc fus ranS in dat ar 'ticular.n ssa
"Why you tink SO Cufee 2"
"Well, tell you; kase she shines by
night when We want light, aud de sun shines
By day when ws do not !"
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

An urchin in country school, was reading
the verse in the New Testament which reads
thus And he saw Abraham afar off, with
Lazarus in his BOSOM" The boy gravely
spelt it out thus :-And.he-saw broom.
afar off with ether ears-in- Boston,
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
The latest specimen OF juvenile literatur

Tbs latest specimen Of Juvenile literature
is this:
As Wi-ll>i-am Wilkins was walking in
the garden one day, he met his dear sister,
and thus he did say "Why is squash like
a little news>boy 2" She gave it up .Be-
cause" said the wicked boy, 'the older he
grows the more of yel-ler he will be-" His
good grandu ANNA overheard him, and be
went to bed sick With grief
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

"Father,' said q cobler's lad as he was
peggiDg away at an old shoe, "they say that
trout bite everything now" "WelI, well,
replied the old gentleman, "s,ick to your
work and they won't bite you
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

The WIDowER.-The death of mans
wife is like cutting down an ancient oak
thst has long shadowed the family man
sion. Henceforth the glare Of the world,
with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon
the widower's heart, and there is nothing
to break its force, or shield him from the
full weight Of his misfortune. 1t is as IT
his right hand were withered-as if one
wing were broken and every movement
that he made, brought him to the ground.
His eyes are dim and CLASSY and when
the film of death falls over him he misses
those accustomed tones which have smooth
ed his passage 20 the grave.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22


UNEARTHING A MIsER's HoARDINas.-
Napock writes from New York to the
Chicsgo Journal
"A friend of your correspondent, living
in Brooklyn, was appointed executor for
his wife's uncle, who died suddenly few
days ago. The latter was far advanced in
years, ard had lived almost alone for a
very long period in small house in Har-
lem. He bad led misers life, spending
little more than was necessary to keep
body and soul together, and to outward
appearance, being very poor. His relative,
however, believed that he had some money
ahnnt him and arrnrdin?lv. the EXECUTOR
recently began search for 1t. Up to
this date be has found between five or six
Thousand dollars IN gold and silver The
coin WAS secreted in old shoes, in the beds,
or buried in little heaps uuder the floor
Many of the coins thus far found are as
fresh and new as if they had just come
from the mint, though bearing date all the
way as far back as thirty years. The
search is still going on, and new coins are
daily being brought to light. The executor
will not be surprised if fully fifty thousand
dollars are turned out before the search
about the house and lot is concluded
This is no story of imagination. but a
truthful account of what has transpirsd in
Harlem.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

''You have lost your baby, 1 hear" said
one gentleman to another. Eyes, poor little
thing 1t was only five months old. We
did all we could for it. We had four doctors,
blIstered its head and feet, put must ard poul-
ti"Hs ol, n-nr IL Dave it nine calomel pn"A'
leached its temples, had IL Uieu, and gave it
all kinds Of medicines and yet, after week s
illness, it died"
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

One evening young lady played piece
of music consisting Of twenty four pages
James Ward, in referring to it the next day,
said they were favored with music by the
qure.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

"Sal," said one girl to another, 81 am so
glad have no beau now p "Why so 2" ask
ed the other. "Oh, cause can eat as many
onions as please"
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

KEEP IN Coon HUMoR.-lt is not great
calamities that embitter existence 1t is
the petty vexa,ions, the small jeaousles,
the minor miseres that make the heart
heavy and the temper sour. Don't lei
them. Anger is pure waste OF vitality
it is always disgraceful, except in some
very rare cases, when 1t is kindled by see'
ing wrong done to another. But even
that noble rage seldom mends the mat
ter.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

A tender-hearted railway engineer says
he never runs over a man when he can help
it, ''because it always muses. up the track
so."
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

6T Why do annual towering plauts
resemble whales Because they only
come up to blow.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
A gentleman said to one Of his son, who

gentleman said to one Of his sons who
used to lie in bed late in the morning.
"Your brother got up this morning at five
O'Clock, and found on the sidewalk a purse
of gold" "Very WELL" replied the lazy
young man, "lf the poor fellow to whom it
belonged had remained in till ten, he proba-
bly, would not have lost it,,
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

T Why does dog looking for his
master resemble an orange? Because he
locke oil round,
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

A Yankee having. told an Englishman that
he shot, on one particular occasion 999 snipe,
his interlocutor asked him why be didn't
make il thousand at once.
"No," said be, "not likely I'm going to
tell lie for one snpe"
Whereupon the Englishman, determined
not to be outdone, began to tell long story
of man having swan from Liverpool to Bos-
ton.
"Did you see him !" asked the Yankee,sud-
denly, did you see him yourself 2"
"Why, yes, of course did was coming
across, and our vessel passed him mile out
of Boston harbor."
"Well, I'm glad ye saw him, stranger, COS
yer q witness that did it. That was me %
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

"Doctor, what will cure the fever of love?"
"The child of wedlock, MademoiseIle"
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

When 10 trout like bird 2 Ans-When
it takes fly.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
VOL. Y II.
myoming Qsmutrat.
Democratic weekly

pemocratic weekly
r,per devoted to Poil
tics News, the Arts
and sciences &c. Pub
ii:hei every We dnes-
iav. at Tunkhannock
Tvlming C)ulty,Pt
BY HARVEY SEEKER
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

The following coloquy took place between
q New York census marshal and q native of
Germany:
"Who lives here 2"
"Yaw."
"What's your name ~
"Sharmany on der Rhine"
"What's your fathers name 2"
sNix fer shtaS."
"When die you arrive in Little Falls 2''.',
"Mid der cars"
"Got any children ?"
"Yaw-two barrels, nit kraut."
Glow long have you been in this house ?'
"Two and der basement"
"Who owns the building 2"
81 pays nothing. Hans pays der same
twice a month"
"Where did you live last year 2"
"Across der re&Wore as you come up with
der market in yer right hand behind der
pedstock what belongs to der blacksmith
shop"
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
Wiss ami 4thsrhist.

When shall We have another war with
Turkey? Next Thanksgiving day.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

% Covetous people often seek to shel'
ter themselves behind the widows mite
and give but paltry sum to the benevo-
lent objects under color of her contribu-
tions The following incident has mora
to all such.
A gentleman called upon a wealthy
friend for a contribution.
"Yes, I suppose must give my mite,
said the rich man.
"You mean the widows mite, / sup
pose," replied the other.
"To be sure do"
The gentleman continued
"I will be satisfied with half as muct
as she gave, How much are you worth I!
"Sevenly thousand dollars"
"Giye me cheek, then, for thlrty-hve
thousand that will be half as much as she
gave-al she had"
This was new idea TO the wealthy
| mercant.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
The FATa OF VANIrr.-The New York

papers are moralizng over the fact that a
young lady recently dropped down in the
street owing to a congestion of the lungs
arising from tight lacing. She was, says
one paper, an estimable young woman, we'll
informed, pions and exemplary but nei-
tber her piety nor her amiability, her in
tclligence nor her sense of decorum, was
equal to her vanity. She was too plump,
TO speak daintiy. She was too stout, to
use the diction of society. She was too
fat, to employ vulgar phraseolvgy, for her
conceited sense of the genteel, if not the
beautiful. Her self -complacency was
more disgustcd with her tendency to obseity
than she cared to ma anifest; and whether
or not she drank vinegar as many fool
ish ones do } to counteract the tendency,
or dieted herself upon the bantling system,
she was ashamed of natures generosity
that she tried to conceal it by tight lacing.
The blood thus driven to the head in in
ordinate proportions put hen life in danger
every time she INDUCED in the slightest
exercise. {; but her figure was of more con-
sequence to her than her life. She would
rather be dead, with all her piety and ami
ability, than stout wasted. She prefer
red to meet her GOD, as a suicide, than
meet her fellow creatures in a state of
snch plumrtitnde, and we see the finale of
her vanity But how many women, old
as well as young are " killing themselves
by inches" after this fashion, in the midst
of US Is there one amongst US who
could not lay his hand upon number
whose vanity is thus digging out for them
selves day after day, burial place in the
cemetery? But drive on as fast as you
choose, ladies, as Mark Twain says, it is
none of our funeral
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

Terms-l copy year, lin advance $500; if
not paid within six months, $3.50 will be charged
NO paper will be DISCONTINUED, until all ar
relrlgesre pll unless at the option of publisher.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
YOUR FIRST SWEETHEART.

You can never forget her. She was so
very young, and innocent, and pretty
She had such way of looking at you over
her hymn-book in church. She alone. oil
all the world, did not think you boy o
eighteen, but wondered at your size and
learning, and your faint foreshadowiGg OF
a sandy moustache,. and believed you every
inch man. When at those stupid even
iHg parties, where boys who should have
been in the nursery, and girls who should
have eaten supper of bread and milk, and
gone to sleep hours before, waltzed and
firted and made themselves sick over oys.
ters and champagne, you were favored
with glance Of her eye or whisper from
| her you ascended to the seventh heaven
Immediately. When once, upon certain
memorable eve, she polkacd with the drug
gist's clerk, and never looked at you, how
miserabIy you were 1t is funny to think
of now, but it was not funny then, for you
were awtully in earnest,
Once, at a pic-ric, she wore a white
dress, and had roses twined in her black
hair, and she looked so like bride that
Nou SOiuChHAES yOu lhO y
in just such snowy costume, with just such
blossoms in her hair, she might stand be
side the altar, and you, most blessed of all
mortals, might place golden ring upon
her finger and when you are left alone
with her for moment, some of your tho
would form themselves into words, and
though she blushed and ran away, and
would not let You kiss her, she did not
seem to be angry. And then you were
somehow parted for little while, and
when you met again she was walking with
gentleman, large, well whiskered man
of twenty-eight or thirty, and had neither
word or smile for you. And some we'll
meaning gossip informed you shortly that
she was engaged" to the tall gentleman
with black whiskers, and that 1T was
splendid match" 1t was terrible news to
you then, and sent you off to some great
city, far from your native place, where,
after good deal of youthful grief, and ma
ny resolutions 10 die and haunt her, you
recovered your equanimity, and began 10
make money and to call love stuff aud non
sense.
You have a rich wife OF yolr own now,
and grown up children-aye, even two or
thra" ind.Il;-r- s-"nA Oh ildran ahont ynnr
hearth your bair is gray, and yon lock
your heart up in the fire proof sale at your
counting house when you 90 home at night.
And you thought you had forgotten that
little episode of your nineteenth year. un-
til the other day, when you read of her
death in the papers. You know she was
a stout lady who wore glasses. and had
daughters older than she was in that olden
time, but your heart went back and you
saw her smiling aud blushing, with her
golden hair about the face, and yourself
boy again, dreaming OF wedding robes and
rings, and you laid your gray old head up
on your office desk and wept for the mem-
ory OF your first sweetheart.
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

The above articles will be kept in full assortment
l mean to make the experiment of goods sold IN
quantities cheaper than ever before in this vicinity
shall be happy to see you and yeu can depsnd mp
on finding bargains in every department. Goods rs-
ceiYsd every week.
Respectfully yours,
c. 0ElRlcK:
Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22

NR. I T BURNS has permanently located IN
oiuakhahnocE Borough, and respectfully tenders
RI professional services 10 its citizens.
eG.e on second floor, formerly o%upied by DR..
siHsn
yj13Gtr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-29
SF-TI!.
THE GAZETTE:
WEDNESDAY EVENING. .APR1L g.
~. D.o,,osed Va. ssConstitutiOn.''
b1erF,omt The N. 7. Times, Radical

.h1GfFrom the N. .: lines, ha a'l -..l
On ,a5 of the marked traits in the late Virgin
:. nnnvention, which has at length laid its
Va 4ar judgment before the people, was its
" " rejection of the lesson taught it by the
tate Of its predecessors in other States. Profit
ING, nothing by the history OF the Alabama Con
stiRtution, which was lost, and Of the Arkansas
Constitution. which, if saved at all, was saved
Gas BY FIRE, : andaciously went to greater
lengths than either 10 fanaticism, partizanshlp
and malignant intolerance In State where
their adherents are probably in a minority
certainly have nota ballot to spare, -the f1rl'
Gus Conyentionists, led by Hunnicuttt and his
allies, sacrificed everything tojvenomous hate,
and risked their whole cause by steps such, as
even Alabama and Arkansas did not venture
to take. The Hunnicutt -disfranchise-
ment proposition, the Porter homestead .ex-
mption, the test oath which General Soho
field officially denounced, were driven 10 and
clinched to the Constitution after the votes in
the, other States should have rendered even
bigeots weary. Prominent. Republicans now
wash their hands of this matter. The Consti-
tuition is before theepeople for ratification or
rejection; and should it meet: the, latter fate,
no one would be surprised. = 90
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-29
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Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge for Worms, Dys-
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Medical Almanac and Guide to Health, to be
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-29
AUCTION SALES.
r OUDOUNa LAND AND VALUE
Ia SO MILL SEAT FOR SALE.

IL MILL SEAT FOR SALE.
Pursuant to decree Of the Circuit Court of
Loudoun county, rendered on the 22d day OF
others, plaintiffs, against George Kephart and
others, defendants, and by consent of the said
George Kephart, given in writing, the under
signed, Commissioners, named in said decree,
will proceed on MONDAY, the 18th day of
April, 1868, being the first day Of the County
Court of Loudoun, in front of the Court HOUSE,
in Leesburg, at IL O clock M, to SELL at public
auction, to the highest bidder, the following
described Real Estate situated in said county
of Loudoun, in the State of Virginia, to wit; -
THE TRACT OF LAND AND MILL SEAL,
containing 81 ACRES. This is the tract on
which the Elizabeth Mills, now burned down.
formerly stood, and is exceedingly valuable
It lies on Goose Creek, near its mouth, within
II miles of a lift lock on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Cana" The water power is amply sutti-
Gent to drive four pair of five feet burs !; it has
q right of way to the river, and flour can be
taken from the mill door to Georgetown and
Alexandria for tic per barrel There is Il good
brick Miller's House and other out-buildlnge
and it is we'll adapted tor all manufacturing
1,>~s,u. THE Cotton FARM, -
containing about 843 acres of land, bounded Tor
about q mile by the Potomac river, opposite to
the G. g. o. Canal, within one mile of the above
named Mill Seat; and within q miles of the
Farmwell Depot, on thea, l.. & g. 4. r.
The land is Of good qualty-a part Of it river
bottom. with about 4O0acres of good timber in
one body. The improvements ere -l,a
COMFORTABLE DWELLING,
new Switzer Barn. Corn House Dairy, Smoke
House and Carriage House, and a Spring Of
never-failing water near the house
~ ALSO, A TRACT OF LAND, "@...' '
on the west side of Goose Creek, containing d.
acres, roods and 20 pcrches, bounded on the
south side by the Leesburg Turnpike road, and
adjoining the burnt bridge. -.
TERMS-Ten per cent Of the purchase-n,on-
ey to be paid in cash On the day Of sale, as de-
post; to be forfeited if tho purchaser !ails to
complete his purchase; the residue Of the pur-
chase money to be paid as follows: One.third
on the confirmation Of the sale by the Court;
one-thrd in ono year from the day OF sale; and
the remaining third in two years from the day
of sale; the purchasers to give their bonds Tor
the deferred insta!ments, bearing interest from
the day Of sale, and the title to be retained as
security for their payment. 49,,
Per. ons desrous of examining the land Will
please call on Mr.. George Keph.rt, at Belmont,
adjoining the land offered for sale
MATTHEW HARRISON.
JOHN JANNEY.
J, l; Rspker' Auc'r Commissioners
POSTPONEMENT-T sale of the above
property has been postponed until MONDAY,
the 9th Of June, 1863 Court day. The tract Of
843 acres will be divided into THREE LOTS,
which will be sold separately.
MATTHEW HARRISON.
JOHN JANNEY, Comm'rs.
Leesburg. ap 27-eots ..