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Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

DANCING THEIR RAGS oFT.-Two unso-
phisticated country lasscs visited Niblo's, in
New York, during the ballet season. When
the short-skirtcd, gossamer-clad nymphs
made their appearance on the stage they
became restless and fdgety.
"Oh, Annie p exclaimed one, sotto-roiice.
swell, Mary?' -. a.
1T amt nice-I don't like it"
"Hush'" .
Il don't care it amt NICE and 1 wonder
why aunt brought US to such place"
"Hush, Mary, the folks will laugh at you. -
After one or two filings and pronettc the
blushing Mary said -.h -
"Oh, Annie, let's go-it amt nice, and L
don't feel comfortable 9-i t-n..I
''Do hush, Mary" replied the sister,
whose face was scarlet though it wore an air
of determination sits the first time ever
was at theatre, and suppose it will be the
last SO l am just going to see it out, if they
dance every rag off their backs !"
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18
NUMBER 4.
A Touching story.

The following beautiful story was related
by DR.. Schnebly, of Maryland, OF meeting
held in New York, to hear the experience
Of twenty reformed drunkards: 4'1N1-
"A drunkard who had run through his
property returned one night to his unfur-
nished home. He entered his empty hall
anguish was gnawing at his hcart-strings,
and laughing was inadequate to express his
agony as he entered his wife's apartment,
and there beheld the victims of his appetite,
his loving wife and darling child. Mo-
rose and sullen, he seated himself without
saying a word; he could not speak-he
could not look upon them. The mother
said to the little angel at her side, "Come,
my child, it is time to go to bed !" and that
little baby, as she was wont, knelt by her
mothers lap, and gazing wistfully into the
face Of her suffering parent, like peice Of
chiselled statuary, slowly repeated her night
ly orison. When she had finished, the child
(but four years of age) said to her mother
dear mother, may mot offer up one more
prayer? "Yes, yes, my sweet pet, pray;
and she lifted up her tiny hands, closed her
eyes, and prayed 80 God spare, oh
spare my dear papa!" That prayer was
waited with electric rapidity to the throne
Of God. 1t was heard on hight was
heard on earth. The responsive "Amen -
burst from the father lips and his heart Of
stone became heart Of fesh Wifi, and
child were both clasped to his bosom, and in
penitence he said: "My child you have
saved your father from the grave Of drupk-
ard. I'll sign the pledgel''
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18
THE PIONEER BOYS.
BY JAMES D. M'CABE, JR.

by the fall of the year 1898, the settle
mont known as Carpenter Station,l located
a little distance above the mouth Of Short
Creek, on the east side of the Ohio River,
in what is now the State of West Virginia,
was in fourishing condition, and numbered
some thirty Or forty families in its popula.
ton. One of these families is named
johnson, and consisted of the father and
mother and several children. Of these
children, two were boys, named John and
Henry johnson, and aged respectively thir-
teen and eleven years. Towards the close
Of the fall, the boys were sent one evening
to drive homo the cows, which had wander.
ed off beyond the settlement. The season
was that delightful Indian summer time,
when the Ohio Valley puts on its richest
hucs Of beauty, and when the fascination
of its scenery is greater than at any other
part of the year. The boys, young as they
were, were kccnly alive to the beauty Of the
scene, and moved along briskly, but boylike,
when they had; reached the foot Of the hill
which bounded the bottom that lay back
Of the fort they paused under hickory-nut
tree, unable to resist its fascination, and
commenced to gather the nuts and crack
and cat them. They sat down at the base
Of the tree,q and unmindful that the sunset
was coming on and that the cows were still
undiscovered, they gave their whole atten..
ton to their nuts. So you see, my dear
reader, pioneer boys were quite las apt to
attend to pleasure before business, as those
Of the present day, and 1 am very much
inclined to believe that these two thought
more Of squirrels and nuts than about the
cows and their parents. They happened to
look up at last, and John jumped to his feet
in confusion, and exclaimed - ''.': sp1 loa '1i m
"Wc'll catch it now, Hen. Yonder comes
father and Uncle Joseph, and if they find us
here instead Of looking, for the cows, they'll
make us smoke for it," ~
Henry looked in the direction indicated by
his BROTHER and saw two men approaching
them. The newcomers were dressed like
the settlers at the Station, and one Of them
carried bride in his hand. The boys COM
menced looking about very busily, and call
ing the cows as loud as they, could. In
few. minutes the strangers came near enough
for them to discover their real character,
and the little fellows to their horror and dis
may found that they were in the presence
of two large Ipdians: They were terribly
frightened, and started to run away, but the
Indians leveled their guns at them, and
threatened to kin them if they did not come
back. Trembling in every limb the boys
walked back slowly to their captors, expect
ing every moment to be killed and scalped.
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power of resistance, and as soon as he had
fred Henry dropped the rife, and hurrid
over to where his brother was standing. All
this had taken scarcely as much time as ]
have consumed in telling it, and the boys al
once set off for the fort. They travelled
rapidly, and reached the fort q little after
daybreak. They were in constant dread al
the way that the Indian who had been shot,
and who they knew had not been killed,
would pursue them and take vengeance or
them. AS they approached the fort, they
found the settlers all awake and up, and in
the greatest alarm and distress concerning
them. Their mother surrounded by u group
ofsympathizing friends, was weeping bitterly
over their supposed unhappy fate. .
"Poor little fellows" she sobbed, "thcy
are killed or taken prisoners" .,,.
Johns heart was in his. throat, at the
sight of his mothers grief, and rushing to
her, he cried out eagerly:
"No, mother, VIC are here safe and sound y
You may be sure there was joy in the fort
over the return Of the two lost ones. John
told the story of their capture and escape,
but it seemed to the settlers so utterly i'm.
probable that two such children had killed
two Indian warriors that the story was moi
believed. John then offered to guide a
party to the scene of the tragedy, and a
small detachment was sent out to ascertain
the truth of the boys statement. They
reached the camp, and found there the dead
body Of the Indian whom John had toma.
hawked, but the one Henry had shot, had
managed to crawl away and take lis gun
and ammunition with him. He could mol
be found, but his skeleton and gun were
discovered some time afterwards. These
things confirmed the truth Of the boys
story, and they were after that the pride
and boast of the settlement. 'l'
b, The Indians who were killed, were great
warriors, and very wealthy. The bag which
John had seen and carried on the previous
evening, and which he supposed contained
money, was never found. 1t was believed
that one of the men in the fort, upon hear
ing the boys story, had started for the spot
in advance Of the party and secure the
money. N' '., '.
"a The Indians themselves did honor to the
bravery of the two boys! After their treaty
with General Wayne, a friend of the. In
dians who were killed asked a man from
Short Creek, what had become of the boys
who killed the two warriors? Upon being
told that they were residing at home with
their parents, he expressed his surprise.
.a "Ah," said he, 'syou have not done right
you should make kings of those boys"
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18


OYsTERs.-We take the following from
an exchange, which is worthy of trial:
We suppose that nine out of ten house.
keepers will contradict US point blank, in a
statement that nine out ten do not know
how to stew dish Of oysters BY the or
dinary routine that nearly every one follows,
either the oysters are stewed and shriveled
out Of semblance of themselves in shape,
size and favor, or else the soup and "thick-
ening"'ohas raw taste that spoils it. Here
is the right method. Try it once, and We
warrant you won't need telling the second
time. Pick the oysters out of the juice
with a fork, as dry as possible; stew the
juice thickening, milk Or water, of which
the soup is to be made, until thoroughly
cooked then drop the oysters in, and just
as the cooled soup begins to show signs of
simmering, empty out altogether, and you
will have rich soup and plump oysters, lu-
scious enough to make you think you never
tasted real oysters before. H- a',s
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

A MINISTER in highly elaborate sermon
which he preached, said several times, "The
commentators do not agree with me here. :"
Next morning poor woman came to see
him with something in her epron. She
said that 'her husband read the sermon,
and that it was very fine one, and he said
the common tatersdidno not agree with him,
he has sent some of the best Kidneys"
Why is old age like a dogs tall Be.
cause it is in-firm. Hr-.
THESE arc loving times, wleu everything
is Us dear as it can be. .,g... ...r... ......
Why is an egg overdone like one under
done? Because it is hardly done. H s.sr
I A MAN from the Auburn prison says, he
lost there all admiration for Auburn locks.
'"BoY, where does this road 60 to-"
" Nowhere, as know on. It's alters staid
here" ...-.
Why are most government officials like
postage stamps {? Because they are poor
sticks. ,r ....,..I t..4 ..,t, 90.
There is no luck like pluck, and fortune
most, favors those who are most Indifferent
to fortune.
A DoorER has been lecturing around tho
country on" Disease called Love-" He
recommends matrimony as certain cure.
Some persons who have taken the medicine
n -
find the remedy to be worse than the dis.
case,
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18
DEATH FROM WANT OF SLEEP.

DEATH FROM WANT OF SLEEP. The fol
lowing communication was recently made tc
aBritish society. "a Chinese merchant haj
been convicted Of numbering his wife, and
was sentenced to die by being deprived Of
sleep. This painful mode of death was car.
ried into execution under the following cir
cumstancos. The condemned was placed in
prison under the care Of three Of the police
guard, who relieved each other every alter.
nate hour, and who prevented the prisoner
from falling asleep, night or day. He thus
lived for nineteen days without enjoying any
sleep. At the commencement Of the eighth
day his sufferings were SO intense that he
implored the authorities to grant him the
blessed opportunity Of being strangled, gull.
lotined, burned to death, drowned, shot,
garroted, quartered, blown up with gunpow.
der, or put to death in any other conceivable
way which their humanity or fsrocity could
invent"
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18
The Guest Of the Heart.


Soft falls through the gathering twilight
The rain from the dripping caves,
And stirs with tremulous rustic, .
The dead and the dying leaves:
While here in the midst Of the shadows,
hear the sweet voice Of the bells
Come born on the wind of the autumn,
That ftfully rises and swells.
They call and they answer each other.
They answer and mingle again .
And the deep and the shrill in an anthem,
Make harmony in their strain; y
AS the voices OF sentinels mingle
In the mountainous regions Of snow,
Till from hilltop to hilltop chorus
Floats down to the valley below.
The shadows, the freight Of even,
The sound Of the'rains distant chime,
Come bringing, with rain softly dropping,
Sweet thoughts of a shadowy time;
The slumberous sense Of seclusion,
From storm and intruders alOof, ...
We feel when we hear in the midnight,
The patter Of rain on the roof
When the spirit goes fourth in its yearning
10 take all its wanderers home .e-t
Or, after in regions of fancy, u,
Delights on sweet pinitns to roam, . d
l quietly sit by the freight .
The freight SO bright and SO warm
For | know that those only who love me
Win see me through shadow and storm.
Aud should they be absent this evening,
Should even the household depart
Deserted, should not be lonely;
There still would be guests in my heart.
The faces Of friends that | cherish, 81
The smile and the glance and the tone,
viii haunt me wherever l wander, -
And thus am never alone.
With those who have left far behind them
The joys and sorrows of time i.
Who sing the sweet songs Of the angles
In purer and holier cline; -.
Then darkly, D evening Of autumn, -,
Your rain and your shadows may fall;
My loved and my lost ones you bring me.
My heart holds feast with them al.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

WANrED.-A bride who is willing to COM
mencc housekeeping in the same style in
which her parents began. 't
Twenty fashionable young ladies who
dare to be seen welding a dust-brush, or
darning their brothers stockings, if gen.
tleman should happen to make an early call.
Ten independent young ladies of good
families, whe dare to wear their last win
ters bonnets to church on a fine Sunday.
Fifteen young ladies Of sufficient age to
90 into company who dare confess they ever
made loaf of bread or pudding
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18
Old Time Winters.

In 1854 the cold was SO intense that thu
Thames was covered with ice sixty-one in
chos thick. Almost all the birds perished.
In 1891 the cold was so excessive that the
| famished wolves entered Vienna and attack
ed beasts, and even men. Many people il
Germany were frozen to death in 1895, and
the winters Of 1000 and 1899 were nearly as
bad. ....-
In 1909 occurred that famous winter cal
led, by distinction, "the cold winter al
the rivers and lakes were frozen, and ever
the sea for several miles from the shore
The ground was frozen nine feet deep
Birds and beasts were struck dead in the
fields, and men persisted by thousands in
their houses. In the South of France the
wine plantations were almost all destroyed,
nor have they yet recovered from that fata
disaster. The Adriatic Sea was frozen, and
even the Mediterranean, about Genoa, and
the citron and orange groves suffered ex.
trcmcly in the finest parts of Italy. ra
In LAG the winter was so intense that
people travelled across the Straits from Co.
penhagen to the Province of Senia, in Swe-
dem ~ ..;,............ ...
In 1929 in Scotland multitudes of cattle
and sheep we're buried alive in the snow
In l740 the winter was scarcely inferior to
that of 1909. The snow lay ten feet deep
in Spain and Portugal The Zuyder Zee
was frozen over, and thousands IF people
went over it. And the lakes in England
froze. g'c1sss I'd siii b'roN" 2."' 's %.
In 1744 The winter was very cold. Snow
fell in Portugal to the depth of twcnty-three
feet on level, ..''7 o7 80 "-' .i'N 4 '.H'
In 1854 and '55 the winters were very
severe and cold. In England the strongest
ale, exposed to the air in glass, was GOV.
cred in fifteen minutes with ice one eighth
of an inch thick. arn if 'f.Hi0- 81 ;'
In 1771 the Ellie was frozen to the bot.
tom. ~ j"si, RI! rF'GtIrj @ af Mo-
z In l776 the Danube bore ice five feet, be-.
low Vienna. Vast numbers Of the feather
ed and iinny tribes persisted. '2i-f t't
The winters Of 1854 and '85 were uncom-
monty cold. The Little Belt was frozen
Oyer.,b 1Jla ca; ri.i 1EhI ,lh2t-eE- '.a
FROM 1900 to 1912, also, the winters were
remarkably cold, particularly the latter, in
Russia, which proved SO disastrous to the
French army. ~
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18
Not Supported.

Withhold or withdraw the salerics now
paid to the educated workers in all our great
and benifcent enterprises and institutions
civil, military, educational, religious or san
itary, and the entire machinery now 30 effect.
i've for good would stop, because all these
workers would have to opply themselves to
some industrial pursuit to obtain their daily
bread. A.
The Temperance enterprise in this coun-
try, has not now, and never had adequate
funds to employ a sufficient number Of ed
ucated and competent laborers, therefore its
machinery moves but feebly at some points,
and others not at all.
To depend Oil men whose time and
thoughts are mainly devoted to other and
more remunerative labor or study to guide
and prosecute this great and needful work,
is to subject ourselves to certain disappoint-
ment and defeat. So many precious inter-
ests are at stake, in the fate of the enter
prise that we cannot afford to have it die Of
financial starvation. and that, too, in coun
try enriched by millions through its direct
influence. Through changes wrought in
our social customs and in their own personal
and domestic habits by the temperance et:
forts Of the last thirty years, multitudes Of
our citizens have been saved annually, sums
varying from ten to five hundred dollars.
A portion, at least, Of what has been thus
saved should in all cases be devoted with
fidelity to the prosecution Of this great work.
10 add the entire amount thus saved to
ones previous accumulations, or to devote
it entirely to other enterprises, excellent
though they may be, is as impolite as it is
unjust We must steadily pay for tho re-
striction or suppression of intemperance and
its procuring causes, or expend many times
the amount in footing the bills which this
wicked, destructive system will still present
to u2.
No efforts ever put forth by man have
been richer in results to all the precious in.
terests Of Christian communities than those
employed by temperance reformers so far
as those efforts have been made in proper
spirit, and guided by practical wisdom.
The temperance cause is not failure
We have simply failed to sustain and use to
a sufficient extent appropriate agencies and
instrumcntalities. The cause has had hith.
erto the moral, while the liquor system has
had the money powers. Let us henceforth
add to the moral the money power and we
will educate the community in sound views
in relation to the whole subject and all its
phases, secure respect to wholesome and
needful laws, shield our youth from contain
mating Influences and thus with with God bless:
ing greatly mitigate, if we cannot utterly de-
stroy, the great scourge and curse of the
civilized world.-DR. JEwErr. ''"
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

THE BEST HE Could Do.--An army
chaplain relates the following funny story.
Seeing dirty faced butter nut turchin at the
fence in front Of a house, the preacher stop
ped and said: ..r.li.
"Is your father at homc?"
"No, he's gone to church"
'Is your mother in?"
mo, she's gone too"
"Then you are all by yourself"
"No,.Sam's in thar huggin' the uiggar
gall '' ~ " ''
'That's bad" '"'
"Ycs, it's bad but it's the, best he can
do" '1
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

TnI Does.-We like the dog very much,
now and then he smells very unplearantly to
be sure and he frequently amuses himself
in tearing articles of clothing. But, in the
main, he is quite valuable, and he is often
ornamental, and it would never do to make
the noble brute extinct. Well-he costs the
United States every year ,Afty-two millions
Of dollars. The o. 8. Commissioner Of
Agriculture gives his word for this. The
details of the calculation are, that there are
FIVE millions Of dogs in the country, that
each Of them consumes ten dollars worth Of
food, medicine and housing every year, and
that the fee millions kill between them two
millions worth offat tton.-Philaaelphia
Universe.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

JUDGE GRIFFITH, on the bench in New
York, appointed crier whose want of sense
was more than made up by the size of his
voice. A young barrister, with more fur
than legal lore in him. was fond of playing
off jokes on him. So one day the Judge
ordered the crier to call Jabez Logue. The
barrister, stepping behind the crier, whis
pered. Epilogue," J." in his car.
Epi-logue ~ shouted the crier. ..
" Mono-loguel" said the lawyer.
' Mono-logue!" cried the crier.
F" Prologue" ......
And the crier still cried, Prologue! p
" Dialogue"
And the pertinacious crier shouted "Dia.
logu!e" at thetop of his voice. .
Discouraged at hearing no response from
the Logue family, the crier turned and said
to the court, sitting in mute astonishment
at the stupid criers calls;
Z" I've called all the Logues in town, and
never one is here TO speak for himself"
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

THERE is curious natural "episode' in
Cincinnati, the same being a female child,
two and one.half years old. which has chan
gcd from ordinary infancy to the full matu-
rity of womanhood. Its whole body under
went the astonishing change, with the excep-
ton of its face, which remains pretty baby
face; /; and in its walking, crying and eating,
is like other children of its age. .....i. -.
Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-18

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Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-02
a Young HAYNAU.

The citizens Of Tuscaloosa memori~
alise Gen Meade for relief from the OPP
preston of Lieut. Charles J. johnson,
commandant of that post, who has super,
seeded all other authorities in the admin
istration OF police law, and mani(ests a
singular ingenuity in rendering himself
generally tyranieal and Ridiculous The
memorial gives two Illustrations, as fol-
lows:
On the same day, (the 18th of june
Miss \. Parker, young lady of orr county,
was halted 10 the streets Of Tuscaloosa by
the soldiers turned back at the point Of the
bayonet, and forced to walk under The
national flag, when she had taken usual
and we'll beaten path, with no other inten-
ton than TO avoid passing the quarters Of
the soldiery, WHARF many of them usually
congregate.
Two other ladies we're, on the l4lh lust,
coerced by manual force to walk the same
rcute, Lieut.. johnson acknowledges that
these wrongs are done by authority OF his
orders ...
We would further take occasion, General,
TO complain to you that Lieut.. johnson has
used his official position to offer rnde in-
suits to parties under arrest, and other
citizens, 10 a manner that no other officer
Of the army, 80 far as we are advised, has
ever done 10 this State, since the termina-
ton Of our late civil war. He has also
used violent language in the presence Of
his soldiers, the direct tendency of which
was to result 10 open bodily violence TO
citizens, and to evidence a purpose TO
license aud legaliza such violence ghen
committed