Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-08-19
Local and Personal.

Bianks.--Ne Keep on hand aud for sale at
this office Blank noes-single, and bound in bookss
of5O and 100 each, summonses subpenaes, constsbes
Gales, collectors letters attachment executions rule,
and inerrogatores foF Justices sheep dog-law blank
school collector treasurers' bonds supervisor
and township treasurers bonds. Justices, fee bills
blanks deeds &c. DC. Blanks Of all kinds printed,
% oyder and in the best styIe,on short notice.
PRESBYTERIAN Church.--The pews in the new
presbyterian Church will be sold. Wednesday Aug
9th. at o'clock P NJ The sale will be held at
the Church 1t will be to the interest of all who
have subscribed 20 the building and also of any 9TH
.rswho wish to obtain permanent title pew to
be present.
Fair.--The Nicholson Agricultural Society have
decided to hold their annual Fair on the 22i 23d
.4th and 25th days of September next.
See notice in regard to renting stands on the
ground in to-day's paper
Another Man has lost another three cent postal
stamp sheet Of paper, some ink and an envelope
by sending US a communication unaccompanied by
his name We refer him to remarks in local cpl-
Sun of last week. where we said. in substance that
- didn't publish articles unless the had
fdenee enough in the truth of the statement contain
ed thereu TO give US his or her real Edme adopt
ing whatever name it may be thought proper for the
public.
As to names of contributors, all printers
"elose- communionists'' B'loDg to the s'ciety.
ATerribIe Warning.--An exchange gives
the painful account of the suddes demise of man
otherwise, moral upright and hOnest-but who
- NEGLECTED. two Or
three years to pay the printer. We will not harrow
up the feelings of readers by giving them the
details of this terrible deahbeG scene will we
eauseessy inurs the regulations of his relatives by
giving his name but advert it, that our friends
may take warning from his awful fate.
CaInpmeetIng.-The Wyalusing District Camp
meeting to be held on the Bethesda Camp Ground,
Auburn Corners is to commence Tuesday evening
Aug 25th. The good order which prevailed a year
ago. we hope to maintain at the coming meeting
and to that end, notice is hereby given that no
huckstering will be allowed within the limits pre-
scribed by law. All are invited to attend.
DEWITT c. OLMsTEAD.
Aug 10 1868 Chairman Of Committee.
Court.-The attendance at the Court held here
this week is slim, and the number of for dis
position is small. The session will probably close
ts-day-Proceedings next week.
Haines Bros. have lately made still further
mprov emer is in their pianos both in the construc-
tlou Of a new style, and in the general workman
,bip. l. B. Powell, lie Penn avenue, Scranton.
has their general agency Orders from the trade
are especially solicited.
u. B. ChalIenge.-Ths "Tunkhannsck Jr.
Base Ball Club" offers to play a match game with
any Junior d. B. Club in Wyoming County.
By order of Club.
JOSEPH W. PIATT, Sec'y
Mr.. EDIToR:
The band has received numerous kind
and pie asing attentions through the editorial col
unus Of the Democrat, and We now a SIX that per-
sonaI considerations will not forbid you to again
cobcede us a small space in which may tender
cur grateful acknowledgements, for the generous
and delightful entertainment furnished US a few
evenings since by yourself and your agreeable bet
ter half. We never enjoyed occasion of the
kind more. and here wish for you, that yourselves
and all the little editors may never be disturbed by
harmony or discord more unpleasant than those
which surrounded you during short visit that
evening ONE or THE BAND.
In which wish, We the aforesaid Professor of
scissors baby-spaDking better-haf and all the
little tow-hairei images OF their dad Join, with
cmphatic-AmeE!
Barn Burned.-Ths extensive barn, stables
and sheds of Samual B. Howell, of Auburn Susqh
with all their contents including three valuable
horses were entirely destroyed BY fire on Saturday
morning last. Resides Moving and Threshing
chimes, Wagons ana other valuable articles, the
barns of Mr. Howell contained so tons of hay and
Iarge quantities OF grain. His loss is estimated at
from 81 OUO to S6, OO0.-upon which there was
Insurance oil 81 800. The FIRE is supposed to have
been kinded by an incendiary.
ABresk In the Canal occurred on the Nc
kune level IN Falls, last week. We learn that it
is now repaired and the boats moving usual
These breaks are eVry provoking concerns to boat
men and the people generally. They are undoubt
edIy expensive annoyances to the company. What's
most provoking to u.s. is the fact that they have re-
taied the building Of the rail road to this point as
early as we predicted thereby jeopardizng rep
utation as a predictor. Wen try it again; and
make the following prediction. The cars which
now run regularly to Falls-teD miles below thi>
pIace-will run to this place-as the Rail
road is finished We base this opinion the
sumption that Railroads principally used for
carrying passengers, coal, live stock and dead
heads. The first named obj ects for pay The last
men ntioned, on account of their pay-triotism. We
belonged to this class-durng the late war, as the
records of the draft bureau would or should attest
Bless our constitution We started out to write
the canal in whose dirty waters the irate, eer
ca nincompoop. Jakey Kennedy, last year laved his
lypha'ic limbs, but have been carried by the Rail
road up to the provost Marshalls Office in Towanda
where we submitted fair proportions to the wise
doctors who certified that VIC we're built for htng
whereupon promptly forwarded to the seat of the
war for the colored gentlemen of African scent
500 worth Of fighting flesh and blood, and return
ed to anxious wife and prat,ng babes. covered
with lau- WIth-glo-no, not these-but with dust
and mul from the "Afrcan district r' Our struggle
rinee then to keep our financial head above water
pnd pay that draft debt has been interesting one
And it ended, might see IN it, some funny