Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-12-16
LOCALS
Personal.

d. b. STOwELJ of EImira was in Towan-
da yesterday.
JOHN FELTON, and bride have returned
from their wedding tour.
Mrs. PEET and Miss GLEASON, have gone
to Brooklyn to spend the holidays.
FIJI. WARRINER, of the firm of MrrCH-
ELI e. WARRINER, of Canton, is i'll town.
Miss EDITH KNIGHTOS. of Stroudsburg,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. n. n. BELTS.
Mr.. JOHN MCINTOSH is visiting his family
and making the acquaintance of his new
granddaughter.
Mr.. LORD, of the Elmra Gazette and Mr..
EVANS, of the Wayerly ReUie1c, were among
the visitors in town yesterday
Miss LILLE MERCUR, who is spending the
winter at Sayre, came down to attend Miss
KELLOGG's Select Readings, last evening.
G. II. INGHAM, merchant, at Sugar Run,
has taken Mr. D. ROGERS as partner, and
the firm have largely increased their stock of
goods,
JOSEPH GAYLORD, one of Wyalusing's
oldest citizens, lies in a critical condition, ha-
wing had an attack that it is feared, may ter
inmate in paralysis.
Rev. d. CRAFT, of Wyausing, after lapse
of a few months, has resumed his Sunday
evening discourses in the NJ. +. church of
that village He and Rev. j. Ii. WESTON,
the regular pastor alternating.
Judge PARSONS. the veteran of the argus
and Nestor of the Bradford county press, left
yesterday morning for his annual holiday va
cation, which will be spent in New York and
Philadelphia with his children. He will be
absent month.
Mr.. FRANK r. WELLES has been spending
few DAYS with his father, r. NJ. WELLES,
in this place. He is superintendent of the
New York office of the western Electric
Coz, and expects to start for Europe early
next month, to take charge of the Companys
business in the old world.
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ED. MoUILLEssEAUX has the finest assort-
ment of finger rings, bracelets and breast
pins ever Offered here, and his prices defy
competition.
DR.. TAYLOR'S subject ut the church of the
Messiah Sunday, will be, in the morning,
"How Christ helps u.s." At p. M, " Whith-
er go We cannot crme."
c.. Woodbury., Esq. of Milford, Mass,
states that the application of st. Jacobs Oil
cured Il valuable span of white horses of Il Sc
we're lameness, induced by straining the veins,
This led to personal use, and we now de-
clare it the best--the very best-in the mar
ket.' Mr.. w. is with a vast majooity.
TIE READING RoSTRUM.-MIsS KEEL
LoGG's ENTERTAINMENT is as though
this roar of the tempest had suddenly stied
and the fierce battling of the elements had
.'suothcd its wrlnkled 'front.'" the sunshine
breaking from the gloom and the birds twit-
tering in the trees again-to mark the con-
trast between the overture of Miss KELLOGG'S
entertainment and its succeeding parts.
To blend Shakespearen "seections" with
the light chat of the ''Biglow Papers, the
dialect humor and somewhat diluted pathos
of BRET HARTE and Mrs STOWE seasoned
with simple idyl in Mrs. BROwNING's
lightest ven-is, to say the least, bold in
novation upon Miss KELIOG's earlier enter
tainments. Had the prelude been lighter
and the climax assembled to more seasona-
BILE pitch, preparing the mind and soothing
the nerves for the more ambitious efforts of
the reader and the profounder genius of the
author she esSayed to interpret, we should
have been struck NTH finer fitness ofthings.
Let it be said down imprimis that no lay
man knows the 'intinite pains-taking" (Which
is Carye's definition of genius), the elocu-