The state journal., 1884-10-25
BLACK DIAMOND CITY.
A Few Newsy Briefs and Person
ais from Gold Pen"
W1LkEs-BARRE. October %.

On Tuesday evening last the col
ored Blaine and Logan club, with the
Keystone band, joined the excursion
from this place to participate in the
demonstration at Pittston. There
were $500 men in line. The illu-
limitations were many and grand, and
the affair was creditable throughout.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Miller have been
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Sclafford,
at Wyoming.
George French and wife have been
doing Glenburn,.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Dunbar, after a
brief sojourn among relatives, have
returned 70 their home at Elmira,
New York.
Mrs. H. Mathews contemplates i'm
proving her surroundings by erecting
two-story addition to her residences
POP South Canal street.
Mrs. Kate Woodsin has returned
from a visit to Scranton.
John Brown is still in very poor
health. ~ E|.s..
Mrs. William Crabb has gone to
Harrisburg. William Howard also
departed for the burg on Tuesday to
stake in" the Old Reliable Club ball,
given at that place.
Mics Susan Carl and Miss Sallie
Jones, of Curweusville, Pa, are visit
ing friends here.
Mrs. r. Carl was in this city to-
day calling on her many friends.
MIR. J. II. Howard, of the JOURNAL,
was in our city on Thursday and ad-
dressed the B. and L. Club, at the
Republican League room, in one of
the most forcible and eloquent ad-
dresses it has been our pleasure to
listen to during this campaign. Mr..
Howard is one our rising young
orators, and we predict for him a
bright future.
"The JOURNAL is an exceedingly
good paper, and it grows better and
better every week" Well, neighbor,
this is very true; so give us your
name accompanied with the CASH
aud thereby aid in sustaining this
very laudabIe enterprise.
The adage that ''silence is the bet
ter part of valor,' is a very good
motto, and we had concluded to ad-
here thereto, but when we see a man
of bright intellectual abilities gong
astray, we cannot withhold from
speaking aloud. Therefore, we would
say that Independent ~ B. F. Towns,
of Plains, the Wilkes-B Barre CORES
pondent of the Neao York Globe, of
whom we mentioned some time ago
as perched upon the "fence' and
Kicking has finally alighted and
placed himself square into the Demo
cratic boat, and is employed as ''mud
singer" for the E0eni'eg Leader,
published in this city. His last ef-
fusions were heaped upon the Record
and the entire Republican party. We
do not speak in defense of said paper,
but we do not by any means endorse
Brother Ben's course, as he is GER
tainly doing an injury to our race.
The Record simply advises him to
"white wash himself" but this exter.
nal application is no means to whiten
his principle, which apparently he
lacks, in order to obtain Democratic
"soap." Since his arrival here from
the "Land of the British" he has
been identified with the Republican.
Greenback, Labor Reform, Indepen-
dent, and lastly dropped himself into
that party which has always been the
opponent to the welfare of our race
the Democratic party. The Bible
teaches us to beware of false lead
ers.' Our people are not so blind as
to not know what course to pursue,
and to fully realize how ardently this
would.be leader is endeavoring to lead
them amiss. Furthermore, the man
ner in which our citizens are censured
through the columns of the Globe at
his hands, certainly does not improve
their condition. 1t does not add pa
tronage to a newspaper, neither does
it become a local correspondent to
'1ook on the dark side of life." and
exhibit its colors to the public view.
We hope our friend will bear these
facts in mind. GOLD PEN.
Warren Jackson, of the State Com
mittee, Albert Betlencourt, w. 81.
Eerneu and ID. M. Chester. noted