Pittston Gazette and Luzerne Anthracite Journal

              ■ I 111 III. Ill thy inrnm-rn mi-mi n-i i ' j't rTrrnitT"*1 T'rr ■ ,1 - - — i« :-** «•* .* W"M r.,1 ,1 ,.fl I„: Willi,** jmiol l Mi™ •to***--***" . • .«t*h,C.;mi ! **r « x*matD \iv ' ... .T-, . ,, Job Printfrtg a KTT8I0N GAZETTE The "Gazette" Jobbing Cfflce, and the Job Prhbttng Office of BIOHABT 6c BKYKA, Luzerne Anthracite Journal. « PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY t IKHART, BE YEA k tftfMrftMl S "flawtte" Building, Main Street, West Side. Being now ronaoVdated*, embrace* a larger rarietjr a a^^fiffyj)rt?ar«yt™xecote the bent and cheapest manner. Particular altentloa given to the following The GAZETTE a»d JOURNAL if published' •T«j Thursday, at Two Dollars per anujjm, rD\p*r Na peetage charged within the eou&iy. AD VERTISING- BATES. MANIFESTS, ORDERS, * PAMPHLETS, HANDBILLS, CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS, SHOW-BILLS, TICKE-1H, .: oior uamm " ' iktm? MOTES, f tin *»v iD • • • ,iL " u.'... ■ ■'. i 'jvtAV .ruitAgi bdtU J AND LUZERNE ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. 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Down I sat to pat on my skaten, AHI APTDRaaa 'l'O MY JPIPBT. but somehow the straps always got in a *" m i »nd theI feem to go on. Inlopactftilly lmcribed to an lorwa of the flgjj t|,e breakfast bcl] rung just as I got »Y Wright. the first to fit, which put a stop to skating ' for the present. After breakfast 1 started Thon dear connoler 'Jnot a wife), up again. This time ilouly took me twen ..... » :  ppt oa raioe, and started off for a oiomeat's | (iMr: Smith.*' said she, with great dignity Jrapiico, while ate waa fixing herseLf. I ond emphasis on ihc Mr., "you have been ad not taken two strokes before I discov-1 tanking, sir !" ered that there was a great different bo-| Of cowaft I strom I hadn't, and made tweC5n paHor skate? and steel ones : a dif- l ail poaaibU accuses ; bnt I con Id plainly ferencc which, although apparently unitn- | see that my protestations did not receive portant, yet wag the cause of all my tills-' much credit. Nevertheless, the breach i— importance ' '  insects. "HC mencencot], cess." Then formed by ai.„ Uiinatlng ill intD (ilaim to any ' participle, at pfesetit use; a we think, be made a good beginning, com)ut failed of ultimate aucis no per- J of the foregoing words ter'C/: therefore they hare, no her than the simple names, jective, and noun, in their nd this simple character,will, bnnd to adnere to them, in Drm of expression in which Sined. In deciding the which any word belongs, nee, we need only deterit 'orms, and then its ■prOFFORD CIO. W. BRAINCRD * CO., M HENRY HUFFOUD, Proprietor. — _ Jj» l, GROCERS, tSaIJlE Hotel. PITTSToK, PA.— 103 Murray, near Wc«( Wr«c(, •v,.u^»i°l"is.LA""°8' *r*% nisski^"'i *"w I0"K- T\ 8. KOON,—ATTORNEY AT LAW.—Of- ' fSlt " "" "g"" fWgR JS* G.• B. SMITH, ntpmt;i o: Brandies; Witres; urns, **' ' ' ' 1 ' 4tc., Ac., Ac., TOHN RlCKARfiS,-ATTORNEY ATtA*. *0. 191 VfraKt Street, _ tl CONVEYANCER. and NOTARY ?UBLI0, i door tthnve Pu.ui«- Sf., N£ W*YO RK. Ooltmtloaa promptly atteuJed W. Oflie®—-One March 1, IW?.' 54W1 CUor north of ChM. Law A Co.'* Cash Store. ' [Marah 3#, jjgM. aps. Although of ancb ritn! _ - it raoj be mniMd up in th« on ft short ten tonoe, that "Parlor skates roll, whihe itee ones ulip I" Between these two little words lies a ditttiootion not to be appfeoia ed until learned by ezperlano- ! Hei'ore I had i'airl' " *he Unpor Joy of my troubled heart, Who*© clouds portend no a«fry »lrifc, i&W®8X«Sta Thro' which foul odor» roll! (111! weTI-n-day! conld ttier dlrine ty minutes lo jcct thetn Lath on. Off I w«m—riphly left, rijfht, left, ieaordini* to directions is the "Skater1* Munaal," which I had also purchased; but, teunjn# too far Forward, went dcrWT) "kerchunk !» Honker in the book. Ah ! skaters must not feu oo ' • forward ! T" fy'i'&i" Rigl" was salved over, and we started ajfain. For a time aljl went smoothly, but I be-n to think that, Araminta iu one of her •ona must,have fallea upon her terngetting more unpleasant with and stumble—and "their D13 -Ufi every varied fo. tftey mrj be coti part of speech to in ft given iusta • . it "• *er  rne was le . ,sty ..»• V. mint Whit joy» tfaote odor» brine i leaned too fu ',(™5' did."ot rw— 1 Finally rat aa were in front of the on." mine the office „ name is do longer doubtful. But let it bi remembered that a compound name is is appropriate, unlets it can be shown that t word performs a two-fold office at one and the same time- Another error appears if the prevailing custom of applying the term adverb to a numerous class of words thai arc, evidently, adjectives. Example : "A more lovely object," which is but another form of the adjective for expressing a livelier object. In the one instance the comparative degree of the adjective is show* by a prefix, and in the other by a tvjfix.— Why then, has the tcord more any higher claim to the designation "adverb," than the syllable cr has 1 And yet it would be difficult, perhaps, to find a grammarian who would insist oDn the latter claim. It is, in our humble judgment, a great mistake to suppose that an adjective can not consist of but one word. There is no more impropriety in applying the term adjective, to a phrase, containingsevcral words, than therp is in applying the name verb, or adverb to phrases. No one would object to calling "may have been discovered," a verb, of "moat violently," an adverb, and yet many wonld be unwilling to call "rcry dark blue,' an adjective, when applied to express the color of a fubric. When a phrase has no other office than to describe a noun, it may, without the slightest impropriety, be regarded as an adjective; and the leading word1 may be considered auxiliary to the 4nc that follows, if such distinction is deemed essential. At the risk of "shocking the nerves" of some grammarians of "the old school," a few examples of what we should accept as legitimate adjective®, will here be given : "An intensely cold day." "A vicut magnificent view." " Very muck too wide sleeves." These phrases are merely descriptive, and therefore are adjectives. It may bo hard to "cut loosed from long-established usage ; but old prejudices should be dismissed when they ooiue in conflict with common sense. Another error—not quite so general as some of the foregoing—is that of referring adjectives to"pronouns. Rule: "Adjectives belong to the nouns, or pronouns which they qualify or define." Now it is no very unsafe assumption to assert, that an adjective nevi ht can, hy any possibility, express a quality or property of a pronoun.* A few examples will illustrate this position. "I am sorry for your misfortune." A sorry what? Certainly not a sorry 1, but a sorry peraoai Suppose that you overbear the detached expression, "He is sick." The query naturally arises, what is sick 1 The idea of • siok he would not be very satisfactory.— Hence a kuowledge of the context becomes requisite. And on learning that the conversation has reference to a man, a boy, or horse, &c., the difficulty vanishes at once, and the mind reocives the impressions of a sick man, or whatever else may bo this subject Of the discourse. Assuming that ad' jeetives can describe nothing but nouns, it becomes obvious that whenever an adjective is employed in composition, there must of a necessity, be a noun, either expressed or implied; and to said noun the adjective should be referred.—This is a topic which admits of more extended comment, but wo forbear for the present. AMICUS. •CI Central School, Jenkins, Feb. 3, 18G2. /f t, rij, — —if»o far . his time, my heels went up, my head wen town bang! and smashed the half-gal lot iao I had bought to grease my skates, be ore I knedr what was to pay; The ooncus lion- was terrilio—+the windows rattled al Dver the houses-stare danced before mj syes—and instead of one, fitly oil-onni ieetaed to. be around. I was a I uost.pojlapsed, but energy and a quart ol ril that had got down the back of uiy neck Lpgotbcr with the reviving sensation pro iuced by the coolness of the oil-cloth where [ had split the scat of my unmentionables brought me up in a few minutes nearly as »ood as new. The damage was all done md the oil gonej-MHl I bad nothing to do but rarnd Jrthes and not geft excited. Sudlenly an idea struck mo. The directions were to keep the Aoot smooth and my skates greased. Here wa9 a chance to do both. Oil is the cheese, thinks I; and in about five minutes, with the help of a broom, the aforesaid oil was fccinii rapidly distributed, about half an inch deep, over the whole of the floor. Just at this inBmgnt.in rushed mother, lis, and the governor, who had heard my unlucky tumble, and thought that I had hung myself and the rope had broken, or tbat something else equally horriblo was to pay. "Oh, James! what ha»' happened ?" was the cry—when up went thMr beets, and down went the old lady on one side, sis on the other, and* the governor end over end over them both, all into the thickest part of the Two dresses and one suit of clothes went to thunder in less than two scconds. Dire was tne confusjon, during which I left. This was first experience on purlur skates. After a month's practice, however, I Kot so I qpuW nlpof: worxipg well with my s)vD«lCfrrs and swinging my hands about considerably, although I v:Ul Hokoowicdge that I never could stand on my right leg and luok at iuy coat-luil under my elbow, m Jones had dene,' without sitting on it before-I-'ewfd obtain a single glimpse of its "fiiir proportions.'*' * ' * ' *'■ •" # * Winter fcas now at hand. Araminta had presented me witb a gorgeous skatingca—I had reciprocated with » splendid pair of skates. We were engaged. T looked forward with rapture, not unmingled witli "anxiety, to the time when I should guide her lovely form through the slippery paths of the learner on skates. At last came aJiajd i'rost: up went the red 'ball, so did the price of skates. I started home eurly that day, designing to fortify myself witli a good dinner before making my essay as an instructor. Who should I meet in the hull but Araminta, wrapped, and bandied, and shawled, and eloskcd, looking so large that I Was appalled. She is oitly two inches taller than I am, but in the dim light of the hall she looked kngt The doubt wHicii had Keen haunting me all summer oroke out again, and I thought, witb a cold shiter, what, if I shouldn't be hold her ? TlD° idea wag so unpleasant that I hastened to change the subject. "Araminta." my love, I tenderly inquired, "why are you dressed '! It is two hours before the time appoiuted. Come in to dinner.",, "Never mind diuner. I have just had lunoh, and don't want any, and 1 Jaum I shall die if 1 don't go skatiug at once. 1 have been waiting1 since* one o'clock, and we inust start right off. Ybu don't eare for dinner when you are takiugtare.of me, do you, James, dear P So get your skate* and hurry,please." What could I do ? couldn't say I did want my djnner,,a7fer tbat, although I l'elt in my inmost soul that such was the fact, I yielded, and to that fatal compliance I trace all my subsequent misfortunes—for man without his dinner is no man at all. The fumes of the diuner gently wafted out of the dining-room, but iu vain. SlQwly and sadly I aaoended to uiy ■room. I had only time to dun wy skating apparel, pucket a pistol heavily charged with old Bourbon, and half ohoked myself with a cracker before Bridget knocked, to say that "The young lady wished me to hurry," and I had to start off, a melancholy sacrifice to a woman's eapriee. Just as we got into the - street, sis came running out, apparently in great haste, and * -ht—— \ f'8ht, bachcurd icovcry, (which ajgi i moment to find out,) I had returned ii front of Araminta, who was arranging hei mangold draperies preparatory to a start Designing to produce a profound impres sion, I «truek, with assumed carelessness a graceful attitude I had spent some tlmC in acquiring on my parlor skates. Indeed on them, I oouid do ii first-rate j for, bj putting the knees togetlier and pressing the feet a little outward*, you can main tain almost any position youmay desire But, alas ! I was speedily reminded that 1 was standing on something very different from parlor skates ! Just as Araminta looked Up, with ah admiring glance, putting the final touch upon her multitudinous apparel by that indescribable twitch with which ladies always announce themselves as "ready," and oxelaimed, in a tone of rapture, "Isn't it heavenly ?" 1 felt iny legs slowly receding from each other, and starting off sideways, on their separate'and individual responsibility! . _ ll, I murmured "Beautiful!" At the same titne making a frantic effort to bring them together, with no more effect, however, than if they had belonged to different persons.Parlor skates only roll backwards and forwards, and a title movement not coming within the range of my previous experiences, found mc wholly unprepared. My feet slid off further and further apart, and X stretched and stretched to accompany them till, actually,, every bone in ■»/ body seemed to ache, but to? nvail. The hijman frame is npt » pair of compasses, and 1 found myself" obliged, when my feet were some dfHtaitcQ apart, to tumble or split. So I tumbled J . ( ; Of course, the moment I touched the ice I immediately commenced to Jix my tJcaUi. Indeed,, I have no recollection of ever peeing any one tumble who didn't commence td fix his skates. Jtt is a singular circumstance, but almost exactly the same thing may be Been on the road every day. A gentleman Will be observed passing everybody at a 2.40 gait, and everything is all right; but, when lie reaches some oae who starts after and panes him in 2:89, homething immediately happens to bis harness, obliging him to pull up into a cornor of' t,be fence and fix it 1 This is a curious coipcidcnce, for which I acknowledge myself wholly unable to account. I got upas soon us my skates were fixed, and assisted Araminta to her feet. As that beautiful (but somewhat large) creaturestrusted herself confidingly to my protection, I felt ber weight (which F roughly estimated at 165 pounds) as she leaned upon my arm for support, with thcr same sensations that the man must have experlen&fd on tukiog possession of theclephant Which hto had drawn in a lottery. ' We started beautifully, but On the third stroke Araminta/without any earthly rea*oii that I could see, grasped my arm franticaliy, threw her bead buck, and sat down, more, like a thousand of bricks than anything else that I ever saw. I tried to stop Her, but ypu. Wgl'f as roll bare tried to stop an avalanche from sliding or an M. C. from speaking. She looked heavy, but she felt twice a; heavy as she looked, and my attempt t6 save her only resulted in the downfall of both of us. Wo came down "solid/' and a sharp "oruok," as though the ice had given way under the pressure, was distinctly audible. I started, and Araminta screamed, but nothing was to be seen. IJtttty scion a strttng smell of whisky began to pervade the air. Araminta, who is "temperance" to the back-bone, sniffed the odor with intense disgust, and rewarded "that any ope,who «rpq(d couje place  ladies smelling as that ma.ii did MW, had just passed, was no (jentLman, Jl acquiesced, of course, and muttered something about "great biute." At the same time I could ndt help felicitating myself on my discretion-In putting my 'whisky into my Ooat-tail instead of my breast-pocket, where Araminta would have discovered jt te a oar painty. But, on putting my harnkjuto my pocket, I was horrified to di»covar/i»y getting my fuDgers«ut,tbat that lagt "crack" had been the death-knell of my flask, that it was reduced to fragments, and the odor in question arose from my saturated pocki ets f " mm I r-. -\ tance of this di _ ...Miy, just 88 we were in rrom . •dies' room, a little brat of a boy, skirting by like the wind, came up against Aramirt ta with a force that caromed him off about two hundred yards, making a hole through the crowd in his way like a six-pound shell. I seized fee*, and I know I would hare held her up, only, just at tfiat moment, my left leg, by som* fatality, bad again seceded from the right, and started off sideways by itself. Anyhow, over I went, and Araminta tat on me, more like a pile-driver than a yoong lady. Wo went down right in the path of half-a-dozen skaters, who piled over us in a perfect pyramid. The way the drapery foil was tremendous, and then—all Was a blank. i . : ****** Anotber song: they'd Bin* I Nay. if they felt, aa now I foel— Saw vidians that I »«•—! Their preeenthate would tarn to leal In 'plenishing of The® 1 Bat iinee they liark not—come thou gooA Kind Cfcnil bt the ««d, I'll aire thino heart of sendal-frood i The bftt that can bt had J What ihall it be ! Havana bright, Virginia rich and rare ? Wefll raim tueh cloud* of jay to-night Men wiortaU cannot ihurc! . . . J. K. & B. B. PLACE, WHOLESALE GROCERS, No. SO BBOAD Street, Law and Collection Office. EORGE B. KULF, Attorney at Iniw,— OMne |jr ia the Court House, (Registers Office,) WUke«-B»rre, F». [Dec. 13, 1880. 420 | w.» r»%ky YORK. FLETCHER PLACE. Sowing. TLTVLS. DA VIES bavin* procured a sowing 1*1 machine, is now prepared to do Imrnily aewmg and stitching of aft Winds, at short liotioe, is Sturmer s n«w brick, second floor. Feb. IS, 1800.—tf. Mantua making. * f JiM. bAVIB'wotild respectfully null ,th» attention JJXKfdifi I."4it»of iPiUston nuil vicinity to »»CTlarge vXrtetv If most approved New Interns Just received from New York. Pnrtfeglar situation paid tolhenutand mail. mi iiliorl noiioo. Hl*Ce of burins?*. Jn C'apt. btormer a New ftri.'lc Budding Third Htury. Pitt* toil. Kpf. □». 1«IW. And while the Ineenie rolls around In light and curling waves, Well ding, grief to the depths profound! Leave care to plodding knaves! IIo! for a light!—there—that will do— Gently—mine ardor burns! I'm wrapt in clouds of aiure but I Good iDs*t I till dawn returns I Delta, Leeds co, Ciuuui* West. /-» g. BECK. M. D.—DEVTIST, U. late of PHILADELPHIA - & Orace,—Main St., above the l'ublle Saasrs, Bast Side, WUkus-Barra, Pcnna. ! Jaljr 1», IS90.—ly, , f I came to my senses in one of the eating booth* by having scalding hot coffee pourod down aDy throat by gentleman who stirred a little whisky in it, occasionally, with a sausage, in the absence of a spoon, to strengthen me. I started up and rushed to the door. Where was Araminta t V"' •' iJ/- tvuy your goods at the cniiAP CASH n atore of Clark an i Grariahan, Main street. Pittston Penna. They have a full assortment of all ki#ds of ■urchandise eonstautly on hand. July 18#0. _____ TD OBERT IIAUIt,—BOOK BINDER, NORTH it East corner of public Square and Main-st Wilkcsbarre. Picture Frames.CommonOilt and Mahogany. ornamented and plain, made to order, of any »i*a. Jpb Binding n«atlv executed. A large selection of common and line pictures, Albums. Blank hooks, Stationery,'Novels. Ai., always on hand. Juno 17, IttS. J.lr TJ *?4-Y. The (lay is cold, end dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the moldering wall, But at every gust, the dead leaves fall, Aud the day is dark and dreary. T\B. C. R. GORMAN having resumed the l| practice of his profession, respectfully tendtrs bis services to the people of Pittston aud T'SSlVrefk at the EAOLE HOTEL will receive •rampt attention. niRlit or day. Pittston, July io, WUl. «f i Pittaton Banery. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and tlio wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the moldering Paat, But the hones of growth fall thick in the blast, And the days ore dark and dreary. "Your big ga\,v confidentially remarked • very small boy, "has gone off with that fancy skater over thero. My eyes I you ought to see him do the 'outside edge backward.' " I looked, and saw Jones J Yes, .Tow*! Standing on one leg and look'»g at his coat tail, under his 9IW, in utter defiaoce of all lawa "t gravitation, and not sitting down; and there also was Araminta, gating at hltft in tflenc admiration. THE stall oflife la good Bread, and I wonld respectfully inform tlie citizens of lMltatim and vicinity, that I always keep tlio geliuiu« articlc on hand r'or sale, with all kiixtsol Craok - era, pies, calces, fee. Fftmilw* and parHca supplied wlfh everything in Iris Ntift, (Cu sltoit notice,andoa reasonable torma. My e»Wldl»lD moos is opposite Jacob's store on Main-st FRANK BRANDENBUKtJ T\B. J. A. BOBINSON.—HOMOEOPATHIC IJ Physician and Operative Surgeon, PltUftba, Pa./respectfnll offers his serviees to the poaate at Pittston aud its vicinity, a constant supply of tri-sli in nbrines always on "ramiiuy eases furnisliiMl or reBlled to order. orKlCE in ijecoud Story Cap!. Sunnier h Dc* Brick "J'lWsum. May », IMO.-ly. Be still,sad heart! and casus repining; Behind the clouds tbe sun is shilling; Thy fate I* the rommon fate of all, In each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary. MANCFACTt:iltKB 8. STOKMED, SKATING A HUMBUG. i [From the Sunday Times.] At this moment the policeman who had followed ns 00 the ioe, tupped me on the shoulder, and arrested me Iter being intoxicated on the pond. I plead and protested without avail—the guardian of the public virtue was inflexible. I had to go to headquarters, followed by a train of admiring spectators, lik the "tail" of a Highland chief, and attracting tlic attention gf every one on the pond. After half an hour's expostulation with "the powers that be," I succedcd in convincing them thit l was not drunk, and obtained my release, with an admonition "N»t to do so«gain." Just as if I had done anything! Hut, by this time, it Was dark; my clothes were spoiled; «nd my feelings were 'Hpo many for im"—and I left. ; ;»« That evening I received all my letters, locks of hair, Cfcc., (but not the akates,) I had presented to Araminta, with a short note, stating, "That she felt compelled to breait off all relations with one who would 80 far forget himself, in public, ns I had done." ' v: J,. M. BAIiKETT, — DEIfTlST. — Office ft U hi!) resilenoeon Franklin street, nppn*- ito the Methodist Oittireh. Wilknu-Burro. l»a.', where he may hareafter lD« found at nil hour*. Dr. B. inserts Teeth on Gold and Silver plate, Ac., and operates in all the branches of Dental Surgery, in the beat manner. ; A deduction from usual charges sufficient to cover expenses, allowed to persons who come from a dishince. Afxril ID, 1K00.—ly. By C3-. W. W. There is a quotation familiar to all schoolboys where some old fellow of piou« memory, Cyj being requested by Queen Dido to •rave an account ot his travels, replied : "Thoucomrtiandcst'me, O Queen, to relate (he history of ray woes." It is with a feeling of the same description (only ujpre so) that I address a discfiuiimiting public, in.the hope that  example will prove 4 warning to all similarly tempted. lJut a few days since some one published an article on "Skating us a fine ait." The man must have been insane! Seating, / say, 1'* a htrn'my I and what I say I know by sad experience Listen for a moment nud you will agree with me! Last spring, while walking with Ararninta through the sylvan shades of the Central Park, that charming young female went into ecstacies over what (in her ignorance) she terncd the elegance and gracefulness of thk.nmusement of skating, and after avowing her determination to acquire its mysteries daring the coming winter, or go duwn into an untimely grave, turned to me and exclaimed in a tone of melting sweetness: "And you Mr. Smith, (my name is Smith,) you will teach me I am sure!" The voice, the glance, the pressure on nly arm which accompanied it. made iny heart go pifcC-pat faster than a pleased rabbit's tail. Need 1 say that I at once embraced the proposal, and ns much of the proposer as I could, without attracting at' tention. On returning to the paternal rodf it suddenly'struck that I had forgotten nni important thing in rashly making tliie promise—that i couldn't skate Horror! Al'tcr a moment's reflection, I seized my hat and rushed to find Jones. I met him in jiroadway, and collired him so quickly that every one looked arojnd, arid a small boy hollered "Police !" instantly. " Jones!" I exclaimed, " I nave got t( learn bow to skate right off. How is it tc bo done ?" "Let go my collar, Smith," was the re ply of the somewhat irate Jones, "and don't get so (something or other) excited You can learn easy enough if you will buj a pair ot parlor skates." "Jones/' I returned, relinquishing hb collar as requested, ''you're my preserver What will you tuke 1"' Jones took something, arranged his col lar, and we bought the best pair of parloi skates money could procure. Full direcions were given by the skate man. "Only bate your floor smooth, am keep your skates well greased, and you wil go like a bird!" was his encouraging re mark, is he handed them over to me wit! tho change. DEAJ.EIi IN ■TJOOTS. MJTOKP. LEATHER ami FIXDrNOfc.- Muhi JIj IMUtou. A Urge assortment of Fr#n&lD (ittlf Kip ami Patent Ijeuthqr always on hanu. Kepatrin*j A on# with piirv-r-tinDtyoW reasonable terras. Cash paid i'oi all kiudfc-of hides and skin*. Jim. I-'W. \T\XTAl)I\¥WG,-SIrs. S. J. GEDITI IDI» would respectfully inform the ladies of rTttatofr thM bH* still contin\»o4 the business of Ladies' Dratfeinaking at her.idd location. over Loon da*'s, owpoailo Jlfll, and holds herself in readiness at all times to serve her cu»- (orners in the best tnnnner. HAYDEN BROTHERS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN Fancy Goods, Yankee Notions, "Cigars, &c., MHiFOHD, PI*. She Is Ifl rccefpt of the latest pattern# fbr T;*- dlea' ana Cloak*, and Child**"''* «h»H-iug ami will avail horaelf »f iUea« Hd vantage* In servinjj Iter ... Pitta tpn, Oct. 3. 1C«1. DRESS PATTERNS. «l. IIAVOK*, TltACV HAY IDf: V, Jtay 23, 18«1. J011M 11 AY II KM. GEORGE IIAVDEN. MU JENNINGS 4 BROTHER, Wholesale Dealers in WILSON, BARNES 4 CO., Grain and Lumber, Wholesale Crooers and Produce Commission Merchants, OF ALL KINDS. FLOUR, FEED & MEAL, PORK, BUTTER and CHEESE, I haven't seen her since, but am informed that ahe is'tobe Mrs. Jones at the end of the skating aciuon. Since then, I say, "Skating is a Humbug 1" Am 1 not justi&cd ? TEA S, ajji BXtwifuv* DEALaaa is ; ISTo. 115 Street, LARD, DRIEb APPLES and BEANS, BALT, CEMENT, 4c, Ac. PITTSTOW, PA. (Third door below Wutkington Street,) William II, WiUo%» KCi; NEWyOUK! Samuel NJ Delnijo. t -. i . Ftf tlio HlUrfon Omcllo. -i"! id i-.»A Educational. ' 1 Mrsenn. Editors:— It is a matter of regret, that in this boasted "age of process," writers on grammar—in their "revised and improved editions"—continue tb eoprthe errors of their predecessors with a fidelity tljat would do credit to a better cause. #rotn the time of Lindley Murray, down to our day, we find in nearly every treatise oti grammar, issuing from the press, the senseless designstion, "Adjactive Pronoun,1' or "Pronominal Adjective," applied to * olass of words which way, in the coustrwotiouof sentences, be used either as adjectives or pronouns; but never partaking of the nature, 01 performing the office of Luthat thp same time. DVo may say, "The man tliat told the talc," or 'That man performed the work " In the former instance, the word that is a pronoun, and has not the slightest characteristic of an adjective appertaining to it; in la'tter, it is an adjective, without a shadow of pronominal character j and yet the books ( with a few exceptions) direct us to call it an "adjective pronoun!" Some grammarians, in the subdivision, make n class of "Possessive Adjective Pronouns.'' A single case will suffioe, perhaps, to show the consistency (?) of this term. Let im take Tut—which is ope of said class. Jones invited,me bo call at his store. Here hit is Simply a pronoun, representing,the proper noun. Suppose I say, I have been tc Jones' store. Now whatever is true of the pronoun, in the above use, must be true ol ♦ho noun -nd in the same relation to thi ROBERT L. MULFOBlJ, CORTLAND A BPRAUUE MULFORD 4 SPRAGUE, 1861. fresh fall goods igei, RE1GEL, BA1RD 4 CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS " IMPORTERS A WHOLESALE UEALBKS IN HARDWARE, CUTLERY & GUNS ALSO, SOLE A«E.\"T8 soft - :p 9 ' 9S0WN ft SPRIGUii'S CELEBRATED MINERS' SHOVELS, SCYTHES, AXES, • Brown, In hi* ob«C rvations on Kule 4th, hits treated the mutter of referring the adjective to the pruuouii, With consummate skill- foreign and American Dry Goods, No. M North 3Cl St., fliilad'a. Pa., Wouy V-peemijly. fnvitv the (ityention of County i 9f\m + Mississippi Judge.—During the summer of 1888, a landlord was brougnt before J udge Hawkins, (who sat on a decayed stump in front of the hotel,) on a charge of selling liquor in quantities less than a gallon, being contrary to the lavs of the State of Mississippi. The proe«u was commenced: D1 in* And EDGE TOOLS, 119 Greenwich Street, near Vesey St., NEW YORK. Largf & Wtll-Sflcctfd Stoekof Fresh Fall Goods, Which they are now TCreivfrtiJ Cn etort. *9- M«wImmim Kotfd find it to tteir wiyantme Ui ciul and axamioo our Muyol, tO.—UcL U, 01 ** pril 4, MM. &UDJ\ DENTISTRY 1 Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest I rriHE aubneriber having procured the latent Improv. 1 «d Machine for Vnl'-niiiainR. i*now »«idyto,hwer« lMality.aato durability. MjrJa. or pranical nee. K«W liar aD a base haa not ita equal among ilju varum- afiiclea now in u»e. not even axceptlniffJoM. It ha- b«n ttarouglHy Mated for ilia paat oiKbt year* by some aur moat celebrated Dentist* and pronounced perfectf 1 wHt taaerl a * PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS "Prisoner, are you guilty, or not guilty t" "Not guilty," the landlord replied. northeaster : pe nsylvania | "Prisoner," exclaimed the judge, "you know that's a He ! I have drank in your house more than twenty times a day myself.""Any Other Man."—This common nnd popular term has originals at work for the purpose of ascertaining the starting point. Being somewhat of an archiBologist oursclf and prone to searoh the Scriptures, we have discovered the origin of Hie term. It can be found in the 17th. nm of tho 16th ohapter of Judges, where Delilah was coaxing Samson for the secret of his strength, He divulged as follow* : "If I be shaven, then my strength will go from mo and I shall become weak, and be like •any other man.' " Bully for Samson !— Coshocton (Ohio} Age. —-——-— 0ii*gle Spt tor &15. Entire Set for Twenty-five Dolls, Partial setts at corresponding prices. Cbme one! oonw nil I Now is the time to secure your teeth and my office ore* Btortner'a »hCje utirre and **• ipint apeotoiana. Abaenlfrom tba o01us u,e fifaUei) ifkataif l»i - A V. PETERBBXr, Pitts ton, Pa. II. C* A. PETXMSBN, Scruiit-un, Pa. Q, !#STE#SJSM aonwdaie, Pa. r,.\. Nov. 8,1880. REM0ENT OKTFIKT.—" A clean and ' vhoteiome appearance of the mouth is the ■troogest Utter of roeoininen4ai»on-" DR. J. W. KESLKR, Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, has permanently located iitPlttaton and raapaetfully tenders his prof onion al services to "BUt Teeth inserted from one to an entiro sett, on Gold, Silver or Vulcanite plates, to look M well M the natural. Please mill and examine ■ Mpimeus of Teeth. Teeth filled with Gold, Tin ia" jtgarSUgfe d...r«H fcy th» tid of 0»1- Twaic Process. The sensation produced- by the panasa of the ourrant it not painful, it being so adjusted as to be just perceptible to the patient., W. B.—Persons wishing operations performed ■jlli.lr.hwM. will bo wilted upon by leaving their address at bia office. A superior lot of TOOTH POWDER alwayaoA Grease: What do you grease them t with?" "n'-tp tvt AT! "Oil!" he answered solemnly. -* v -Cj JV1- V J\. I j bought half a gallon at once. Jones NOW Located Cor. #f Mftill 4 William stftets. pave rae his advice, too. "Always go ahead, Watches and Jewelry. intoi* and if you don't get e*ciu.d. you will do A WB-W „ lllWP/Slii the'nuuide edge backward'in a week. , -Wav^rarrep/ "Outside backward?" I inquired ,J$f?, "Wh-lD that ?" r.f - ' ' * I 624 ~ C _ jailed mo back. ♦ ■ — "James," siid she, "please be careful ti remove all the oil cana from the vicinitj before you commence. That's all. Good bye !" "Oil cans I" said Araminta, "what can •bo uican "Sure enough," I replied, kluehing, nev— . « - - Mr* It was iirat-class Bourbou, and could be sroelled a quarter of a mile ! livery one turned as we passed, and sniffed and stared to see what made "that smell!" and a policeman began to Follow us "a-far off." My charmer was not greatly pteascd at the publjo celebrity she had so suddenly attained, although ail Jet uneonsoious of the cause'. _ «r HV. 4 , *3 —v.. WW » jrord store: hence we shall have Jones i potscstive adjective noiin! If the latfcei appear» more ridiculous than the former it is in appearance only—the cases are pre oisely parallel. IfD as in the case of that (above cited), it iB deemed necessary U ipply a compound name to,«word which ii opable of performing different litnple of - **hy not call labor a verbal noun 09* An Englishman and Yankee being in a promiscuous company, the latter was so nauoh struck with some bold air sans by the former, that he asked the name or feu*. "Oh, nothing but the tune the old cow died on," was the response. The Yankee struck up Yankee Boodle. ""What is that T" asked the Englishman. "That's the tune OtD Bull died on P* M tE'«TpubVicingonerai rfiflS&fn- i ' Thi» atyki" unawered Jones, iUn4i»g,' #r»bCik»»tup t» tjwjreotaofm) hair, "what MW^n^dMH^WMMPlfagEElgfra shed hi« BtnrCD with a new and ext» UBivo an»ort- u he spoke, on bis ri«ht leu, uud twisting can »he rneau V vt e started again Thus time she slip-! from the fact that it may be employed ,amt of VtoUM*. C'CDck*C* »r •» d«" himself as though trying to look at hi# Notwithstanding, I knew what aho meant, ped and hit my shin with her skate, in « perform the office of a verb in one instancy "gTt cU trader hi left &% /stood and swore vengeance. 5Ty that would have brought tears into the and a noun in neve, Flower Vanes, and a thousand other artic)«{ 0„ mv riitht and tried to oatoh a glimpse At length wo arrived at the pond. It eyes of a pawnbroker, tripping me up, and boih &t the same time). fcqualiy oojectio.i-wUiob wUl r-eummend tTiepselyaa. They Uve 0f m„ ,;„ht coat tail under my elbow, but was a beautiful day 1 The ice, Bhining of coarse we weet down together. lot- able are the terms, particijflal adjective, iTuoSing remarked, XT I didn't like ailver, was oovLd with thousand0? tared a .ingle ejaculation, more emphatic tod Dr«0 JfetSSK ty or prine. F Me it." Thereat Jonee laughed us though who wheeled and turned over its glasey than u#t,al 10 polite oouFMMtwn, m the take the following tramples . I saw a bird ' iiiiiDAIWJja.-Wat*h»«. CJoq*. and Jewelry M,ad aaid a eood tbinir surface as though sailing in air, it looked pieces of glass iu my pocket, on which I flying over tbe*ater. Here is no dCy Next morning 1 started very quietly so easy that I tie It quite encouraged, e' brought up, stuck in my leg iu several scription of the bird, but a representation heretofore enjoved. a continuance of the Mama it 1 down to the extension room, ao hour-and- I put on Arauilnta'e skates, and got a places, and I bounced up in a hurry, for- ui the actum i' ®M performing. Tbe respectfully solicited. . t TO.n. JA. a-half before breakfast, to try to do the small boy, who bored a hole into the heel getting for the moment all about Arammta. wasp belongs totheclaas of flying insects: backward," as per instrue-, of my boot, (and half an inch further,) t». 8he looked at me with indignation— -as distinguished from creeping or running r No A country lad says his Uncle Ben onoe made a scarecrow so very frightful, that one of the feathered thieves actually brought back all the corn l»e had stolen duriug'Several dijl.™ ' m-- - ■ ■ ▼ ■ , . Refers to Rev. O. M. Peck and Steuben Jenk- Drs-E-8Uel"Wld J-M- Office formerly occupied fcy Dr. FUgg, in Mr*. F«rtm»n'» building. Ctarget inoderaU. . CAMf.23,18«l.-tf : 'r,, i