Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-10-09
CURRENT NEWS.

The police telegraph in New York and
Brooklyn uses rs miles Of wire.
Gov. Jack Hamilton is hiding from the
yellow fever in the piny woods.
Out Of i've hundred American contribu-
tions to the Paris Exposition, 300 received
premiums.
Farmers and pigs in Ohio lament q failure
10 the corn crop.
The St. Francis Indians have given birch |
canoe to Central Park. .r.
Corn sells in Oskaloosha, Iowa, at eight
cents bushel .. ... ...
Gold has been discovered att Railway, New
Jersey.
A machine is in use in New York hotels
which announces if any thing taxes fire,
1t is stated that negro died in Plaques
mine, Louisiana, last week, aged one hundred
and thirty years.
A fast youth in Illinois stole locomotive
while the fireman and engineer we've at lunch
and carried it off about ten miles.
Chicago lawyers talk of making discount
on divorce fees when large number Of bills
are wanted in one family.
A citizen of Sheffield, Mass, sold his wife
and children TO another chap, receiving
G,I f,r Lot and oh aarf,l1u
quit claim. .....
Forney's stationery bill shows that the in
crease Of salary necesstated the providing
Of each Senator with eight pocket books.
A Chicago man refused to pay $500 for q
pair of horses beca use they did not suit him,
but afterward paid $4,000 for them at
horse fair, not knowing they were tho
same.
ANorfolk paper does not see why so much
applause should be bestowed on Sheridan
the hero of only Five FORKS, whereas Butler
is notoriousIy the hero of Five Thousand
Spoons.
The WEArHER.-During the past month
the lowest point reached by the thermometer
between the hours Of six A. M. and three P. M
was forty>seven degrees On the 9th at A.
NJ. The highest point was eighty>seVen de-
erees at three P. M. of the 18th. The lowest
point OF the same month of last year was fifty
degrees at SIX A. NJ. on the Odd and the highs
es. point was ninety degrees at three P. M. o.
the 3D.. ..
Many OF the dwelling houses in Fifth ave
nue. have mirrors SO placed as to reflect in
the boudoir the figure of any person standing
at the front door. by which "at home or not
at home" is determined.
A man in Connecticut has cleared his house
of rats by catching one and dipping him in
red paint He then let him go, and the oth>
er rats left, dsgusted by his appearances.
The fastest time in American Railroading
was that of directors train on the New
York Central Railroad, the other day, from
Hamburg to Buffalo ten miles in eight min>
utes, or at The rate of seventy five miles an
hour.
There are 400 Protestant ministers in Cal
ifornia, 10000 church members, aud over
$4,000 Sunday school scholars. The Con-
gregational and Presby yterian ministry is
about 100 the Methodists and Baptists each
have 100 ministers and all other denomna-
tons 100 more. ..... ....
NEGRO LEAGrEs-The Richmond Enquir-
er says that the State of Virginia is COM
pletey enmeshed with secret political leagues
Of black men, engineered by the worst kind
of white Radicals.
The Elmira Advertiser learns tha: lead ore
has been discovered in the hills back o ( W ellis
burg, Pa. Excavations give promise Of rich
ore. -.
The Pneumatic Railway Company prOpos.
es to blow peopls from New York to WASH
ington at speed which will leave railroad
trains far behind.
Mr.. Elias Howe, Jr., the inventor of the
sewing machine, died at his residence in
Washington avenue, Brooklyn, 4th inst. after
severe and protracted illness. ..
The President has signed the pardon of R.
II. T. Hunter. and it was delivered in person
TO him by Secretary Seward.
A volume of Mr.. Robert C. Winthrop's
speeches will soon be published in Boston.
Blitz is going to retire to private life, and
has taken Philadelphia as halfway house
There is weekly newspaper just started
at Cairo as a government organ, and the sau
tatory Of it is prayer. .......... .
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Mrs Mumford, the widow Of the man who
was hung by Butler in New Orleans, is living
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