Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-09-11
CURRENT NEWS.

Burglars have begun to take mp their res |
idence in closed houses In New York.
The Boston market is gluttsd with pota-
toes at l so per barrel. . G 4
The life Of Jefferson Davis 10 70 be written |
BY RicAnvnd gen. lenEane . Il
Louis Napoleon is individually in debt some
six millions OF francs.
Bismarck talks Of coming to this country |
to see Gen. Grant .-sT COOS
The Paris Exhibition Is to close the 3lst Of
October
Colorado paper hoists as a presidential
ticket the names Of Grant and Doolittle.
There is not toll gate In oil Switzerland.
Tbs roads are fAnean belong 20 the govern
ment.
The coolies continue to arrive in New Or
leans. They are shipped at once to planta-
tions in'lhe interior.
The unsettled bounty claims are being set
tied in the Office Of the Paymaster General at
the rate Of 1000 day.
An Australian paper tells of five ants in
the vicinity of Havelock, which on being de-
toured by chickens, eat their way out of
their crops at the expense Of the chickens
lives.
Fifty barrels of whiskey sold at Lancaster
Pa, few days since, turned .out to be fifty
barrels Of water, when they arrived in Balti-
more.
A hail storm, which lasted minutes,
broke between 900 and 900 panes of glass
in the Railroad shops at Susquehanna,o on the
afternoon of the 18th inst.
Bogus diplomas from medical colleges in
this country are sold In England. There are
some stupid medical men in London who be-
lieve that the diplomas are genuine, and were
sold in order to raise money.
Mr.. David Dudley Field sails for Europe
to take part in an International Law Congress
which he himself proposed last year, in which
it is intended to take measures for the for
nation Of o. code Of International Law.
At a negro suffrage meeting in Trenton, on
Thursday night, colored preacher, who was
the principal orator of the occasion, proposed
Chase and Sheridan for President and Vice
President, and wonnd up by q prayer for
President Johnscn's conversion.
Six months ago Boston house sent out O
cargo of 500 hoop skirts TO Japan as q ven.
used them for umbrellas
convict in Auburn Prison had himself
boxed up as case Of brogans, and but for an
unlucky mistake in marking the box would
have been expressed away to freedom.
Paris has two hundred and fifty thousand
oUerasv 1,Sy .soutasI,r rrvsrr5od -hx. -Ase0eat
cd nymphs du pure.
A radical mayor in Mass. chusetts has re-
fused to license a theatrical company to play
the "Black Crook" He wanted them ia
call it the colored crook.
The New Orleans PicaVune speaking of the
various stories relative to the continued ex-
istence Of Wilkes Booth, says it knows o
many persons who are willing to testify that
such q man never lived.
Arthur Sketchly, the popular writer, jour
naIist, and lecturer, left London, as announ-
ced by the English press. on the oath inst,
bound for this country. He comes in the Per
sia, and is due this week.
Ex-Mayor KalbHeiscb, of Brooklyn, mel
Mr.. Geo C. Bennett, of the Brooklyn Times
on Saturday, in bee- saloon, and smeared
the editors face all over with Limbnrg cheese
for writing offensive articles against the ex-
Mayor. The insult was not resented.
new enemy to the potato is reported by
Eastern paper. This insect resembles snail
and its head and feet are black and the body
yellOwish. 1t clings to the underside of the
the leaves sud feeds there. IL is believed to
be three lived potato beetle, which 10 very
destructive,
widow in Paris. aged IS years, married
ayoung man aged l8. BY her first husband
she had n son whose age at the time ofher
second marriage, was 81. She recently died
and by her will left her fortune to her sor
and husband. As her husband was not o
age, her son was appointed his guardian.
The Office of the Delaware Lackawanns
and Western Railroad Company,at Washing
ton, N. Y, was entered by burglars on
Wednesday night, who blew the safe open
and escaped with about 81 300 in National
currency and Revenue stamps. No clue ha.
yet been found to the perpetrators of the
deed
half-grown alligator was captured in the
Basin at Baltimore the other day The young
monster was placed in box, and taken to
the Scheutzen Park, when IT escaped from