Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-09-04
CURRENT NEWS.

Jessee ID. Bright IS named Tor the speak
ership OF the Kentucky House of Representa-,
tivas.
The assessors return T. Chandler at Sl34,-
400, and that is why bis constituents return
him to the Senate.
W. B. Bourne, once cricr Of the Provi>-
dence Journal, returns an income of $l25,-
900 in San Francisco.
General Pillow has at last been ''in the
field" to some purpose. lie estimates his
corn crop this year at 200 600 bushels.
Thaddeus Stevens has written a letter to
the Radicals of Pennsylvania that they may
be in danger of defeat in October "lhrouga
apathy" He means through Democracy
". Y. World. s, --.. .szy--,
The expense for registration in Arkansas
is estimated at $500, 900. On that basis the
entire cost OF registration in the South will
be fifteen millions.
The last lineal descendant of the last Irish
King is working in Liverpool as q stone ma
son. We have met the |. d. ourself, in ma
ny places and under numerous names.
The real name of the actor Davenport,
who died last week, in Boston, was Deven,
and he was the younger brother of Major
General DeveD, late OF the cavalry service.
a Edward p. NOVEL;, of New York, has been
invited to deliver poem at the fair of the
New Hampshire Agricultural Society in
Nashua, in the second week in September.
A wedding IN Arkansas between a divorc-
ed woman of thirty nine and youth of nine
teen took place at the house of the brides
foImer husband, who is said to have been in
the highest spirits.
Sticky, Waterloo veteran, now seventy
seven years old, still lives in England, and
has three wives, and ten children by each
wife. Such is the force of perseverance,,
Mr.. and Mrs. Streeter, of Jackson, Mchi-
gan, have a child twelve days old, weighing
only one and half pounds, alive and healthy.
A common finger ring could be slipped with
ease over its arms to the shoulder.
A new horse distemper has appeared in
New Jersey, which caused tie death of its
victims in one or two days. The disease
battles the skill of all the veterinary SUR
geons.
The next Legislature of Kentucky will
stand about as follows Senate-Democrat is,
25; Radicals 9; thiid party 4.
ln the House there will be IS Democrats
and IL Radicals third party, 4.
A Catholic priest, the Rev. NJ NJ. Marco
of La Crosse, Wisconsin. while on his recent
visit to the Paris Expos ition, received as a
special present from the impress Eugene a
solid gold chalice, twenty -one inches in height
and most elaboaralely and curiously orna
mented.
One Hunter, a young man, killed bis moth
er at Ch,llicothe, Ohio, by throwing a stone
which Drained her, while she was beseeching
him to come out of rum shop, where he
was drinking with his companions.
Horace Greeley says, Great as Grant is,
he cannot carry our banner unless he wears
our uniform" The imaginative reader is
respectfully requested to call up the picture
General Grant would present were he to
parade on Pennsylvania avenue in Horace
Greeley'1 unliorm.-M Y. WOrld.
The returns from Kentucky improve as
they officially come in. In 103 counties.
Helm, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, ha> majority of $4,000 over Barnes,
Radical $4,000 over Kinkead, Independent /;
and about 43, 900 over both. Well done
After staying few days at Concord, the
Chief Justice will return TO Rhode Island
(the name of Sprague's country seats and
will probably attend the fair at Providence
next week.
Guppy, who Is TO the Buffalo Express
what Anip is to the Boston Post, suggests,
apropos of Parton's essay on "How New
YoIk City is governed" a pendant on "How
Sames Parton is governed"
Beecher wrote to Swinton pralsiog his
"Twelve Decisive Battles" comparing Ma
piers Peninsular War with it to The dsad>
vantage of the English book, spelling crystal
with an "h," aud saying of the book "whose
influence"
The Hamilton, c. W. Spectator outrages a
well-known writer by calling him George
Augustus Townsend, and by calling some
thing be said about Canada an "abominabIe
falsehood." Farther, it heads him "An Un-
reliable Correspondent"
The late Soulouqe was full blooded me-
gro. He possessed good deal of native
ability, and had received some culture. Dn>
ring late years, he has travelled considerably
On Europe, and like the many deposed Kings
in the Continent, was the subject of interest
in political circles.
TORONTO, C. W., August 3O.-Generai
Hassien, Secretary OF War to the Sultan Of
Turkey, arrived in Montreal on Thursday
aya1in0 and ia he Pnua0 Unnsa