Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-08-28
CURRENT NEWS.
Honor thy daddy & nanny.

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Hnnnicut expects to be elected governor
Of Virginia through the negro vote. He will
make sweet" official,
Short The corn crop is said tobe ''short"
In some localities. So are great many peo'
pie if they would "acknowledge the CORD"
Stanton has been kicked out. He would
not 20 90 polite invitation, such 40 no de-
eeut man would have rejected, and 90 he was
Kicked; and be left with the scar of John
sons boot toe fresh upon his unmentiona-
bles. .
There 10 a rumor from the South, 1--WE 90
not voueh for tts truth )that Gen. Sheridan
contemplates the removal of President johns
son, on the ground that he is IAN impedment"
toreconstruction
Sairap Pope, has removed all the civil Of
ficers of Macon comfy, Georgia, from Pro-
bate Judge down, as also, A. P. Lamar, So>
hcitor General of Muscogee county. Pope
evidently has his headquarters in the sad
die" again.
The colored "voters" in Tennessee are be-
ing despatched with great praise by the Rad>
ical press, which pronounces them an Offset
against the votes of the ''red mouthed Irish"
andi bees>guzzling Dutch as they call white
vote with white men-never with the mig
ger!
S. P. Chase is taxed on an income of 800,
900 per year. When be went to Washington
in 1861, he was not worth $1,000! He has
been lucky insncer for himself, if not for
his country. He and jay Cooke have made
loyalty pay-eh
Joe Hollis "bolt" upon the Bureau of Mil
itary Justice has rapidly relaxed within q
lew days, and as measure of justice to the
Bureau, himself and the Government, he will
shortly be transferred to military duty among
the Indians or some other place where sub,
orned testimony is not needed by rascally
demagogues.
The negroes should be charitable and gra-
ciously and condescendingly bear IN mind
that the white men are white by no fault Of
their own.-Er.
They should be patient too, for some
whites are getting black as fast as possible
and only need little nitrate OF silver to make
them equal. Their principles and inclination:
have long since been low enough to suit any
colorcd individual
Worms are at work among the Sea Island
cotton.
The Prince of Wales has signed the TEN
psrauce pledge.
The little Jap. known as can Right" il
said to be now in Paris.
The deaths from yellow fever at Galveston
average eight per day. -s --
The crops in Hyde county, N. c., hav,
been ruined by unfavorable weather.
81 Lewis Downing has been elected Chief .
the Cherokee Nation over John Ross.
General Sheridan has ordered that one hal
be colored men.
A woman In New York, who drank fftee,
bottles Of soda water on Friday, died the mex
day of cholera. ....
Gen. Montgomery, formerly postmaster il
Philadelphia, died suddenly in New York ol
Monday.
Gen. Schofeld has ordered that the issu
of rAtions by the Freednen's Bureau, il
Virginia, cease OF the Goth inst. Z.
The late Democratic Congressman Deuison
once in disgust told the President that if h
should appoint the twelve Apostles to office
there iwas only one of them the Senate woul'
confirm. ...... --.
Ex-Preident Buchanan is suffering from
bilious attack and extreme debility, -
A Colorado paper hoists as P residentia
ticket the name of Grant and Doolttle.
John B. Cough is to receive $4,000 fol-
preaching temperance in Chicago this winter
The Boston Transcript accuses Gideo
WelIes of writing newspape, articles agans
his associates in the cabinet,
The Buffalo Courier says that Sheridan
the youngest man ever mentioned for tn
Presidency, but thinks that he will be oil
enough before he gets it.
Mrs Kate lotion has sued the pacific Rail
road in St. Louis for running a..tsaIn over he
husband and killing him few days since
She valued him at 1900.
The wife and family Of General Sherman
who have been spending the summer at Madi
son, Wis.,, have gone to Ohio to visit Mr
Gherman's father, Hon. Thomas Ewing.
w. B. Bouru. formerly prompt and faith
ful carrier boy of the Providence Journal
has the pleasure this year of paying . tax o.
an income of Sl25 1916 in San Fran cisco, th,