Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-08-14
CURRENT NEWS.

East India Judge ever appointed, died recent.
ly. - @ & 3 .
Mile Titiens is to sing at St. Petersburg to
the tune of $4,000 a month ST. 900 better
than Mario.
Mr. John r. Walker, late of the Leader, is
about to publish novel, of which report
speaks highly.
Howe, the sewing machine man, offered
100000 for French trottiDg horse in Paris,
but was refused.
Hon Benjamon G. Harris is mentioned as
the democratic candidate for the next Cover
nor of Maryland.
Dickens is certainly coming to this country
his agent having left England to arrange the
preliminaries.
Abby Folsom, for many years conspicuous
at anti>slavery and other progressive meetings
died in Rochester yester day. .,..t a.. ..-5
Somebody has unearthed ticket of the
Cumberland Mountain Road Lottery, dated
l76s, aud signed BY George Washington as
treasurer. --,.... ....
Alfred NJ. Storcr, the Pacific Railroad agent
at Leavenworih, Kansas, is under arrest for
embezzlement of $1,000 of the company's
funds
Mr.. THEODORE Davies, son of Judge Davies,
OF N. Y. and late OF The WORLD staff. has
been appointed secretary to the American
Minister to Prussia. He sails to-day.
General Sherman thinks the best monument
that could be erected to General Lyon would
be college at Springfield, No., and the mon.
ey already raised will doubtless be appropri-
sted to that purpose.
A Texas paper complains that the type
made it call worthy townsman named Hunt
Foreman of the Galveston JAIL" instead of
Foreman of tho Grand jury" which must
have hurt the feelings of the worthy towns
man.
While passing down the Mississippi last
week, General Sherman was terribly bored
by band of mnstrels who were on the
steamer, and who persisted IN singing all the
Sherman songs that ever were written.
Commissioner Rollins and family, of
Washington, passed through Saco, Maine,
yesterday, on their way to Old Orchard
Beach, where they will spend few weeks at
Red Castle, the summer residence of Hon.
Charles A. Shaw.
Hon. R. G. Purgear, who was elected to
Congress from North Carolina in 1923,
serving two terms, who served in
both houses of the State Legislature,
and who was a member of the Philadelphia
Convention in August last, died on the 3lst
ult., at his home in Yadkln county.
Alex H. Stephens does not hold himself re-
sponsible for the opinions attributed to him
by correspondents of the papers, who have
recently visited him He is trying to get
well enough to express h,s views on the
political situation in public speech.
Mr.. Geo. Mason, son of the Hon. John Y.
Mason, formerly Minister to France, has
received commission as Lieutenant in the
French Army, and has been ordered to report
to Agiers.
If cucumber and melon vines are touched
once with feather dipped in kerosene bugs
or insects of any kind will not trouble them.
1t will protect turnip and other tender
plants from the ravages Of the fly.
1t is,annouuced that by the 1st of Novem-
Der, II gold mines will have been opened in
Spottsylvanls, Culpeper, Grange and Louisa
Counties, Virginia.
Mrs Abraham Lincoln has given 5000 to
the association for the relief of destitute COL
ed wOmen.-Ez
That might be considered but drop in the
bucket out Of ninety large boxes Of goods
carried away from the White House on one
tram of cars By Mrs. Government.
ToLEkATIoN-YIENNA, July q, 1867
The Austrian Reichstrath has adopted roso-
lutions in favor of the political equality of
religious faiths, and of acknowledging the le-
gaity Of the ceremony Of marriage when per.
formed by the civil magistrates.
Daniel Frederick Brakeman is living in Cat
taraugus county, n. Y, having attained the
age Of one hundred and seven years, with all
his faculties remaining vigorous. His habits
have never been considered very abstinent as
regards the drinking Of liquor,
Mary Preston, aged one hundred and three
years died at West Chester Pa, on las
Wednesday She was borLe in that place in
1764
Mr. Peter Sherman, of Fairhaven, Me. , aged
90, walked two miles to visit friend last
Saturday. and then walked home.
Hon. Jesse D. Bright, formerly U. S. SEN
ator from Indiana, bu: now in the kentucky
Legislature, is talked OF for the Kentucky U.
S. Senatorship, vice Guthrie, who will proba
ly never be able to res ume his seat.
Some beef which was deposited in tins
beneath heap of stones in Spitzbergen, by
Capt Parry, in 1927 was recently discovered
and portion was cooked and eaten at sup
per in Stockholm, after having been frozen
fcr forty years. .......