Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-08-07

OK some Of the juries in Texas there rs not
single white man, owing to the "iron-clad
oath.'
A lady brought before the Police Court Of
cleveland, for ruCkenness, were Eve thou
sand dollars worth cfdianonds.
SUBSCRIBERS to the "Lncoln Mon ument
Fund" in New York are inquiriDg where
thelr money has gone. Into Radical 1ocu-
ments for the south Boston Post
The japanese commissioners recently in
che United States purchased 10000 volumes
Of school books, OF various kinds, to take
home with them.
PENEsYLyANIA during the late rebellion
furnished 362, ,ls4 soldiers for the Union ar
my, Independent Of $4,000 militia in service
in September, 1867.
A New Orleans quadroon has brought
suit against wealthy gentleman concerning
the paren tage Of colored picaniny. It is
thought to be case of black male.
The largest amount of money that has ev-
er been IN the United States Treasury at one
time since the organization of our Govern.
ment was in il on Saturday last-1S0, 100, 900.
Colonel J. P. Linton has been ns'renomi-
mated by the Democracy Of Cambria Coun ty
for the State Legislature. Colonel Linton de-
serves o re- election for his services during the
Last session.
The election took place in Tennessee ,on
Thursday of this week. 1t does not require
q prophet to foretell the result. Brownlow
carried it out with niggers and bayonets
IT is stated that the Indian war now costs
about million per week, and the expenses
will soon run up to five millions per week.
IL costs about million dollars and the lives
Of ten white men for every Indian killed.
A Crazy Second Adventist in New York
State has for ten years been feeding big OK
Tor feast when Christ should appear. He
has starved his other stock and spent nearly
all his property In purchasing food for that
OK.
A FREEDMAN in Texas proved a claim
$3.50 for wages against his master, but q ne
grojury would allow him only $l10, on the
ground that they knew him to be "a tri1ing,
lazy scoundrel," and not worth what his en-
ployer agreed to give him.
Two men in Davenport, Iowa, claim the
same woman as their lawful wife. They have
gone TO law about it, and the Judge is puz.
xled to know which man to assign her to. The
woman herself don't care particularly which
Of the two wins-she's sure of having one, no
matter how the case is decided.
CHICAGO Is eating frogs voraciously this
season, and has already consumed 100000
with the expectation of tripling the number
next year. AT the ouerman mouse ana Iead
ing hotels they are regularly announced on
Che bill of fare, and readily accepted as q re-
lieffrom the detestable "blue beef"
SINCE 1887 there have becn establised
throughout the world 100000 miles of tela-
graph lines, comprising 100000 miles Of tel
egraph lines. comprising 10000 mile of wire.
and working through nearly $4,000 stations
The total length Of submarine cables laid is
1928 miles. The price of telegraphlng is
higher in the United States than in Englands
The Turkish Sultan brings to Paris, as q
present to Eugene, a solid gold model of the
imperial kiosk, in the harbor Of Constantine
pie, with the surrounding trees in green en-
amsl, and the river flowing past in brilllants.
The tower Of the building will be Of rubies
and the value Of tho whole will be $5OOyO00
YoUNG man named Johr P. Jacobs Of
Fair Haven, Conn.,, has lately become insane
In consequence Of the public disgrace of an
expulsion from the lodge of Good Templars
ia that place. Jacobs was q clerk in gro
Gerry store, and his moral offence was the sale
oil some cider to the wife ofa clergyman and
member Of the same lodge.
The Springfield Republican tells the fol-
lowing snake story: A child at South
Dorset, nineteen months old, caught a gree
snake nearly two feet long, the other day, ate
about three inches Of it's tail, bit il through
che head, and came into the house with the
reptile wound about it's arm, and the blood
0oxing from its mouth. The child's mouth
was badly poisoned, but 1t received no other
injury.
WHEN Mr. Rice was eating cherries on his
farm, near Fredisburg, Ind;, on the thin inst.
and viewing the working Of his bees, hive
being close TO him, one Of the bees stung him
on the upper lip, when he Immediately
started for the house calling TO his mother
for some remedy, laughingly remarking that
s'bee had stung him. The remedy was ap-
piled, but in half IN hour the man was
speechless, and soon after was a corpse.
DURING n performance st tire Circus Of
Thayer Noyes in..the city of Rochester, Elias
White, the Lion King entered q cage OF
ferocious lions. One of tho males attacked
Linn, fslling him to the floor of the den, and
fastening bis paws upon his shoulder inAicting
severe wounds, The circus men now went