Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-01-22
CURRENT NEWS.

PANPOAA III "uiSu JuEtGS are nI4~
ed.
Sherman is devoted friend of Grant, but
doesn't like his Stanton letter.
Chevalier Wyckoff is married. A Brook
lyn lady is the victim.
A radical candidate for Mayor of Memphis
has been twice publicly caned within week.
Fernando Wood pays 81 900 month fer
his house in Washington.
New Orleans negroes claim the inalienable
right to stop The street cars and throw them
off The track Wher they want amusement.
A child has been murdered in Columbia
Co, New York 10 procure an accident incur
Ance Of $500
The county in which Henry Clay and Pat
rick Henry were born is represented in the
State Convention by a negro.
Ex President Buchanan is said to be very
feeble at his home near Lancaster, Pa, and
Is not expected to live over he winter.
The Germans, it is stated, are beginning to
print their books in Roman type. 1t is found
much clearer and less trying 10 the eyes than
ihe German characters.
An army contractor, it is reported, has
been sentenced to FIVE years imprisonment
for attempting to cheat the English Govern
nent. A cotemporary wonders whether
such a sentence was ever imposed in this
country.
A bunch Of shingles recently taken from
the wreck Of British transport that went
ashore at Caslne, Me-, in 1879, was as sound
as when it was shipped IN England, although
il has laid in the wreck nearly one hundred
years.
man digging we'll in Phillips, Me. came
to ledge two feet below The surface of the
ground. and on blasting through it four feet,
two frogs were found embedded in the cenr
tire. They were both alive and in the course
of half an hour after being liberated hcpped
off.
Professor VIM. B Bradbury, the music
publisher, died at his residence, in Montclair,
N. j., Que day last week.
The Montana Legislature has exempted
lawyers, editors and idiots from serving on
juries.
In two years California has expended for
extraordinary purposes nearly three million
dollars.
Freemasonry is said to be very popular
among the Chinese in Australia.
Brigham Young, in his Scarlet Letter.
urges The young men of Utah to get married,
and by way Of hurrying them says that all
the young women that "are left after GER
tain date" he will marry himself.
A Vermont bank, which was closing up
Its business. redeemed S3.8G0 more bills
than it ever issued.
Gov Cox has ordered special election for
the Oath inst, in The Eighth Congressional
district OF Ohio vacated by the murder Of
Hon. &. s. Hamilton by his insane son.
A lady in Florida had thausand sheep a
few months ago. Every one Of them has since
been stolen, killed and eaten by the colorcd
constitution makers.
The celebrated elephant, "Romeo," killed
his keeper, Mr.. W. S. Williams, at IIatbolo o.,
Montgomery county, on Wednesday OF last
week,
Moses Nye once took dinner with George
Washington lie is now in the poor house
at Sandwich, Massachusetts. Such is tickle
fortune.
Cars with Family compartments, fitted W
in hotel style with attendants, are 10 be rur
between New York ard Chicago.
The cost OF the Impeachment farce is hal
an.illion Of dollars. That in the face Of iht
fact thai hundreds Of white men are out o
employment, aud suffering for bread.
In Europe coal dust is saved CONSOLIDATED
and used as fuel, to the amount Of a million
tons year. In few hundred centuries
America may have to do the same thing.
Milwaukee, Wis, has so 900 Inhabitants
Thirty years ago it was a wilderness.
1t took two men six hours to chop thro
the body CT an enormous maple tree IN Wes
Concord, Mass, aud then it stood for fiv
days. Finally the wind t"Pped it over. !
was 100 feet high and II feet round.
A Western New York paper laments th
failure 0. the course Of lectures in the tow
where II is published, but says they have
sure thing on dancing school.
Kentucky demands some S., 900 from III
United States Treasury for tolls on her turn
pixies unpaid during The war the boys in blu
having fallen into the disorderly practice 0
'running the gates"
The managing editor Of the London Time
il paid the same salary as the President {
the United States,