Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-06-17
CURRENT NEWS.

@Ho uOOls corresponding arc NJ OalTO await
ing shipment east.
The blood which Grant predicted would
be shed in consequences of the acquittal of
the President 10 still unshed.
They talk Of putting up new signs on the
Erie Railroad, on which, instead of "Look
out for the locomotive" shall be Prepare to
meet your God" So says q cotemporary.
A London paper says: "The fortress OF
Magdala, in which King Theodore entrenched
himself, was found packed with barbarlc
wealth golden crowns, bracelets. jewels,
pearls, solid masses Of gold and silver bullion,
etc, oil of which were carried off by the vic
torious British soldiers.
LESSON IN GRAMMAR.-Lo the DOOR In
dian lower the poor regro lowest the
poor white man who is taxed to purchase
bread and blankets for both the others.
Two young children were poisoned to
death by eating what they supposed TO be
wild dandelons, in Lockport, the other
day.
George Wilkes and his friends are out
800, 900 on impeachment.
1t puzzles the "narrow. minded block>
heads" that Grant can write letters but can
not speak dozen sentences correctly or in
telligibly, Their perplexity would disappear
if they could be made to believe the truth
that he doesn't write his letters. His ST.
lence is equally as great on paper as other
wise. Stanton wro te his letters to the Pres
ident and nearly all his other letters are the
production of other pens than his,
ANOTHER NEW NAME.-The Chicago Con-
vention dubbed the Radical party with new
name, or rather with several old ones patch
ed together. For the present it shall be
known as the National Union Republican
Party" Whew what a long tail our cat
has got. But that cat will get its tail singed
before the ides Of NYvember. Mark it!
A Georgia paper says if the Jacobin party
don't soon repeal the law disfranchising con =
victed felons, it will be in a hopeless minority
in Bibb county.
According to advices from IIayt the Hay
tien dollar had deprecated to such an extent
that only two cents in specie could be got for
one paper dollar. The cause 10 Salnav's re-
serves.
Miss Maggie Hoyt, Of Greene, Maine who
was among the wounded in the late disaster
on the Erie Railroad, bas effected a settle
ment with the railway company, receiving
the sum $4,000. Both her parents were
killed at the same time she received her in
juries.
A female child was btrn in Lincoln county
Tennessee, the other day, having four dis.
tinct and well developed legs and feet. AT
last accounts it was alive aud well.
Pitisburg Pa, has ten nail factories, which
run 400 nail machines, and employ $500
hands. In the year ending March last, they
manufactured over 1000 kegs Of nails.
Fifty -four millions of Bibles, 10 l74 differ
ent dialects, have been distributed by the
British and Foreign Society since its founda-
tion.
The button fever is prevalent in Por tlaud,
Me. Miss Minnie l.. Colby aud Hiss Julia
B. Merrell have each completed a handsome
collection of 999 buttons.
A Western convict has been trying suicide
with pounded glass. He failed but feels very
uncomfortable.
The Choctaw Church is Presby terian in
Its organization. The statistics sum up as
follows: Ministers. II; churches 16; COM
muuicants, 900; Sunday school children
100.
A young man from Salem, Mass, has just
been sent to the Massachusetts, State Prison
He is eighteen years of age, and has been SEN
tenced in the House OF Correction twenty -one
times.
The grass crop Of this State il is thought
will be heavier this season than it has been
for the last ten years.
Fsnian invasion rumOrs have seriously de-
pressed trade in Montreal.
The receipts of Dickens last reading il
Now York were S3 OO0 and he took back
with him a clear 100000 in gold, His ex
penses in this country we're $50 900. rh'
latter we don't believe.
kilograms have been received at Vienni
giving the particulars of formidable revol
which has just broken out in the province o.
Bosnia in Turkey. Troops are rapidly beint
pushed forward from COnstantinople to quel
the disorder.
ExPresldent Pierce has written to sa!
that no will sustain Mr. Pendleton, Mr. Sey
mour, Mr.. Hendricks, Mr.. Doolittle, Genera
Hancock, or any other man whom the Con
vention may nominate for the Presidency
He desires q united Democracy, aud q vigor
ous effort to "arrest the surge of Constitu
f;on defvinO Iacobinism