Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-12-09

They say Bonner has given Dexter to
Grant.
A Philadelphia druggist allowed his son
TO put up prescription. The patient died
in two hours.
). b. Chase is the G. W. e. T., what
ever that may be-. of the order Of Good
Templars OF this State.
At Birmingham, Engl'd recently me-
teor was seen at P NJ, while the sun was
shining.
We mourn with Brigham Young he has
lost q wife, and is one seventy fifth of
Tidower.
An aged citizen of Troy, n Y, died
there last week whilst reading in the Bible
in family worship.
The new insane asylum in Pennsylvania
is to DO built at Danvine, and is to accom-
modate 500 patients.
A baby in Massachusetts, is blessed with
seven hven great-great- great aunts, who
take turns nj nursingit
At last New York, after much agitation,
has built market house on the Philadelphia
plan.
Old kiialeua, the Sandwich Island vol
cano throws up red hot stones to height
OF 1850 feet
In Poughkeepsie n man sold his vote for
a barrel OF flour, and was himself dOubly
sold when, on opening the barrel he found
it filed with sawdust and sand
The editors OF the Lycoming !StmClCu'd
have been convicted oil libel, of course under
the rule OF law. " the greater the truth the
greater the libel.
A new rebellion" ii appears, has been
started in Brainbridge, Ga, where the ladies
il is said have resolved to leave of wearing
Yankee goods and wear home spun.
There was quadruple marriage i'll In
diana the other day. Aman marriedhis third
step-mother, who had three children by his
father, and three OF his cousins brothers,
married three of his wife's sisters At last
accounts the PARTIES were trying to find out
what relation they are to each other.
Where wOuld the party Of universal suf-
frage without disfranchisement ? Just tig-
ure il up all Virginia disfranclised, no.
900 Vote: all Texas. 81, 000: all Mississippi,
70,0J0 votes all Missouri, 90, O00 in Ten
nessee, 100, 900 i'll the so called reconstrc-
ted States 10000, total, COS, 900. Then
when they have taken this out by disfran-
chiSement. they by negro suffrage, juggle
in 7J0, 900 making in all II difference Of l.
$50, 200 votes. Can an election 50 carried
be considered fair one? Is this the voice
of the people?
INEQUALITY OF REPRESENTATION The
inequality and injustice of the Legislature
of this State is seen wherever We look Lu-
zerne county polls $50 more votes than
Lancaster Yet Luzerne has but one Sen
ator and three Assemblymen, while Lancas-
ter has two Senators and four Assembly
men. LuZerne is Democratic and Lancas-
ter Radical. This is why SO unjust dis
tinction is made. Lancaster is a Congress
sional district, another county is added to
Luzerne. In this way we have another ex-
hibition OF the palpable unfairness of the
present apportionment, by which the will
of the people is defeated
How To RAISE TWENTY DOLLARS FOR
RE1IsIoUs PURPOSES. preacher in a
frontier settlement had been collecting
money for some church object There were
still some twenty dollars wanting, and after
vain efforts to make up the deficiency, he
plainly intimated, as he locked the church
door one day after service, that he intended
to have that said twenty dollars before any of
them left the house. At the same time he
set the example by tossing S5 on the table
Another put down a dollar, another O
quarter OF dollar, fourth, half a dollar,
Snd so on. The parson read out every now
and then the state of the funds ''Thar's
seven and half my friends. 'Thars nine
and q quarter" Ten and six bits are all
that are in the hat, friends and Christian
brethren" Slowly it mounted up
Twelve and O half" Fourteen" Eff
teen" Sixteen and three bits" and SO
on until it struck at 81, So "It only wants
tfty cents, friends, to make up the amount.
VIII nobody make it up ?" Everybody
had subscribed, and not cent more was
forthcoming. Silence reigned, and how
long j: might have lasted it was difficult to
say, had not half dollar been tossed thro'
the open window, and rough, and explain
Gtory voice shouted, "Here pastor, there
Is yer money Let out my gal. I'm tired Of
~aitiD for beT !"