Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-05-27
CURRENT NEWS.

theatres and old clothes.
Colfax says that Washburn and Donnelly
are two as vile blackguards as ever called
blush to q woman's cheek.
The story that the boot-blacks now charge
Jacobius fifteen cents, on account of extra
heel, says the Boston Post, is not confirmed.
Butler played fine trick on Gen. Sher-
man. While he had him at Washington rs
impeachment witness, one Of the Beasts pals
was stealing Sherman's silver ware in St.
Louis
A imam and brother" at Marion, Ala, one
day went into a church, led his wife out, and
shot her, because she done gwine to keep her
no more,
A Dressmaker, in Paris, treated herself to
half dozen oysters, recently. 1t was good
investment ; for, in swallowing the last it
stuck in her throat, and when rescued, it
was found to contain a pearl, for which
jeweler gave her seventy five francs.
Every niger who wishes to make fortune
without work, should 60 to St. Louis and de-
mand the privilege of riding in street car
with the white folks. One hasjust recovered
$0O0,000 ,000,0l damages for being denied
that privilege. The Proprietors of the street
cars are perfectly willing for him to keep his
cent.
Mrs. Thaddeus Stevens, a negro wench,
recently lost her free pass on the railroad
from Lancaster to Washington, but it turns
out that her ticket was stolen by he rigger
who was riding by her side. What horri-
bly, depraved negro, to steal the ticket of
'Mrs. Thaddeus Stevens ?"
The election at WIlIiansport, Pa, on the
Goth, resulted 10 the election Of Democrat
ic Mayor, by about 800 majority, about 300
Of a gain since last fall.
Ross, the Roman Senator, has been threat
ened by the Loyal League with assassination,
for voting for the Presidents acquittal.
The verdict Of the Impeachment Court, on
Saturday Iast had the effect of emptyiug GER
tain pocket-books of loose change. The
shoddyites were bled pretty freely last fall,
on the Pennsylvania election. They thought
to make il ali right in the impeachment, but
the long faces seen on many during Saturday
and the early part of last week, told pretty
plainly of further depredations on the de-
posits,
The mongrelists of PhiIadelpha are charg
ed with prostituting the Girard bequest to
their own special plundering purposes.
Eighty seven thousand dollars more Of the
peoples money, were voted away by she
Rump, on the 18th, to support carpet-bag re.
construction in Meade's district.
The New England Carpet Bag Convention
of North Carolina resolved to prohibit the
use of the word "negro" in the minutes of
their legislation, and to exclude from the
Convention any reporters who should be
guilty of using it. Why don't the fools pass
law to abolish the negro's shin bone, wool
ly head, and hundred other things that dis.
tinguish him as distinct creature from the
white man as the buzzard is from the eagle !;
A law declaring the negro to be phite and
not black would be equal to the average leg.
islation of the Mongrel party.
The papers tell US that of 1000 white men
In Memphis, 1900 are disfranchised. Only
one white man.in twenty is allowed to vote.
"4AlIolced TO rote % What q sentence 10 that!
How long ought the Infamous scoundrsla to
be ''alIoped" to lire who attempt to deprive
white men of voting and give that privilege
only to niggers ? Congress has no more right
to say who shall, or who shall not vote in
Tennessee, than it has to do the same in
New York, or any other State. If this peo>
pie is not the most despcable on the face Of
the earth, the men who are doing this thing
will before long back clean out of it, or run
their necks into halters.-Ddy Book.
The new book claiming to be by the late
Mrs. Governments niger wench is getting
more kicks than kisses from the Jacobin
press. which is awful mad to think such
truths should be published.
If fMr johnson desires to leave the White
House, in good shape. he should engage the
valuable service of either Mrs. Lincoln or
Mrs. Grant. They understand d the science of
packing up other folks valuables, and taking
them off.
Texas farmers report loss in the last five
months of $4,000 cattle by Mexicans and In>
dians.
4 Minnesota editor says that man came
into his Office to advertise for lost deg, and
that such was the wonderful power Of adver-
tising, that the dog walked into the Office
while be was writing out the advertisement.
A confidence woman in Cincinnati has been
outraging the feelings Of the Mayor of that
city by representing herself as his wife.
At Pttsburg, on Sunday evening, young
girl, while sitting on Gazzard's Hill, was
taken with an epileptic fit and fell down the
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