Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-02-19


HEAR JuRIsT.-Judge Woodward, OF
Pennsylvania, in recent debate 10 the House
Of Representatives on the bill to destroy the
independence of the Supreme Court, said
that Congress had no more right TO dictate
TO the Supreme Court how it should decide
questions, than the Supreme Court had 10
dictate to Congress, The Supreme Court
was coordinate branch of the Government
aud its decisions were to be made under the
principle of the common law by a simple ma
jority."
Gen Meade carries on in his satrappy as
though he has serious doubts in his own
mind as to whether he is negro or white
man. But the way be carries sail, he will
not leave the country long in doubt on the
matter. No man ever sunk respectable
reputation so speedily before.
Advices from our sister Republics, Mexico,
Hayti and St. Domingo. represent af4irs as
going pretty much after our own fashion from
bad to worse. Military despotism and an
srchy prevail in one country, the Fetish Te
ligion" is gaining ground in another, and
revolutionary ''provisional trumvrate" has
been proclaimed in the third.
The Hampstead L. l. Inquirer claims that
gold has been discovered in Rockville Contre.
Here's.a chance for anot her purchase by Mr..
Seward.
One of the latest inventions is paper stock
ings, made of paper and muslin combined
We prefer the. old fashioned, home knit
hose.
There arc sixty thousand Cinnamon in Cal
ifornia, but a drunken one is rare sight.
How is this A radical paper says Gen.
Butler was insulted by Colonel White in
sending his challenge through the hands Of
negro
The Georgia Convention costs $4,000
day. 1t has been thirty days in session, and
has adopted but twenty lines of the new con-
stitution.
The largest number Of churches ever erect
ed in Pennsylvania were put up last year.
Out West, instead Of asking man "What
will you drink 2" they now say Nominate
your poison"
The walls of Cork, which the Fenians have
commenced blowing up, were built by the
Danes some three thousand years ago.
The Washington correspondent of the Gin.
cinnati Commercial (Rad.) relates the fol.
lowing incident connected with the surrender
of Grant to Stanton
The President said. In conversation or
Saturday, that he would give $40 600 out Of
his own pocket if the American people could
have seen Gen. Grant at the Cabinet meeting
on Friday, while questions were being put to
him about his action in the Stanton matter.
He never saw a man look meaner or more
Inundated. "IIe is not a big man." said
Johnson "e;ther mentally, morally, or phys
IcalIy but before be had answered the
questions We put TO him, he seemed to have
shEiVeled up into no bigger Than my fist"
Queen Victoria has ordered the Governor
OF Jamaica to fill all the responsible offices
hereafter only with white men from England
The negro has effectualy played himself out
with the British Government by his fantas-
tic tricks Of murderous plots and massacres.
That Government took the lead in the at
tempt to emancpate and elevate the black
race. 1t is now the first to perceive that the
negro is unfit fer seEgovernment or to live
harmoniously on an equality with white pco>
pie upon the same soil. This country. fol-
lowing in England's wake will pass through
the same experience.
The attempts to knock each other down
with chairs, recently made by members Of
the Virginia Destruction Convention, shows
concIusveIy that every delegate wants TO be
Chairman Of that body.
There seems to be as much rascality at
Harrisburg as ever. For painting the Senate
Chamber and Hail of the House, one coat Of
paint, the whole job not being more than
two weeks work for three or four painters,
the cost is two thousand three hundred and
five dollars.
There is a monster beef in J0hnstOwn
which weighs . COO pounds, measures nine
feet six inches in girth, aud stands nineteen
hands high.
The Chicago Republicans want TO get up
"wigwam." Better make it an Uncle Toms
Cabin.
A nongrel paper says 'the names Of Abe
Lincoln and John Brown, are written side by
side in the scroll of fame" We never had
any doubt about it both died by the hand
of Providence"
A bushel of apples will buy a divorce in
Indiana.
The Thames tonnel occupied in its compile
ton eleven years, and cost about 81 273 30