Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-07-15
CURRENT NEWS.

iSA SC 10 III" tue OuiJ IN-
ing who was ever elected to the Office of Pres
idert of the United States.
A young fellow of one hundred and sev
enteen years is on journey from Florence
to Paris.
The Rev. Gilbert Haven-a clerical Jen>
kins-speaking of Schuyler Colfax, says
His face is banqueting house." Next
fall it will be banquet hall deserted"
The difference between procrastination
and Butler is that tho common proverb
makes one the thief of time, while common
scandal makes the other the thief of ready
money.
There is man in Delaware who has had
fifty.one children and three wives One of
the latter and thirty Of the former are still
living.
An exchange says that the girls in some
parts of Pennsylvania are so hard up for hus-
bands that they sometimes marry editors
and lawyers.
A Babylon L I. } farmer caught in one
day, by hook and lines, 300 pound of blue>
fish, which be sold for I3 cents pound
Many Of the young male nigs IN the contra
band camps, at Arlington, are named Ben
Butler for want Of better.
There is trouble in Louisiana, because the
darkies refuse to attend their Own schools,
but insist on mixing with the whites. The
weather is too warm for "equai rights "
there.
Brick Pomeroy says Ben Buffers father
hung for piracy, off the coast of Spain. The
family has degenerated in courage-Ben has
not pluck enough to be pirate-though the
hereditary fondness for robbery is quite per-
ceptble. What nice leaders the Radicals
have for g. God-and- morality" party
The Radicals met with a terrible defeat
in Mississippi, and, it is said, through the
vote of the colored men. This, if true, is the
unkindcst cut of ALL"
The first Lightning Rod put up in this
country by DR.. Benjamin Franklin, is now to
seen on tie old house, So Daniel street,
Portsmouth, n. Ii.
Two men committed suicide in Philadel>
phis, recently, by shooting. One was a prls-
Oner in the county jail.
Heenan would like to fight McCOole for
$4,000.
Canada has recovered from its Fenan
fright.
Prentice says Ben Wade is no civilian
There is nothing civil about him.
Mrs. Lincoln is fulfilling her threat of leav-
ing the country if Grant was put up for Pres
ident. She can come back safely in the fall
Senator Spraguc, from Rhode Island, is
said TO be the richest man 10 Congress.
A clerk in an Ohio post Office has invented
an adding machine. Subtracting, unfortun-
ateIy, needs no machine.
About half of the newly appointed cadets
at West Point failed to pass the examina
ton.
One Of Mr.. Rreckinrdge's oad slaves is
stumping Virginia for the conservative tick
ct.
= forthcoming lecture BY Annie Dickinson
is entitled, "ChlIreu and Marriage."-
Shame. Annie, Why don't you say, MAR
riage and Children 2"
The Radical party is about to undergo
speedy dissolution from the fact fits afil>
alton with the niggers. Epitaph-" Died in
the Wool"
'' The good die young "-hence the longev-
ity Of Thad. Stevens, Beast Butler, Parson
BrownIow Co., show that they are not
prepared.
A speaking machine is now on exhibition
in Perth, which initiates the voice with great
ccuracy.
At Honesdale, Penn, two children, aged
respectively seventeen and fifteen years, hav
irg first obtained the written consent o.
their parents and guardians, were recently
united in wedock.
A Mulattto girl from Savannah now lives
IN house OF her own in Paris, with four
servants, carriage, and box at the Italiens
The Viscount de GueZot is her patron.
The first locomotive engine ever made in
this country was run on the South Carolina
railroad and this road was the first to carry
the United States mail by contract.
Misery and famine are raging in the Cas-
tiilan provinces Of Spain, and many poor
families are driven to the most cruel priva"
tions, such as living on roots, lizards and
other reptiles. All the farmers have dis
missed their ser Sants and are killing the cat
tIa in order IN save the exDeDses of kepDiup