Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-08
CURRENT NEWS.


The Arabs of AIgers are dying of starva~
ton by tens of thousands.
Many Engli.hmen are discharging their
servants simply because they are Irish.
The Louisville bridge will not be finished
until next year. 1t will Goa 81 100000.
Women's Rights haue been recognized in
Tennessee. Mrs. NJ. It. Carter has been elect !
ed County Superintendent Ct Public Schools
for Msury county.
There are five American officers and fifty
eight men on the Island of San Juan. The
sposof earth is claimed by both England and
the United States, and they occupy it to-
gether.
We now pay Sl00,O0o,0OO and more,
annually, to an army whose:S exclusive duty
is to keep the Southern States out of the
Union.
The Republicans promised that disabled
soldiers should never need support. But we
everywhere find disabled soldiers whose only
support is the crutch,
The daughter of veteran attache of one
of the Boston newspapers, through tie death
of her uncle. has become heiress to.S2O0 900.
1t may save trouble to fortune hunters to
know that the lady is married.
The bankrupt law has now been in opera
ton about nine months, and during that
period there have been filed in New York
300 petitions in Massachusetts, S25 and
In Pennsylvania, over ], 300.
Longfellow is working at new. w.poem,
Ole Bulbs violin bow has a diamond at
each end.
The Opinion, of Richmond, estimates, that
there are 140, 900, whites and l04, COO colored
voters in Virginia, and predicts the defeat of
the new Constitution.
Four countries-Scotland,E England, France
~na Wales-claim the honor of having given
birth to St. Patrick, and two-Ireland and
America-to being the land of his adoption.
AN-ANTIQUARY.-The English papers an
nounce the death of an eminent Welsh bard
and antiquary, Morgan Owen, at the age of
eighty wears. 1t is said that he had never
been more than four miles away from homo
he had never written letter and had never
received one.
SLMBo AHEAD.-The property used by
white schools in the District of Columbia is
taxed the same as other property of the kind.
The property used by negro schools is ex-
empted from local taxation by an act of the
Senate of the United States. "Bottom rail
on de top" where Congress rules.
The Daily Dispatch, niger. nose-ras,
rrinfsd in AHanto~n,has eivAn nn tho ghost
Cause-want of support. The Radical party
will do the same before long, for the same
reason. May the time come soon, for the
sake of the country.
PRoGREssIvE.-A negro family adVertises
in one of the Philadelphia morning papers
for a respectable white boy "to assist in the
kitchen" The world noyes-backwards-
under radical rule.
An eastern editor was shot some time since
by subscriber in arrears, whom he was
dunniDg. Fortunately the ball struck bun
die of unpaid accounts in his, pocket. He
was unable to settle the accounts and they
prevented gunpowder from settling him.
81 am not, and never have been in favof Of
making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor Of
qualifying them to hold office / am not in
favor of Negro citizenship"
A. LINCOLN.
wives as they please, but they are obliged to
marry at nineteen, or to pay forfeit to Brig
ham Young of $500.
Poland, as a nationality, has disappeared
from the map of the world. The land of the
brave, the beautiful and the eloquent, is
known only in history.
Mount Vesuviussis q state of splendid
eruption.
The trial of Jefferson Davis has been fur
ther postponed until May 2l. The trial Of
Johnson inter fered with it.
Late estimates show that the expenses OF
the War Department are DOW at the rate Of
$ls8, 900 year Thus, while STAN
ton is sticking" the people are being terri
bly, "stuck p
The Radicals dare not trust the Tenure
of Office bill before the Supreme Court. They
dare not trust the Reconstruction" acts TO
the same tribunal. Is there any escape from
the conclusion that they kno,O these acts are
null and Void-"rank usurpation 2"
147 lost children were picked up last
month by Brooklyn policemen.
Mr. johnson has signed the bill reducing
the taxes ON manufactured articles, the bill
taking effect from the lst inst.
Charles L. Stewart, OF White Plains, N. Y.
dropped dead on the street. He was recent
Iv married md leaves his Young wife 81 -