Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-08-12
CURRENT NEWS.

secret from the friends Of the parties to the
present time. The parties are now applying
to be divorced.
A man bathing in the Tallahatche river,
Florida, few days since, struck a small box
on the bottom. Being fshed up and opened
il. was found to contsn 81 $50 in gold, aud
$4,000 in Confederate scrip.
There has been great fire in tie woods
on the Rocky mountains. The heat was
percsptible mile and hal from the flames
and at distance of half mile was so great
90 to be unendurabe.
Prince Napoleon employs six cooks and
spends $50 900 year on his table.
John Dupree, negro, of Georgia, is tired of
the carpet'baggers and advises his brethren
to vote with the Democrats hereafter. He
alludes to the false promises of the baggers.
and asks his coloTed friends, Have you got
your mule 2 | ain't got mine, yet and they
told us right here in Irwintown they was 60
ing to give US one. Have you got your forty
acres of land Have you got your 1000 in
greenbacks Echo answers whars your
mule, instead Of here's your mule"
"No. a man but was a Democrat that went
into rebellion" says the Albany Erenlng
Journal. True for once. About SOC, 900
Democrats 'iwent into" the rebellion so sue
cessfully as to end it in five years, which
they would have done in two but for the
Radical botch- work at Washington. And
they are "going into" the Radical rebels with
equal Iim now.
Whittemore, New York carpet -bagger
Congressman from South Carolina, is charged
with having persuaded all the negroes in bis
district that their marriages were illegal be-
cause the proclamation of Lincoln set all the
negroes free from matrimony as well as sla :
very. Them it is said, be married them over
again as a magistrate for trooly loi fees.
Col. c. C. Gardiner, United States Asses
sor for the Twenty ty-seventh District in this
State, has written letter to Major General
Henry W. SlOcum, of Brooklyn. announcing
that hereafter he will support Seymour and
Blair, because he is convinced that only a
change of rulers can remove the evil of Con-
gressonal despotisIn, q divided Union, a
worthless currency, unequal taxation, com
merclai paralysis and citizen liberty. Col,
Gardiner and Gen. SIocum were soldiers in
1he same regiment in the early part of the
war and they fight together now again.
Tennessee is reconstructed. Tennessee is
bankrupt. Cant meet her July interest. And
wants troops. can't be carried for Grant
without 'em. Let us have peace.
Gov. Buell., the man who saved Grant and
his shattered army from an inglorious defea,
at Shiloh, expresses himself greatly pleased
with the nominations made by the Democrat,
ic Convention, and predicts for the ticket a
glorious victory.
Grant is said to be quite disgusted with
that being candidate for President does
not compensate one for even a little time
wasted with his new bed-felows. He has
been reading over the chicago platform, and
says the "goll burned thing ..reads as We'll
one end up as the other Washburn ex-
planned it to him, but he has forgotten the
points.
Ten million dollars. it is estimated, is re-
quired to pay the Tennessee militia. "Let US
have peace" says Grant.
GRANT. ANDREW JACKSON.
81 shall have no "That man deserves
policy of my own" to be a slave, who
wo'd vote for a mum
candidate when his
liberties al eat stake"
The radicals in convention, on Saturday to
nominate judge for the Greenfield District
in Ohio, broke up in regular riot. Let US
have peace,
Kentucky gives Democratic majority Of
over 10000. Let US have peace.
Only one member Of Lincon's original
cabinet is now acting with the radicals, and
that one is the notorious corruptionist, Simon
Cameron.
Grant kissed baby at Council Bluffs, The
baby has been sick ever since.
Senator Hendricks will stump Indanna for
Seymour and Blair.
Colored Democratic barbecues and mass
meetings are popular in all the Southern
States.
We have heard so much Ct Grants fine
horsemanship as to almost regret that such a
fine circus-rder should have been spoiled by
placing him in the army.
A radical exchange says "The Republl-
cans will be in TRANSPORTS, after the No
Vember election" OF course, they will-gor
ing up Salt river.
An indignant female cowhided a Radical
ex-minister and editor at Tyrone, few days
ago, for playing "PaLl Pry" and embarking
in the Police Gazette business. The fell Ow