Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-09-16
CURRENT NEWS.

An exchange says that ladies who do not
want their dresses trodden upon should car>
~ placard "no followers allowed" We
should recommend "form no attachments
as better.
There must have been "dusty time" in
the Georgia Legislature. One of the colored
men declared to be ineligible to Office. is
said to have "shook the dust from his feet
when he left the representative hall"
The Radicals are making great fuss about
about Vermont Their eternal clucking re-
minds us of a heu with only one chicken,
deeply, darkly beautifully blue"-Grant's
chances for the Presidency.
Two thieves in Plttsburg met gentleman
walking the streets late at night with box
under his arm, undertook to show him to q
hotel. They relieved him of the box and ran
off with it, The gentleman was naturalist
and his box contained four rattlesnakes.
Josh Billing says it is his 'honest opinyun'
whiskee is second only tew original sin il is
a millstun, hung upon the neck Nv poor de-
graded human nature, and if the devil was
allowed leave Nv absence for six months tew
visit this earth, the first thing he would dew
would be to lobby our legislatures for re-
peal of the excise law, and then invest his
pile in gin mills"
GREAT TRIUMPH 1.-THE wickedest man
in New York." =" we are informed, has been
found ana CONVERTED, The righteous" are
going to try Greeley next.
The Democratic majority in Montana, is
2,4OO.
LOOKING UP.-Mongrel BGmmer-l tell
you, cOpperhead. yer bound to be .'lcked' for
we are looking up, we are"
Copperhead-"Yes, old rummy, can see
you are looking up, When party is fat on
its back, it has not the slightest difficulty in
looking up"
A prominent Republican went to a great
Grant rally at Newton, New Jersey, and re-
turned early to his home, telling his wife she
wouldn't catch him going out soon again "to
meet three or four men,"
"Why don't the Southerners behave 2"-
Tribune MA, make Bill be quiet-every
time hit him on the head he hollers."
On one of his ''drunks'' during his late
the Presidential candidate of the God.and-
morality party, got SO sick on bad whskey
that he puked in souptureen at the dinner
table. A beautiful beast to set in the Presi.
dental Chair indeed Who wouldn't go for
him
"Sing q song of Hiram,
Very full of rye:
Four and twenty cocktails
Sparkle in his eye;
And when the fount was opened
Oh such a stream did flow;
He had become very tri-
Butary of the river Pc !
Now. was'notlhe a naughty man,
Disgraceful, bad and mean,
And never can be President,
To thus use soup tureen."
Gov. Geary's stump efforts in the western
counties have earned for him the sobriquet of
"Baby Elephant"
The eldest son of the late Mr.. Lincoln
has been good enough to write, and have
printed letter relieving MIR. Seymour of
the imputation that he intends to vote
for him.
A radical bid for votes is five hundred
million dollars a year in taxation.
A negro Tanners Club has caused dis
sension ammong truly loyal Chicagosns.
At the rate of S12 100000 increase Of
the debt in one month (August), how
long will it take to pay the nationa! debt
Illinois is on fire. At LeaIand and at
Ottawa, at Springfield and Joilet,at Cairo |
and at Peoria, immense Democratic meet |
ings were held on Saturday.
The bogus Governor of North Carolina
has appointed him military staff Of four
colonies and four major-geuerals to take
charge of the negro militia.
Work.house Howard, Commissioner Of
the National Soup Kitchen, has % clerks,
in his headquarters Office. Salary $40, ,420.
Let the negro work for living like all
the rest Of Us.
The Republicans claim Connecticut.
New York, New Jersey, and such like
Democratic States. We have known peo
pie to claim umbrellas that didn't belong
10 them when clouds looked threatening,
before now
Hon. John Conger, Of Fort Wayne, 1ndi-
ana, and Gen. Whitaker. Of Kentucky,
have been quoted as for Grant Each de-
MES it emphatically, and desires the re-
port to be put down to the account o. "the