Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-07-01
CURRENT NEWS.

Four countries are about to send out Arctic
expeditions.
Old Ben Wade declares for "cheap food"
Would that all food were as cheap as he
feels.
Coral jewelry and coral ornaments are
again becoming fashionable.
What lot do politicians like the best p
The ballot.
An English pedestrian ran forty miles in
five hours on q wager of 800.
The Democratic procession in New York
City on the third Of July will, it is believed
be fully five miles long.
Grant will make no speeches this campaign.
Prentice says no will smoke his cigar and
COlfax can take the stump.
The appointment of negro cadets to the
West Point military academy is the next
move of the Radicals. Our nation is making
rapid progress,
The Radicals met with terrible defeat in
Mississippi, and, it is said, through the vote
of the colored men. This, if true, is the Sun
kindest cut of ALL"
A Radical paper announces that the cam
paign under Grant will be Offensive" That
it wlll-offensve to the great mass of the
white people of the country.
If the people honor General Grant with
the Presidency, what vast honor the Confed>
crates should bestow on the memory of Gen.
Pope, who, with a greatly inferior force,
whipped Grant at Belmont within an inch Of
his military lie.
The Baltimore american says that tn
election of Grant and Collax is the twill Of
God" We are not authorized interpreters of
the will of God but we think that we shall
be able to show in November wha. is the
will Of man.
Gov. Humphreys, of Mississippi, elected
to his office by the people, was forcibly re-
moved from it by the soldiers with fixed
bayonets. If anybody says this is not a
Stree country" under radical rule, let him be
-Gndthemd mdrdndthG :.
Chief Justice Chase, in conversation recent>
IL, expressed himself anxious for the with>
drawal of troops from the Southern States
before the election, in order that the country
may see how the people will vote when un
awed by bayonets.
Grant stock is not advancing. On the
contrary. there is marked depression. They
don't like to invest in a candidate who is
"unaccustomed to public speaking and who
has "no policy" Of his own.
The battle CT Bunker Hill was fought
nipety-three years ago, on June 18th.
Santa Anna, who possessed SO much wealth
in his day is now beggar and dying. His
life is an eventful one.
Grant and Colfax consider their chances to
slim, for election, to war; ant their resignation
and they have concluded to hold on to what
they have.
Forney says, "the result o: tie late elec>
ton in Washington was another rebel VIC
tory" So was that in Oregon, to say moths
ing of the one in Galena, the home of Grant.
The Clinton county Qll) Independent, for
metIy Republican paper, IS now published
in the faith of the Democracy.
Gen. Butler said in speech two or three
weeks ago that President Johnson was more
guilty than Judas Iscariot 1t is very nat
ural that he should have kindly feeling to-
wards Judas, for the latter, like himself was
dealer in silver.
The Columbus (Ohio) Statesman says that
no les than 500 Democratic newspapers sup
port Mr. Pendleton.
The Sultan of Turkey has just ordered to
be manufactured in Paris, silver table, the
price of which will will not be less than four
million francs.
A "reliabIe" snake story comes from Ken
lucky, ofa woman frightened by snake and
the subsequent birth of two creatures, human
from the waist downward and above serpents.
The ''trustworthy gentleman" adds that they
are kept in separate cages and fed with milk
from a spoon.
Thunder Springs, in Upsom county, Ca, is
great curiosity. 1t is located in the wlld>
est part Of the mountains. Ii is about five
feet in diameter, and so deep that no sound
ing has reached the bottom. Such is the
force with which the water rises in the Thun-
der Springs that human body cannot sink,
but is buoyed up in a standing position.
Butler has LET WooIey out of Prison. But
the question is, will Wooley let Butler out of
the dread Of sound whipping every time be
meets him 2 If all the parties outraged by
tho Beast should agree to whip him where'
er and whenever they meet him, the public
sense of Justice would be greatly relieved.