Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-08-05
CURRENT NEWS.
The negroes are drilling in Nashville.

TAME Lne stump lot seymour.
A lady advertses for a husband with an
income Of $4,000. Such are rare.
Gen. Custar is oD Buffalo hunt. Gen.
Grant is on a wild goose chase.
There will be great deal of Grant bolog>
ma after the election.
Commander-in chief of the Grant and COL
fax army-general apathy.
Tilton is writing novel, and Butler is to
be the heavy villain, and Greeley the low
comedian Of the book.
Col. VIM. B, Thomas, a prominent mems
Der of the Republican party in Philadelphia,
has been expelled from the Union League
He supports Seymour.
There is to be a picnic Of fat men at Utica.
No person will be allowed to participate in
the festivities who weighs under two hun
dred and fifty pounds.
Thurlow Weeds paper says that "Stevens
and Ben. Butler lead the Republican party
into quagmires, bogs and swamps." The
party seems to go very willingly.
Eighty>eight members of the Union League
of Philadelphia were expelled in one batch,
last week, from the 'gn palace" on Broad
street. Cause-y7ill vote for Seymour and
Blair.
A band Of brothers Greeley the "scare-
crow" Stevens the .'vIan," Butler the
"bottled," and Bingham the ''murderer."-
Grant, who is ''not great man" is the head
of the family.
The Crown Prince of Prussia has an in
come os somewhat over million dollars, and
as he has an economical wife he manages to
live decently and lay up some 100000
a year.
A truly loyal gentleman canvassing
railroad train in " isconsin, found one soil
tary voter for Grant. Naturally they fra
ternized and at the end Of the route the
canvasser missed his pocketbook.
The strongest radical poin: is said to be
the point of the bayonet.
Tennessee has produced lively and health
y four legged girl.
John Morrissey backs Horatio Seymour's
chances Two to one.
A beast, named Gwinner, in Philadelphia,
the other night threw a snittoon at his wife
and killed his little daughter.
Miss Anna Dicknson's new lecture is on
"Chldren and Marriage" Grants Indian
baby record in California is to form one of
the principal illustrations.
Democratic mass meetings are held daily
throughout the country, all Of them largely
attended and enthusiastic. The people are
moving.
Men don't always go sup the spout" for
nothing. A burglar went up ono the other
night in St. Louis and came down vita Sl5
600.
You can catch more flies with sugar than
withsvinegar.s Let the girls remember this
when among fy-a-ways that 60 BY leg in
stead of wing power. Ee sweet on 'em girls,
ifyou expect to impale the victims.
Rosa Celeste, the female BIondin, is TO
walk rope across Niagara falls.
Gen. Hirem Grant went to Colorado, not
for gold but the quartz.
Whisky, pistols and Rrownlow are depop-
ulatiDg Tennessee.
The whole South is infested with bands of
negro highwaymen.
A Havana lady at Saratoga, Miss Garcia,
wears $l00,0 worth of diamonds.
Life-like portraits of Grant are expensive
on account of the great quantity of red paint
required to color the nose.
Old Thad has written another letter, in
which he calls the Radicals "fooIs and swind-
lers." Thad is complimentary.
They have a new drink down East, called
"Butler cocktails" You stir it up with
spoon, squint one eye, drink the LIQUID down,
and POCKET the spoon.
The London Spectator says that the Re-
publcans of America will "have only to raise
the cry Of Grant and honesty to carry the
whole country" Honesty" is not in the
Radical dictionary, and the leaders would
not understand the cry.
An aeropautc race took place at Agers
La, the other day, between two balloons,
named Seymour" and Grant" armed with
fireworks. Seymour" won the honors, firing
broadside of rockets into the other in mid
air and sending it tumbling downwards.-
So goes the Radicals.
The new Tammany Hall in New York is
now 10 be used for concerts.
The war cloud on the plains is growing
darker and darker. The determination of
the Indians seems to be to fight.