Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-05-20
CURRENT NEWS.


Texas is having very lively cotton trade,
Chicsgo has six and a half millions Of debt.
'E1 President Buchanan is recovering from
o severe attack of pleurisy.
Hundreds of sheep are dying Of an un.
known disease in the vicinity Of Salisbury,
New Hampshire.
Five mourners were relieved of their pock-
ct t-books at a funeral in New York.
Grass widowers are now termed ad-interlm
bachelors.
A horse recently jumped over the chains
Of one Of the Boston Ferry boats. The wag-
on to which hS was attached caught in the
chain, and he hung over the end of the boat,
his head in the water, until he was drowned
The 'lasses candy wedding is when the
first baby gets old enough to lick.
BLACK SrARs.-Should not the stars on
the flag representing the incoming negro or
mougrel States be painted black
Hon. Henry D. Foster, Of Westmoreland,
will be the Democratic candidate for Con.
gress in the Twenty-frst Pennsylvania Dis
trict.
A whole convention OF Richmond Radicals
about seventy nigs and q dozen white
trash were arrested, the other night, by the
police, for kicking up row.
One hundred and fifty million dollars
year is the sum the Northern taxpayers are
paying for reconstruction"
The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph says that
tthe extraordinary increase of Democratic
newspapers in Pennsylvania during the past
six months is certainly indicative Of and in
consonance with the grand polcical reaction
everywhere exhibited at ths elections" 1t
further says that "new dailies and weeklies,
large, neat, bright, sprightIy, and ably con-
Quoted, are springinging up everywhere, even
in regions hitherto regarded as Democratical
ly barren, and they not only ''stick" with
the tenacity of Stanton to the War Office,
but they talk hopefully, and prosperity looks
benignantly yet boldly out of every line Of
their print"
The South Carolina Senate contains twenty
white members and twelve colored the
House Of Representatives, four whites and
eighty colored.
The Washington Constitutional Union,
May 18th, just week in advance Of the
meeting Of the Chicago Convention, makes
the following prophecy :-"In the face Of all
the probabilities to the contrary, we make
the prediction that General Grant will not
be nominated"
By a recent law, Judges in Canada are
empowered to order whipping instead Of
Imprisonment, in the case of boys under
sixteen years Of age found guilty Of lar
ceny.
Charles Mcneil, colored barber, residing
at Elmwood, ILL.,, was murdered on Sunday
morning, May. 10Th by another negro, who
was stopping at his house, and who has since
been arrested. 1t is supposed that McNeiPs
wife and her sister aided in committing the
deed, and they have also been arrested.
Galusha A. Grow, broken down Aboli-
zionist, but still a rampant negro suffrage
advocate, is the Chairman of the Radical
State Committee.
The colored RAIDS of New Orleans have
elected delegates to the Crosby Opera House
pow wow.
The Virginia election so-called cannot be
held until the Rump provides the necessary
greenbaeks.
Grape growers in California are giving
great attention to the manufacture OF brandy.
The quality Of that already produced is said
to be excellent.