Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-01


One fact has come to be pretty generally
understood, namely-that frtunes are not
now made in trade without liberal advertis-
ing.
A big negro burglar broke into a female
college in Oxford, Ohio, was surprised by
the female occupants, chased up and down
stairs, and finally shot dead.
Near Scottville Illinois, when well diggers
reach depth of five or six feet the ground
takes fire spontaneously apd burns continu-
ously. The citizens are puzzled and alarm
ed.
Il was UNANIMOUSLY proper for the Rump
impeachers to select Bingham, the manager
OF Mrs, Surrat's murder, as chairman of the
impeachment managers.
A gang of Vicksburg negroes recently ex-
huued bodies from the Jewish graveyard
in that place and cut off the fingers of the
corpses for the sake of the rings they wore.
The South Carolina Republican State Con-
vention nominated by acclamation Cardozo,
negro, for Secretary of State. Half the del
egates chosen to the Chicago Republican
Convention are negroes.
In New Hampshire the RAIDS gained only
in those portions of the State bordering on
Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont, where
Of course, Radical voters were "colonized. p
Throughout the interior the Democracy made
gains among the native citizens.
In Georgia the Democracy are discussing
the feasibility Of nominating q candidate for
Governor, in opposition to the muatto con-
vention. Great diversity Of opinion prevails,
and it is probable that "A State convention
will be called to harmonize conflicting views.
On the IL h inst, the House, by vote of
96 TO 81, passed the bill to continue the
Freedman's Bureau in operation for one year
from and after the 1st of July next. Only
one or two Radical members Evoted against
the bill, but large number Of them lodged
the question by declining to vote at all. The
Bureau has grown to be a permanent institu
ton in the country now, and will never be
removed until the Jacobin party cease to
control both houses of Congress.
Gen. Grant, when boy, rode ths circus
pony successfully with amouKeJ behind him;
buS that does not prove that be can ride the
Presidential pony with Washburn on the
crupper.
The RAIDS appear joyous over the New
Hampshire election. Like the Dutch sailor
who broke his leg and thanked heaven it was
not his neck, They are thankful matters are
70 worse.
Acknowledgement spinsters, mis- chief
making women, grumbling old bachelors, di-
lapidated sidewalks, frouzy wives, squalling
children, dirty postal currency, and sub
scriber who does not pay for his paper.
A stupid copperhead wants to know If the
cannon that "fought nobly" in the Union
army, and the mules that hauled them, hav
emit as good right TO voice in the elections
as the colored troops. Evidently the fellow
needs to be reconstructed. His suggestions
at once are brassy and brays of herrible dis
cord.
WHAr's THE REASON 7-Old man Grant,
General Ulysses Pap, who has been writing
history of the great Generals boyhood, for
the New York Ledger, has all at once dried
up. Why is this 2 Just as we wero about
TO learn when and where "0ld Ulysses" took
his first tod, the old man is choked off. Why,
oh wAy, and wherefore
The Democratic gain in New Hampshire
this year is 800
Philadelphia is thirty miles in circum-
ference.
Why is prudent man IKE a pin 2 Be-
cause the head prevents him from going too
far.
Reports indicate that the channel Of the
Mississippi is again filling up with the mys+
terous Jumps of mud which annually ap-
pear.
The wife of the imprisoned editor of the
Memphis Ardldnche has assumed the edito-.
rial chair OF that paper. We admire her
spirit.
The Radicals have re>nominated Hartranft
and Campbell, but as the people do not like
the company they are in, their defeat is cer-
tair.
Congress has been in session since the 23d
Of November. What good has it done
Along the Schuylkill River between the
Falls of SchuylkilI and Norristown Dam, q
distance Of about ten miles, there are 104
manufactures, employing nearly 10000 work.
men, and the annual products Of which are
nsariy S24,oo0,00O.
During the recent cold weather q man and
his horse, travelling in southern Louisiana,
we're frozen to death, an uncommon occur
renee so far South.
A young Chicagoan was SO ashamed Of get,