Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-07-22
CURRENT NEWS.


The name of Horato Sey mour contains all
The vowels of tie alphabet.
Seymour and civil iberty-Grant and mil :
hary despousm.
We have received paper entitled "Dumb
Animals" o.alusion to Grant.
Wild cats are plentier in Connecticut than
they were fifty years ago,
The Alabama legislature has elected ne
gro chaplain,
Babies are fashionable in Paris, and nicely
dressed infants are, let out at four dollars an
hour for the best looking.
One cannot get an idea from Grant, for the
same reason that one cannot get whisky from
an empty bottle.
Seymour and white supremacy-Grant
and black domination in ten States of the
Union. Choose ye
Grant cheated the Radicals in 1866 and de
ceived Johnson in 1868. lie can't deceive
the people.
Democratic ratification meetings take
place daily throughout the country, and are
attended by thousands Of people.
There is one tune that Butler should be
able to whistle to perfccton-the Rogue's
March.
The key to the Radical Freedmen's Bu-
rsau is the dar-key.
The key to Grants chest whis Ky.
The negroes of Florida, knowing their de-
cided majority, insist upon division of the
Offices, much to the disgust of the Bureau
agents.
The burglars of Illinois steal the carpets
off the floors of chur ches. There were "loIl"
patriots who went further than that,and who
stole the sacred vessels of silver,
South Carolina alligator, probably in
the interest of the ''rebel Democracy" ate
promising young black voter the other day.
Dana denies that Grant once said he was
Democrat. Pity his friends won't allow
him the credit of one respectable sentiment.
A young man told DR.. Bethune that he
had enlisted in the army of Zion. ''In which
church asked the Doctor. I'm the Baptist"
was the reply. 81 should call that joining
the Navy" replied the Doctor.
White editors Of the North who rejoice in
the degradation of their race in Louisiana,
through the elevation Of full-blooded negro
to preside over the State Senate, only verify
the adage "It is dirty bird that dcfies its
own nest."-Nerr Orleans Tunes.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton says: "Why
not follow good man with the Democratic
party, rather than with Republicans to help
10 place drunken soldier in the White
House ~ Why not
Grant, with 100000 men against Lees So
600 made big graveyard-losiug over six
men 10 Lees one, 200 to 10000, in
"fghting it out on this line, and finally, af-
ter immense loss, fell back on McClellan's
old line where he might have started IN the
beginning without the loss Of a single man.
Since Stanton left the War Department
another fraud of nearly two millions of dol>
lars has been brought to light. 1t is claim
for bounties to colored regiments that never
had existence. The matter is undergoing an
Investigation and some loyal RAIDS will be
exposed.
4 young Thinoceros has just been landed
IN this country the first for twenty years. -
He will not get his growth for some twenty
years, but weighs 5000 pounds and eats daily
two bushels Of corn, one bushel of potatoes,
and three hundred pounds Of hay, drinking
fifteen or twenty buckets of water.
Counterfeit 500 National Bank notes are
in circulation. Editors are in no danger from
bills of that size, but their readers may be.
Gen. Frank P. Blair fought in more than
two score battles, and pet he is denounced in
unmeasured terms by the men who stayed at
home and sold shoddy cloth, bad coffee and
paper. soled shoes to the soldiers. Such ia
Radical loyalty.
Failures-Grant ratification meetiTgG.
The new insane asylum has been located
near the town OF Danville.
Hon. George II. Pcndleton has taken the
stump for Seymour and Blair.
The salutation on the streets now is
"Hurrah for Seymour"
Ole Bull made thirteen thousand dollarI
on his late trip to this country.
The negro Legislature Of Louisiana meets
under the guard OF bayonets.
Armies of rabbits are following up tn,
locusts in Tennessee.
An Idaho paper says man recently pokeC
his head out from "behind the times" il