Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-01-06
CURRENT NEWS.

Inc ld7t crop O1 AaNhlIOIu ' NeSuNluS AnOuul-
ed to twenty million cubic feet
At Newburyport the democrats elected
Mayor 10y 1S2 majority.
George Francis Train, who has been in
prison in Ireland. has been set at liberty.
4 convention of the editors of central
PENNSYLVANIA is to meet at Bellefonte on the
Sth of January.
The next style of bonnnets is to be
head and two inches of ribbon, fastened
with hair-pin.
Buttermik is said to be good for the gout
1t is alsogood for hogs, which is about the
same thing.
Increase of the nation al debt during the
month of November, 81, 1902, 292.-Let US
have peacew
\. 3. Shurtliff, Dem, was reelected
mayor of Boston, on Monday last, by 1,6OO
majority over Moses Kimbaln. Republican.
The payments to the army during the
present wear were 1923, 100000 Tax-pay
ers, how do YOU like it? 'Rah for Grant,
Five men were drowned at Trenton, on
the 18th, while trying to navigate boat
through the canal.
Mr. Alexander H Stephens announces
his readiness to accept the Professorship of
Bellies Lettres in the Georgia University.
Show us a woman too nice to work, and
we will show you one ready at every oppor-
tunity to DO something else.
An editor says women live longer than
men. The married ones do who set up
nights waiting the return of a drunken hus-
band.
A Grecian bend which arrived in ST.
Adams, Vt, from Canada last week, was
found at the Custom House to consist of
5000 worth of smuggled silk.
4 man in Indiana was choked to death by
piece of beef, on Thanksgiving day, and
his neighbors say lit was Judgment on
him for not eating turkey.
Ole Bull was a passenger on the America
at the time of the recent disaster on the
Ohio river, but escaped with his famous
violin.
Butler takes the seat of Stevens in the
House. The New York Herald says be-
ha io Nha cka 90
Thad's" financial policy, 'greenbacks for
bordholders"
MURDER OF FAMILY By NRGRos.-Ga-
briel Martin and two maiden sisters, residing
IN Columbus county, Ga, were robbed and
murdered ON Thursday night, their house
set on fire and their bodies consumed.
The Indians trouble us. As the colored
troops fought so, match them against the
red skins, and thus be rid of both. Butler
could back the negroes, Hiram back his
friends the aboriginers, and we'd bet on the
winning side
A lady of Oxford. Me-, aroused her hus-
band few nights since saying that she
heard some one knocking. He arose but
could find no one, and coming back to bed
he found her lying dead.
Why don't you get married?" said q
younglady the other day to bachelor friend
81 have been trying for the last ten years to
find some one who would be silly enoughto
have me, was the reply. 81 guess you
havn't tbeenupo our way" was the insinuating
rejoinder.
The penalty for walking on a railroad
track in England is ten pounds, said one,
while discussing the numerous fatal acci-
dents on railroad.
Pooh !" replied Uncle Jerry, ''is that
all ? The penalty in this country is death. y
There is family of five persons in New
York who require three brown-stone houses
to live in, and sixteen servants to wait on
them. They keep no Garage in the city, u
owing to their houses being to small to &C.
commodate the necessary servants. "
An agricultural paper recommends coun-
ty ladies to take large-size pumpkin seed
carefully cut out the meat on the under side
put a narrow strip of fur around the edge,
and fasten the strings to the sides, and they
Will have a bonnet in the pink of fashion.
The broad end of the bonnet should be in
front to keep off the wind and sun.
Wendell Phillips says: There is the In
dian a race who have cost us @ thousand
millions of dollars" But, sir, there is the
negro, a race which has cost us three thous-
and millions of dollars in less than eight
years. What says you to that And the cost
of this negro business is still going on Of
the rate of three or four hundred millions O
year.
"A SIGNIFICANT FACT The New York Cit
izen, formerly editated by the lamented
General Halphinel says, that it is fact
worthy of note that at the gathering OF
Union soldiers in Chicago not negro sol