Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-03-03

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one aboriginal log schOOl-houses still in use.
Weichman, who swOre Mrs Surratt to
death, is a reporter on Philadelphia pa
per.
The story that young Jefferds was the
murderer of DR.. Burdell is completely dis
proved by his counsel.
An Ohio lady, of no ''prejudices," has
lately sued q negro for seduction under pro-
mise of marriage Away with ''caste!
The Inauguration ball, by reason of what
isresolved upon, ought now to be written,
refrigeration bawl.
An Irish girl of Easton has fallen heir to
Sj00O0 She is believed to be much hand
somer now than she was week or so ago
1t is estimated that there are in New York
city, over ten thousand horses noted for speed
which are worth from one thousand to thirty
three thousand dollars each.
At recent fashionable wedding in Paris,
one of the handsomest dresses was blue
from bonnet to shoes, worn by pretty
American girl.
They are assassinating people with air
guns in New York. People, by this means,
die from too much air; whereas, formerly,
they died from the want of more!
The New York Express says : There is
lady i'll this city who hasn't washed her
face for fourteen years; cleans it with Indian
meal; says water chaps it.
p > Liggett, of Juniata county-a su-
per-abundant loyalist-has been arrested
on suspicion of having fred the Carlisle
Springs buildings.
There is libel suit to be tried between
two Pittsburg papers-the Dispatch and
the Leadt7' growing out Of personalities in
dulged about two years ago.
The Holidaysburg Standard says that a
fence ont in Westmoreland county isn't
considered of much account unless it is
horse high, bull strong, and pig tight"
An exchange asserts that thirty years ago
q man started a newspaper in Iowa, with q
capital of fifteen cents, and now makes a
living out of it. What did the poor cuss do
for something to eat in all that time?
4 Berkshire girl walked fourteen miles
through the snow the other day, to marry
young man who couldn't come to her
house for fear of six shooter which the
stern parent carries.
1t is said that Brownlow has resigned the
GovernOrship Of Tennessee. If he is re-
signed, the people certainly are But it will
not be very long before Brownlow gets to a
place where designations are not accepted!
The swine of Georgia are thinning out.
They have been attacked with peculiar
sickness, called AfricCaliS Stedlum. it is said
that a pig squeals terrible on sight of q
nigger. They have learned to travel rapidly
when the black savage haunts their haunts.
One of the curious features of Carlotta'
insanity is her desire to write letters to her
husband She writes daily to him, and this
correspondence, which by this time, has be-
come quit voluminous is said to be full OF
the most interesting matter.
The Georgia Constitution administers
large dose of gall to carpet-bagger Morgant
and then informs him that if he doesn,
like it, the editor can be found at his Office
ready to entertain such visitors. Let us
have peace!
ga A negro woman was found dead IN
Columbus, Georgia, on Sunday last from
starvation and exposure. She had been Of
fered work but refused, remarking that al
she was free she would labor no more
The Coroner's jury brought in verdict Of
death from sheer laZineSs.
The Legislature has passed powerful
local bill for Lancaster, regulation appren
tices among "cobbIers. " If we know the
Legislators Alright, we think them better
qualified to swallow the boss 'cobblers" IL
a liduid state. But, such an act is about
the measure of ''loil' Legislative ability.
Apractical Joker climed up q peach tree
in q Michigan farmers yard, and initiated
the heot of an owl so well, that the old gen
tleman came forth and landed ten huckshots
in his sitting-down place. The practical
Joker is now exceedingly patient, and as
grave as an owl, though less inclined to hoot
from perch i'll peach-treei
A young couple in Rockport, Me-, while
courting, walked out together arm-in-arm,
and fell through hole in the sidewalk, each
breaking leg Paradoxical as it may seem,
their fall proved lift to them, and set
them upin the world-a jury awarding them
a verdict of S12, 900 against the town,
Congress has passed q resolution appro-
priating $50, 900 for the relief of the poor in
the colored citizens who fill the galleries OF
the House and Senate Chamber, excepting
at such times as they are engaged to voting
for loil mayors and aldermen in Washington
and Georgetown.
Awoman lately left train in Hartford
depot (says a Connecticut paper to get a
cup of coffee, and while she was absent the
train started, carrying off her baby. The
mother was greatly excited, and the railway
officials telegraphed to Berlin to have the
baby :" switched" there, which was done.
and soon the separated family was collected
together.
The Philadelphia NerS calls Gedry the
''present vain, ignorantandimbicile Execu-
tive, of Pennsylvania, Was henot, permit
us to ask, the ''hero of Snickersville, and
did he not eight, bleed and die" for his
country, when these howlers were only in
the ''meolish?" Did he not ride fine hoss,
and have a fancy saddle, and lots of blazing
red straps and belts, and fancy belly-bands!