Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-01-20
CURRENT NEWS.

churches III Louisville. -
VIRGINIA has hadthirty-three hundred
cases under the banrupt lawthus far.
TO dispel darkness from aboutEou, make
hight of your trnbles.
One of the jury which tried Aaron Burr
for treason is still living at Chillicothe, Ooio
The cultivation of olive trees is becoming
extensive in California
In honor of the birth of the first born
''catnip weddings have been invented
-AMETHOD eT-eXtractiHg the indigo from
secondhand postage stamps has been pa
tented in England. tEa4tt
The report of our general land Office is to
be printed in several languages and distri-
blted in Europe to induce emigration.
Some 1922 $40 Englishmen get fighting
drunk every year, according to the court
records.
1t is estimated that not one-eight of the
people Of the United States attend public
NOfSHlp Oh Suhu1tS.
II cost $40, 900 last year for ''pasting and
folding in the Pennsylvania State LegislG-
ture.
John c. Breckinridge intends to return
to Kentucky, and seek n alivelihoOd by prac-
tisin2 his professions, the law.
o., ox,,,, M ioso rv faaf1G his In
dian prisoners on roast horse and dog fri-
casee.
Minnesota thinksit would be a "big thing
that il can raise fourhundred bushels of po-
tatoes TO theacre, if il did not also raise bugs
enough to eat them.
The person sent East with the electoral
borded the steamship, at San francisco, but
died Of SMALLPOX before reaching Panama.
Divorce has gone out of style in Chicago
But they still have plenty of family dis
memberment, domestic segregation" I"
and .'eonnubial subtraction"
Bets are already being made about the
length of General Grant,s inaugural mess
age. 1t is said that it will be the shortest
ever delivered.
A Florida correspondent says they have
great trouble in trying cases before the
mixed white and black iuries in that State
because ''the jurymen will go to sleep"
The National Freedman's Bank" al
Mobile, has suspended. A circus visited that
city, and the depositors at once began 3
run" on the bank, accordidg to the Mobile
Register.
A Respectable old grocer died last month
and left gl5,O to Charles Dickens ON con-
dition that he will read his Trial from Pick
wick" in the presence of the grOcer's family
once a year till he dies.
An Irishman (of cOursel who had blister
ed his fingers by endevOring to draw on q
pair of new boots, exclaimed by st.
Patrick! / believe / shall never get them on
until wear them day or two"
Jennie, said an Irishman to another
the first time he saw locomotive, What
is that snorting baste?" Sure, l don't know
was the reply, ''unless it is a steamboat
splnrging along to get to wather."
Rumors are current in Mexico of an i'm
pending revolution. The people are dis
gusted with the administration of Jnarez.
They are also incensed against the United
States, and clamor for another war:
Henry Kurtz, Esq, of Mt. Joy, who has
been noted for his fine cattle, has just re-
ceived another addition to hisalready large
stock, in the shape of an OK which weighs
in the neighborhood of 4, 900 pounds.
A Large onion, planted so near q rosebush
as to touch the roots, will greatly increase
the odor OF the flowers, and the water dis
tiled from such roses is far superior in flavor
to other rose water So says Massachusett.
contemporary. ......
A Man killing hogs, became yexed, and
venteting his spleen, wished they were in
--=.' "Oh, dear me, what can he mean?
exclaimed little girl, who overheard him
Mean! / suppose the awful wretch wants
his provisions sent on before him.
An aged lady in Found du Lac, Wiscon'
sin, possesses watch belonging to Major
Andre. with the name and 1774 engraved
on the back. The Fond du Lac Common
acefAh says she is anxious to dispose of it.
Here is chance for some historical society
roRddtoits treasures.
Wild Rabbits have pecome so plentiful
in Australia as to threaten to starve out
sheep on the remote farms. The animal
was only introduced two years ago by the
AeeEmatization Society, and now the settlers
are Offering rewards for their determination
One farmer estimates that it viii cost him
$50, 600 before he can succeed in thinning
out the vermin, rs the rabbits are considered