Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-04-21
CURRENT NEWS.


They call the French women who kill
newly born infants ''angel makers.
Colorado wants 100 unmarried women
30 that the miners may get married.
At the latest count, Louisville had 3Ol
Smiths.
The estimated cost of the Isthmus canal
is 500, ,000,00
Tho National Bank circulation of the
United States is S299, 054,S40
Wizards Hotel in Washington took in
over 81, COO a day, inauguration week.
Ex-Postmaster-Gen Randall has taken
up his residence Mt Elmira n. Y.
Boston has about dozen good female
velocipedi3ts.
There are 100000 Norwegians in the
Northwestern States.
The memorandum book of Frederick the
Great has recently been sold for S24O
There are only 5000 Gentiles in Salt
Lake City, out of population of 1900
Pat Murphy, aged 10, and his wife
aged so, Of Westmoreland county, are the
Oldest married couple in Pennsylvania.
1t is estimated that there are 81, ,OOO,-
OOO, 900 worth of horse flesh in the United
States.
English papers speak of a girl still living
in Wales who has not eaten anything for
1G months,
A Funeral in Brownstown, Pa, was at
tended by five sisters, all of whom were
aged over eighty
Artemus Wards works are to be repub-
lished in London, with thirty-five illustra-
tions from his panorama.
Hamilton Fish is the fourth Secretary of
State furnished by New York. The others
were Van Buren, Marcy and Seward.
The heirs of Noah Webster receive TWEEN
ty five thousand dollars annually from the
sale of his dictionary.
The latest definition of bachelor is, q
man who haslost the opportunity of making
woman miserable.
An ingenious citizen of New Albany, In
diana, with too much time on his hands,
has been two years in making q checker
board that contains 6,481 pieces.
The daughters of Andrew Johnson left
the mansion in better order than it has
ever been left before by an outgoing Pres
ident.
A magnificent silver crown has been pur-
chased by subscribert in England, and de-
posted on the tomb of the late Emperor
Maximilian.
A lady with the Grecian Bend consider
ed herself insulted when she was told a
few daysago, that rheumatic iniment would
restore her shape.
A courtly negro recently sent a reply
to an invitation, in which he regretted THAT
circumstances repugnant to the acquiesce
would prevent his acceptance to the invite. ="
A merchant of Bangor Me-, has had to
pay $3.50 damages to couple of ladies who
were knocked down. and their fine clothes
spoiled by snow-slide off his store roof
The Department of Agriculture publish
es esrepOrts from South Carolina and Georgia,
stating that there is good demand for
labor there, and need for Northern men
with capital.
Nebraska assessors for the next five years
will deduct 500 from their valuation lists
for each acre of forests trees properly plant
ed and cultivated, and $50 for each acre of
fruit trees The State is short of timber.
During the year 1868, nearip 100, 900 bu-
shells of apples were used in Orange county,
New York, in manufacturing 81, $40 gallons
OF apple whisky, valued at about S1l5,
O0O
ST Petersburg is frequently called Pia-
nopohs because even the humblest families
possess instruments, while 800 men and 3,
900 women live by teaching the use of the
piano
In the Michigan State Prison, at Jack
son, during 1868, twenty-seven convicts
were punished with whips, thirty-four
with the paddle, forty eight by being put
into dark cell. and six by being placed
on bread and water diet.
After q months fight, III a Congress
each day of whose session costs millions to
the people, the tenure-of-office law is so
amended that nobody can find in it any
substantial change from what it was before
This is Radical Legislation! Costly, rather
Negro militia are being formed by the
Radical State authorities in South Car
olina, and the Adjutant and Inspector Gen
eral of the State, F. j. Moses, Jr, has
gone to New Haven, Conn, for the purpose
of purchasing two thousand Springfield
rifles.
4 negro preacher recently arrested in
New Orleans as a disorderly person, was
unable to pay the fine imposed. He was
about to be committed, when a happy
thought struck him "If your honor viii
trust me till Monday, I'll take up a col
lection tomorrow" He was trusted
A rich old man died recently, whose
young wife had led him but a sorry life
He frequently stated that he would be re-
venged. On reading the viii his vengeance
was too we'll felt He left I'll his property,
about 800, 900, to his wife ON condition
that she passes evevy day, from a. m till
9p. m, in his tomb. Should she miss one
hour, the whole fortune reverts to the ma
tural heirs
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