Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-02-10
CURRENT NEWS.

Chicago has 1000 men employed in the
manufacture of tobacco
The members of the Rhode slandlegialature
are paid 81 day.
Detroit man challenges the country to
game of checkers for 81, 200.
A person who is considered landless has
somtimes two or three achers In his mouth.
Refreshing crocodile tears shed over
the extravagxpce of the Legislature by the
Radical press.
Hon. w. A. Wallace declines to have his
name usedi connection with the Democrat
ic nomination for Governor.
The pretended confessions of Atzerott and
Arnold, recently published, are believed to
be forgeries
A Dutchman says that too much whiskey
is not good, but too much beer is ''shoOst
right.
Ex-Gov, Pickens, formerly minister to st.
Petersburg, died at his residence in Edge
field. S. c., on Monday, last week.
st. Louis has thirty-three murders, thir
ty suicides and five fatal coal oil explosions
in 1868.
Mush and milk festivals and sardine clubs
are among the novelties proposed In Merl-
den, CT.
Miss Godsey, of Kentucky, is said to have
slept for nineteen years with the exception
of few minutes daily.
= Bread is given to the poor of Oswego by
unknown persons who pay each for 1000
loaves to be distributed by ladies commit
tees.
Brigham Young's son, Joe. smokes good
cigars, drinks good liquor, gets drunk, plays
poker, icks his wives and breaches the gos-
pei.
The general opinion Of Congressman is
that the first session of the next Congress,
commencing on the 4th of March, will not
last over four or five weeks.
1t is curious fact that st, Valentines
Day, Washington's Birthday and the Birth
day of American Independence, 4th of July
all come upon Sunday this year.
A doctor in Missouri has been detected in
poisoning his patients On examination, he
was found to be insane, and yet he had
been practicing for months in that condition
An Indian boy from the Far West lately
passed through, by cars, to Missouri town
as freight, having tag with his destination
tied to his clothing.
. Hartford has lady and gentleman who
have been engaged thirty years, but who,
unmarried and enfeebled with age, are as
ardent lovers as ever.
The Henion brothers, who committed the
outrage on little girl near BinghamtOn,
have plead guilty, and been sentenced each
to 10 years and 10 months imprisonment.
A man in ST. Louis, recently got mar
ried on Tuesday, got the chills on Wednes-
day, wrote his will on Thursday, went mad
on Friday, and died on Saturday.
Mrs. Erastus Corning deposited S22 in d
savings bank in 1885, and forgot all about
it until week ago, when she drew her de-
posit and its proceeds, amounting to 1923.
IL.
A preacher in New Hampshire, discours-
ing on the subject of Daniel in the Lion
Den, said: " An thar he sot all night long
lookin' at the show for nothin', and il
didn't cost him cent"
McCulloch can't get rik of his female
clerks. He recently discharged one hund-
red, but wrathful Congressman made him
take back seventy-tive of them, and now
about fifty of them do nothing but draw
pay.
The first marriage certificate issued In
Boston this year was to a negro who con-
templated marriage for the sixth time The
would-be bride is white woman, who en-
ters upon the matrimonial voyage for the
first time.
q, A sister of Gent. Grant, Mrs. Cramer, is
the wife of our Consul at Leipsic. She is a
fine amateur artist, very beautiful in hel
features, and her head has been copied fol
the goddess Diana in the frescoes of the new
Art Museum of Leipsic.
Senator Sprague's purchases of real es
tate in the South amount to 5000 acres
5000 of which he intends to reservefor gard
ems, parks, drives and hunting grounds
which enterprised will, of course, benefit
the poor Southern people-in their minds
eye.
1t Now seems that it was the infinite mig
ger that broke up the first Inauguration ball
Certain folks would have him in and thai
split the thing. Now certain other folks
are to have a ball in the Treasury Building
and at this the gentleman who elected the
President is not to appear at all.
That lively cuss at Hollidaysburg, who
shngs ink fearfully in the Standard, is re-
sponsible for this: 1--WE are happy to inform
our contemporary of the Altoona Vindicato,
that the girl Brown, who was reported tC
have a living snake in her stomach, wa:
successful delivered of the 'varmint'- '-hoor
species, and weighs 8pounds. How are you
''snakep"
The body of William Penn lies in a little
church yard, scarcely twenty miles from Lon
don. The church and surroundings nestle
ina deep gorge among the Chiltern Hills, in
Buckinghamshire. The grave is enclosed
in q little square of hedge, and no marble
or other ornaments mark the spot.
A late number of the Efingham, Illinois
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