Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-02-24

are town paupers-
But one Revolutionary soldier now draws
u pension.
The Lehigh Valley railroad is to be re-
laid with steel rails the whole distance, from
Easton to Mauch Chunk.
The Hollidaysburg &dsdrrd says that
one line of business is brisk there-the
dsnning business
There WAS destructive fire at Altoona,
lately, which destroyed the Tindicdtor office,
and much other property.
The various Methodist churches in the
country are in the midst Of great revival
of religion.
Yeddo, Japan, has hotel furnished through
out with black walnut furniture made In
San Francisco.
Since the prohibitory iqor law has been
in force in Maine, opium eating is said to
have increased to an alarming extent.
The yolecipede fever is spreading as fast
as some of those who ''straddle the darned
thing"
J. B. Cough was born in Sandgate,
England, in 1877 His father was Pc
ninsular soldier, and his mother school
teacher,
The Harrisburg Guard thinks the press
are damaging the great Republican party,
by assailing the Legislature for Its extraV-
agance.
A police officer, on last Tuesday morning
at Seventh and Washington streets, Phlla.
picked up q human finger having on 1t
plain gold ring.
The Methodist church in Hyde Park Lu-
zerne county, together with two dwelling
houses, were consumed by fire on Last Mon
day morning, week.
At recent fire in Easton an excited
woman ran out Of the house with pillow
in her embrace, which she had. mistaken
for her baby.
Peter Downess, Wiliamsport, has been
sent to Eastern Peniteniary for the term
of two years, for the crime OF biting on bus
wife's ear!
At therecent Woman's Rights female suf-
frape Convention ut Chicago, Wells Brown,
the negro orator, contended most earnestly
thae women ought to be educated before
they are enfranchised.
The Cleerfield Republican announces the
elopement Of the Rev. J. J. Shorthill, OF
Punxsutawey, with a sister OF his flock,
deserting his wife He had preached to that
flock ten years.
The Bradford county Democracy have
instructed their delegates TO the State con-
yention to support Hon. Asa Packer for
Governor and Hon. VIM. Elwell for Judge
of the Supreme Court
People who are interested in the Holy
Land will be glad to know that macadamlzed
road has been constructed from Jatfa to
Jerusalem, and the latter city enjoys steam
mill. Yankees are responsible for both.
The following is a Spanish epitaph upon
young girl who died broken hearted: 'She
who lies beneath this stone, died of constan-
eyalone; fear not approach, o. passer by
Of naught contagious did she die"
Ristori is said to be playing to empty
benches in q second rate theater In Florence.
The slim attendance is accounted for by the
fact that the people of Florence under
stands what she says.
The Petersburg, Virginia, papers are wax
ing boastful over boy OF native growth,
only seven years old, weighing over 500
pounds, four feet one inch high, and five
feet four inches round, yet pleasing in his
appearance.
There were eighteen escapes from Sing
Sing Prison during the year ending jan
nary /, 1859 Two or three occurred in one
day eight or nine hours apart, and nobody
knows how. Only one of the eighteen
was recaptured
A young man named Anson r. Fuller, a
carpenter while engaged in removing the
old tower from the Diamond mine at Scran-
ton, on the 18th instant, fell from the struc-
ture and was instantly ykilled-leaying wife
and three children.
A colored woman, in Huntingdon, on the
18th instant, held her child, about one year
old, over hot stove until it was SO we'll roas-
ted that little hopes are entertained Of its
recovery. She is in jail-so says cores
pondent of the Hollidaysburg Register.
An old copper mine in Douglass town
ship, Montgomery county, that has been
unworked for many years, is about to be
reopened and again operated by party of
vein is said to be seven feet thick, and was
extensively worked before the revolutionary
war.
In the United States District Court, at
Richmond, the district attorney, under in
aructions from the Attorney General in ac-
cordance with President Johnson's amnesty
proclamation, entered a note eprosequi in both
indictments against Jefferson Davis, and
in those against Lee, Wade Hampton, Breck-
inridge, Longstreet, Wise, Prayer, Seddene
Malone, Early, and thirty others. The
court ordered that the securities on Davis's
bailbond be discharged from further con-
sideration.
At Sullivan, Ind, a company of twenty
fveor thirty woman of the respectable class
formed in procession, at the head of which
O lady carried the Bible, and marched to
the various saloons In town and held pray
ermeetings, for the suppression of intemper-
ance, &c. They were kindly received by
most of the keepers, and had good time
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