Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-04-28


One patent medicine manufacturer
advertises in twenty-five hundred papers
In this country.
A Jerseyman who invented an india
rubber carriage has sold his patent right
for half million.
Thirty mechanics In Lancaster have con-
tracted to build three-stOry brick house
in thirty working hours.
EManchester n. H., authorities allow no
one on Sunday TO smoke pipe or cigar
upon the public pave, within one mile OF
the City Hall.
The Select Committe of tho Wisconsin
: Legislature upon capital punishment, have
reported in favor of restoring the death
penalty for murder.
The New York Times says there is no
doubt that Andrew johnson will be back
in the senate before Grant leaves the pres
idential chair.
The Fall River cotton mills manufacture
ia. 364, 900 yards-or "a 977 miles of cloth,
yearly. The pay-rolls of the various es-
Establishments amount to 5000, ,0O0a month.
The proposed bridge over the East river
at New York is estimated to cost 81, ,O00 900,
and to require six years for its construction.
1t will be mile in length.
Just to show that Galena was not ex-
hausted after it produced himself, Grant
has given six prominent foreign and domes-
tic appointments to that place.
At a recent large fire in Helena, Monta-
ma, barrels of cider and ale, for lack of
water, were poured upon the flames to
quench them.
At recent frontier ball half breed, belle
appeared In q hoop-skirt, ornamented with
fox tails, and waist of yellow flannel,
slashed with stripes of buffalo hide.
A slight shock of earthquake has been
felt in Lancaster county, No wonder
The members of the Legislature from that
county have gone home.
Leavenworth, Kansas, is the largest city
of its age, but one, in the United States.
1t is only Is years old, and has $4,000 in
habitants.
Winn, Me, boasts the largest tannery in
the United States. It turns out yearly
10000 sides of sole leather, using 1000
cords of hemlock bark to tan it..
A lunatic locked himself up in O Chica-
go hotel and commenced smashing things.
He was captured by an army of thirty
men armed with chloroform sponges,
A man who passed twenty four hours In
the New York sewers emerged with q bag
full of watches, jewelry, and other valua-
bles.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says that it is
reported that John O'Byrne, Esq, one of
counsel for Twitchell, has in his possession
the slung-sh with which Mrs. Hill was
killed. -
A little girl only eight years of age, was
outraged by two negroes, near Home
wood, Sunday evening. The perpetrators
of the outrage had not been arrested ut
last accounts ..
An Indiana printer has had the unusual
pleasure of putting in type the marriage
notice of his own father and mother. They
we're divorced several years ago, and now
remarked.
Miss Mary Grant, Of Richmond. the
lady about whom Rives Pollard printed
the article which caused him to he shot,
HAS pCIoOA AhAACA
same one that was after her then. as
Orders were received at Boston on Fri
day from the Secretary of the Navy, direct
ing all the war vessels at the Portsmouth
and Charleston navy yards to be got ready
for active service Immediately.
The swearing train" leaves Washing
ton every day. The passengers are very
much in the condition of the individual at
the Camptown races, who
Went down there With pocket fui Of tin,
And came back home with his hat stove in"
Five rustic New Workers gave q polite
metropolitan sharper $3.50 to buy their
tickets to California, on his assurance
that he could save ten dollars on each ones
passage money. The clever fellow diSap-
peared in q corwd and forgot to return.
One of the inmates of the North Carolina
Lunatic Asylum recently visited the State
Legislature, and being asked ON his return
what he thought of it, repied-"Well, ]
think they are q branch of this establish
ment.
The negro, Harris, nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor of Virginia by the Rad
ical Convention at Petersburg, last week,
has q white woman for q wife. She was
Yankee school marin" from New Jersey.
They were married since the war.
Miss Clara Barton wants Congress to
assist her in raising" negroes 'for Con
Rressional and Presidential duties. She
had better marry Menard, the darkey 9 Con-
gressman, from Louisiana. In this way
she might succeed in raising" some half
breeds.
During 1868, the seventeen street rail
ways of Philadelphia, with q total length
of l721f miles of track, transported 90, ,4s5,
5l2 passengers, received 90, ,393, ,623 and
paid out %, Acc, ,703. During the same
Iinne, ii horses were killed on the roads,
and IA injured. n
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A Bridgeport gentleman lately saw, with:
ont interference, his landlord heeced OF
900 hy gamblers on the train, end remark
ed in explanation, u wasn't gofngto warn
him. He raised my rent $500 tins year;
..,L;ol Iak Ill avnPiaanua landlords