Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-03-24
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS
kentucky has rejected the negro suf- |
tI4ee amendment by large majority.
Gen. Longstreet 10 said to be worth $25OO |
o year and pickings.
The Boston Post thinks 'the spring |
styles is" rising from q hornets nest.
Salt mixed with q little butter sells at 25
ceuta pound in Milwaukee.
Georgia has a Legislator named TurniP,
Sssd
A Joint resolution has passed both Houses
Of Congress TO adjourn on the Last Friday
of this month.
4 clergyman at Trinity Church y. Y,
has recently had his salary raised from
1890 to 10000 year.
At the Hartford Inauguration prayer
meeting, one of the prayers was that Grant
Aho0ld give up tobacco.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has discov-
cred her Florida plantation TO be failure,
and wants to sell out.
A jealous wife plucking out her husbands
beard by the handful was recent streets
scene in New York.
Horse thieves in Tennessee are now
lynched by drowning, like cats. with stone
tied to the neck.
Secretary Borie has posted up notice
that there are no vacancies In his depart
ment.
Wives are valuable in Kentucky. A
Louisville man advertises to pay $500 for
the return of his.
Horses are so numerous In New South
Wales that they can be bought for two cents
apiece.
Much of France, nearly all of Spain, and
large portions of Italy, are entirely destitute
of forests.
Dixon, Elgin, and Rock Island, Illinois,
have all elected Democratic, city govern
ments within week Last year they were
carried by the Radicals.
The peach buds in Somerset, county,
New Jersey, we're killed by the cold snap
of last week, and the crop will prove fail
ure.
A drunken loafer was picked up in the
streets. There was no sense In his head,
no cents in his pocket, powerful scent In
his breath, and he was sent to the Lock up.
HALF TOOTH APrecE.-At family re-
union in Salem, ten heads of families, broth
ers and sisters, met, all of whom had lost
but five teeth
A Kentuckian has invented q perpetual
motion wagon. 1t winds itself up by run
ming down hill If there are no bills, Il
runs down anyway.
The Chicago Post thinks there Is at least
one woman who can keep q secret, or else
General Grant does not take his wife into
his confidence.
All persons who cannot take the 'iron
clad oath" are to be removed from Office
In Virginia on the 1Sthinst. This includes
nearly one-third Of the State officials.
A correspondent thinks that one of tn.
most surprising feats of the last Admins
tration was getting Mudd out Of the DIR!
Tortugas.
Carl Schurz and Parson BroWnlow occup,
adjoining seats in the Senate at present
Unless they improve their morals they
be likely to occupy adjoining seats IN
hotter locality.
"Give the Devil his due" is an adag
that every one repeats. Ii the old chal
was to get what is due him, there wouldn'
be enough of radicals left TO make decen
turn out at q township meeting.
A correspondent of San Francisco pa
per has started the theory that the spreat
VI the small pox is attributable to the pres
sace OF cats. HeprOpOses general slaugh
Ter OF the innocents.
An eccentric man Of fifty, In Brooklyn
Conn, recently dug his own grave, sent TO
his friends to see him kill himself, and
leaning over thebrink, shot himself through
the head, falling dead into the grave
A Chicago doctor has been fined fifteei
dollars for trying TO kiss a married woman
and her husband was mulcted five dollar
for thrsshing the doctor. That made twen
~ dollars net for the city.
Had Andrew johnson nominated Genera
Longstreet (the Rebel E1-General) as Col
lector of Customs OF New Orleans, wha
would our Radical friends have had to So.
on the subject? What answer?
A Louisville matron, whose HUSBAND
snores badly, keeps q clothes-pin under
meath her pillow, and when his snorini
awakes her, she adjusts the pin on his nasa
organ, and then slumbers peacefully.
Somebody inquiries whether the Mayo
and Board Aldermen were alive to the in
terests of the city when they lately appoint
ed man to Office who had been dead TO
over six months Boston Traveller.
An exasperate dealer la skates got off tn
following, arter Tom Moor's dear gazelle:
II never wrote up skates to sell.
Trusting to tickle natures law,
And advertised and puffed 'em well,
Confound it but twas sure to thsw.
A week ago, in Manchester, n. H.,
maj. worth one hundred thousand dollar
earned twenty five cents by earring hom
q afowlfor another man He said he though