The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-06-10
! Immense Conflagration.

Ic0untry sixteen miles IN extent, on Olta-
4 wa river, Canada, was very destructive OF
property. sweeping forests and fences
houses and barns, focks and heards be-
fore it, and it is feared destroying many
lives. The Montreal Gazette gives the fol-
particulars, derived from private letter
from a well informed source Cm Eng.
| Upon the island Of Almuettas it is be-
llieved that two churches and about thirty
buildings have been consumed; upon Cal
umet Island they saw millions Of F. X.
Bastien, and about thirty farm buildings;
in Pembroke. the establishment of Mr. G.
0. Kelly and other buildings; In the town
ship of Westmeath, Bee:h's grist, saw
mills and about twenty farm buildings; in
the township of Ross an entire settlement
known as the garden of Eden, has been de-
stroved beside Gould's wharves and
all the stores and farm buildings on the
south side of the river at Portage du Fort;
in Bromley about ten buildings were de-
stroycd. About two hundred families,
principally those Of agriculturaIists, have
been left homeless.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN ENGLAND. ..--Du-
ring the six months ending the 31st Of De-
cember last, there were killed on the rail-
roads in England 1873 persons, while 3s7
more were injured-tatol $50. Ofthe xii
led Al were tresspassers not connected
with the road, who wlfully or inadver-
tently exposed themselves, 40 employees
of the road or workmen employed by con
tractors; IL were passengers killed by
their own fault or carelessness; and out of
40 others, 81 were connected with the
roads, leaving only nine passengers killed
by TO fault of their own.
Bronchitis. A writer in the Baltimore
Sun. who has been afflicted severely in his
} family by bronchitis. recommends the fol-
lowing as remedy from which he has ex-
experienced great relief
! Take honey in the comb. squeeze it out
and dilute it with little water, and wet
the lips and mouth occasionally with it.
1t has never been kno vn to fail in cases
even where children had throats so swol-
len as to be unable to swallow 1t GER
tainly simple remedy, and may bea very
eflicacious one.
EF- We notice, in the Tribune. that
Miss Phoebe Ann Taho, of Milton town
ship, Mahoning county. Ohio, has written
to Horace Greeley to dispose of the copy
. right of a manuscript work written by her
and dictated by "the spirits of the differ
ent spheres" containing al"section on ev-
cry book in the New Testament, telling
what is right and what is wrong" She
says she can afford it for no less than one
thousand dollars. 1t consists of l54 pa
ges, beautifully written with a lead pen
Icil. She says she is ID years of aye.
We presume she Is young lady, unso.
phistcated and uncultivated; Mt all events,
her photography and syntax are in state
of nature. Greedy is of opinion that she
ought to be spanked and sent to bed =
Forest City.
We would give something to see our CO.
temporary of the Tribune perform that op-
eration!- Gin. Eng.
EE- A slave-dealer, named Talbot, of
Baldstown, KY, on his way NJ from New
Orleans, on the Reindeer, had lot Of
slaves. AT the Chalk Banks. on the Mis-
sissippi, likely negro woman, on Satur-
day night last, having first thrown her
trunk from the boat into the river, follow
ed it. and being good swimmer, is sup
posed to have got safely to shore. The
boat was stopped and dihgent search made
for the giil. but she could not be found
Her owner, the day previous, had been of
fered 100 foi her, Gin. Eng.
The New York correspondent Of the
of the Baltimore Clipper remarks that the
late Anti Slavery Convention in New York
city is probably the last that can ever be
held there, the propretors of the various
halls, without a single exception, having
refused to lease their property to them on
and under any conditions for the future.
There is one building, however, which such
miserable blasphemers and traitors might
gct-and which they ought to get--the
IonsJst--Cn, Eng.
To destroy Reaches, take an earthen
bowl, or other high earthen vessel, and fill
| it half full of molasses and water, made
very sweet; place it on the floor near the
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