The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-11-10

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I. For the best boaring machine
e For the best smut machine
3, For the greatest Jackass.
4. For the biggest hog"
5. For the greatest cabbage head. az
= Ii the above awards were really made,
they give additional evidences of the com
potency and discernment of the commit
tees.
DEATH OF THE SLEEPING MAN.-Cor-
nelius Vrooman, who had been asleep FIVE
years, died at his brothers residence, in
Clarkson, n Y, on the 10Th ult While
on exhibition in New York, he was taken
sick, which seemed to induce a weakful~
ness until he was brought home on the
14th. 1t is stated that he talked very lit
tie, inquiring after his mother, who had
been dead two years, his father and broth
ers, whom he seemed partially to recog-
nlze. He complained of great internal
heart, and soreness of his throat and stom-
ach. On the morning of the day of his
death he called for food, and ate hearty
meal and then from that time seemed to
be in pain until about O'Clock, P. NJ,
when he died without, a struggle. His
age was 81 years
RAILROAD SMAsH.-On Wednesday,
six miles from Shelbyville, the axle of the
tender broke, which precipitated the cars
off the track, and shattered to pieces two
new passenger cars belonging to the Gin
cinnati and Indianapolis Railway.
Quite a number of passengers were
aboard. but fortunately only two were in
jured-a lady, (name unknown slight
ly, and a brakeman, named Cline, serious
ly, The latter will have one of his hands
anputated.-- Gin. Eng.
EsA very little contents French
man. A Partisan will extract more COM
fort from two onions and a cents worth of
garlic, than John Bull will find in the con-
tents of a boiled ham and four quarts of
! turnips. Weknow an old Frenchman who
makes terrible breakfast out of cents
worth of cigars and tooth-pick.
APpoINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR Jesse
Leohner, of Fairfield county, to be Judge
ofthe Probate Court in said county, vice
Joel Radebaugh, resigned.
John Burke and VIM Warren, of Wash
ington county, to be Directors in the Mar
ietta and Newport TURNPIKE Roadand
Bridge Company:
CALIFORNIA GOLD GREAsE.-A Yankee
down East has invented this specifc,for the
use of gold hunters. The operator is to
grease himself well, lie down on the top of
a hill, and then roll to the bottom. The
gold. and nothing else, " will stick to him.
Price ninety-four dollars per box.
~ Compliments cost us nothing, and
yet there is nothing more provocative of
esteem. Tell ug-nosed woman that she
is beautiful, and you can have the run,
not only of her affections, butof the pam
try in which the cold turkies are kept.
M Leahy, alias the Monk of La
Trappe, applied to the Sup. Court of the
State of Wisconsin for new trial, on the
charge of murder, of which he was con-
victed. The application was heard re
Gently, but refused So the murderer is
to be hung. Served him right.
Rg The Musical World is informed
that at an exhibition given by the Chos-
taw Indians the other night, they ''kindly
offered to give a specimen of tomahawk-
ing and scalping, if any lady or gentle
man in the audience would step forward
N The Richmond Palladium estimates
that seven barrels of whisky is consumed
by the gallon in that village every week,
''and yet" the editor rematks, eve are
residing in temperance community
Gy The sum of five thousand pounds
was recently placed in the hands of the
LordLieutenant Of ireland, by Queen
Victoria for distribution among the Du-
bin charities
A GooD BUsINEss.-The Holyoke cot
ton mill at Holyoke, Mass, it is stated,
made clear profit last year of over $780,
900, or over 16 per cent, on the capitalin-
vested. 1t manufactures coarse cotton.
Eighteen persons in Plymouth Hollow.
Conn.,, went out on a squirrel hunt for one
day. They brought in at night, twenty
nine hundred and ninety! There must have.
been s'mass" meeting ofsquirrels on that.
day.
GsNThe fire at the corner of Fulton and.
Nassau streets, New Y ork, destroyed prop
! erty worth $841 300, insured for S1O7,-