The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-04-09
NEWS oF THE WEEK.

pointed the 10th inst, for the annualfas
observed in that State.
Col. Colt gives employment to betweel
600 and 700 men in his armory, who's,
pay amounts to more than a thousant
dollars day.
bayard Taylor, describing portion o.
his journey in Lapland. says that he trav
eled many days with the thermometer a
IS degrees below zero.
Several farmers in Platte county. Mis-.
sour, have sold their farms, and ar
about to remove with their slaves South
because they fear Missouri will become .
free State.
One house in Louisville. KY, ha.
cleared no less than $500, 900 during tbe
last season in the Pork trade--anothe
S2oo. .ooo-another s so, 900, and seye
raj Sloo,0oO each.
The Philadelphia Ledger says there i
an old clock in the library of that city
which tradition says was in the posses
sion of Oliver Cromwell. It lacks .bu
a few years of being two centuries old.
No POSTMASTER in the country can hon
estly take over four thousand dollars 8
year for his services-two thousand from
commissions and the same from the sale
of boxes. All beyond has to be return.
ed to government.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Ezpress states
that the late Mr.. Eskridge Lane, the ne.
phew of President Buchanan, whose sud.
den death was noticed few days since,
was one of the victims of the poisoning
at the National Hotel at Washington.
On Monday night of last week, Samuel
II. White, farmer living within FIVE
miles of Washington, Pa, was murder
ed in his bed. He had in his possession
$3.50, which be was to pay on his farm
and for the possession of which the rob-
bers killed him.
The Salem Mass, Register mentions
that gentleman in that vicinity came
near being choked, few nights, by
swallowing his teeth while asleep. A
surgeon arrived in time to save him. by
taking them from his throat with an in
strument.
A new Constitution has been framed
for the State of Iowa, and will be sub.
mitted to the people for adoption. 1t
6xes the Capitol permanently at Fort
Desmoines, and provides for a general
banking system. The question of negro
suffrage is submitted in separate clause.
The Legislature of Missouri has been
presented with Bible. When the Gov
'rnor was sworn in, they had to borrow
'ne from the Penitentiary.
Mr.. Wilson, Supe rintendent of the
Mississippi Telegraph, successfully laid a
'ubmarine cable across the Mississippi
liver al St. Louis, on Wednesday. The
'able was imported from England, and is
u sufficient strength to render communi-
'ation entirely permanent and reliable.
In discussion in the bogus Kansas
legislature four weeks ago, the Rev.
Martin White, a member, made fero-
;ious speech, in which he admitted that
e killed Frederick Brown, who, our
eaders will remember, was slaughtered
asst summer at Osawatomie.
In the Supreme Court at New York
n Thursday, the place of trial of Mrs
cunningham and Mr.. Eckel was changed
'om the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
he trial will take place on the Sd Mon |
ay in April, as before provided.
The Norwalk Reflector says that the
'emocracy in Huron are in stew about
ne appointment of Mr.. Parks--brother.
l-laW OF Secretary Toucey--to the Post
tfice in that village. and that ..tthe fact
!, there are too many hungry fellows for
ne teat; consequently some of them
ave to staad aside and 'squeal."
INTERESTING Law DEC1sroN.-It was
ecided on Monday by one of. the New
ork Courts. that coaehman may mar
the daughter Of his employer, even if| !
Ie should move in the Fifth Avenue
fcle; that such tendency of her affec-
IN was no proof of insanity, especially
the young man was good looking, in
lhgent, and there was nothing against
v moral character, Tb;s ;,a..l