The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-06-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


NEWS OF THE WEEK.
James Bell, United States Senator from
N. Hampshire, is dead.
A man named Daily, for attempting to
commit suicide in Hendricks county, Ind-
ana, has been sentenced to the peniten
tiary for three years, and disfranchised
for ten years.
Ruffiansm is considered the chiefq quail
i6cation for Democratic members of Con-
gress in some parts of Virginia, as well
as in South Carolina. The Richmond
South, recommending Richard K Meade
as candidate for the Mecklenberg dis,
trict, says: ellis place is in the hearts of
the people, and he who choked Giddings,
will be just the man for such a Congress,
as the next promises to be-"
Henry B. Payne, of Cleveland, seems
to be the most prominent candidate among.
the Slave Democracy, just now, for Gov
error Of Ohio. If he should be the can
didate of the August convention, the Re-.
publicans will give him Chase that will
be apt to cause him good deal of Pain,
unless he has fortitude enough to stand
bad defeat. - Ur6ana Citizen.
Nearly all our exchanges in Ohio speak.
favorably Of the prospects ola fine fruit
crop this season.
Ex-President Pierce and wife are in
New York, stopping with ex-senator
Hamilton Fish. Mr.. and Mrs. P. are
both much improved in health. They
return. to New Hampshire on Friday.
The determination of the ex President in
respect to the 100000 plantation with
negroes, offered to him for home, has
not yet transpired.
The Clinton County Republican says
that wheat in all parts ofthat country is
promising, and farmers say they never
had better prospect.
The Harrisburgh Herald states that
Gov. Geary, having been consulted upon
the subject, has consented to accept the
nomination for Governor. if rendered by
the American State Convention, at Ian
caster.
Pratt, Mormon Elder, was killed on
the l4th inst, near Van Buren, Arkansas,
by Hector Mclean, whose wife Pratt had
seduced.
Judge Vondersmi'h, of Pennsylvania,
arrested for forging land warrants was
on Friday brought before Judge Kane,
of Philadelphia. and bail fixed at S35,-
600, in default of which he was commit
ted to Jail.
The HaHowell (Me.) Gazette says thai
a Mr.. Cyrus Putnam of that place has
discovered perpetual notion" with
power sufficient to drive machinery. He
is soon to exhibit his machine and apply
for patent.
Mr.. Secretary Stanton has been exam
lining the Border Ruffian Laws of Kansas
and has said, "tsat some ofthens are damn
able"
The New York Herald says that Marc,
was asked the other day what he though
of the moral fitness of Buchanan's New
York appointments, and the old fellow
f remarked, that with the exception O
4 Schell, they were worse than boo
Pierce's S."
The Washington correspondent of tn
N. Y. Nescs ascribes the sickness in Wash
ington to the poisoned Pork sent fror
Cincinnati to feed the hungry multitude
The new cent was issued from the U
S. Mint, at Philadelphia, on the 26th Ill
Large amounts were drawn by the busi
ness men of that city, and large amount
: were sent to various cities by express.
A large reptile was recently taken fror
Y the stomach of a lady at Fort Wayne
S Indiana, from two to three feet long, an
: an inch in diameter. It had scales an
u bones. The lady thinks she must hav
drank it in water some years ago, as sd
: had been i'll for a long time.
a Dred Scott, the famous slave, his wi
e and two daughters, were emanoipated {
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