The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-09-24
News Items.

i N "oTh Oh Stars VIII soon De issued al
Paris which will indicate the position Of
,659, l25 Of these celestial bodies
~ The Peoria Union SAYS that not far
from 1000 buildings have been erected in
Peoria during the past year. Aremark-
ably rapid in growth.
E9s-The drouth is so great at Galvest-
on, Texas, that 1000 head of cattle are re-
th have peron ths Island in consequence.
! .6Gy Ben Perley zPoore, the wheelbar
row and apple man has been put forward
for Lieut.. .Governorby the Know Nothings
of Chelsea, Mass. ar -
EE William B. Astor, of New York,
pays tax Of s23, co. Nicholas Longworth
Of Cincinnati, pays $4,000.
EE-It is.estimated that the surplus in
the national treasury. at the end Of the
fiscal year, will be. $5O.OoO.O 900. What
dispositiin is to be made of this surplus
now engages the attention of fuanciers and
statesmen.
~A steam hod Carrier has been in
vented and is in constant employment in
Philadelphia. With a man to feed ii, an
other to tend the engine and third to
empty the hod, it performs quietly and
cheaply the work Of twenty men.
EwA company OF Ohio capitalists. at
whose head is Thomas Corwin. have pur-
chased &c, 900 acres of coal land, in the
valley Of Kanawha, Va, at 8 an acre,
and will Immediately commence the man
ufacture of coal oil from that valuable
mineral.
EN-A commercial editor of one of the
New York journals, says that during an
experience of more than twenty years in
the street, he does not remember to
have seen time of more general
dependency in that city, than in CONNER
cial and business circles last week.
w One acre of land that will yield ff-
teen bushels OF corn, will, if planted in
Chinese sugar cane, make II, 500 stalks,
which will make 200 3-8 gallons ofsyrup.
This at SO cents gallon, will make about
S55 per acre.
H The v. y. Times contains another
chapter on swill fed milk, to the use oi
which large portion Of the deaths among
children is attributed. Not one-third ol
the milk used in New York and Brooklyn
is country milk, but comes from distiller.
ry swill fed cows.
i @V Volunteerc for Nicaragua are col
lecting to start in an expedition on OF
about the first of October, under command
of Walker.
@T The new year of Havard College
opens with the accession of 1O6 new stu
dents, of whom 96 are freshmen, and 1C
f sophomores. The latter class now mum
bers 1856. In the annual football con
test, on Monday evening, the sophomore,
beat the freshmen through six straigh
| games.
@I 1t has been ascertained that tn,
city of Cincinnati, contains more GROCER
les than any otler city in the Unitet
States. with the solitary exception of New
t York. The principle cause ofthis is tha
| the trade is entirel y open, there being n,
licenses exacte,l, so thatthe occupant o
every shanty can retail his jug of whisky
: @-The Toronto Colonist says 1t i
stated that the present Newfoundland lin
! OF telegraph is to be abandoned. 1t ha
2 cost more than a million Of dollars.
t road was cut for it with immense labor
through 400 mills ofdense wilderness, ant
it is now found impracticable to keep it u,
t through the storms and ice of Newfound
land winter.
: @- Purchase of Mt. Vernon.-Hon
Edward Everett has received from hi
+ Grafton on the character of Washington
S35. 900, the whole of which he has gen
erously given to the fund which is being
raised for the purchase OF Mt. Vernon
lie has not even deducted his traveline
expenses. An exchange says that tn,
purchase Mt. Vernon, by the ladies ane
, Mr.. Everett is on the eve of consuma
ton. -s,
@ The work on tie Suspensio,
Bridge across the Ohio, between Cincin
natl and Covington, is in full blast. Som,
two hundred men are engaged in prepar
ing the stone for the abutments, and lay
ing them down. The construction o
this bridge is one of the greatest achiev
: ments ever undertaken in our country
and there is not estimating the advantage.
that will be derived from it when finish
t ed.
I PORTLAND Sept. 18.
The returns of the election, as far a,
f received, show the vote received bv Nor
? rill, Republican candidate for governor
to be nearly 10000, and that of Smith
Democrat, $4,000. Last year, Hamin
the Republican candidate, received SO,
Il.