The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-04-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The people of st. Paul, Mimi, on
The 22d, we're celebrating their one
hundredth day of uninterrupted good
f
Broad street Philadelphia, which
they are about to call Lincoln Avenue
is nearly sixteen miles long. and of un-
form width 1t is said to be one of
the finest streets to- be seen III the coun-
try. --..-
The Canadian Government have al
ready received offers of service from
one hundred and eighty thousand men,
who are willing to take the tieldagainst
the Fenian invader
Vast beds of oysters, equal to those
of Chesapeake Bay, have been found in
the Gulf of California, between MAJ
allan and Guaymas, from which Cali
fornia will in future be supplied. They
are planted in San Francisco Bay, and
there fattened for the market.
The San Francisco correspondent Of
the Chicago Times, under date of Feb
ruary 10Th, says the grass is a foot
high and the gardens are green with
young produce.
Bishop Grace of St. Paul, Mimi,
denounced the Fenians in the most bit
ter terms in his address on ST. Patrick's
day. He told them they were the
laughing stock of the world.
At the Springfield Armory, Massa-
chusetts, over five thousand Springfield
rifles are to be altered so as to be used
with Mr.. Aliens breach loading i'm
provement The cost will be about
five dollars forleach piece, and when
altered eighteen shots can be fired in
a minute. ..s.f
A company Of twenty five men has
been organized by the citizens of Owy
ghee, Idaho. to go to Indian hunting.
For every buck scalp, the hunter is to
receive 800; for every squaw scalp,
$50, and for every thing else in the
shape of an Indian, under ten years of
age, S25.
Henry G. Atwood, boy Of eigh-
teen, is on trial in Sycamore, Illinois,
for shooting his wife, aged sixteen.-
He was cleaning his revolver, his wife
sitting in front of him, when, he claims,
it went off, the ball passing through her
body, from which she died in forty
hours.
The advantage of steam fire engines
over the cumbersome hand machines.
was illustrated at the Cincinnati fire
last week, when one of them played q
continuous stream of water on the burn
ing buildings for twenty-five hours
requiring but four men to attend il
during all that time.
General Grant has shaved off his
whiskers. This will be sad move fol
him. Nearly all the special artists ano
photographers had taken him as ht
was, and he might expect cessation
of their hostilities, but now he will have
the whole army of them after him a
gain. :
Bituminous Coal, of which hogs will
eat from one to two pounds per day, i.
regarded by the Prairie Farmer as
sure preventive Of hog cholera
The Wisconsin Senate has adopted
a resolution striking out the worC
'white'' from the section in regard tt
qualifications of electors by a vote O.
IL to 4.
Investigations into the nature of th'
potato rot have brought to light tn,
fact that it is created by insects imper
ceptible to the eye, but innumerable il
quantity, which, lay their eggs il
the stem and send the virus down tt
the root. A little black speck the siz
of a pin head, under the microscope
turns out to be full two hundred fero
cious animals of the beetle form ant
shape. A remedy is said to have beel
discovered.
Just as one John Elton had closet
most fervid exhortation for sinner
to flee from the wrath to come, at on
of the churches at New London, Conn
on Sunday night, the Sheriff arreste,
him for stealing minister's overcoat
After considerable lying the overcoa
was produced.
A Texas correspondent of the Miss
ouri Republican, says: A large immi
grafton is already setting in to thi
State, principally from the border an
Southern States. Land is cheap, ur
improved, ranging at from fifty cent
2 to three dollars per acre improved, i
the older counties, at from five to twelv
; dollars per acre.
) The Houston Telegraph says that j
, few years the sheep interest in Texa
) will not be second even to cotton, an
advises the Vermont graziers, instea
of keeping their merinos in a clima
so rigorous as to require them to /
fed six months.in the year on turniI
e and hay, to bring their fiocks to Yves
D ern Texas, where they will need no a
d tention except to be protected frol
:, disease and wild beasts.
:, There are only seventy eight dai
u papers printed in Great Britain and Ir
land, for the supply of thirty million
= of readers, and this is claimed as
: great advantage ON the number t.
years ago, under the old stamp law.
i A dentist in St. Louis pulled elev,
r. teeth, each, for two ladies, at one S
,r ting, preventing any pain by the ne
y process of inhaling nitrous oxide gs
d They declared there was pleasure
NJ stead of pain in having teeth eXtracte
g The South is overstocked with Nc
I, thern goods, and prices are gettiag
e, be lower than in the North.