The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-05-31
STATE ITEMS.

| rwJ.G Robinson, ESQ ,of the Journal,has
been re-appointed and confirmed as Post
master at Bucyrus. Brother Robinson
makes good officer, and we are glad to
announce his re-appointment.
! The name of Gen. Van Derveer has
been sent in to the Senate by the President
as Assessor at Hamilton, Ohio. Tt is stated
that he will undoubtedly be confirmed.
gwA new town has been laid out in
Paulding county. on the Auglaize river
on the line of the Tiffin & Ft. Wayne Rail-
road, to be called wide Awake
The Ohio State Sunday School Con-
veation will be held at Sandusky from the
18th to the 18th of June. The principal
railroads will return delegates free who
pay full fare going.
eEFrom the reports made to the Col
umbus Horticultural Society at their last
meeting, it seems that in that vicinity the
crop of all kinds of fruit is likely to be a
small one. Peaches and cherries are en-
tirely destroyed.
GB~ The Sandusky Register states that
the wool season was inaugurated on Fri
day, at that place, by the sale of two thou
sand pounds at fifty cents. The wool was in
very fine condition. Prices are ruling
at from forty to fifty cents.
GYI 1t appears from statistics received al
Columbus that more emigrants passed
through Cleveland and Toledo during the
last week than in any previous week OF
the year. Eight hundred and fifty have
passed through Columbus, OF whom three
hundred and thirty-seven will remain in
Ohio.
W Mr.. George Lee, of Walnut town
ship, Pickaway county, informs the Cir
cleville Union. that the rats few evenings
ago, destroyed about six acres of his corn
which he had recently planted, eating the
grain and blades. A neighbor, Mr.. Geo
Meyer, also had three acres eaten up by the
same 'svarmints.''
The Cincinnati Gazette says: The
residence of the Hon. Geo. III. Pendletor
was entered, on Tuesday night last. by
burglars, while the family was asleep
They made themselves entirely at home
lighted fire, boiled some eggs, and made
some coffee, and apparently enjoyed them
selves immensely. Singular to say, al
though they used the silver spoons be
longing to the family, they did not carry
off one of them. They took off some ar
ticles in the clothing line, which were o
no great value.
gB Kelley's Island contains $500 acre
and has at the present time a residen
population Of about eight hundred. Th'
taxable property, exclusive of bank stool
owned by Islanders but assessed in tn
Sandusky district, is valued at $203, ,S31.-
Indications are most favorable among tn
Island vineyards for full crop of Cataw
bas the present season. The Isabella
will generally be total failure. but a
they do not form a twentieth part of al
the vineyards, their loss will not be felt.
W The Sandusky Register tells tn,
following: In digging for the foundation
of Keech's new building on Water street,;
few days since, the workmen came upo1
the foundation of an old log building, for
merly occupied as an ice-house, ''and be
tween two of the logs, under the water ant
mud, they found a can Of oysters that mus
have been imbedded there for twenty-five
to thirty years. The can was opened ant
the oysters were found to be as white an.
sweet as if they had just been ''put up fo
family use." Tough story.