The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-04-12
STATE ITEMS.

At recent sale of sheep in Knox
county, fine breeding ewes were bid off
at $3.50. >.
The Crawford County Commission
ers have concluded to buy new safe,
to cost $4,000.
The Warren Constitution says near
ly all the furnaces and iron mills in the
| Mahoning Valley have stopped. The
coal miners are on another strike.
The Cadiz Sentinel estimates the to-
tai number who have united with the
different branches of the church in Har-
rison county during the past winter,
at from 500 to LOCO. ...-...
The Cincinnati Commercial announ-
ces the death, on Tuesday night, of
Martin D. Potter, for many years the
senior editor and proprietor of that
paper. :
A PATRIOTIC FAMILY.-We noticed
seme weeks since the fact that there
were upon the pension rolls in the of
flee of the Agent in this city, the names
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all living in Meigs county, and all of
whose husbands were soldiers in the
Union Army, killed during the war
We have since learned that the name
Hysell, in Meigs county, is almost
synonymous with patriotism. In one
township (Saulsbury) of that county,
thirty men by the name of Hysell en-
listed in the Union Army Columsba0s
Journal
The Cincinnati Commercial says that
on Friday last, in Morgan township,
Butler county, Ohio, near the village
of New London, Michael Mulholland
shot his brother-i in law, G. Mcbride,
killing him instantly. Mulholland and
Mcbride married sisters. The former
was accused of an intimacy with wo-
man of bad character in the neighbor-
hood, and his wife hearing of it, talk
ed with Mcbride about it, and he ad-
vised her to speak to her husband
on the subject. She did so, and he
(Mulholland) became insanely exasper-
ated; made his wife 60 with him in a
buggy to the house, called him to the
front door, and shot him. He gave
himself up to the authorities, and was
conveyed to Hamilton, where he is in
Jail.
The dwelling of Mr.. Robert Hopkins.
Jr., of Marion county, Ohio was de
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
25th ult;, and his son, aged twelve years
perished in the flames.
The Ashtabula Sentinel says that on
opening nuuber of the graves in the
Cemetery at Hartsgrove Center, the
remains were found to be complete in
form, but changed in substance to a
material in appearance between chalk
and tallow and closely resembling
spermaceti Mr.. Winslow, who was
present at the removal of most of the
remains, says he found at least tenth
of them so changed, some entirely,
and some only in part. The body of
one old gentleman was found entire,
with the woolen clothing upon it chang
ed with the body to this substance
Many very interesting facts of this
kind were observed.
The Newark american has been
shown specimens of fine gold found in
Licking county, two miles east of that
city. The quantity is to be tested by
mining.
The Cincinnati Times announces the
death of James D. Taylor, Esq, in
Richland county, Ill, on the 31st ult.,
in his 63d year Mr.. Taylor was for
many years editor of the Cincinnati
Times, and was widely known as Pap"
Taylor. He was forcible writer and
man of great energy.
During the month of March twenty
| five deaths occurred in the city of To-
ledo. tt.
The Fremont Journal says DR. S.
A. Orwig, of Winters Station, was rob-
bed on the streets of that place last
week of $s2,4O0. .t
The Sandusky Register says that a.
bout eight tuns of fish were received at
that port on Friday.
The Gallipolis Journal says they
have in that city the curious spectacle
of a cat sucking a rat. The rat was
given to the cat while very young, and,
instead of devouring it as expected,
she adopted it and it is now about one
third grown.
The Coshocton Age says, that on
Tuesday last George Mathew, half
breed Indian, who was color bearer of
the oath O. V. v. l., in fit of deleri-
um tremens, fell unnoticed into the fur
mace at the railroad tank in that place,
and was burned to DEATH
The Cattle Plague Subsiding.
The London Daily News says :
1.-The last return issued by the veter-
mary department of the Privy Council
gives satisfactory evidence that
throughout the country generally rind-
erpest is gradually subsiding. The at
tacks which in the week ending Feb
18th, had risen to minimum of 49,
900 cases, declined in the following
weeks to 10. 600 7 400 and 400 in the