The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-05-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

IVA SOcl w uofL0tkIhs A'ouO'SAA e'AAA AAO
Blond, Special Committee to visit
Memphis and investigate the recent
riot there.
Mark McCouch & Co., bankers, in
Philadelphia, have failed, Stock spec
ulators lose heavily.
Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans, was
installed in office on Monday last.
H. w. Petit, editor of the Iowa
Homestead, died at Des Moines ON
Sunday last.
The impression prevailed in Wash
ington, on Monday, that the President
had changed his mind about vetoing
the Colorado bill
The Pittsburgh Gazette has changed
hands, Messrs. Penniman, Reed d Co.
becoming the proprietors. The Gazette
will remain politically what it has been,
Radical Republican.
The ex-rebel General Lyon, of Ken
lucky, has returned to his home in Ed
dysville. The General, we presume,
did not find Mexico the paradise he
anticipated.
All Southern Louisiana is flooded
by the overflow of the Mississippi
Thirteen parishes are under water.
The Cholera excitement is quieting
down in New York. The disease has
nearly ceased at quarantine.
A woman ninety years old was
brought before the Boston Police Court
last week, for assault and battery.
Mr.. George Peabody is staying with
his sister at Georgetown, near South
Danvers, Mass. He declined a formal
reception which was rendered to him
by committee of the citizens Of South
Danvers.
The average arrival of emigrants at
St. Paul, Minnesota, is about three
hundred per day.
Confederate emigrants arc returning
from Mexico. They bring unfavora-
bic reports.
A colored man in Philadelphia de
votes $4,000 to the circulation of Con-
gressional speeches in favor of negro
suffrage.
, The gold crop of the world will prob
ably reach $15O,000,000 this year
Previous to 1880 the average annual
weld wEas less than 34,0OO,0OO.
Captain Thomas Joyes, the first white
male born in Louisville, KY, died in
that city on Friday, in his seventy
eighth year.
A little girl died very suddenly in
Roundout, NY, a few days ago, from
sheer exhaustion, produced by jump
ing the rope.
A telegram from San Francisco, da-
ted May 5, states that five hundred half
chests Of the finest Oolong tea sold
there the day before for 81 cents per
pound.
Col. Jas. L. Collins, formerly of this
State, has been appointed Receiver of
Public Moneys and United States De-
positary, at Santa Fe, vice John Grei-
iCl, idIC VI SOluuuOuo.
A babe which jumped from the arms
of it's nurse into the Ohio river at Lou
isville, few days since, and was in dan.
ger of being swept over the falls was
rescued by a Newfoundland dog on
board the steamer in which the mother
was travelling.
A desperate named Charles Quinr
murdered policeman in Leavenworth
Kansas, on the 1st inst. He was final
| ly secured and confined in the jail
yard.
The stables of the st. Louis Fiftl
Street Railroad were burned on Satur
day last. There were one hundred
and seventy head of horses and mule
in the stables, only thirty Of which wer
rescued. Sixteen cars and all the har
ness and forage were also burned.
1 Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has es
pressed his opinions regarding tn
teaching Of freed people. He believe
it is good for them and good for tn
State. He says the teachers shall b
protected in their duties, and that th
prejudice against them and their occr
patton is disappearing.
}, The 10th of May being the annivel
sary of Stonewall Jackson, the Ricl
mond Examiner proposes that bushes
, be suspended, the publication ofpape1
intermitted, and the churches open fc
memorial services for the dead of th
whole Confederate army.
A colored man named Hardee, fo
merly slave belonging to ex.Gel
Hardee, of the rebel army, has a lars
grocery store, three large ware house
and two wharves at Savannah, Ga.,-
He is also the agent of company
colored men, who have purchased ar
, will run steamboat from Charlesto
| to Florida, touching at different poin
8 along the coast.
The Howard Association in Ne
: York is preparing to nurse the sic
. should cholera become an epidemic d
!. ring the approaching warm season, al
: will contribute relief in the shape
i Medicines, &C., to the INDECENT, gr
> tuitously. After death they will ,whe
J the deceased is a stranger, decently
: ter the remains. taking such measur
. as will insure Identification, should !
latiyes or friends from distance desi
u a removal or re-interment after the pt
= thence has abated.