The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-02-22
Summary Of General News.

Summary Of General News.
The New York Herald estimates the
number OF valentines which passed
through the New York Postoffiee this
year at $4,000.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
says there are two, thousand cases of
smallpox in that city.
The Legislature, of Kentucky has
passed q law eXempting homesteads,
worth 81 900, from sale for debt.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
decided that persons who served in the
rebel army forfeited all right and title
to pensions or bounty, which they may
have held for services rendered while
serving in the United States army,
previous to the rebellion.
BY an alteration about to be made in
the Springfield rifle, it can be fired
eighteen times in m;hute.
A new census cf Illinois has just been
completed, which shows the total poprl-
latlon OF fhat state to be 3 26, 900; an
increase of IA, 900 in five years.
An institution has been established
in Philadelphia to take care of the
children while their mothers go out to
work, and those who are entirely friend
less. au1 fa
The Coffin containing the remains
of Mr.. Lincoln was opened few days
since, and the corpse was found to be
so much decayed that his features were
scarcely discernable.
The Sub Committee upon the State
of Tennessee have agreed to report to
the j Joint Committee on Reconstruction
in favor of the immediate admission OF
the members from the State.
An Extraordinary bold bank robbery
is reported at Liberty, Mo-, Tuesday
afternoon. Twelve men entered the
town, and while three were guarding the
approaches to the town, the others
went to the Association for Savingss,
and forced the cashier to deliver up the
money Of the bank, amounting to over
$40, 900. Pursuit was at once com
menced, but at last accounts it was un-
successful. ...,...
During the war the total number OF
casualties in Indiana regiments was 37-
5S4. Of the sufferers 1871 were Off
GERS. . The deaths from disease and
wounds amounted to 15,147, of which
| GA were those of officers.
The Rev. John B. Fitzpatrick who
died on Tuesday in Boston, was the
first native of the United States who le-
came Roman Catholic bishop of the
city wherein he was born.
Married, near Swope's Depot, Ten
nessee,, last week, Mr.. Moses Craw-
ford, aged 80 years, to Miss Phillis
Hill, aged IA years. All Darkies.
A California millionaire appears to
have been sued by an enterprising
widow for breach ofhis marriage prom
ise, alleging her damages to have been
$10O,9O0. a-." --..
The Guernsey Times says the Grand
Jury of that county, found los indict-
ments. 81 for the violation of the
liquor law.
Gen. Grant has instructed the vari-
Gus department commanders at the
South to forward to his headquarters
copies of such papers as contain dis
loyal and infamitory articles, and to
inform him whether they are in the
habit of publishing them. Il.
On the 18th inst, Gov. Patton, of Ala
bama, under the act authorizing par
don to be granted before convicted
published a proclamation granting
amnesty and pardon for all offences
committed during the war, except rape
and murder This is said to Der patio
ularly intended to reconcile discordant
elements in North Alabama.
A gas, made of crude petroleum is
being introduced into Chicago. The
Chicago Post says the light of the pc
troleum gas is fully four times greater
than the light of the coal gas and tha
! it can be made at much less cost.
A good deal of difficulty is arising
in various parts of virginia on accoun
/ Ol b10 IT0SlQouG > OTuoT UllCCGIHS Tilt
restoration of Methodist meeting hou
ses to the control Of the Baltimor,
Conference. Ministers from that bod,
have had to be protected in taking pos
session by a file of soldiers.
The McConnelsville (Ohio) Heralt
says the Woodbury. Oil Company hav
struck oil twelve miles north, of tina
town, at the depth of one hundred
feet, and that the well is running nov
at the rate Of two hundred barrels
day. The oil is said to be worth thir
ty dollars barrel. Land in th
neighborhood is held at fabulous pri
ces, and five hundred dollars bonus i
asked on leases.
A young girl, named Adeline Hill
of Hopkins, Mich, was burned to deatl
a few days since under the most hori
BILE circumstances. After going a fey
rods from home on her way to schoo
she discovered that her under clothe
were on fire, and the flames immediate
ly burst out and spread so rapidly owe
her person that it was impossible t
extino11ish them. A woman near by