The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-04-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Inc UnIOn majority In New Hamp-
shire is within 90 votes of the estimate
before the election.
The price of tobacco in Montana
Territory has recently been as high as
five dollars pound. .
Cotton is selling at Macon and At
lanta at 30 cents for middling. lf-
The Empress Eugine viii be on the
shady side of 40 after May 5.
Gen. Bidwell, of California, member
of Congress now, raised 1000 bushels
of wheat last pear.
1t is asserted on good authority that
nearly a million dollars will change
hands in Connecticut on the result of
the recent election. -@i
An order, issued from the State De
partment, forbids the giving of any pat
ronage to 81. w. Forney," without
specifying either of his papers.
Twenty five thousand barrels of oil
are said to have been consumed in the
late fire in the oil region in Pennsylva-
MIA, besides an immense amount Of 9th
CT property, and several wells.
The Texas Convention have decided
to pay the wife of Gov. Sam Houston
the salary for his entire term. of office,
of which he was deprived by the seces-
sion of the State.
A soldier who needed it, has inven-
ted left handed knife and fork com
bined, with which a person who has
lost his right arm can feed himselfvery
conveniently.
A Galveston dispatch, dated on the
1st of April, says the cotton is up and
promising well corn is depressed, but
wheat promises the largest crop ever
reaped. The exports Of cattle are i'm
menSe.
AT recent great steeple chase, near
Liverpool, thirty horses started; all the
favorites were beaten, aud the winner
was a gaunt outsider, whose owner
quietly pocketed S135, 900 by the race.
The people of Smithville, N. c., re-
Gently captured a whale at the mouth
of Cape Fear river, below Wilmington.
The monster was ffty-six feet in
length.
George Rosenbeck, aged IS, and a
fair Teutonic dame of IS summers.
eloped from the vicinity of Albany, a
day or two ago. Both were married
and had large families.
Mrs. Mallory, Of Lake Station, Ill.
was recently shot dead by her husband,
while she was listening to the evening
prayers of her children. Jealousy was
the cause.
General Glen. Evans, of the rebel
army, who commanded Gordon's old
division when Lee surrendered, has
turned his attention to religious preach
ing in Cass county, Ga.
Elk Senator Yulee of florida late a
prisoner in Fort Pulaski, has been pa
rolled and allowd to go home, but is
required to report once month to the
Adjutant G eneral.
The New York Times says that the
Freedmen's Bureau will be continued
in operation one year from the issue of
the peace proclamation, April 2.
Chicago has at last received its great
telescope, the largest ever made. The
aperture Of the object glass is 161 in
ches. The instrument was packed in
nineteen boxes.
For the past fortnight company of
about one hundred soldiers have been
engaged upon the battlefield of Shiloh
in the work of gathering the remains
of the dead into a cemetery upon the
banks of the Tennessee.
Since last May, Government has sold
two hundred and ten thousand horses
and mules, realizing over fourteen mil
lions and a quarter of dollars. The
sales still progressing in the South will
reach seventeen millions.
The German and English laborers,
employed in King George county, Va,
all ran off the other night. They made
no complaint, except that the country
was lonesome.
The cattle plague is still prevailing in
England and Scotland. For the week
ending March End, 731 cattle were at
tackled with the disease. Total up to
that time, 1S7, ,O59.
Labor is said to be worth in Mexico
from eight to fifteen per day. Out of
week the contractor can hope to get
three days Of good work. Flour is
worth forty-five dollars barrel, and
meal fifteen dollars.
Gov. Dillingham; has appointed Hon.
G. F. Edmunds, of Burlington, to the
U. S, Senatorial vacancy in Vermont,
occasioned by the death Of Hon, Sol
omon Foote.
A jury in London has given YER
dict for $s22, 500 to Rev. Mr. Eland and
wife, who were severely injured in the
recent railroad accident at Staplehurst.
A few verdicts like this in sthe United
States would go a great way toward
making railroad companies more care
full.
The Supreme Court of Missouri re-
turned and remanded the case Of Hen
ry Green, convicted of murder i'm the
first degree, because in the lower Court
the case was given to the jury after
twelve o'clock midnight, Saturday, and
the verdict was rendered on Sunday
morning.
The last Legislature of Kentucky
passed law requiring tavern and sa
loon keepers to give bond and security