The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-03-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Basil Duke, John Morgan's second,
is commanding a Fenian regiment in New
York
The first strawberries of the season
have made their appearance in the New
York market. They are sold in tiny
little baskets, for which boys ask the
sum of 50 so. ----1-e- e-~---~~>
Gen Sherman has written letter
(which Gen. Grant indorses) recomen-
ding the Employment of Indians on the
frontier and on the prairies, as mount
ed scouts, relieving our cavalry from
harrassing duty which involves alarge
expense when they are employed. p
A company has been organized in
Troy, n. T., to work peat bed about
three miles from Saratoga. The bed
embraces about 700 acres, and is sup
posed to contain nearly half million
cords Of peat. Its use for running To-
comotives has been tested.
A soldiers free college is to be start
ed at Fulton, Whitcsides county, ILL.,
The sum of $4,000 has been raised,
and buildings have been purchased at
Fulton Whitesides county.
Two children, in Chicago have been
poisoned by putting card photograph
in their mouths. One has died, the
other is very low.
The railroad bridge across the
Cumberland River at Clarksville, Ten
nessee, has been restored
The man held in custody as Guam
trell, the rebel desperate, has not yet
been satisfactorily identified.
A despatch from Galveston states
that a mutiny has occurred in the 4Sth
Ohio, the men claiming that their term
Of enlistment is expired Sixty are un-
der arrest.
The fact that the commissioner of
Internal Revenue has commenced the
preparation of the old style blanks is
considered conclusive that no change
will be made in the income tax this
year.
A California paper says that the cul-
ture ofraisins promises to become an
important feature in the industrial ftl-
ture of California. The Sacramento
Union, speaking of samples sent to that
office, says they are full Of sacharine
matter, juicy and plump.
Some Canada delegations went to
Milwaukee to look after the the Fenian
operations on ST. Patrick's Day. A
lot of Fenian women discovered them
and gave them an unpleasant reception
with dirty suds, mops and brooms.
ST. Patrick's day was very widely
celebrated throughout the country, but
the promised Fenian invasion of Can
ada didn't come off as advertised. A
midst the uncertainty of the Fenian
excitement, one thing is certain; that
the leaders must begin to make show
of fulfilling their promises and predic-
tions or else stop claiming the money
of the poor Irish and the sympathies
Of the Americans.
There is at least one honest man in
North Carolina. He was postmaster
at the breaking out Of the rebellion,
and had in his possession between one
and two thousand dollars in coin be-
longing to the government which he
buried. Neither the 'srebs" nor the
''bummers' found it, and he now res
surrects it and notifies the Post Office
Department that the money is ready to
be delivered up.
A seizure of $50, 900 Havana egars
was lately made at the Mobile Custom
House.
Gen. D. II. Hill, of the late confed-
crate army, is about to start maga-
zine,, to be called The Land aoe Love.
The oldest stove in the United States
warns the halls--:of Virginia's capitol
at Richmond. It was made in Eng
land and sent over in ITO.
During the investigation into liquor
frauds upon the internal Revenue De
partment, in one of the eastern cities
it transpired that ''French Brandy
was manufactured out of the molasses
which had served a useful but dirty
purpose in printers rollers.
Charleston papers say it is hardly
possible to imagine the extent to which
the smallpox prevails through the
South All the large cities are more
or less effected. In some places the
freedmen only are the victims, while il
others the wlfite population are among
the sufferers.
The Galveston City Assessors re
port shows that over $3,OOO,OO0 O.
merchandise have been imported there
since this port was opened, which i.
five or six times as much as was eve
before imported in any year.
Thelady to whom Colonel Ellsworth
the first Union martyr of the war, was
betrothed, was married to Boston gen
tleman named Brett, in Chicago.
In Iberville parish, Louisiana, las
week, at a Sheriff's sale, six fine plan
tations sold for about what the elabor
ate machinery originally cost.
News from the Canadian frontiel
seems to indicate that the Fenian ex
element is becoming less and less there
as well as in other sections of the coun
try
The Council Bluffs Bugle says tina
several hundred teams will be in Coun
Gil Bluffs during the coming summer
to carry the Mormon emigration t.
Salt Lake City. The Mormon emigra
ton from Europe next summer is ex
pected to be larger than ever before.
, Five mercantile houses in New \ or
sold Goods last wear to the amount O