The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-02-21
NEWS ITEMS.

The Senate Committee on Foreign At
fairs has agreed to report against Mr. Cow
an as Minister to Austria.
There are eialty-1ive vacancies of As
SCISSORS and Collectors of Internal Revenue
to be filled before the 4th of March.
The House Ways and Means Committee
has agreed to leave the duty OH wool as it
stood in the House Bill OF last session.
Mollie Trussell is reported to have re-
nounced her intention of going to New
Orleans, and will go into convent.
The destitution i'll Alabama is fri9htfuI.
1t is reported that no less than forty thou
sand people will have to be fed from pub
lie charity.
A schoOlmaster in Indiana pulled lit
tie boys hair, threw him over a stove,and
then checked him until he was black in
the face.
A correspondent of the Waynesville
Warren county, Gazette says the peaches
in that neighborhood were killed last Sat
urday night.
A little girl seven or eight years of age.
living with an uncle at Portsmouth, Va,
has fallen heir to an estate in England
worth million and a halfof dollars.
view Lunatic Asylum committed suicide
recently, by tying 4 piece of twine round
his neck and twisting it with a stick UNI
til sutiocation VAS produced.
The Kentucky House of Representatives
passed bill to set apart the taxes collect
ed from colored people for the support of
separate schools for that race, and for the
relief of paupers.
Much damage has been done by high
water and running ice on thela large streams
in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. Bridges
have been swept away and travel on rail-
ways obstructed.
ESCAPED JAIL.-Five prisoners confined
in the Seneca county Jail, escaped last
Wednesday night by digging through the
floor of the Jail and under the wall. From
last accounts none of them were captured.
James G. Hamilton, commission mer-
chant IN Chicago, was shot by his son. a
boy Of sixteen, last night, the ball passing
through the cheek into the neck. The
wound is not fatal. The young man had
been scolded, and took that effectual meth
od of stopping his fathers "jaw."
Mrs. Crawford. wife of Alexander Craw-
ford residing near New Lisbon O.. was
filling lamp While burning, when the oil
took fire. the can exploded and in a mo-
L
in about ten hours after the sad accident
occurred.
RAILROAD Academia man attempt
ed to get Oh the Cleveland Freight Train,
as it was leaving the yard. He slipped and
fell under the train. which cut off one LEG
above the knee. and badly shattered the
other. Our informant adds, The bottle
OF whisky i'll his posket was not damaged"
A lot of heavy seige guns, muskets,
equipments, and other materials of war
like nature, arrived at Jersey City. via the
the Erie Railway, on Monday afternoon
and the next day it was being shipped for
some foreign port, supposed to be one Of
the South American Republics.
A terrible accident happened on the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Il. r.. about GO
miles from the latter place, on Wednesday
night. The cars were thrown from the
track by the breaking Of wheel of the
baggage car and one man was killed and
sixteen persons wounded, some Of them Sc
verely.
Two policemen. named Dobson and r.
wing were shot in Baltimore, while at
tempting to arrest a desperate character
named Henry Glady. Both of them will
recover Three pistol shots were fired at
Glady, but without any effect. He was
StNCNHiSlIiy d1 ICSSCu'
The westward bound express train on
the Pacific Railroad was thrown from the
track, about twenty miles from Jefferson
City, and all the cars, excepting the sleep
ing car, landed bottom up at the base of
an embankment twenty-five feet high. A
number of persons were badly bruised but
none seriously hurt.
In reading the text of Mr.. Peabody's let
ter announcing his muniticent gift to the
young men ofthe South West, it will be
seen that its benefits are to be "distributed
among the entire population without other
distinction than their needs and the op-
pOrtunities of usefulness to them.'' That
clause is important, as it prohibits pro-
scriptiOn on account of color or race,
Herald.
The side-wheel steamer White Cloud
No. 2. Captain William Conley, bound
from st, Louis for New Orleans, sunk a
few miles below St Louis, on Wednesday
night, She was owned by w. NJ. McPher-
son, st. Louis, valued at S65,000, and in
sured for $4,000. Her cargo, worth $3.50,
600, insured in St. Louis offices for nearly
that amount.
Four men belonging to the crew of the
steamship City of Bath, arrived at Charles
ton, South Carolina, from Georgetown.y yes
terday. They reported that the steamer
was burned, Sunday morning. off Cape
Hatteras. Oftwenty-siN persons aboard
all are believed to be lost except these
four. The city of Bath was on the way
from Boston 10 Savannah.
Notice in Partition.