The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-04-16
Florez, President of Ura-
quay, has been assaSsinated.

Gen. Florez, President of Ura-
quay, has been assassinated.
! Hon. III. III. Wells, of Alexandria,
on the 9TH inst, took the oath of
office as Governor of Virginia, and
entered on the duties of that Office.
The tide of emigration from Ger
many the present spring, for the
United States, has commenced with
an increased volume 1t is estima-
ted that upward OF 1000 emigrants.
are on their way for America.
A shoemaker, intending to be
absent few days, lampblacked a
shingle with the following, without
date, and nailed it on his door,
"Will be home in ten days from the
time you see this shingle."
The Litchfeld, Conn, Sentinel
publishes the births, as we'll as deaths
and marriages. In the last number
we find the following :-"In Corn
wall, Feb. 5, a son to John Tricch-
emenn, Esq. "A Democratic gain.)"
A printer out West, whose office
is about a mile from any other build
ing, and who hangs his sign on the
limbs ola forest tree, advertiscs for
an apprentice. He says ga boy
from the country preferred"
Mr.. Louis V. Bogy, of St. LOUIS,
ex-Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
advises the Democrats to nominate
General Frank P. Blair for Presl
dent, as peace offering to the War
Democracy.
A Washington special says Cen
eral Grant positively refused to in
terfere in the matter of the removal
of Governor Pierpont, and tele-
graphed to General Schofeld to
carry his order, appointing Wells,
| into effect.
| The metropolitan Police Bill"
which was intended to fix things up
for the Democrats in Cleveland,
does not seem to have worked very
much to their advantage so far.
The city election, on Monday, show
ed q Republican gain of about one
thousand. Nineteen out Of thirty
Councilmen are Republicans.
In October last the farm house of
David Coleman, near Lake, Illinois,
was robbed, as was supposed. by
burglars, of all the valuables it con-
tanned. 1t has since transpired that
the thief was the wife Of Coleman,
who had determined to separa t ],
from him and took this method to
get cher share of the property.
Weston, in his walk from point
ten miles west of Erie to Buffalo,
had a snowfall of some hours to
contend with, but did not slacken
his pace He was greeted by crowds
along the way similar to those that
turned out on his Chicago walk
He made the one hundred miles in
two minutes less than twenty-feur
hours.
A pig in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, took a
flying leap, the other evening, at
which human gymnasts would be
apt to baik. He had walked up a
stairway in pursuit of proyender,
and. being cornered by number of
people in the house, plunged through
a third-story dormer window, slip
ped down the sloping roof to the
caves, and then jumped or fell to
the ground, some twenty-five feet.
With a grunt of lively dissatisfac-
ton at the too sudden stop in his
; descent, he picked himself up and
scampered off, with out waiting for
the applause of the spectators.
In Ottawa, Canada, at alf-past
2 o'clock on the morning of the 7th
! inst, Darcy MCGEE was shot dead
/ by an unknown assassin as he was
entering the house where he lodged.
The ball passed through McGee's
head and lodged in the door which
he opened A son of the landlady
came up soon after, and found his
body on the pavement, but saw no
person in the neighborhood and
heard no footsteps. It was a light,
clear night 1t is reported that the
ASSASSIN went to Ottawa from New
| York, and Fenianism is supposed to
have bad something to do with the