The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09
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liabilities exceed ninety thousand.
Items.
Cleveland contaipsa population Of %, ,ls2.
The census takers of Sandusky City, re-
turn the population Of that place at 5000.
yevay, Indiana, contains population Of
l,l55. s4,.ss.
The entire front Of fye story row of
stores, 1873 feet front, in Philadelphia, is
built Of iron.
The total population Of Washington, D.
| c., is 25, 1863.
The steamer Creole, was sold at Key West,
on the 18th ult., for "a, ,68l.
Three negroes were killed by lightning, in
Lafourche Parish, La, on the 18th ult.
The mercury went up TO l03 degrees in
the shade, at Little Rock, Ark, on the 10th.
The Post Office at Hawkinsyille, Geo.,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th ult. Loss
| BIS, 1000
The Centre Mill Company Factory in
North Providence, R. l., was destroyed by
fire on Tuesday week. Loss $2l 900. e
County meetings have been held in Mis-
souri,, calling upon the authorities to sub.
scribe $250,000 towards the Pacific Rail
road. -"
PORTER, the Kentucky giant, is in st.
Louis. He stands seven feet and eight in
ches in his Stockings.
The more recent accounts from the south
are less fattering TO the cotton crop, We
see notices of the receipt of new cotton al
nearly all the shipping points.
The notorious Mexican robber chief Pa
lacio, and bis son, have been captured or
the Rio Grande.
The cholera in Mexico, which continued
about one hundred days, is estimated to have
swept off from Is to l8, 900 Of the inhabit-
ants. On the l4th ult., it had disappeared
Long John Wentworth. has declined te
run again for Congress in the Chicago dis,
trict, and the Democrats have nominated
VIM. B. Ogden in his place.
AT Stockport, England, recently, large
cotton mill fell in, while the hands were a
dinner, by which from fifteen to twenty per
sons were crushed, of whom eleven were
killed.
i Robert Wickliffe, IT., late charge to SaT
dinia, died in Lexington, KY, on Thursda!
last.
Two young ladies. one daughter Of E
ID. Briggs, and the other OF d. 5, Kinds, o
Wayne CO., Michigan, were drowned OF
the 10th ult., while bathing in Huron river
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"a man; saiS n'S S;,a ne w :" Snmds ,.orn; "H1 - -
last, having in his possession about tw'
thousand dollars OF counterfeit notes, on tn
: |State Bank of Ohio. He had disposed 0
several Of the 'ts,ls," and was caught il
the act. o. 5e55 -gI t.7a i.,
J n. ,.;o;o, - NJ, co,w;n ssc
% of ts. ,es Tvsss"ry S ali shinments to Sa,
n F,anc;sco across The }sthmns are 10 be mad
precisely as if the goods were shipped coast
wise, or around Cape Horn. thereby payln
no duty 10 the new urenaaian Z, % uoVefnmen H
In lnis transit across Una. county, .
Inc Shole5a mas mace a Wasa alsaotul VA nave T;
amons ts ,aOOie,S sna W aIost mt stn % 10 Il
T work.
o The Boston Times contradicts the repo
that Professor Webster placed coniesslo
~ .ne naaus % Sl 'Ie aiTl Inu,hna ~ Uo nou' pun
!. Henry HYDE Garden, young man wi
had forged checks upon the banks Of Tenne
. see, in Nashville, was arrested in Loulsvll!
: lon Thursday last, ana commi..eu ;iiu , - ~ =,
,sn,;,;.s waste as Is oe 20 awar.
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M a: w; re't,s, bssU y sn9a0ed o Il % n,,cba ~
( ;~@ au hOr.ss M se n IND Indiana and Ohio. died
d Madison. la. Sunday morning, after d fe
9 days illness. We understand that his d
d lease was congestion OF the neaEs, ann a. IN
! ne leaves iamily AZ H0piie no