The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-02-24
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Dlckens's "Dombey q son." has Deen
translated into Russ ia at ST. Petersburg.
The discretion of man defereth his anger {
and in its glory to pass by iransgression.
On Thursday evening last, lady Of New :
ark, N. j., added three daughters to the pop
ulation of that Goarishiug city. IA
The Key of the Baste, presented by La
fayette to Washington, ye: hangs in the Hall
at Mount Vernon.
Since 1915, there have been at least forty
millions of Bibles printed by the several BIZ
BILE Societies throughout the world.
The total number of alien passengers who
arrived at New York during the month Of
January, was about Is 900. N>
The Cherokee National Council has impos.
ed heavy tax OH all free negroes and mulat-
toes residing In the Nation.
SUDDEN DErH-A Mr.. Jesse Gaylord, Of
Bristol, Conn, while acting as pail bearer at
funeral few days since, fell suddenly and
expired!
A landlady in Philadelphia, it is said, makes
her pies SO light that her dodgers can see to go
10 bed, without cand ie, after eating mod'
erae sized piece.
WELL PUr, OLp LADY,-Nrs. Partington,
asks, very Indignantly, if the bills before
Congress are not counterfeit, why should
there be such difficulty in passing them
Small Pox continues TO prevail in various
| parts of North Carolina. Ths towns OF Will
mington and Charlotte, appears to be the Prln-
cipal pfuces affected.
Tie Hon. Horace Everett, Of Vermont, who
for fourteen years represented one OF the Dis
tricls Of that State in Congress, died at hia
residence in Windsor, on the 3Oih ut, aged
72.
Sheldon P. Church, has bee n mulcted in
ST, 900 damages, at New York, for having pub
Ilished, as a nero an tile spy, false statements
of the condition of the 6rm Of Taylor, Hall q
Mnrdock, of that city.
Mrs. Martha Myers. the last survivor Of the
massacre Of Wyoming, died at Kingston, Luz
zerne county,, on the 4th Of January, aged ~.
| Fl or father, Thomas Bennett, was one Of the
corty white men who built tire stockaic called
" Forty Fort"
Miss Tucker saws it's with old bachelors a.
| il is with old wood. II is hard TO yet them
started, but when they do take flame, they
burn most prodigiously.
/ A Brilliant talker is not always liked BY
those whom he has most used, for we are sell
dom pleased with those who have In any way
made us feel our inierioriiy.
Decision Of character is a great virtue in 4
Young woman. Instead Of playing the Mis-
| Nancy, and half refusing and balf accepting
when the question is popped, buck rlGn' oe'
to the fellow, and.say " yes "Or "no'
n
/ Pardon is glorious kind Of revengei !
think myself sufficiently revenged oil my eueF
'Imy if | pardon him. Cicero did more 70 oom-
mend C msar for pardoning Metulus, 'nan ior
the great victory obtained over his enemies
gosteoN por,rors.-The New Yosk Tribune
has rcceived notato, raised on the farm q
I Uenrv Fuller, near Portland, Oregon. Alter
/ tho vovu 90 or 1000 miles, II is as fresh ana
sonnd as If lust oug from the earth. he
c;rcumiere nee OF this monster potato Is 2Js
linches aud lis weight 81 lbe. histobe pre-
seufsd to the American Institute. i
Il Tn Memphis, among other uoveIties'at pres
eat in that city is the following
Mrs Bailey, the most kracefol and mos
beau,iipl Female Bowler in the world, vii. B
in sttendance to- night.
1 Mrs. Barley won the silver cup at MiagAr'
Falls last simmer. maxim ( 297 in string
game Il being The larg cat game made dur'nI
1 the seasoh,
Mrs. Swisshelnf, the man-wonnan, 10 AZ
| but the trowserc0ats, says that 'yonrg wu
mennowA- wnggle along a A tl'f}
ilweIe moved by one ot kIickson'e Dfonn|'
u leIs. 6i4lk, girls, dear e'I'1. now 'v'
h>fe y0o wen caIn1'n'''er