Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-04-07
Inportant o EIectrifying IntelIigence

Important q EIectrifying Intelligence.
Tho Lsks Pepin Express is just in, the
OLD WHlTE Hoss having made the distance
in The extraordinary short period Of half an
hourand seventy-three minutes and five
seconds, accurately measured on the sliding
scale, by the Town Pump.
BY this arrival we are in the receipt of
late dates and important intelligence. Our
attentive and intelligent correspondent writes
Us asfollows::I .,s's SIS. ., :
ais,a1aiLAkEs sPEpiN, April first, 1851.
Spring opens upon us most magnifcently.
The weather is warm and shiny, and the
meadows look as green as grass. The buds
begin to shoot at such q tremendous rate,
that it is considered dangerous to 60 among
Che trees Irecently made an excursion
up the valley Of Mud Greek, and to my sur
prise found that all along that interesting
valley, the water actually runs down hill, a
pbenofhenon that i have no recollection of
ever having seen noticed by travellers. The
Improvements IN this region are Of the most
wonderful and astonishing character. 1t
would take me over thirteen minutes to e.
numefate them all. Fortunately am saw
ed che trouble, for have just got the Mad
Greek Iuteiiigencer, for which / paid
cent, and in this sprighly, witty, and fa-
moss statistical journal, / find an enumera-
t;sn of very uncommon improvements.
will send you the following extract:
zs..-f From the Mind Creek Intellicencer
s'4Basiness opens here adorably this spring.
II noticed that after every warm shower,
the grass looks particularly green. and the
fregs seem to have preserved their voices
well through the winter The rail fences
also present to US their familiar faces and
look as natural as old acquaintance.
= The banks Of Mud Greek are full 10 the
brim, and the River is lundnbitatiously in a
state of great prosperity.
Things also IS working Peleg Parma
teffnised a bean pole in his valuable potato
patch last Saturday. Joshua Jarvis is e.
erecting cabin on Horsechestnut Avenue,
and Levi Henson has added an additional
pole to his Lenroost. Ethan Emmet has
nailed a board to his pig pen, and Simeon
Smashpipes has got new tobacco box.
Dudley niddle has got a new hub to his
cart-wheel, and aatters himself that in
few years he shall. be able to exchange bis
wooden linchpins for iron. Peter Parks
has started out with spic-and-span new
wheelbarrow, which gives our place the
air and appearance Of activity. A horse
hitched 10 a dung-cart got frightened the
other day, and showed bis a9ruling passion"
strong in (not DEATH but the harness. He
man Hildreth was seen setting out a dog
wood tree before his house the other day,
and a gentleman politely asked him why
lie did II? He replied. he thought the bark
would scare the children away from bis
cherry trees. without hurting them. Nobly
spoken that! A barking dog never bites
especially dogwood tree. Christopher
Gorothers contemplates building hen-coop
when bis old yellowshen completes the pc
riod Of her Incubation. There are also in
process of construction several little build
ings which folks generally leave out Of
doors nights, a more particular reference 10
which, modestv forbids.
With these evidences of stir, and pros
perity all around US, it cannot be doubted
that we shall soon be a place"
II you read the foregoing extract with
half the interest that did, shall be well
repaid for my trouble in sending it. It is
fortunate for place 10 have in it SO intelIi-
gent and appreciating . public journal as
the Nud Greek Intelligencer, to chronicle
its important events The praises of this
brilliant hcbdomidal are in all mouths, and
n sf hv corn mon con cant ,,r,t q rrJ :. ,o;d