The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-06-04
NEWS ITEMS.


gin Of some IS or IA years of age, but he'
father discovered the fact, and went 70 tht
young mans place Of business, and gave nm
asevere cowhiding, which, IN all probability
had the effect of cooling his ardor, as he has
not stolen the girl
EE The Legislature Of Maine met on
; Wednesday, May l4th. The principle bu,
siness 70 come before them is the bill for a
Free Banking Law, and the districting the
State into Congressional Districts.
SHor.-A woman named Westfan shot q
Young lad, at Beaver, Pa, last Thursday
evening. He, with several other boys, were
stoning house of ill-fame, in that place
when a-woman came out and shot him with
sIuos, two of which entered his loins, and
another his breast, killing him almost imme'
diately. He was about IA years old.
Eg- Late news from the Cape of Good
Hone represents that the English forces have
met with disasters.
EE Naples is the only European state
unrepresented at the Worlds Fair. The
despot who controls there, has forbidden his
subjects to take part in the exhibition. Sol
itary and alone!
EE A destructive fire occurred at Pitts.
burgh on Monday. A number of buildings
on Chatham and Wylie streets were destroy,
ed. The loss is very great.
EE- The last Portage Sentinel is shrou-
ded in mourning for the death of Mr.. Batter
son, late one of the conductors of that jour
nal. He died at his resdece in Ravenna,
victim of Consumption, leaving wife and
child to grieve over the desolation which
death brings to the domestic hearth-stone
EE A light colored mulatto, near Elk
Run in Columbiania CO., Ohio, eloped the
other day with an once respectable white
girl, and the parties were married.
,frr The Pennsylvania says: The Dem
Ocratic papers in Maryland generally support
the new Constitution; the Whig papers gen.
orally take ground against it. So it is ex-
actly in Ohio, where a new Constitution
has been formed, and is soon to be voted up
on. A significant fact
THE New STATE HousE.-A correspon-
dent of the Cleveland Herald states that
four years more will be required to complete
the new State House. 1t will exceed any
similar structure in the Union, and in some
respects be superior to the Capitol at Wash
ington. The first story above the basement
is nearly up. The building is three hundred
and eight feet in length by one hundred and
eighty in width, and to the top of the dome
will be one hundred and sixty feet.
re" A young man was drowned at Mar
tinsville, on Sunday The w. Argus says
he went in swimming soon after he left Sun
day School, and got embedded in the mud
EET Gen. Foo te has accepted the nomina-
ton for Governor of Mississippi The friends
of the Union in that State have presented
him with pair Of high-blooded horses and
an elegant carriage, with which to make his
campaign in behalf of Union principles.
or Hon. James B buchanan is said by sev
cral Of the Virginia Democratic papers to
be the choice of the Democrats of that State,
and to great extent in North Carolinr, for
the next Presidency. Democratic papers in
other Southern States also seem to favor him.
EE- The suit of the Bank of Missouri
against N. Childs, to recover a $ 1905 de-
falcation, commenced at St, Louis last Mon.
Gay.
.EE John Lintz, for forty-two years a
member Of the Typographical Society in N :.
York, died last week.
E9- The friends of Gen. Cass in Califor-
mia, have sent him a magnif cent gold ring.
Rg- The President has appointed Har-
low Case, Collector of Customs at Sandusky
Ohio.
OF In the Presbyterian General Assembly
at st. Louis, the committee appointed last
December, to report on a plan for establish
ing cheap religious newspaper, reported
favorably.
Ez- G, P. Hester, Esq, formerly dis
tinguished lawyer of Indiana, has been ap-
pointed Judge of the District court in San
Jose, California, with salary of 81, ,500-a
little more than the aggregate salaries ofnine
circuit judges of Indiana,
YERMoNT.--the Democratic convention at
Montpelier, on Thursday, nominated the
following ticket--For Governor, John S. Rob-
inson, Of Bennington. For 1t. Governor
Giles Harrington, of Grand Isle. For Trea-
spFer-E. G. Redington, of Caledonia.
ARREST FOR SMuaGLrNe.--Andrew Ba-
gin, an importer Of artificial flowers, was ar
rested at New York last week, charged with
smuggling carmine, satin and other articles,
in steamers from France, to the value Of q
or 800. N
ScARcrTY OF SEAMEN.-There is at pres