The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-09-08
News of the Week.

The Church at Oberlin o. numbers l,079
members. Sabbath July 18th one hundred
and FIVE were received of both colors.
The Thirty-ffth Annual Conve ntion of the
Protestant Episcopal Church 10 Ohio will be
held in Chillicothe in St. Paul's Church,
commencing on Wednesday, September 9th
at 10 O'Clock A. M.
Kossuth remained in London at the last
accounts. He was living in great privacy. =
The Forest City says. the receipts of the
Cleveland and Columbus Rail Road for July
| were $4,000 in August they will reach Ss2,-
600 and the September is 100000.
In Virginia the number of Baptist Cbur-
ches is about $50 the number of members
| 90, 900 and 413 ministers.
On the % uit. ferry boat was upset in
the North River at Albany, and eleven per-
sons were drowned.
The fire AnniLilater has been tried at
Washington with success.
The tobacco crop in Virginia this year is
better than it has been for some years.
The County Agricultural Fair of Summit
County will be held on the 9th and 7lh uf
October.
The Granville Bank has given official no.
tice that the outstanding NOES of circulation
! will be redeemed in coin, on demand, at the
counter of the Bank.
The steamer May Queen struck a snag in
the Arkansas river on Friday last and sunk.
The boat is a total loss.
A new College under the patronage of the
Roman Catholic Church is about to be erec-
ted in Baltimore, Md.
The first Sabbath School in the Western
States was established IN Ohio. in March. 1871.
The Council of Ohio City have adopted
an ordinance against the retail Of spurious iiq-
uors in less quantity than quart.
The Canadian Parliament met at Quebec
on Thursday the 19 ult. -
The Hancock County Agricultural Fair
will be held on The 18th and 10Th of October.
The Oae Crop in Illinois is said to be very
large and the grain of an excellent quality.
The ladies' of ST. Louis are obtaining SUBJ
scriptions for the purpose of erecting and en-
closing widows asylum.
The Butler County Agricultural fair will
be held on the 3o,h of September and LIST oil
October.
The Farmers of Mason County Ky. are
cutting their hemp.
Locomotives are running on the Bellfon-
: tain and Indianapolis Rail Road.
: The Phladelphia mint pronounces Aus
traiian gold finer than the California gold.
The Washington physicians say that vege
: tables grown during drouth are unhealthy,
often producing cholera moibus.
The Illinois Rail Roads use Castor Oil en-.
tirely on their Car Wheels.
The population of Detroit is 26.64a.
There will be an Odd fellowss Celebration
and parade at Youngstown on the 3oth O
September, inst
The report that George Thompson hao
been returned to Parliment is incor1e ect.
The BOX Stores 10 Cleveland are coset
at ?, O'Clock P. NJ.
$ The Ohio River has risen sufficiently TO al
f low the passage of boats.
r The State Convention of the New Yorl
Democracy met on the first of Septembe
and nomiuated Hon. Horatio Seymour fo
Governor. .--5 z..s. 80, - .s.s
The Boot and Shoe trade of Boston is sal,
to be unusally active, about 5000 cases were
sold last week at an advance.
/, The appointment of N. K. Hall as Distric
Judge of Northern New York, was confirm
: ed ~ the Senate.
The Nashville Tenn. Insurance Compnn,
have suspended business.
Seven young ladies' were drowned in Cas-
adaga Lake near Fredenia N. Y. on the 81
inst by the upsetting of a skiff.
A FIRE at Osdensburgh N. Y. on the is
inst. destroyed $4,000 worth of property
work Of an inesudiary.
4 The late freshets in Georgia and Alabain
have been very disastrous.
/, Sco6e, Atkinson, & O'Kelly's Sheet Iron
!, Copper and Tin Mapufsctory. Pittsburgh