Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-11-24
NEWS ITEMS.

A large number of copies of translation of
Victor Hugo's "Napoleon le Petit have been
seized at Leipsic. In the same town sentences
of six weeks imprisonment have, been passed upon
seven persons convicted of commemorating the
execution of Robert Blum, who was shot by the
Austrians for his participation in the defence of
Vienna against Windschgratz, in the Autumn of
ls4S.
The Panama Railroad is now done to Barbaco-
res, twenty miles from Navy Bay, and its contin-
uation is persevered in with great vigor. About
800 men are now at work on the road from Barba-
cores to Gorgona, principally Carthagenians Csome
natives also) whom the British steamers bring up
each voyage.
1t is said that clone STAR" associations have
been established at Montreal and Quebec, with
subordinate lodges in other parts of the provinces
in full correspondence with the parent clubs in the
United States. What will the London Times say
now!
Count Pulsky has written to the Cologne Ga
zette, Indignantly denying that he had sought re-
conciliation with Austria He says, "Austria does
not treat with rebels, and do not treat with des-
pots" .-.
Under the liquor law in Massachusetts, Deacon
Hollis, of Brantree, has been fined $40 for having
sold two quarts of cider. TT =
Gen. Pierce at the late election received 1863
electoral votes, or than sufficient to elect
him, in the free States.
An immense number of emigrants are pouring
into Iowa, more than during any previous year.
In the year 1888, Matthias Denny purchased
the GAO acres of land, embracing nearly all the
present site of CINCINNATI for forty-nine dollars!
Now scarcely solitary front foot of any lot on
that ground can be purchased for that sum!
Walker Page, a negro, was convicted week be-
fore last, in Brown county, Ohio, of murder in the
first degree. A new trial was ordered.
A UNION MAN.-As Gen. Pierce has succeeded
in carrying almost every State in the Union, it is
pretty good evidence that he is Union man.
One or two car loads ofhogs were recently con-
verted suddenly into sausage meat, by collision
of freight trains on the Cleveland, Columbus and
Cincinnati Railroad.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that woman
in that city who has been married thrtyfour years,
and is now in her sxty-ninth autumn, agreeably
astonished her husband by presenting him day be-
fore yesterday with pair of twins, bouncing boys,
the first children to which she ever gave BIRTH
Becoming mother at this period and for the first
time is not little singular.
In Texas they can hire Mexican "peons' for
twelve cents day; while slave-wear and tear,
costs the planter full GO cents day.
Hon. W. R. King, the Vice President elect, is
at his residence in Alabama, and said to be in bad
state of health.
The Supreme Court has decided that the Liquor
Law passed by, the New Hampshire Legislature, is
unconstitutional.
Advices from Rio Grande, by an arrival from
Buenos Ayers, state that an attempt was made to
overthrow the government of Urquza. who was
absent at Santa Fe. A civil war was apprehended.
Rev. James Calvert, on Sunday week, while
reading from the 18th chapter of ST. Luke 81 will
arise and go to my - suddenly fell down and
expired before completing the sentence, at Nor
ton, Cattaraugus county, N. Y.
Commander Upshur of the United States ship
Levant, died at Spezzia last month.
The receipts of the Washington Monument,
fund from the 18th inst, amounted to $500.
The Rail Road between Erie and Cleveland Is
completed, and on Thursday last train passed
over it, for the first time to Cleveland.