The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-11-17
WEEKLY VARIETY.

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A large number of spurious gold dollars are said
to bs in circulation.
Peaches are worth quarter of dollar apiece
in Sacramento City, Cal.
John Eyre, of Northampton, Va, has lately do
mated five hundred dollars to the American Coloni-
cation Society.
The Phonetic system Of teaching orthography,
has been introduced into one hundred and fourteen
schools in Massachusetts.
1t is reported that Mrs. Stowe, authoress of
Uncle TOMS Csbin, intends 10 devote the profits OF
her book to the redemption of slaves.
| The State debt of North Carolina amounts to
| S., 1854 900.
The pain from the sting of wasp Or bee, can
be instantly aeviated by applying wet salnlatus.
| An eagle was recently shot at Racine, Wis.
measuring seven aud half feet across the wings
fror, tip to tip.
At the State election in Cincinnati S15,551 was
contributed for the Washington National Monu-
ment.
A woo!en factory is in process of erection at
Holyoke, Ill capable Of running ten thousand
spndles.
| The Scientific American of last week, contains
an engraving of the Crystal Palace, which is being
erected in the city of New York for the Worlds
Fair. 1t is said to be splendid affair.
The regular pay of a common soldier in France
is only FIVE cents day, without any increase in
war time.
In Baltimore few days since young lady had
her clothes set on fire, by the explosion of cam
phene lamp. She ran into street, where she met
two gentlemen, who succeeded in tearing the
burning garments from her person, but not before
che badly burned. Such accidents are be-
coming almost every day occurrence.
A modern philosopher has discovered thai
peaches are Injurious in cholera time, especially j
you swallow the stones. He says, half peck
eaten before breakfast will produce sense o
fultness!
Hon. Horace Mann has accepted the appoint
ment If President of Antioch College, at Yellow
Springs, Green CO.. Ohio.
Ira Ransom, contractor on the Central Ohio
and Hempfeld Railroad, has run away with &c..
600, which he had received of the Company. and
was due 10 the hands employed by him.
One hundred gallons of liquor was destroyed ir
Portland, Me, on the 18th ult., by order of the
Court.
DR.. S. H. Smith, formerly Superintendent o
the Lunatc Asylum at Columbus, has located ii
Cincinnati to practice medicine.
1t is reported by telegraph from Syracuse, tha
the officers who were arrested uron charge o
assaulling the fugitive Jerry, have been acquitted
by the Circuit Court.
Every State in the Union has now contributed
block of Stone or Marble, for the Monument +
the memory of WAsHIsToN.
The Portland (Me.) Advertiser says, that at
Camp Meeting near that city. it notieeI tha
some New Testaments were being sold vel,
. rapidly, especially to the impeniient. Upon ax
animation they proved '.tn vessels" in the form q
a book, filed with Brandy.
A young man had his leg amputated. at tn
Hospital in Cincinnati, on account OF cause
by wearing tight boots.
The Dayton and Michigan Railroad Company
has decided to prepare the whole line letting a
an early day.
, Governor Ujhnzi, the Hungarian, has sold ou
his possessions in Iowa, and is about to remove
Texas where the clirnnte is less rigid.
! The Diily Citizen, of Cincinnati, has been dis
continued-the weekly being continued as befire
1t is estimated that in Cincinnati there are 10
100000 dollars of capital, employed in the clo;hn
: trade, and about $4,000 persons directly or ind
recfly supported by it.
james Coulter, the last of that gallant ban
known as 'Brady's Spes," died at Mansfield. o
on the goth ult., in the 77th year OF his age.