Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-04-27
News Items.

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erThe President has appointed Mr.sBorland
Minister to Central America.
GrThe Canadian Parliament have adopted a
platform of decimal currency Of dollars and cents.
| 0FArch Bishop Huges, is soon to leave the
United States for Rome, there to receive the Car
dnals hat.
| GNew counterfeit SIS bills on the Iron Bank
of Ironton, one of the Ohio State Stock Bank,
are in circulation, and said to be we'll executed.
| OFA Band Convention is announced to "come
off, at Warren, on the 18th, 10th and Goth of
next month. It is expected that some twenty
or more Bands, will be in attendance. B. F. Hoff-
man, Esq, is to deliver an address on the oeca-
sion, and grand Concert is to be given in which
the several Bands in attendance are to participate
| EFThree ships which arrived at New York.
on Friday week, from Liverpool, London and
Havre, brought in the aggregate, 500 packages
ofgoods for the Crystal Palace exhibition.
6HFThe U. s. Japan Expedition is now under
way,most of the vessels having taken their depart
me. az.h s.rF- 5.E= - .--.l .-5,-. =s1. --F-
GFExtensive Gold mines have been discov-
lClCu Ou Inc upper COlrduO IVeT, eXuS.
GeFTwo men are now incarcerated in the Nor
ris CO., N. J. Jail charged with numbering man
now living and WE'LL in the State of Illinois,
The grand jury has returned true bill and the
prisoners are awaiting their trial.
01FA convention is called during the present
month, to meet at Paris, to be composed of dis
tnguished philologists of all parts of Europe, to
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basis of a common language.
The Bill to abolish Capital punishment in the
State of Wisconsin has been defeated in the Sen
ate, after have passed the House ofAssembly.
OF Ithas been suggested that the Governors
of all the States be invited to the Worlds Fair
at New York. A contemporary says "itwould be
a novel and at the same time imposing spectacle
to see the chief magistrates in body, and headed
and presided over by the President"
GF Six full-grown panthers were killed few
weeks since, in Elk county, Pa. The largest
measured Is feet from the nose to the end of the
tail.
OrF The Scientific American still insists thai
the Ericsson engine is failure, and that it Car
never be made to compete with steam. It says
the steamer Ericsson only made Al miles pc
hour, on its return from Washington.
~ The contract for building the mint at SaI
Franscico has been taken by J. s.. Pardee a
$249 900.
~ The Washington Union denies the reporte'
i'll health of President Pierce, and says his health
is decidedly improved and that he has gained botl
in strength and weight since his Inauguration.
OF Bunker Hill Monument was twice STRUCK
by lightning on the 9th inst. Persons who were
in the monument thought it was going over
The bottom of one of the rods where it enteret
the earth was slightly melted, and gentleman
near the top, who was passing down and holdin!
by the iron rail, received shock from which h
did not recover entirely for couple of hours
The second shock, it is said, sounded like tn
crash of large quantity of glass thrown dow1
the inside of the Monument.
*. The Reform Convention, of Delaware, ha
determined that judges and nearly all other of
fcers, shall be elected by the people.
~ There are said to be one hundred thousan
barrels of flour in the Detroit warehouses waitin!
Ia shipment to the East.