Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-06-01
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Items.
IFA meeting of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee is called at Columbus on We'd
nesday, the 22d inst.
fJThe next annual meeting of the State
Medical Society is to be held at Columbus on
Tuesday next.
GA house was destroyed by fire in Fairfield.
Columbiana county, on the night of the 24th ult.,
and Mrs Minerva Moore, respected widow lady
who occupied it, was wo badly burned that she
survived her injuries but few hours.
" Hon. S. A. Douglas sailed for Europe in
the steamer Pacific on the l4th ult.
OTThe Ellsworth (Me.) Freeman says that
valuable vein of iron and silver ores combined,
has recently been discovered on the farm of Capt
Samuel Uran, in Sullivan, Hancock county, Me-,
expectation.
O1FThe Lantern suggests the following reme-
dies for railroads accidents:
| 1st. Hang two directors at each terminus, and
one every fifty miles on the road.
I'd. Hang one engine driver every twenty five
IlillcS, tuiCC WuClCfCl louu SloooCo
er, runs along the side of hill.
| Sd. Legalize the use of "lynch law'' by the
| passengers, whenever an accident occurred.
GFThe frsrelection of Judges by the people,
under the new constitution of Louisiana, took
place at New Orleans on the 18th ult. and result
| ed in the choice of democrat in each of the
sixth districts.
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| HFThe brewery of Mr.. Craft, one mile east
of Canton, was burned down on Wednesday
night last the inmates barely escaping with their
| lives.
| tThe Democrats of Columbiana county
make their nominations for county officers on the
25th inst, by the popular vote system. Their
county convention meets on the 9th.
GrThe sandnsky Commnrcias Reg lister, (whig)
estimates the Valparaiso Consuship, to which
Gov. WooD has been appointed, to be worth from
$s6,ooo to $4,000.
| GF fire occurred at Kalamazoo, Michigan
which destroyed property estimated at $4,000. A
man by ths name of Backus was burned to death.
O-"Clifton," the Washington Correspondents
of the Plain Dealer, contradcts the reports that
have been sent abroad throughout the country
that the jury in the Gardiner case have stood all
along ten for acquttal and only two for conviction
He says he has reason to know that exactly the
reverse is the case, only two being for acquttal.
The Ashtabula Jail, says the Sentinel, is now
empty. They amt up to catching rogues up that
way.
The Summit Beacon advises the whig State
Central committee to make no nomination for
School, commissioner, as the the members of the
party have determined to support Andrews for
that Office.
| How does it happen, pray. that the members of
the party all unite on Mr.. ANDREWS. Queer CO.
incidence, eh! Not because he's whig! La,
/ mol
Miss Tilleneuve was instantly killed by light
ming at Quebec, and two other persons sitting on
sofa with her were paralzed. In Putney, Vt,
yoke of oxen and boy driving them were kill
ed by lightning.
GEFCAPT. Sampson, of the steamship Inde-
pendence, has been indicted at San Francisco for
manslanghter.
That part of the Cleveland and Mahonng rail-
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tance of about 15 miles, was let to Britton & Co.,
last week, for $92 GOO. This little over Sc, ,o0o
per mile, for the grading and mason work. It
seems to be the prevailing opinion that the line
east of Youngstown will run towards New Castle
and intersect the North Western road at that
4 place. Caafezd Sentinel.
The Massachusetts Constitutional convention
assembled on the 4th ult., at Boston and organ
lied by electing N. P. Banks, President, and
James T. Robinson Secretary; both in opposi-
ton to the Wing candidates.
1t is said that Thurlow Weed, of the Albany
Journal, is on the eve of his departure for Rome,
with ayiew of becoming catholic.
A national convention of the colored people of
this country is called, to assembled at Rochester,
on the 9th Of July.
Advices received at the Department of State re-
4 port that Mr.. Rives, the American Minister at
Paris, had been informed by the Emperor that the
universal exhibition of agriculturalists and manu-
facturers, would be held in Paris on the lst day of
May, 1916, and that all nations were cordially in
vited to participate in the exhibition.
The resolve proposed some time since in the
Legislature, appropriating ten thou
sand dollars to the erection of statue to the late
Daniel Webster, was defeated in the House on
/ the 2sd ult., by vote Of yeas II, naysII5.