The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-12-21
Tb,s and That.

This and That.
The Poet, SAKE, in a recent lecture, speaking of
the artistic mperfections of our female poets, not
wthstanding all their wealth of fancy and senti-
ment, says '.it impossible for Pegasus TO I
trot under a side-saddie-Mrs. E. Oakes Smith.
has just written new drama entitled 'Old New
York. 1t is very popular with the theatrical
worId-The sixth volume of Bancrofts History
of the United States is ready for the press, |
and will be issued soon-Mr. Oliver Dyer, has
retired from the Musical World ana Ifmes. The !
Times will be hereafter conducted by Mr. Rich
ard Storrs WilIis-The Journal Of Commerce.
says those merchants who have been following
their legitima.s business very easy their f.
nances, the difficulty being almost wholly with
those who have been engaged in outside specua-
tons--Atan an autograph sale in England recently.
a letter written by Cromwell, dated April 2nd l6
SO, SOLD for ee27 ,6s-a letter signed by Richard
! Cromwell, sold for s,14s-one by Henry the
Eighth, brought f4, 17s-an autograph by Martin
Luther was sold for ee7, 10--The Trieste Ze
tung, states that American cotton goods have beat
en- the British manufacturers. completely ofthe
! field, on the shores of the Black Sea-One acre
| in twenty is lost in fences in this country--A
Penny Psaiter bas been issued by church socie-
ty in EngIand-Queen Victoria was married in
1s4O-Gen. Cass drives the most elegant car
riage in the city of Washington it's said-Bev-
ery Tucker has been appointed "P rinter to Con-
gress, situation worth at least $50 900 annually
-There forty-tbree newspapers published
in Cafornia-The Home Journal says that the
rumor that Fanny Fern has taken out pat
ent for her style of writing has caused prodigous
|
The .V1tionat Era IS soon TO be issued daiIy-
Mitchell, and Meagher, the Irish exiIes, are to is
sue weekly in New York to be called the Cit-
zen-The Erie swindlers, are charging a dollar
and half for riding around the break. No one,
however who can walk, patronizes the shar ks-
Thoihas II. Benton has written a work entitled
Thirty years in the Senate" which will be pub.
lshed soon-Hayman, the Cincinnati officer,
who was active in the arrest of Baxter now in
Jail for counterfeiting, arrested last week iu
Cincinnati, for an assault upon a Mrs. Croppin,
I. whom he was arresting. Liquor the cause.
Hayman has bsen bound to appear al the
criminal court, in the sum OF S300---A lady who
was in the habit of standingo on her dignity, came
} near losing her balance-The unfortunate indi
] vidual who had 1.-The starch taken out of him. has
, been got up again by his laundress-An iemi-
zer," at late evening party, states that one lady
. made of the excla nation, - thought should
0 have died !" one hundred and twenty eight times
9 and she put the inquiry "dd you evei?' one hund
9 red and thirty seven times-Ffy shares of tho
6 Cleveland and Toledo Railroad were sold in New
6 York on the 18th inst for $95-George w Cur
liss lectured before the Cleveland Library associa
6 ion last wsek-subject, :. Young America''-A
A Hill 10 haF,ra v'Fannaesaa To IN,
D. dealers in slaves upon the amount of their sale
. l-Lucy Stone is still in the field. The Indian
n aans are now favored with her presence. Thi
o noble woman is doing mighty work for progres
o and reform-Mrs. Bloou,er, the editress of tn,
Lilly. has become residen, of Ohio. her husban,
G having purchased an interest in the Western
Home Journal, at Mount Vernon. The publca
- ton of the Lilly will be continued at her new
;. holne-The Garfield Sentinel brags of a comps
:. ior in that Office who set nine thousand ems, Lop
If Primer, in seven hours, upon the Presidents Mes
sage-Robert B. Warden Esq. has been elect
70 ed to the office of Reporter of the Supreme Cour
"a of Ohio, in place the Attorney General resgne
IL C. Walton, of Salem, who was arreste
for counterfeiting. died the 9th inst. in priso
at New Lisbon of delirIum tremens-A stron
IA band of Gpseys have swlndled q man named d
a, Rhodes, living near New Lisbon, Columhana CT
out of one thousand dollars! The Patriot has r
sympathy for man who in this age of newspe
u pers and schools, with every hand to be
ne come familiar with the map@uvering of swindlel
of every description, will suffer himself to be GU
led, and deliberately swinded in such ne
in broad day light-The earnings of the Clev,
land aud Toledo Railroad for Nov. were SCI 81
,ro -Driesbach, the Lion Tanner" was severe
ali injured by tiger few days since in New Yor
Ia at the Broadway menagerie-The Auniversa1
tie Festival of the Twnsburgh Institute, takes pla
on the 4h day of January next-Vernon ALI
ac. of Braceville, raised last season nineteen pun
vas kius from vine, weighing collectively four hu
raj dred pounds--A man was committed to Jail
ion Warren under the liquor ordinances in default
al, paying his fne-The nine sailors who were
but rested for the murder on the Louisiana have be-
tive discharged Nothing proven against the
: Ole Bull was in Pittsburgh on Monday
Shenstone says, the proper means of increasl
of the love we bear native country, is to resi-
ard some time in foreign one---Hs who has op
n.y. ion of his own, but depends upon the opinions a
fly tastes of others is slave-Miss Sarah Hect
Oh teacher at Greenvlle, Darke Co. o. took ch
ect roform to ease pain in her head, became insen
BILE, fell into the fire and was badly burned as
cause her death in few hours--A London ph
ent, scian snys that if men would rear their boards
u winter sore throats would go out of fashion
Charles Lamb wondered why folks made sucl
fuss about children-.they were SO common"
So,
.ER, riot occurred on the Steubenvlle aud Hin
good Rail Road in consequences of the contractors 10
ave. eriug the wages one shilling day.. hard Fl
ensued no one was killed, however, but " S
ad-
usic ty- An on,bre,r ,o,,,.,oa ,b, ba nda