Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-02-09
Items OfNews and Miscellany,

Items of News and Miscellany.
| One of the locomotives of the Hudson River
Railroad exploded her boilers on Thursday last,
at Tarrytown But one man was injured by the
accident, although there was large number of
persons near the locomotive when the explosion
occurred
The cars run over wild cat, last week, at the
foot of the Tuscarora mountain, Pa, and broke
three of its legs, SO that it was captured.
The Camanche Indians, according to letter
from U. S. army officer stationed in Western
Texas, are in an extremely deplorable condition.
Being hedged in by military posts, the buffalo
nearly all gone, and the deer driven across the
lines, they are almost in state of starvation.
The Supreme Court of Ohio now in session,
has decided that any person losing money by bet
on the result of an election, may recover by suit
the amount lost and if the loser fail to sue in six
months, any other person may sue for, and recover
it, for his own use.
/ Observation-Disclosures States have passed
1 homestead laws. Of the Southern States, Geor-
ga exempts twenty acres not exceeding in value
$3.50; Florida exempts forty acres, not exceeding
in value $4oo; Alabama forty acres, or house and
lot in town, $500; Texas two hundred acres,
$500; California, $500; South Carolina, forty
acres, $500.
A PosTER.-A member, in alluding to the bill
| for the benefit of married women be fore the Mis-
souri, Legislature, asked if it would not be better
or the memb ers to do something for the benefit OF
single ladies, and not trouble themselves with other
mems aDives.
ther in operation, or in course of construction, OF
are projected, will centre in Cincinnati. They
severally reach or intended to reach, St Louis
Indianapolis, the Upper Mississippi, Fort Wayne,
Chicago, Dayton, Sandusky, Toledo, Cleveland,
Columbus Sprin gfeld, ,Piqua, Wilmington, Zanes-
vile, Chillicothe, Marietta, and other points.
The STATE OF WAsHTNGToN.-A correspondent
of the St. Louis Democrat very warmly urges,
through the columns of that print, the propriety
of forming a new State, to be called Washington,
after the Father of his Country, with the follow
ing boundaries. He says:
"Let us form beyond Missouri great central
State. Let its boundary leave Missouri at Fort
Scott, and traverse west four hundred miles along
the southern rim of the Kanzas Basin; thence
north to the Platte; thence down the Platte to its
MOUTH thence by the Missouri river to the start
ing point"
Wellington died possessed of an estate and funds
not far short of ten millions of dollars. He was
considered miserly and mean, and as closely cal
culated the value of one pound as any London
shopman.
One thousand volunteers are reported to be in
readiness in Florida to take the field against Bill
ly Bowlegs and the Seminole Indians.
RAILROAD SpEED.-The express train on the
Boston and New York line, with the Europa's
mails made ffty-three miles of the route in one
hour and eighteen minutes; in some portions of
the route at speed exceeding mile per minute,
The actual running time to Boston, 236 miles,
was five hours and five minutes. This is believed
to be the greatest speed for any considerable dis
tance ever made in this country.
The following is supposed to be the number
of newspapers in the world: "Ten in Austria,
fourteen in Africa, twenty-four in Spain, twenty
in Portugal, thirty in Asia, sixty-fve in Belgium,
eighty-five in Denmark, ninety in Russia and Po
land, three hundred in Prussia, three hundred and
twenty in other Germanic States, five hundred in
Great Britain and Ireland, and eighteen hundred
in the United States.
Over two hundred scholars attend one of the
Gymnasiums in Cincinnati. Nothing is better
for the health than the course of exercise there
pursued.
CALoRIc ENG1NEs.-The New York Express
says that Captain Ericsson has received orders
for about 300 of his caoric engines, but it is not
aware that he has cons ented to supply any large
numbers at present
GrMarried-in Michigan, Mr.. Henry Bills to
Miss Mary Small. Here is the only case we
know, where the Legislature has no right what
ever to interfere in the legitimate privilege tol
issue small bills
NEWSPAPER BoYs.-The New Hampshire Pat
riot, the leading Democratic paperin New Hamp-
shire, says the printing Office of that paper has
been the graduating school of a Governor, Sen
ator in Congress, several Representatives to Con-
gress, many Editors, some Ministers, and other
young men who have filled at various times nu-
merous responsible stations in community