The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-08-30
Items Of News.

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for f4,sOO sterling.
OF The Boston Transcript says the case
of Anthony Burns is not yet fully decided
as far as his personal freedom is concerned.
Negotiations for his purchase have been
going on. for several weeks. -, ..ss,
OF Tho Massachusetts Legislature at its
last session appropriated funds to theme
England Female Medical College, located in
Boston, to pay the tuition of forty students
annually, for five years. ralF rirh fflb
or In Boston, on Monday last. two sis.
tiers, one married and residing in Causewny
street, the other single and residing in
Louisburg square, were attacked with chol.
era, and both died in the afternoon within
five minutes of each other. ''" 80 "2h
o. The Know-Nothings of Mussschu.
setts purpose nominating candidate fol-
Governor of Massachusetts. Stephen c.
Phillips and Henry Wilson, the two well
known ranting Free Sellers, having, it is
said, joined the order, are anxious to secure
the nomination.
o. At Kansas, on July goth, while Judge
Walderman, who was in pursuit of runaway
negroes, was attempting to dismount from
his horse, he accidentally discharged his CUR
and killed himself ...
" Mr., John B. Dill on, now lawyer a
the New York bar, and formerly connected
with the Irish insurrectionaIy movement O
'4S, has received permission, it is said to re-
turn to his native country. Mr.. Dillon helt
distinguished position in the Dublin Uni
versity. ..D ... .. '... ~u
,OY The New York Tribune estimates tht
loss by the present great drouth which is af
flicting this country, at one hundred millions
and the loss of New York State alone, a
twenty millions. ... ',-.
Lydia Walker, aged lO6 years, widow
of an old soldier Of the Revolution, is now
resident of Highland county, and in the en-
jooment of good health. The history of thu
world during the old lady's career would re
quire monstrous volume for its record.
" A gold mine has been discovered OF
the plantation Of Mr.. N. B. Hunter, abou
eighteen miles from Newbcrry, s. C. Tht
specimens found are well spoken of, ant
preparations are being made to test The
richness of the mine.
0F There are at present six hundred ant
forty-six prisoners in the House of Correc
tion at Boston, which is the largest family
ever before assembled in that pleasant city
homestead.
W Vevay, Indianna, is the only town on
the Ohio river where case of cholera has
meyer oc CURED. There is not we'll in the
place. The inhabitants use cistcrn water
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EF Courtland C.. Johnson will be hung
at Harrisburg on Friday next, for the mur-
der of his wife.
GT The mother of the world renowned
Sam Patch died in Pawtucket, r. l., few
days since, aged 80 years,
e5T The New Orleans, Jackson and Great
Northern Railroad has been completed
through louisiana to the Mississippi State
line.
" The late Congress appropriated $2,-
508,059 TO be expended in California.
Gr There are one hundred and thirty
prisoners in Jail at Pittsburg. ......
Samuel Mair, Esq, for veral years treu-
'nrer of the State of Dew Jersey, died last
week. ....- ..... ..,.,. -..
or Ex-President Fillmore has returned,
With his son, to his residence in Buffalo.
6T The typhoid fever is prevailing at
Wheeling, and several cases have proved
atal.
0TGen. Cass is spoken Of for the Guber-
rational chair of Michigan, if he can be in.
luced to accept. '. ." " "H.
OF A reward of $1,000 is offered at st.
louis for the murderer of Mr.. Violet during
he late riot. His brother offers it.
W The wheat crop Of Wisconsin is re-
ported to be abundant. The granaries of
he turner's were never filled more plcnti-
ully.
0eT Miss Frances M. Osgood, eldest
laughter of Rev. S. M. Osgood, late Mis-
ionary to Burmah, and now agent Of the
Union, died very suddenly of
holera, at Indianapolis, Iudiaaa, few days
lgo.
OF There are 81 retail drug or apothecary
tores in the city of Philadelphia, which are
'wned and kept by regular physicians-the
lass Of persons best qualified for the bust
less.
Ccr Most of the region Of country above
nd in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, Va, is
ufering severely from dry weather. The
Herald says that unless they have general
aims large portion of the farmers in that
ection will make short crops Of Germ. o,s
OF We are informed by correspondent
t Laporte, Indiana, that the receipts of
Wheat and corn at that place for the last ten
ays have averaged 10000 bushels pei acre.
GebrsaSkR and Kansas to be Free.
The most interesting address delivered at
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