Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-10
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or The Black Warrior difficulty is not yet
settled. sople is urging demands with extreme
violence.
0<r Prussia and Austria have formed an alli-
ance offensive and defensive.
OF On the Sd inst, the Parliament buildings
at Quebec, Canada, were entirely destroyed by
fire.
OF The Senate of Maine has chosen William
G, Crosby, whig, Governor of the State for the
ensuing year by l6 votes against 10 for Morrell.
OF Mary E. Shay has recovered verdict for
$4,000 against the Worcester Railroad for inju-
ries received by an accident in January last
er man named Mckenzie, who was impli-
Gated with several others in the alleged murder of
Eden Floyd, in Highland county, four years since,
after wandering about the earth as an outcast and
felon, returned short time since and voluntarily
gave himself up to justice. %
s OF Hydrophobia is raging in Boston. The city
Authorities have ordered the death of all dogs run
ming at large. About three fourths OF the dogs in
the city have paid the penalty
The Legislature of Pennsylvania have passed a
bill providing for the sale of the Public Works.
or Greut Britain demands of Spain that she
shall refuse udmittance into her ports of Russian
| privateers. ... t... - .. .-f
~ The Grand Duke Constantine has com.
mand of the Russian fleet
| OF A new paper is to be started at Washing
ton, to advocate the claims of Mr.. Fillmore to the
Presidency. ......'-. ~
OF Rev. George L. Adams, to whom poor
widow of Hermiker. N. H., had given power OF
attorney to collect $4,000 due her from the rail
road as a compensation for the loss her husband
has absconsed with the money. He is one ofthat
class that protests Sin the name of Almighty
Sod" against the passage of the Nebraska bill.
OF A clergyman by the name of Johnson, who
was recently deposed, has been arrested and i'm.
prisoned, charged with drowning his wife and child
VI The British are still pursuing the search
for Sir John Franklin. ,....r... a..,
o. English cotton shirts, on which the con.
else contents of the Koran are roughly printed in
! blue, are selling in the Turkish camp. They sell
for ten times their value, being considered by the
soldiers to possess talismanc virtues that will
protect life.
0|F They are blowing up the ice at Frederick
ton, N. b., with gun-powder. An experiment was
made on the 22d ult. where the ice was % inch.
es thick and over it were four inches of half melt
ed snow. hole was cut through the ice, and a
! tin vessel, containing twenty pounds of powder
was put down into the hole, under the ice and the
charge fired by means ofa galvanic battery, which
resulted in heaving up the water and ice over all
area of at least 36 feet in diameter to height o
nearly sixty feet.
NTB F. ANGEL, of N. Y, appointed by the
President Consul to the Sandwich Islands, has
been rejected by the U. S. Senate. .-.
| G3- The Benk tax cases in the u S. Supreme
Court have been argued, but as yet the decision
of the Court is not known.
Of The Trumbull Democrat announces that
J. L. Vangorder is making arrangements to re-
build his block, which was DESTROYED by the late
disastrous fire in Warren, with tire-proof build
ing, every way superior to the one burned Sue.
! cess to him.
JAPAN AND OUR SQUADRoN.-A most interest.
ing account is published in the Nationa! InteNi-
9encer from the Japan squadron. 1t was heard
from at Loochoo, where it was getting along
well with the people. The commander left a
number of men on the island. who were well re-
ceived, and proceeded to the bay of Jeddo to see
the Capital.
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