Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-17
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run their trains BY the Columbus time.
or The New(oundlanders have suffered grent
y during the past winter from famine.
Ocr The Governor of Venezuela, has assigner
the 10Th of April for the liberation of all he
slaves.
OF The State of Maine, is now the great shiJ
building State of the Union. In 1853, there wert
built in the Union ITO vessels, of which 35l
were constructed in Maine.
OSrAt 8 O'Clock on Wednesday, the water al
Hartford had fallen six feet and two and three.
fourths inches. The precise height of this loct
above that 1901, was one foot mine and hall
inches.
OF The Free School System went into opera
tion in Alabama, on Monday, when County Com
missioners were elected, to make the most liberal
appropriation (says the Mobile Register) for Pub
lie Schools yet made in any Southern State, ex-
ceP, Louisiana.
0T The trial of ten negroes, charged with con-
spring and assisting to poison Capt. Haney, came
on at Northumberland (Va.) County Court last
week. They were found guilty, and three sem
fenced to be hung on the first Friday in June next
and the other seven to be transported.
" Last spring thousands of young chickens
died in the neighborhood Of Tndanolo, Texas, OF
a disease like the cholera. Some lost three quar-
tiers of the chickens that were hatched. Such
mortality among poultry had never been known
before. This season poultry appears healthy.
In Philadelphia, during one of the thunder
storms last week, little boy was beating an iron
hoop on the pavement in the neighborhood Of
Christian and Second streets, when a flash of
lightning struck and bent it, and threw half way
across the street. The boy was not injured.
6- The Cashmere goat has been successfully
introduced and bred in South Carolina. The
Charleston papers say that the animal seems per-
fecty at home in the climate, and is as hardy and
as easily raised as the common goat. The fleece
obtained is in weight about equal to that of the
choice varieties of sheep, while its value is ten
times greater.
CI7- The New Jersey Railroads are having a
train of cars constructed with Atwood's Patent
Method of Ventilation. This consists of connec-
tons between all the cars of roof and sides CO.
vering the space between the platforms, made
somewhat on the principle of bellows, and OPEN
ingS at the side of tire tender of the Engine, thro'
which continuous stream of fresh air enters land
traverses the cars all the doors of which are left
open: The inside Of the cars are thus totally Sc
cluded from the dust and hot air outside The
plan has been tried by some of the New England
roads and was first introduced in the Naugatuck
Railroad.
~ JOHN CHARLES GARDINER, who was in
dicted for perjury in swearing falsely on the tria
of his brother tine late Dt. GARDINER, forfeited
his bail (S8,Oo0) on Monday. The reoognzance
in the case of the indictment for false swear
ing, charged TO have been committed in his
affidavit presented to the board of commissioners
in support of his brothers. claim, was also forfeit
ed. Doctor Thomas Miller was the surety in the
sum of eight thousand dollars for the appearance
OF GARDINER to answer the charge of perjury. !
and Hudson Taylor and james McClery were his
Sureties in the sum of four thousand dollars to
appear to answer the charge of false swe4ring--
Miller, Taylor and VERIFY will suffer no loss, be-
ing amply indemnfed. About $5O,OOO of the
money improperly obtained from the treasury by
George A. Gardiner was sometime since attached
n the hands of Messrs. Corcoran g. Riggs, and
will, in due time, be returned to the treasury.
Qc5% BENTON issued pronunciamento against
he post office department, and refused to send or
AXE letters through it; because he could not get
he postmaster at st. Louis to suit him. Well.
ike the child who cried for the moon--he had to
vhmper on. The moon would not come down.
30 BENTON has knocked under, and now consents
o to receive us well as send letters through the
ost Office Magnanimous conGescension!
ToRNADo.-Furious storms have been unusual
prevalent this spring. The town of Mulrose,
'exas, was devastated by one some three weeks
CO. large portion Of the town was DESTROYED,
nd in the country great tract was swept Of ,
ouses, buildings fences, timber and cotton bales.
me life was lost.
Thompson's Bank note Reporter thus gives the