The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-10-25
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or Counterfeit Sl0's, on the Citizens
Bank of Waterbury, Conn.,, have made their
appearance. Look out.
OF The Governor of Kentucky, like the
Governor of Maine, has designated the s0th
of November as Thanksgiving.
OF The specie arrivals Of last week
amounted to about fI,lOO,0oo, including
f650,OO0 from Australia and f340, 900 from
the United States. III -.... ..--...
or The Hon. JARED PERKINS, Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts in the last
Congress, died at his residence in Nashua,
on Saturday last. ,- ..a. us-.a.
Or We stop the press to announce that
satisfactory arrangements have been made by
the Indian agent, for the immediate settle
ment of Nebraska. Liquor to be excluded
from the territorry.-Nebraska Palladium
@C. s. Hulett, of Pittsfeld, Mass,
grew 500 lbs. pumpkins upon one vine; 10
ripe ones weighed 300 lbs. Is green ones
l29 lbs.
OF 1t is said that one thousand families
in the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio
intend an early emigration to the Kansas
territory.
OF Six majestic elm trees in front of a
dwelling in Marlborough, Mass, have been
insured by their owners, in the sum of five
hundred dollars, against loss by lightning or
fire. .-..-.-.. .-...--
~ Judge Conrad, Ex-Governor Johns.
ton, General Cameron and Judge Wilmot
are spoken of for U. S. Senators from Penn
sylvania, to succeed Mr.. Cooper.
F The returns of the Prussian income
tax show that, in population of near sew.
enteen millions, there are only three per.
sons enjoying greater income than f36,.
900; while in England there are twenty-five
persons whose yearly incomes exceed ESQ.,.
900.
6F Omer Pacha has two nephews in the
Australia army-one major and the Other
a captain. Not long ago Omer Pacha pre-
scented each of them with horse. The reg
iment which entered Krajova on the 9th i:
the same in which the Turkish Generalissi
mo served in Austria.
GA lady advertises in the London
Times for the address of another lady, with
whom she was at school more than twenty
years ago, that abe may return to her ole
school-felow the half.crown which she stole
from the school room, and the sin of which
burthens her conscience.
i, or We learn by the Plain Dealer tina
PETER SuTTER, Superintendent of Repairs
on the Pittsburgh road, was killed day be-
f fore yesterday in attempting 10 jump on tn,
} cars when in motion. His head was crush
ed to pieces by the wheels.
6F Great Excitement is caused among
the church people of England by the seces
sion from the church of the gifted and dis
tinguished Archdeacon Wilberforce, on the
, ground that his conscience would no long
er allow him to admit the supremacy of tht
: Queen as the head of the church.
o. From a tabular statement in the Hong
, Kong Gazette it appears that the emigra
: ton of Chinese passengers from Hong
Kong from the Is t of January to the 3Oth o
June, 1854, was-to Australia, 5,37S; Cali
, fornia, 81, ,l2-total, IO,496.
, e." The steamer ISABEL was sunk oppo
site st. Louis, on Friday, by striking
rock. She had on 1900 sacks OF salt, ant
800 tons of merchandise, from New Orleans
besides the corpse of lady who died of vel
7 low fever. The boat was insured for $l6,
: 900.
6F FANNY FERN is writing domesti
novel entitled Ruth Hill,' to be issued in 81:
] weeks or SO, by MASON g. BROTHERS. TIL,
same publishers are about to issue u life o
: Horace Greedy, written by a literary gentle
man of that city.
OF Capt. LUCE says that the only office
who stuck by him in the late disaster wa
Mr. DoRAN, the third mate. DoRAN is al
Irishman. Our friends, the Moth
ings, will please make note.
F Hon. Theodore S. Fay, Unite
States Minister to Switzerland, has aske
leave to visit New York in the spring, MI
Fay has been abroad in diplomatic capac
ity nearly twenty years. ...-.. f.
OF 1t is stated in one of our exchange
that the first series of Fanny Ferns writ
ings have reached already sale OF sixty
four thousand. Mason g. Brothers, of Nev
York, are the fortunate publishers.
0E The press of Michigan are opposing
with some pertnacity, the organization of
new State from the Upper Peninsula q
Lake Superior region, but it is thought tn
Il opposition will not avail, and chat the Stat
# of Superior, at no very distant period, wi
J. have an existence. Ms san
y 6.F The judiciary committee of Sa
/. Francisco reported in favor of paying Mr.
o Greenhow, formerly of Washington, $40
5 600, as compensation for the loss of he
I husband, who was killed by falling frol
one of the bad sidewalks of the city.
nFP The Mormons continue TO make IRE;