The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-09-20
Items OF News.

6FJudge Stillwell of Muskingum county
has resigned his Judgeship.
GFH. H. Johnson is re-nominated for
Congress, in the Wayne county District, and
will, of course, be elected.
FGovernor SEYMOUR has written TO the
Albany Atlas, declining to be a candidate
for the office of Governor at the next elec-
ton.
GTThe receipts on the o. &, p. Railroad,
for the month Of August, were $1lO,23S SO,
showing an increase of $43,3l0 10, or 65
per cent. over the business of the same
month last year. ..--r.T z.f n.
). 0rThe appearance of Philadelphia on
Sunday, say the papers of that city, has
changed decidedly for the better since May
or CoNRAD's recent movement to shut up on
that day all the grog shops. IA ,'>"o7g
GrThe Recorder of Chicago at the re-
cent session of his court, sentenced twenty
six men and women to the State Prison for
terms running from one to ten years.
rLenox, in Massachusetts, is at present
the residence OF Henry Ward Beecher, Oil
yer w. Holmes, Herman Melville, G. W.
Curtis, Nathaniel Hawthorn. Miss Sedgwick,
and Fanny Kemble Butler.
OTA Church in the course of erection at
Wooster, Ohio, fell in with terrible crash,
on Thursday. Twenty to thirty workmen
were employed upon it, of whom twelve are
badly injured. "2r'3-
6FGovernor Bigler, we are happy to
learn, is pronounced out of danger. A des-
patch from his physicians was received at
Philadelphia to that effect a.....f.. Il
OrAll the family of the late General
Taylor who occupied the White House, are
dead-the General, his wife, his daughter
Mrs. Bliss, and Col. Bliss. Mrs. Fillmore
and her daughter are also dead. gfaqsa
For KANsAs.--Two hundred enigrants
are already enrolled in Crawford county,
Pa, and will leave on the 26th of Septetn-
Der. They take with them a power press
and a quantity of type. al yooleoogod'
o. The Dayton Journal says: "Dick has
confessed the murder of YoUNG's mother
and son. The reason he gives for commit
ting the crime, is the bad treatment be re-
ceived from his wife and her mother. Dick
says he forgives his wife, but says he does
not wish to see her again. gas r~---t
GrAnoth er Ward excitement is prevail.
ing at Georgetown, Ky. "A man named
Thompson shot his brother, for which he
was tried; but the jury failed to agree--elev'
en- being fer conviction ond one for acquittal
Great excitement ensued; and coat of tai
and feathers was talked of for the dissenting
| juryman. so baJts Us Is.s y1G
OTDuring the last six months there hal
been exported from England the SUM o
.fl5,l3f,96o in specie, being an excess o
f4,5sI,460 compared. with the first si'
months of last year. The amount of gol'
exported is Ell 1890 and of silver f3,
462,96o. The silver is mainly sought TO
China, and for Hamburg, Belgium, an
Rotterdam, while the gold lis wanted TO
i France .1 rigm siGF .ae,afGfa, a3s .
); 0r7-A. farmer near Philadelphia has beel
offered $l,95 bushel fora Thousand bush
4 els of potatoes, in the field. The report
from New Hampshire. are more fayorabl
| lately for pretty good crop. Ia New Yor
potatoes are good upon wet meadow lands
andworthless on dry hills. In Wisconsin,th
crop is universally good q 90gis a1i93 /
THE HEALTH AT NEwARK.-As yet ther
is no abatement Of the. cholera in that place
The report Of the Board Of Health show
that in the short space Of four or five day
: there were twenty zone deaths. Seventee
of which were from cholera, and four frol
E other diseases. Twelve cases out of tt
number treated, have been cured. ~