The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-01-11
This and That.

The New York and Albany publishers have
raised the price of their daily papers from six cents
to ten cents week. The Increased price they
pay for paper and wages compels them to take
thus scourse-The statue of Marshall Ney was
inaugurated at Paris on the 9TH of Deeember-
The "Ohio State Journal office is offered for sale
by the assignee of Mr.. Scott-A girl has receiy-
ed $2,995 damages for injuries received by falling
through defective sidewalk in PhiIadelpbia -
Sir Philip Sidney said. The only disadvantage of an
honest heart is creduty-When a man cannot
contain himself, he is either too large or too small
A guilty conscience is like whirlpool draw
Jog all to itself that would otherwise pass by
The Queen of Spain hssed lately at the ope-
ra by her subjects--M Massachusetts, is the rich
est state in the Union 10 proportion to its popua
tion--Australia will soon be favored with a visit
from Catherine Hayes--Lucy Stone is in ST.
Louis-The city of Baltimore has loaned flee
millions of dollars to the BaItimere and Ohio Rail
road-Mr. Elias s. johnson, one Of the leading
business inen of Toledo died Dec. 25--The Col
iege at Albion, Mich. was burned Jan.4. Loss
SIS, 900. No insurance-Tickets to Madame
Sontag's coneerisin in Cleveland last week were sold
for ST so and 81 1,oo--L. A. Hine is lecturing in
Ciucinnnti---A four story house and Methodist
Church fell in at Dayton on the 5th inst. Fifteen
or twenty persons were buried in the runs-
There is q Hook and Ladder fire company al
PainesvilIe. Such company has been needed in
Ravenna, and may be again--Archbishop Hughes
is about to visit Cuba for the benefit fhs health
The Akron Standard. will hereafter be pub
| lished by Thomas und Horace CanfeId-James
| Stoops, formerly Ravenna Landlord, but more
recently yof rankin, has purchased the. Exchange
Akron. which will be under bis personal superyis-
| ion--Gen. Hinton, the Ohio mail robber, who
was recently arrested in Cafornia has gone to the
Sandwich Islands. Had Honesty is the best pol
ICY been his rule of action, he might have been
honored. respected and happy instead of being
| fleeing felon--The Governors Message is an
| unimportant, weak and .'gassy' documenl-The
Cleveland Theatre is closed again for want of sup
| port--The Local editor of the Forest City Dem
ocrat Is petting some mice, of which he gives pa
| thetic account in his column. The Local of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer has pet cat. There's
| nothing like pets, geutemen-The total depos-
its of gold at the Phnd delphia mint for the year
| 1853, amount to $50 500 Ooo--The Executive
Committee Of the N. Y. State Temperance Soci-
ETY. have started u paper, The Prohibiienst, pub
lshsd monthly at Albany. Single copy so cents a
| year-When you go into house, store, or
printing office shui the door---Now's the time to
fll Ice Houses. if it is to be done this winter
The military school of Capt Partridge. at Brandy
wine Springs was burned on Thursday last week
l-The pork house Of Taylor & Co. was burned
IN Saturday, Dec. 80, loss $4,000 partially in
sursd Surprise parties are all the go in War
ren-A true bill has been found against nine
persons for the murder of Mr.. Story the Illinois
Railroad contractfr-The Council of Pbiladel-
pha have passed an ordinance, subscribing two
millions of dollars to the Erie and Sunbury Rail
road-The Promulgator, new Temperance
paper has just been started at New Castle Pa
Investigate affairs closely and engage 10 them
tiously-Give ycus children a liberal education
then though you leave them but little, you give
them much--Congresss has done nothing yet
the holidays have left some of the members in q
conditioa for anything but business" h .ha,ha, "
what name! A bill is before the Georgis
Legislature. to change the name of Mary Dolly
Doxy Ann Lewis, 10 that of Mary Dolly Doxy
Ann Sapp. Mary Dolly &c. isn't going to make
uery much by the swap-Be charitable--relig
ion has charity for its basis, and those who are
charitable cannot be christians-F rankin taugh
the lightning manners-he taught it to trave
straight, and not strike meeting houses, and farm
er,s barns, and smash women's croekery, and pull
up trees. as it used to 90 in, its younger days
Humble wedock is better than proud virgiuity-
Fine feathers do,s't make fine blrds-He is mis-
cradle who does not know how to spend his tim,
He who depends on another dimes i'll, ant
sups worse-A fend named Lucas has beer
sent TO the Connecticut State Prison for ten years
. for placing obstructons the Middletown Brancl
Railroad Good--Good breeding shows itsel
the most, whore 10 ordinary eye it appears th.
Ieast--The navy cost the United States twelv,
millions of dollars last year, and viii probatI,
!, stretch up TO eighteen this.
: PHILADELPHIA, jan. 7ih.
The City Council have passed an ordinunc
:, suhicribing two million dollars to the Sunbur,
and Erie Railroad, and passed resolution sustain
ing Erie in her gauge law.-lLet the Yves
. mark ,his.-EDs.