The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-07-07
News Items.

0rThe first Methodist Episcopal Church
in Germany, a really beautiful building, has
besn completed, dedicated and occupied.
6TThe election for Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court in New Orleans resulted, in
the defeat Of the Know Nothing candidate
by majority for Elgee OF 200. As goes
New Orleans, so goes the world.
OTThree convicts escaped from the PEN
itentiary at Alton on Friday of last week.
Two were recapturd, but ths third, supposed
to be wounded, is still at large.
TJAMEs MYERS, the clown, and one of
the proprietors of MYERS g. MADIGAN's Cir
Gus Company, met with an untimely death
while performing on the slack-rope at Gene
va, N. Y. The ring by which the rope was
fastened gave way, throwing him to the
ground with so much violence as to dash his
brains out.
6TThe Evansville und) Enquirer says
that the political reaction in Indiana has
been so great that, if they were now to have
on election in that State, the Democracy
would carry it by twenty thousand majority.
@VERDrcr AGAINST RAILROAD Con-
pUcroR.-The Syracuse Standard says that
man named VEDDER recovereda a verdict oI
$500 against EDWARD L. FELLOWS, Of that
city last week. VEDDER was a passenger
on the cars, and refused to give up his tick
ct until he reached his destination, and the
defendant, conductor, put him off
0ErThe last Grand Jury in New York city
found indictments against six persons for
enlisting men for the Grimea, and one for
engaging in the slave trade.
rPHYsIcIAN TO THE PENIrEKT1ARY.-
At a meeting of the Board Of Directors, held
yesterday, DR.. John Dawson was appointed
physician to the Penitentiary, from the I'd
July next, in the room of DR.. Lezinski i,
whose term of Office expires at that time
Statesman.
6T Archdeacon Jeffreys a missionary in
the East Indies, states that ''for one really
converted Christian as the fruit of missiona-
ry labor, the drinking practice of the Eng
iish, had made fully one thousand drunkards
in India.
OTThe next annual Commencement of
Washington College, completes the first
half eentuary its existence. The Alumni
have appointed q committee to make ar
rangements for semi-centennia celebra-
ton upon the occasion.
OFRoBERT ] HUNT, a boy of Chicago,
found $500 in bills, and took pains to find
the owner, A. ]. Daniels. The Press SAYS
Mr.. d. selected handsome gold watch key
and seal, ordered them engraved with the
lads name inscribed "Reward of Merit"
and presented them to him.
F A movement has recently been
commenced in North Carolina, to render
legal the Institution Of marriage among the
slaves; to preserve sacred the relations be-
tween parents and their young children;
and to repeal the laws prohibiting the edu-
cation of slaves. These propositions are
soon to be submitted to the Legislature of
the State.
V3DISCovERY OF A CoMET.-A dispatch
from Washington states that Lieutenant
Maurey received intelligence by the last
steamer that M. deLeverrier, the dstin-
guished French astronomer, had announced
the discovery at Paris, Oh the 4th inst, of a
new comet. Its place on the 9Th Of June
was as follows:-7 hours 10 min. "a Sec
right ascension; 36 deg. Is min: Al sec.
north declination.
FLast week German gentleman in
Cincinnati lost by death his daughter one
day, his wife the next, and his Affections op-
perated SO heavily upon his mind, that on the
third story window of his residence and kill.
ed himself.
OFThe financial condition of Connecti-
cut is enyiable. The Comptroller in his
report shows that the State is free from
debt, and owns some 100000 of bank
stock, independent of its School fund of $2,-
100000. The Comptroller estimates the
receipts in the treasury for the coming year
a; $l97,s7l, and the expenditures at 1885,.
600.
GTOn Thursday, Harrison Pc ters, q
conductor on the Reading Railroad, saw a
boy in the water near the track, about to
drown, and notwithstanding the train was
going, it is said at the rate of twenty miles
an hour, he eaped from the car into the
pond, and rescued the youth. Such an in
stance of presence of mind, coupled with
daring courage and interpdity, is rare in
deed.
GIVE learn that some of the farmers in
the neighborhood of Sonora, on the la. Cen.
R. R., have commenced cutting their wheat.
They report it to be better, in every respect
than any crop they have gathered for several
years past. The wheat is large, and heavy,
and clear, no signs of rust or fly to be seen.
We hear equally good reports from other Sec
tions of the country. What will the croa-
KEGS say!
rTbe Philadelphia Ledger says: "The
patent elastic horse shoe is coming into use
in this city. 1t has received the unqualified
appreciation of veterinary surgeons, horse
owners, &C., and as preventive of those
universal foot diseases of horses, viz: corns,
sore heels, quarter cracks, &C., it is no doubt
almost invaluable. 1t has been thoroughly
tested in this city, and its success was COM
plete and entirely satisfactory"
OF A letter from Texas to the Journal
of Commerce, says: "Our population is
now estimated at upwards of six hundred