The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-06-30

. OTA preacher took passage on one o Il
the Lake Erie Steamers on Sunday lately,
and before he had been long on boerd, he
applied to the captain for leave to hold a
religious meeting. The Captain replied,
.'No, for minister who Travelled on Sun.
day is not fit to preach on board my boat"
0ATOne of the curiosities to be sent
from Prague, to the Paris Exhibition is a
mite of jewelry, consisting Of $4,000 gar
nets, which vary in dimensions from the
smallest size to such larger ones as are no
longer to be met with in the trade. Add
ed to the gsrnets are 5000 other stones,
and the workmanship is said to be as ex-
quisite as unique.
GA negro women belonging to Henry
Z. Williamson, near Griffin, Ca, last
week became dissatisfied with working on
the farm and hung herself and her two lit
tie children.
6FA man named Eben Lipscomb, mur-
dered his wife, by cutting her head open
with an axe, on the 10th inst, in Preston
county, Va. She was the mother of six
children. The brutal husband could give
no cause for the committal of his fiendish
act, except that it was the result of his nat
ural peevish and morose disposition.
GA letter from Nashville, Tenn. says
the wheat from the Kentucky line TO that
place has been harvested, and the yield is
unparalleled; the same number of acres
reaped doubled that of any former year.
All saved without the slightest blemish.
0TTHE USE OF PIANOS PRoscRrBED.-A
highly respectable Quaker in New York has
been disowned by the HickSite Friends in
that city, because he purchased piano-forte
and had the same in his house in Madison
street. There are about forty Friends in
New York who, with their families, are LA
be TO the same condemnation.
DECREASE OF EMIGRAT1oS.--It appear.
by report of the Commissioners Of Emigra
ton, that there is decrease of over one
half IN the number of emigrants landed a
New York this year as compard with th'
last. There arrived to the 30th of June
1854, lOS,944; up to the present time of thi:
year, there have been only 4S,254.
QUICK TIME.-The quickest run eve
made from Rochester to Buffalo was mad
on Tuesday morning last, on the expires
train, in one hour and hirty-Sir minutes, in
ckadiny foe stops. This is at the rate of ;
mile in about minute and quarter, step
included.
" A very painful accident occurred ou
West recently. A staging attached to
church was blown down, and the melan
choly result, is stated as follows by the 10
cal paper: 1--WE are happy to state tha
over twenty persons were suddenly bro ugh
t. the ground safe, and one man, Mr.. Will
kins, had his neck broke. Mr.. w. was a
J estimable yo.n! man, and the father of a got
, many children besides a large farm wei
stocked. He was fatally injured"
} o. McCrea who killed Clark at Leaven
worth, Kansas, in public meeting, pub
fishes a statement of the affair, which,
true, shows conclusively that the KILN
was purely in self defence. He charge
that conspiracy had been organized again
him, and that, although he avoided quar-
rel in the meeting, it was deliberately fore
ed upon him by Clark, who three time
struck him with club, and who, with hi
gang armed with pistols and knives, wer
| rushing on to kill him when he fired.
OF The New York Journal of Commerce
a high toned commercial paper, speaks tn
, truth when it says "the tide Is turning again.
Sam" 1t adds that ''he is generally bt
lieved to be turbulent fellow, keepin
: bad hours and low company; conspiring
, secret for the accomplishment of eXclusiv
ends, and very unscrupulous in the selet
tion of his means and Instruments"
or Although Mr.. Phillips, whom tn
! Missouri mob tarred and feathered at We
tor, Mo-, was told that he should be hun
if ever again found in Kansas, in spite
: this threat, he Immediately crossed the Ri
Y or, entered his own house at Leavenwort
r and commenced running rifle balls! Me
+ of such grit will not often be molested.-
The first men who approach him next
insult him, will receive passports to "Kin
dom Come"
o THE ROMANCE OF MIsERY.-A wretche