The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-05-30
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or The Emperor of France was fifty-
one years old on the 2lst of April.
OF Charles w. Stack, who is only
twenty.seveuy yearsof age, has been elected
Speaker Protem. Of the Massachusetts Legis-
lature. s--
OF Mr.. Soule is counsel in a case at
New Orleans in which the sum of 5000
is involved.
OF -Four thousand head of hogs were
slaughtered in GreencAstle, Indiana, last
month, for the use Of the English army in
the Crimea.
or The expenditures of Rhode Island
last; yearwere $4,000 more than the re-
ceiPts. &c,
6aT The citizens of Indianapolis Qnd)
have raised one thousand dollars to erect
permanent structures in that city for the ac-
commodation of the State Agricultural
Fair.
or. We learn that six German families
disgusted with the misrule and outrage tol-
Grated inLouisville, having sold out their
effects, started for Canada on Monday.
or Peter Jennings and his two daugh-
tiers, formerly of ,Pittsburg, died Of cholera
ut Dubuque, Iowa, few days ago.
or 1t is said that one hundred thousand
volumes of BAREFOOT IS History Of the INIT
ed States have already been issued and
sold.
6r The STATE of Maine says that orders
have. been issued in that city lorbidding the
sale of bottled cider, under pain of conVic'
'tion under the new liquor law.
NJ Mrs. Thompson went from Ohio in.
to Georgia recently to lecture on the Maine
Law and the Centrd! Georgian ungalant-
Iy advises her 10 60 home and take care oi
her family.
o. The'report that Ecrisson, ofcaloric ceh
ebriety, had become total bankrupt, was
unfounded. He has wealthy friends in New
York, who have the same faith in his inven.
ton as formerly, and who are willing tc
advahce it with material aid.
OF A little girl, ten years old, daughter
of Mr.. Collins, a well-known citizen of
Washington City, was burned to death last
Friday, from her clothes taking fire from q
CRATE.
o. Three young men, named ORRIN
PRATT, JOHN MILES and -LIBBEY, were
drowned last week in Newport Pond, Maine
while carrying provisions to some RATS
men.
OF A child four years old, belonging tc
Mr.. james Roberts, of Harrison county
} o., was killed few days since by the up
setting of an OK wagon.
OtF The Dervses of Turkey are found tt
be branch 6fthe Freemasons, using 'tht
same signs, words and grips. They have
nine lodges in Constantinople, and fifty
thousand members in Persia.
~ The Two buildings erected for thu
, Worlds Exhibition in Paris, cover surface
Of 962 900 feet, or more than twenty-five
acres. This is $4,000 square feet large
| than the London Crystie Palace. The grea
hall is three-quarters of a mile long (3,95v
feet) and is the longest in the world.
0tT In Chatham county, N. C., Will
Hester was executed few days ago fo
stealing q slave.
, GA law has just been passed in Canada
by which all newspapers published within
the Provinces are transmitted by mail fire.
, of postage.
o. The Board of Managers of the Ma
tional Washington Monument Society, hav
made an appeal for $1,cc0,000, to complet
> the work. Seven years, and $230,000, il
money have been expended SO far
o or The correspondent of the Detroit At
vertiser thus poetcally describes Louis
n Vile:
s ''This town does very curious seem,
For boys run loose at random,
And when folks want splendid team,
e They hitch two jaCkasses before dray an
get big gger with red shirt on up behind to driY
'em tandem"
. o. The Liquor war is raging tiercely
o Brooklyn. The mayor appears determine
h to put the law in force, and the liquor de,
- lers as determined to resist it. The latte
o have raised formidable fund for this pu
!. pose. ........
|. O- A fellow named VIM. Smith, WI
). has made business Of victimizing hote
}, keepers in Pittsburg out Of board, and the
l. informing upon them for selling liquor {
it Sundays, was rotten-egged on Thursday
j. three landlords whom he had caused to
If d.-G6od.
1t or OF all the officers and priyates wi
e served during the Revolutionary war; on
IS about one thousand now remain wi
q draw pensions from the Government. TT
e number of widows of Revolutionary office
e and soldiers who draw pensions is about S
l. thousand. .. ..-
=. eF The Ogdensburg Sentinel says the S
Lawrence is twenty-five inches lower tn,
g. in the spring of 1854, and two feet low
ar than in the spring of 1862. The create
n. variation in the surface of the ST.. Lawrene
lv during four years past, has been five feet t.
1r inches; this, however, was caused by Vi
of lent winds.
IS, GF Michael L. Sullivant, an Illint
st farmer, it is said is about to plant ten thol
of and acres of land in corn. He was form,
lg ly one of the largest farmers in Ohio
many years, and, according to cotempora
he could ride in dirict course fifteen mil
it. through his own corn-feld.
n OF A woman in South Braintree, Ma
"a having been robbed of breast-pih, went
,ia Thursday to the house of the thief, arm
= with revolver, and compelled him, on p,
-, of instant exteTmination, to rise out of b
no dress himself, End the breast-pin, accc
nd pany her home, and deposit it on her DIRE
ing-table whence he had taken it. He i
then suffered to depart.
he OF Cholera in Kentucky Hi
the man Times OF last Wednesday says: "N
WIS regret to learn from gentleman just fr
ali Columbus, that both cholera and small