The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-04-11
NEWS ITEMS

dates for Congress we're elected by large
mejOrities.
re- The Legislature of Wisconsin has
passed a prOhibitory law, which does not
contain the Objectionable features to which
the Governor dissented.
EgIn Sullivan county, Indiana, one Of
the candidates for County Cletk was pledg-
ed to give one-half the proceeds of the Of
fee to the widow of The late Clerk, and the
other promised, in the event of his election
to marry the widow.
LADTEs.-The editor of the Wayne Co
Democrat has received q communication on
the subject of profanity among ladies'
Horrible! We would as soon expect to see
ladies rub snuff or smoke pipe as to hear
them swear. We can't believe they do
either.
GE-Thc Mexicsn papers have recently
been publishing a census of that country.
From i! gather that there are in that coun-
try 85 cities, 1888 towns or large villages,
4,600 villages lI9 missions, &c; ITO ha-
ciendas, 6,09@ farms, &c, Population 7, 1854.
sos.
G-Macon B. Allen, a colored man was on
motion Of B F. ~IEallett, Esq, U. s. Dis
trict Attorney for Massachusetts, admitted
on Tuesday last to practice as Counselor
and Attorney in the Circuit Court of the
United States.
IJ~IIon. Il. Wood was the Democratic
candidate for Mayor of Cleveland. The
cold chief was present when the nomira-
tion was made aud accepted it in a hand
some speech. He closed ty saying that if
his name could be Of any service 10 the De-
mocracy they were welcome to use it. lie
would sink or swim in the boat with his
friends.
SLANDER.-We lrarn from the Mount
Vernon Republican, that McCIellard HUFF
man was mulcted by the Court of Common
Pleas, of Knox county, in the sum Of 81 800
for slanderous words used by him to the
chastity of Nancy IIapp.
MORNINGS GETTING THEIR HIDES
TASsED.-Atthe lace town meeting in Falls
bV,g Sullivan County, held in a upper room
OF Palen's tanery, fused for drying I%eathcr,)
Il rev occurred between the Know .Nothings
end the foreisn-born Iaborcrs employed in
the tmery. In the midst Of fight the floor
suddenly gave way, burying Know-Nolh-
ings ond their antagonists together "keads
and points" in the watts beneath, regard,
less Of order or sect. One mans shoulder
was disIocated, aud several others sustain
ed slight bruises.
G1-The Boston Times, speaking of the
proposed arrangement for showing up An
thony Burns, says:
"Anthony Barns had better except Bar
nuns Offer and allow himself to be exhib-
tied according to the rates proposed. When
he comes to Boston lie will be used as the
means to fill the Golfers of certain philan.
thropic. (?) societies, after which he will be
turned adrift to seek his livelihood as beat
he may. Il was Burns tie slave; not Burns
the oo!osed freeman, with whom the peo-
PIE have sympathised."
EIThe Buffalo Advertiser comedies
that x-Prcsidcnt Fillmore approved CT Mr..
Wsbster's letter to Captain J welt, author
ling his tax rs Of guano from Lobos Is
lands. This hts been a mooted cues.
ton between the friends Of Webster and
Fillmore,
Ga~A private dispatch was received in
Boston on Tuesday, which reported the
suspension, for the second time, Of Messrs.
Page & Bacon, Of ST.. Louis, The dispatch
was addressed to a respectable l~Iouse, but
there is yet no positive evidence of he
truth Of the rumor.
NEA "anug little fortune" of 300 900
can be obtained by the legal heirs, when
ever they may call for, at least so they are
informed by Daniel Stout, Of Rock River,
Illinois. 1t appears il was left by John
Stout, of South Carolina, previous to the
war Of the Revolution, to bis brother St.
Leger Stout and his sister Nancy Stout,
then ofN. Jersey, but subsequently of Yir-
GINA, somewhere in the neignborhool OF
Fygret's Valley, where they resided for
many years, aud where they died. Nancy,
Stout during her lifetime, married a man
named II,rt, and St. Leger a female named
Barlow, AS these parties never made a
demand for the money, it is said to be now
awaiting the order Of their heirs, who can
address Daniel Stout, Book River, ILL.,, on
the subject.
The CALoRrc snrP--Thc Ericsson expe
rimenti is at an end. The invention is con.
ceded to be a failure, and poor Ericsson i,
a ruined man. He has spent all his fortune
in building his coloric ship AMI in the expe-
riments he has made on the vessel. lie
has done more, he has spent all his wife's
fortune, which is great, and she, too, is beg
CARED. But the worst Of all is that 1t has