The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-01-01
PORTAGE SENTINEL
LoOAL AND. PERsoNAL.

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ducting the paper. ia an able writer aud a
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management, we intend it shall be second
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No. 8 Phunix Block. ALPHoEso HART.
THE NEw YEAR.--It is q sort Of custom
among newspaper people and scribblers gen.
orally, TO write long essays as the cid year
goes out and the new year comes in. 1t is
right, perhaps, that il should be SO, il every
thingis done in the proper style and spirit,
A view OF the past, IL carefully made, is al.
wOys useful and on day like this, it j. a IT.
Iiss sIason to call up the leading iucideats
ortae year gone by, and derive lessons there
from to guide us in the future. This is the
frst day Of the year 1867. What changes have
been wrought in our own and in the worlds
history within the last three hundred aud
siXty@fve dayss How many who rej'iced
wilA kore sad hooked forward with bright
and happy hearts to the future, are in their
graves, nows Time has left lis mark upon
Ill ofus. The harry infant, though help.
less still, is grown to playfeI, happy heart
ed child: the boy has become INSPIRED with
the aspirations Of youth; the youth has us.
sumed the labor and care of manhood; the
man has began to grow gray with the irosts
Of age. The young man is stronger1 the old
man is weaker; poor men have become rich
and rich men have been reduced to poverty,
= Thus it is. Through the succession of days.
months and years, time moves on working oct
1he worlds history, and leaving his footprints
every where along the journey Of our lives.
A few months ago, we visited Il town which
was at one time, our place Of residence
Gtis what would usually be called a "dull,
.seAd town." For though containing among
tits Inhabitants some Of the warmest hearted,
u,ublcst aud most hospitable people in the
wotie, tiaere is but little business and little
catcrprisc. Few houses are going while
mow ace beginning to tumble down. When
asked, almost the only change we could OBJ.
serve, u as, the children had grown up tt
yoush, the midd'ed nged had become gray
thesgray. headed we're ftill more feeble, ant
there was more iaoss on the buildings. g
Ent this is not the time TO morulze. ne"
veur l. before US. There is WORK to bt
done. Let us 20 about 1t with cheerful
tnanly itrart. II the days on the past nave
been mistepent, do not consume the future i!
mourning over it. "Let the deat past bury
its dead" TIupE, ENERGY. IETEG RiTY AM
HEALTR ase abundsnt capital t. begin th'
battle Of life with. They are guaranty o
fortune and4espeetabiliiy. The future ha'
happiuess and sttre fSr yuu. only be true t.
yourself, your'couIty aud God.
Reader, happy New Year
DEDIcATIoE OF CiiUEcH AT HlHAM.-
About wear since, as DIR readers duGbtles
recollect, the Disciples church, in Hlrnm
was destroyed by FIRE. Dtrieg the pa. t sum
mcr, a neat arA substantial edfce, Jarga
thoa ihe former one, continuing (as Is sup
postdl the chief advantages Of both br. cl
and frame buildings, has been erected on tn
old site. 1t was built in this @ayi:--A so!it
and apple foundation was first Ibid nsd OF
tins O strong frame was raised, being ktls
smaSier than the very exterior of the lJuitaa
ton, 80 as to leave on all sides q projectiot
~ rive or SIX inches beyond the s;l.s. %
this ro;.cticu, a single course Of brck'worl
the Is.dth Of brick in thickness-~a
, comaaeneed. carried up to the cornlce' AM an
into the gaSie ends. TINS outside wall va
somewhat strengthened by another course
brick between the studs; but the pain de
peadcn ce, to keep abae wall snug 10 the ,ran
work, is on euitobse iron spikes or heade IS
driven between the bricks into the posts O
studs. The Inside is $nished in the style o
frame building. being lataed and Piastere'
q in the usual way; and, consequently, it 'aP
pears to be brick building Oh the outside
and frame one on the iasiae. Should thi
style be found to succeed veil, ire Pfesdm
it may come into fashion, as K saves near
all the expense of outside painting, which |
generally quite troublesome ard eSPensiT
natter.
m ,On Sunday, the 30th Of November, III
church was dedicated. II was filled to II
Gtmost capacity by the people OF Hiram an
vicinity, who we're anxious to herr the ifite'
est.ag and appropriuic exercises, in wliic
MFR. HAyDEN, President of the Hiram Inst
49,. took a leading part. II was truly
,,...aat !, me, andnothing OCCURRED to int
q, I, i I'M. 4rooa f,eling that prevailed. M