The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-09-24
WHOLE NUMBER 637.
Pen, Paste, and scissors.
The MoEEY MARKEr--R REoERF FAnuREs.
The Citizens Bank Of Cincinnati has aus.

w alton N Oo.l nardWare merchants; and
Nesmuth & Co.. Dry Goods Merchants. New
York, have failed. -
Ward'&s, Nash, Tobacco: dealers, Louis.
Vile, have failed. >. +. ''4 4At''
0rCOl. Benton is lying dangerously IN
at Washington.
GTMrs. Cunningham was admitted to
bail on the 9Th inst, her bond being fixed at
$4,000.
01rThe Gulena Qll.J COurisr ssys. "Pqs
tatoes are now selling in this city Tor twenty
cents per bushel."
0TThe Richmond Wing asserts that
G overncr Wise has the "inside track" for
Senator from! VirgiRia.l
OF Hon. Senator Baysrd, it is said. will.
in the next Congress. introduce his bilrf I
the organization Of a uatiOhiul printing Office.
OF The statement that the late DR.. Hal
vey Burdell was in Brozil In 1851 is not cor.
rect. 1t was DR.. Lewis Burdell, his brother.
0I-The bronze statue of the immaculate
Conception was hoisted on its columns at
r RJme on the 9th, sa s
6TTo carry a Collins steamer from New
York to: Liverpool, requires eight hundred
tons of coal, enough to keep an ordinary
family forty years. s1At F
GA letter from Savoy announces that
the Princes de Solms (Madame Bcnaparte
Wyse) is about to publish the memoirs Of
Beranger end Eugene Sue.
0TThe Austrian official GGSetts does not
hesitate to declare that sEngland, by the re.
cent events in India, is like man smitten
with the first stroke Of apoplexy."
0FThe Ne,o England Farmer. OF the 18th
Of August, has an article in which it msin.
tains that it is bad policy for horticu lturlsts
to whitewash trees. as .s.
6TThs Spanish Legation at Washington
possesses the information that there is no
danger Of war with Mexico, but that d.
plomatic rupture is not impossible.
OHFThe London Times state that another
attempt to lay the Atlantic cable will be
| made in October. The statement, however,
admits Of some doubt.
| OlTJudge Bailhache, who was Editor Of
the Scioto Gazette nearly half century ago,
then Of the Ohio State Journal, and from
1857 to 1855, Of the alton Telegraph, died az
Alton last week." -.
rFRecent accounts from the Ionian Is
lands bring intelligence Of great injury iothe
crop OF currents in that locality. upon which
many Of the inhabitants place their chief
dependence, by severe storms. ,.4s
ETMrs. Holmes, calling herself an Indi.
an doctress, has been committed to prison at
Albany, on a verdict of coroner's Jury for
J ausing the death Of Miss Martha Locksley, ut
lady aged Is, by poisonous draughts admin
lstered to procure an abortion.
\ rTSt. Paul. with population Of twelve
thousand souls has net single fire-enginee,
foot of hose. FIRE bucket, nor single pub.
lie we'll or cistern! We wonder what they
charge for insurance in such city, or d
they insure at all!
E-The new Catholic Cathedral, building
at Dubuque e, Iowa, erecting under the auspi.
:, ces Of Bishop Smythe, is designed to seat
:. 400 persons. The high altar is of fine
Italian marble, costing $4,000, and presen.
ted by Bishop Loras. 1s4 52'' .'s
, EFA general Convention Of Universe.
: lists, composed Of ministers and delegates
from several State. Conventions, will hold
their annual Convention in st. PauIa
Church, Chicago, on the 18th, 18th and l7th
: Of the present month.
. or The land Office for the northwestern
:, land district OF Minnesota has been removed
! by order Of the President, from Oiibway t
Otter Tail city, the former location beins
y deemed unsuitable. So, 4
hi -6TMrs. Treat, Of Grandville Michigan
nj after enduring the most brutal treatmsn
from. agdrunkeR husband, ended her troubles
!. by binding her child to her person and leap
ST ing into Grand River. r,
N GrThe Doyleston Democrat says the
Asiaatic cholera has made ts appearsnce
isl in the lower se9lions Of Bucks country Pa.--
b. In vicinity of Falls; Morrisyille and Bristo
to township, several persons have already diet
ofthe disease. ss< aaa sst
o OrRsg.a James B. Finley, the pioneer
Methodist preacher, familiary known as the
is "old Chief died at Eaton, Ohio, on MondaJ
ID morning last, of paralysis, at the advances
~ age OF ~ years. He was an active, usefa
sc minister, and good man.
I ora gentleman, named Marten, marrie'
:, lady BY the name Of Martin. It was r.
marked by awae. "lhat such marriage ha'
fairly knocked the ladY's Iout!" s
he aetrThe moment alman Is satisfied viii
re himself, everybody slse Is dissatisfied Will
be- orWhy i i wsemsn Ia love like ! man
ke Of profound .kaowlodgea Kase she under
% stands the h(e)arts and sigh-ehces. 9 "a
0-7-aMy DEAR. said an afieosionats spouse
4. 10 her husband, ssam your trsaEaFel H0h
yssl,, was the Eooi reply; sand woul,