The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-12-24
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6-A $500 lump Of gold has been ,aker
from a'mins in eibsffdu county, N. C.
0TBsnedict Arnold's silver watch b,,
been PrsssHtsd to the Connecticut Historical
Society.
6rThers 10 fellow in Illinois so dirty
That the assessors have to put him down a.
"real estate"
6TThs District Attorney OF New Orlsan,
has. tis said, been removed, for letting Gen,
Walker of on Eight bail.
6rAn editor in Minnesota threatens to
break up housekeeping. and 60 to boarding
with his delinquent subscribers.
GTHarding Johnson, formerly a grocer
IN Cincinnati, committed suicide few days
ego. Csuse-pecun ary troubles.
0rHow independent of money peace Of
conscience isl and how much happiness can
be condensed in the humblest home!
rThs Bridgeport Farmer is informed
that Gen. Tom Thumb, who is now in
Trance, is dangerously i'll, and not expected
TO live.
UTAt Mou ut Pleasant, Iowa, on the 22d
uit., a fire destroyedthe Tiffany House, Bart.
ruf's store, and Several 'bther ibuilding.
Loss S5b.o0v.
Gon the first, of January next the mode
Of reckoning In Canada is to be changed
from pounds, skillihgs and pence, to dollar,
and cents.
GThs "Fres Lovers" of Berlin, Erie
county, have been compelled to scatter.
They were all in favor of "free speech and
free Kansas!"
6TFor half century, it is said, no boat
nor ship mas passed Mount Vefpon, where
lies the illustrious dead, without tolliny the
bells while passing the sacred shades.
GTNathdniel P. Banks has resigned his
seat in Congress, 10 take effect about tho lst
of January next when he viii enter 'llIt5 upon
his duties as Governor of Massach usetfs.
" Conversation should be pleasant with.
out scurrllity; witty without afectation;
free without indecency; learned without
concreteness, and novel Twthou, fulsehood.
GFomaha City, the capital of Nebraska
Territory. cohtsins a population OF $500.
But three years ago, the town site was a "a.
vorlte camping ground for the Omaha Indi.
ans.
GTA Detroit paper mentions the arres,
Of woman in that city, "wi,h nothing on
her person but love letter and daguerre.
'type." Rather poelicaI and picturesque
costume.
6T"I curse the hour we were married ~
exclaimed an enraged husband to his better
half To which she mildly ieb1ied: "DSn't
desr-tha, is the Only happy hear We have
ever seem"
6J1t f said ,bn, the Roman Catholic.
have churches in the United States, in which
sermons are preached in the English, Ger.
man, French. Spanish, Italian, Welsh, and
Chinese ldngdagcs.
bis i; il lid ID ,ha, Et 5Ame. 3. steeJm,0 i.
a partner in t4b House printing job xshi,h
Mr.. Banks Of Virginia. Thu lalrer was q
candidate, and witiafew In f,M favoMr of Of Steed.
man, thus securing his election.
er4hc sra,e BB:snnlk of t6Eio lbs. has ;,i re;olv.
ed to keep hereafter, thirty per cent. of its
liabilities on hand in coin, instead Of. as
heretofore, twenty per cent. in c1i cSifn and ten
Der cent. in New York exchange.
GrA series 81 resolutions recoitia;Alteindipp Il; ti
he revival of the sla7s trade has been, ei, in.
reduced in the lower hotSe of the Texas
legislature. Similar resolutions haye also \
'een submitted in the Alabama Legislature. ,
GFA curious juxtaposition Of nuthes DC. ]
urred at Lowell some twenty.tw years i.
60. There were six physicians in the !!
own, two of them bore the name of Tooth. &
cher, two Pllsbury, and the other two that
Graves! 2
GTRsv. Job Guest, a highly esteemed E
lember Of the Baltimore Conference Of the II
Iethodist Episcopal Church, died at Alex. .
ndria, Va, Oil the 18th inst, in the seventy 4
llfd year Of his age. He had been q min. S
ter for fifty two years. n
trThe following CONVERSATION is said to ,;
ave taken place short time ago: "Mr, O.
mith' you say you boarded at the Prentiss II
ouse Blk weeks; did you foot your biIlr" ;,
No, sir; but it amounted to the same thing "
the landlord footed me.'' I"
0TA number Of women in Erie county. J..
. T., have called a convention, the object
which is stated to be ''to gain a new ia
lowledge of the nature and attributes of W "
an An exchange very pertinently asks a; q;
Why don't they get married" Cd
OTln Kanawha county, Va, last week
lung lady sued gentleman for damages :
! oreach of promise. It was proved in
idehce, says the Valley Star, that the
'ang lady was flHt, and the jury accord.
ely awarded hsf one cent dahsges.
GTThe richest man IN EngidHd Is lie \
arquis of Westminster, formerly Earl
rosvenor. His property, mostly rrasai es.