The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-08-13
Bsu, 46astt anh 5rissurs.
nrEnded-The harvest.

6TEnded-Ihe harvest
NJ TCommenced-Th campaign.
6TGoing Up-Our subscription list.
6rComiuS DOwb-The price of sugar.
OHTThe weight of the Atlantic telegraph
cable is one ton per mile.
0TTwo cases Of yellow fever occurred
in Philadelphia last week.
6T"Distressingly Healthy"-our vii.
luge. So say the NJ. DIS.
OTThe wife of Ex.Postmaster General
Campbell died on the Slst ult.
6TThe missionaries at Leech Lake, near
Fort Riley, have been driven off by the in.
dans.
.CSFThe Republicans of Maine have dis
carded the temperance question as politi-
cal issue.
ETThe hoop question, like most others,
has two sides. The ladies take the inside,
of course.
6TCol. J. C. Groom has been nominated
as the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Maryland.
GTThe extensive Rolling Mill at Johns
town, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the I'd
instant. The loss is estimated at 100000.
OTThe Main Line of the Public Works
of Pennsylvania passed into the hands of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the Isl
instant.
Mrs. Stanton suys that "whnt men
can do, women can do" She should have
adled-wilh the single exception of strad.
ding fence gracefully.
GFPresident Buchanan has sent check
for $50 to the ladies of the Mount Vernon
Association, to aid in the purchase Of the
"Eome and Grave of Washington"
OHFThere is to be National Emancipa'
ton Convention at Cleveland, on the 25th
s5th and 27th of August. 1t is called by
Elihu Burrtt, to discuss his scheme for thu
peaceful removal of slavery.
OFTbe Postmaster General has '5rderet
that hereafter no paper labels shall be uset
on any of the mail tags, but only such al
are made of metal, wood or leather, which
are not liable to be deIaced or destrcyed.
GFSome genius has invented machine
for shearing sheep, the. operation requiring
but FIVE minutes, hen the animal jump'
from the machine so smooth that one would
suppose i: never had ON outer coat TO its
back.
0tFThe Boston HerGM says that Divine
tProvidence appor,ions evil to different sec
tions about equally. In the great plains o
the Northwest they have armies of grass
hoppers; in Massachusetts they have;
Legislature.
CSTW6hn Wentworth's Republican rule
as Mayor of Chicago, has proved a Satur
MALTA for rogues. There have been over
hundred burglaries in that city within two
months post, and not single burglar has
been caught.
OrTA maiden lady of Portland, Maine
was recently carried to the workhousc, who
has brother living in that city who wal
taxed the past year, on the assessors books
for $4,000; also, sister, whose HUSBAND
is taxed for $4,000, and cousin who is re
ported to be worth $4,000.
OcFA vast deal of genial humor, say
Mrs. Stowe, is conscientiousIy strangled il
religious people, which might illuminate
and warm the way of life. Wit and gaietl
answer the same purpose that fire does il
damp house-dispelling chills and dry in9
up mould, and m liking all wholesome ant
cheerful.
0ETA young and beautiful, but poor wild
ow, was about to marry rich old wdower
Her friends wished to know why she wante'
to marry him. She replied, "For prre love
love the ground (meaning the farm prob
ably) on which he walks and the house il
which he lives" There is platonic love
for you; there is none of your school cir
romance in that.
OF Bishop Simpson and Rev. Dr.. NJ
Clintock recently addressed public meet.
ing of Methodsts, in the city of Cork, whe,
the latter gentleman said: 81 do not belev
there is in all Christendom, single churcl
whose constitution--Whose written consti
tuition, the constitution BY which it stand
before the world and Gods as anti SLAYER
as the Methodist Episcopal church Of th
United States"