The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-07-02
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0TThe public schools will close on the
Sd inst. Open again in September.
or Hon. Elisha Whittlesey is spoken Of us
the Republican candidate for State Treasurer.
0rGrasshOppers are annoying the peo-
pie Of st. Anthony, Minnesota, st q great
rate.
rEx. Wright, Of Indiana, has
accepted the oppoiptment of Minister to
Berlin.
TDead-Douglas Jefrold, the celebrat-
ed modern wit and popular duthor. He died
on the 7rh Of June. >-
T"Drying Up'--The streets. Dust
will soon be plenty; but not the kind consid-
cred good for sore eyes.
rThe wheat crop Of South Carolina
it is said, will be the largest this season ever
harvested in that State.
GrThe Democracy of New Hampshire
have nominated Hon. Asa P. Cate as their
candidate for Governor.
EWe learn from our exchanges that
Emory D. Potter. of Toledo, has been up.
pointed Chief Justice of Utah.
GA steamboat accident occurred on the
st. Lawrenceriver on Friday, by which the
lives of5oO persons were lost.
TCol w. s. MosgrOve, Of Urbanu, is re.
commended as candidate for Treasurer OF
State, by some of our Democratic exchan-
ges.
GTThe "Greek Slave" was bid off by an
agent of the Cosmopolitan Art Association
and will be put in the gallery of that concern
for exhibition.
OF Empty gain-Our Jail. 1t has been
in that condition for three weeks. What
other county in the State can say the
same thing!
0TThe importation Of tea to the United
States has declined sixteen millions oi
pounds the PHst twelve months upon the
amount received the previous year.
GFEat, digest; read, remember; earn,
save; love and be loved. If these icu rules
be strckiy followed, health, wealth, intelli,
and true happiness will be the result.
0HFAt on inn in Sweden there is the
following inscription, in English, on the
wall: "You will find ut Trolbuthe excelen
bread, tieat and wine-providing you bring
Mem."
o. On Dn-That q new Democratic
paper is about to be established in Cleveland.
Let 'er rip! Two cannot effect the Iccal
papers in the different untles on the Reserve
more than one does.
HFTwo men named Joseph Pearce anc
George Smith, of Meigs township, Musking
um county were killed on Monday week, oy
the falling Of some timber of house they
were engaged in raisitg.
0J Many Of the most prominent Old line
Wings of New Orleans, disgust with the
violence, mis- government and thousand evils
of the Know Nothings, are making gallant
effort to reorsa ze that party.
eHThe Hamilton Telegraph says that tht
evidence in the contested electJn case be,
tween Campbell and Valandigham has
been concluded, and that Vallandgham ma
q majority of nearly forty over Campbell.
0FA mob of fifty or sixty persons in De-
troit made an onslaught on Saturday week,
upon several houses of vile character in that
city. They burned three, demolished two
, more, and drove the inmates from the sixth.
GA correspondent from Peoria, Hi.
nois, states that the late census of TINT city
shows that it contains Is, 600 souls, being an
increase of 6.ooO during the last six months.
Peoria is fast becoming commercial me.
trspolis.
Off our friend prosser, of the Phonetic
Joarnal, viii! read the last paragraph of an
article which he credits to the Sentinel, back.
wards, he will discover that he has been
soH. II didn't originate with US. We are
in the same fix.
TNew Defnitions-Buss--to kiss
Re. bus-to kiss again. Blunder. buss-two
girls kissing each other. Omni, ,bus-to
kiss all the girls in the room. Bus ter-a
general kisser. Epluri- bus unUm--a thou
sand kisses in one.
0FThe manufacture of salt in Ohio, is
more extensive than is generally supposed
Between GAINESVILLE and McConne lsville,
Morgan county, there are twenty-five salt
furnaces which manufacture thirty thousand
barrels of salt annually.
Or There is place in Pennsylvania
known as Treverton Manor, which has
been described as Being covered with stones,
and under each stone there are fifteen rat
tlesnakes; and no thing but hemlock knot
and huckleberries are produced in addition
to stones and rattlesnakes.
eFBad Arrangement-The Demo ocratic
paper of kuglaize county has changed It's
name from Republican to Democrat. II the
name Of that paper is changed every time
our opponents take new name, it will be
rather neck and neck race with you to
keen nacn u;tL tLoro NollE