The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-12-03
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eTCongress meets on Monday next.
EDead-Cavaignsc, the distinguished
French general.
eyToo for into the Earth-The cross
in g opposite the Prentiss House. .....
6TThs Siamese twins are exhibiting
their fair proportions in Louisville.
0TQuite large number of cotton mills
in the east have resumed operations.
6rLola Montez is lecturing in the east.
Subject beautiful women and gallantry.
GF The first pile has been driven for
bridge across the Sacramento river, Califor.
MIA. .-.
TThe next Congress will stand l9s
Democrats, 90 Republicans and IA Ameri
cans. E.... .....
HFThe Masonic order in the United
States numbers three hundred thousand
members. .".
0TBusy-The Juveniles liking up their
skates last week. "Oh, would we were a
boy ugaia!"
GSugar is selling in the New Orleans
market at Al cents per pound, and molasses
at from la to 20 cents per gallon.
TThe Canadian ministry h we all re-.
signed, and the Hon. John Mcdonald is
charged with the duty of forming new one.
GFThe latest and most approved mode
OF telling man to "sh0t ups" is to politely
request hin to "suspend further conversu.
tion." ..- ....
! EJoseph Hamilton, one Of the Oldest
and most respected citizens Of Colun.biana
county, died recently at his residence in
Elrum township.
GTThe entire supervision of the bus-
ness of the Trans. Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany has been placed in thc hands Of C. w.
Fuld, Esq, Of New York. -..i ..
0rMiss Emma Wingf.ld. Of Bedford
county, Virginia, recently obtained yer
dict for $4,000 against William Stein, for
breach of promise Of marriage. Pretty dear
courting, that: ot t.@. s.
G-A most excellent way 10 spend these
long winter evenings is to subscribe for
some good paper-the Portage Sentinel, for
inslance-aud pay for it in advance. Try
it, once, and see if it is not so..
rHumbugs-The "hunger, meetings"
in New York and Philadelphia. Men who
refuse to work for a dollar day, in times
ike these, deserve to starve. Pride and
poverty nuke sorry companions. a
0TMss Harriet Lane. the Presidents
niece, who does the bonors OF the White
House, is complimented by h,ving her
name given to the steam revenue cutter just
from Webb's yard, in New York.
or Hon. James G.. BirNey, the we'll
known anti. slavery speaker, and candidate
Of the Liberty party for President in 1914,
lied on Wednesday morning, the 35th ult.,
near Perth Amboy, of paralysis. He was
Xentuckian BY birth.
0TThere is = clerk in the New York
post Office, who has been there forty years.
He formerly carried the Southern mail, in
! bag under his arm, across the river to
Jersey City. The same mail now weighs
en- thousand pounds daily.
GrA clergyman, who was consoling
'oung widow on the death of her husband,
poke in a. very serious tone, remarking
hat he was aone of the few. Such Jewel
# Chfistian-you cannot find his equal,
ou we'll know. To which the sobbing
air one replied with almost broken heart,
I'll bet will"
6TA windy orator once said: "Af,er
:arelul celebration and consideration of the
natter, havs come to the determ ned con.
'lusion that i'm cities and towns where the
population il greater, there are more men
women and children than in cities and towns
where the population is not quite so large
6TIn the Butler DistrI't Of this State
'ows are either in very high repute or men
ire In shockipgiy low. During the recent
ittiug Of the Court Of Common Pleas, in !
he town Of Hamilton, Andrew J. Cutters,
ound gailty of msnslaughter, was senten.
ed onsyesr to the Penisentiary, while H.
for killing COW worth thirty
i've dollars, was sent to the same place for
wo years. &tA'.
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