The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-06-25
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or What utility is there in killing hogs
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Or What utility Is there In killing hogs,
il they are to be cured directly afterwards!
OF Thos. Strathon, Of MatomOras, Ohio,
committed suicide by hanging himself on the
Sd inst.
OF A man was recently arrested in AL.
bany for stealing his daughters earrings to
bet on dog fight. ,.,sl 81
or Robert Burns, aged IL, eldest son
of the famous Scottish poet of that name,
died at Dumfries, May IA.
NJ The notorious Parker H. French has
turned up as editor of the Black Republican
Daily Register, in San,Francisco.
OF A young man named David Robin
son, while running foot race near Vincen-
mes, Ind, last Sunday, fell down corpse.
OT Peaches will be abundant in South.
ern Illinois. A man near Jonesborough
has a young orchard of seven thousand trees
which he hopes will yield bsshel each.
OF The following is the political com.
plexion of the new Legislature of Virginia:
Senate, 35 Democrats to Is opposition.
House, liz Democrats to 40 opposition.
Democrat majority on joint ballot, 81.
6T George l. Buell., for some nineteen
months editor of the Western Democratic
ReuieiU, has been rendered third class
clerkship (sallry $4,000 in the depar tmeut
of the interior, but he declined accepting
it.
OF There were, i is stated, on the first
day of June, masses of frozen spray and
snow, fifty feet in solid thickness, under the
American side of the fails at Niagara. A
heavy rock thrown upon them makes ne
more impression than upon hard ice.
o. The people eff Cleveland propose
erecting monument to the memory Of
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Ger
tanly no name has reflected more honor
upon our inland seas, and no memorial
would be more appropriate for the Forest
City to rear.
OF Printers gain Ahead-Hon. James
Thompson, of Erie County, who was nomi.
mated on Tuesday, by the Democratic State
Convention Of Pennsylvania, for Judge o.
the Supreme Court, was at one tim an ap'
prentice in one Of the ewspaper printing.
offices of Philadelphia.
OF The National Era, which has all
along regarded the appointment Of Robert
u. Walker to the Goyemorship OF Kansas
as favorable to the prospects of the Territory
Characterzes his inaugural address as "' con-
cliatory in tone, elevated in sentiment, and
containing many wise and statesman-like
views"
o. One of our exchanges announces
that Mr.. White, living somewhere down
in Pennsylvania, was reacntly murdered in
his own bed by some avaricious wretch who
wished to rob him of his money. The editor
modifies the transaction, however, by adding
that "luckily, Mr.. White had deposited his
money the day before in the bank" MFR
White only LOST his life! Truly a remarkable
and lucky escape!
0kI--l Hard Bargain-Tne Stevens PoiLi
! (Wisconsin) Pinery says that one Charles
Clark, wh9 has been officiating as a prea-
cher at Linn, Waupaeasco, has run away
with the wife of Peter Hilliker, of Linn
From the description Of her we say they
had better " let her went" She is rather
small, black hair and eyes, hair a little
gray, somewhat cross eyed; has lest somt
of her front teeth. When she left had Oh
tancolored delaine dress, lsh! shoes, snuf
colored bonnet and vail, black cape; USE
spectacles occasionally, and usually smokes
after her meals. ..