The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-02-12
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0Ton the Decline-our purse.
0Ton the Incrcsse-Dunkenness.
OH-Saturday next is ST. Valentines day.
OTA bitter jest is the poison Of friendship.
8arScsrce--Loesis, cash, good butter and
genuine Pisty. r.
rThe Clay Monument at Lexington
will cost $4,000.
6TDeath on Hose-Stub.tOe boots and
and long toe nails.
0TSmall-pox is said to have broken out
in Ripley, Brown county.
OerCounterfeii 3's on the Bank Of Con
nec,icut are in circulation. SRI
0TThe fruit buds have been killed in
various parts of this State.
or The Cincinnati brokers have declared
war on the Illinois currency.
4Reports from Florida say that the or.
ange and lemon crop will be abundant.
ttrThe Pos, Offie at Toledo, with oil its
contents, was destroyed by FIRE last week.
GTThe scarlet fever is raging with fear
ful mulignity in the vicinity of Harrisburg,
Pa.
GrFor perfect picture Of yourself or
friends, call on our long-legged friend, L. V.
Staffsr. .......
GTP. T. Barnum is said to be dangerous
ly i'll in London, from severe attack oi
pleurisy.
Gran old maid says that marriage is like
any other disease-as long as there is life
there is hope.
GTThe total amount Of gold brought from
California last year, was forty and quarter
millions of dollars.
GTA bill has been introduced into the
Delaware Legislature for the repeal Of the
Maine Liquor Law.
Gran exchange announces the marriage
of Mr.. Cooper to Miss Slaves. Barrels
will probably be the result.
0TIn selling a newfoundland dog, ough
it to be valued according to what it will
fetch or what it will bring' .t
! 05'Rev. Lorenzo Curey, Professor of An
cient Languages in the Farmers College, a
Cincinnati, died last Sunday.
rThe French Autographs for sale at I
g. J. Vance's are going rapidly. Call unt
get one before they arc all gone.
OEThe water in Lake Ontario, at Og
densburg, is lower than it has ever bee
known by the Oldest inhabitants.
uThirty Revolutionary soldiers die
during the past year. The number on th'
pension list in July last was 5l4.
FThe Western Hotel, at Belvidere
Iowa, was destroyed by fire on the night o
the 81 instant. Loss about $1,000.
VI The difference between confrme
sinner and a beggar is that one is a mendi
cant and the other is mend. .won't.
| 0E"Tm sitting on the 'style,' Mary,
whistled young man, one evening las
week, when he sat down on lady's skirt.
HTTherc are twelve hundred and fifty
seven pupils at present in OberIn College
OF which number five hundred are negroes
0Jr"Constitutionally tired" is now the
polite expression of the fact that man il
naturally lazy. Wonderfully refined times
these.
TIt is estimated that the amount Of to
bacco consumed in the United States il
equal to three pounds and half to each in
dividual.
| GCongress has been selling about Mint
weeks, and has hatched out nothing but
few speeches-some of them miserable abor
tions at that.
GA poor woman's house took fire or
Monday last, near Delaware, Ohio, by which
| oil her furniture and one of her children
were consumed.
OTThe Governor Of Texas has deter.
mined to order out a company of Riflemen
to assist in putting down the Indians in Kel
and Canal counties.
@In Demand gain-Overcoats Fol
good article Of which, either course or fine
consult Green6eIder, the distinguished clio
shier, in PhCnix Block.
TGen. Hennigsen, who figures 20 con
spicuously in Nicaragua, is Hungarian BY
birth, and it is said, came to this countr,
with Governor Kossuth.
pIt has been decided at the Pension
/ Office that those who served in the Mexican
war, on board the revenue cutter Forward
are entitled to bounty lands.
| GTwo members Of the Missouri Legis
lature have openly avowed themselves to b,
opposed to the extension Of slavery, and il
favor Of Missouri becoming free State.
OJOh, Cheeses!-As our German frien,
remarked, when he was told that fourteen
thousand pounds of cheese were made b.
one mar in this county, during last summer
GA debating society in Stark county
has under consideration the following ques
I tion--"Is it wrong to cheat iawyer." TIL
RESULTS expected to be-"No; but impos
sible."
/ @WiIliam Pate, Kickapoo Rnnger'i
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