The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-05-06
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6rThe latest excuse for crinoline isthat
the "weaker vessels" need hopping.
0eTThe journeymen shOemakers Of Gin
cinnati are on strike for higher wages.
erThere were three hundred and ninety
nine deaths in the city OF New York last
week.
6TA good action is never thrown away,
and perhaps that is the reason We hnd SO
few of them. l-..-l
CTThurlow Weed has returned to his
old post as editor and proprietor Of the Al
buny Erening Journal .-G ...
6TLord Rosse-the man with the big
telescope-denies having made Sny predic-
tion concerning the weather of 1858.
tJ The horse shoers Of Pittsbug h and
vicinity have resolved to charge d'l'ar
and q quarter set for shoes, after the fist
o; July next.
NrThe specie reserve in the Philadel-
phia banks amounts TO near seven millions
of dollars. Their circulation Is about two
and half millions.
6JCol, Schouler, known in connection
with the State Journal, has retired from its
edirorBhip and is soon to take situation in
the B ston Bee clice.
GFThe Pittsburg Post says that one
hundred shares of Pittsbnrs and Cleveland
Railroad stock were sold on the 26th ult., at
the Philadelphia Exchange, at $6,75.
NTThe Cincinnati Gazette does not be-
lieve that Loefner, the murderer, whose
sentence has been commutrd to imprison-
ment on the ground Of insanity, is at all in-
sane.
o. Orson Hyde, one Of the Mormon
apostles, boasts that if he lives ten years
+ and thriycs as he has been thriving, he vii
have sons enough to make q regiment b!
. themselves.
t ceTThe furnace a, Brar Hill, formerl,
= owned BY james Wood & Co., and nov
# the property of Hon. David Tod, has bee
leased for term of three years to Brown
d Bonnell 4 Co., of the Mahoning lro
e Works.
e eFA young man named Jacobs. Of Hart
l. ford, died very suddenly, few d"ys siuce
'f A boil had formed internally in his thrca
= and on breaking, it carried away so much I
It the covering Of the carotid artery that tn
&. artery afterwards burst, and he tfed to dea,
before surgical ala could be obtained.
. GFThe State Journal says George Ref
nick, now living in Chllicothe, in 1901!
:. fed and drove the first lot Of cnttle that eve
>, crossed the mountains 10 an Eastern mark
ct. From that time to this the business h:
steadily increased in the Valley. Nov
Ohio sends across the Alleghanes year
- average Of 10, 900 head.
Gran Irish gentleman had occasion
= visit the South some month since. Whe
1t he returned, he remarked to friend tn;
., the Southern people were very extravagan
> Upon being asked why SO. he replied th'
!. whore he staid they had d candlestck wort
= $l,loo "Why. how in the world could
d have cost that much!" inquired the friend.-
"Och, be jabers ! it was nothin' MORN a bi
. Rigger Ieller holdin' torch for US 10 ate by9
! CIV. ]. Mong, formerly resident {
. this village, has commenced the publicatio
q Of a paper, called the Messenger, at Minerv'
>, Ohio. Mr.. w. says that he does not ente
: the fraternity "for any personal or presen
pecuniury desire," from which we infer h
, has some money that he is anxious to be re
lieved Of, end has, in our opinion, hit upo
most excellent means Of doing SO. w
give you our or and best wishes, brcthe
> Mong.
a ryLola Montez is said to be exhibitin
on extraordinary interest in the welfare {
. two daughters of the famous Mrs. Cunning
), ham, who is now residing on Thirteenth st
), near the Third avenue. The Countess Wis
= it's them frequently, and loses no opportuni
: ty to reiterate her conviction that Mrs.
never murdered DR.. Bufdell. There is n
. truth in The newspaper stories that the fam
d Iy are livirg in extreme poverty. On tn
# contrary, Madame resides in an eleg anti
> furnished house; her daughters have the
. piano, and music teacher attends the
. every day. There is good reason TO belev'
s moreover, that Mrs. C. will shortly be mar
i ried to a wealthy gentleman OF that city.