The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-03-04
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0tA OuSH mlu StlSSulS.
0TThs value Of gold which len Austra.
lia's shores last year was upwards Of ten
millions and quarter sterling.
6rThe Massachusetts lower House has
passed bill go mOdi:yin" ;,ne rul. and prac.
lice ofeVidense az to allow atheists to testi
y in cogfts Of justice.
0TA sister of Edward Everett is said to
r. Sister Of Charity. and about to become
Lady Superior OF St. Joseph's Convent, a,
Petersburg, Va.
rHenry w. Herbert. Esq, ("Frunk
Forrester,'') was married in Newark, N.
on Tuesday evening, the bride being 4 resi-.
dent Of that city.
@ DR.. Livingstone. the African traveller,
will leave England in April for new series
Of explorations. beginning at the mouth Of
the Zambese River.
HSeven Of Mrs. Fanny Kemble Botler's
recent "Shakesperean Resdings," in New
York city, netted the sum OF $4,000. That
is what may properly be termed "pr. ftable
reading"
6TThe announcement Of the marriage oi
ex-President Fillmore occupies four lines
in some Of our exchanSes--that of two "trip
lings in England. the same number Of col
umns. Bah!
@Charles Mathews, the comedian, mar.
ried Mrs. Lizzie Weston Dsvenpo t, at
actress on Sunday last, just - hours after
she had obtained a divorce from her hus'
baud.
0rMrs. Tillman has been arrested in
Cleveland, charged with poisoning her niece
Rebecca Stanton. Money possessed by the
niece and which the aunt would inherit, is
supposed to have been the inducement.
Mrs. Catherine Sinclair Forrest has
purchased an estate in Scotland for $50, 900,
savings Of her theatrical career. !, is suid
that she 10 eoon to bo married to George
Loder, the composer.
HTWe would call attention to two new
and we'll executed counterfeits. One o
them is q IS note on the Winstead Bank
Connecticut, and the other IS note the
Unicn Bank Of Frenchtown, New Jersey
both Of which are calculated 10 deceive.
FThe Kentucky Legislature adjourned
sine die on "Wednesday, the I7h inst
Among the acts passed were extensions t,
the charters Of several Of the banks, whicl
expire in FIVE or six years, for twenty year
longer.
0TA young lady ia Ware, N. H., in,
proved the occasion Of Valentines Day b.
}. sending IN insulting epissle to rival femal
n friend. Next day the mother OF the. offend
i. ed damsel waylnid the sender and beat he
). numerically With brJom-stick.
Washington City SCENE to have bee
turned into q fstic arena. Fights of a
e sorts are of daily occurrence. Tn, comm,
n nifty is in a state Of nervousness hardly i'm
a nginsble, and grent nPPrehensions are fe
|" that something seriods will occur bcfor
y the closeof the session.
. FThe Supreme Court Of New York i
the Second District, has decided that th
- rolling stock Of railroad is fixture OF th
same, and personal property; and that con
;, sequsntly mortgage on rolling stock doe
:, not require to be sled IS in the case Of
chattel mortgage, in order to protect the pr
psrty against judgment creditors.
e @Rev. Seth Howell, a Presbyteri,
b. clergyman, committed suicide few day
i ago. at Oxford, Ohio, by hanging. He hs
v for some time been very much depresse,
0 in consequence, it is stated, Of an appr.
hension that his family would como to wan
although he possessed property valued a
seventy thousand dollars.
OJThs African church at Rchmon,
. Va, has long been the largest church il
, this country, though it 10 now second, in
: point Of numbers, to the church in Beaufort
s. c., Of which Rev. J. III. c. Breaker il
pastos. This clergyman writes to the En-
aminsr: II have boptsed SOS persons in tn
fellowship o, the Baptist Church, at thi
place, (Beaufort, 3. c. within the presen
year, (ls5D all of whom are colored bu
eight; and this makes the present number
Of its membership s,bll-prObably the larg-
est church in the world. or these 1870 ar
whites; all the rest colorcd."