The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-06-10
Yru, Yastt nad gtissars.

Ziba Johnson, the Oldest man in Yer.
mont, committed suicide last week. So the
Green Mountain State now has no "oldest
inhabitsnt."
GrA resident of st. Thomas has an.
nounced in Cuba that General Santa ANN
had purchased an elegant residence on the
fret named island, for which he paid $4o,.
600 cash. 5s
cav Whiskey" is the name Of a trotting
horse that has just been brought out at the
Long Island Course. We think he ought
to be spirited steed. Gt7'sco
6rIn 1914 the expenditures of the Fed
eral Government, exclusive Of Public Debt,
were $sO,l27,6S6. In 1867 they we're
$65, 2,559.
0TE. L. Carney, Esq.,, formerly nn edi-
tor of the Stark County Democrat, died at the
residence of his father, few miles from
Tiffin, week before lost.
or The Catholics of Lafayette, Indiana,
have purchased square Of ground in that
city, for the purpose Of erecting a cathedral,
nunnery, school, etc. The whole will cost
100000.
@The county Treasurer Of Cincinnati,
Hamilton county, Ohio, gives bonds with
sureties to the amount of FIVE hundred thou.
sand dollars, for the faithful performance OF
the duties Of his office.
@The Savannah Georgian states that
in consequence Of dullness in trade and the
want OF wholesome speculation in Savannah
number of first class firms in that city viii
this year close their business, to reopen il
other cities.
EA drunken chap, blundering through
the dOrkened hall of his boarding house, wa'
accosted by his landlady to know if he woult
not have candle. "Thunder no!'' said he
"it's SO cussed dark out here, that couldn'
see if had eight"
McHenry is lecturing in the rura
districts near Hamilton, C. w. His bill
are headed "[s he Townsend! Come an
see." He intends lecturing all throug
Canada, the United States and Michigan
and will probably make a good thing of il
6rThere is man in one of the Wester
States who has moved SO often that when
ever a covered wagon comes near his house
his chickens all march up, fall on the
backs, and cross their legs ready to be tie
and carried to their next stopping place.
GTA Chelsea (Mass.) clergyman, ali,
! to the importance of advertising, has late
had printed some five hundred cards f
general distribution, informing his friends
I the fac! that his church has Stree seats
!, and expressing his willingness to oficiate
n baptisms, marriages and funerals!
O OIA lawyer at Madison, Wisconsin, o
3, jected to jurymon because he decared Ii
y tthe law of the State was opposed to Got
- % laws he should feel obliged to obey the Ii
It ter. But Judge Collins overruled the o
= lection, on the ground that it was not to
It presumed that the laws of the State we're
conflict with the laws of God.
y GA hortcuIturist at Lafayette, Indian
advertised that he would supply the peop
with all sorts Of trees and plants, "especia
ly pie plants of all kinds" A gentlem,
thereupon sent him an order for "one pac
age of custard pie seed and a few dozen
s mince pie plants" The gardener promp
ly filled the order by sending him four goo.
i eggs and small dog.
, @One Of the jokers says: "Wom,
require more sleep thon men, and farme
. less than those engaged in almost any 9th
> occupation. Editors, reporters, printers al
telegraph operators need no sleep at ALL
, Lawyers can sleep as much as they choos
and thus keep out of mischief. Cergym,
can sleep twenty-four hours and can p
their parish to sleep once week"
(. When Abijah Datkins was a memb
> Of the Indiana Legislature, there were gra
/. charges of bribery and corruption, PREFER
y by certain persons and presses again
d members of that honorable body. Mr.. Ba
kins, 10 moment of supernatural briliar
! cy, arose and moved "tlfat them members
!. had been bribed. signerfy it by raisin the
hands," Lost.
The TWO Chiefs.
!. In New Orleans, the other day, Ge