The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-05-13
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| @The city OF st. Paul, Minnesota hs
no less than thirteen banks within its linn
its.
@LabOterS in Chiesgo are getting on
rs CENTS per day this season. and hundred
OF men are out Of employment.
orfhs buntirk journal say. sal, W.
ter shSd was recently caught in Lake Erie
That mus. be "hsh story''''
FThs indianapolis pnpers dnd fsnl
with Governor willard Nr pastGfidg hi
COW in the State House yard.
@Col. Benton, in speaking OF Cohffes-
sional matters, says he never "paied off, bu
once in his life, and that was with younp
woman, the night he got married.
GTM Miss Helen Cunningham. daughter o.
Mrs. Cunningham Burdell. was married III
Jersey City on Sunday last, to q young dem
tist of that city.
6TOhio built in 1857, go churches, worth
$4oO, 900; eight hundred school houses worth
10000, andtwenty county buildings worth
$4,000
o. The Grand Rapids Eagle says the
general impression is that most of the peuct
trees there are killed, and the prospect of ,
considerable crop Of peaches effectuaIly Gu
off for. this season.
GThe Davenport Oa.) News says lha
emigration up the Missouri river this seasor
is unprecedented. 1t is estimated that emf
grants are pouring into the Territories at
the rate of two thousand per day.
GTOrvilie Gardner, the converted pupil.
ist, has been set up in the shoe business by
his friends in New York. Instead OF
beating his enemies he will now boot hi.
friends.
GOn Saturday, when the banks o.
LynehbuTg. Va, resumed specie payments
one Of them paid out $4,000 and other.
$4,000 or $40, 900 each in coin, the deman,
for il coming from distant brokers.
GrAt Medina. Ohio, on Wednesday
morning, an infant was killed and devoured
all but the head and one arm, BY hogs, while
its mother, a German woman, about fort,
years Of age, was lying in . state of gross
intoxication in gutter near by.
6At Dunleith, ILL.,, some 400 citiz ems
have organized themselves into vigilanc.
committee, to rid that village of the robbers
thieves and other lawless rascals who infes,
it and cause a great deal of trouble. A
number Of arrests have been made.
GTAfter a struggle of 25 years, Capt
Ericsson has succeeded in bringing his ho
cir engine into practical use. Even the
Scientific American, after denouncing il us
impracticable for years, has length beer
compelled to admit it's success.
There was to have been discharge
Of two hundred and fifty mechanics from the
Gosport Navy Yard on Saturday-chiefy
from the brick and stone mason's depart,
ment. This is in consequence of the ap.
preparation of docks and yards having run
out.
0TThe Post Office department decides
that postmssters are not compelled to re-
ceIve cents at oil in payment for postage or
postage stampsi nor from any one person at
any one time more than thirty cents In three
cent coin. All beyond this rests in their
own discretion.
GTMr. Wise, the .onaut, has gone 10
Washington to experiment In balloon nuvi.
CATION for the Smithsonian Institute. He
will send up squadron Of balloons, in the
shape Of regettn, and will ut loose from
balloon when two miles high, Qeaving the
balloon in charge Of companion and de.
scend with canvass air.conductor.
6TNotice was recently served upon
Thomas Clark, of London, thut the walls of
building owned by him had been condemn.
ed and would be pulled down. 1t was found
that Mr. Clark had been in prison for more
han forty years for contempt of court !---
Dickens circumlocution Office. was no creo.
ture OF the fancy.
@A few days since. man living near
iSlena, Illinois, carried load of potatoes
70 that place. The highest offer he could
get was ten cents bushel, and rather than
YELL them at that rate, he tipped them into
Fever River. The result was that he thus
stopped navigation and was fined in the sum
II $l4.
GTA younng lady who is we'll posted In
Ill the fashionable literature of the day
quotes Byron aud Tom Moore, and works
ong tailed do.s in sky colored commissions
to perfection, innocently inquired Of a young
gentleman, the other night, who tbs Mr.
LscomPton was, who had occasioned so
much trouble at Washington
Gran old settler near Bloomington, ILL.,,
lss seen the toughest times of sDt mar we
" er heard Of He tays.the winter Of 1880,
vas remarkable for the scarcity Of money;
10 much so, that one man who was elected
Justice Of the Pesce, couldn't raise enough
o pay an officer for swearing him in; SO he
tood up before looking glass and qualified
himself.
@ColoRel Arago, brother Of the late
amed astronomer, who has been thirty
'ears in the Mexican service, has been con.
Keyed to Vera Cruz prisoner, and THROWN
INTO San Juan de Ulloa. His offence has