The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-03-18
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1t"J """ "~ Ces"t"'
6rCol. Benton Is said to bs writing 4
life Of General jackson.
GrRsv. Francis p. MeFMland was con.
seeratsd az Roman Catholic Bishop Of Hart.
ford. Conn.,, on Sunday last.
Or Fearful Prospect ~, Is ssid that
there are twenty speeches yet to be made in
Congress. on the Kansas question.
ora man was lately, convicted in Me-
dine Of voting illegally. He was net 4 eiti,
zen Of the United States.
@It is now pretty surely sscertained
that there has been en- over issue Of bills
by the Seneca Bank, Of S5o,O0o.
6TA Go0d Move-B. B. Letter has in.
trOduced bill into the House Of Represen,
tAtiVes at Wilmington, providing for the
election Of Postmasters by the people.
rThe Office of Marshal Of the District
Of Columbia is said to be worth frem eFS,-
600 to $4,000 year.
rJohn Dean, the eoachnsn who mGf-
ried Mr.. Boxers daughter, is now "mark-
er" in store In New York.
@GeOrge w. Foreman. charged viii
the murder Of Miss Josephine Allen, at Sun
fish, Ohio, was tried last week, At Woods
| Eeld, and acquitted,
0TNsbraska 10 our lssgest territory. /
will make eight States as large as New
Hampshire, and 10 about one sixth the sx
Of Europe. -.
@virginia is evidently on the "baci
track" An attempt, with good prospect,
Of success, is being made in the Legislature
to repeal the anti-duelIing laws.
N-Ths editor Of the Auburn A6etr!istl
has seen the portrait Of Brigham Young, re-
Gently brought from Mormondom, and say
that he looks like Henry Ward Beecher.
or Old gentleman, tatfsetionately -
"My son, Why do you chew tina. filty tobac-
co!". Precocious youth, ts,ifay) "Whs, II
get the juice out Of it, old codger."
rThe prize fighter, AWFUL Gardner, 4
under religious conviction in New York
city, and has been up to the altar to be psay-
ed for.
@Forged paper, to the amount of 800
600 is said to have been discovered ailoat a
Lynchburg, Virginia. The forger is ere
spectacle" SO his name is not given.
@A lady skater, on Jamaica Pond, hea
Boston, recently, offered 10 kiss any OH
who would beat her skating across the Pont
A yoang darkey was the winner, and rccei,
ed the reward.
{ TThe jury in the case OF Hiram Coll
indicted for the murder Of his wife by pois
on, were discharg d, not being abe
agree. They stood eight formurder in II
,. degree, and four 10 the second degree.
j. NrOne OF the toosts drank at a rece.
~ ~ celebration was: "Woman she reauir
,, no eulogy-rhe speaks for herself ~
in Very true; as many poor hen peck
h husband has learned to his sorrow.
! 0r"Call that kind man!" said an a
or, speaking Of an acquaintance, "a IN,
who iS away from his family, and new
sends them farthing! Call that kin
Q, ness1" "Unremi!tin9 Kindness" chuckl
t. q wsg.
l. 6rJohn Wesley quantity said that Il
" road to heaven was O narrow path not il
j. tended for wheels, and that to ride In GOA
e here and 90 to heaven hereafter, was hs
e piness too mush for q man. II Wesley
., remarks prove true, won't some Of US po
printers have nice time of it when We :
e to the "oiher side OF Jordan -
II rThe first Bslmoral, or red petticoa
II made it's appearance in Newark the 9th
=" day. 1t excited as much attention as hor
" race or prize fight. Should like to 81
one on our streets amazingly weli--thir
# we could spin a local item out Of il III
= would be as extensively rfGd as the saFsnt
> iteelf.