The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-04-15
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second wife.
! 0Tlt is said that Southern Indian is full
Of pigeons. There are millions Of them
darksning the cir, and covering the woods
@During the past two years Governor
Chase has PardOned eighty six converts, re
Prieved one, and commuted the sentence oil
another. =
GWalter Simson, Scotch gentleman,
has written book on the History OF the
Gipsies, one chapter Of which is said to
prove John Bunyan. the author Of Pilgrim.
Progress, to be GiPsey.
] 6TThe time occupied in Cincinnati il
firing up steam FIRE engine. lighting hel
torches. attaching the horses, and getting
the machine into the street, does not ex
ceed one minute and a half.
0TAt West Point, Ga, on the 18th uIt
Mr.. BrnW Der, teacher. was fatally stabbed
by one Of his pupils, only twelve years old
whom ne was correcting with switch fo
profanity. One Of the boys plsyfellowl
advised him to commit the crime. :.
A CArTAL FELLow.-An editor at tn,
East says: "Our stock in.trude consists o
Industry, EcoAcray, and untiring Persever
anee. Our industry we consider worth I,
US at least $4,000, economy $i5 1000, per
severance $4,000, making 10 all an ac,iy,
capital of 45cee."
GTThe passenger railway companies o
New York city, having calculated carefully
that mules would be more economical than
horses to drow their cart, ,yhave been using
them all along, until at last they fad tha,
horses are cheoper. Accordingly they are
disusiOg the mules and substituting horses.
HTThere is "lurge girl for her age"
living in Monroe county, celebrated for its
huge Democratic mojori,ies and '4obacco
crops" She is the daughter of a Mr..
Thompson, and although she is only four
years and six months old, weighs 40
pounds! Wont she be fat when she is
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or Judge Mcclure OF Pittsburgh, is as
severe on higbwaymen as Judge Russell, Of
New York, is on garroters. On Friday,
George Cody, David Porter and Patrick
Mullen, the three young men who were con.
victed Of knocking and robbing a farmer
numed Small, on Friday night of the previ.
Gus week, were brought into court, and each
sentenced to undergo an imprisonment in
the pententiary, for the period Of eight
years.
@Tae papers are publishing :" Dr.. Sscy's
infuiible cure for the bite OF q mad dog."--
1t consists of Red Check Weed boiled in
beer, with an ounce of mix,ue of drugs
known as Theusae or Venice Treacle added
to be taken on au empty stomach, aud the
patient to abstain from animal food for four.
teen days. We can't vouch for the cure,
but coed preventive wou d be to cut off the
dogs tail just back Of his ears, on the day
before he bites you. This never fails.
0TMrs. Swisshelm, the editress of the |
st. Ci,ud (Minnesota) Visitor, has been
treated very scurvily by a band of rufians,
who took some offence at hef editorial stric.
lures. On the Oath ult., they broke into
her office, and seized her type, scattered it
through the streets, and threw o portion of
it into the river. The "men, women, and
of st. Cloud turned out en- nosse
and held an indignation meeting. They
passed strong resolutions condemning the
ruftions who committed the outrage. They
resolved that the st. Cloud Visitor should
be sustained. and they would sustain it. 80
The editor of the st. Paul Daily Times
placed his Office at the disposal of Mrs.
Swisshelm, so that she could continue her
paper without interruption.
GTA short time ago an old man named
s., died in Crawford county, Ohio, leay.
ing wife and children. BY his will his
estate was divided equally between the chill.
dren. The division displeased the eldest
son, who refused to take his share of the
estate, asserting that he was not the son Of
he deceased s., nor of the widow. ,
He claims that at the age OF seven he was
adopted by the deceased in Pennsylvania,
ind has lived with him ever since. The ;
widow protests that he is her son, and sever.
Il other women in the neighhorhood, who c
anne from the same place in Pennsylvania,
estify to being present on the occasion of =,
iS birth. At first the heirs were willing 10 r
elieve him, as it would lessen the number
{ heirs. The young man one day present. d
d bill Of service from the age of thir- !,
cen, the amount Of which would swallow J
p the whole estate. They then were per. t
ectIy willing to acknowledge him as o il
rother. A suit on the claim has been