The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-05-20
pen, gaste arla Stlasors
NrJuiev-The rosds.

GUnpropitious-The weather for plant.
ing corn aud "sich like"
EA Norwegian Democratic paper is
about being started at st. Paul, Minnesota
@Two hundred barrels Of eggs are said
to be shipped daily from Cleveland to the
East.
tTAvoid entering into an argument with
deaf man in railroad car, as it is sure to
lead to high words. r ....
or Hon. VIM. Montgomery regards the
English bill as a substantial endorsement Of
the Crittenden. Montgomery bill.
Hr1t is reported that President Bnchan.
an eohtemplates visiting the principal cities
of the West, after the adjournment Of Con.
gress.
rGen. Shields drew the short term, ex.
piring March, 1859, and Mr.. Rice the term
expiring March, 1868, for Senators Of Min.
nesota.
OF The Governor OF South Carolina has
appointed A. p. Hayne, United States Sen,
ator from that State, in place of Dir. Evans
recently deceased.
GA Yankee in describing an oppoaeht
says: III tell you what, sir, that nIan don',
amount to sum in arithmetc-add him UP
and there's nothing to carry" .. .. #
Or The citizens of Western Texas have
come to the conclusion that eating bread is
all habit, and accordingly have ignored its
use, aud live wholly on good beef and cof-
fee. ,
GtTThe unfinished monument to Mary,
the mother Of Washington, at Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, is fast going to ruin, and is
badly dfsfgured with bullet and shot marks,
being used by the boys as q target.
GA singular accident occurred at Anti.
och College, (Yellow Springs,) on Monday,
by which in a playful wrestle between two
Students, one had one of his eyes torn ou1
by the buckle of his ajdversary's pants.
@Three pianos have been made from
the wood Of the Charter Oak. It takes a
high polish, and the instruments which the
wood encloses are of the best description. -
"Yankee Doodle" is said to sound we'll on
them.
GA Tremendous yellow wolf was killed
in Bellevue Valley, Iron county, Mo-, las,
week. 1t measured FIVE feet four inches in
length. The "vurmint" had killed one nun.
dred sheep in that county before being kill.
ed himself.
GrJenkihs insists that the unmarried
portion Of our female community 20 tc
church more for the sake Of the hiMs than
the preaching. Jenkins is evidently some
ola bachelor, and everybody knows that no.
nbch reliance is to be placed in anything
they say Of crnoline.
GFThe Mormons are expecting to be
able to cat off the supply trains from ForI
Larimie for the army before Salt Lake; bull
q very strong escort (seven regiments1 &C.
companies the train, and It is quite likely
that some of brother Brigham's tribe will be
"cut off, themselves If they make the at.
tempt.
Gran enorm mously fat woman, who was
recently exhibited about the country, has
been married recently, at st: Louis, to q
man almost as large as herself, named Ros-
ers. The happy couple weighed, together
nearly twelve hundred pounds, and if their
happiness equals their size they must enjoy
married life prod:giously:
0FPeter sken Smith, died III Springfield
Mass; oh the 9th inst, Of complication of
brain and heaFt diseases. He was at one
time prominent leader Of the Native Ameri.
can party in Philadelphia aid a:waftn friend Of
Gen. Zachary Taylor, with whom he served
in the Florida war: He was brother of
qerrit Smith, of Pete rsboro, New York.
0tColt, the inventor of patent fire. arms
is one of the Fortunate individuals occasion.
ally met with. He has already received from
the Government at Washington, fur furnish.
ing revolvers, four hundred and fifty thou-
sand dJllars; and the present administra.
lion has contracted for, or ordered from him,
three thousand additional, at eighteen dol.
lars each. This monopoly is one of the
greatest in existence at the present time and
has not been equalled since the expiration
Of the Woodwork planing machine patent:
Strenuous efforts have been made by several
parties, at different times, TO break down
Colts influence with The department at
but they have all signally
failed.
67-The ant.tobacco men have paFaded
in triumph The assertion that man is the on.
ly animal that chews the weed. The fol-
lowing from the Danville, (va.) Ne,cs will
be welcomed as complete refutation:
One of the physicians Of our town owns
riding horse teat loves tobacco equal to any
good old eastern North Carolinian that ever
rolled quid under his tongue. The horse
will take u quarter of plug at one time and
:hew it with avidity and apparent delight
But the strangest feature of the matter is, he
the narcotic without becoming
sick at the stomach or head!
A Bullet Forty Years In "a Mans
Lung.
Al the rnnnuf Gc;ant;6n Ho.-u.. "A