The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-04-22
Ysfb Rasts ana StiMats.
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oaTrel 10 new York city.
@The Supreme Court Of Ohio has de-
cided that the canal contracts are uncOnsti-
tutional.
@Edwsrd Grsybill. ESQ, Treas uret oI
Forisld county, died at b.ncaster, on the
18th met.
@The number Of students a, 'Oberlir
College is 500, of whom 464 are males, snt
sss females.
@Col. Colt is said to have made con
tract with the War Department for one hun
dred thousand dollars worth Of his arms.
@Dante's famous line, "All hope pban'
dor, ye who enter here!" has been recon.
mended as motto for American railrou,
cars. ,'.
GTIt is officially stated that it costs be.
tween forty and ffty dollars to transport q
barrel Of four from ST.. Louis to Utah fo,
tho use of the army.
8TThe illinois Central Railroad Compa.
ny give notice of their readiness to pay an
inSsa!ment Of twenty per cent. on their out:
utanding notes and acceptances. .
0TThe people of Crawford county at
the spring election voted to build new jail,
and the people Of Hardin county voted
against building County Infrmiry.
GTA son of Mr.. !. HsibKag. of Ripley,
fell ihto kettle Of hot soap one day last
week, and was SO dread 'ully scalded that he
died after a few hours ofin,ense suffering.
GA beautiful woman, in appearance,
was recently convicted of horse. stealing. at
Oswego, New York, and sentenced to three
years in the Penitentiary. Surely justice is
without eyes in 'Oswego!
@An Ohio drover, named Oliver G.
Howard, was gurroted in Philadelphia, on
Wednesday night. Fortunately, he had
left his cash ($l .ooo) at his hotel, and got
off with the loss Of $40 and severe chok.
ing.
GA bill has been introduced in the New
York Senate, declaring it unlawful to ad.
nit to any theatrical exhibition, held In the
evening, any minor under the age of four.
teen years, unless such miHoris accompanied
by, and in the care Of, some adult person.
GTResder, do you dub, tn t the times
are hard! IF you do, your doubts can be re-
moved by taking come of the accounts due
this office and trying TO collect them. We
have tried it during tire past week, and now
tell you, in confidence, tha, the times gre
hard.
0TDf. Goldsborousb, practising ply
slcan Of Denton, Md was stabbed few
days since, and died soon afterwards. The
quarrel which terminated SO sorrowfully
originated about the pronunciation of
word. In Maryland, it seems, one NUT
"mind his P's and o."
0E Phineas T. B1rnun is In luck ones
more, He is again at the head Of the Nev
York Museum, which has been languishing
for his paternal care, and with the assistance
of $4,000 lately received on insurance, is
preparing to rebuild "Iranistan,' his late
residence at Bridgeport, Conn.,, on a mag.
nfcent scale.
6TNew York is an awfuly wicked
place. Murders and robberies in the open
streets are Of amos, daily occurrence. Il
seems incredible that in large cities like
New York ard Brooklyn, with lighted
streets. costly police ara all the machinery
Of civil government, aach crimes should be
SO common. There must be some radical
defects in the police arrangements.
GThe Cleveland ard Mahoning R.il.
road Company are about to extend their
track through Youngstown to little dis
tance beyond Grab Creek, where receiv.
Ing warehouse is to be erected on the canal
to facilitate the transhipmcnt of freights
rom New Castle. Some eisLA OF nine cars
IRE now laden there daily with iron and
nails from New Castle, destined for the
AXE cities.
GT Michigan is great on f,h. Her fish.
cries extend from Like Erie to Superior,
md immense quantities of white fish,
Mackinaw trout and herring are captured
every season. a late number of the De.
:roit Advertiser estimates that the annual
catch Of fish upon Lake Erie, Huron, Michi.
gan and Superior, and the rivers and bays
tributary, is between 10000 and 10000
barrels. Taking the lowest estimate of
$4,000 barrels. and estimating the price re.
'lEed to the producer OF $s per barrel, and
The snug sum of S64o 900 is paid annually
10 the fisherman. The catch of white f.h
in Detroit River alone is about Z 900 barrels
6TSome weeks sibce, says the ST. Louis
Democrat, the Rev. John Lyon, a clerical
gentleman of ability and attainments, teach.
sr in high school at Kirkwood, near St
LOUIS became extraordinarily absorbed in
religious exercises. These he 60 Fmpru
dently PFotracted, as, by excessive fasting
and unintermisting vocal prayer, gradually
70 destroy both his health and hiR sanity.-
His friends found it requisite to subiec, him
% salutary restraint and to medical treat.i
ment. At times he was raving maniae.
but under judicious treatment is improving.
tie is single-aged about thirty. three years.
At present he appeara TO be chieau anna.