The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-01-28
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or rDesd-Msdsmoisslls Rachel, tho ira.
gedienne.
| OrThe Akron Beacon says snake hes
been left at that cfice, having two perfectly
developed heads.
GTThOmss AIlibone, the late President
of the Bank of PeDnsy kanid, returned from
Europe last week.
OTT1e new Constitution OF Oregon con.
tains elsuse positively prohibiting the
issue Of paper currency.
W George Washington Smith was tried
last week in Philadelphis, for the murder Of
Richard Carter, and acquitted on the gronnd
of insanity. ..,
GrThe young man who recently married
a widow with six chilGren, fuTnished his
house with second handed furniture, in order
to have everything to mutch.
.GE Being TIeld-Religious revival meet.
ings everywhere, all OF which are having
unusual success in the conversien Of sinners
from the errors Of their ways.
NC. E. Chichester, Of Philadelphia, has
commenced the publication of a neat little
sheet called the printers News Letter."
devoted to the interests Of publishers.
GA friend informs US that he once saw
lamb Of the feminine gender. which had
two heads and eight legs. We secured his
eternal i'll will by n,imating that It was a
doHjlt escc!
@A Fat Take-The fat woman weigh
irg four hundred pounds, and exhibited
throughout the country last summer By Col
Wood, was married recently in St. Louis,
to printer named Rodgers,
.6TThere has been some tail dying at
Cincinnati. The giraffe belonging to the
men"gerie of Dresbach g. Co., and suid to
be the only animal Of the kind in America
died recently. il was valued at $4,000.
ET In sermGn recently preached by
Rev. Mr. Haynes, at Brookville, Ind he
| r marked, in the language of Scrip,urc:-
D "GoId and silver are the Lord's;" and added
"paPer money is the invention of man an,
the devil
c GA western editor soys he will tske in
: payment for his paper, all kinds Of countr,
produce, except promises. We are not &c
particular. We will take promises, provi-
r ded they are secured by couple Of dollar,
as eollatcraa.
r VFTbe lesseeS Of st. Nicholas Hote
) and the Isaarge, New York, have .aspend-
ed payment. 1t is said, however that III,
owners OF the buildings have granted an ex-
tension on the debt forreats, and given III,
mex years rent free.
GFCivil war Of The most horrible and de-
vastutlng character continues to rage in Yu
catan, with no prospect Of un umicabe set.
tlement. No quarter is given on either side
and men and women are suffering the hor-
Il rors of this unnatural war. ''.
I GFThe Emperor OF Russia has contract
r ed with Col. Sam. Colt for large amour
Of machinery for myking arms, and part o
it has already been shipped. He has ais,
employed Col. Colt to build itr him tw,
r stcon' engines suitable for driving thi
4 marhinery.
E"In Baltimore sui, has been inati:u
ted against the gss company for retailing
"hiskey without license. 1t appears tina
The company ill the metres with whiskey
in the winter to prevent freezing, und the
. party bringing the suit had to pay three
3 cents for it.
GFAnythng but FIutterins The pros
; Pect Of having "ice cold lemonade" nc x,
summer. At this time last winter, our ice
, men were filling their houses with crysta
blocks two or three feet thck--thus far
there has not been enough housed 10 cool q
J cobbler or adorn smashi
OF The the theory Of thin corn husks be-
ing forerunner Of an open winter must lie
true, for who ever saw, III this part Of the
couDtry,a more open winter than the pre-
senlf The sderule!y cool nights and warm
days we are now enjoying would suit the
) month OF April better than ,hst Of January
GA correspondent of the Hartford (Ct) J
Press mentions the CAGE Of a man named
lttal Curtiss, OF Bristol, who for the last
forty years has slept and eat his nornin q
meal in barns in the neighborhood, declin.
Hg alt invitations, even in the coldes,
weather, TO do Otherwise. He died q shor,
time Hgc, leaving property to corsid, rnLlc
amcnnt.
GWe zee that Dr.. John G. Coates, Of
Roanoke. county, Va, has invented forceps,
that must, from tie nature Of it's utility,
prove highly advantageous to the dental
profession. The improvement consists of d
variety cf"b beeke," which, by rotary mo.
con' conform to any confguraton of The
teeth, thereby extracting the decuyed and ir.
regular without the pain Of breakage.
4 or The New York Mirror SAYS ,bs,
little boy, named Eddie Johnston, while
playing on Sunday afternoon, in On open
lot on Water street, Brooklyn, was set upon
! by two large bull dogs, who tore off both
l his feet, crushed his legs, md m,noleJ T.;