The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-05-26
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UT Inc WIG Ol tho num- 'OiiO SSNAS
died at New Orleans on the 9th inst.
OF Paul MorPhy, the chess king, arrived
in New York by the Persia, week ago.
NJ Professor Olmsted, Of Yale college,
died on the 18th inst, aged 6S years.
erJocobi and Evans, the Pittsburg mur.
derers, were executed on Friday, the goth
OF this month.
Or Lola MOntez has re Gently been "con.
verted," and is about to join fashionable
church, in London.
~ Last February two houses Of ill-fame
were burned In Oshkosh and twelve inmates
taken to jail. These swore the town should
be burned from end to end, and few days
since every store and Office was burned.
oTThe Board of Public Work sof Ohio
at Columbus on the 18th of August next,
will proceed to lease at auction, the public
works OF Ohio for years from the Let Of
Sept, 1859. ,...
6TA A National Convention of the dro.
vers and shippers Of stock is to be held in
the city of Pittsburg on Wednesday, the 9th
of June. 1t is expected that the convention
we'll be largely attended by those interested.
o. It is now said that it is not the inten-
ton of the Post Master General to dscon-
tinue the overland mail to California, but
that his desire is only TO reduce the number
of trips. .. ... ' ..i
OF The Convention at Vicksburgh ad
iourned on the 1sth inst, after q laborious
session five days, to meet at Atalantu, Ga,
on the second Monday in November, 1860.
6rBrigham Young has submitted prop.
osition to company Of capitalists to sell ali
right and title to Utah territory, and leave
within specified time.
OT At the conclusion of the trial James
Stephens in New York, for the murder Of
his wife, his little girl, six years old, turned
toward him and kissing him, said: "Come,
pa! let US 60 now it is all over; see, pa,
the people are going" Every one present
was affected.
F The Democrats Of Jackson, Mich,
held an indignation meeting recently, at
which they denounced the appointment of
J. P. Shoemaker, brother Of the U. s. Col
lector at Detroit, as postmaster at Jackson,
and burned him in effigy.
Or The Washington Constitution says
that "union and success seems to be the rail-
lying cry Of the Democracy in all sections
Of the country, regardless Of former differ.
ences; and from present indications, we feel
warranted in the belief that our glorious old
party will be as firmly united in 1860 as it
has ever been in the past"
Ot From Pixies Peak we have further
accounts OF destitution among the miners
and emigrunts. They are represented to be
in pitiable condition, several deaths having
actually occurred from starvation. The
mining prospects are Of gloomy character.
Delegates were to meet In Denver city next
month for the purpose Of forming u State
Constitution. -a.
" A few days since, as we learn by the
Canton Republican, the little daughter Of DR..
DiIworth, in Osnaburgh, while playing with
other children, fell into an old we'll, twenty
FIVE feet in depth, and containing eight feet
Of water. The cries of the children brought
the father to the spot, who found his child
floating safely on the surface, buoyed up by
The crinoIine she wore. She was rescued
without material injury.
OJThe Receipts OF the United States
Treasury for some weeks past have been
equal to it's current expenditure. and the
amount Of means on hand is but slightly less
than that ofthe last last loan, so for as issued.
The Secretary anticipates a surplus of ten
millions of dollars on the lst OF July, the
opening Of the new fiscal year. There is
yet unissued of the loan of 1868, $780,.
coo.
@Wm. Henery, U. s. soldier, entered
a disreputable house on Water street, New
York. He does not know how many times
he drank, but made affidavit that he remain.
ed asleep four days, and on awuking found
his money, $l96, minus, and bill footed
up against him OF $5l for drinks.
Op A converted Brahmin, with the un.
euphonious cognomen Of Jogut Chunder
was advertised to deliver lee.
ture in New York, Tuesday night, in Hindo
costume. Pity he didn't change his name
with his religion.
GT The last number of the Mansfield
Herald contains the valedictory Of Messrs.
& Bentley. They are succeed
ed by Messrs. Myers, from Pittsburg, gen,
tlemen of experience in the business. Mr..
Brinkerhoff will resume the practice of law
in Mansfield.
GA telegraphic despatch from Bfant-
ford, c. w., april 3oth, tells US that two
negroes named Moore and Over were sen.
fenced to be hung. We have all heard of
the old woman who called her dog Moreover,
insisting that it was scriptural name, on
the authority Of that passage In the story Of
Lazarus, which says: "Moreover, the dog
came and licked his sores." This dividing
the name of one dog between two negroes
would seem to show that negro, in general