The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The notorious Sheriff Jones' formerly of
Kansas, and Mr. Mowry, have purchased the
.4rizonian, at Tucson. Mr. P. Herbert, the
California ex-Congressman, who shot the hotel
waiter at Washington, is to become the ed-
tor of the paper. which will continue to be
Democratic in politics. A nice firm of ed-
tors.
On Saturday the proprietor of q first class
hotel in Cincinnati, drove out of his honse one
of bis servant girls, who while employed, had
fallen sick with fever. She was confined to
her room for day or two, but getting worse,
the proprietor elected her, careless whether
she lived or died, because as he brutally
said, 'his house wasn't a hospital
The yoang wife of the Prince Napoleon is
genuine Sandman. She does not like the
manner 10 which the war with Austria has
been concluded and her father humbugged.-
The London Court Journal through its Par
is correspondent, tells us that there have been
serious feuds between the Empress Eugenie
and the Princess Clotilde, Victor Emanues
daughter.
The gold snnff box designed BY General A n
drew Jackson to be presented to the Ameri-
can soldier who should acquit himself with
most valor in the late war between the United
States and Mexico, and which, it will be re-
membered was some time since awarded to
General Ward B. Burnett of New ork, was
formally presented at the City Hall, Nash.
vile, Tenn, on Wednesday week.
tempted. From Canton, Mississippi we learn
that the Hon. Franklin Smith, the Indepen
dent Democratic candidate for Congress in
that District. shot Owen Van Vacter, Esq,
that town. A controversy arose between
them about political article in the last mum.
Der of that paper. The wound of Mr.. Van
Vactar. is severe, though not necessarily fatal
The London .4theneum, contains the follow
ing illustration of the precision of aim attain
ed by the Armstrong gun: A few days ago
we saw the range and accuracy of the new
Armstrong gun tested, in way which de-
mands a note. Cooling ourselves on the Els
sex coast, near the artillery practising ground
we were asked to see the firing, and while this
goes SLOWLY and solemnly on, one of then,
spies fight of geese far out TO sea, There
they light on yon sandbank.' Up go dezer
glasses. Yes; there they flicker in the sun
gray and white, mere specs in the blue sea mir
T.aod tlo r,r,p-.lood of tha
bangI Boat off there TO the sands! A sig
nal tells the tale The shot has struck the
SWARM life is taken from the flight-and
this at six miles sever fnrlongs from the month
of the gum
Mr. Spurgeon, the London preacher. has re
Gently received legacy under peculiar cir
cnmstances. A awver called on him, and in
formed him that Mrs. W, lately deceased
had left him considerable amount by will.-
The reverend gentleman thought there mus
be some mistake, as he knew no 81 ch person
but, on investigation, learned that it was
TACT. He went to the residence of the testa
trix and actually saw the lady in her coffin
he then recollected her as being constant ar
noyance to him many years ago, in the Par
street Chapel. where she had pew directl
opposite to him. She never spoke to him, bu
was constantly watching him, look whereve
he would, till he was under the necessity c
speaking to some congregational friends
| persuade her to vacate her pew. From tbs
time to the present he had lost sight of th
udy