The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-09-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The unpaid wages due the employees OF the
Michigan Southern r ,ilroad. for which strike
was had lately, amounted to $3.50 0e0.
Mr.. Greeley. in his last letter from Galisor-
MIA says that j. G. Fremont is taking about
SIS 900 per week out of his mine at Mariposa.
The Minnesota papers announce that the
Hon. John P. Hale will meet Stephen A.
Douglas at Spring Valley, in that State, on
the 2sth inst.
The clergy of Springfield, Ohio, have united
iu publishing, "a remonstrance against the hold
ing OF lotteries at church and charitable fairs.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is to be sold
under execution. President Faakes will pay
off the debts of the old company. A new
company is to be formed, and J. Edgar
Thompson of the Pennsylvania Central is 10
be President. @ - a-- -Li5li 93t#'
MIR. Leslie. the enterprising young man who
swindled platoon of girls in hiring them as
teachers. and leaving them suddenly in New
York, at the same time attempting TO steal
their baggage, was sentenced in Philadelphia
on Tuesday to three years IN the Penitentiary
Hon. David Dudley Field, the distinguished
lawyer of New York, and brother of Cyrus
w Field, has taken rooms at the Richmond
House, Chicago ILL.,. and delivered the open
| ing lecture of the Law School of the Univer
sity of Chicago. on Wednesday.
Col Edward Brooks, gallant officer Under
General Jackson in the war of 1912, died
quite suddenly on Monday last at bis residence
in Washington. He was buried on Wednes
day with becoming honors. 5.a
f, We hear that Rarey the horse tanner, has &
rival in young lady of Westchester county
New Y ork. who has recently been exercising
her wonderful powers on vicious horses witt
great success.
Hon. Alfred Caldwell, a Virginia State
Senator from the " heeling district, is mem
Der of the National Republican Committee
whose headquarters is in Washington city.
Nj. Mario and his wife, Mrs Jessie Merton
White Mario, have been sent from Bologna tc
Leghorn, and from that port will embark fol
England.
Gideon j. Tucker. Secretary o: State o
| New York. it is understood, intends to be Mr.
Sickes' successor in Congress. %.
Capt Rinders is going TO publish bis /" L ie
and Times" He has had low Life ahd
high Times" ~
If the Grea: Eastern steamer is success
one effect will probably be to turn New Y orl
around. Heretofore the shipping interest wa:
concentrated about the battery, the lower poin
of the acute right angle Island of Manhattan
! If Leviathan steamers come into fashion, they
must reach New York by way of the Sound
and the place of anchorage would be abou
l60th street The great city would then bs
obliged to face about. ST ola -=s,fi 5aH
The New Orleans people are SO accustomed
to, have the yellow fever that they dom
know how to get along without it. yellow
Jack. having failed to do his customary dut,
in the way of killing the Louisianians. in yer,
despair. they have taken to killing themselves
The Delta says: = In place of The yellow
fever so long the scoufge of our city, new
epidemic has recently broken out, which il
adding not few victims to our weekly bil
tofmortality. This is the epidemic of suicide