The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-05-30
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lower portions Of Maine.
FThe Legislature of Tennessee has
passed very stringent law against the adul'
teratiOn Of liquors.
OF The first new white wheat-from
Georgia-was sold in New York, on Monday
last, at $l,75.
0TCOnnecticut is severe on pick.pock.
cts. The lightest penalty is two years in
the State Prison.
! 6TMiss Jennie Twitchell, formerly Of
the old Folks Concert Troupe, was married
to gentleman in Boston the other day..
PThe Charleston (Va.) Spira of Jet.
tsrson is out against the seceders, and
strongly advocates the nomination Of Judge
Douglas.
0%TA daughter of Samuel Craig, ESQ.,, of
BraceviIle, was drowned last week in Eagle
creek, while gathering flowers along it's
banks.
0JJ. R. Burd, a magistrate in Navarro,
Stark county, eloped with his hired girl last
week, leaving q wife and four children be.
hind.
OFSoys the disunionist, Yancey, "Per.
! haps even now the pen OF The historian is
nibbed to write the story of "a new revolu-
tion." -r
GA manufacturing company in Phila.
delphia has proposed to supply that city with
water gas, at an annual saving of 5000, 900,
as compared with gas made from coal.
GFMr. J. w. Sharrock, who resides three
miles west of Bucyrus, one day last week
| shot bald eagle on his premises that meas
Iured seven feet four inches and half from
tip t9.tip.
GA young German was married to a
negro woman in Akron last week. The
happy groom is scarcely eighteen years old;
the lovely bride is considerably older, and is
daughter Of Rev. J. H. Brooks.
0T There was genuine Hoosier in the
Chicago Convention, nam I'd Buskirk, who
was Elk feet eleven inches in height. He
must have been the tall pole that knocked
the persimmons for Lincoln.
GFlt is announced authoritntively that
Ex. Postmaster Fowler, OF New York, sailed
for Havana, where he will doubtless 90 to
Mexico or South America, 10 escape United
States Treaties for the surrender OF Grimm
ais, end try TO recover his fallen fortunes.
@The Pittsburg Gazette states that o
man named Brant, resident of Shunkeville,
Somerset county, ate twenty.fo boiled
eggs at one meal, few days since, "but his
digestive. organs were unable to do the work
assigned them, and the man died victim to
his gluttony."
@The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
hos decided that telegraph company must
send the message given to them, and allow
no conjectural amendments on the part OF
any of their officers. In the language Of
Judge Woodward they must obey the prin.
ter's golden rule and "follow copy"
@A farmer near Bucyrus, while digging
in fox hole, came upon the skeleton of hu.
man being, supposed to be that of an Indian.
The Forum asks: "Can it be possible that
the Indian was crawling in the hole to cap.
ture the fox, and before he attained his oh
jcct, was sent for, and carried off by 'the
grim ferryman that poets write of!'"
| GA "singular phenomenon" has been
discovered in the town of Austerlitz, Coum.
bia county, N. Y. On the premises of Mr..
Abjah Heath, there is we'll in hich ice
has continued to form all the spring, and
continues to the present time. The stones
at the sides OF the we'll are coated with ice
from point of about eight below the sur
face OF the ground down to the water, some
seven feet. Large pieces of floating ice are
also brought up with the water.
OF The New York papers say that the
great anniversaries, mostly anti.slavery or.
CARNATIONS and mutual admiration societies
have obviously declined within the last year
both in spirit and iu funds. That monster
yclept the "little Digger," is rapidly losing
his hold of public attention, for which the
world cannot be too thankful. The ami.
; versaries this spring were characterized by
, nothing but "peculiar dullness and stupid.
, ity." "The almighty niger" has been the
{ death Of them-they have taken him in such
copous doses !