The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-08
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The DAYTON and Michigan Railroad. it. i

hands, and other arrangements are projected
which will increase the facilities for shipping |
freight, and will secure. if consumrnated, a long
desired and easily practicable increase in the
swift movement of produce from the Ohio
river to the lake, and thence towards the
Eastern seaboard.
The Buffalo policemen have virtually aban-
doned the pursuit of Frazer, the lui attic who
murdered his family and burned his dwelling,
having come to the conclusion that he must
have perished in his wanderings, and been
buried in the snow.a ss5 -
A tobacco speculator at Evansville, Ind,
recently made, $4,000 profit in single OPP
Grafton, without having handled hogshead.
One firm, which deals heavily in tobacco, ex-
poets to buy and sell 10000 hogsheads this
season, worth $14, 100000. .jei
Minnesota must be a comfortable place for
a pc or man to live in, in these times of high
prices The Republican, published at Vino
ma, quotes -four at 81 per barrel, dressed hogs
at 1925 per cwt corn 45 cents per bushel,
hams 6 cents per pound, butter 10 cents per
pound, eggs cents per dozen, and other ar
ticles raised there equally low .a
saa The Government detectives at Washing
ton arrested, on the 11th inst, L. Kaufman
and his two sons, who had just arrived from
Richmond, from which point they had walk
ed with packages of money in their boots
under their feet making an aggregate of
$4,000! They were keepers of second
hand clothing store in Richmond, and were
going North for contraband goods. Col. Ba-
ker has seized from such parties since the 1st
of March last, an aggregate of $4,000.
There still lives at Conway, Mass, man
SO years of age, who was converted and uni
ted with the church in Westboro' 80 years
ago, when the father of Rev. Dr. Judson, the
celebrated missionary, was its pastor The
old man still retains his faith and faculties,
and manifests lively interest in passing
events, and says that with long life he is
satisfied. and he is now ready to depart''
A man at work at the Central Railroad
pens in Buffalo met with serious misfortune
Saturday forenoon, 14th ult. With the as
Esistance of other employees of the yard, he
was endeavoring to drive number of swine
from one pen to another, when huge black
boar attacked him, lacerating the thigh of his
right leg in the most frightful manner 1t is
thought that the limb will have TO be ampu-
tated. -.-s.,.,s ,,.s,i-l st,sr
Soldiers, the same as priests, are not allow
| ed to marry in Italy, and the rule extends to
custom house officers, gendarns. and sailors
Nearly 100000 men are thus excluded from
the rites and benefits of matrimony. 80
DAMAGE DoNE BY ONE SHELL.-The stea-
mer Mercedita, which recently arrived al
Philadelphia, from Port Royal, requires repairs
to her engine and hull, caused by damages
from collision with the ram Palmetto State
off the harbor of Charleston. About thirty
feet of her side will have to be taken out
Seven planks and two timberss were stove in
| from the rams Prov, making hole five feel
vertically, and three feet horizontally. A
shell of one hundred pounds weight passed
through the ship, cutting one man in two, an6
by going through the steam chimney, three
men were scalded to death, three Others bad
ly scalded, and a number slightly. It passed
out Or the port SIDE, destroying six plank,
and two timbers, making clear hole three
! feet by two and half feet, and shattering the
planks eight or nine inches further. Th,
shell exploded as it passed out. It is thu
opinion of the steamers officers that, hat
there been swell of the sea at the time, sh,
must have gone to the bottom like stone.
That most violent and dangerous of con
victs, Adam Hageman, of Chicago, was sho
recently, while attempting to break prison
guard at Joliet. He died Instantly. He hac
1 been sentenced to fifteen years Imprisonment
for killing his journeyman baker, who hat
spoiled an oven of bread.
Daniel 7. Murphy, painter of good hab
its, was frozen to death on Friday night, 1Stl
ult., while walking to New Britain, Conn
from neighboring village. He was pickle
up when in dying condition, and taken int
the house of rich farmer, who refused hlap
kets for him, but said if anything could
found in the hog house, it might be put unde
him /!
Besides big beets, big pumpkins, and so or
California is some on raising big stories. Fo
example, the Yreka Journal says that job
Eldridge, of that County, during the war i
Mexico in 1847, received bullet in the out
side edge of the left eye, which he suppose
had glanced off. About two weeks ago, h
was in the act of sneezing, when the bal
dropped through the roof of his mouth. N
marks or signs where the bullet remained ca
be observed. The ball is an ordinary riff
ball, and is somewhat bruised on one side.
i A German was thrown down an embank
mcnt near New York, by the current of al
created by a passing train, on the 18th ult
: and so frightened that his nerves received
shock from which they never recovered, an
he died. He insisted upon it that he ha
been shot by the engineer, and stuck to it I'll
he died. Not "a bruise or scratch was foun
on his person.
At the recent charter election in Augusti
Me-, the Republicans gave their candidate fc
Mayor the exact number of votes they CAV
for Mr.. Lincoln in 1860, notwithstanding the
have sent hundreds of volunteers to the wa
Their majority is ia more than in 1862
The party, thereabouts, does not seem to. b
running down. 5t, j.
Mr.. Stewards dinner to the Haytien minis
! ter was not an extraordinary courtesy th