Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-12-31

ment WneH Inc Talk pom In Great Britain
and America is of the debts Of Father
Matthew and Of penny and other subscrip-
tons TO extricate the Apostle of Temper
ance from his embarrassments, we hear
of splendid gift presented to him by
some OF his followers, being solid rustic
cross, made of the finest Wicklow gold,
and of course is, in every sense, Of Irish
The entire stands ten inch
es in height. The figure representing our
Divine Redeemer nailed to the ignomini-
Gus gibbet, after being condemned by his
unjust judges. is five inches long, the fig
ure being admirably proportioned. The
relic weighs Is ounces, and the gold, ex-
elusive Of the cost of workmanship, worth
nearly ESQ.
The DHsrence-In Polisville, Pa. an
indictment was found against two young
men for stealing two turkey cocks. The
Philadelphia Ledger says the bill was ig-
nored for the reason that they were turk
ey hens.
The PRoEHEsY OF DANIEL.-In 1914
Mr.. Webster wrote and published the fol-
lowing. 1t has been fulfilled to the letter
To raise Mr.. Clay, is impossible; to
sink with him if the attempt be made, is
inevitable. He may complete the ruin OF
the Wing party, and fatter himself with
deceitful hopes Of the future, but that
promised hope will never come no never
Candidly CompJimentary.-The Wash
ington correspondent Of HE Baltimore Pat
riot, Wing paper, says:-Col. Polk will
make a capital Inaugural Address He
is good speaker, chaste, correct, and an
imated. He strives after no fowry or high
wrought metaphors, but speaks straight on
in good English, TO the understandings Of
the people, while every linament Of his
rather peculiar, to some repulsve, to 9th
crs interesting, is lit up with animation.
heard him deliver his inaugural address in
1889 as Governor Of Tennessee.
The English Gosernmnl, after trial Of
everal propellers, adopted the invention
of Mr.. +. Z. Smith, and had one attached
to the new steam frigate Rather, 8 tons,
200 horse power, and with that Propeller,
the screw of which being Is inches in
length and the diameter 10 feet, she went
Ia statute miles an hour, which, conaider-
ing Der limited power, is wonderful. The
propeller is TO be attached to six Iron fri
gates.
A Vn'urble Hint-An exchange pithily
remarks: " Advertising has become chea-
per than talking, aud reading advertise
ments less troublesome than making in
quirics.
GREAT Snow SToRM.-W learn thai,
passe gers who left Boston on Friday
morning for New York, by the Long Is
land Railroad, found it impossible to pro-
coed further than Greenport, by resson Of
the snew, which had fallen 20 the depth Of
from 7 to 10 feet. After brief detention
at that place, they re-embarked on board
the steamer and we're landed at Allyn's
Point, whence they were conveyed by the
steamer Worcester, and arrived at New
York this morning.
FEVER AND AGUE.-Thc following COM
pound is pronounced, by an officer Of the
steamer Union, an infalliJle cure for the
chils and fever:
VIZ fcHlCe iodCic SlA
Into best rod, I.,-,a R~-k six fahle
spoonfuls best Port wine; six ditto Lemon
or Lime Juice, mixed together. Should the
Chills and Fever be every other day, The
mixture is to be taken the well day. ii
dailv, then to be taken before breakfast,
dinner, and going to bed. For grown
person three table spoonluis each time"
SMARrSEss.-A specimen Of the pecu-
liar quality called smartness' is 6 ven in
Southern paper. A fellow landed al
Mobile, took IL horse from u rack at the
landing, rode him up TO mill IN the neigh
5orhood, traded him off for another horse
and S25-took the last obtained horse back
to the rack from which he had taken the
first, left him and stopped on board the
same steamboat he had just left, and was
soon on his way to the Crescent city. The
owners Of the two horses meeting shortly
after. the matter was explained. This il
an instance OF trading on borrowed capita
and making profit out Of The exchange.
A resolution passed The House Of Rep
leseniatives Of Ohio, on the ll,h, request
ing the Senators and Representatives il
| Congress, to use their influence 10 Obtain
the passage Of a law, providing for hold
ing the Presidential election upon the sam
day in all the States Of the Union.
Rircr open TO Albany.-The celebrate
ice-boat Utica, which left New York o.
Sunday afternoon succeeded in reachin
Albany on Monday morning. She lei
again at 4 o'clock--exchanged passenger
and mails at oughkeepsie, with the steam
boat Columbia. and returned 10 Albany
The Columbia is TO leave from CourtlaEd
street every afternoon, with passenger
md mails for Utica.
An orator, holding forth in favor o
woman, concluded thus" Oh, my hear
ers, depend upon it nothing beats goo
wife" 81 beg yourpardon (replied one Q
his female auditors) a bad husband does"
What Nc.rt?-A Jersoyman has dIscoy
cred by actual experiment that ca,arrt
bronchitis, and even consumption ilsei
may be effeciually cured in few hour:
by novel application of the agency of III
diving bell. Whether The patient swallow
The diving bell, or the diving bell swallow
him, is not yet clearly staled.-Phild