Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-06

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A SURE PREVENTIVE FOR CHoLERf. The
writer knows from experience that simple lev.
made from ashes in tumbler or pitcher, and Ia
ken two or three times day, taking each time
two or three swallows, will rectly the acid in
the stomach, by which means the stomach will
be kept in good condition, and the health pre-
served.
Tbs preventive is within the reach of the poor
as well rs the rich; is agreeable to the taste, and
cannot do any harm. In case the lev becomes
too strong by long standing, add water, until it
Is palatabe. If this preventive is followed strict
ny by all persons in the city, at the end of forty
eight hours there will not be single case of
cholera within the city. lSt. Louis Rev.
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A NEW Poison. Persons addicted 10 suicide.
will be pleased to learn that a new poison, which
will extinguish life even more rapidly than Prus-
sic acid, has recently been added to the list of
useful discoveries. The basis of the poison is
the sugary principle in soils This saccharine
matter is subjected to the action of refrigerated
sulphuric and nitric acid and the result is an
article which instantly communicates an i'm
mcnse velocity to the pulse, and as suddenly
stops it forever Iberville G4a.) Dem.
The Attorney General of the United States has
ton in the case Of newspaper postages. and that
the postmaster at Syracuse acted legally in char
gIng letter postage on paper bearing the ini-
uas OF a friend The costs in the suit will prob
ably amount to at least $500. The amount in
volved in the original dispute between the post
master and the person to whom the paper was
addressed was nine cents.
TRIMMED HIS MISUNDERSTANDING the thun-
dor storm in Taunton. ~, D,to-
Burt, Ir., was struck by lightning, but no serious
damage was done except to his whiskcrs to which
were title singad, and one of his lees. which
exhibited the smutty track of the fluid
HONORABLE INFLUENCE. The Minnesota pion-
Ger of the 18th ult, says temperance move
Inent has quietly and very efficiently been car
riod on among the Sioux Indians, by their plain,
unprctcnGing but most worthy and faithful agent.
Major Murphy, of st Peters,
Bishop Polk of Louisiana has lost % negroes
by the cholera
Rev. E. A. Rec, clergyman of the Metho-
dist denomination, well known in this CITY, has
has become Universalist in his religious be-
lief. lie participated in the services of the Rev.
Mr.. Clark Cst Univcrsalis) Church vester-
day.-Lo,oeH American.
OREGoN.-Inet!ligonce of the passage of "a ter
rtorial government bill for Oregon had been re-
ceived there on 18th of January, and the Oregon
Spectator of that date says it was received with
every demonstration of delight
1t is rumOrcd that the editor of the National
Wing is to be appointed groom to " old Whitley
in consideration of disseminating his paper and
his subscribers and patronage to the
Republic,
California is a namc derived according to
writer in the London Mechanics Magazine from
the Greek words kaloS * beautiful" and piarnia
" moonshjne.'
A negro in Cincinnati being taken before the
Mayor, for some small offence, was seized with
the cholera and was in great distress Some
medicine was procured him and he was released
As soon as he got outside the door he put his
thumb to his nose, twirlcd his digits and ran as
fast as his legs could move, which was about the
quickest
STRUCK A CHURCH.-The meeting house in
Hampton, Mass, which his been recently reft-
ted and painted was struck by lightning on Sat
urday noon, and badly damaged, while the peo-
pie were carrying in their pew furniture The
steeplc was nearly demolished, and the splinter
ed timbers and boards were thrown to a great dis
Ne,cdmyPo1 Herald,
A Greek, named Deboli, recently deceased
at st Petersburg, left S250,00O to the Greek
government. 4 portion of this amount is to
found University.
FooD FOR THE SCAFFoLD.- far durinr the
present year, there have been six executions. in
the United States, of persons for murder: there
are six more under sentence of DEATH and some
twenty late murder committals vet to be tried.
All insolvents in the English Post Office de-
IN no f,rtb
Wordsworth the poet now 70 years of age.
was at tina last Queens ball.
ANOTHER CURE.-The authorities in Galway
caused the soldiers in the place to fire twenty
rounds of blank cartridge in order to pnrify the
air.
There arc $500 poor house officers in En-
gland, whose salaries are more than two mil
ions of dollars per annum.
Thirteen founcos are not too many for the
lress of lady who wishes 10 be Ia n,ode in
London.
The Opera House riots in New York are at
racting great attention in England. The Lon
Ion News has a correct and beautiful wood cut
If the building and scene. The New York cor
of the daily News, giving an account
If the affair. reminds his English readers that /
such things are common III England and very /
are here.
The citizens Of St Louis have in public mae- |
ing resolved to suspend their regular business |
or one day, in order TO give their respective /
PREMISES a thorough cleaning and publication.
PEACE.-Hon Horace Mann is deliver an ad-
lress at the West Point Academy some time
lext week. before the officers students aud mas
ers of that institution. The subject is to BE- ,
Peace!
The Maine House OF Representatives, by a
unanimous vote upon a resolution introduced by
Mr. Appleton OF Bangor, have voted to invite the
President to extend his summer visit to Augusta.
The Nashville Banner assures its readers upon
he most unquestionabe authority, that Gen
lass will resign his seat in the Senate rathr than
,bey the Instructions imposed UPON him by the
Legislature OF Michigan.