Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
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| cd December 18th as a Thanksgiving.
A colossal monument to Columbus is to be
| erected at Madrid.
| In Savannah alcohol has been manufactured
| from the peel of the sour orange.
| William Curtis, plastcrer at Cincinnati, has
fallen heir to $4,000 600 in England.
Why is a gambler superior to an honest
| man? Because one is good man, but the
others better.
Samuel G. Goodrich, it is supposed, will be
the successor of the Hon. Mr.. Walsh, our Con-
sui at Paris, who has been removed.
Mr.. Clemson, our Charge to Belgium, hav-
ing expressed a desire to return home, will,
most likely, be susceeded by the Hon. Richard
Bayard, of Delaware.
Serious charges are said to hayo been pre-
ferred against A. B. Corwine, American Consul
at Panama, in consequence Of which he will be
removed.
A gatherer of queer statistics says that of
$50 pretty women whom he met in tho streets
of city in a given time, 100 were sucking
their parasol handles.
The receipts and expenditures of the United
States, from July l to September 80, 1850,
penditures, $6,4so,e54.
Out of about three hundred and forty crm-
nails executed at York within the last century,
twenty-eight asserted their innocence to the
latest moment of their existence.
What answer did julius Caesar give when
Brutus asked him how many pancakes he had
eaten for breakfast this morning? GET tn
Brute
The Chicago Advertiser intimates that some
of the abolitionists are endeayoring to steal
the Greek slave and run her into Canada.
An Irish paper announces that Mr.. Kenny,
returning to town, fell down and broke his neck,
but happily received no further damage.
The number of arrests for illegal votingrin
the City of New York, at the last election, is
very large. One man was arrested for stealing
ballot box.
Banyard, tho American artist, with his hugo
Panorama of the Mississippi, is now in Paris,
drawing crowds Of people, and making his for
tune.
Capt. Taggart's balloon, which broke loose
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is probably in California ere this.
It has lately been discovered by French
chemist, that the flesh of animals which are
killed in the latter part of the night will keep
much longer without salting than it will when
killed in the day time.
It is estimated that the gold and silver im-
ported into the United States, from various
parts of the world, over and above the exports,
during the last three years, amounts to one
hundred millions of dollars.
More than sixty expeditions have been dis
patched from England to explore the Arctic re-
gions, from the time of John Cabot and sons,
in 1897, to that of Sir John Franklin, in 1886
A new and inexhaustible quarry of slate has
lately been discovered in Wales. This is q
valuable discovery, as the Welsh slate is al
lowed to be the finest in the world.
There is an old farmer down east, who has
had back luck in getting in his hay, and gives
another the rain does about as much harm as
good.
The Presbyterian Church at Hannibal, Mo-,
have given their pastor permission to paint
their church edifce at his own expense, and he
has gone at it, doing it with his own hands.
The poor pittance of seventy years, says
certain moralst, is not worth being villain for
What matter is it if your neighbor lies in a
splendid tomb! Sleepyou with innocence.
The Warrenton IN. c. Newssays: aThefe
is not loafer nor drunkard in Warrentown,
nor family that is not perfectly respectable
and making decent living by honest industry.
This is saying much for our village, but it is
true"
The number of dogs in the United States is
expense of keeping is equal to that of twenty
millions Of sheep, or two millions Of cows.
The Constitutional Convention of Indiana
has, ,,says the Centreville True Democrat, de-
termined to exclude, by constitutional provi-
sion, free colored persons from giving testi-.
mony in courts Of justice against white per-
sons.
The Wings Of Michigan, at their State Con-
vention, adopted resolutions in favor of Major
General Winfield Scott as the Wing candidate
for President in the canvass of 1852.
The Methodist Church North numbers &c.,
6S2 members, 1929 travelling preachers, $500
local preachers, and 80 conferences. AS CON-
pared with last year, the returns show an in
crease of l48 travelling preachers, 266 local
preachers, and 26,367 members.
Elisha Arnold, seventeen years old, has been
sentenced to be hanged in columbus county,
N. C., for shooting an old man named Dyson,
who reproyed him; but an appeal has been Ia
ken.
A late English writer, in speaking Of the
United States, says: 1t is the land Of large
farms and thinly peopled grave yards