Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-12-06
Items Of Various Kinds.

A railroad TO Pensacola is projected by the
people of Savannah.
There are two prosperous divisions of the
Sons of Temperance in California.
Death is now dealt out in quantities to suit,
to the hogs Of Louisville, pork packing having
commenced
Judge Crane, the oldest member of the bar
in Ohio, died at Drayton last week.
Over five hundred persons have died in Bos-
ton this year Of consumption.
late speech at Southampton.
Lola Monies, after dancing in Paris for a
| week, was to sail from Havre in the Humboldt,
for New York, on the 22d ult.
''How is coal this morning!' said purcha-
ser to an lrishman in a coal-yard. "Black as
iver," replied Patrick, respectfully taking off
the remains of his hat
Ladies and children should wear woollen
garments in winter They etfectually preclude
all possibility of accidents by fire.
1t is remarkable fact, although some people
do not appear to know it, that those who ad-
vertise the most literally, make invariably the
largest fortunes. 1t is worth remembering.
A person never thinks so mean of ambition
as when walking through graveyard. To see
men who have filled the world with their glory
for half century or more, reduced to six
foot mud-hole, gives pride shock which re-
quires long stay in city to counteract.
The philosophy of the present age is pecu-
liarly the philosophy of outsides. Few dive
deeper into the human breast than the breast
of the shirt Who would doubt the heart that
beats beneath cambria front? or who imagine
that hand accustomed to dirty work which is
enveloped in white kid!
Kossuth is name said to have been given
to $4,000 ''young Americans" within month.
A good conscience seats the mind on rich
throne of lasting quiet, bat horror waits on q
guilty soul.
Alexander Dumas, the lively prolific fiction
ist, is about to astound the world with his me-
moirs, in eight volumes.
Women are a good deal like French watch
es, very pretty to look at, but very difficult to
regulate when they once take to going wrong
The President is to give grand diplomatic
dinner to Kossuth and his suite. Chevelier
Hulseman is of course to be one of the party,
unless he should decline. s-~
There were some eighteen steamboats, ely
ing up" recently at Paducah, awaiting rise of
water to enable them to start out and resume
business.
In letter to Lord Dudley Stuart, Kossuth
declines all subscriptions for his personal ben.
eft, saying that he has the means of making .
livelihood for himself and family. -.e..
Awoman in Boston has been arrested for abb
ducting her own husband. He must he q
pretty specimen of a man, and she very con-
siderable woman.
A man in New York has got himself into
trouble by marrying two wives. Men some
times do the same thing by marrying one.
aPease takes half of this poor APPLE" said
pretty damsel to swain the other evening.
"No. thank you, would prefer better half"
Eliza blushed and referred him to papa.
A western editor, who is an old bachelor,
says: ''We never cared farthing about getting
| married, until we attended an old bachelors
funeral God grant that our latter end may
| not be like his" - ri =
A wise man, said Seneca, is divided for oc-
currences of any kind: the good he manages,
the bad he vanquishes: in prosperity he be-
trays no presumption, and in adversely he feels
no dependency. ISL .a7 .zs--ae
Tha following toast was given at a printers
supper in Indiana. The Printer-independent
as a wood sawyer. proud as Lucifer, poor as
Jobs turkey, and the personi6cation of intelli-
gence. -. ---..
Il hope to live to see the day." said Lord
Brougham, awhen every peasant in England
can understand Bacon. aHis Lordship," re-
piled Cobbett, 'had much better hoped to see
the day when every peasant would be able to
enf bacon" :" # -s5* e. So ~ -as5