Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-09-04
Items for Everybody,

Rev Jesse Barrow was recently murdered
near Donophan, Mo.
At the late festivities at Strasbourgh, Louis
Napoleon danced with young peasant girl.
cargo Of sun-dried oranges, new article
in California, has arrived at San Francisco.
Why are Cashmere shawls like deaf people
Because you can't make them here
The Grand Sultan has two hundred aud fifty
wives; The Pope has none. Badly off, both Of
them!
Saturday the 14th inst, was the 4ls sth ami
versary Of the invention of printing.
A late bull-fght, at Madrid, for the benefit
of the poor, realized $4,000 francs.
The hired girls of Pittsburgh have sent $780,
900 to the old country during the past six
| months, to enable their relations to come to
this country.
! 1t is said the peach crop Of Messrs. John
| Reybold and Brothers, of Delaware, will yield
$4,000 baskets this year.
Eggs from China, put up in pickle, in large
sized jars, are now retailed in San Francisco, at
one dollar per dozen.
Two cows died suddenly at Lynchburg, Vir-
g'nia, from eating the leaves and sprgs of the
wild cherry tree.
The emigration to California by sea and land
this year WILL it is calculated, reach, if not ex.
ceed one hundred thousand persons
Women need marrying much more than men
The girl who lives beyond thirty without
husband, wthers like a lily with its drink stop.
ped. Bachelors of that age, however, are as
rosy as vcrmilion.
machine for painting window blinds has
been discovered by Samuel Fields, painter of
Worcester, by which one man can paint easily
eighty pairs of blinds in day, and not work
over ten hours.
Dobbs says that the difference between old
bachelors and murderers is rather imaginary
than real. In his opinion the guilt of keeping
people out ofthe world is just as great crime
as thrusting them out after they have got in.
Sinners vii! please notice.
"Does Pa kiss you because he loves youa'
inquired little snubby-nose urchin of his ma.
ternal ancestor the other day. "To be sure,
sonny, why!" "WaI, guess he loves the kitch.
en- girl, too, for | seen him kiss her inore'n for
" times last Sunday, when you was gone to
meeting"
Letters received in Paris; from Cheschel, in
Africa, have announced that the ancient seed Of
'orn, which was used during the time of the
kings of ancient Egypt, the Pharohs, had been
sewn in the garden Of farmer and produced
several ears, which offered new species en-
tirely unknown to modern agriculture.
A woman in Cincinnati has married Ger
nan, Frenchman and an Irshman, and is now
he wife Of an Italian. Having buried her pre-
'ious husbands, she will probably extend the 3
anne favor TO her present lord, and then, per-
aps, be on the trail of a native American, in
be shape ola Choctaw Indian.
When Chinese lady is blessed with an in-
rease to her family, from the moment of her
ecouchnent the unhappy husband is put to
ed also, and there detained for forty days, and
aring this delightful penance he is subjected
o all The rigorous treatment of his better half
should medicine be administered to her, he
aust rartake Of it aIso and he is strictly conf.
ed to the same diet that she is obliged to un-
ergo, which consists on an average of about
anlbetull of cream of rice, administered every
'ree, hours, to say nothing of the pill at bed
me TO prevent indigestion.
If you wish to feel like doing "nothing 10
obody," Of becoming Indifferent to life, friends
lmily and house dogs--if you would feel as if
ou'd just as soon live as die, and just as lief
lie as to make an effort to live, cross the ocean
I'D become sea-sick A friend, who has just
ried it on" says, if while aboring under this
rribly enervating malady, monster with four
eads and eight sets of teeth, had coma on
oard and charged him ten dollars fol placing
m in mortar and shooting him against the
ock of Gibraltar, he hardly thinks he would
I'VE considered the terms at all unreasonable.
The Liverpool Times gives an account of
ife-selling in England The following parti.
liars Of a late case are gathered from that pa.
r, viz: A man sold his wife to farmer Of
akington, for flo, (ffty doIIars) but as the
Her did not get the ''cash down. he refused
deliver up his wife. Finally, the wife got
it Of patience, and told her husband "she
ould not be fooled with any longer" and
at she "would go home with the buyer" as
e "lked him best" She then packed up her
,thes and followed herpurchaser to his home,
lither she was escorted by train of boys
ating tin kettles.
Cur7 ying-Cattle are well known TO thrive