Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-06-19
PLAQUENlINE. PARISH OF IBERVIE, La. JUNE 19,
Something for Everybody.

rom the Crescent.
T!ic Washington Monument is now ITO fee
high from the foundation, and 40 feet aboy,
tide water.
The sum Of $4,000 has been subscribed
towards erecting the New York Cry> tai Palace
In Tennessee man has been condemned tc
five years Imprisonment for marrying his niece
Of The sixty-eight captains now in the NAVY
only nine are now at sea
There are 100000 servants in London. and
one-tenth OF these are always out of employ
ment.
| My dear sir, said an election acquaintance,
! accostng sturdy wag, on the day of election,
I'm rery clad to see you" "You needn't be-
I've voted"
1t is all moonshine about the girls petitonng
TO Congress to have leap Year come con-
siderably oftener'
EX-Mayor, alias Joe Barker, of Pittsburg
notorlety, has been arrested in Allegany upon
the charge of disturbing the public peace.
During the session of the Baltimore Grand
Jury, an lsraelite witness being asked his Chris
tian name, naivey replied, 4 have no Chris
tian name. lam a Hebrew
A man named Peter Zanone fell dead in the
street, in Louisville, on Saturday, the 29th ult.
few minutes previous to his death he remark
ed that he had paid all his debts-owed moth
ing-and knew Of no better time to die.
There is an old man living in Rogerville,
Ark, who is eighty-seven years old, has been
the husband of three wives, the father of twenty
six children, and is as brisk in the country hoe
down as any of them, although he weighs 356
pounds.
AT a court-martial lately held at Norfolk, the
following dialogue took place between one of
the witnesses and the court "Are you Catho-
hc!" "No, sir" care YOU Protestant?
mo sir" "What are you them" 'Captain of
the foretop.'
DR.. Francis says that nothing increases mar
riage like waltzing. In his opinion, s'hugging
a girl to music" leads as naturally to white
vests and orange blossoms as New Years eve
does to broken heads
Smithers, says the Albany Dutchman, on
going home the other night, was run against by
a two story house Which was chasing lamp
post up Canal street. On coming to, he thus
reasoned with himself: "Is that mud, [hiccup,l
or is it brains? F1iccup.] fits mud I'm mortal
ly 'toxicated If it's brains, I'm slightly dead,
[hiccup,l that's ALL" When we left he was
trying to persuade free-stone stoop that it was
unconstitutional to leave awning posts out of
doors after night fall.
'When | 60 into an Office to stop my paper"
said good-natured gentleman, "and the editor
happens to look grun, can do the business
with some kind of boldness: but when the
aforesaid gentleman is dreadful glad to see me,
polite and smiling, the words stick in my throat,
and by some kind of internal process change |
into, "1thnk III subscribe for another year, sir"
Isn't it curious!
1t is reported that an enterprising Yankee,
travelling through Florida, found it necessary to
sleep out at night In order to escape the |
he made his bed under the boiler |
of an old steamboat he found on the banks of |
the st. Johns. On awaking the following NOR
ming, he discovered that myriads of mosquitoes |
had been attracted to the spot, and that in their |
to get at him." they had thrust their
bills through the iron boiler in the direction in |
which he lay. With the ingenuity peculiar to |
his race, he went to work and clenched all the |
bills inside the boiler, when the mosquitoes,
taking the alarm, rose with the boiler and few |
off at laundering rate in the direction of the |
Okeefenokee swamp.