Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-02-19
Items of the Week.

| a caH'l IS pFoposeu DcLWeen the dead Sc
and the Cuff of Akabo.
The New York Times calls "Billy Bow!ecs
"Mr. William Cruikshanks" This is carryin;
pollteness some considerable distance.
A wedding froic among the lowest classe
OF miners in Austraa, costs frequently $500
Money there is literally as cheap as dirt
1nQuebec, on the 3Oth of January, the mer
curry ranged from % to 81 below zero. In ,ht
most exposed places it fell to 81.
A certain cure for bronchitis or sore throat
is said to be honey squeezed from the comb
and dluting it with little water, mostenino
the lips occasionally.
The first telegraphc dispatch from Montreal
direct ria Vermont to Boston, was received at
the latter city on Tuesday.
The complete triumph Of the Ericsson en-.
gine is about to be formerly endorsed by Pro
fessor Raine Of Cincinnati. who is about to
deliver lectures on The subject, illustrated by a
beautiful working model
A Compound Solar Microscope has recently
been commenced in the city Of New York, by
Professor J. Kinds, formerly of Salem, New
York, capable of magnifying objects l7,45o,eoo
times.
A Russian Abassador has arrived at Port
au Prince. The Americans are said to be con-
tnuaIly treated with injustice there, and are
very often expelled from Jacnel and other
towns.
Mrs. General Gaines, it is said, is about to
enter another suit to recover the large amount
of property claimed by her in Louisiana. The
suit will be based upon the will OF her father
the late Daniel Clarke.
The Buffalo Commercial learns that recent
disclosures have been made in Chatauque coun-
ty, New York, which implicate high y respect4-
Bile persons in an extensive system Of coinage,
thieving, and other mssdeeds.
The French government have undertaken to
put down the claque, or body Of men hired to
applaud a new piece or particular actor. One
of the commissaires of the police announced
that the intention of the minister was 70 restore
the liberty Of the pit.
Scarlet Fere,-The Boston Courier is in
formed that the dreadful scourge of scarlet te-
yer and throat distemper had carried off some
hundred en- in the town Of Waltham,
within few months. It prevails to some ex-
tent in Boston.
German igrotion-During 1852, there
left the port of Bremen 339 vessels, with 5S,- |
SCI passengers for the United States of which |
number lOO77 came to Baltimore; 1886 to |
New York; 1916 to New Orleans; 1929 to |
Philadelp phia, and the balance to various other
ports.
We see it stated that the Adelaide (Austra-
ia) Mining Company has declared a dividend
If flOo per cent. The latest advices from
London state that speculation continues active
n the shares of the Australia Land and Mining
Companies.
The Supreme Court of the United States
'ave given notice that they did not intend to
lecide the O'Reilly and Morse telegraph case
he present term, but woad consider the case
uring vacation, and give their opinion at the
lext term.
House rents in New York are on the advance
'irst class dwellings in the upper part of the
ity will be 30 to 80 per cent higher, and small.
r ones 10 TO as per cent, according to location.
RE II l. 90
ent higher.