Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-03-25
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ne NeFulau military COMMISSION OF New
York, it is said, have determined not to send
any aid to Turkey as long as she is aided by
France and England. This announcement is
'important if true" as the papers sometimes
say. Alas, for poor Turkey.
ASwedish gentleman in Lund has construct
ed a new compositor's machine, which is said
to succeed perfectly. He has left for England,
where he will patent his invention. The name
of the mechanician is Wiberg. In Denmark,
also, the machine of Sorensen (Which was ex-
hibited in the London Crystal Palace has been
perfected, and will now be used in the estab-
Iishment Of the FGdreianda.
Golden says that in England there were g
100000 of adult males, if not 100000, who
never read Il newspaper.
We see it stated that not only the peasantry
in some parts of France are suffering for want
Of food, but starvation prevails in the large ci-
ties. The Partisan papers are silent upon this
subject.
The CRUSADER states that the Roman! Catho-
lie bishop of st. Louis has, in less than one
year, built five large warehouses, and eight
three-story houses, besides buying 4 farm
worth $4,000.
The pay Of a French soldier is 9 10 cents a
day, finding themselves food, or what is the
same thing, with food and two cents a dav
pocket money. Chevalier, in his notes on
America, says an American boy of Is years of
age gets more pay for his labor than a Captain
in the French army.
New YORK, March l5.-The Provision mar.
ket was heavy yesterday. Pork was a shade
lower-sales of Mess at Is 90 and Prime at IS
90 per bbl. Lard in bbls sold at 1O4, and in
kegs at lie. per ID. Sales of Rio Coffee at he.
per ID.
A stiff upper lip is as essential to success as
three meals per diem is to living. The man
who preserves a proper degree of dignity is
twice as certain to receive Nhat he asks for as
the man that goes down on his marrow bones.
A joyful christian, named Burr Whitehead,
of the Presbyterian or Congregational church
at Green's Farms, Conn, has been mu'cted 50
and cost, for disturbing public worship. His
offence consisted in shouting "Glory to God.
occasionally, while listening to the preaching.
The number of blind persons in Japan is said
to be enormous. In Jeddo, the capital, $4,000
is the computation. There are more blind peo-
pie in America than in Europe. In Egypt, !
there IS one blind person 10 every hundred
In Great Britain there are twenty-five thou
sand.
The alleged frauds committed upon the pen
sion office by Gen Ford, Judge Vondersmith
and Alderman Evans of Lancaster. Pa, have
extended over a space of fifteen years, and the
amount drawn during that period from the U.
5. Treasury is nearly $4,000.
Chloride of Soda, so effective as a disinfect.
ami, IS generally labeled with the name of a
French Manufacturer, and sold as a French pro.
iuct, for so cents to 81 quart. 1t can be
EASILY made for six cent 4 quart.
s'The human mind" SAYS an Italian, "walks in
it skips in France, it pots and gropes
u Germany, in Italy it scars" In the United
it spreads.
The Duke d Alba, one of the parties in the
'oule daeIs, was in Paris, at last dates, and on
visit to the Tuillerjes. He says that NJ. Tur.
!ot does not recover as rapidly as could be de-
fred, and that it is not probable he can ever
walk without limping.
A drunkard is the brewers agent, the tavern
nd aIe-house benefactor, the besgar's compan-
On, the constable's troubie. He is his chill.
rens sorrow, his neighbours scoA,, his own
hame.
MIR. Levi Swain, of Meredith, N. H., has =
'orked forty.seven years at the carpenter trade. /
nd never cut himself with an edged tool. I
Alarge establishment for the manufacture of =
wing silk is about to be erected at Hartford. G
'onn, which will give employment to some 400 {
peratives. h
~, my friend" said a doctor to ar Irish pa
.be composed; we must all die once" Z
An it's that what vexes me- replied Pat, "if fe
could die a half dozen times, I'd not care a 2
alf penny about this time" II
A Frenchman claims to have invented a kind /;
paper made from gutta percha, which is con. Il
dered to be superior to all other kinds for l;
and engravings.
Nicholas P Trist. so well known as a spe.
al agent to Mexico during tile late war, is now
gagged in selling patent rights fora washing :