Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-03-10
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The great-great- grandfather of the present
Emperor Nicholas, as long ago as the 18th CEN
tury, used to hold the strrups of the khans of
the Kiptchak Tartars, while they mounted, and
used also to feed the khans' horses with oats
from their fur caps.
1t is the intention of the Emperor of France
to invite most OF the crowned heads of Europe
to the exhibition. The Emperor Of Austria is
said to have already accepted.
In the Senate of Michigan, on Monday week,
the bill refusing the use of the jails in that
State for the detention of fugitive slaves was
passed by a vote of l9 to 7.
An editor in sandusky, O., named Green, is
preparing an account of his adventures in the
South Seas. He is the original "Ioby," Mel
ville's "7ypee."
One-tenth ofthe entire population of New
| York are said to be in extreme poverty, and
| most of that number entirely destitute, not
knowing for a day where the means of exis.
tence are to come from.
"Engand," writes London correspondent
| of La Presse, "has constantly labored to be-
come great house Of business, and she is as.
tonshed that she has not become barrack.'
When the accouchment of the Empress of
Austria takes place there will be one hundred
and one discharges Of cannon in case of the
birth of prince, but princess will only be
honored by the firing of twenty-one guns.
A mockng bird was sold at auction in Phi
ladelphia last week, for forty-seven dollars, and
a pet poodle for twenty-five dollars.
From the depth Of two hundred and forty feet
pieces of the bark Of trees and oyster shells
were brought up by the augur used in boring
the Artesian we'll at New Orleans.
A man in st. Louis, short time since, beat
his wife to death, and pushed her out Of the
bed where she had been laid by some one du-
ring the night, laid down in her place and slept
until the following morning The corpse was
found the next day half eaten by the rats.
One of the finest specimens Of laconic
speech is that of fRochejacquelin to his soldiers:
"lfI advance, follow me; if fall, evenge me-
if l finch, kill me-"
A Fremen's T'oast.-"The ladies', their eyes
kindle the only flames, which we cannot extin-
guish, and against which there is no insurance"
When we record our angry feelings, let it
be on the snow, that the first beam Of sun.
shine may obterate them forever.
Cattle are said to be dying of starvation in
some parts of Ohio, the drought last summer
having cut off the usual supplies necessary for
their sustenance.
The Viceroy of Egypt has solemnly inter-
dicted, for the future, the introduction of slaves
into his provinces; but as to those already in
Egypt, they are to remain in stalu quo.
John Randolph met personal enemy in the
street one day, who refused to give him half
the sidewalk, saying that he never turned out
for rascal. 81 do" said Randolph, stepping
aside, and politely raising his hat-"Pass on,
pass on"
The last annexation report from Mexico is
that our Minister, Gen. Gadsden, is treating
with Santa Anna for the cession to the United
States, of Yucatan, for the sum Of $4O,00o,0OO.
Mr.. Newcomer, of Nachez. Miss, with rife
having improvement of his invention, at the dis.
tance of 22O yards, placed five successive balls
within the circle of which the radius was less
than an inch.
A Dr. Barck, German physician of Cincin-
natl, after preliminary examination, has been
held in $1,000 to appear at court and answer
to the charge of improperly puncturing an
aneurism in the leg, the patient having died
under the operation.
Pay as you Go.-One of the surest ways to
is to be economical and pay rs
you go; and at the end of the year you will
feel as free as the wind and as Independent as
a "woodsawer."
George w. Green, convicted some time
since of the murder of his wife, hung himself
in bis cell, at Chicago on Sunday morning.
Human Nature.
In the story Of the "Boy and the Brick" it is