The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-12-05

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The ttGrecian Beldn hns bulgHa
ont ii B0sD0is % the horror 81 seus
bic people @
The national debt now amounts to
~, gal ,002, bI2, with ma i818, ,020in the
Treasury.
A Mississippi plantation, chat cost
$50, 900 ten years ago, lately sold ior
$3.50.
The Catholics are making many
converts among The Washington col
ored citizens.
Al bloonler, wearing highly-colored
paAtal0Ons and a gray overeUat,
promenades BEoHdWay.
The Erie Railroad within the past
few months, has laid down $500 tons
81 steel rail,
The slave trade has been entirely
suspended since the Spanish revolU-
ton.
"A New York paper says hundreds
Of snobs in that city live wholly on
borrowed money
Two hundred French factory girls
leave Havre, this month, to work as
servant girls In New Orleans.
No less than 4 900 women Of ST, Pe-
Eersburg End 1t profitable 70 teA the
fortunes Of the higher circles II
Indianapolis expects 70 slaughter
10000 hogs this year The work VIII
begin this week pfohabiy.
A young American governess this
month becomes Countess Of heisach
and Franenstein
The Jersey City Times says thai
Edwin James, the great lawyer Of
Hudson City, keeps about Fifty cats,
and more than halfas many dogs,
An Albany girl recently broke
teapot, full of hot water, over the
head Of her beau because he wouldlnt
say he meant to marry.
A stone coffin, Weighing two tons,
and containing the ashes Of a Roman
chief and his wife, has been unearth
ed at Stamford, England.
An Ohio girl astonished the hand
some young men Of Cleveland dry
goods store, the other day, BY asking
for ''three yards Of Grecian Bend"
An old lady announced ID court at
Atlanta, that she had no COUNSEL
that God was her lawyer. my
dear madam rreplied the Judge, he
does not practice Id this coirt.N
"A rustic guest h q Parkland (Me.l
hotel, few evenings since, canie
down stairs and told the clerk that
the gas light wouldn't burn, and he
| thought ii wanted d new wick,
Two British soldiers had their bare
backs lashed each twenty-five times,
in Ottawa, Ont, last week, for ln
forming Ia the Police Court against
1.-THE officers.
Nevada has a county which casts
but six votes. If al counties were
like that, colonization would become
one Of the most difficult OF the scien-
ees.
A boarding house keeper in Spring
field, Mass. Is said to be IN the habit,
when her b0ardeFs neglect to pay
reguiarly, Of placing an extra fork
| BY their plates, as q silent intimatlon
10 ''fork over.n
Not long AGO q woman was acct
dentally locked mp IN the vault Of q
1 NAAAAt5r NANANAA AfA lt2WlANAAy f&AA Ae7
mained there undiscovered for eleven
days. Great care was afterward taken
OF her and she has recovered.
"A French woman recently stTang-
led her husband, ard, to escape de-
tection, cut up his body intoa hundred
snail pieces. Being caught and sen
fenced to transportation for life, she
now has petitioned the Emperor for
permission to marry convict
/ Cstriches are more valuable than
geese, as the feathers Of one are said
to be worth 500 ayear. In Australia
they have tried the experiment of
fencing IN ten thousand aerea of
ground and keeping q flock Of these
strange and valuable birds.
A woman who always used to at
tend public worship with greet
punctuality and took care always 10
be IN time, was asked how It was she
could always come so early. She an
Hwered very wisely, that It was
part Of her religion not to disturb
the religion ofothersD
Coal has recently been discovered
ln.vast Quantities ia Russia. So that
| It Is estimated that the beds will
continue to yield an ample supply
for the whole world two hundred
j years after the English mines have
been exhausted. Within four years
/ the diseoveSies are estimated at
eihgteen billions of tons.
i The Minneapolis Tribune SAYS thar
the widow OF the Indian Chief Hole
4 ln-the- Day, with a child eight months
i old, Is looking f0r q situation Ii that
! city as domestic. She a wife
taken by him q year or two ago. dr-
ring one Of his visits to Waahinqton.
| and was 9 servant ia one ofthe Wash
ington hotels.
| The following fnscTiption "a the
headboard Of grave IA the Sparte
/ Idiggings, California, Is old bat acod
! I'm memory Of John Smith, who
4 met with wieleni death near this
spot is hundred and 40 too. 4Te was
1 shot by his own pistlil. It was not
one Of the new kind but old fish
/ lerned krass barrel, and Of aneh e tlie
Kingdom Of Heaven.
II AZ C3ermanir New Albany rndi-
ana, has what he calls q ifdnnplfnn
clock in his window. on It's tor Il
q fat and jollY-lookinR Teuton. who
holds fork in bis hand. Br an IN.
gcninils contrivanea the fork. III the
] 4 end Of each nlinute, dips into 6Iisb
1 ofdumpllngs and carries one ST them
to the mouth Of the Teuton. vho
swallows Il with 8 choking enrale
nff0 a f4f4nnf ", 4,f 7tf,l ,~f5tss,e. "
II Two young gentlemen rinoif
3 nall agea faoeRti sud
loved the Aanie nun& wona d. AGED
4 AZ. They naet III HON residence M
J Sunday and blood was spilled. Or
E Monday each appeared at the Police
2 Court and, ID consideration 81 lhe
tact that the young woman had N
/ the mean Time transferred her aiFec
lions 20 9 third adorer, tie Judge w
G them of with the payment 81 costs
General Frlm, the spanisl, ferolu.
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