The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-06-05
-FACTa AND FrauREs,

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THE number Of students at the Conti-
mental Universities is estimatedat $4,000.
The New York 0gt5ses has passed into
the exclusive control Of r. b. Roosevelt.
THE State of Massachusetts, paid $8,-
5S0,782 for educational purposes last year.
JOHN 9. HEENAN, the pugilist, keeps a
liquor storeon Union Square, New York.
AUAM against the Mexican govern-
nent for $iS5, 900 wasssold In New York
recently for $40.
DURING the year 1858 there were 1885,
156 births, and 4SO,677 deaths in England
and Wales.
Mr.. WHITING, of sprlnghel Mass,
hasnine sons, and the initials Of all their
names are H. L. W.
JAMES WEBB, JR., one of the shoe
kings of Portland, Me, began business
five years ago on a ca pital of $50.
TIE great Melbourne telescope, recent
ly purchased by the Colony Of Victoria,
Australia, cost $4,000 in gold.
RoCHEFoRT, the Lanterne man, 1t is
said, has secretly visited Paris nearly
every week since his first departure for
Belgium.
THE editor of the Willimantic CConn.
Sentinel Is only fifteen years old, and
his only editorial assistant is a younger
brother. ,e....-
THE receipts Of the American TractSo.
ciety of Boston for the past year we're
$4,000 The publishing business pays
all expenses.
NASHUA, N. Y, has 5000 volumes in.
its public library and 1876 persons take
out books AS yet only one book SHasF
been lost and that was destroyed ina
burning house.
The use of gas has been discontinued at
New London, Conn, being found too ex-
penSive, and the streets will hereafter be
lighted by Kerosene.
| AMAN in NewburypOrt Mass, has ten
acres of land in onions The ten acres
give eighty miles of onions, and in plant
ing hoeing wedding and gathering require
thousand miles travel
In New York, the other day, Judge
Bowling discharged two men, captured
with carpet bags full Of burglars tools, on
the ground that 1t was no ofFense, legally,
to carry such implements in the day time.
THE number of paupers receiving relief
in England and Wales at the close Of Ian.
usry, 1859, was 1,020077- being an in.
crease of 2 per cent. on the number at the
corresponding period Of 1868,
Coz. CHAFFIN, a Virginia dwarf, 43 years
old, twenty-five inches highs and weighing
, twenty-five pounds, is accompanied in his
exhibitions by his brother, who is six feet
four inches high
e THERE is nothing like sticking to ono
: branch of business, however small. A
f man has peddled popcorn on the Fitch
4 burg (Mass } road, till he is worth upward
/ Of one hundred thousand dollars. And
' he still keeps at 1t.
5 TIE school children of the Quaker
e City have, by penny COntrbution' raised
g suAi cient money to pay for monument
e to Washington, which Is to be placed In
r, front of independence Hall on the COM
: ing Fourth of July.
: THE dead body Of an old negro was
d found near New Orleans, the other day,
hanging by one foot in the crotch Of a
d mul berry tree. The old man had climbed
1t after fruit, slipped and stuck there, head
2 downwards, until he died.
THERE is conductor on the Fitohburg
oI Railroad in Massachusetts, who always
p Carriesin his mouth or about his person q
e, blossom, fresh and perfumed. The spir-
le Pits told him that was the only conditionby
II which he could expect TO meet his wife in
p heaven,
= WITHrN a amie of Ellzo, on the road to-
- White Pine, Is q large natural swimming
= bath, where visitors can choose their tenn
"A perature, from tepid TO boiling. The
# depth Is said to be very great, and some
say that at 200 feet no bottom has been
- found.
q, THE New England A griCultural Society
w will hold its annual fair in Portland Me
ed from the 9TH to tho 10th Of September.
ry Ten thousand dollars are offered as regular
1n premiums, besides outside purses for
he horses. The Maine State Society will ex-
On hibit at the same time and place.
rt, THENew York Legislature, at Its recent
an session, passed an act which provides that
a on the trial Of indictments and in all
KS criminal proceedings, the defendant shall,
at his own request, be deemed a cOmpe-
tent witness, but that his neglect or re-
fusal to testify shall not create any pre-
sumption against him.
I'm Some one has collected the items of ex.
IN pense for music in nine churches oi
ch San Francisco, and finds that it averages
Lty 50, ,75O in gold-consder more than in
", nine leading Congregational churches
&C. Of Boston, which average 81 900 in cur
tie rency Three Unitarian churches of Bos.
he ton pay from 5000 to $4,000 for music.
Sfa. WHEN the Emperor Alexander the Sec.
20. ond was in Paris in 1861, there were ad
tlv dressed to him 80 many begging letters
90 that they had to be sent every morning
~ on four small hand. carts to the hOte
On where he stopped The Czar is said "a
70 have wondered greatly at these manifesto
iAs tions of devotion and respect, all the let
~ ters which we're opened alluding in the
! nS most pathetic terms to his magnapimity
M M his humanity, Sc
itb The White Pine Weop8 says "DowI
on Chloride Flat there isa miners eabir
,er built out ofchunks Of pieces of high grade
or chloride ore estimated to be worth 0vel
nlv $4,000 per ton. The house is 16 fee
an square, and the roCkin its walls If crushed
i'm would perhaps yield in the neighborhooC
A of $4,000. The miners who own and oc
arc cupy this valuable building, of course arr
, of doing so temporarily, and will have tn,
hal orc Of which it is constructed milled Al
ZEN soon as practicable, or when custom mill
bis are started in the district Never befOr
in in tho history of mining we venture t.
M. say, did miners who repair the seats o
in6 their trowsers with selfrising' patches
ain occupy such valuable structure as this
gys THE London Star says that great ex
ono citement was created in the Edgware Roa,
in the other evening by the appearance of |
ties horse and iockeyin in full racing costume
has gallOping madly towardsthe Marble Arch
lie a hue and cry wasat once raised at sucl
onG a novel sight, but all attempts to stop tn
r Of horse were unavailing until the park wa
ght reached, when, the horse getting exhaust
and ed, the Jockey managed to pull him uT
re. ON INQUIRY II seems that the jockey. ant
per horse were to have taken part in Mi
,e d Boucicaults drama Of Flying scud,
his then being performed at the Alfred Thea
but ire, but Just before going on the stage tn
will horse trod on bag of tOrpedoes, used 4
1lar initiate the cracking Of whips, and tn
the loud bangof these torpedoes 80 aarme
heir the animal that he bolted out of side
lloh sioor leaving fnrthe first timeOf his man