The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-01-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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to one clergyman.
McPHERsoE's aLiEe of Thaddeus Ste.
vens will I'll 1000 pages.
THERE are 1901 dram shops in New
York and Brooklyn
New York canals last year yielded a
surplus Of $3,209,801.
LAST year 8S2 marriages were solem.
nized in Milwaukee. n h
ONLY one paper is printed in the sTurk-
ish language, in London
THE Troy postmaster prohibited the
letter carriers of that city from circulating
New Years address,
THE receipts for license tosell LIQUOR in
New York, last year, were $1,431, ,i72.
THE Baptists have ninety Sabbath
Schools with 1851 scholars, in Phila.
delphia.
MoNEREAI citizens have subscribed
$4,000 to erect statue of Queen Victoria
in that city.
IT costs Calcutta Hindoo about one
dollar and half to have his body burned
in good style.
IT is now stated that the loss by the
earthquake in San Francisco will reach
$3,000,000.
A BALD eagle that measured seven feet
acrossthe wings, was killed, recently, In
Titus county, Texas.
IN Holland the Chambers have voted
for the maintenance of capital punish
ment by a majority Of forty.fye.
NEWPORT, r. l., during the year 1868,
has lost by death flfty-eight persons over
seventy years of age.
The Darien Canal, Of thirty miles
| length, will include seven miles tunnel,
and will cost about $65,000,000.
! A French menagerie proprietor keeps
cious animals. He never lost any.
A Hoe weighing 1900 pounds, that
stood three feet six inches high, was lately
shipped from Columbia county, Va, to
i New York.
THE number Of insane persons in
Indiana is from 1900 to 1000, the ratio
being but one to each 324 Of the populs
tlon.
Mr. JOEL TAYLOR, of Cromwell, Conn.
has, during the last fifty years, rescued
100 drowning persons from the Connect
cut river.
FRANCE owes 81, 2,226, 100000, keeps 75O,
900 soldiers and annually expends $515,
! 100000 in running the government il
peace times.
Next to Gov. Seward, Gov. Hoffman Il
the youngest Chief Magistrate the State Of
New York has ever had. He Is 80; Sew
ard was 81 when elected.
THERE are 100000 cotton spindles nov
in operation in the United States, Of which
over 100000 are running on cloths fol
printing, and produce 450,000,000 yards
per annum.
THE State Treasurer of Wisconsin re
ports that the revenue for the past yea
kamounted to $9S2, $40 90, and theexpensea
$946 1856; balance in the General Fund
September 30, S44, GAG 38.
4 A NASHVILLE mechanic has invented
shooting machine, which he calls Poly
fer" which will destroy regiment o
soldiers, distant mile and hall, in fou
minutes
THERE were 1,110 cases of small pox i
San Francisco during the six months end
ing on the 11th of December last 398 wer
fatal The proportion of cases to the Who'll
! population was to 1856.
THE Supreme Court of Massaehusett
+ has decided that a life insurance pohcl
on which note has been given for th
first premium, was not valid, the first in
stallment on il not being due when tn
, party died.
THE Empress Eugene has given 90
francs to the convict Dumain, Of Algerig
/ for swimming with rope to q sinkin
vessel, amid q violent storm, and savin
the lives of those on board The Empero
, | is urged to pardon the man.
/ ONE boot and shoe factory at Mort
Brookfeld, Mass, can turn out more tina
E one million pairs Of boots and shoes pc
) year, and is now producing 1900 pail
' per day. II was started half q centur
ago by two brothers, one Of whom hi
I survived to see his business grow from
|. little shop to the present gigantic factory
: THE gold medals offered by the Ne
9 York Clipper to the nine base ball playei
9 making the best average during the seasc
0 Of 1868, have been awarded to MessT
Radcliffe, Mcbride, Foster, Roach an
Sensenderfer of the Philadelphia Athle
les, Waterman and johnson OF the Cf
cinnatis and Wright Of the Unions
D Morrisania. M +
: MANY people think the true value of
! ! greenback Is found by deducting the pr
y MUM on gold from 100. This, Of courl
2 is an error. Take the price Of gold ast
/ diyisor, par, or 100, as the dividend, Al
J the quotient will give the gold value
Z the greenback. For example, gold is abo
y 1856. Divide 100 by this, and we find th
= q dollar greenback Is worth about 74cen
!, \ in gold.
d THE first case under the Massachusei
a statuteof 1867, relating to the schoolir
n and hours Of children employed In man
a factories, was tried in Salem recent
u Two complaints were made against &
y, oYerseers of the Naumkeag cotton mi
n for employing boy and girl, between Z
x ages Of 10 and 10 years, who had not /
4: tended school during the year. Judgme
,r Of guilty was rendered in both cases b
NJ the defendants appealed hematter to 7
A Superior Court
a THE New York Society for the Pfeye
1e tion Of Gambling received, during I
le year 1858 $23, ,975, and expended $23,3l
IT, The number of employees reported as he
ID ing frequented gambling houses Is 1,0l
is The nNmber Of public gambling houI
IN claimed to have been closed during I
ID year through the workings Of the assoc
i'd ton is 8t7 The object Of the associate
il. as set forth in the report, ia 20 moderi
n and place check upon the great a
o. growing evil Of gambling, while it cC
in iesses its inability to put stop to
1t, practice, per 90,
y Z
cn MANY persons suppose that rocks
is dug out Of the mines in substantia
the same condition that it is put into
market; but this Is not 50. The mas
Of salt are broken up and dissolved
u, water The solution Is then evaporat
" 7sT and the salt removed as It crystalizes
l.9l' this means, the impurities, consisting,
w the most part Of oxide Of iron and VI
" GUS earths, are removed, and the salt
y, rendered fit for use. The greatest I
~ I mine Ia the woFld ID az Cracow, In Pola
\. \, where the impure salt is taken outin hI
W blocks, broken from its I ce IN the m
Als by the use Of wedges and sladge hanim,
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4, A Letter from General Washington
nv a RodE correspondent Of the Ul
~ Ffa41s f1.ns es-fNk q ~