The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-01-16

DURING the past decade in England,
40,000,0OO gold Boyereigns and IL, ,000, 900
half sOvereigns were coined, which piled
one on the other would make column
thirty!fve miles high. "
A MANUFACTURER in Berkshire county,
Mass, has offered to give 10 the ladies' IN
his town all the cotton cloth they will
make up for the poor Of that town during
the winter. .ait ~
{ An old gentleman on the burning
steamer United States, seeing all hope cut
of, went back 10 his stateroom, saying,
= Here let me die.r A young woman
dived straight into the flames to make
short work oft III &:
BRAzH has q standing offer Of prize
Of $4,000 In gold to-any one who viii IN
vent Q mode OF preserving beef so that It
will be suitable for expectation. -Four
hundred competitors have appeared for
the prize, and still It Is not awarded. =
Tine total number of arrests made by
the police Of ST Louis during the past
year was 1850; males 9,941 females,
2,S78, The money stolen and stray pro
marty vanoirods c,d ,asto,ad y, c,y, aru
5nrino, tba M s, ,Sssy II n Goe
- ~ N ~ y ~ I'm,
FIVE libraries In this country contain
eacn over 100000 volumes, Of which three
are n Boston and Cambridge. Boston
Public Library contains t45e00 volumes,
and the Library Of Congress, l75,000
The others are the Astor, Harvard College
and Boston AthenAum.
&c ~ hs lTsnkng PIiyil..ege o. tne meDSls 4,
I. " eno Russian an faIIlanenS, WnicR tne
5oyeIninens f recently eoollsned as 700
heayy 2 burden 1or the Fost, once Depart
msns, lisl,s II mas oeen ascerssinea' cost me
gupne eke9equer only ntteen hnnared
S'''''n uoliais UotiN = : sAi'
hogRATIo SEYMOUR announces that the
Iourth annual meeting OF the American
D1alirymens Association viii be held in
Utca, on Jan. ~, Cooling milk before
eheese IS MADE thereirom mas II received
It's Que attention Z Is the, leading subject
announced Ior tne consideration OF the
association tf' s
The weight Of q gross of steel pens is
but a few ounces, and il Is not difficult to
pe..eEe sllae = Wouiu sahe gooe lliel y
ooxes % make g son, me ls5eest pen iae'
soly ~ y. tne woAlus On tne RIeich Coase, y.
usos 10y .ous ~ steet 9 ilosn - sliS
l.lulAoegle, Iu.l ana s5eIs are aoLen other
lullSia. nouSSs "hOse plouuO' - nos Veiy ineSp
ailialiei' lAl aia 44
THE township of Newton, Mass, near
Boston, has seven villages, named respect.
lively as follows Newton Center, Newton
Corner, West Newton, East Newton, New
ton Upper Falls, Newton Lower Falls,
and Newtonville. Visiting parties FIRE.
! quently find themselves in the wrong
Newton while letters take thei1
chances, and pass back and forth indef'
nitely.
THERE are 1,113 miles Of telegraph line
nSouth Australia The rates are low ane
more messages are sent than IN any othel
part OF the globe. In England the annual
| proportion is one message 70 every sever
OF the population In South Australia u
is one TO every four, In England ther'
are l2l letters sent TO one telegram, II
south Australia only ~ letters. Ihe au
thorities now possess a postal telegraph
system.
!, EpNnTND ARorT saws. in his e Old Tim,
Recollections.n that. in 1s49. he was 8
i moor that he was a6out 10 accent a clerk
shin in !, LYONS silk house and bid fare
u well 10 Literature. Al timely loan Of tw,
hundred francs however. enabled him l,
finish a novel, for which a publisher pai,
him Ave hundred francs. and this success