The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-07-03
FACTS AND FIGURES

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Whalen.
CoMMoDoRE NuTr'sother nsmeis Lewis
Dinger.
A TERRIER in Bristol, England, was
lately sold for $500.
In Salt Lake City SIS is the price paid
for a cord of pine wood.
A HARTFORD lady has just had $1,000
watch sent her by express e H
BY a new law if Italy the clergy be,
come liable to conscription.
IT has been calculated that sixty persons
per minute die in this world.
ANEW Irish paper, Tho Irish West, has
made its appearance in Cincinnati
THE Catholic Publication society has
printed $4,000 tracts during the past
year. sv gi5
ONE hundredand seyenty-nine thousand
dollars have been raised for the American
College at Rome
SIX women were recently admitted to
the University Of London, having passed
satisfactory examinations.
SWITZERLAND has about 100000 Cattle,
worth $42,000,000; $4,000 coWg.yield.$ $780,
100000 worth of milk ayear,
THE Society for the Prevention Of Cruel
ty to Animals In New York average two
arrests Of cruel teamsters per day.
THRRE have been three Popes besides
Plus TX z, who have celebrated the tiftieth
anniversary Of their first mass.
A BosToN letter-carrier was recently
made the recipient of $50 from the well
pleased citizens whose mail is entrusted to
his care.
JAMES HALL, thefanous Aberdeen ship.
builder, is dead. II is said that there is
not portion of the world where Halls
clippers are not known.
In one of the French departments a
poster adorned the walls, inviting the
voters to cast their ballots for "Jules x.
the drunkards' candidate" s.
A FATAL quarrel in Jersey City arose
from the refusal Of barkeeper to allow q
teamster to water his horses from the ice
pitcher. tet goes
l A LADY In Rhode Island subscribed for
a Newport paper, the other day, to be sent
to neighbor who worried her by borrow
ing her own. HrEg
A TEXAS paper claims that there are
more newspapers published in that State,
in proportion to the white population,
than in amy other State in the Union.
BY singular coincidence, the first day
Of the Peace Jubilee fell upon the date Of
the commission to George Washington as
Commander-in-C Chief Of the American
armies. sD v. .# la.
LORD BYRoNs valet, Swede, named
James P. Lindberg, sixty.four years old, is
now an inmate of the National Military
Asylum at Milwaukee, he was present
at Byron's death
DURING the year 1868, there we're 49,
S4S male persons, charged with crime,
taken before the police magistrates Of the
metropolitan districts Of London. Ofthis
number, SO were ticket.of leave men, and
5,544 had been previously convicted.
| A COMPANY has been formed In New
York to bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas. The entire hold OF their
: vessels is lined with non. conducting felt
7 aud by chemical means cold below the
|. freezing point will be kept up.
A WHITE baby was picked up few days
ago on the Dan river, near South Boston
Va, It was lin metallic coffin, with Q
0 bottle of milk at Its mouth, and roll o
greenbacks under its head, while newly
) plucked roses decorated its strange cradle
! THERE is man living in Northampton
: within three miles of the railroad, 3t
!; wears of age, who has been in but fouI
u different towns in his life, has never been
Z inside of q railroad car, and has never
Y | slept in any house except the one in which
:, he was born, has never been Courting ant
never kissed girl
y IT is recorded Of Catholic lady, o
Z Northumberland, England, in the last cen
y tury. that she married thrice, her tirs
! husband being Quaker, her second
! Church Of England man, and her third
y = Catholic; and what is more curious still
y on each occasion she married man twic
y her own age at 16 man Of ~ at ~
= man of go; and at A. q man Of "a.
Il THE champion strawberry has been ex
y hibited in New York. 1t measured ~
X inches around, and weighed one ounc
"a and seven pennyweights. It was Taise'
n by Nathaniel Niles, at Madison, M an
\. Is a cross between the Wilson and th
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fl New Jersey, has christened It the Nile
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~ A PAPER was recently Lesu 1eigss ny y !
On Academy oi sciences, ~ Aoslosps ~ .a,sS ~
to prove that the runs, NJ sas.i 3 e M y
~ circular, put q an ei,sg1, Is, io, ~ a.
y axis from east 70 WesS voiAE ~, 49,
" that from north 70 scum. II hsiS1 sha y,
VA eight distinguished opss. ssss \, -
el' rauons Of nature are gwen e supp0A'A
y, the fact mentioned.
NJ The other day q seam IN the ro'
ler cutting on the Ridgefeld Branch re
~ road, III Connecticut, was charged ", ",
;sb forty-two kegs Of powder snu quaSsI ar