The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-05-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.

TIE emigration to Kansas this spring
is said to be without precedent in the his
tory Of the State.
In Toulumne county, Cal, there has
been laid an iron water pipe, $500 feet
long and II inches in diameter.
A BRIDGEPoRT Conn cartridge COM
pany has received an order from Spain
for ten millions of cartridges.
JUAREz, the Mexican President, is 90
years old, but does not look to be over 40.
lie has one son and six daughters.
THE Empress Of Austria kissed over 100
babies while journeying through Croatia,
and smiled upon their mothers.
In Eagland clergymen may be trans
ported for fourteen years for marrying
people after 10 NJ. without special license.
TEXAS has now within her borders
more than 100000 head of cattle, and
can export annually 100000 beeves.
A COMPANY for the manufacture of ar.
tifcial limbs has been formed at Pitts
burgh, ard every member of the organi-
zstion has lost a leg.
IT Is saidth the trees planted by one
Iowa farmer have raised the value of ad-
joining lands from five to ten dollars per
acre.
A New YORK miller compelled his son,
aged IA years, to make the preliminary
arrangements TO his suicide, and then de-
liberately killed himself
THIRTY-Two thousand five hundred and
eighty-six emigrants arrived at New York,
from Jan. to April T. Last year for the
same time the number was 29,8S0.
THE value of Canadian cattle imported
into the United States during the first
three months of 1869 was 1896, ,252 nearly
double the value Of those imported during
the same period of 1868.
AN English chemist, after careful an
alysis Of "golden-hair fluids" asserts that
they are composed of diluted nitric and
muriatic acids, with traces, in some in.
stances, of sulphuric acid
THE Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has decided that farmers who have their
grain manufactured into -four and then
sell the flour in any manner, must pay a
license to the Government.
THE Planters Banner says that the
planters of Louisiana will make as much
again rice in 1869 as they made lastyear.
The crop last year was 391 Oil ,8H slcks.
A sack contains 100 pounds.
THE oldest house in the United States
retaining its original form is to be found
in Neponset, Mass 1t was built by John
Minot about the year 164s, and is still in
good repair, The family still hold pos
session Of it. ''..
AT Cornwall, Vt, recently, William
Hurlbut starved himself TO death. He
was seventy years of age, a bachelor, and
worth some $4,000; but having lost $130
through robbery, he became despondent--
afraid Of coming to poverty.
Mrs BEECHER Stowe gives up her
Florida plantation, as she bought it at
military tax sale, which holds not good,
and the former owner makes successful
claim-paying Mrs Stowe the price she
paid for the estate,
The Clinton. La) Democrat states that
resident ofthat place gathers sufficient
quantity of tea leaves from the Chinese
tea plant grown in his garden to more than
suffice for the requirement Of his house
hold.
In Maine, during the past season, ,Imice
|, have done great damage. Millions of
young fruit trees have been killed, young
forest trees injured, and grass ruined. In
, Dixfeld orchard containing 1900 grated
trees, only about five hundred can be
, saved.
a $3.50 DIAMOND RING was lost from
lady's trunk, broken in handling, at the
Cleveland depot, few days since On
going to look for it, she found party
sweeping the floor, who had swept the
ring some fifty feet without discovering it.
ONE of the Philadelphia papers sold
: 95, 900 copies of the edition containing an
account of the suicide of Twitchell and
the hanging of Eaton, and the demand
for morning journal was so great that it
was reprinted on the following morning,
J RUBY valley, in Nevada, is so-called on
: account Of the immense number ofrubies
found in the sands of the mountain
streams flowing through it. These gems,
though very beautiful and perfect, are too
small to be merchantable, the largest
only being Of the size Of pin-head.
MAEDLER, the German astronomer, has
measured the heighth of ,093 mountains in
the moon. Twenty-Five of these are high.
er than Mount Blanc, which is within
few feet Of being three miles high, and six
are above 10000 feet. The highest OBJ.
served mountain in the moon is 24,944
feet. n
TEE number of bankruptcies In Eng
land last year was 9,195, an increase of
20t over the year previous. During the
year dividends were paid in 1,714 but in
6,4S9 there were no dividends. Thegross
proceeds realized from bankrupt estates
was $4, 250000, and the expenses Of the
bankruptcy courts amounted to $4,000.
), A FIRE near the Cape Of Good Hope,
! caused by the long continued heat and
drOuth, devastated tract Of country 400
miles long, and varying in breadth from
15to 150 miles. The FIRE broke out on
. the OH of February, when the heat
throughout the colony was moro intense
0 than ever previously known. Several per
sons lost their lives.
: In Portsmouth, N. H., scientific indi-
:, Vidual, whose wife used tea pretty freely,
' and who for the last few years lad suf-
fered much from nervous affection, re.
Gently made an analysis of the tea she
used, and found that the coloring material
was gypsum and Prussian blue, and that
the amount in a pound Of tea, If admins.
g tered at once, would produce instant
7 death.
A CURIOUS case was before the New
York courts the other day. In 1884, John
and Winnifred Ward were united in mar
riage, and Immediately after the ceremo
: ny, Ward deserted his wife, and up to his
!, death in 1864, refused to recognize the re-
: lationship existing between them The
: vile, after thirty years of selfsupport
! has now recovered $4,000 from the estate
: Of her husband.
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i The suicide OF rich miseE is reported
! in the London papers She was a widow
: named Harriet Gray, 81 years Of age. She
was worth over e40,000, but was In the
| hotit ~ donvinr herself the common ne