The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-02-13
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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ONE hundred and eighty.seyen mar
riages in Cincinnatiin in January. ~
SPAIN has seventy-seven normal and
$1,000 elementary schools .-aa
AT late Charleston IS. o. wedding
there were twenty-five bridesmaids
FIVE Police Commissioners of Phila-
delphia are worth In the aggregate $4,000
600.
ONE hundred millions of dollars has
been invested in the Superior copper
mines. r.,
FIVE hundred New York bank clerks
have united in cooperative insurance
scheme. ...r.-,. 9ts
THE Christians Of the world last year
contributed $5,0O0,0oO to foreign ms
sions. ,..,at s#rs .f s0 e
-Four thousand and forty.four horses
were killed in Berlin, and used as food, last
year
A, 7. STEWART a. Co have given $780,
900 worth Of spool cotton for the poor in
Washington. Q ~ tfS
A LYNoHBURs( IVA carpenter hasfallen
heir to $4,OO0,0 900 by the death of an Eng
lish relative.
THE Masonic Lodge at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, has been presented with Kit Car
sons rifle. ...-.s.r
ABoYdied lately ir Huntington County,
Pa, from hydrophobia, induced by a bite
from cat. 9rs
AN English farmer has been sent to
prison fora month for sending bad beef to
market. .rar3 ara5 lfg
THE annual egg product Of the country
is 1S, $50, 900 eggs, worth, at 10 cents
per dozen, $943, ,3S3, $3.50, .....
AMAN in Philadelphia has been held in
$1,000 bail for having Wantonly and wick
edly cut off the tongue Of horse.
In California, the men outnumber the
women four to one !; in Nevada, eight X
one, and in Colorado, twenty to one.
TIE residents Of Put-in-Bay have sub
scribed $500 toward the erection Of {
monument in honor Of Commodore Perry
on that island. b.. t
| A PENNSYLVANIA grocer ingeniousll
tried, to clean out 8 bombshell with q red
hot poker BE succeeded in cleaning
himself out most efectually, is'a
SIXTY folio volumes are daily Oiled witl
the accounts of the Bank of England
and eight bookbinders are constantly EN-
| ployed.
! A eENTLEMAN Of York, England, hai
been sued in $3.50 fine for refusing to ac
cept the Office of Alderman, to which h
had been elected.
THE area of public land asked iron
Congress by the numerous Pacific Rail
roads down to June, 1868, amounted il
the aggregate to only 1S6, 400, 900 acres,
A CONSCIENCE sTRIcKEN Connecticutte
lately inelOsed thirty-five cents to th
Osborne House, Rochester the worth 0
a door-key which he hadaearried of u
1868. IN
An insane man became unuanageabl
! In New York Central Railroad car, an
1t was acertained that out Of thirty-tw,
gentlemen in the car, twenty'nine carrie
rev0lYers. m
! lAwDowlady named Mrs Mead, Twin
In Fremont Steuben county, MY! an
aged seventy years, has spun one hundre
and sixty-eight thousand yards Of Yari
during the past year, 81. ..a t,..g a3. n
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THIRTY-FIvE years ago Mrs. Erastu
\ Corning deposited In an Albany Saving
Bank the sum Of $92 to the credit Of he
nephew. Both forgot all about il unit
the other day, when the deposit had il
creased TO $128 N, IND.
A BEREsHIRE girl, sayst The Boston Pcs
walked fourteen miles through the shol
the other day TO marry a young man, WI
couldn't come 20 her house for fear eGs
six shooter which the stern1 parent ca
ried. ,s3F
Snow fell in such abundance in s
Petersburg and It's suburbs in3the latte
half of December that in several streets
! rose to 10 feet in height. Accounts frol
the provinces state that whole village
were buried under Che drift
TIE revenue officers assert, after
patient investigation and inquiry, that u
! amoune Of capital in active use ia Wa
street, durfnga year, Is not less than
j thousand millionss that Is, that mrs
amount changes hands and makes 70
tunes for the owners or speculators on 4
way.
Z A REPORT on the operations of the v
8 rious cooperative associations ID Mass
chusetts, Il Is stated, viii soon be pr
{ sented 10 the Legislature. The financi
condition og about twenty-five societies
( give1l, ard d list of the members Of eac
Z The associations, It is reported, presel
1 theimost varied results IN their dineret
! 4 statements. Their capital stock vafi
!. from 81 900 70 $4,000, and the small ass
9 Citations are generally more successful thi
4 the large ones q
4 I'm Supreme Court df Massachus6l
e has decided en- interesting casal IL can
in the form Of petition Of father
the custody Of his child. IN the absen
Of the father, who follows the sea, u
Y mother died, and the child, being Of te
I der are and destitute, was placed init
care 81 D respectable family IA Beverly,
Y be brought Up as their own When Il
1 child was nine years old the father a
Q peared and endeav0rcd TO assert his claim
4 Judge Hoar refused to grant him the q
= todY uf the child; holding with the ca
" currenCe Of tho other judges, that whe
2 bv misfortune or accident q father has 1
2 his child destitute and dependent up
? charity, and the child has been permit
= 60 form new relations in life SO deep a
strong as to change its whole nature a
e, character the child should be consider
l' IA alnancipated by the father, and I
y father cannot assert Ais legal right 70
" custody