The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-01-25
THE NEWS.


the Supreme Court Of the United
States shall be brought only before a
full bench Of the judges.
N. P. Willis, one of she most eel
ebrated Of the literati of America, and
a poet Of marked ability, died on the
21st instant at Idlswild, his late resi-
dence.
- Orosby's OpOra-house has fallen
TO the lot of a saloon keeper in Chica.
go named John Meyer.
A singular and very destructive
epidemic prevails among tho hogs in
Southern Iowa. The intestlnes of the
dead hogs are found to be filed with
worms from SIX to twelve inches in
length. Tho disease is new to the
farmers, and they are greatly excited
about it.
- The oil fever has broken out in
Knox County, and RACES with violence.
Scientific men who have examined,
claim that the indications are equal, if
not superior, to those Of Venango
County, Pennsylvania.
The Illinois Central Railroad has
paid into tho Treasury OF the State
1921 ,574.05, being seven per cent. Of
the gross earnings Of the road for the
past six months. ,
Tho members Of the Maine Legissa
ture have voted themselves a copy each
OF Wsbster's Unabridged, Iippincott's
Gazetteer, the Bible, and ten dollars
worth ofpostage-stampS for each mem.
Der.
Mr.. Bedford Brown, who ia CHARM
o fthe North Carolina delegation now
in Washington, was in the United
States Senate from 1929 to 1910. OF
those with him in that body during
his FIRST year Of service, but one is liv.
ing, Judge Sprague, of Massachusetts,,
who, at that time, was Senator from
Maine.
lie Pays publishes a letter nd.
dressed to DR.. Cadrieux, from General
b. +. Butler, expressing the opinion
that the annexation Of Canada il both
necessary aud inevitable for the future
welfare ofthe United States.
- On the 10Th instant two men were
frozen todsath in Brooklyn.
- IL Is rumored that ID. Dudley
Field, Of New York, An eminent law
yer, who made a largo amount of
money during the war, and who Is
travelling in Europe, will be appointed
Minister to England, viee Mr.. Adams
who will return, and who may go into
the Cabinet, should Secretary. Seward
retire.
Mr.. Field is a brother of Justice
Field OF the Supreme Court,
Young James Gordon Bennett
has received the personal congratula.
tons of the Emperor and. Empress o.
France for his recent yacht victory.
The Oldest legislstorin the present
General Assembly Of Ohio is Augustus
l.. PerrilI Of Pickaway. He used t.
hold a seat in that body as early as thu
session of 1S39-40. In 1874 he wa!
elected to Congress from the dlstric.
composed Of the counties Of Fairfield
P~ickaway and Fayette.
- The arrest Of Chauneey Page, tn,
murderer of his wife and mother-in
law, has caused great exeitsmeAt a
Valparaiso, Indiana, where be arrive,
yesterday. The officers removed hin
to Iaporte, 10 protect him from popu
lar violence.
- II lie reported that Queen Victori
will visit the Paris Exposition whIl
on her way to Germany.
In st. Louis motions have bee
mNds in nearly all the Courts, to re-
eind the order requiring attorneys {
take the oath.
Tho largest room in the worl,
under single roof and unbroken b
pillars or other distractions, IS at S
Petersburg, Russia. 1t is $50 feet
length and $50 in breadth. By day
light it is used for military display
and a battalion can conveniently N.
neuvsr in it. In the evening il Is 0
ten converted into . vast ball-rooI
when it is warmed by sixteen prodia
Gus stoves and 100000 wax tapSrs a
to Light ID properly. The roof Of th
great structure 10 a single arch ofir'
the bars alone Or ybichit rests weig
ing $780, 900,