The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-08-15
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Items From Our Exchanges.
Two hundred shoemskers are on strike in
Chicago butthey don't START a peg.
New York has a nome guard Of three thou
sand lawyers.
Lord Lyons is now British Minister at Paris,
with the pleasant little plum Of tSo,so a year.
Ex-Goy. Gilpin, Of Colorado, lately sold a
garden patch for %, 100000.
1t is said that The late Indian depredations
have been instigated by ha,f-breed scoundrels
who expect to get rich ON the pluudsr. Great
indignation Is felt against the Government for
It's lack Of vigor in suppressins the Outrases.
Many ofthe Indians srs said TO be anxious for
peses.1' j" Is
The number Of fres throughout the. United
States ddrihs July at which the loAs wSs
$40, 900 or upward, was Il, Sndthe aggregate
loss was SO, 225, 900. In'June the total loss by
FIRE was 81, 75O,0 900, During the seven months
of 1907 that have passed by, the total value Of.
The property lost BY cSnaagfation has been
t2a, $50, 900.
Chioago Is erecting simultaneously eve large.
school houses, each capable OF seating. one.
thousand pupils. Five thousand children
will thus be lifted from street life, idlsness
and vice, and prePdfed to become useful and
honorable citizens.
Tipplsrs are being ,.tippled out ofthe Jew
York police force.
The New York physician predict an un-
healthy August. g.
The freedmen nierHpidly becoming eduea-
ted A couple Of black forgers-not black
smiths-have been arrested at Atlanta, a black
eounterfeiter has been trapped, and a black
distillsr who slipped the revenue tax as adroit-
ly as the most intelligent white in New York
city.
The Leavenworth Times says that there is
no sickness among the men employed on the
Union Pacific road, the Kansas line. They are
probably better cared for than the smigrsnts
and settlers.
The Joncsboro QilihOis) Gazette gives the
amount of strawberries shipped from that sta
ton the present season at ? $50 pounds, max
ing 500 quarts, and selling at $l2,col.
In considerable districts of Indiana the
wheat crop will average seventeen bushels
per acre. Througho IT the State there will be
Glsrger yield OF peaches than for mary
ysarS. th.N.
Corn has fallen in Texas from two dollars to
seventy Ave cents per buShsl. One paper
even reports that new corn can be engaged at
twenty-five cents per bushel.
Tho industry Of the ladies' in Paris surpasses
belief. They dye-their hair they enamel
their faces they gild-thsir locks; they paint
their cheeks; and now they bronze-their
eomplexiOns l-lPunch.
A prisoner for life in Illinois has patented q
turning machine. A. one good turn deserves
smother, the Governor should turn him loose.
Greeley'u recollection extend as far back
ss 1871, to his mother marriage. A good
memory the philosopher has.
The Salt Lake videttO of July 18th. says;
"FTom all quarters Of Utah We hear that the
crops promise splendid results. There will be
a fine yield of fruit also.
A writer in the North British Review argues
that perpetual motion 10 impossible. sumneT
tried it in the last session and discovered that
IL was f~rultless,
An nti-rituAlistic member Of Parliament re-
IoeuIJ lnNIuuuccu " ItsOluNlon AOlOlhNlhb NAA
gymen to wear "any garment, covering oil
ornament" except a surplice and hood.
A boy in Montpelier, Vermont, while bath.
ing in the winooski, the other day, found
!, Sword that evidently had been used in the Rev
dictionary war. -
A man in BrOOklin pretended to hang him
self for the purpose Of Tightening his frien'
into supporting him in idlenesS. He didn'
succeed in either attempt.
A thief stole a marble flower vase from on
of the graves in the Clinton cemetery. Ma.
: he repent before he has OccasiOn.tO use il him
b. self.
!. Forney's Press says the "scenes at the polls
/ in reanessss "wcrs drAmatic.1 II 'PrObabl
means thatthe who.O thing was a farce.
Polly Hapenes, Of Kentuky, has got hS
d name in tho papers by dying at the az. Of 10
s Hslmbold, the druggist, began with cap
tai of $50. He expended $4,000 in advsiti'
Q ing, and is now q millionaire. -.
j, Anew Jerey ministor'has become insane
consequence of intense study OF the doetrin
of Christian perfection. He won't have man
fellow sufferers. sNfF p
4 People ara advised against being buried
4 one county in Kentucky, as the soil is so POI
:. that il cannot raise. them when Gabriel blow
, his horn. TG sIFE @&
n ssventy-fye thousand dollars worth Of Iii
nor was sold in BelfAa lsst year. MaiHe Ia
to the contrary notwithstanding.
y lTronbls il bre&fnges we'll a. beer in Chic
q 20. The manufacturer ofmAlt liquors dsslir
TO renew their revenue licenses.
1t One MAJ, took paper, aud his life FAS h4l
|. pier thanss Kings his children ali could >rel
II and write aud talk Of men and things A
q other took no paper and while strOning thfoul
II the wood, atree fell down upon his CROW
IN and killed him-as ID should. Had he ts'
reading of the news, at home like neighbor JiI