The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-04-18
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
North Carolina has 70, owed the OK.
ample Of some other soutbern State, IN
?sssirg.s Law Furnishing horse stealing with
death.
John q. Breckenridge, it is stated;
advises his friesds to accept and make the
best Of the military act.
- The King and Queen, Of Portugal have
rented the 1oor Of the Hotel B,istol, in
Paris, during She Exposition for SEQ per
day.
Minors can marry in Louisiana. The
legal age for the bridegroom is fourteen, for
the bride twelve.
- Benjsm Heath, q Boston detective, ia
going to the Paris Exposition, 10 look alter
American thieves there.
A New York company iI preparing to
bring from Rockaridgs county, Va, 500
barrels per month Of whits sand, to be used in
making ino glass.
- The mule spinnsrs in the cotton mills
al Lewisiowp, Me, struck last Monday for
the ten-hour system The mills arc running
with new bands.
The democrats Of Philadelphia bad a
grand parade, With torchlights aud trans
parsnoies, on Saturday night, 10 houor OF the
Connecticut election.
The illness OF The Princess OF Wales is
Secasioned, it ia said, By acute rheumstiim
whhh has sxed itself with great intensity 10
the joiStS Of one Of her limbs.
- Ia Petersburg, Virginia, from January
Let OF the present year to April lst, tax has
been paid on 5,l07 bales OF cotton. The ag>
gregate weight Of this cotton was 2,l7O,4 95
pounds, and the amount OF tax paid was
e65,ll3 O5.
The Savannah News is in'o'msd that
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Steve is delighted
with the climate Of Florida, and has pur-
chased a place on 81. Johns river, where che
intends 10 reside.
New Orleans has in circulation $4,000,
600 Of It's municipal "shinplasters."
The smallpox has Appeared in the Viz.
TiOia penIienllary.
1t is estimated that there is 81, 900, 900
VI counterfeit money in circulation in this
county.
A young lady OF New York has sued a
young man for kissing her while she was
asleep in The cara.
In December last the pRuperI in Eng
land aud Wales numbered 9C4, 800, against
ss2'o 2' at the same period the previous year.
- To the Arkansas State Uior Convention
at Little Rock, last week, a resolution was
passed asking the removal OF tho cotton tax
and committee was appointed to visit
Washington in order to further the project.
- The State of Wisconsin approp-
rates over two hundred thousand dol.
lars this ysarfOr charitable institutions.
The oran &c trees in Louisiana are
full Of blossoms, and should no frost
occur the orange crop will be unpreesd-
Sntedly large.
-one hundred and fifty steamers
are lying idle and decaying in the Red
river, north Of New Orleans.
The New Workers hope TO retain
tho Great Eastern as a permanent
pasSsngsr-ship between their port aud
Liverpool.
Both houses Of tho Wisconsin Leg
islature have passed n woman sffrage
constitutional amendment.
The Pittsburg iron man ufaetures
are "lookinG OUT III opposition to lab
Orers' strikes, as has been done in
England.
- In southern Illinois peaches have
been injured by late frosts. Apples
promise well. Many new orchards
ire forming.
Governor Marshall, of Minnesota,
appointed Mrs. Dewitt G. Smith.
widow ola Union soldier, State libra
ian.
- The Society Of Friends Is reviving
n England. The Friends at present
aHmber $1,000.
- An abunancs Of frait is promised
= the Eastern States.