The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-09-17
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Counterfeit two dollar bills on the Mutual
National Bank of Troy are in circulstion ~
New York.
ST. Cloud received. last week, in one lot,
$50, 600 worth Of mink skins belonging to the
Hudson Bay Company.
The Judiciary Committee Of the Georgia
Senate has reported in favOr OF iOmoVlhB tho
capital 10 Milledgevillo.
Tho, Georgia Senate has passed a home
stead bin which oxempts personal property
to the oxtont of 5000 in gold.
The Circuit Court OF Union county, Now
Jersey, has given q verdict awarding $4,000
dainaqes 10 Mary Y. Alderman, who suedh or
father for defamation OF character.
"A throe-mile scull race at HoDoken.on the
9TH, between jos. A. Biglar and W. Hayes, for
$500. was won by Biglar, by 30 lengths, in %
The grain crop in California this year will
be immense. Al least 10000, 600 bushels OF
wheat have boon harvested. II grape crop
IL also above the average. .fHI.IH
IL il estimated that the late storm caused
over $3.50, 600 damagoin Williamsburg, n. y,
principally through the flooding Of cellars
and damage of foundations.
Minister Cardoni, of italy, has resigned
his position In the Government on account
Of III health, and his duties are pertnrmed
by Count Oantellie, Minister OF Public Works.
The secretaryof War has directed that
on the goth pr0xiiDO the chief mastering me
disbursing Offices at Philadelphia for tho
states Of Pennsylvania and New Jersey be
discontinued, $500 r
"A boy about five wears old died in conyul-
sions, suddenly, In New York, from drinking
Bourbon whisky. Ho had Soon his father
drink from the bottle during the day, and was
trying TO initiate him.
Tho distress Of the people IN the Rcd
River settlements Of British America, north
Of Minnesota, is represented as extreme. Tho
crops have been a complete failure, and tho
people are in danger Of general starvation.
IA man named Robert Calhoun, residing
in Allegheny, was killed Tuesday night in
Etna, about six miles from Pittsburg, in a
street fight. Charles Murphy, supposed 10
be the nurderer, has boqn arrested.
The great walking pournament on Rens-
selAer Park, Troy, N. ". course, .cnded
Wednesday afternoon about fOur O'Clock, and
was won by Paydoek, an English pedestrian,
who walked 100 miles in % hours and IS sec
onds. Payne oT'Albauy,s walked. 100 miles
IN ~ hours and3f econds. .U ttts
Tho recent heavy rain did immense dam
ago to tho lower part OF Now Jersey. 10 Is
reported that not n single mill-dam is left in
Salem county. Tho roads are considerably
injured, and trains are delayed.
The Commissioner of Pensions has in
structed the officers paying pensions on md
after Monday noNt 10 require an oath to DO
taken that agents presenting a power of at
torney are not pecuniarily interested.
Regina Mathews and Mary Math ews, OF
Riverside, n. J., aged IL and IS years re-
speotively, died Saturday morning from burns
caused by the explosion of a fluid lamp,
which thoy we're filing on Thursday even
ing. l ".. .H m.
sixrobbors entered the house of p. Butler,
at Arrissey Point, on the Hudson River. Sat-
nrday morning, took away a sale, carried II to
a boat aud across the river, whore Il was burst
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40 New York, but had not boen Captured.
Archbishop Konriok has instructed the
Catholic clergy IN the st. Louis diocese to de-
nOunce planchetto, and warn Catholics that
II they do not dosist from its use, after reas-
onablo Rdmoniton, they will be oxcommuni-
cated nom tho church. ~
There wero two monster prayer meetings
on tho It'll, at John Aliens dance house in
Water street, Now York. A meeting was or
ganized outside, but oven thon the crowd
was so great that the buzzing drowned the
voice Of tho speaker.
"A Methodist College has b,on opened in
Belfast, tho erection OF which has cost that
body f3l,000. The Methodists OF America
have contributed 10000 toward an endow-
ment fund. Tho President oi the college II
the Rev. VIM. Arthur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson always jots down
any thought or ianoythat comes to him at
any time, oven rising from his bed at night TO
do 30. On one occasion no got mp at two in
the morning, whom his wife asked, Arc you
i'll, husband?' mo, my dear, only an idea.'
Tho Treasury Department has issued to
the Commissioned OF the Union Pacific Rail
road Company l,2sO bonds, Of tho value OF
$40, 900 each, for the completion of tho twon-
,ty-Aixth aud twenty-soyenth sections OF the
road, which terminate at the seven hundred
and sixtieth mile post westward from Omaha.
"A colored man named John Williams was
beaten to death ia Fletbush, Ions, Island,
Sunday night by two white men win whoin
he had an alteration. Two arrests were
made, but the accused deny any implication
in the homicide.
-Ayoung man named Peter Herman aud a
desperate named Jacob Valenzer got into a
quarrel, IN a saloon, In Chicago, on the 9Th
when the latter drew a large knli9 ana staoe9
Herman through the breast, and almost cut
of his right hand. Herman cannot get well.
Valenzer was arrested.
Frank Leslie, Of New York, has. sued the
proprietor OF the Boston Post for libel claim
ing damages OF go, 900. The obnoxious par
iagraph stated that Leslie had arrived at
Richfeld Springs with a lady and two fast
horses, and the PROSECUTOR asserts that the
paragraph intimRted improper relations be-
tween the lady aud himself. I'D fIr -
Two young children, named respectively
Willie Hermann aud Sophia Haslppl about
four years old, residing at 4dand 499 Milwau-
wnukee avenue, Chicago, wero poisoned nn
Saturday evening by drinking, il is supposed,
from a bottle which contained insect poison.
The Mttlo boy died unconscious aud IN agony
on Sunday, 'dnd no hopes are entertained of
the little girls recovery. -fn
Tho boy 7McKoy 10 years of age, was
hanged on tho Sth, at New gate. Loudon,
Within the walls Of the prison, for the murder
of hib MISTRESS, The only persons present
were the officers of tho law and n few mem
hers Of the press. This is tho FIRST private
d oxeoltion undor the new law concerning cap
ital punishment ID r.I
/. Three distinguished persons of title re-
Gently aat down TO a private dinner1n one OF
the principal hotels in Ohtendo, Belgium, and
10 when tho waiter entered the room 10 servo
. the dessert, he Was astonished to lind the
thEss corpse F, iy5ng uP pSGb tho GSd aSoTi Ig rIs 81.
, which partly explained the tragedy.
n LReturns received by ths Commissioner OF
.s the General Land Office show a disposal OF
a public lands during the past month, at the
following places: Brownsville, Nebgpsla, H.
GSl acres; Omaha, Nebraska, 1l,9l3 acres
% East Saginaw, Michigan, 0,528 acres; Hum.
"a boldt, Kansas, 6, l0l acres. The greater por-
dtion Of this land was taken mp by actual set
TORS, under the homestead law;
There was a destructive fire In Olstead, N
m H., on Thursday night, consuming the paper
d mill Of Prentioeh& Scripture, tho postofice
the dwelling, grocery and Stable OF ~ Tan
and badly damaging the store OF MIR, Love
and two dwelling houses adjoining. Tie Ma
sonic Hall over the postofice, was also de
strOyed. Loss not vel estimated, but II 4
supposed that the property is mostly insured
Aspocial from Denver, Colorado, of TIT
4th, says the ColfaS party, with Gov. Hun
and family, arrived safe and were with a banl
of Ute Indians at then head, Atths time o
the Indian outbreak they We're in the vale!
of the Arkansas River, west OF South Pass
The Ute tribe have always been faithful am
friendly 90 the whites, and having been in
formed of itby a misconceptions Coy, Hunt
party backto Denver.
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