The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-15
Miscellaneous Items.

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Tho population Of Cleveland is crawling
mp toward lOO, 0UD.
-Four milcs VI new nNsieibeds have Legn
found IN Long Island Sound.
There are $lG0, 900 worth VI window ylass
IN A. I, Stewards nov store,
"Ballaat for the Grccim Bend is adycr-
Used M a New York store window.
4 convention to discuss the polypamy
question il proposed in salt Lake CITY.
Apples are selling at twenty-five cents
per bushel at the cidcr-mills in Connecticut,
The tax Of one cent a box on matches last
!ear Melted the government a. revenue uf
81, 100000.
The servant girls IT New York gave. A
lew weeks ago, about $4,000 for the Pope's
private pocket,
Houston, Texas, is Of The opinion that in
ten years she will be the "grandesl railroad
center IN the south.
Menken's pooms have had a great sue
cess, the first edition, most uniquely got up.
being exhausted in q few DAYS.
mountain OF magnetic iron has boon
discovered IN Lapland. II is sufficient 10 sup,
ply the world with magnets,
Dog Shoes" ior protecting the feet of
sporting dogs when c0ursing on stubble
fields, If proposed IN England.
A comb factory, said 10 be the finest in
~. '''fn 'NN INhN bffH hlWllfl NJ AlIOn.
There is encouraging promise Of success.
In 1871 the first really thorough census of
India is to be taken, The population ia esti-
mated at oI o hundred aud nifty million souls.
Figs grow in California the size of a mans
INST and weighing a quarter ola pound each,
are displayed In the market At San Francisco.
The bronze doors. for tho Capitol at
Washington, after -four years labor, are at
length finished, at the Ames Works, Chico
pee, Mass,
Already the Union Pacific Railroad is dis.
patching snow plowstO the several important
points ON the line, to night tho great atorma
IN the mountains,
Fashions latest novelty is a necklace
made Of n band Of black velvet. fitting
tightly TO the throat, and on which are soon
small gold or gilt bells.
-Flesh-colored gators, with the toes
stitched with black, TO look as il the foot was
bare, are reported TO be the newest mode.
they are said TO haye u shockingly natural
effect.
DIR. w. Frazer, Of Fayetie, Ky., recently
sold the product OF tWenty-seven acres OF
hemp for the handsome sum Of SO, 800. The
price paid waB 80, per one hundred and
twelve poundG.
For more than q century, it IN said, such
heat has not been known in Paris in the
month Of September, ns ia 1868. On the Sth
the thermometer indicated ninety degrees
Fahrenheit.
Three or four years ago, q young lady
IN Richmond Va, declined proposals. Ot mar
riage from a young gentleman, who recently
died. Sho has received notice from the de-
ceased's administrator that all his property,
amounting IN yahnc TO about three hundred
thousand dollars, IN bequeathed to her,
An old covered llume in a cotton mill at
Mildleborough F0ur Corners, Mass, was re-
Gently opened, and over ! 900 GELS wero found
IN II, averaging two pounds each. Tho larg-
est weighed Gt pounds.
Perry Potter, OF Syracuse, who wanted
10 get rid Of a hornets most over his barn
door, made q swab, soaked II in kerOseu6, set
il on fire and held II mp under the nest. He
got rid Of the hornets and his barn, too,
The celebrated English race horse. Blair
AthOl, was recently sold for about s25,OOO in
gold. A French uoblemRn was very anxious
to " him, bnt Mr.. Blenhiuin, h mmiodh Eng
lish breeder, oyer-bid the fronchman,
The new department Of Dartmouth Col
legs, called tho College Of Agriculture aud tho
Mechanic Arts, has just begun it's frat term
OF ton students, OF whom one is a Choctaw
Indian who WAS a soldier in tho Confederate
army.
The Great Eastern at last has another
job. After being laid up for many months In
tho MerBey, IL 10 being thoroughly oyerhauled
and lifted up to lay the cable between France
aud this country Sir James Anderson will
resume command. -
A great sensation was Recently caused in
Prague by the suicide ola VOL known retired
Austrian captain. From some papers found
IN his room, II appears thai he was a victim
OF the 30. called American duel; that -, the.
two eOntending parties place d white ana q
black bail in a hat, aud the one who draws
the black is In honor bound to hn himself
within agiysn time, oi T F UL