The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-20
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General News.

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rival there OF the rest of the crew Of the
barque II. Trowbridge, before reported found
at sea whit the bodies Of three dead sailors
aboard.
Several European steamers have recently Ia
ken large quantities of hay, and 1t Ia said
every steamer for a fortnight ahead is en-
gagged to take it as far as convenient. One
line is under ord rs to fill all available space
not occupied by shippers with this article.
Townsend. a book-keeper, and Kennedy. a
druggist, both Of Cleveland, were blown of
shore, Saturday, in q small sail boat, and are
supposed to be lost. Townsend is the son of
an old citizen, and was celebrating his twen-
ty-hrst birthday.
About six o'clock Saturday evening, the
Shore Line passenger train and Hartford
Railroad freight train collided at the junction
VI the two roads, about a mile from New Ha-
ven. The freight train was badly wrecked;
the passenger train was not damaged and no
personal injury sustained.
The appeal in the case Of the United States
against the Armans, in which a counter claim
is involved, has been decided in the Court
Imperial Of France in favor Of the United
States. The suit involved the question
whether the Messrs. Arman had contracted
to build ironclads for the Southern Confeder-
acy.
Tuesday morning five car loads of Indiana
cattle for the Hudson City yard arrived over
the Erie road, and we're detained at the old
slaughter house west Of Bennington Hill,
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tie we're healthy, but four or five we're ailing,
which were Immediately ordered killed.
The members OF the Nova Scotia Legisla-
ture have agreed to employ constitutional
means alone to e%Ntricatc Nova Scotia from the
Dominion, and deprccate rebellion or annex
alton to the United States? The meaning of
this Is that they accept the situation. Bust
ness in the local legislature goes on to-day
under protest.
The Secretary Of tho Treasury has issued
regulations, dated the 9Th inst, concerning
the payment of interest on registered bonds.
All parties to whom interest is due on such
bonds must collect their interest Of tho as
eistant treasurer within ninety days from
date, when Il Is due, or otherwise their claims
will be referred to the treasury agent for set
Element.
Tho Commissioner Of the Union Pacific
Railroad have examined the oath section of
30 miles Of that road, commencing ut the
6S0th and terminating at the Tooth mile post
west from Omaha, and forwarded their report
10 the Interior Department. The President
OF the United States has approved the report,
and directed tho issue TO the company Of the
bonds and patents for land due on tho COM
pletion Of said section.
Seven of n drove of thirty-thrce Illinois cat
tie purchased at Albany last Thursday died
in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday
and Sunday. Eleven had previously been
killed, apparently in good health, and dress
ed, and the meat stood all ready for sale. 1t
was found that they were in the last stages
of disease, and none Of the meat will be al
lowed to reach the public. 4 similar lot OF
cattle was bought for Boston, somo Of which
we're sick when they arrived here.
About one hundred diseased cattle have
been killed at Communipaw, TX. Tho mar
kct Is seriously affected, and the prices for
live stock has also fallen OF. Guards are TO
be stationed at all the railroad lines 70 pre-.
vent the shipment OF diseased cattle, and
every cattle train will be accompanied by a
competent medical officer. An instance Of
sickness from eating diseased meat is report
cd in New York, but prompt measures Of the
Board Of Health will prevent any further
cases,
DR.. Morris, Of the Now York Board Of
Health, has been stationed Mt the Bergen
yards TO inspect MI cattle on their arrival,
and all cattle on their arrival are quarnntincd
for examination. DR.. Morris states that of
thirteen head purchased in New York yards,
apparently healthy, all were attacked with
disease before they could be driven to Wor-
cestor county and slaughtered, and that large
quantities Of diseased meat have been sold in
that market; that notwithstanding cXtraOr-
binary precautions to preserve health tho
deaths last week from diarrhca exceeded
those from sunstroke during the recent heat
cd term; that these deaths were principally
OF middle-aScd persons, and their sickness
was mainly attributable TO diseased meat. He
says, however, that 1t is more safe to eat meat
now than a week or ten days ago, before tho
precautionary measures to prevent diseased
cattle rom entering the CITY.
The East.
The Chinese Embassy spent sunday at
Niagara Falls, and will go thence to Buffalo.
A wealthy stock-broker of New York, is
about 70 erect n mammot art gallery for the
use Of the public, at an expense Of nearly
81, 200, 900.
4 brakeman on tho Niagara Falls railroad,
named Charles Benzino, was knocked from
the top Of a car while tho train was passing
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jured that he died soon after.
The body Of a respectfully dressed man was
found floating in East River, near Navy street,
Brooklyn, with his pockets turned inside out.
He had been murdered, robbed and thrown
into the river.
An order has been issued by the President
OF the New Jersey Agricultural Society for
bidding the bringing into that state any dis
eased cattle. The laws Of the state confer
upon the officer named the authority 10 take
any measures which he may deem necessary
to prevent the spread Of disease among the
cattle OF the state.
Tho body Of another man was found, de-
composed, In his house Ia Hudson Avenue,
Brooklyn, on tho 18th. TIL Offensive smell
which had prevailed for some days led to the
breaking open OF the basement, door and the
remains Of Hugh J. Cunningham, who was
last seen on Saturday, were discovered. His
family are on n visit TO friends at n distance,
Judge Cardoza, Of New York, has, in the
cases Of 0'Brien, Mueoone and Gates, against
the Rock Island Railroad, vacated the injunc-
tions against said corporation and denied the
motion for a receiver, holding that the COM
pany 10 subject to the Jurisdiction of the
states of Iowa and Illinois, and by their laws
its powers must be tested.
The New York society for tho prevention of
cruelty TO animals has made its annual re-
port, from which II appears that dog and
cock fights are almost entirely suppressed;
ten drinking fountains erected for the use OF
horses, dogs, &c; great relief furnished to
car horses during the hot weather, and $50
persons prosecuted for cruelty to their
beasts.
The body found on Sunday in East River
proved to DO that ofCharlcs Eliot, formerly a
Judge in California, shut for many years q
member Of the firm Of Bennergor & Co, Of
New York city. He was understood to have
received $4,000 on Friday, from the transfer
OF u mortgage, and as there is q wound in his
head, and his watch and money are missing,
there seems to be no doubt that he was rob-
bed and murdered.
The West.
A Helena CMontana) dispatch says the
Nowlan Mill at Cable City, after a seven days
run with twenty stamps, cleared $1,000 in
gold.
A larger breadth of crops was planted in
Colorado this year than ever before, II is
estimated that 60, 900 acres are under cultiya-
ton, nearly two-thirds Of which are planted
in wheat and corn.
A dispatch from San Francisco, dated It'll.
says that the Central Pacific Railroad il now
built to the Humboldt river, $50 miles east Of
San Francisco. The earnings in July were
$500, 900 In gold, the road being opened from
164 to 100 miles during that period.
The estimated crops in Utah this season
are; Wheat, $1,000 bushels; Corn, 10000
bushels; Potatoes, 700, 900 bushels; Sorghum,
$50, 900 gallons. ~Grasshoppers caused more
damage this season than any previous year.