The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-11-05
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~phladelPhia has put up siO,OOODOO worth
-Chicago manufactures arc estimated to
have a yearly value of $40, 200, 600.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel of New York
talks OF adopting tle European plan.
Indiana has Trouble with It's insane asyl-
um, and all the officials have resigned.
Nashville market men are frequently yav.
and robbed on their way home.
There we're eleven divorces decreed in
Superior Court, in Atlanta, Ga, on the
10Th inst.
Soup societies arc already organizing for
the winter, in Philadelphia, for the relief of
the poor.
AT W~aukegan, Ill.,, on Saturday night,
Weyle X Co.'S tdnnery was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
The search for Dr.. Livingstone has
already been the excuse iOr halt a dozen or
moro works.
Tho total vote OF PENNSYLVANIA at the re-
cent election was $40, 900, $1,000 more than
ever before cast.
After the Let Of November the rate Of
postage to Prince Edwards Island viii be re-
to six cents.
-Distillers are resuming operations daily
throughout Kentucky, and the tradei in whisy
is quiet and lively.
In New York, last week, MARY Bushcl
undertook TO get rid Of her husband by giving
him a peck with a knife.
Moro than 400, 900 life policies are in force
in the state Of New NOrk, representing up
ward Of "a 900, GOO, 600 in risks.
Tho Oregon crops are very large. Wheat
il selling in Portland Al from is to zoe per
bushol, and oats at from 40 to SOC.
The Denver News states that Wells, Far
&c e Go. will soon carry passengers from
Denver TO Cheyenne at from 81 TO So.
Nine velocipcdists lately travelled from
Rouon 10 Paris, thirty-two leagues, in four
hours, three OF which they rested.
The Brazilian Government has offered a
reward OF 5000, gold, to the inventor of any
practicable mode OF preserving beef for eN-
portatiou.
In the states Of Nebraska and Kansas,
within the past few weeks, aome 80, 900 acres
OF public lands have been taken up for actual
settlement.
The Kellogg concerts are almost Ne much
the rage as were those OF jenny Lin |, years
ago i'm New York. Fifty dollars were paid for
a good scat the other night.
The aggregate weight OF the seven bells
in the chime OF Cornell University Is 5S5S
pounds. They were moulded, cast, trans
ported go miles, and set up within a period
of eighteen days.
John Conlcy, a laborer, while engaged in
unloading stone nom q canal boat OF Twelfth
street bridge, Chicago, on Monday afternoon,
fell iuto the river and was drowned. IL is
supposed that he was inebriated ut the time.
Ducks and geese are lar more abundant
IN all the sloughH and rice lakes Of the Mis-
sissippi than was.over known before. Tliy
Is probably owing to The large crop Of wild
rice that IL found in every slash aud slough
this fall,
Nine Young men who LEFT Roucn on their
yelOcipedOs at seven in the morning, reached
Pans vt nine in the evening. They perform
ed tho distance OF thirty-two leagues in II
hours. having rested three hours during the
day.
"A company in Buenos Ayrcs propose to
carry living cattle and sheep to Europe, at the
rate Of 5000 Of each monthly. They wiz
employ five large steamers, distil water for
thoir WI use ON the way,and feed with steam
cd food.
The Union Pacific Railroad is now COM
plctod SIS miles west from Omaha, which
brings II within one hundred and fifty miles
Of salt Lake City, and the road 10 nearly all
graded Tor that distance, and the iron Tor the
track il also on the way. II is confidently OK
pectCd that the road will be finished to Salt
Lake this year.
The steamer Lily. bound for Fort sully,
on the Upper Missouri, Will "a cargo Of Hour
and bacos, belonging to the Government,
sunk at Rush Bottom on Saturday last, and IL
"a lNAMl lose INC UNhN WAS bM ltu bN NulAull
Tyler, Of ~. LOnis, and was valued az SO 900.
She was insured for u, 1000 IN Cincinnati COM
panioB. Her cargo was valued at $50, 900, and
was insured.
The %propriety of changing the site ofYale
College Is being seriously discussed by tho
members of It's Faculty and Board Of Trus-
tees. Two places are suggested in opposite
parts Of New Haveu-thc elevated ground at
the head or Hillhouso avenue, and The site o!
General IIllgck'a homo, In the southwestern
End Of tho city, toward what is known as
"Oyster Point" ..
Tho family oGthe Swedish regicide Aukar-
strum still preserves IN a Jar filed with al
cohOl, the right hand Of that remarkable
man, which was cut % by the eXecutiOneT
previous 20 Ankarstroni's death on the ecaf-
fold. Tie cXecutiQner received a very large
sun Of money for delivering II TO the family,
instead o. burning It in accordance with the
sentence passed upon the reglcide.
The great steamer America, when ahoat
the largest steamer in the world except the
Great Eastern, and intended for the ilag-ship
OF thc japan aud China nado from San Fran
cisco, viii DO completed IN New York, it il
stated, by the let ol March, 1869. This shin
is built on the model OF the famous yacht
America, and Il is anticipated that she will be
one Oh the iastest ycaseL ever constructed.
A novel principle Is to be applied in naval
warfare. Experiments are beng made at
Antwerp 10 fOrtify the river Scheldt by a line
OF torp5doos to be exploded by an electrical
current. The time for exploding them is 10
be determined by a camera obscura. When
the ship arrives over the line Of the tOrpe-
docs it will cast an Inverted image, aud the
electrical current will then be applied,
The Chinese have contracted the habit Of
covering their umbrellas, rooms and houses,
oyelyttdnR IN short, with old European
stamps, which they buy by thousands and
millions The Rhonish Mission, which has a
station in China, collects these stamps and
sells Them nc Sc, per thousand. From the
money ~ acquired tho mission educates sucl
children as have boon either exposed or sold
A. slaves by their unnatural Chinese parents.
Brown broad aud baked beans, says tho
Boston Traveller, arc among the acknowl
edged institutions Of New England. Boston
shows herself n worthy metropolis Of
New England b. her cordial mainte'
name OF these agreeable institutions
a single baker in Green street baEes weekly
at least a thousand loavcs Of brown bread ant
a barrel Of beans. His Issue OF lOayes on
Sunday morning last was 200. p
Sixteen years ago a physician in Esslin
gen, Wlrtemburg, was murdered in broad
daylight. All efforts 10 discover the ASSASSIN
remained iruitlca5. But a few weeks since
letter written by a Catholic priest, in Amer
lea, informed the authorities Of Esslingel
that a locksmith who, in 1852, had ~omigrateC
from that city, had confessed to him, on hi
death bed, III August last, that he had com
mitted tho murder OF Dr. hampold.
Rather a serious question has arisen be
fore the registering board Of the county O
Rock Island, Illinois. The island itself hal
boon coded to the United States, aud tho Off
GERS do not know whether TO allow the resi-
dents upon II 10 vote, The custom in slmilaI
cases in other states has, we believe, been 4
refuse to allow those living ON land Owe
which the general government has jurisdic
ton 10 exercise the night OF voting, but thu
,Ock leland board is inclined 20 register In
names OF those whose wight is in dispute.
]tective, was found in st. Louis, on saturda,
night, in an alley, with a terrible wound oi
tho back OF the head, from winch no due,
Monday. Christian has been active il
ierreiing out frauds IN TOBACCO, ppd ha,
/ been instmnlcutal In prOcnririn v,iiuesse