The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-22
Breuities.
Miscellaneous Items.

Saratoga has had GO, 600 more visitors this
season than before.
The sign boards put up at the road cross
ings on the Pacific Railway are said to read,
Look ont for the Indians"
The Nonpareil says that n young lady
was struck dumb on the Attn inst, at Council
Bluffs, by the firing Of a cannon.
Walton, Maine, has a dwelling house in
habiteG by four families, with i3 children.
Things get mixed there sometimes.
During August the New York Post Office
sent 1896, 900 %lettcrs, and received 3G3, 900. be-
sides a money order business OF 100000.
The Italian government has withdrawn
It's subyention of 100000 francs from the
famous La Scala opera house IN Milan. The
stockholders are naturally indignant.
The campaign artillery Of the French
army consists OF LOO cannons, the trains
and horses Of which are all complete, aud
ready fOr any emergency.
A watch is on exhibition at Waterbury,
Conn, that dates back to the vear 1863. 1t is
Of rude workmanship, having no pendulum
spring and no minute hand, only an hour
hand, and catgut cord IN place OF a chain.
w. j. Rogers, OF Stephontown, n. V.
while digging potatoes ON Tuesday, found an
old English hall penny, bearing date oi 1735,
making IL 1873 years Old. IL was coined forty
tire years before tho Revolution.
The official vote IN the question Of the
assumption of the municipal war debt by the
state Of Maine, IL declared 10y the Governor
to be, yeas, 81, 1872; no, 1l,48L. The cities
generally voted against the measure. aud
the country W for IT,.
A Paris collector lately bought an old
stove made by a potter Of NilligCu nearly
three hundred years ago for siN hundred
i1rins. and subsequently sold IL to an Eng
lish collector for nearly live times that sum.
IL Is made Of clay and rs adorned with pie
lures Of the Bible.
The highest mine in the world H. a silver
mine, aud * that Of POtusi, IN the Andes Of
Peru. II h situated 1870 feet above the
surface Of the ocoan. The deepest minc IN
the world ~ a salt mine. II In the so-called
new S%cl2wcrE, in Wostphalia, aud Is 2,OjO feet
below the surface OF the ocean.
About two weeks ago the dog OF j. &.
Merry, OF sherman, Me, drove "a couple at
bears mp q tree, and il Is reported that Mr..
Merry took her knitting work and sat down
under tha tree To watch the bears Until her
husband, who was at work on another part OF
the farm, could be called. With his gun he
soon brought them To terms.
The friends of wOman's rights have called
a national convention, 70 be held in Washing
ton in December. II j. expected that Mls.
stanton, Miss Anthony Lucretia Mott, and
Lucy stone, and other advocates Of the
movement, will attend. The first Inc Of the
call tor the convention reads: Women of
the United Statcs, You sleep surrounded by
suflerings; you dream amid dangers.'
During the festivities at Cardiff, Wales,
in honor OF the Marquis OF Butte attaining his
majority, q performing goat was exhibited,
which had been taught, among other things,
to pick out from an alphabet strewed upon
the tloor the letters Is UT l., and from nu-
moroua cyphcrs the number 300, 900, which
represents the Marquis yearly income ia
pounds.
A retired judge, named Spalletta, resided
at CabtrOgiOvanni, Ia Sicily, with hiH family.
He was known as avery economical man, aud
member OF the household having bCiu seen
Tor some days, the authorities broke opCntho
door OF hir residence, and found the body Of
the owner, hir wife, hiu daughter, and Of u
male and female servant, lying ia pools Of
blood, and in an advanced stage Of decOmpo.
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