The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-01
prtuitits.
miscellaneous Items.

The number Of professional thieves OF
all kinds in New York is estimated at TO-
900.
Letters from Egypt represent that the
yield OF cotton in that country this year will
be enormous.
The great grandfather of young Dumas
captured Fra DiavolO, and did brilliant ser
vice at Thionville.
In Leeds, England, there is a Lincoln
block of buildings, named in honor of the
great President.
H. +. Parrish has a nursery Of over
10000 fruit trees growing near the old Mis-
sion Ridge battlefield, at Chattanooga.
Gloucester, Mass, has 400 vessels and s.
900 men engaged in the fisheries. The pro-
duct of the fisheries this year is $4,000, 900.
1t lie a good thing to have utility and beau
ty combined, as the washerwOman said when
she used her thirteen children as chothcs-
pins.
There have been 1893 applicants for adj
mission 10 the Yale freshman class, of which
ca were admitted without conditions, ZIG
were conditioned, and 10 we're rejected.
Mr.. Alexander, the ILLINOIS %"cattlo
king, has lost FIVE hundred head of cattle
by the Texas distemperi aud in Champaign
Co. the loss exceeds seven thousand five hun.
dred head.
There was a violent snow storm last week
on the White Mountains in New Hampshire.
On "Wednesday snow had fallen to the depth
OF a foot and a halt near the head of New
Mount Washington railway.
The residence Of James L. Day, near
Stohington, Conn, which cost fully $175, 600,
was sold n few days since to George =. Scott,
of the Philadelphia firm Of jaw Cooke & Co.,
for f45, 900.
Ten employees of tho New York firm Of
W. x J. Sloane, carpet dealers, have been ar
rested for extensive frauds on customers and
the firm, by which they have stolen $780,
600 worth of carpeting in the last seven
years.
Two men on Kelley's Island are digging
ten hours a day for the body of an indian
chief, which Planchetto has told them was
buried in a certain place, with S18 600 worth
of jewelry on his person. They are working
In limestone, but are not permitted to use
powder, and only pick q few inches q day.
A sensation was created among the up-
town people of New York, ON Friday morning
by the discovery OF the perfect remains of a
human foot and leg, embedded in some gran
tie which the quarrymcn are blasting at the
corner Of Tonth avenue and Forty-second
street. The granite Is a pale color, and the
human remains are perfectly black.
Extensive fires have been raging in the
mountainous DhANH VI bMNAlNAf lAANNANNAN III
the province OF Norrland. The peasants, on
several occasions, had TO fee for their lives,
unable TO save villages and farms from the
fierce co%niagration of trees, plants, and even
the soil. The province Is described AZ now
almost q bleak waste.
The citizens of the Nineteenth Ward Of
Philadelphia, Penn, in which tho murder OF
the little girl named Mary Mohieman occur
red, have offered a reward Of 81 900 for the
capture and conviction of the murderer, and
a worthy citizen has offered a handsome brick
house to the captor. Tit reward thus far Of
forod il two thousand dollars and handsome
brick house.
In Middletown, Vt, Is a single tomato
plant ten feet high and eight feet in breadth,
which had upon Il one bushel Of fruit, some
of thom weighing a pound each, and all of
them of large Sue. They are called the
perfected tomato" are thick meated, have
very few seeds, aud always grow large. DR..
Burke has been very successful in the Guilt
vation Of the tomato plant, and often picks
tomatoes Weighing twenty-seyen ounces. He
has a model garden.
The Valley Of Virginia retains its old rep
utation for f~ruitfulnoss. Scarcely a vestige
of the late war is visible SAYS tic Lynch
burg, Va, News, GIN this beautiful and
highly favored section OF country. IL was
secured from one extreme TO the other by
successive inroads Of Federal cavalry, and
was the theatre of many desperate battles,
but every wound has been healed, aud every
scar has disappeared, and her green fields,
full Of fertile promise, bespeak a speedy re-
turn of the blessed abundance of antebellum
days.