The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-09-24
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Miscellaneous LIENS.

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-Three-cornered visiting cards are the
style now.
The New York World complains of A
Flea Pest" in that region.
Crimson morocco boots are coming into
fashion in Madrid.
ITwo-thirds of all the gloves worn in New
York are said to be made of rat skin.
A Naval Committee is to examine into the
feasibility OF building a bridge across Boston
harbor.
The milliners boast that they have at last
invented a bonnet which the ladies annot
make for themselves.
Sixty Scotch families have engaged TO
emigrato to North Adams, Mass, to work ON
Scotch plaids in the new mill there.
In Warsaw, tho former capital of Poland,
people are arrested by the Russians for
speaking their native Polish tongue.
~-"Nobody is responsible Tor the Grecian
Bend. The idiot females who practice il do
80 on their own hook or, az the expression
has been etherializcd, on their personal curve.
Saratoga has, it il said, more hotels than
either Boston or Philadelphia. There arc
thirty-soven Of them, but they are INSULT
cient to accommodate twenty thousand
guests.
A number of Englishmen who bayo re.
Gently visited California, declare the 70 Sc.
mite Valley the greatest curiosity in the
world.
"A gentleman of Norfolk, Va. found 1900
200 in an old trunk, a few days ago. II was
all in Spanish milled dollars and Virginia pa
per currency Of 1875.
A bachelor Of sixty-eight recently married
a girl OF eighteen in Buffalo, and she, a.
might be supposed, ran away with his young
or brother before tho honeymoon was over.
-Ahne vein ofcoal, three feet thick, only
60 feet below the surface, has been found at
Steamboat Rock, on the Iowa river, near FL
dora.
AT Connersville, Tenn. last SATURDAY
two boys had o dificulty, when one drew a
revolver and shot tho other in the back. The
wound il mortal.
The libel suit of Emil Anneke, formerly
AuditOr-Genoral OF Michigan, against the De
rToit Advertiser and Tribune. for $500 0 IL
now on trial in that city.
Boston Common, IL seems, is used az q
dQrm1tOry. Tho Boston Transcript saws 4:
People who sleep on the Common have found
that an extra blanket was much needed the
past few nights"
Ono firm in Hallowell Me, employs abou
one hundred wOrbmcn in quarrying and
hammering granite. From two to four cart
loads OF hammered granite are sent away
daily, and occasionally a cargo of rough
blocks Of the same article.
Tho death ia announced Of Sir John
Thomas, at the age Of 70. Ho was a member
Of the Executive Council. and for fifteen
years Speaker of the Legislative Council
Barbadoos. He received the honor of knight
hood in 1859.
Williams College opened the new collegi-
ate year last week with a Freshman class Of
f~orty-four. Prof. Anderson takes charge Of
tue department OF mathematics, and Prof.
ellison that Of modern languages.
"A prominent photographer. of Pittsburgh
has been arrested for libel which consisted
in manufacturing and circulating pictures Of
the head OF q ~woll-known and respectable
young lady ofthat city, 20 which a little boys
body had been coupled.
Tho Pittsburgh city authorities have Or
dercd all s%prinkling Of the NicOlson pavement
stopped. Water Will rot tho wood; but the
pavement il to be swept over once a week
When 1t rains we presume they will protect
the pavement with umbrellas.
ITO publish a book of travels in Europe
now rs on the face OF 1t an Oficnsc which
seems to require some apology" truly saws
the Now York Evening Post. There is no
reason why everybody who has 'dono" Eu.
rope should do" the reading public like.
wise.
The grape aud wine association OF
Wheeling has sold its entire crop 10 n gen.
tleman of Reading, Pa. The total weight Of
grapes from the vineyard Of lightweight
acres, not all of 1t in bearing condition, il ex-
pectcd to reach one hundred and ten TONS
The price Is not stated, but at the lowest
figure II must be a very handsome return.
"A young married lady Of Boston went IN
to the country for u visit O few weeks ago.
and her husband also left his place of bust.
ness soon aitor and failed to return. His
employers have Just learned that no has an
another wife, the adopted daughter of a clor-
gyman, and il living in unknown parts.
About a bushcl Ut letters recently reach
cd the Paris tKy.,) Post ONCE that were
written in 1861, 1862, aud 1863, SOM OF them
having been seven years on their route. IL
Il thought that they were hidden by some Of
the mountain POstnasters during the war to
prevent their being captured by the COnfcd-
erat0 forces.
Mrs. Margaret Carr, of Lafayette, Ind,
while returning from market, walking upon
the railroad track, last Friday evening, was
taken with a ~fainting fit, to which she was
subject, and fell sonseloss. Tho express train
soon after came, knocked her TO one side, all
except the right hand, over which the wheels
of the locomotive passed, cutting it on. The
poor woman's injuries are serious, but not ia
tai.