The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-04-23
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byyaproelamation of the Mayor. ~ TTTI
-Fainting in a gentloman's arms was a
neat dodge Of a Western female pick.pocket.
New York thieves are training dogs to
snatch bundles OF notes from bank counters.
Melbourne, Australia, though but thirty
years Old, has a,quarter OF a million Of inhab-
kites in the air and and orange-peel ON
the sido.walks are fruitful causes Of acct
dents In New York.
"A citizen of Louisville claims to have in
his possession a watch presented TO Lafayette
by George Washington.
Tho bed Of the Missouri river, at Sioux
City, il $40 feet above that Of tho Mississippi
at Dubuque, in the same latitude.
"a thief in San Francisco pawns 80 much
OF bis plunder as possesses a peraonal value,
and retufns the tickets 10 his victims with a
polite note.
CHARLES Cadwalder, engineer on the
Central Pacific Hoad, has sounded the Don,
ner Lake 70 the depth Of 1000 feet without
finding bottom.
"A new hotel az Cape May, in process OF
erection, will be 800 feet long, -four stories
high and have porches I 400 feet in length.
II will cost $3.50, 900.
The wurtemburg police have prohibited
the representation OF a play, the scene Of
which il laid IN America. One of the actors
represents Gen. Grant.
A reverend gentleman Of Philadelphia
sends all his complimentary dressing gowns,
smoking caps, and slippers to a furnishing
store on commission.
An escaped lunatic attempted to commit
suicide az New York laAt Wednesday, in
obedience, as he Thought. to the orders OF
abraham Lincoln, First Ruler of Heaven ~
Wolves are making havoc among the
hogs and sheep in Amite county, Miss. They
are supposed TO have been driven into that
county by the high water in the Mississippi
swamps.
-Itis understood that Commodore VAN
derbilt has offered Erastua Corning, Jr.,
S25, 600 for the trotting horse George Pal
NOR" He Is said 70 be the fastest horse Of
his age In the world.
A young yelocipedist, while practising
near the steamboat wharf IN New Haven,
Conn, last week, got under such headway
That he could not stop, and both bicicle and
rider rode on the dock into the waters OF the
harbor.
A farmer at Taunton, Mass, has q re-
markable COW. During the last year she has
given 7,43i quarts Of milk, weighing about
1865 pounds, and yielding about $500; while
the keeping Of this animal cost only S1ii.
AN intelligent gentleman from Germany
on his 1rst visit 10 an American church, had
a contribution box with a hole IN the top pre-
scented 10 him, and whispered TO the collec-
tor, Il don't got moin papers unit can't
vote"
The monument TO be erected by the New
York Seventh Regiment TO the momory OF
the mombers OF tho regiment who fell during
the war will cost about $4,000. II will be-
!, placed opposite the Seventh avenue entrance
TO the Central Park.
a Loavonw orth paper thinks u Fan evi
donce ofthe Westward March ofCiyilizatiun"
that the Kansas Legislature appropriated
Si,400 for tobacco for the penitentiary pris-
oners, and only $500 for preaching tho gos-
, pei TO them.
-Isaao and NJ. f.. Burbank, tho parents Of
I Mrs. Senator Morton and Mrs. Postmaster
Holloway, Of Indianapolis, celebrated their
. golden wedding on Tuesday, at their resi-
| dence in Contoryillo. All Of their children,
seven in number, were present.
| "A Nashville druggist has invented q rat
. paint made OF a preparation OF phosphorus.
. You first catch a rat, then You paint him.
, After dark he looks like q ball Of fire, and
I going among his fellow-rats, they vacate the
promises, the "bright particular" rat follow
I ing and h~urrying up the rear.
-Rothschild's heirs evidently believe that
q man has no business to let property 30 out
Of his family. They refuse TO pay to lcga-
tees out of the family the sums, petty in
: comparison with the whole estate, which the
: Baron willed 10 them.
Tho Florida orange crOp will not be a
: failure after all. Those trees which did not
lose their leaves have blossomod very heavily,
, and many persons anticipate that even those
: which were rendered leafless viii blossom
lNItE III illt HtAHhns lAAiilth anu llllllh nhNN
! set very abundantly.
Australia has been sunering a fear
ful drought. The accounts from Sydney
and Melbourne detail the fearful effects OF
the heat and lack of moisture. Ono farmer
in Victoria lost 5000 sheep, which died Of
: thirst; and the mortality in all the region has
, been frightful.
Z "A hack driver in Buffalo, who had do.
r tanned two gentlemen purpOsely from reach
ing their train in order that he might make
4 more money out Of them was arrested at the
: instance Of the gentlemen, and was COM
4 polled 10 pay their hotel bill and the costs Of
the case.
A donkey in the suburbs OF London has
+ attained a celebrity by showing q foundness
a for hearing the concerlina played. Al the
sound Of the instrument he will gallOp 10.
4 ward the player, braying loudly Perhaps he
humanely wishes only to drown the sound of
the concertina.
The other day X. called on Madam o.
MADAM, can l bee your husbandf" mo,
3 sir; he Is ont Rl present. He won't out to buy
o cigar "Did he say he would return, mad
nm Z" mo- "Has he been Como long2"-
''MOre than twenty years" "Ah, | see" said
X, she wanted TO get a good one"
A widow in 0nondaga county, N. Y, re-
II Gently cut ont her own daughter in the good
gracos Of her lover, and married him herself.
To obtain revenge for this most unmotherly
trick, the daughter SGT her cap at the young
"a mans rich father, OF whom no was the only
y heir, TO tho infinite annoyance Of her step
children.
+ "A few Sundays since a clergyman in
Maine, in the middle OF his sermon, had oc-
casiOn to use his handkerchief, and to his as
i constituent scattered IN all directions some
fifty specimens OF paper dolls, which hi-
n little daughter had lodged IN tho parental
- pocket for safe keeping. The effect upon the
audience was marked.
The extent Of the calamity 10 Gloucester
40 (Mass.) fishermen from the storm on Georg,
Banks il now summed up. II caused the
10 loss Of thirty-six lives, leaving fifteen wild.
= OWs and eighteen fatherless children, ant
IN $40. 900 worth OF vessels and property, in
eluding anchors, cables, and four wrecked
ships.
THE leader Of the "%claque" at The Parii
~ OdeOn Theater is a wealthy man. He accu,
INFLATED a fortune black-mailing dramatists
no managers, actors aud actresses. Some yaiI
90 artists often pay him a thousand francs FOL
ey one nights "enthusiastio applause" Will
ig the necessary ''encores," calls before the
lg curtain, etc.
sc An incendiary fro recently broke out a
~ the Vatican, in the Court Belyedere. TIT
a iTemen were quickly ON the spot, and, afto
" four hours and a half Of untiring oxertions
no succeeded in distinguishing the flames. Tn,
u fire was happily confined to the storeroOm o
a the factory OF mOsaics, whore some valuable
It's works have been destroyed; but Il nearl
reached the museum, and especially endan
lts gered the portlco containing the Apollo AM
hd LAGOON.
AT a meeting Of the assignees OF McKa
, a Aldua, locomotive engine builders of BIOS
~ ton, who recently failed, 1t was voted 10 ole
*, the works for sale, limiting the price at twl
cir hundred Thousand dollars, sealed proposal
To- for the same to be sent 10 the assignees. !
of not sold, the works are to ba broken NJ
There are three other locomotive works |
bankruptcy offered upon similar terms: on