The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-Omuha has u population estimated az
$4,000.
An Iowa orchard contains sixty thous-
and bearing apple trees
Dexter is 80 ramed from his habit of
putting the right foot foremost.
some one calculates that an acre of
buckwheat yields fourteen pounds of honey
daily.
There is n school teacher in the employ
Of the city Of Boston who has served for
over 40 years.
More than sos, OOO, 900 worth of boots
aud shoes will be manufactured i'm Massa-
chusetts the present year.
A lad died i'm Albany q few DAYS since
from paralysis caused by n dose of whisky
given TO stimulate him while III.
"A temperance lecturer has started from
Kansas with the declared intention of walk
ing to Augusta, Me-, and delivering q lee
ture on temperance every evening while on
his way.
-Ju1ge Sawyer, of the District Court of
California, has decided that Chinese testi-
mony is admissible against white men un-
der the fourteenth amendment TO the Fed
eral Constitution.
A single st. Joseph firm has sold dur
ing the season $50, 600 quart berry boxes,
30 1000 half bushel berry cases, and their
sales of peach p%ackings will mount to So
600 baskets and 30, 900 boxes
A child three years old, Of A. p. Sedg-
wick, of Weymouth, Medina county, Ohio,
swallowed a shingle nail which lodged in
its throat, and remained there for thirty
two days. In an effort OF coughing the
nail was thrown out.
A Chicago paper says; "a prominent
actor who is not married, and IN equally
prominent actress who is married, last sun
day evening, terminated q short though toll
erably brilliant western season by uniting
baggage and clipping"
-Tn Boston, the other day, q girl dashed
yitriol IN n young mans face and complete
ly destroyed his eyes Che is now an inmate
Of an asylum for the blindl, because he re-
fused to acknowledge himself the father of
her illegitlnatc child.
Recently n two-year old colt, in Phil
lips, Me-, was found literally stuck full of
]porcupine quilts. lie was caught, and
seven men with nippers worked upon him
n considerable portion Of the day TO free
him from his torment.
Rich placer diggings have recently
been discovered northwest Of Helonu, Mon
taua, but the Indians were so troublesome
that the miners have thus far been unable
to work the new mines, which arc said to
be of surprising richness.
Louisa Muhlbach, the novelist, is com
ing 20 America next spring, with her daugh-
tiers, ThoOdorn and FrCdrikn Mundt, the
former Of whom ~ au actress Of ropute and
has been for some time studying English
with the purpose OF appearing on ourstage.
Tho Troy Wing has madea calculation
from which it appears that enough rain
fell in Rensselaer, aud Albany counties on
Sunday aud Monday of last week TO supply
every man, woman aud child upon The face
of the earth with two and a half gallons Of
water per day for q year.
Its dangerous business sparkling the
Maplewood Institute girls at PittsHcld,
Mass, this fall. Rev. G. V. Spear, the
Principal, ndvortises that his grounds are
protected with powder and ball, " and ex-
poets the "cousins" of his fair pupils to
tako due warning.
a party which recently went to the up
per waters of the Yuba on u fishing excur-
sion, not finding the sport with hook and
line sufficiently exciting, exploded a small
charge of giant powder in the water. The
effect was astonishing all the fish in the
immediate vicinity large and small, being
instantly killed.
Sim" the Chief of the washoe In
dams, is dead. A newspaper published
among tho Rocky Mountains says of him
obituarily: Gle was u good, though very
dirty red man. He possessed n we'll
balanced head of hair, and stomach enough
for oil ne could get to eat, His regard for
the truth was notable he never meddled
with ii. He left no will, aud his estate
consisted of Il pair Of boots"
The New York Tribune of the 9th
says: 1T is said that during the past six
weeks 500 head of cattle which arrived in
Jersey City from Texas, and which were aG-
hicted with the Spanish fever, have been
sold 10 farmers throughout the State at 81
u head, and are now spreading the pesti-
leuce among all the cattle in their different
localities. Tho State Society holds Colonel
Black, State Inspector responsible"
Prince Arthur was, on Friday, made a
Chief OF the MOhawks, ut their village near
Bmntford, Canada. He wa indicted into
the honor by one Of the Chiefs of the Six
Nations, u descendant Of the celebrated
Yrant. HIS older brothers have also been
made Chiefs of this tribe. He was named
Z The Flying sun" because, 'like the sun,
h is flying nom East TO West over the vast
d minions OF his mother"
The following personal" advertise
melt appears in II New York paper
"ShCnld this notice meet the eye of any
person who has recently been bereaved by
stock speculatioDs and is tainted with pugil-
istic ability, who feels that his life is moth
ing to him, and Is willing TO scalp any one,
in hopes of retrieving his losses, and if
necessary enter the prize-ring (as has been
done as n last resort to raise the wind),
he will learn something to his advantage by
addressing j. Mace"
An Adirondack correspondent tells a
good story illustrative Of the responsibility
of travellers in that region for introducing
tho vices Of civilization. Agentleman who
had n good supply Of liquor in his camp
was generous enough to treat his guide.
This unBophisticated forester got 30 iuri-
ously drunk that his employer was afraid
to stay in camp with him, and essnyed to
get away; but his guide intercepted him,
and forced him at the point Of the pistol to
row the boat, with the guide rs passenger,
all tho way to the next inn.