The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-19
Personal.
.Luoretia Mott is n.

lion francs.
Duke Ernest, Of SAKE Cobure-Gotba,
Spring.
=. Adams Smith, u. s. N, is lecturine
on the kearsarge, the victor over the Ala
bama.
There is nan at Ossipeo, N. H., who
claims to be one hundred and sixty years
of age.
Mike McCoole has been arrested nj
Cincinnati and bound in the sum of $4,000
not to engage in a prize fight in Ohio.
Senator Chandler. of Michigan, is in
Rome, where he has been sitting for his
bust to the sculptor Randolph Rogers.
! Queen Victoria has presented a MAG.
niicent bracelet to the pima donna Nils
son, the blonde nightingale of Sweden.
DR.. Beust, of New Albany, Ind, who
ives surgeon in the Union army, is reported
70 be a brother OF The Austrian Prime Min
lister.
Miss Eta Soule, q young lady of rs,
has been eloquently championing woman's
rights in a public debate with Miss Cecilia
Asher, in Cincinnati.
"A year ago, Clement March. Of Green
land, N. H., was worth 50, 900, 900. He put
II into copper and silver mining stocks, and
lost il all.
The Grown Prince cf PRUSSIA Is report
cd TO have taken a very beautiful ballet
girl, disguised as a groom, with him on his
tour TO Italy. w
DR.. ]. G. Holland expects 10 sp.nd
this winter in Munich with his family.
where he will write a new book.
John Russell and his wife of West
Concord, N. H., have been married ~
years, and have AZ grandchildren, "a great
grandchiidren, and one greatRreat.grand-
child. Mr.. Russell il % and does not uge
speotaoles.
Fourteen or fifteen years ago Miss Oar.
oline Plummer, of Salem, (who founded in
Harvard College a "Professorship of the
Heart" Of which Bishop Huntington was
the first incumbent), gave $40, 900 to os-
tablish in Salem the Drummer Farm
School Of Reform for boys" The fund has
been managed by ten trustees, and has ac-
cumulated enough to justify them in.build-
ing nm establishment, which they are about
to do, on Winter Island, near Salem, at n
cost Of $4,000, appropriated by the city.
"A Boston paper describes Josh Billings
a. follows: "Mr. Shaw is strong in a per-
sonele, which If his ~providential work in
lie IL that OF n comic lecturer, il n marvel
lous endowment OF means for ends. He ia
very tall, but has n queer stOop in his back
and very round shoulders. His head and
features are large and are both striking aud
gueeri in the impression which they produce.
His eyes are OF great size and are sunk IN
his head something after the pattern of Mr..
Webster's, but speotacles prevent them
from being solemn OF even serious. His
complexion is quite dark, and his hair.
which is long and nearly jet black, Ia brush
ed straight back from his forehead"
Foreign.
st. Petersburg Is 10 have n Woman'a
Rights Convention.
-Kingslake, the Crimean writer. has
lost his seat In Parliament by bribery. and
is likely to come 10 grief in a criminal pro-
secution.
"A murderer recently hanged in Eng
land stated that the idea of shooting his
victim twas suggested by u picture in tho
Police News"
Out of every hundred women in Great
Britain above twenty years Of age, il has
been ascertained that 50 are wives, 10 Wild
ows, and 30 spinsters.
"A Russian Count, when he found a
tenor visiting his wife early in the night.
made tho singer sit at tho piano and play
opera airs for five hours under the cover of
o pistol.
The revenue of Prussia amounts 10
forty per cent. of its national debt; that of
Russia t~wenty-seven, while those of France.
England and Austria range from ten to ak.
teen.
1t costs England only 81, $50. 900 an
nually for her clean bank of England Cur
rency on n gold basis. II costs the United
States Sl3, OOO, 900 for II dirty and non.re-
deemablec currency.
"A fisherman Of Montereau, in France
lately caught a fish within which WAS found
a breastpin ornamented with 80 precious
stones, diamonds, emeralds, rubies and
sapphires, the whole valued by jewelers. at
$500, 600.
The old prison Of the Conciergerie is
about to disappear, and with it the cell
where the unfortunate Marie A~ntoinette
was confined previous - her execution.-
Charlotte Corday befo e" her, and the infa-
nous Fouquier Tinvillo ai..r her, occupied
the same chamber.
"A turnkey in the Be!aft jail heard a
DIT OF conversation while Tnssing a double
cell, the other day. IL was; 'Push me mn
a little higher" ''You are high enough.h
He opened the door, and found one con
Wet dangling by his neck, aud the other
looking on. much interested Mt the suicide
at which he had assisted.
"A little boy, on asking his father to al
low him to be baptized, was told that he
was TOO young, that he might fall back
when he was only a little boy. To this h
made the touching reply: Jesus ba
OmiSed To carry tha lambs In h;s o.n,a.
AZ am only a little boy, il will be easier
for Jesus to carry me-"
The people of Abyssinia are 40 wall
aware of the great loss which their conn
try has suffered by the death of Theodo-
rus, that they have begun 10 venerate him
as a saint. The German missionaries in
Abyssinia report that thousands of pill
Brlms visit his grave, where q number Of
miracles have said TO have occurred.
"A curious fact 10 brought 10 public Mt
tention by recent statistics published in
England. In thirty two counties in that
country and in twelve of Wales there are
n thousand six hundred parishes and
hamlets in which no liquor is sold. Nor
folk contains one hundred and TWENTY
seven parishes and townships in which.
there is neither beer-sbop nor public-house.
Lincoln has one hundred and sixteen such,
places and Dorsetshire one hundred and
eighti Gloucestershire has eighty-three.
and Leicestershire eighty; Hartfordshire
has one, Devonshire twenty-three, and
Cornwall twenty-five.
Alexander Thomas Martin was found
dead in a water cistern in Clarendon street.
London, lately. He lad been a cellarman,
who, after a lfe'of sobriety, had taken sud-
denly to drink, on which account he lost
atNuatfoat mud imam s.uoa. ~