The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-10
Drrpities.
MiseellaneOus Items.
Boston has two haunted honses.

, The manufacture of trowser buttons
has enabled a wife TO appear at Saratoga
with q So, 200 diamond. !
The Boston and New York ladies at
Lake George are not on good terms, and
verbal fights are frequent.
"A German Railroad Convention held at
Vienna on the 18th Of July. The Directors
Of seventy-seven railroads were present.
In Cincinnati peaches are selling at
70 cents per bushel; tomatoes 25 cents,
apples 40 cents; pears 80 cents, &c. How
will that do for low
"A loaf of Indian bread has been found
in Indiana, buried in the earth, and geolo.
Rists are trying to ascertain its age. A thick
bark had grown over It.
New York city has made the liberal offer
Of $40, 900 for the Century plant. Over 49,
900 people went TO see this plant while II
was on exhibition Mt Rochester.
Bishops of the Established Church in
England are, during the next two years, to
be allowed TO retire upon CO, 600 u year. or
one-third of their present revenues.
Daniel S. Curtis, n lawyer Of Boston,
has been sentenced TO two months in jail
for tweaking the nose Of Joseph NJ. Chur-
chill, n banker in the same eminent city.
The cars on the White Mountain Rail.
road were delayed by snow on the 9Th OF
August, and 100 people were compelled to
spend a night on Mount Washington.
A letter from San Francisco says there
are few old Californians to be found who
have not been rich and poor again, at least
half a dozen times, aud most Of them are
poor now.
Cornelius Kailiher, an invalid in New
York, following the advice of an old wom-
an, stepped a ten cent paper of tobacco in
n pint of ale, and drank tho fluid. IL kill
ed him within three hours.
One of the Georgia editors objects to
the proposed editorial convention in that
state. He says that the affair will only be q
big drunk, and 1--WE can get drunk at home,
on whisky that we are usened to-"
james Bessom, q pedestrian, Is TO at
tempt the feat Of walking backward from
Portland to Boston, Assistance of ITO miles,
in eight days, on q wager Of 81, 600. He
proposed to start on the Goth of August.
A Chicago paper says: The number
of deaths in this city for August will reach
about 900, as we learn from an official
source. There is much sickness, and an
unusual number of deaths are occurring.
III 1914, tue rev. Df' rent, In
an address at the Indiana University, pre-
dicted n railroad across the continent, his
hearers, including the potent, grave and
reverend seniors laughed him to scorn.
Preliminary steps for founding a col
ored commercial or business college in
Washington have been taken, with pros
poets Of final success. 1t is proposed even
tually to extend the movement all over the
country.
The total receipts from theatres in
Chicago during July were az follows:
Woods Museum Sc, 271; McVicker ~ N.Y.
ers So, l99. 20; Dearborn Theatre 50, 930.45.
All of these places were open only a part
Of the month,
st. Augustine, Fla, which is filed with
invalids from the North during the winter
months, has become n great resort for South
erners in the summer. Cool sea breezes, an
even temperature, and fine bathing are its
attractions in the latter season.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was
the largest wheat.producing state in the
Union. Now il IL about twelfth on the
list. The people have turned their atten-
ton to the development of that which is
hidden in thee earth oil, coal and iron.
-Aconyict in the Maryland Penitontiary,
who has three years TO serve, as q cattle
thief, has fallen heir TO $50, 900 by the
death of a relative in Ohio, and some very
dislnterested persons are e~ndeavoring to
procure his pardon.
The question whether Barbara Friet-
chic was myth or q real woman is to be
finally set at rest by the presentation TO
Mr.. Whittier of q cane made from q beam
of the house she lived in, by the citizens
Of fredericksburg
S. j.. Caven railroad agent at Green
River, Wyoming was shot and killed, n few
days ago, by L. Smith. He was arrested.
The men we're understood to be competi-
tors for the affections ola married lady who
belonged to neither.
Mr.. l.. Provost died at San Jose, Cal,
on the 10th. Mr.. Provost had been en-
gagged for the last thirteen or fourteen
years in the business of silk culture, and,
in fact, may be regarded as the founder Of
that important and promising branch Of in
dustry in California.
The Perry Monument Association pro-
poses o grand meeting at Put-in-Bay, ON
the 10th Of September, the anniversary of
he battle of Lake Erie, the primary object
of which is TO raise additional funds for
the monument. One of the survivors of
the battle will deliver an Grafton.
considerable excitement has been
caused among the people of Chicago by
the discovery that the walls of the new
east wing Of the court house in course of
erection, are in danger of tumbling down
from the careless and unworkmanlike man
ner in which the work has been done.
Not less than l07 clergymen have
clergymen's cards from the 81. Paul and
Pacific Railroad Company, emitting them
to ride ON the road at half fare. They give
these cards to only those who live on the
line OF the road. II appears that the towns
ON this road are well supplied with preach
ers.
The papers are calling TO mind the al
legged prediction of the famous "sleeping
girl" OF Kentucky that, after the eclipse,
the sun would never again shine so holly.
But as the girl did not die ns related, and
predicted neither the eclipse nor the per-
manent weakness Of the suns rays, il is
hardly worth while to discuss it.
A man who owes q bill in London can
now pay IL in four hours by simply going to
wall street and purchasing a document
known as a "cable transfer, 4" a device born
of the great Atlantic telegraph enterprise,
whereby the equivalent of the money which
he gives in New York will be immediately
delivered to his creditor in London.
There is an old gentleman named Bar
rows living near Rockland Me, who has cut
hay from one farm with his own hands for
sixty-siX years, save one. He has lived in
three towns, two counties and two States,
and has never moved from the farm ON
which he was born. There nre now living
in the house with him four generations.
The Albany journal says. owe ara