The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-19
ITEMS.

"A t~hreo-quhrter interest in the On.
ondaga stone giant has been sold fol
$50, 000.e
In 1860 the live stock of Connection
was valued at S11, 81, 079, in 1868 at S1S..
600, 012, and in 1869 az s24, 6s7, 141.
"A fire at Iowa City, last Monday, caused
damage 10 the amount Of $40, 900. Them.
surance docs not cover more than one-hali
the loss.
"A California paper thinks there is a for
tune in n milk weed that grows wild in that
country, the fibre of which ia strong ms Ma
nilla hemp, and fine rs linen.
-Parties in Chicago have purchased A.,
600 acres Of timber land in Olarksburg and
Weston, in West Virginia for the purpose
Of getting out lumber for the Western mar
ket.
burglars entered a house in Chicago on
Friday night last, after the family had re-
tired, and put the inmates under the infu-
euoe OF chioroform, and then stole every
thing of value in the house.
"A San Francisco barber, named VIM,
has invented a 'shampooing helmet" IL
FITS close to the head and has no crown.
The suds are poured in, 'sloshed about"
and then taken off by means Of o tube.
Ono man in Portland, Me-, has put MP
at his different establishments in that state,
this year, nearly two million cans Of green
corn, berries and peaches. Six thousand
persons we've employed six weeks in cam
ming,
There are nearly two hundred persons
in Chicago engaged in journalism or writ
ing for the press in some way, besides the
hundreds of professional men and others
who sometimes hear a voice saying 10
them, "write."
"A foreign writer cautions MS that the
removal of the capital Of Rome preceded
by but a short time the downfall Of that
power, and that the desertion Of Moscow
for st. Petersburg, has not brought I'M
mixed advantages for Russia.
An experiment on sweet potatoes from
North Carolina shows that by powerful
presses 30 per cent. of their weight can be
obtained rs juice, which contains 10l per
cent. of sugar. This amount could be in
creased by careful cultivation.
There is a gold mine in Norwich. o.,
on Wawecus Hill, which IL worked by q
company, which held its annual meeting on
the 2Sth and elected officers. The mine
yields gold, silver and nickel, and some
rich ore has been taken out this year.
Prof W. @. Kerr, g~eologist of the State
of North Carolina, ~promulRates the theory
that the Black Mountain of North Carolina
was tho first dry land of the globe and the
oldest spot of earth in the world He pro-
poses to erocta monument upon II TO Adam.
Smallpox was communicated to the
Sioux tribe of Indians by a blanket which
was given to an Indian upon a steamboat
near Fort Benton, by n person who had
been confined with smallpox. At latest
accounts the dreadful disease was making
fearful havoc among the wild tribes.
"A young lady while going TO her we'd
ding, in Roundout, on Sunday, was thrown
from the carriage and broke her leg. IL
was proposed to take her to a physician
and have the limb set, but she refused, say
ing that she was going TO DO married first.
And, as usual, she had her way.
The remains of an Indian were discoy-
cred recently on West Fork creek, near
Buiksville, Kentucky, by some sportsmen,
beneath n large shelving rock neal the
summit of q cliff, in nearly az good a state
of preservation, and apparently similarly
prepared as were the Ptolemies of ancient
Egypt.
The submarine cable between Sweden
and Finland il completed, securing COM
munication with the whole Russian empire.
Commercial relations between Sweden and
Russia are rapidly increasing. The first
shipment OF nails ever made from the for
mer 10 the latter country has been recently
despatched from Gottenburg to Riga.
The Seneca tribe near Buffalo have Just
lost, by marriage to q young pale face, their
favorite adopted white daughter, of seven
teen, whose Indian name means "blue sky
filed with music" The bride wore white
lace and orange flowers. The civilized GER
emory of matrimony was followed by cop
perry speeches and congratulations.
The assessments for all States and Ter
ritories were found in round numbers
SlSS, 000, 900, IND the collections reached
SITS, 450, 900. In Illinois collections were
less than assessments by 81, 600, 900. in In
diana by 800, 900, in Iowa by $1,000. in
Ohio by 5000, 900, in Pennsylvania by $780,
GOO, in Tennessee by 5000, 900, in Wiscon-
sin by 5000 in Missouri by 81, DOC, 900.
The Great Eastern steamship, when
she left England TO lay the French cable
in America, had on board a ompan Of
about 450, all told. The supplies thought
necessary for this company, for a six
weeks voyage, were as follows: 100, 900
pounds of meat, 60, 900 pounds of vegeta-
bles, 20, 900 pounds Of bread, 10, 900 eggs,
and over z, 1000 dozen of liquor of various
kinds.
The city of Louisville is now almost
twice as large as II was at the close Of the
war. Thousands of buildings have boon
erected, many of them very costly and ele-
CANT; the boundaries have been extended
until the municipal area il double its form
or size. The population has increased in
like proportion, while manufactures estab.
lished many years ago, but never attempt
ing competition with like manufactures in
Cincinnati, are fourishing.
Two colored men near Rolling Fork,
lssaquenn county, Miss, had Il difficulty
which resulted in their attendance before a
colored magistrate in the neighborhood.
After O hearing, the justice decided that
both men were in fault, and that each
should pay a fine of S25 and costs, making
S4S each. But both were unable to pay.
The embarrassed squire finally hit upon q
plan TO get even with them. lie put both
to work on his forty-acre cotton patch, and
they picked 1890 pounds each to square
the bin.
The cultivation Of cotton in the East
Indies, ii il asserted, has become more
popular among the natives, who have dis
covered that il is more profitable 10 grow
Gotten at twenty cents a pound, than TO
raise the millet grain for consumption at
home. The cotton exported from India in
1860 amounted in value 10 $27, 800, 900; but
The crops for 1869, it is estimated, will
bring 500, 749, 1876. The East India cotton
is short staple and decidedly interior to that
grown in the United States; but greater