The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-05
Illntb III RittIe.


Miscellaneous Items.
There are sixty whaling ships at pres.
ent in the Arctic seas.
Toledo will ship over 5000, 900 slaves
to Philadelphia this year.
-Flogging has been abolished in the
Iowa penitentiary.
Father Hyacinthe attended a Jewish
Synagogue on Sunday.
The Omaha Republican says thereis no
law for Furnishing adultery in that place.
The New Jersey cranberry crop this
year is valued at two and half millions.
-Sixty-two years ago, Oct. 8, the Hrst
steamer was launched in the United
States.
1t is said hat one hundred and twenty
one vessels were sunk or beached on the
coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
by the recent tidal wave.
|. "A New Bedford woman drew the dead
body OF her infant in its little carriage TO
an undertaken, the other day, to have il
measured for a coffin.
AT n recent fair in Boston 80. 600 per.
sons were weighed, and their average
weight was 1888 pounds. The heaviest man
balanced the scales at 37Ol pounds,
Over nine thousand males recently ap-
piled, in one week, TO the New York Free
Labor Bureau for employment. For thess
there were but 42S situations.
"A New York ieweler gives his opiniop
that nine ont of ten Of the so-called sets of
diamonds worn by fashioDables are more
paste, not worth a shilling a peck.
"A young boy at Richmond bet "two
/ hilu' that hR could 1a~ l,v-, -. Al. a..l
bed and let the train pass over rim. and the
train did, though the boy was minus his
head aud cash by the operation.
The assessed value of Chicago is 1895.
600, OOO, and to meet current expensee win
reqlire, according TO the estimate of the
Common Council, a tax Of is mills ON the
dollar.
j. w. Moore, who attempted 10 rayish
and afterwards murdered Mrs. Jessie Mac.
Adams, at Greenville, ILL.,, on the 9th of
22d inst.
The plan for the State Department,
which was submitted SOME time ago 70 the
Commission having that undertaking in
charge. has been approved by the Presi-
dent Secretary Fish and the other men,
bers.
Prof. Hayden, who is prose cutting q
geological survey Of New Mexico, is pleased
with the Spanish girls. He says that their
eyes are brighter than diamonds, their
voices Hweeter than the sound of phono-
1.-the, and they can make pumpkin pies al
most, If not quito, as good as the New Eng
land girls.
Arkansas objects to the introduction
Of Chinese laborers, but declares it's wish
to be for intelligent, independent farmers
and mechanics, who will opromote the
Christian arts of science, support and
maintain schools, churches, and become
landowners, householder and taxpayers"
There is a horse in Marshall, Missouri,
which has ON unpleasant habit of going
crazy at intervals. It's insanity takes the
form of q desire to visit the abodes of men
and smash their furniture. Its last freak
was to enter n bed room and repose for a
night ON immaculate sheets.
One of those curious cases of PRESENT.
ment Of which We so often hear has lust
occurred in Atlanta, Georgia. A workman
IN the railroad shops there persistently said
he had had n revelation that he should die
at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the 10Th inst,
and At his request q tellow-workman prom
ised to toll the bell of the works at that
hour. The day and tho hour came. The
man dressed himself in his best, and lay
down upon his bed TO await tho speedy
coming of that dread messenger The
solemn note Of the bell was sounded, but
the man-did not die.
"A few nights since, rs the night ex-
press on the New York Central road was
near Amsterdam, a baby, who was looking
out Of an open window, gave a spring, aud
in All instant fell from it's mothers arms to
the ground. The nilrighted mother, with
out o thought of the danger, rushed 10 tho
door, and leaped from the train. As soon
as possible the cars were stopped, and
backed TO the spot where every one expect
ed TO learn Of the fatal injury Of both moth
or and child. But, strange to say, neither
was hurt, except that the baby had a slight
bruise on the side of the head. The moth
or stated that, as she saw the child 90 out
of the window, her only thought was that
she wanted the baby"
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