The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-02-12
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MIsceIlnnoons Items.

HlScelhhnCOnS items.
Utah again Knocks at Unclo Sans back
door.
Florida has eighteen million acres sub
ject to location under the homestead act.
There lie a proposition before the Indi.
ana Legislature TO build an executive man.
hion.
Lord Monok, recently Governor General
OF Canada, has been elected chairman OF the
Franco-American Cable Company.
"A method of extracting tho indigo from
second hand postage stamps, has been pat
entcd in England.
Tho Berkshire, Maas, Agricultural soci-
iety has voted to abolish all premiums for
trotting horses
THE London Times assorts that "every
Industrious w~orkingman in England carries u
pauper on In his back"
"A woman may be of great assistance to
hor husband in bueinose by wearing a cheer
full emile continually on her countenance.
In the cargo of tho steamship Moravian,
which sailed from Portland for Liverpool
Sunday morning, was about $50, 900 worth OF
butter, for Canada.
CALIFORNIA; population 10 only ono-fourth
female. In Nevada there are eight men to
one woman, and the proportion in Colorado
Is twenty to one.
"A well.known cspitalist has Just pur-
chased one of the Islands In Long leland
Sound, not far from tho entrance to the East
River, for the purpoee of converting II into
q hunting ground. II embraces an area of
II, 900 acree.
Tho Times afirms that more than one
fifth of the order of JesuitH are now in The
United HtAtos, and that the members Of 9TH
or Catholic orders are coming TO this ooun-
try in great numbers.
Tho San Francisco Alta Californian says
that California figs arc taking the place Of
imported figs ON the Pacific coast. Many Vt
them arc decidedly superior In quality 10 all
from Smyrna, save the very best.
AT a recent bali at tho Tuileries the
guests consumed ten thousand ices, fifteen
hundred glasses OF punch, ak thousand of
sherbet, four or five hundred chickens, eight
hundred bottles OF champagne and 6fteon
hundred bottles OF Bordeaux.
A woman supposed to be slightly intox.
icAted, was, on the 9th, walking along an
elevated sidewalk in Chicago, when she fell
off the edge into the gutter, striking her
head against a stone. She was picked mp a
moment afterward, and was found to have
sustained fatal injury.
Louisville has a district that rivals the
give points." In one block covering. a au-
porhcial area of about 90, 900 square feet, the
population IL estimates at between two and
three thousand, or loss than ten square feet
TO each inhabitant, with probably not on
honest person in the whole settlement"
"A man named Hauck, living in Rock Falls,
ILL.,, was attempting to light u fire by using
kerosene, on the morning of the 2Sth, when
the oil in tho can took lire and exploded, hli.
irg the room with flames, and Getting fire to
his clothing, burning him so badly that ho il
not expected TO receives.
1t is an offesno to sprinkle salt on the
snow In Philadelphia, but one OF the street
railroad companies ovaded the ordinance on
the subject last week IN an ingenious man,
nor. A cart. whose ilOOr was %punctured with
many holes, was filled with salt aud theu
covered will bags. IL was then driven ovei
the route, and sprinkled the route by acct
cent.
Three privates belonging to the 25th In,
fantry, named Alyron H.. Strong, Harmon
Spnngstein and Stephen Madden, for desor,
ton, had their heads shaved aud tatoOed
and wero diumIncd out of the service, al
Memphis, on the Goth, in tho presence Of the
regiment. Strong had been a clerk in Con
Grant = Office during the war.
The number Of velocipodes now in use In
New York 10 about 800, and in a few month";
It will probably be increased to 5000. The
demand for thom Ia 40 great that tho manu-
facturora have moro orders on hand thar
they can fill in several mOnths. One manu-
facturer IL now nj work ON an Improvement
that will enable tho rider to drive his vehicle
with less than half the fatigue attending thu
present mode.
"A serious disturbance occurred on the
Goth at the corner OF Canton street and parl
Avenue, Brooklyn, between white and coloreC
persona, resulting eventually in the morla
w%Ounding of John Hopkins, a white man, by
Samuel Halsey, negro. The apparent origii
was the unproyokod knocking down OF a col
ored man. A largo number Of people became
involved, and the riot was with difficult,
stopped by the police.