The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

North Carolina, recently charged
tho Grand Jury Of that county that
lawful fence should be "horse
high, bully-strong, and pig tight
In all parts Of the State of Texas
sellers demand coin IN payment for
cotton, and it brings from fourteen
to eighteen cents per pound IN gold.
This carries large amount Of gold
into Texas.
The gold hunters along Valley
river, North Carolina, are said to
have earned three dollars per day
to tho hand during the past season,
and a large increase IN tho business
ia Antlcipatedin the spring.
A negro girl, agOd Oleysn years,
eight months, and eighteen days,
living near Pulaski, Tenn, a short
timo since gave birth to female
child. Tho mother and child are
both living and in perfect health.
That our boast of this heing the
best government under the sun is
not universally shared in, is ovi-
denced by the fact that since the
cession Of Alaska the city of Sitka
has become almost depopulated, the
Russian inhabitants preferring the
alleged dcspotism of the Car to
the liberty and taxes Of the United
States.
Tho lightcst wooden race boat yet
constructed has JUST boon finished
in Boston. 1t is single scull out.
riggor shell Of Spanish cedar, thirty
feet seven inches long g,twelve inches
wido and six and three. .eighths
inches deep amidship, four feet
eleven inches wide across the row.
locks, three inches deep aft and four
and q half inches forward, which,
when completed, will weigh only "a
pounds.
The manufacture of straw plait in
England is confined to Bedfordshire,
Hertfordshirc and Buckingham.
shire. The number of persons EN-.
ployed is about 50,00O-neurly all
women and children, Tho plating
is dono entirely by hand. Groups
of girls are scon on tho village
greens, talking, working and laugh
ing. In winter family groups ait
round the hearth, and nelghbors in
tcrchango visits, all hard at work
all tho time. Every platter works
on her own account. Her earnings
vary according to demand, but II
wlle's receipts often exceed her hus-
bands wages.
A new method for seasoning green
wood IN a very short timo consists
in boiling it for some hours in wa
ter, and leaving it then to cool, by
whiGh the soluble substances arS
removed. 1t is then boiled in an
enormous solution of borax, by
which tho insoluble albumen of the
wood IS rendered soluble Nnd es-
capes from the pores. Tho wood is
thon placed in drying chambers
heated by steam, and allowed to re.
main three days. Wood thus treat
cd is more compact than 1t would be
by ten years of ordinary exposure,
1t does not shrink or warp, and is
securc against decay;o on account Of
ITS greater density 1t ;s moro easily
polished, and better fitted for ar.
ticles of furniture and musical ins
struments.
A sensible English judge lately
instructed q jury to give moderate
damages in breach of promise case,
because it was most mischievous
thing to brighten man into mar
rying woman he did not like by
hOavy damages. 1t is much better
for the girl that he should find out
his dislilso before than after mar
riage."
Tho Petersburg times is informed
that aI entire town IN ono of the
southern counties of Virginia, to-
gether with several thousand acres
VI land, has recently been purchased
by colonists from the West.
The New York World has dis
covered that horse.tongues are sold
IN that olty as beef-tongues. The
former are thin, and have a hole at
the root, while the latter are broad
and without any hole at all.
Hydrophobia prevails to an alarm
ing extent in Westmoreland Coun
ty, Penn.
There is a general movement on
the part of the Democratic press of