The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-30

/ L|The Day We used 10 Celebrate" 10 the
heading Of tho Charleston Courieris Leader
ontho 9th. WI tA9AN1
San Francisco talks Of q big hotel, COW
ering two blocks, connected ut each story
by q covered bridge.
The Alaska Times cIairna 10 furnish
the news TO q territory of greater size than
any othes paper In tho world.
IA box containing $50, 900 in Indiana
state and Washington ~money-long since
worthless was found in the woods at Dam
vile, Ill.
Tho South Paciic Works nt franklin,
Mo, were destroyed by FIRE on Wednes-
day of lwt week, involving q loss of s6O,-
600. .A' ..~..f|
"A rnttlosnnko crawled up the trowser.'
leg of a boy at playin Marshalltown, Iowa,
the other day, and bit him twice. Whisky
and ammonia saved him.
just five hundred pounds is the weight
of n man and wife who keep a lager beer
saloon in Chicago, the man weighing go
and the wife $50 pounds.
-Chicago has been under the weather
80 long that the papers are glad TO be able
to state that "it hasn't ained for n quar-
ter of N hour"
Not long ago a young married lady in
Illinois was found dead in her bed, aud a
Coroner's Jury rendered n verdict of died
of commissions aided by tight-lReing." 4.
A young lady goes into ecstacies over
her now bonnet 'Oh, tho lovely little pan
cake tho charming little matt 10 makes
my head 80 level and 80 very, very fiat T.
VOLS, Fargo q Co. 8 coach going south,
nom Virginia City, was robbed ut Moren's
Station, thirty miles from Virginia City.
The treasure box, containing 81, 200 ingol1,
was stolen.
Pine apples arc being cultivated in the
peninsula of Florida with the greatest sue
cess. They arc larger than those grown in
tho West Indies, aud fully equal 10 them
in'sweetness and flavor.
The strawberry growers of Delaware
shipped the present season from Bronford
Station, the principal one on the Delaware
r. r., 81, GOO quarts to Now York and 2, 74O
TO Philadelphia.
"A citizen of Belfast, Maine, who had
not seen his son for eight years, and sup
posed him dead, recognized him M one of
the ncrobhts in n circus which exhibited in
that city recently.
"A verdict of 81, 600 has been obtained
in Cincinnati against n telegraph company
for a rejection of message desired TO be
sent for trading purposes, in competition
with tho company itself.
Tho value of skilled labor is aptly IL
Illustrated in tho balance spring of a watch.
Tho finest watch springs are so light M 10
number 1000 TO the ounce, and that ounce
is valued at So, 900 in gold.
M. TT-aa-n ga-a-- -
cotton production of 142, 121, S1i bales,
which, ut existing prices in currency, would
be worth $11, 212, 900, 000-a sum which
staggors the imagination.
The Peoria Transcript says: During
n rainstorm last week, five horses were
struck by lightning and killed while stand
ing under n tree in Ranstead's hollow, Hal.
lock township. A few days before a COW
was killed by lightning in the Same hollow.
baron Zero, q Greek, had cataracts on
his eyes. He recently offered Ct, 800 to an
English oculist TO take them of. After
one was removed he paid half the money,
and said he would keep his eye single aud
his whole body full of light hereafter.
The following is the valuation of eight
Iowa cities, as shown in tho auditors Office
in Dos Moinos: Council Bluffs, $i,2l1, 48G:
Dos Moinos, 50, COS, 458; Dubuque, SO, $685.
$40; Davenport, SO, 500, $50; Keokuk, So
53l, 1874; Burlington, S2,092, 905; Musca-
tine, Sl,372 DIG Iowa City. $500, 400.
-Thoro is on exhibition ut Macon, Ga.,a
stalk of Persian clover, eight feet high and
half an inch thick at its base. IL grew at
the rate of four inches a day. The seed
was brought from the Paris Exposition in
1867. When dry II is as fragrant an the
Vanilla bean. It's perennial.
Tho party selected TO make the astror-
omical observations of the coming eclipse,
has arrived in Des Moines. IL consists Of
Prof. VIM Hardness and j. II. Eastman, of
the United States Navy; Edward Curtis and
ID. Il. Lomcrie, Of United States Army;
also, M. " Beeman, of Washington, ID. o..
"A Boston paper says: '@The seq serpent
has again appeared in our waters, if ac-
counts from below are correct. IL was seen
on the 1th inst. in the bay, sailing about,
with head Greet. After displaying itself
for sOmo time, IL moved round in n circle
and disappeared. Its head was apparently
about tho iZo Of q barrel, with a series of
rings around IT," From tho description
given wo should think IL was the "serpent
of tho still"
A Pittsburg paper says that 8, 900, 900
NEf NNNA W. NiAAANAAANAJ hhABDAA HUN
Pennsylvania TO Now York, and the bal
nnco, 1900, 900 tons is conveyed in sailing
vessels TO various ports on Long Island
Sound, and ports beyond. The production
OF coal in Pennsylvania aud MARYLAND in
1867 was over 16, 900, 900 tons, and il in.
eronsing at the ratio of 9, 800, 900 tons, or Rf-
toen per cent. por Nnnum.
The May products of the Lake Su-
perior copper mines were as follows: Hecla,
$50 tons; Calumet, 176 tons; Quincy, l16
tons, 7O9 pounds; Huron, 63 tong; Ridge,
10 tons, LIB pounds; Knowlton, 8 tona,
l,4O2 pounds Evergreen Bluff, IL tons,
1913 pounds; National, mass, barrel aud
stamp, lS,4Gi pounds; Pevabic, mass, bar
rel and stamp, 90, 1856 pounds; Franklin,
mass, barrel and stamp, 1887 pounds.
FOREIGN.
The Mexican Congressional elections
passed oil peacably.
-Ezuquil Montoz will probably bo made
Minister of Justice TO Mexico.
The Gar was forbidden he attend-
anee ofltussiNn Bishops at the Ecumeni-
cal Council.
-ltis rumored that M. Mague, Minister
OF Finance will declinea position in the
new ministry,
Samuel Sholbarger on the 10Th had an
interview with the King of Portugal and
presented his credentials an Minister of
tho United States.
Deputy Meade has been sentenced 10
N years imprisonment, and three work.
mon TO three months imprisonment for
completely in the Dusseldorf riots.
The contract with Oamboll a. Co, for a
telegraph line between Mexico and I.otI-