The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-04-23

ture was recently cOnsidorlng fe.
male suffrage, the only protest
against 1t came from n number Of
women.
Tho young lady who prosides ov-
er the Richmond, Va, Postofilce has
decided that she is q "postmaster,'
and not a "postmistrcss" or "pogt-
miss"
The New York Express thinks
that by industry and perseverance
the United States can be made one
Of the greatest silk producing eoun-
tries IN tho world.
The ClarksvilIo Cva.) Tobacco
Plant says that the purchase of real
estate in that neighborhood by
northern settlers within a few days
past will reach the sum Of $780,
600.
In Rough Edge District, in Troup
county, Ga, at the recent magis-
trato's election, thero were three
managers and two candidates. The
constable received two and tho JUS
tico Of tho peace four votes.
Tho not profits on a sugar plan
tation in the parish of Landry, La,
last year, with ninety acres cultiva.
we'd in cane, and eighty in corn,
amounted to twenty-five thousand
six hundred and sixty dollars.
Not one-tenth Of those who die
and leave property, in Indiana
leave a will. Tho law, It is said,
makes for them better wills than
they would DO apt to mako for them.
selves.
Our lady readers, interested in
the prevailing fashions, will be glad
to know that az a frontier ball, re.
Gently, noted Indian belle appear.
cd in hoop. skirt, ornamontcd with
fox tails, and waist Of yellow fan
mel, slashed with stripes of buffalo
hide.
A travellers summary of Texas
"The best women and the moanes
men, more sickness and less health
more corn bread and less corn
more negroes and less labor, NOR,
pretty ladies with little feet and NJ
ankles to match, than any State il
the Union"
The Albany ga, News says =
"Aftor diligent inquiry, we cstimat,
that our planters have put iu abou
forty per cent. of corn, ten of oats
and fifty of cotton. Tho corn land
havc teen thoroughly prepared an,
we'll manured, and the stand !
probably the best ever known. w
arc glad TO announce thai our peo
pie have made up their minds
raiss their own bread"
If Canada should bo codcd TO tn
United States as an equivalent 70
tao Alabama damages, according
the Tribune's proposition, what i
to become of tho titles that hav
lately been conferred upon prom
ncnt Canadians? Sir John A. Mac
donald AMI Sir Narcisse f. Belleal
with others, will have TO unscre'
tho handles from their names, an
there will be much malicious plea
antry thereat among the disappoir
ted.
The Richmond (Va.,) Enquire
says: "'The whiskey ring is b.
coming weak in Richmond. A fe
months ago we had five or six dl
tiileries engaged in the manufaC
ture OF whlskey, and the ring an
the revenue officers kept up a pc
petual robbery They have q
vanished but one Dyrne's,) al
that is doing a small business.
only turned out 32,052 gallons
the month of March.
The New York Tribune says :,
'What a curious book might
written on The history of suicideI
The ingenuity of distorted minds
discovering strange modes of dea
seems Inexhaustible. An Engli
carpenter q few years ago turn
/ his mechanical skill to account
= constructing q guillotine for his oy
! decapitaton. A New York mere
r ant very recently hanged himsC
o and after putting on the moose ado
ted q m ost ingenious way of tyi
J. his hands between his legs. so Il
3, he could not release himself shou
It his heart fail him at the last n
Il ment. Religious mania has be
10 known to drive men to selfscru
fxion. The most horrible case
n suicide, however, that we remc
Y, ber, occurred few days ago