The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-23

Daniel Webster fhrm and home
stead in Franklin, N. H., were sold TO Mr..
Hartwell, Of Providence, r. l., Friday, for
$4,000
-Lenawee county Mich, with q popula-,
ton of about {, 1000, one fifth Of whom are
pant in its iail.
"A widow in Sullivan, N. Y, has broght
2 suit hgpipst SenatorfNyo, of Nevada, to 4
{seeyqf sisVs which hab9rrowed years ago
William Wheeler, nged twelve years.
was killed ON Monday by tho bursting Of
cannon ut West Stockbridge, Moss, while
q snlute was being fred. -
The balloon "Afonarch Of the Air"
which assembled from Boston Common on
Monday, landed at Lakeyille, forty miles
distant, two hours after starting.
-Risdon, the alleged last survivor of
RoweUs expedition, was lodged in iher.
Springfield, Iowa JAZZ Saturday night,
charged with stealing ahorse near Lincoln,
" ,ItIIVY'a fFTV
-Letitia Jackson, one of James Fisk's
ballet girls, has sued him for s 5000. for
damages sustained in falling through he
stage at the Academy of Music, on May
loth' a 20 afIHi tiFfef I ID
Hon. James Savage, n descendant , Z
from tho famous Anne Hutchinson. Ia the
Oldest person living who delivered. q. 4th- of
July oration before the Selectmen of Bos-
ton He was the'orator in 1911
The feature of n Kentucky p~olitical
campaign is the Squirrel Soup funob'"
AN institution older than tho DAYS when
Henry Clay stumped the state. One was
given week before last at Greencastle.
"A party of young ladies and gentlemen
OF Portiand, Me-, in q small rowing boat.
We're run 10 wn and sunk by the schooner 7
Young Sultan, In Booth bay, yesterday :
Miss. Greenlow and Miss 'Caswell were
drowned Asr1rF~-~
"A young woman, who has been poino
aboat the country soliciting charity. pre-,
tending to be deaf and dumb, married a
Schenectady hotel porter the other day.
and gave him several thousand dollars as a
bridal present Ia glIla .Ism .r.a,ni
The objection to women practicino
medicine IL nothing new. IL is said that
rs long ngO IVA ll2l II petition was present.
Ito King Henry ", that mo woman use
thepiactyse of tsyk, under payne Of long
imprisonment"
Richard Realf, sold John Browns"
night hand man at Harper's Ferry, and The
Youngest Of his band, was recently %appoini-
Cd an Assistant Assessor of Internal Reve.
nuo in the district of Edgefeld, South
Carolina.
The Court House Of Decatur county.
Tonn., was destroyed, by fire Friday MIGHT
last. Tho greater portion of the records
were lost, also 10000 in currency in the
oilice, of The County Clerk, The total loss
is fully 500, 900.
Tho latest invention is garbage whis-
KY The Cincinnati Chronicle saws the 4
iag ends of radishes, onions, beets, lettuce
and the hundreds OF other vegetables, a
portion of which goto the slop barred or
the garbage boat Is did 10 mako excellent
whisky.
Whether standing on ones dignity Is
a good thing, quite depends upon It's size.
A man standing on n pin head, orr woman
on a mustard seed, would not fulfill the
illness of things. Dignity like the founda-
non q the building, to Ebo strong should
be wide and deep.
Tho commercial observation-disclosures
mors'-of tho country arc being rapidly
relieved Of tho unjust and discriminating
tax against their business. The Chicago
Trayelers' Association has secured tho re-
peal OF, the Special license laws in sixty
tour western cities and towns, and in sd.
Louis the tax has been reduced from $500
to $40. .f..f T-7T'1t.
Miss Nora Giles, daughter of Rev. Hem
ny Giles, n well known lecturer and essay
ist a beautiful, highly educated young lady
eighteen years OF age, was drowned at
Bucksport Nc, ON Saturday by tho upset
ting Of n boat in which she was sailing. in
company with her sister, another Young
lady and some gentlemen.
Tho barbarous practice Of aogping is
still continued at the Jacksonville prison.
One Of the guards was struck a few DAYS
ago with n snath in the hands of q convict,
but not seriously hurt. The convict, for
his INSTRUMENTATION, was hogged, and now
wears n ball and chain. T+f ,ui iTIE.
The bromide of ammonium is recon-
mended by DR.. Glib, Of London, to those
who suffer from an excess of fat, He saws
that, when taken in small doses for alength
of time, 1t will diminish the weight of the
body with greater certainty than any other
known article. y III X ~ VI ~
Nearly $500, 900 recovered out of ST.
O0O, y lost by the Ocean Bank, N. Y, and
without any apparent effort by anybody.
Even good bills and coupons were returned,
but tho manner in which they are said 10
have been returned looks somewhat curious
anu iSauh W tpb utlltI lNhl n compromise
with the thieves has been effected.
The Yiceroy of Egypt has contracted
with y. Remington ~ Sons, of lion, N.
" for 60, 600 of their rifles. This house
continues its weekly shipments TO the
government In Cuba. 1t has new
er sold arms TO the insurgents, but has
transformed about 5000 Springhelds for
houses IN New York that may have fur n
the Cubans.
The sentence passed on Mrs. Z. A.
Pollard, of imprisonment in the Richmond
City Jail, for the assault on DIR. Geo. A. ,
Moore, was modified a day or two ago by
Judge Gilmore to fine OF 500 and costs,
At the instance of DR.. Moore himself. The
hne was promptly paid, and Mrs. Pollard
was released aud at once proceeded to
Washington.
1.-The following, from Saturdays Toledo
Blade, IL rather pointed: american aris-
* a queer thing. Mrs. Sheridan,
Shook, Mrs. s., N, Pike, and Mrs. A. T..
of New York, are expected to
lead the fashion at Long Branch this year.
a speculator in revenue matters;
Pike is a whisky manufauctQrer, and Hem
bold "A patent medicine dealer But they i
have shekels OF gold and of silyer.p -oda go
IAN alteration occurred between two
boys, named John Carroll and Charles
in Albany, on Saturday afternoon,
during which Mosier stabbed the other
with a jaek-kniieytnl left breast about
tho heart, inhictinR a mortal wound.
When Mosier saw what he had lone he
fed ThebSys twefo each only about ton Z