The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-16
Brtuitits.
Miscellaneous Items.

Tom. Allen. the pueilist, receives a
benefit at the National Theatre at Sc. Louis
on Saturday evening next.
"A writer in the Atlantic Monthly saws
that if we would abolish the inebriate We
must begin with his grandmother.
New Albany, Ind, will soon have plate
glass works, which have heretofore existed
in this country only at Lenox, Mass. ffF
The silver wedding of Bishop Morris
1.-THE senior Bishop of the Methodist Epis-
c0pal Church Of America) WIS celebrated
at Springfield, Ohio, June %.
IA drunken mhn in q NJ Of deIrium
tremens, jumped from the Suspension
bridge at Cincinnati, the other day. and was
drowned.
Fifth avenue houses in New York have
Cashmere door mats now, aud 10 Is suppos-
cd that the next novelty WILDE cancels hair
dish cloutsa
The agents of the Cuban Junta have
bought an estate of 40 acres in Bergen
county N. j., to DO laid out in villas for
Cuban exiles. ~
The Confederate dead are being re-
moved from the Chickomaugn battlefield
aud re-interred in the Confederate ceme-
terry ut Marietta, Gng f. ltttT
"A travelling southerner lately offered to
present TO the American Club at Breslau n
bust Of ex. president johnson, but the club
unanimously voted to decline the gift.
The Red Stockings on their. return to
Cincinnati were presented with a cham
pion bat, 27A feet long and weighing GOO
pounds, upon which were engraved the
names Of all the members of the club.
"A kentucky distiller having noticed
that VIII isky is improved by n sea VOYAGE.
has put up a treadmill in his warehouse,
and uses a horse power TO keep tho whisky
In perpetual motion. ~ ~
The rumor is current ut Memphis that
the counsel for Ierger, who killed Colonel
Crane ut Jackson, Miss, will apply to
Chiet Justice Chase for a writ Of habeas
corpus E W
Among tho finest residences at New
port are those OF Chas. J.. Peterson, are the
Philadelphia publisher. and Mrs. George
Francis Tioin-the latter built since last
year.
The BaIkentine Western Bill sailed
from Humbolt for San francisco in Janu-
AIRY, 1858, and has never been heard from
until recently, when a portion Of her hull
with the name painted on it was discover
ed on the northwestern coast Of California
near Cape Perhoues.
Mrs. Kolb, who recently died in Madi-
son, Georgia, left an estate valued at near
SlO0, 600, almost al. of which If. bequeath-
ed to the Ordinary OF the county, in trust,
Tor the purpose Of educating tho poor or
phan children OF tho county.
Near Cheyenne has been discovered
an Immense tract Of land covered with edi-
bic mushrooms of extraordinary size and
delicious flavor. One is spoken Of which
was seven inches in diameter with a stem
two inches thick, and which weighed O
pound FE .- .-.a-
Notice has been served by tho United
States officers on the owners of whisky
burned in the warehous of Gaines, Berry i.i'
& Co., in Frankfort, Ky, some time ago,
for the payment of the tax on said whisky.
The amount OF taxes demanded is about
slOO,OOO An extensive lawsuit will result.
The New York postohice always sends
to Europe n much greater number Of letters
than IL receives from that part of the world.
For the month of May it sent away 420, 553 a
letters, and received 391, OG2. The rule,
however, is broken in a single instance.
The Italians sent home but 4 1868 letters,
for 1888 brought over to them.
The m~alignity of the London Times
toward Senator Chandler is painfully ex-
hlbited in the fact Of its utterly ignoring
his arrival on British soil in a gorgeous
turnout. Even the Court journal main
tains a provoking silence on the Michigan
Senator's presencein England.
On Sabbath evening, June 9Th, Christ B
Church, New Orleans, was filed with n
congregation Of Cubans and Spaniards in
attendance upon the ceremonies of the
Episcopal Church, which were performed
IN the Spanish language. With the excep-
ton of the siugingby the choir, the service
and sermon were given in Spanish.
"A physician Of Platin, Mo-, one DIR. A.
Hill, reports that the notorious desperate
and outlaw Sam Hildebnnd, for whose
head q reward Of $4,000 has been offered,
is dead. . He declares that the fellow died
from the effects of n wound in his thigh,
and that he attended him at the request of
some person to himself unknown,
"A noted Ohio horse-thief, known az
Bill Wheeler, who had served fifteen years
IL the Kentucky Pe~nitentiary, aud was n
very desperate character, was shot and
killed by a party of men, in the vicinity of
Quincy, Ky, Il few days ago, who had q
chased him nom over the line in Ohio. He
had been ordered to halt, but refused 10 do
so, and fired ON his pursuers. Hence his
death.
A fortnight Ego, at Napoleon, Ohio,
two boys named Cameron, aged nine aud
tou. teen, were sent TO bed suppeless and VI
threatened with a finishing in the morn
fAR - w Ai6At my Sbh up Nulhtu uNb
miles toa railroad station, wentto Chicago,
thence to Baltimore, aud since leaving the
latter place the persons employed by Mr..
Cameron to find the boys met with no sue
cess. They can be heard of ut different
points, but can not be caught. They seem
to have no definite object in view, but when
. tram Of cars drives up they got on and
travel to the end of the line.
q The Omaha Republican reports the ar
rival IN that city, one day last week, of
'Stub, a boy Of IL years, who has been
wandering over the United States since .
l664. His name is John Edwards, and he
formerly lived in Baltimore, but ran away
from home when 0 years old, on account Of
ill-treatment. The Republican says ofhim:
Gle hes 'whacked bulls in Wyoming,
'skinned mules in Colorado, damned gold
dust in Montana, carried water in Utah,
been captured by Indians in New Mexico,
ranohed with greasers in Arizona, slept with
Cinnamon in California, and like the inn
mortal j. N, has dead-headed over differ -.
emit railroads. East West, North, and
South.H rH rode 'r-HHe q
LORD SrRATFoRD' De REDoLIFFE, who took ID
an active part in the recent debate on the l
Alabama question, IN the House OF Lords
IS IN hls ughty-second year. He common
ced bis public career sixty one years ago az
preciS writer in the Foreign Office, from
which subordinate position he gradually