The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-02
Miscellaneous Items.

There arc only ! 1000 forms of religion
in the world from which to choose q living.
Brigham Young charges the billiard
and bar rooms of Salt Lake q license of
$50 per month. raar fsrCT
New York Councils have appropriated
thirty thousand dollars for fireworks on
the Fourth of July.
There are one hundred and fifteen fe-
male teachers in Cincinnati. at an average
salary of $500 per year. J .fflf
The Stevens battery will be finished
in eighteen months, and will then be offer
ed to the Government.
-TFunadelphia" Is the name of a now
women's club In New York, Of whichAnna
Dickinson is the Presidentess.
Every family in Dardanelle, Ark, at
the present time, has the measles. This
may be called strict importiality.
The American Institute has a%ppropri-
ated S500to defray tho expenses of taking
photographs Of the Solar eclipse in August
next, rrv.v
A colored lady in Colfax township, South
Carolina, presented iour boys to her hus-
band in one dsy this month. The father Is
sfxty-seven years old.
The Omaha Herald SAYS the de,pi
monde Of that city arc composed almost en-
tirely OF the spoiled daughters of rich and
respectable families.
Last year two Germans bought eighty
acres of land in Tennessee, and have
wholly paid for it by this years crop Of
strawberries on o acres. ffN
1t has been decided i'm the Courts of
New York, that n mechanic who works ten
hou n day, can recover day. wages for
every eight hours employed.
1t has been shown that If n man wa
~ strong according TO his weight M some
species Of insects. O man of ordinary size
could lift ton and u half.
"A Texas papo claims that there are,
more newspapers published in that State
in proportion 90 the white population than
in any other State in the Union.
The Grst peaches of the season made
their appearance in the San Francisco mar
kets on the 7th. The peach crop Of Cali
fornia is unusually fine this year.
"A match game at lager beer drinking
came Off ut Buffalo last week, between two
Toutons.1 The winner put himself outside
OF eighteen glasses in the space of one
hour q y % 20 u 90 -
A recent medical writer Of good au-
thority says: 1T Is certain that in our
times, among our brain workers, there arc
800 who do not sleep enough 20 ono who
sleeps too much"
Hon. r. T.. Spinner, United Statog
Treasurer, has been suddenly called TO his
home in Herkimer, N. ", by a Telegram in
forming him that his wife, who lett Wash
ington a few days ago % a visit TO that
.place, hns sustained n severe stroke of npo-
plexy.
The Lafayette Courier says tho fossil
remains Of n monster sea turtle, or sea
serpent, was found a little below tho sur
face of the earth, in Knoxville, the other
day. The head is fourteen inches wide and
eleven inches deep. u
Mary Miller of Bcroa, Ohio, while con
fined in q Jail as cleveland, on account of
insanity, committed suicide on Tuesday
last, by taking a strip from her balmornl
skirt and susponding herself from tho top
Of her cell.
MIR. Abbott G. Peck, of Waterbury,
Conn, whose mysterious disappearance
some months ago created considerable ex-
element in Connecticut. has been heard
from as serving in the regular army in
Texas.
"A clerk in n furniture house, at Newark,
being about to commit matrimony,
took a moro novel than honest way
Of procuring IN outfit. Such articles
Of furniture as he wanted, he charged ON
the books 10 various customers Of the firm,
and delivered them ut his own house.
Judge Downing, of New York, has got
himself into trouble. MoClelland, the law
yer whom he forbid TO practice in his
court is about TO impeach him, and says
he can prove that Bowling has received
money from thieves for decisions in their
favor.
The following item appears in tho
White Pine News Of the Sth ult. Treasure
City Water Company (Standart, Page q
CO.. will supply the citizens of Treasure
City daily with fresh, clear spring water at
eighty cents per gallon"
1T costs only two cents a pound freight
ON tea from China TO New York, by tho old
routes, while by way of San Francisco and
the Pacific Railroad il costs thirteen cents
a pound. The old route being the cheap
est will probably retain the trade for some
time TO come.
The new French Atlantic cable is 2, 1852
miles long, or four hundred more than
either Of its predecessors, and the recepta-
Giles of Great Eastern had to DO consid-
erably enlarged to contain it. Sir Samuel
Canning is the chief engineer of tho expo
dition. ~ a. n
lin San Francisco, the highest income
returned last year was that OF Alvinza Hay
ward, Sl6G, 900; the highest this year is
that of Claus Spreckles, S118. 1873. A great
err number OF men have returned incomes
OF $4,000 and over than last year. The
number OF incomes over ; 1000 has also
enlarged.
Jonathan Mingo, died Mt Albion, Mich,
a few days since, aged n years. He was
OF the Management tribe of Indians, and
was a lineal d%escendent of King Phillip.
At the time of his death he had in his pos
session the powderhorn which Was taken
from the body of that noted chief when the
latter was killed A
The Secretary of War has approved
the findings OF the court-martial cnse of
Lieutenant McGee, known in History as
the ''Drummer-boy of Shiloh McCee
killed an assistant surgeon in Louisiana
last fall, and was sentenced 10 be cash
Tered the service, n undergo five years
imprisonment, His friends are already
making efforts to obtain his pardon.
Madam Kenyon, n Of the lady riders
in h%obinson's circus, exhibiting i'm Aue-
ghany, Pa, last Friday, was about JUMPING
through one of the paper hoops, when her
clothing caught on the hoop, and she was
thrown TO the ground, striking ON her
head and breast. She was quite pain
inlly injured, and had to BIO carried from
the ring.
"A Mrs. Park celebrated her 105th birth
any on Thursday, in Cleveland. She has
raised II children. The last was horn