The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-20
NEWS ITEMS.

month.
Boston has expended $4,000 during
the past'three months i'm paving and re-
pairing streets.
Troy has the largest water-wheel in
the world. II is in overshot, and sixty
feet in diameter.
The Red Stockings who have been so
often paragraphed, have at last been pho
tographed.
An enterprising Yankee sdvertises for
the lucrative position Of undertaken on the
Erie Railroad.
handsome blonde at Saratoga wore
twenty-one new dresses last week, with
half her trunks still unpacked.
The town Of Households, New York,
has n man, 80 called, who offers to eat n
bushel Of cut hay on a wager.
The Detroit Tribune says the mother
of w. II. Campbell, q iourneyman printer,
is anxious TO hear from him.
II. Triton isn't orthodox enough for his
patrons, aud $3.50. 600 is to start q rival
concern which will give the pure doctrine.
The Chicago Board of Health have
prohibited the carrying Of ofal through
the streets except in closely covered carts.
Twenty divorce cases were heard be-
fore the Recorders Court in Chicago on the
ith, and IL was n poor day for divorces at
that.
Throwing Cayenne pepper in the eyes
of Chinese, is said 10 DO q popular sport
in California. The agony Of the sufferers
gives intense delight.
-Handkerchiefs nre now made In New
Orleans from the Rampine plant. The
texture is finer than silk, and the handser-
chiefs are quite pretty.
-Vico President Colhx writes for the
Hearth and Home. He communicates n
Sketch of the 70 Semitic Valley as the first
paper. Where is BOnner2
-Wine in tho wine-growing regions Of
California is cheaper than milk. In Ana
helm and Los Angeles common wine is but
SOC n gallon; milk costs SOC.
Tho receipts of internal revenue in
Chicago for July were sG18, 553, of which
S2G5, 900 were collected on whisky and
beer, and $40, 800 on tobacco.
A young man named Lehn ia digging
in the lower part Of Lawrence county, Pa,
for n fortune of 500, 900, which n fortune
teller told him had been buried there.
A Chicago paper gives the following
useful hints: Temperance and regularity
of habits, combined with q good conscience,
are conducive to health during the sickly
season.
Moro than n dozen Philadelphia
clergymen have united In the determine.
ton to attend no more Sunday funerals
unless the necessity Is certified to by O
physician.
An old gentleman of seventy, living in
an inland town Of Massachusetts,, who had
been deaf for many years, awoke the othCi
morning, with his hearing completely re.
stored.
A deficiency of s ,55O.43 has beer
found in the accounts of the City Treasu.
rer of Dubuque, aud he has asked for time
which has been granted-to s%traighter
mp his books. The treasurer Is q demo
orat.
Tho fashion reporter Of n New Yorl
daily paper announces that "Idn Lewis
wedding has been postponed, and her sis
ter has Just effected an engagement with Ida''
fance's brother" The terms nre not men
toned.
The Sheriff his levied upon certain
real estate in Chicago, belonging TO Elishf
Sprnguc, TO satisfy nm execution issued II
the late breach Of promise case. The
property is to be sold ut auction on the
9th.
A writer in the Washington Herald
proposes the introduction to tho Southern
States of the date palm, the sugar palm.
and the cocoanut palm-these palms fur
nishing fruit, sugar, oil, fibre, &c.
A. p. Messenger, of New York, chal
lenges tho world in n velocipede race. III
n V he has run 100 miles in seven hour
and twenty minutes, aud 500 miles in /.
minutes less than so hours.
-Stetson, of Long Branch, can pick yor
out the Bogton man by tho manner II
which he holds his knife, the BnltimoreaI
by the way he peels his potatoes, aud thu
| W~ashinetonian from his eating the Who'll,
of the potato, skin and all.
Tho principle Of woman's right
achieved n partial triumph in the New Yorl
Teachers Association, this week, by the sc
lection OF Mrs. A. Il. Randall, Of Oswego
to be vice president of the association.
The Yankton DakotiAn says: account
come in from all around us Of %big-glori
susly big-crops. One instance of fort!
bushel wheat TO the acre. All We want nov
is n big corn crop. We can beat lllinoi
on everything else"
A farmer of Terre Coupee, Ind, write
10 the South Bend Register that n field q
forty-eight acres Of wheat, raised by ID. L
Phillips, ON the farm of VIM buchanan
Torre Coupee Prairie, will yield thirty-fiy
bushels per aero, or ! 900 bushels from tn,
whole field.
The amount of business transacted II
the Postoiice in New York may be judge
| H. H. g,aI lIaN tVfn opa nf,aN fN
the sale of stamp. in sums less than ON
dollar. The receipts ut each of these win
dows average 81, 900 per day. The dali,
consumption of stamps at the Office mus
be in all about $4,000.
An atom of water sometimes makes
most extraordinary difference in the prop
critics of bodies. Thus, TO give some NOR
familiar illustration, the addition Of nh at
ON of water TO starch converts it into su
gar; tho subtraction of m atom of waite
from alcohol converts it into ether.
Buffalo boasts of n carlton second Il
hut one other in the world. Numbers A
bells, and cost about 500, 900. The onl,
other carlton in America ia in the Churcl
of Notre Dame du Lac at Montreal, an,
numbers only "a bells. There is no othe
in the United States.
Personal.
The Empress Eugene visits Constan
tinople in September.
Mr.. Roye has been appointed az q, s
Consul at Prague,
Mr.. Toueey left $50, 600 to Trinity Col
lege, Hartford,
Dan Rice is building a barn at GirNrd
Penn, which will cost $50, 600.
Hon. John Bigelow, tho editor of tn
New York Times, is a Sw~edenborgian.
1t is slated that Henry Keep left 10 hi
wife and daughter So 900, 900 worth Q
stock of the Northwestern Railroad.
Jas. Griffin, the Erie r. II. enginee
charged with causing the Mount Hope dis
ngter has heen discharped On hail