The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-10-08
Drruitirs.


Chicago is called the City of 'lou,
smells"
Corn is twenty-five cents a buahel il
Texas.
Seward sails from S,n Francisco TO.
Mexico on the 30th.
Immense beds Of gypsum have beer
discovered in Union Co., IN.
An Iowa p%arsonesg on wedding occe.
sions doesn't kiss the bride, but the Other
one.
- Boston can now boast of ten daily IN.
pcrs, two Of them publishing distinct nom.
ing and evening editions.
A mass meeting of those who nro Oh.
posed to excluding the Bible from schools
Is to be held i'm Cincinnati soon.
An organ-grinder was killed ON tho
Eric road the other day. So organ-grindcra
are not immortal, ns some supposed.
All the girls Of the Dominion are fall.
ing iu love with Prince Arthur. So they
womb with n lackass If he wore n sprig OF
royalty.
There IN said to be n man IN Kentucky
who has no ears aud no auml apertures.
He can hear distinctly through his mouth,
however.
The lutc tornado in Boston made such
serious work with the churches that lions
Herald thinks IL must have been Il free re-
liCiou wind.
The Italians Of Chicago propose to eel
citrate the next anniversary of the discoy.
cry of America 10y Columbus, on the 18th
Of October.
A child six Years old was recently run
over in Boston Don't whip me, father,
I'll never do 20 again. were his last
words.
A steam shovel capable Of doing the
work Of one hundred men, has Just been
put I'm use ON one of the Illinois railroads,
for the purpose OF loading cars with gravel.
The new National Intclligencer has ap-
pcarod. II is published on the co-opera-
tive plan. in the belief that u multitude OF
owners will secure n like number of read.
ors.
"A Boston chemist advertises thus: The
gentleman who left his stomach for analy.
sis, will please call and get il together with
the results.
The product Of single grapevine Of
the Scuppernong variety, in Jacksonville,
Florida, has been sold for one hundred and
ninety two dollars.
An "old citizen" of South Bend, Ind,
says the swallows are flying unusually
high, which is n sure sign thatIho winter
will set in early.
-Benton Hnrbor, Mich. on Lake Mich.
igan, one Of the largest fruit shipping
points in the valley of the Mississippi, had
no existence six years ago.
A little girl twelve years of ago, named
Mary Ann Wall, passed through Buffalo
cn route for Marshall, having Travelled all
the way from Kilkenny, ireland, alone.
A horse on n Chicago street cag fell,
while drawing n car ut o rapid rate, and
the wheels passed over him, killing him in
u few moments.
The good must suffer for the evils OF
the wicked sixty churches damaged by
the New England storm, and not even u
single saloon unrooled.
II is Thought that H%ildcband, the Mis-.
souri, outlaw, has made good his escape
from that state, AZ nothing has been seen
or heard of him for some time.
Some of the best men in ENGLAND are
studying the ilhbriate asylums in America
with much interest. Such institutions are
scarcely known in Great Britain.
There is boy in the Missouri Insane
Asylum upon whom they can keep neither
clothes nor shoes. lie eats them all leay.
ing the buttons and tacks on hisplate, prob.
ably like fish bones.
The Grand Jury of ST. Clair county,
ILL.,, have indicted Allen, Gallagherand Nc.
Coolc for prize fighting, aud there are
strong hopes that tho accused will get n
term in the pcnitcntiury
Mrs, Stowe got no moro for her Byron
Islander article than for her ordinary contri.
buttons TO the Atlantic Monthly. That is
no more money, though she received a
great many more curses.
The Scientific American reports n cure
Of lockiaw in the army, during the war, by
applying moist tobacco to tho pit of the
mans stomach. Every muscle was relaxed
10y tho consequent sickness.
A Chicago paper says: ''Toadyism
reached its depth in Chicago yesterday.
California laughs in her sleeve and with
one thumb upon tho point of her nose,
gently gyrates her digitals and moves on.
In Granville county, North Carolina,
the oldest inhabitant has never seen so
gloomy u chance for corn not n fourth of a
crop will be made. One or two showers of
late have improved the tobacco. Wheat
was good. Oats an average crop.
A knile.swallowing Snowman, near the
State Fair grounds, at Toledo, Ohio, on
Thursday evening, while attempting TO
conceal n long knife in his throat and
mouth, was 30 severely injured internally
that it wal feared he would die.
A letter was picked up in Omaha the
other day, from Cheyenne, closing with the
following words: ''1here is nothing doing
here, and n man is likely to starve at any
time. The Grand Jury is in session, and
everybody expects TO DO indicted"
"A wealthy and beautiful young lady in
Erie, Pa, recentlymarried an uncouth and
crippled shoemaker, who was already mar.
riod and possessed of n family of children,
on the suppositiOn that he was wealthy
and an agent Of A. Il. Stewart.
The rice crop of South Carolina is bo.
ing rapidly harvested and generally prom
Uses well. Planters over much of the State
expect to plant freely Of small grain, in or.
der to lessen the injury arising from the
partial failure OF tho corn crop.
An "old miner" Mt Avondale proposos
that hereafter all the miners give one DAYS
pay every year toward the fund for the
benefit of the widows and orphans. by
this means he nays they can raise $40, 1O6,
and for himself, ho counts the first DAYS
work done since the catastrophe sacred Tor
this purpose.
A gentleman in Macon, Ga, predicts
that cotton will 20 down to fifteen cents
during the winter, aud then rise 10 thirty.
five in the spring, but the Telegraph, OF
that city, tells him thatthe crop IL too short
and the demand too eager for such fluclua.
tons.
A Mr.. Bowl, Of Potosi, Missouri, A few
days ago, took FROM the same limb of a