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

the house.
1t Is aleged that TX Marvel lately had
to pay the American Hotel, OF Bingham,
N. X, $500 and costs, and apologize, for
writing, in one Of Harper's publications, a
slanderous recount Of the inn.
There is q jolly veteran soldier In the
asylum at Augusta, Maine. who has thirteen
wounds, received in the Mexican and I'm
ion wars. Ten of them were occasioned by
bullets or shells, and three are saber cuts.
A country girl after making tome pur-
chases at q store in New Albany, Indiana,
was asked by the clerk II he could do ruy.
thing more for her. Innocently replied
the maiden: ooh, no, sir; unless you will
be kind enough to go out and milk the old
mare, for l rode her from home without
the colt"
Foreign.
Marshal NELL Of France, is quite i'll.
Eugene will spend three months in
her trip through Turkey and Egypt.
A portion Of The London Metropolitan
Fire Brigade propose TO visit New York.
The ship Pauline David, from Liver
pool, was burned at New Orleans on the
I'd inst.
The British government is consider
ing the d~esinbility Of purchasing the Irish
railway.
Three hundred and twenty-one persons
we're killed by the explosion in the mine at
Dresden. .
Mrs. Vivian has gained her suit, in
London, for a divorce against the Marquis
Of Waterford, with costs.
1t is reported that Queen Isabella pro-
poses TO abdicate the throne of Spain in
favor of the Prince of Asturias.
Mr.. Purdon, n conservative, has been
elected Mayor of Dublin, but the liberals
have n majority in the Council.
Hon. Samuel Sh~ellabarger, the Ameri-
can Minister TO Portugal, arrived ut South
ampton ON the Sd, from Lisbon.
-Parayia Corvallen has been appointed
Portuguese Minister Of Finance, and Men
densa, Minister of Justice.
-skirmishes arc reported at Santo Els
piritu, Villa Clara aud Trinidad, in which
the Spanish troops were successful.
The Irish bishops met in private con-
ference in Dublin on the 4th instant, to
consider the reorganization of the Irish
Church.
The report that Spain had opened mes
ROTATIONS with the United States, looking
to the independence of Cuba, is positively
denied at Madrid.
Capt. Kendrick and crew, of the bark
Ontario, from New York for Melbourne,
abandoned herat sea, May 30. The crew
were saved and landed ut Mauritius.
Tho difficulties between the Sultan
and Khedivc, Of Egypt, are in q fair way
of settlement. Nearly all the representa-
tiyes Of the Powers nt Constantinople urg-
ed the Sublime Porte toa curse Of concil-
iation and moderation.
Tho town Of Gehe, Sweden, was al
most destroyed by fire on tho 10th of
July. Seven hundred tenements were
completely consumed, and about s, 1000 per-
sons rendered houseless, and q loss Of So
SOC, 900 sustained.
A letter from st. Petersburg states that
Lamaskiro, the peasant who saved the life
of the Car, did not commit suicide, but
was murdered by being hanged in his own
house, and that several persons have been
arrested as a%ccomplices in the crime.
Crime.
The show case of G.. A. Enos' silver
ware establishment in Philadelphia, was
broken open oil the 4th, and q large guam
tity of iewelry abstracted.
Ono of the rooms nj n Long Branch
hotel was robbed Of $4,000 worth Of din
monds on tho 31st ult., The thieves were
arrested and the property recovered.
"A jew merchant of Newark, N. j.,
named Moses Maybnum, has a%bsconded,
leaving liabilities TO tho amount of $40, 900.
He is supposed TO have taken refuge In
Chicago.
John Roberts, charged with having
robbed a United States Express car, near
Quincy, ILL.,, about six months ago, was ar
rested in st. Louis, on the 9th, and taken
to Springfield.
Patrick Mccain tried 10 drown n young
lady named Ethio Wade, while bathing ri
Coney Island, on Sunday, because she re.
pulsed an attempt ut indecent liberties.
He has been arrested.
Five persons, named Mccartney, Car
roll, Harrison, Byrnes and Hottie, have
been arrested in New York by u. s. rev
enue detectives, charged with ~defrauding
tho government by the revamping of can,
celed stamps and selling the same for new
ones at less than government rates.
A Chicago burglar named G. X. John.
son was shot by DIR. Hanley, at Lockport,
ILL.,, on the night Of the 21st inst, while he
was attempting TO break into the doctors
store. johnson ran some distance after be.
( ing shot, but finally fell and expired in O
few minutes. The ball passed through his
lungs.
On Friday, the Goth, $50, 1000, the pro
ceeds of n government sale, was deposited
in the safe in the treasurer's Office Mt the ar
sennl, in Philadelphia. Saturday morning
on opening the safe, il was discovered tina
+ S25, 900 had been stolen. There were nj
, marks of violence on the safe, md the
building was well guarded by private watch
men. Several employees Of the arsenal hav,
/ been arrested ON suspicion.
Clement Wood, alias Charles Hop,
! Chalmers, was arrested upon the arrival O
the steamer Russia, on the Sd, rs the au
, thor of n forgery in England to the amount
of several thousand pounds sterling. Some
$50, 900 in French and English notes and
r specie were found on his person. Mr., and
Mrs. Hatcher, who accompanied HarwoOd,
/, were also taken into custody. All the par
} ties are under thirty years of age. They
were arrested under instructions received
by cable.
| Col. Whitley, of the Secret Service, has
made another important arrest of coun,
terfeiters. Suspicion has for a long time
been directed against two Frenchmen, An
= tonic Amtoel and Charles Encihe, of man,
ufacturing counterfeit fve-dollAr gold
pieces and twenty-five cent. currency notes
The officers took the men into custody. A
box containing several thousand dollars o.
counterfeit money was found in their pos
session, and was taken charge OF by the
officers.
, How LoNG A LOCOMOTIVE WILL LASH
is estimated that a locomotive boiler viii
last until the engine has Travelled over $50,
: 900 miles. On some lines, however, the
! boiler under favorable circumstances, par,
ticularly when pure water is used, may
r travel 400, 900 or 500, 900 miles before be
= coming unserviceable. Assuming that the
life eff tho engine il determined bv tbe en-.