The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-09
Breuitits.
Miscellaneous Items.

o year.
Mrs. Dumont, of Cedar Ropids, Iowa
has become heir to a $4,000, 900 estate in
England. .... H.. 20
the Chicago postofice on Saturday, as un-
called for.
Harvest hands are receiving from So
to SO per day in the wheat fields of South
ern Illinois.
"A girl of IA summers Is about TO be-
come the fourth wife of a Muscatine (Iowa)
septuagenarian.
Two Canadian Presbyteries have voted
that reviyals are at variance with the Vest
minister Cateohism. Il FbfI
a Mrs. Mansfield and her husband
have been admitted to the bar as praticing
attorneys, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
"A Boston landlord raised the rent Of q
tenant 800 because he voted against him
on q local question.
English housezsparrows have been inn
ported into Buffalo. One gentleman re-
oeiyed sixteen pair a fow'dNys ago.
1t is stated that Henry J. Raymond's
maternal grandfather and grandmother,
and one Of his uncles, died Of apoplexy.
Cincinnati, on Saturday, by is, 43s to
LOO (teu TO one), voted TO issue $40, 000,-
900 in city bonds to build the Southern rail-
road.
"A citizen ofShelburne Falls, vt, claims
10 be the champion horse snapper" He
is 40 years Of age, and has traded horses
over GOO times.
Tom Sayers, son Of the pugilist, has
come ont as a comic singer in London, and
sports his fathers fighting costume in the
music halls.
"A st. Louis paper says that there are
about 5000 opium eaters in that city,
and that they consume 1890 grains of
morphine daily.
The officers of the Northwestern rail-
road deny the story that the Galena Divis-
ion has been leased 10 tho Illinois Central
Railroad Company.
The New York Sun thinks ''our Amer
can girls belittle themselves by bestowing
their hands upon played out and starved out
Bourbon princes.
lzIt Is said that o stock company, with a
considerable capital, is now forming TO
carry on the National I%ntolligencer in con-
%nection with the Express.
Hiram Miller was hanged. last Friday,
in Widdsor, Vt, for the murder Of J. G..
and Abigail Going, q farmer and his wife,
in Vermont, July 10, 1867.
The entire line Of the Dubuque & Sioux
4. City Road, from river 10 river has been
leased TO the Illinois Central. Il is TO be
completed in seven months.
The New York Evening Mail saws that
President Grant rendered his services AZ
one of the pail bearers at the Raymond
funeral, and they were declined.
California produced last year nearly
fifteen million pounds of wool, which was
larger by almost two million pounds than
tho production Of any other state.
Mrs. Daniel Bean and 2G2 other Indies
Of the town Of warner, N. H., have sent q
protest TO the Legislature against the ex-
tension OF the right of suffrage TO women.
Eating peanuts in court at Petersburg,
Va, has been prohibited by n Judicial or
der, and the Index snys that "the order is
/, justified by the experience Of the last GRIM
inal term
Present prospects ARE that the Della
ware fruit crop will be 80 large hat even
the special arrangements made by the rail-
roads will be insufficient to move it TO the
market.
: The new territorial seal Of Wyoming
| bears an elk's head, q shield, n train of
cars, and agricultural implements, artisti-
/ cally arranged, and the device, 'Iet us
have peace"
AT an auction sale Of velocipedes in
New York, Saturday, the prices for mach
ines ranged from So to $50. About forty
were sold, and twenty were withdrawn for
want Of bidders.
California wheat is so dry, that in
coming east through and into a humid at
mosphere it gains greatly in weight by alb
sorption. This is quite m element of
I, profit to the shippers.
The largest shipment of wool ever
/ made from Quincy, ILL.,, was made Wednes-
, day last. Six car loads were started for
, Boston. The cars each contained so large
, sacks Of the fibrous material.
| 1t is stated that a respectable congre-
I. cation of the believers in the doctrine of
| Joseph Smith, the great Mormon disciple,
: hold meetings in the West Belleville C1l.)
school house every Sabbath,
The new City Directory of Buffalo con-
, tains about 10000 names. Tho Courier
multiplies this number by five, and claims
. that the product represents very nearly the
: population Of the city.
, The carpenter, third mate and boat
swain of the emigrant ship James Foster,
, who have been on trial, In New York, for
! cruelty to emigrants, have been sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
During a social party, recently, near
. Waxahatchie, Texas, the chimney of the
: house in which ii was assembled was struck
{ by lightning, and O young man named Hin
ley vas instantly killed and a Miss Embry
I dangerously wounded. ~
The Petersburg, Va, Index says: "All
r the reports that have reached us represent
the crop of wheat now harvesting as the
= finest that has been reRped for a number of
| years. The ears are well filed, and the
t grain not affected by rust"
The names ola triplet of babies who
+ took the premium at the late baby show in
Boston, are Nellie Hope, Norah Faith and
Hannah Charity. Mrs. Coughlin, the
7 mother Of these, though she has Faith,
! Hope and Charity is known chiefly by her
i Works.
D The attaches of the New York Demo-
crat had a magnificent dejeuRer on Wednes-
day evening, at the Metropolitan Hotel.
@ Mr., O.. P. Sykes, the publisher being the
host on the occasion. There were red-hot'
= times all round, and wine and wit flashed
q forth indiscriminately,
t AT an election in Boston, on Wednes-
day last, Lizzie Harrison offered to vote.
Being told that she could not. as she was
Q not ON the list she declared that she had a
! right TO vote, all regulations 10 the con-
n trary notwithstanding, deposited her ballot
Il ON the box and sailed out.
The following appointments have re.
y Gently been made for the internal revenue
district of Chicago: Gaugers-Otto A,
. Schultz, A. t. Hincdey, Freeman Connor
Nj. v. Hall, Ransom Kennicott, Il. M.
\ Lamper, Storekeepers BARNARD Miller.
Charles yergho.
During a late hurricane at Shipman,
I ILL.,, two men were blown over one hundred
yards M lodged in apple trees, without