The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27
Miscellaneous Items

Omaha has n musical genius in the
person OF a blind German boy 10 years of
age.
Spirits paid a tax of 5000. s11.67. and
tobacco S71, l21.3O, in Chicago district in
July.
Warrants have been issued for the ar.
rest Oftwenty Acknowledgment of gambling
houses in Omaha.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, during the past
year, 2,G61 buildings have been erected,
valued at $40, 545, 600.
A Boston tooth-pick factory has the
monopoly of the business, and sells 4,OOO.-
600 or 5000, 900 per day.
Mike McCoole and O'paldwin, he
Irish giant, had q sparring match at the
Opera House in Buffalo ON the 18th.
Mr.. Lewis Longstaf, formerly of Bea.
yer Dam in this state, is on trial at Glasgow,
No, for the murder OF John b, jones'
-Forty-hve thousand baskets of peaches.
ninety car loads, arrived In New York.
yesterday, by the New Jersey Railroad.
Mr.. James Miller has in preparation a
reprint Of Peter Parley's Thousand and
One Stories which have long been out of
print.
The true signo of a great poet, or Of any
great author, snot that he is without faults,
but that he makes you love his faults, in
spite Of yourself
There is an increase of nearly fifty
millions Of dollars IN the assessed value OF
real and personal property in Boston since
the last financial year.
"A. X. Bailey, of the Decorah iowa,
Republican, does tho apologize as follows:
'Our paper is retarded slightly by the mr.
rival of an extra male"
"A ''niggor" baby was found on a stone
in Syracuse. The city adopted it, and
named It August Stone, because ii wns
found in August,
The fnther ofn deserted wife, of Siour
City, has obtained n Judgment against the
r]ecreant husband for bed and board for
the last two years, amounting TO 81, $50. 60.
The capital invested in the publication
of sheet music and musical works in the
United States il estimated at So, OOO, COO
There is comparatively little music import
ed.
The biggest mau in Indiana is David
Buskirk, who lives in Monroe county. A
mile aud q quarter from Gosport. He IL
about seven feet high, and weighs three
hundred pounds,
"A young man Of s%ixteen, the son Of a
Cincinnati lawyer, is writing a tragedy
founded on the fresh subject of the ST.
Bartholomew massacre. IL will be brought
ont ut ono OF the Cincinnati theatres next
winter.
Tho total pumping capacity of the
three pumps which furnish Chicago with
water il 3S, 200, 900 gallons per day. The
actual consumption of water during thir-
teen consecutive days in July was 81 ,O0O,-
600 gallons per day.
Two new companies have been formed
for the purchase OF lands in Virginia and
their settlement by cmigrants from Europe.
The aggregate OF land already purchasedby
Companies in Virginia and the Carolinas ex-
oeeds 1000, 600 %ofacres.
-Postmastor General Creswell's house.
ne1r Elkton, Md, was entered by burglars
on Tuesday evening, and n quantity of
clothing stolen. Ono of the robbers was
ought with n full suit of Mr.. Cre.welTs
clothes on. The other escaped.
An exchange says: The stump.5iI.t
Latin used by halEilodged Physicians in
making prescriptions, has boeG Ithe means
OF numbering many persona lately, WbuI1
II not be vol enough 10 use the Enplish
language, or doat they understand il 7
Tho total quantity of land devoted L.
the growth of cotton throughout Tho tvbnts
of India does not exceed $500 900 nrres
II this quantity &c hand was M prodnctiye
IN India as il il in thee United States, n
woola yield something like 4, 1000, 900 bales.
OF half a bale per acre.
The gentlemen OF society Mt Saratooa
eto epltomlzed rs follows: Greatest lion,
Con. Shermani luckiest man, John g.
sake; ladies f%ayorite, Ensign Mason; most
dSIalg"e, W. X. Travers; danced the most,
aheiluani best dressed, Charles Leland;
p%olitest, Joe, Of the Clarendon.
Gen. Thomas Jourtln, now in COM
mand OF n division Of Cuban troops, was
written 70 by the officials of the Treasury,
oGking him 20 refund 800, OOO which )
owed the government! before he job,c > lie
rebellion. IIo replies; "Yonr - ~
ceived. Any further ON ,uoHo,, III 4
reach me If sent to New ~ NJ" wiz
"A question: To- solution: Two ladies
Mr. IG",A'ns ialong a Chicago street the
Soon nTn " .ch having her child with her.
soiI4 '" met two gentlemen. "There, -
~" one, 'Ore our husbands" eyes, u
I'D the othor, 'nnd our fathers" 'And
our grandfathors, " said the children. All
were correct in their statements. Who can
solve this relationship sphynx2
Mira. Stanton writes to the Revolution
from Johnston, N. T.: ''The two central
figures on which all thought and CONVERSE
ton centre just now in our native town, Is
(, the unhappy man in prison, Of whom we
told our readers last week, and a pretty
r young girl, q member of the Presbyterian
Church, who, 'out5ide the conyention,
rules, has become tho mother of a child. .
A young Canadian girl who ran away
/, from home and went TO Detroit was ar
rested recently for vagranoy. When offer.
ed her liberty in case she would go back
home, showed her good taste by the follow.
, ing reply; "Not any, Mister; / likes the
States in prison better than Canada at lib
erty, I'll take my chances on this side
Discriminating and tasteful female, thatl
An old lady in Iowa, complimented on
the beauty and preservation OF her teeth.
ascribed it 10 having "bitten the snake. d
Sho explained that in childhood her father
I held n rattlesnako by the head and tail and
each of his children bit along the whole
length of the backbone, Just indenting the
r skin, ns n preventive of toothache aud
/ decay, and tho old lady believes to the
/ present in the efficacy of such an opera,
ton.
The cotton and sugar crop of Louisi,
ana will he the largest and best ever pro-
duced there, Tho cotton crop is 80 far ad.
vanoed that tho worm can do no harm.
even though il shonld make its nppearnnce'
The city of Now Orleans il said 10 be pros
T porous beyond tho most sanguine expecta.
! lions, Tho people generally have ceased
! TO lek about the late war, and q laudable