The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-05-21
Miscellaneous Items.

quiet OF Hartford.
= Moonlight baptisms are becoming popu.
lar in Indiana.
"A great base ball tournament will be held
In Syracuse In June.
There was q severe hail storm In the ..
Bion OF Memphis on the night Of the 5th.
-Don Piatt will soon publish in book FORM
his washington letters TO the CINCINNATI Com
An opera troupe will perform at the LIE.
land Opera House, Saratoga, during the en-
tire season.
The Young Menfs Christian. Association
has now in Europe $50 branches, with a mem.
bership OF $4,000,
-~sayannah, Ga now has appropriation Of ~
4O,OOO-being an increase Of about 10000
since the close Of tho war.
PHO Mono has quarreled with the Roths-
ehildsl and they declare they will lend the
holy rather no more money.
Near Pittsburgh, on ThursdaY, a boy, in
run hred q pistol AZ two others, Milling one
ana severely wounding the other.
its land is owned by 50, 1000 people. II has l..
WO,OOO more women than u has men.
The number Of children Of school ace in
the state. OF Ohio is 1,019, 192, only about Ave-
ninths OF whom are regular attendants.
The press o. Franco has suaiained 11s
prosecutions by tho goyernmont the past
year, and paid $4,000 francs in the way Of
bridgeport, Connecticut, has received
sio mSnafGcIaro u 'fRG,oooaeoI.o o SO mstsIiS s, rot
nuses' Il III e.
The solitary system has been partially
dispensed with in the. Ponnsylvania state
s pa,sSn' anH ne NhAPse hap produced . good
I'm March there wasfan arrival of 1000 Ii
water melons, 1000 cocoanats and 400 bunohes
Of bananas. at Ban Braheibco, from the Sand =
wich Islands.
south Carolina "a soon TO hold an aeri-
cn,tural convention, at which an endeavor
vii nar DC Wh msue 10 form county societies to I'm
There are ave weekly America. p.Ds,.
IN Paris, chiefly supported by advertisernents
seeking the eyes Of American trnvelofa p
and there is serious taik of establishing
uSr -@
"A whale forty feet tong, welding 500 eaf-
Ions q pure OIL and more than four hundfeda
pounds OF whalebone, was taken near Cane
since. T.FNFNA
The New York street eommissfoner has
prohibtted the posting in any part of the CITY
Of medical handbills, or bills g%ivingInotioe Of
the sale or exposure to sale Of any nostrum or
"H.A 90. n. N.N.N.
Northern capital having been successful
" INVOKED the Hehmond steel works are boz 20
ing rebuilt, and VIII be supplied with new apA-~
improved maehipsry, THEY are expected to
reopen next month. ~
Mr.. Gilmoto has received a Grand Peaos
March, written tor tine National Peace Jubilee
to be made known until Judgment 10 passed.
upon the cofnpoaition.
Among tho Incidents Of tho late storm in
81; Louis was the return of a spdrtsman
with eve dozen snipe which he found killed
9y the matt a ,pigeon was brought down In
''eS y nHussonee = % exc
One hundred sndhny acres Of Woodland
in Wenham, Maesp Belonging 70 8 Mr. White,
were burned over on "wednesday last. Two
thousand cords Of hard wood ready for mar
Ret we're also destroyed q aIf
A mArnmoth block OF granite, ninety-ayo
feet long, Hhirty.eight feet wide and thirty
one ieet deep has been,taken out OF q Rich 2
foot and weighs 1925 tons, Or 1852, 900
pounds.
The coal product or the gnitsd stst.s
foH.thelyear 1868, amounted to- SO. 5000 Z
tons, OF which "a, 1000, 900 tons wore mined in
ponnsylyapia The anthracite coal fields OF
that State embrace about 40 square miles Of. :
territory, while n tue ~bituminoub fields over <
l2,oOO square miles are embraceds. g-ezs as
The hoop skirt business in .Brminsham. :
CT, 10 dying,Qul. Firms who formerly en-.
ployea IRON MY to one hundred hands, PRIV
eipelly girls, now only employ from six to
""% Les 3 90 > ar zoe 81
"a three-atOry brick house. rs by 40 feet, y
and In the construction Of which AZ, 350 bricks 4
we're used, was built in Lancaster, Pa, last
week, In lSh honrs, and persona. we're living
In II within three days from the time III was
commenced. '
The Portland Steam Packet Company :.
have run their steamers between Portland ID
aud Boston for the last twenty.h Ave wears,
making 1900 passages and running I,900,
900 miles. They have transported ,600, 900
passengers, and s,5Op,O0o IONS Of freight, e..
lad 2ilo' IN Plttsburgh, bought liquor
~ sa,9ggnn5 Vh euRuAlvd iasl Heek ana
dealers Sy arm 1irno ~ Tue SshSE ,hh
and rsceived SiooS "a H. IN sormnrSs sas "'
w nsas 30
"A dpWp-east RiTl being bantered one day
. y aome OF ner ieWAle friends m regard o
but one Leo replied: Pooh I woulspsfp bsys
a man with two Iegs-theyre too commonin
a. - o..h.-. .r
Han anclssad Isa9 nin,i th.n -. mozsI
hhaSya M AZ AZ ~ nnrkEmIt s un,S ettSSIIh ooB musl
ihhI,nLtns hat ne S 4 ~ ~ od ~ .ns ktneIyU
sislancv erIad amt ihaf hars 49, ,oosaiea.
than dsys.
gAo r,s, .ost..oo,. s
Overland route have entered into aeontraet :
20 transport .t2,VObW0 OF buutQn annually
u uom iha m p uo, new h9rk, ;.
ssn ErsOnjsco ana thanneT4o TEon1, sff'7aw
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