The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-03-05
0oos ano enOs.
Miscellaneous Items.

those OF oregon one million.
"A Western journalist objects 10 female
suffrage, OF the ground that Il would cause
to much "pairing of" at the polls.
"A mar recently brought a bill Of "a
against his brothers estate in San Francisco,
FOR loss Of time i'm attending the funeral"
"A petition is now before the French
Senate asking for the removal Of the mortal
remains Of Louis Philippe from England to
Franco.
-lntemperance has become so prevalent
IN Sweden that the Legislature is considering
The propriety Of forbidding the manufacture
H SgFilsI Quebec Morning ohieniole eomDls,..
one Of its marriage announcements with the
following information; mo- erdsl No cAkOii
No winelil
A Judge In CLAY county, North Carolina.
recently charged the grand jury that a law.
full fence shonld be 'h~orse-high, bulLstronR,
and pig-tight."
"A suit against ship owners 10 recover the
value OF a slave that escaped in 1854, By az.
creting himself on the vessel, lie now pro-
crossing in New Orleans.
There is not in the present British House
OF Lords a single descendant Of the twenty
five barons appointed to enforce the observ-
ance of the Magma Charta,
The old custom Of balloting for membars
by the use OF beans and corn is still retained
by the Massachusetts, Historical Society. The
Dtanb IOJeCti inc corn ADMITS.
The receipts Of the state of Nevada last
year, we're s34O, 900; the expenditure, $780,
600 the present debt is $3.50, 900, and The bal.
ance in the Treasury is si14 900.
Tennessee ia asked 10 assume a part OF
the rebel debt. A bill has been introduced
TO pay negro porter for services rendered
the rebel Senate in the early part Of the war.
Excessive care turns a man into a pin
blunt at the head, slender In the stem and
sharp. at the point. A woman Of care IL
like a needlo-an eye, and all Bharpness.-
tBeecher.
-wallack's Theatre in New York has been
crowded since the production Of much Ado
About Nothing" but neither Booth's nor
Brougham's new theatre has been very sue
cessful as yet.
A diver employed to recover a quantity
OF railroad iron submerged in the Missouri
river, at st. Joseph, has brought up one
hundred and forty-six bars, all but four OF
those lost.
Int the streets of Boston they drive their
yoloeipedes so fast that, as the Sunday Times
says, every collision results in the total dis
appearance OF both riders and machines. No
fragments are ever found.
"A gentleman in Louisiana proposes 10
plant several acres Of peoples and TO manu-
iacture opium. An acre Of poppies will make
htty pounds OF opium, which is worth 800 a
pound. One man can cultivate three acros.
-Teacher-"Come here, you Young scamp.
and get a sound spanking" Scholar-"You
haint got no right 10 spank me, and the
copy you set says So" Scholar (reads)-
Let all the ends thou almost at be thy coun-
try's.'
"A Boston "servant.gar, who had a "fol-
lower" told the lady with whom she soueht
a situation, that she preferred that he shonld
bo kept in Ignorance Of tho fact that she was
doing Homework, "a he supposed she was
boarding"
"A duel was fought on the 18th, near Bla-
d%enAburg, botweenia judge Harrison, Of West
Virginia, and an eX-rebel officer, name not
learned. The latter was wounded at the frat
fire, and then secretly removed by his friends.
No arrests.
"A young lady Of Hartford, Conn, re-
Gently hoaxed everybody there with the story
Of a mans drowning in the Connecticut river,
while skating. The police hunted out cases
OF mysterious disappearance, and searched
the river in vain.
Corporation in Ithica, N. Y, so far as
selling grocories is concerned, has not prov
ed a success. The cooperative grocery store
has been running some thirteen months, has
lost over one;tenth Of it's capital, and has
been sold out TO private individuals.
There Is a woman's club in London
where the visits OF men are allowed, but
zach Visitor must sign his name In q book
and add tho name OF the lady on whom he
calls. Then he Is granted an interview ina
parlor, under the eye Of a grim superintend-
emit.
At tho first performance Of the Bpanish
Protestant services In Madrid, hundreds OF
poraons were unable TO obtain admission,
owing TO the want Of room. The owner OF
the house in which worship il held has re-
coiyed an anonymous letter threatening him
with assassination.
"A Western editor thinks the poem Of
Enoch Arden has encouraged hundreds Of
dead husbands TO return and annoy their
lamiles, who would otherwise have kept away.
Enoch Arden In real life, he saya, II
usually a scalawag, and m home ragged,
dirty and drunk.
"A pin manufacturing company in Conn,
manufacture nearly seven milloins Of pins
per day. The number put on paper last
year approximates the enormous sum OF
2,OOO,O OO,OO or more than enough TO supply
every human inhabitAnt OF the globe With q
pm each.
Tho New York Express SAYS: "CouRbs,
colds, influenza, sceflet fever and lntermlt,
tents are sufficiently affective among us al
present, and cause quite enough suffering
and sorrow TO do away with the desire which
appears 10 exist Of getting up a smallpox ex-
element. There Is no valid ground for any
such talk"
New Orleans has celebrated the Ante
Leuten Lolidays In true European fashion.
with a high carnival. On Tuesday eyenine
the "Mystic Krewe Of Comus" paraded the
streets, with all manner OF classical. imper-
sonations, and tho Opera House was brilliant
with tableaux and fashion.
Among the rare manuscripts Of the yalu-
able library Of the Marquis Of Hastings, re-
Gently sold at auction in London, was . COPY
OF the four EvAngelists, IN tho handwriting
Of Wyckline, the great reformer, which was
purchased for the British Museum at a cost
OF a little over one thousand pounds sterling.
Where the buffaloes have lived. herds of
cattle innumerablo can be erazed' Where
the antelope has sported. aoeka OF shaen he.
yond counting can be Red. Hence on me
plains east OF the Rocky Mountains. and ip
the valley Of the Platte there will soon be