The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-24
Brfuities.
Miscellaneous Items.

France; in Italy 1926.
e-siN hundred and five horses were eaten
M Paris in June.
-Hdssin is about to Introduce trial by
jury as q new pledge Of her progress in
civilization.
In Massachusetts, this summer the
farmers daughters rave helped to make
the hay. Hired men are scarce.
A Munich professor estimates the
amount of beer annually manufactured i'm
Europe to be equal to 5000, 900, 900 pints.
John Durivage, a nephew of Edward
Everett, and n well-knows journalist. actor.
and dramatist. died ut the CITY Hospital i'm
Memphis, o few days ago utterly penniless.
"A crazy French legislator was found
stark-naked in a railway carriage, 81 wish
my constituents to see me just US / am"
was his explanation.
1t is said that Commodore Vanderbilt
went to Canada to be married 10 that Fisk
and Gould should not get out an Injunction
and put his intended into the hands Of n
receive her.
j. b. Ford & Go. have purchased the
Church Union. Henry Ward Beeoher will.
edit IL after the expiration of the present
year and his sermons will appear thoroin.
Iowa has recently takenits census, and
returns from all but FIVE counties show a
population Of 1,011, 051. During the past
two years {, 1000 dwellings have been erect
cd in the state.
The Eastern (Mass.) Railroad carried
moro p%assongera than any other road in
the state during the past year. At tho
small town Of Maiden, four miles from
Boston, they have eight hundred regular
yearly commuters.
-Laundrcsses in Montgomery have
found n new way to increase their gains.-
They lake tho clothes to DO washed on
Monday morning, hire them ont n day or
two, and then clean and iron them in time
to be returned on Saturday.
The dogs in Somerset county, N. j.,
have made havoc among the sheep. About
fifty have been killed within a few weeks
past. One gentleman, out of a flock of
t~wenty-four, had all killed but one.
The pay roll of the Chicago Police De
partment for the month of August was S25,.
471.72. The pay roll of the Fire Depart
ment for the same time footed up S1L,7I0,-
%.
The Lynchburg Virginian says that
fifty thousand head Of cattle will be sent to
the Northern markets from southwest viz
ginia during the coming season.
There were 473 more commitments in
Boston in July and August of the present
year than there were in the same months
last year. And still the city is ngitated by
the ~question-Is there an open bar in Bos-
ton?
n,ny.,aag,.. .... -. " ~ "
dents of Amherst College on Friday morn
ing that Professor J.. II. Seelye, had written
a letter declining the Presidency of tho I'm
iyersity of Michigan. Tho students were
greatly pleased.
-Mucllage Of remarkable adhesive prop
critics is taken from the leaves of tho New
Zealand flax. II is TO DO largely used in
England for the manufacture of ~''safety en-
velopes.' When " pieces of paper are
fastened by means of this gum, no steam.
ing or soaking will separate them.
according to Rev. DR.. Osgood, COR
goously dressed beadles, with sword and
staff, move around in the German churches,
and give the faithful a poke by way of re-
buke whom they twist ltheir heads around
to look Mt the ladies or sec who ia coming
in.
On Saturday n heavy thunder storm
passed over Rushville, III. Mrs. Ada Ian
don, fearing TO remain in her house in COM
pany with Mrs. Frank Leo, stepped out in
to the yard n took refuge under a { ee,
when n bolt Of lightning descended, killing
Mrs, LAndon, and rendering Mrs. Ice in
sensible.
Professor Romeo Elton, n graduate of
Brown University, who returns 10 Proyi-
IlNlnn nNNaH naWT.VaNaaU. a. 600
Just founded n scholarship of one thousand
dollars in the University in memory of his
wife. Professor Elton WAS professor of
Greek and Latin in tho institution from
1885 TO 1913, and this is the second schol-
arship he has endowed.
Edward Matthews has purchased A
burial plot at Greenwood occupying 20 lots.
at n cost Of $4,000. A vault and temple
will be constructed at n cost of 500, OOO,-'
The price of lots in Greenwood cemetery.
II feet by ~, Is from 5000 to $500, and of
single graves in the public lots from $40 To
80, III corporation has now between
$500 900 and $500, 900 sinking fund, which
will soon he increased 10 81, 900, 600. 1907
"A Danbury farmer, whose stack Of hay
was growing smaller by degrees and beau
tifully less" posted himself one night 10
Ind out the cause, and soon had the salts
faction of seeing a fellow approaching with
n fork. The farmer waited until the thief
had got his fork full and was walking of
with 1t, when he came up behind him and
set fire TO the hay, which soon blazed up
terribly. The fellow was efectnally cured
OF stealing hay from that locality.
"A revival at Richmond, Ind, which has
b cen in progress for about six months. Ia
one OF the most remarkable on record.
About nine hundred persons have been adj
ded to the various churches. Out door
meetings have been held twice a week, and
a hoon-day saloon prayer meeting has be-
come nearly apermancnt institution. Some
times as many AZ fifteen prayer-meetings in
private houses have been simultaneously
held in different parts OF the city.
The terms of the following United
States Senators will expire in 1871, and
many Of their successors will be elected
during the current year: II. V. Miller,
Georgia; Richard Yates, Illinois; James w.
Grimes, Iowa; Edmund G.. Ross, Kansas;
Thomas q. MeCreory, Kentucky; Wm. Pitt
Fessenden, Maine; Henry Wilson. Magm-
chusstts; Jacob NJ. Howard, Michigan;
Daniel y. Norton, Minnesota; John nj.
Ihayer, kebraskai Aaron H. Cragin, New
Hampshire; Alexander G. Cattell, New Jer-
soy; George III. Williams, Oregon; usnry
-. Anthony, Rhode Island; Joseph s. Fow-
Ter, Tennessee; Waitman Il. Wiley, West
Virginia total, 16.
"A good story is told ola Quaker land.
lord at Atlantic City. An urchin Of five or
xix years was seen by him drumming nois-
lily upon q handsome walnut balustrade.
The friend demonstrated with him without
effect and then quietly took him up bodily
and carried him into the back yard. In n
moment the boys angry mother made her
appearance and opened upon the landlord
with IA torrent Of invective. concluding with
"Ih leave this house instantly - The