The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-06-25
Miscellaneous Items.
-ohio has se~venty-two cheese hctories.
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The total membership Of the Society
of Friends in all parts of the world IS esti-
mated at $4,000.
Two public baths are TO be erected in
New York, for which the Legislature has
appropriated $4,000.
Hartford Conn, is TO have q rink
which will seat G,000 persons, accommo-
date 500 skaters, and cost $4,000.
"A Kentucky Police Judge fncda man
five dollhrs and costs for the crime of kis-
sing ono Of his own sex in the, street.
Tho citizens of Sanie Fe, New Mexico,
recently held q meeting to pay tribute to
The memory Of 'Rit' Carson.
Two policemen were arrested in Chica-
90 on Monday for assault aud battery. No
wonder that Chicago lisa disorderly city.
A Young married m was found
drowned In her own bath in Chicago ON
Monday. She is supposed to have fallen
in an epileptic ft.
Tho original Mrs. Bloomer, wife OF the
Mayor Of Council Bluffs, Iowa, long since
quit her peculiar dress for the moro comely
habit worn by other women.
A shoestring saved n little girls life in
New Haven, the other day. IL caught ON
n nail ~ abe fell out of u third story win
dow, and held her from death until assist
Ance came.
~ Santa Anna is living nc Port Plate, In
the Island Of Hayti, where he occupies
5 himself writing the history Of his life.
p He will, however, return TO Staten Island
in July. f.. o.
The tug Goodnow was struck by the
bark Sunyside, on lake Huron, Monday
/ - - - ...I U.ra ak nfuV Tho nVlKu
was saved.
Booth, tho assassin will not stay dead.
, The United States Marshal Mt Cleveland
received q dispatch from Canton, Ohio, the
/ other day, informing HIM that Booth had
! made his appearance in that place.
Booths Theatcr is now the only one in
4 New York in which anything In the least
approaching the legitimate. drama can be
, seen. This il mistake, the legitimate
! drama can be seen in any western theater.
= Tho Russian Church at Sitka, Alaska
q Territory, was recently robbed of q copy of
\ the Bible richly studded with valuable
\ stones, crosses and other ornaments, alto
g gether said to be worth 800. 600.
In the garden Of Thomas Atkins, in
Middletown, Conn, is q pcony in full
. bloom, the root of which was brought
from England more than two hundred
8 years ago. Its pedigree has boon carefully
y preserved in the family.
The body Of the Insurance clerk, Fnnl
i. Woodhnll, reported missing some days
h ago I'm Now York, was found floating neal
n Bedloo's Island. His face was gashed and
bruised, leaving no doubt that he was muir
dered.
"A Boston paper insinuatos that the
y reason that Amanda Craig got her verdict
for 500, 600 damages Is that half the jury
d have applied for divorces in order 10 marry
the plaintiff and-hor money. This is no
a substantiated.
The army worm is represented ~
threatening Central Illinois. The MattooI
Journal says they are destroying Who'll,
fields of corn in Coles county; and tina
: chiuch bugs are thick north of Charleston
and appearing in other places.
f. "A woman in Troy, N. ", has produced
n neodleworked picture of Washington
IA containing nearly zoo, 900 stitches. II wa
ii rallied of and won by Prof III. Nj. Coleman
m of Nnssar College. Three hundred ticket
ID were sold at 81 each.
- A New York lady recently ordered
" trousseau Mt Stewards for her daughter
~ doll, which received n complete outfit i
|, under clothing, silk aud lace. Ono of tn
y articles ordered was IN India shawl, mimi
"a turc size, Mt $50, and q lace handkerchie
~ was valued Mt SIP.
Miss Emily Judson Harris, n gradual
M of the Everett School, will read the Declar
ar alton of Independence ut the coming cele
bration of The Fourth Of July in Boston
ig She is the daughter ofthe President of til
he Common Council.
A duel was fought, Sunday morning
at Lundy's Lane, Canada, between the ed
tor OF n Spanish paper, at New York, m
n Cuban. The latter was shot througI
both legs, aud his wounds are serious
An article styling Cubans towards was tn
cause.
ly Much excitement is manifested by tn
ly peopleo of Benton and Washington counties
IN Ark, ON the subject Of mining in Benton
I'd The lead specimens are very fine and ricl
re The silver assays $3.50 per ton-the gold j
On sparsely scattered. Many hundreds of pee
Is pie are fiocking 10 the mines.
Tho artesian well at st. Louis is pre-
u baby the deepest in the world. 1t In
D. already been sunk to the depth of $40
DE- feet, and no flow yet. At Louisville the
o. vent down $500 feet. The great artesia
ng well in Paris is 800 feet deep, and the WI
N ter is hot enough for washing clothes an
dishes without further heating.
,is -Tama county, Iowa, has for RocordC
re a one-loggcd soldier; for Clerk, n cripple
,er soldier, aud ex-Andorsonyill 10 prisoner; fC
,er Deputy Recorder, n crippled soldier; fC
ne Auditor, Surveyor, Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff
in and Deputy Treasurer, each a soldier, an
th a crippled soldier for Court House janito
of -On the farm of w. Pearson, in Elbridl
he township, Illinois, stands a mammoth re
be beech tree that on the ground forms tw
oil distinct trees, stands six feet apart, III
ay south fork measuring fifteen inches i
he diameter. About thirteen feet from I'll
ground the two unite and form one perfeC
re- tree, fully ono hundred feet high.
The Herald, Of San Francisco, in n
,or article ON the benefits of grain-growing
If California, says that the eXhuasting systol
of farming in operation in California hi
n already begun to DO apparent in the d
crease of crops. ''Where formerly six
on bushels Of wheat to the acre were pr
'duced, the maximum yield of last SUNNI
~ was only fifteen bushels"
de The soda fountain at Helmbold's
It'll New York, isimmcnso. ltoost about Sli
IN, 900, and il 80 large that fifty people q
gh drink from it at once. About it are chai
of and sofas, on which ladies and gentlem,
pc. can sit and enjoy tho delicious bevemp
tho Not less than 5000 persons drink the
ace each day.
I'D Jonathan Mingo died at Albion Miol
hat a few days ago, aged seyenty-seyen yea
net lie belonged 10 the Narragansett tribe
Indians, and was u lineal descendant
King Philip and, at the time Of his deaf
yer had IN his possession the powder-ho