The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-06-11
Summary of TelegraphIc News.

bulnlnaf! OF leleBIaphiC Nehs'
Mr.. Curtin leaves on the 18th of June
for the Russian mission.
DIR. William Magruder, an ex-Mayor Of
Washington, died Monday night.
-Boyer's linsoed-oil mills, on Water SIT
n, Y, we're burned Monday. Loss $50, 900,
--Fitzgerald's yarnish works in Brook
Ign, were burned Sunday night. Loss,
$4,000.
The eight hour law has been promul-
gated at the navy yard at Brooklyn, COM
mencing Monday.
The carriage mandatory Of l.. Chap
man, at Cambridge, Mass, was burned
Sunday. Loss, $4,000.
"A new consignment of new fall wheat,
reaped in Panalo county, Miss, was re-
ceiyed at st. Louis Monday morning.
About noon on Monday the roof Of q
carpenter.shop at No. a., Seventh avenue,
New York, fell in, severely injuring several
workmen.
The remains Of Ex-Governor More
head were conveyed to Frankfort on Mon
day morning, under a civil and military es-
cort.
-luG IeCGlDlh nlOuuaD hOhh hNeihu
revenue were $3.50, 900; for the month,
$40, 277, 796; and for the fiscal year to date
eleven months), sl35, 53O,174.
"A terrific storm passed over portions Of
Grundy and Caldwell counties, Missouri,
last week. Several houses were blown down
and considerable damage done.
The first shipment of new wheat was
received at Nashville on Saturday, from
Pamela county, Mississippi. II consisted
Of five thousand bushels, and was classed
AZ fair.
Extensive preparations have been made
here to celebrate the completion OF the
bridge spanning the Missouri River. The
day of the celebration will be announced
Wednesday.
In the steamship Quaker City case the
owners of the vessel have filed their an
swer, which simply denies all the allega-
tons in the libel that the vessel was fitted
out as a priyateer.
Six prisoners escaped from the Jail in
Detroit Sunday noon, among them John
son who attempted 10 Rssassinate Allen
Pinkerton, and VIM. Dayton a convicted
pickpocket.
The cornerstone of the Atlanta Uni
yersity, an institution on the plan of the
Oberlin and Harvard Universities, which il
being established under the auspices of
the Freedmen's Bureau, was laid Monday.
Mrs. Mary Tusten, a widow lady re-
siding ON Pennsylvania avenue, Pittsburg,
was struck by lightning during a violent
storm, Monday, and. instantly killed.
She was putting down n window at the
time.
VIM. II. Andrews, an apparently sue.
cessful dry goods dealer, in Louisville, has
made an assignment. His liabilities are
said to exceed 81, 900, 600, and the income
last year amounted TO over seven thousand
dollars.
Three men and two women, s0rvants
at Il hotel in New Brighton, Staten Island,
were out in O small boat Sunday evening,
when q squall. came up, the boat capsized,
aud they were drowned. II is said they
were all intoxicated. D
- The recent reports tel~egraphed from
Washington relative to the public debt
statement were unauthorized. Secretary
Boutwell, says that the reduction Of the
public debt will be about seven or eight
millions and not thirteen
Robert James jackson was arrested at
New York Tuesday, accused Of absconding
from London with 90, 900 belonging 10 the
firm of Robert jackson K Co., tea mer-
chants. He brought a woman with him,
leaving a wife and family in England.
The State Temperance Convention of
New York commenced its session Tues.
day, at Syracuse. Ex-Governor Myron II.
CLARK presided. A committee was appoint
ed to report a plan Of organization for the
temperance votes of the state,
Dispatches from Logansport, Yincen-
mes, Gosport, and the region OF the White
River Valley, Indiana, report serious in
jury to crops by the recent storm, Corn
will have TO be replanted. Similar dam
ages are reported from between, Cincinnati
and Dayton. AM ~ L.sL-
General Joseph G. Brisco, who began
the war in the battle OF Big Bethel, and
served in nearly all the battles of the Army
of the Potomac, died in New York, Friday.
He was native Of Ireland, q graduate of
Trinity College, Dublin, and a bravo and
accomplished officer.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, says
the sheriff of Saline county reports thirteen
persons-men, women and children-killed
III NnhN tpuuNy Wy AhNhulot anu IN luhuy
more, supposed 10 have been women, car
ried of 70 suffer worse than death. Set
tiers in Saline county Nre coming eastward
for protection.
The will Of DR.. James Rush, of Phila-
delphia, dlsposes of o million dollars, and
the estate, after providing for certain mod
crate legNcies, goes to the Philadelphia
Library Company, to purchase a lot and
erect a building, to be called the Ridgeway
branch Of the Philadelphia Library.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf
Railroad was opened to Paoli, Kansas,
Morday, Quite a large excursion party
left here to celebrate the event. 1t is ex-
pected that the road will be completed to
Fort Scott about the middle of August.
New rolling stock has been ordered to meet
the wants of the road.
Calvin o. Morris, O clerk in q coal e.
adjustment in Louisville, while riding
home Tuesday night, got into a difficulty
with the car-driver, who dealt him two tre-
mendous blows with a piece of iron-one
on the temple just above the eyes, and the
other in the back OF the head. Morris
reached home, laid down, and remained
unconscious up TO 6 a. m, when he died.
Fred, Zimmerman, the car-dTiver, has been