The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-10-15
Miscellaneous Items.

The Grccian bend is callcl the hinder
pest.
Milk sells at . cents per quart in Bos
ton.
The assessed value of property in low
is 1921, $50, 900.
"A new and dangerous counterfeit s1t
bill has appeared at Cincinnati.
The Oldest man has had his run. Nov
let us hear from tho oldest woman.
The educated hog attracted a goot
deal of attention nj the Fair grounds il
indianapolis.
Chicago has SO post Office carriers, who
delivered $50, 600 letters in September, ant
collected 5000.
The strike of Boston tailors has ex
tended to the piece-makers, SAYS the AID
v%ertiser. Peacc-makers should not b.
strikers.
There were seventy-ive fire alarms II
Chicago during September, of which fftee1
were false. Loss Si93, go; insurance
| $3.50, 200.
The contract Is signed by which NJ
Strakosch binds himself TO give MADAME
Patti 100, 600, 600 francs for one hundred
representations in America.
To Josh Billings we are indebted fol
one sentence Of wisdom, ut least, TO thii
effect: eff you are right You can't be 10,
radical, and IL wrong, too conservative"
Tho Nation says, in commenting OIL
the Wall street fight: "New York speculat
ors have now q rope round the neck of ey
cry business man in the United States"
1t is estimated that about $500, 600 o
the new issue Of ten and fifteen cent frnc
tionol currency IL kept ont Of circulation
by people keeping one of each for samples
One Professor Taber has constructed {
speaking machine, which Is said "to articu
late various words, and even TO answer
questions by simple sentences with wonder
iul distinctntss."
"A negro man and woman we're found
dead, locked In each others arms, near {
Charleston, S. c., camp meeting, n few day
ago. They were stung to death by q rat
tlesnnke.
The real aud personal property Of th,
city and county Of New York for 1869, il
officially estimated ut S9Gl, 100, 597, against
S90S, i36, 327, for the year 1868, being ar
increase of $50, GGi, $40.
The w%ealthiest wife in America is q de
vout Methodist. Commodore Vanderbilt
says that his spouse has more real religion
than ID. Drew, and that ON the whole Their,
is more piety in the Central than the Erie
stock.
In 1862, the first church in West New
bury, Mass was compelled TO deal will
Richard Bartlett, who refused communion
because his pastor, Row. Mr.. Hale, wore
wig, which he declared to bo very anti
Christian.
A colored woman found the pocket
book of ~eX-Alayor James, at GAINESVILLE, o..
on Monday last, which contained nearl,
$1,000 in notes and Government bonds, fol
which piece of honesty she was rewarded
with Il present Of $500.
A vinegar vat, containing 500 barrels
burst ut Buffalo the other day. II pro
duced a shock like an earthquake, and wheI
the brown liquid began TO course down In,
cutters people imagined it the fiery huit
from the neither regions.
A German society in New York haI
taken mp the case of Jacob Burkel, the EN-
igrant, who was dubbed to death by police
man Buddington, and have instituted a sui
against the latter for $50, 900 damages. Tn,
defendant has been arrested and held L
bail in 1900.
In Erie, Pa, n minister of the gospe
has recently been on trial on the following
counts: |. Cheating in q COW trade; 2
Grossly deiaming u young lady; 3. Immor
al conduct. Verdict: First count, prorei
second count, prorel; third count, not es
tablishcd.
The Niagara Falls Gazette SAYS that Of
the return Of Prince Arthur and party from
Buffalo On Monday last, he and his gentle
men comrades "scorned the sidewalks m
travelled in the muddy street. Such n move
proceeding attracted the attention of PEG
pie, aud led TO many remarks not general
complimentary"
A Geographic correspondent of the n
Y. Herald in Washington was ice aske,
how he found matter enough to send l.
his paper, every day, from two to tire
columns of special dispatches. "Eas
enough. One day ! tell a lie; next day
deny it; on the third day some one want
to explain; and so" said he, 81 get tire
items out of nothing"
A colorod preacher in Louisville, tn
other night, denounced two sisters of hi
congregation, mother and daughter, hold
ing them mp as horrible examples. Tn
afflicted pair waited for him on the side
walk, after services, and hen and ther
gave him n severe beating with horse
whips. They were arrested and fined hy
dollars.
The Cleveland Herald says; "We saN
int street car in this city, n few days since
an extensively dressed woman not onl,
tell q stranger to give up his seat, but, upol
his doing so, tender him five cents an,
loudly insist on his taking it. She sal,
she was rich enough to pay for everythin.
she had, and didn't ask no fayors from nc
body without paying for it,"