The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-10-22
Drtuitirs.
MISCELLANEOUS VI

A daughter of Archbishop Whately
keeps a girls school at Cairo, Egypt,
Ninety bushels of apples have been
gathered from one Tennessee apple tree.
Lieut.. Middleton. of che English army,
Is circumnavigatng the globe in " yacht of
three tons and s~ingle-handed.
-Eueerie has invented n "toilct car" in
which She can beguile the |irksomeness of
travel by continually changing her dress.
Tho Now York Times reportress is.
named MILDLY Morgan, and she is IN Irish
lady. Hence her Judgment OF bulls Is re-
liable.
Mrs. John J. Astor and her son, VIM.
W. Astor, sailed for Europe on Saturday.
The latter intends 10 study sculpture in
Rome.
Prince Eapoleon's private secretary is
n Spanish ev.pricst, who left the church in
order to get married 60 n beautiful French
ballet-girl.
Admiral Farragut las been superin-
tending the construction 81 several dwell
ling houses lac is building in Vallejo, Cali
fornia.
Madame Rachel is sued again by n
lady in London, England for e., 1000 for
having failed 90 mako her customer beauti-
iul forever.
Fifteen Physicians figure in the last
quarterly police report Of Chicago. The
city is 80 healthy, they say, that they had
nothing to DO.
Gilbert NJ Dawson, an old and lead
ing citizen Of SurutoEn, \. y. who started
the first Newspaper in that town i'm 1878,
died Thursday,
Sir Charles Dixie will become editor
OF the Athonuum on the lot OF January,
1870. The paper will then be- cnl,rgedand
otherwise changed.
Bill Ponnwealth, an Englislnan, living
in Boston, on n wager of $50, cat in success.
sion three dozen hard boiled eggs without
drinking any liquid whatever.
Mouse soup is u Nevada luxury. II IL
served mp rs n pleasant surprise, the
not being on the bill Of fare, but lurking
privately in the soup kettle.
A lady fell in Detroit the other day in
nm attack of vertigo, and was nearly
~atranglod by her artificial teeth falling into
her throat, before the u,nHt was discovered
and removed.
-Elias j. Crosby, formerly n highly re-
gpected citizen OF Dearborn county, Ind,
has confessed TO u charge Of forgery COM
mitted while ho WAS dunk, and gone to
the penitentiary.
-Tupper isout against Nus. Stowe os
follows:
'Noi wo donounco thee; by that Widows bed
Thou safest, meanly, prIricutly pryiug,
Bribed by n srfibblor's fee Co damn the dead,
And blab the flandorous secrets Of the dying"
-Bayard Taylor will retire from tho lee
ture field Mt the close OF the coming season,
and devote himself thenceiorth exclusively
to literature. lie begins his farewell course
Rt Cincinnati about the beginning of Nov
smber.
Some unknown scoundrel cut the hair
from the head of n young lady, in Evans
vile, Ind, the other night. She had long
aud beautiful locks Of native growth. Sew
eral outnges of u similar character have
been perpetrntcd in that city.
The British princes arc great travellers.
A wag mentions that Prince Leopold is
travelling in Scotland, Prince Alfred round
the world, Prince Arthur in Canada, and
tho Prince of Wales is going to the devil,
all at the expense Of the British public.
A bookseller, who has been twenty-five
years in the business, writes 10 one Of the
papers 90 say that be has sold two copies ol
Bans to one OF Byron, and forty copies Of
Barns Ia one Of Scott. Nurdhworth's poe
try and SCOTS, lao says, meet with a very
poor sale,
Mr.. Jabcz Bacon, the oldest man in
Winthrop, Maine, aged 9j years, appeared
on the streets last week with n horse ~
years old. IL wagon 40 years Old, and Il har-
his attention while his photograph was sur.
reptitiously taken.
Ono hundred and ten thousand pill.
grimG are estimated 10 have assembled nj
Mount Amrat in the late Mecca pilgrimage,
or about 81, 900 more than in 1868. The
public health is reported to have boon per.
ieclly good, both inong the pilgrims and
in the neighborho = of Mecca.
Miss Walker, 20 young lady, daughter
OF WD. Walker, of Orange county, Virgin.
ia, endeayorod on Friday, Sept. 10th, "a
wrest q pigtol from tho hands Of her father
as he was about to shoot himself, and re.
ceived wounds from the effects Of which
she died on Sunday night.
California is suffering from the Texas
cattle disease. On ono ranch in san Luis,
ObispO county, fifty head arc infected. A
bill for the defense Of the grO2era WA
killed in the last Legislature by n flr-seeinf
Democrat, who denounced it as n pena
measure, got up by Radicals iorthe punish
ment of Texas secesSiOul
Mr.. Jefferson's recent engagement q
Booths theatre melted the management
S95, 600, after paying actors, advertising
and all incidental expenses. Mr.. Jefferson
himself received $4,000 for the sever
weeks, he having boon paid at the rate o
$500 n night and one-hnlft the grcss receipt
Of the matinee performances.
a young woman in one Of the rur'
towns OF New Hampshire was DESTROYS O
teaching school in II noighbOling village
and got this document from the Gcloctmnn
'"lhis in TO certify that TamRr Noycg stand
on "A medium with other girls Of her ag
aud sex, aud Tor what ! know 10 M geo
as folks in general. lamar got th
school.
William Penn's old family carriage hN
CONS into the possession of the Michiga
Central Railroad. The relic is over III
years Oil. a gentleman Of jackson, Mlcl
igan, either purchased or fell heir TO 1t, br
on it's arrival he failed to pay expref
charges, and so the company took poaseI
zion in default.
Rev. VIM. II. Green, the wife poison
or, was lOnnd guilty Of murder In the seO
ond degree, at Litchheld, Connecticut, la
week, and on saturday was taken to Il
State prison, where he is sentenced for lf
lie was found guilty Of murder in the fir
degree, but a new trial was granted in h
case.
New York has commenced tho co.
struction of n state capitol ut mn estimate
cost Of $1,000, 900, but il IN quite safe
cav that ita cost will bo double that fgu
-, c,u,,l.ia1 The new cnurt bnuse