The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-30
Miscellaneous Items.


times as much money.
Miscellaneous Items.
IT is said that the whey from cheese
factories is now made into butter.
A CONNECTICUT farmer has just fin
ished g, 900 hog pen, which is grain
ed and papersd.
VIsALIA, Cal, has no calaboose, and
confines its prisoners by chaining them
by the leg to tree in the open square,
rain or shine.
THE official report of the surrender OF
Phalsburg states that II officers and
/, ,S39 men, and So guns, were captured
with the fortress.
OWING to the mildness of the wea-
ther, the middle and eastern divisions
of the Erie Canal viii not be closed for
traffic until the 18th instant.
Two policemen in arresting a man in
Boston recently, dubbed him severely.
He sued them for an aggravated assault
and they were fined $50 each.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says more
lives are lost weekly by scarlatina In
London, than the French are losing by
their weekly sorties. from Paris,
An editor in the west, whose Journal
'fwent up" some years since, has been
selling his exchanges to a paper mill
ever since, realizing considerable in
come.
A WASHINGTON mechanic Is construct
ing four-horse-power steam engine,
weighing only nine pounds, to be used
in propelling an experimental balloon.
NINE thousand pairs of wooden heels
are made weekly for one factory, in
Lynn, and these will soon. it is expect
ed, entirely supersede leather ones.
THE Center Market, ON Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, was burned Sun
day morning with all its contents, and
two men were suffocated
IT is rumored that La Fere has been
retaken by the French troops with $50
prisoners, and supplies, ammunition
and provisions for large masses of
troops.
THE census of Salt Lake City, Just
completed, shows the population to be
13, 545 against 8, 236 ten years ago. The
great bulk of this population is Nor
mon.
TIE Common Council of San Fran
cisco are debating the question of COM
pelling all buildings hereafter erected
in that city to be made earthquake
proof, after plan patented by Cali
fornia builder.
A BAGeAGE-MAsTER on the Central
Ohio Railroad was recently caught in
the act of selling diamond ring, worth
81, 500, for $40 He had stolen the
jewel from the trunk of passenger,
and had no idea of its real value.
-Four WHALES were caught in Mon
terey Bay, a few days ago, and the Ga
zette hopes it viii not happen again, as
the captors were so elated with their
success that they did not let soul in
town get a. wink of sleep the whole
night
In Edinburg, the stone. masons have
struck against an attempt by their en-
ployers to reduce their wages from six
and half pence to sixpence an hour.
PHALsBURG, the stronghold in the
Vosges, the siege of which was COM
menced soon after the battle of Worth,
has surrendered unconditionally. The
Prussian troops marched into the place
on the 18th
BURLISGAArE, Kansas, is to have
new wooden factory. A public spirited
citizen has agreed to supply $40, 900
worth of machinery, on condition that
a building 100 feet long, 80 feet wide,
and two stories high, be erected from
the proceeds of city bonds.
BARON BRUNNow, the Russian Envoy,
had Prince Gortchakoff's famous cireu-
lar in his pocket in London on the 9th
of November, but amiably withheld it,
for fear of disturbing the harmony of
the..Lord Mayors feast at GuilGhalL
THz architect of the Strasbourg ca
thedral estimates the damage it has
sustained at 1,5O0, 900 francs, a sum
which seems enormous, although the
fabric is far more injured than might
be concluded from superficial exam
ination.
The Bishop of Manchester, speaking
at an education meeting lately, said if
Englishmen were willing to recognize
the power of the policemen over the
school attendance of their children, no
doubt in the future they might be as
well educated as Prussian or Saxon sol
diers; otherwise, he looked forward
with little faith to what could be done
in the way of compulsion-
The new postal cards in England
suggest expedients for making them
secret. Invisible ink is advertised,
systems of cipher are brought out, and
inscrutable languages are adopted.
Hebrew, Arabic and Russian have
already defed the supervision of post
men and their assistants. Doctors rely
upon Latin; bishops and archdeacons
also correspond in Latin.
The following is the correct LIST of
the bridesmaids chosen for the mar
rage of the Princess Louise: Lady
Constance Seymour, daughter Of the
Marquis of Hertford; Lady Elizabeth
Campbell, daughter of the Duke of Ar
gyll; Lady Florence Lennox, daughter
of the Duke of Richmond; Lady Mary
Butler, daughter of the Marchioness OF
OrmOnde; Lady Alice Fitzgerald,
daughter of the Marquis of Kildare;
Lady Grace Gordon, daughter Of the
Dowager Marchioness of Huntley; La
dy Florence Montagu, daughter of the
Earl of Sandwich; and Lady Agatha
Russell, daughter Of Earl Russell.