The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21
Miscellaneous Items.

Happy Yirginians get their oysters at
30 cents a bushel.
An Italian benevolent society has been
organized in Memphis.
The American %Presbyterians have more
missionaries in China than any other So
ciety.
The late snow caused much suffering
among the cattle in the Southern part of
Kansas.
An Indiana paper says that "orice
Greaseley's Perticler exc conurmy is
stopped.
In Iowa there are 1874 families of
Friends, and go parts Of families with
1889 members.
The South Bend, Ind, Register has
an illustration Of the dnail trap used by
Schuyler Colfax when q boy.
The Morris & Essex r. r. will issue no
more d. d. ~Clergymen's tickets. They
must hereafter pay If they ride.
Policeman John Sullivan was shot dead
in Savannah, Ga, on Christmas day, while
endeavOriDg to quell a negro riot.
Thirty Swiss men and women have
lately reached Terry, Mississippi, and have
gone TO work on The adjacent plantations.
A Memphis bride deserted her hus.
band the morning aiter her marriage, be-
cause he refused TO send the breakfast up
to her room.
There is an artesian well in San Ber-
nardinO, California, which is throwing n
torrent thirty inches in diameter forty feet
bigh.
A young rascal has accumulated a for.
tune, iH Now York, Of $40, 900 by several
years industry at begging in the disguise
Of an old man.
The Philadelphia Press says that, with
In a few years pas, four persons have died
in that city Of hydrophobia, caused by the
bites Of pct dogs, in play.
At Moaro's Blur, near the city Of Will.
%mington, n. O., there is being established
a mandatory for the making of guano,
under the nam Of the Navassa Gnano
Company.
A correspondent writing to lions
Herald, Boston, snys that quiet IL 40 far
restored in Georgia that he believes the
time for killing Methodist preachers has
gone by forever.
In n garden near Boston violets are in
bloom, rose bushes are shooting out leaves,
crocuses and the little iris have made heir
appearance, and even seeds planted have
sprung up.
Two mammoth teeth-one weighing
seven pounds and the other fve-were
lately found three miles north of Row creek,
Kansas, eight feet under ground, by a rail
rond grading party.
-Thomas Gavnor, Of Stamford, Conn,
lately had n piece Of dirk knife 81 inches
long cut from the roof of his mouth, which
he had carried in his head since last MAY,
when lac was stabbed in the head during a
fight.
Joseph Anthony Of SO Portsmouth, r.
l., shot and xii ed ON eagle one day last
week, weighing one hundred and three
pounds and measuring seven and a half
feet from tip 10 tip. It is said to be the
largest ever killed there.
The Overton Hotel at Memphis manu-
features II own gas from water, acid and
iron-molding, at n cost Of two dollars per
1000 feet. The gasometer il Of copper.
three feet high, weighing about fifteen
pounds.
The Texas pecan market il quite brisk
nj 1925 per bushel, specie. The demand
for shipment to northern markets seem to
be steadily increasing, whilst the supply
is gradually diminishing every year, owing
to the fact that pecan trees are being CON
stantly cut for the fruit, lumber or other
purposes. The trees make tolerably good
lumber, but the time will come when they
will be worth hundreds of dollars per acre
for the fruit alone.
60 A wedding occurred recently at a farm
house n few miles southeast of Kansas
City. The bridegroom was pamed Brown
and 30 also was tho bride. None but re-
l]ations attended the wedding and no re-
lations of the family were present except.
ing those whose names were Brown. Faith
ers, mothers, uncles and Runts and cous-
ms, uncles and nephews of the married
couple to the number OF siXty-oue, were in
attendance. The minister's name was
Brown.
"A collection of old Christmas carols
HIS just appeared in London, and some OF
them sound rather queerly 10 the modern
ear. Here is an example:
As II fell out one May morning,
And on a bright holiday,
Sweet Jesus ask'd OF his dear mother,
II he might go TO play.
ITO play, TO play, sweet jesus shall 90,
And 20 play now get you gone,
And let me hear OF no complaint
At night when you come home"
I've sounded each depth in the waters Of pleas
ure,
And gone every round In their eddying whirl;
And III tell you the truth-there's nothing can
measure
The fun Of a winter nights skate with a girl.
Now onward we dash, DER the icy track flying,
Aud banished forever are sorrow and pain.
A fall But no m~aiter-thero's nothing like trying.
SO take her up gently, and onward again.
Then give me the ice. with q jolly good skate
WIFI my own darling girl, and I'll whistle II fate.