The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-11
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Lent begins this year on the second
day of March. -....... ....
"A paper mill is about being establish
ed in Iuka, Miss.
New Orleans has. at last seemed the
free delivery of letters. .-.
The Swedish diet has decreed that
Jews may be jurors. t-
There are 26 cheese factories in Mass.
chiefly in Worcester county.
A valentine dealer in New York, this
year, sold 7S valentines valued at $50 each.
The SO, 999th patent was issued from
the patent Office at Washington last week.
Bears were killed in 20 towns and plant
ations in the State of Maine during the
year 1869. -..-. ..-.---...-..
The steamer Yantic has sailed for St.
Thomas to lay telegraph cable thence to
Havana, .... ..-. -.
-Hotel-keepers in Kansas City are get
ting rich 'hand over hand" SO says a
local paper. . .r-- r-
Two ladies have been commissioned
as justices of the peace 10 Wyoming Ter.
ritory. s. ".- -. g.
-"Where shall babys dimple be, ;" is
the cheeky title of Doctor Hollands last
poem.
A crazy woman in Bristol, Tenn, at
tends church regularly and takes her knit
ting with her. ..... .....
Lady librarians have charge of no less
than IA public libraries of Importance in
this country. -r
Cologne Cathedral, which has been
building for some 600 or 800 years, will be
finished in 1875.
"A Savannah paper says that the city
is kept tolerably clean by the energy OF
buzzards.
--Oae Pittsburg man has pounded an
other for looking at his wife through an
opera glass. .
- Chickens are taken at the box-ofice OF
Brigham Young's theatre in Salt Lake, and
change is appropriately made with eggs.
The largest train of cars with one loco
motive attached, which has ever passed over
the Hudson river railroad westward bound,
passed a few days since, and consisted OF
0lShtS SaAs, AoAty 1du0h OACS anu AOA'y S-4
PITY. "
Marshal Tooker of New York city has
taken measures to drive away from before
the Mayors office a crowd of lawyers. who
always stand there, hackmanlike. offering
their services to persons coming thither
with grievances.
The mystery of Edwin Drood' is the
title of Dickens new novel, which is to
begin publishing in Every Saturday next
month.
The officer of VIM. Scott broken in
Hillsboro, Ohio was broken into, the safe
blown open and robbed of $3.50, 600 one
night last week.
The auction sale of the Thompson col
lection of paintings in New York, closed
on Monday night, i, $50 being sold and the
receipts aggregating sos, OO0
The Shaker society at Alfred, Maine,
contemplate selling their real estate atthat
place, and uniting with one Of the societies
in Michigan or Ohio. ..-..
They say in Paris that recently large
sums have been invested in United States
bonds in the name of the Emperor, the
Empress, and the Prince Imperial.
Forty columns of Improvements OF
petitions for the repeal of the franking pri-
yilege have appeared in the Congressional
Globe at a cost OF S7per column, exclusive
of paper and reporting.
Women have their rights at Mentone.
on the Mediterranean, where, according to
''Shoo Fly" Cox's book, they receive the
per diem as men, and for much lighter
work. ....-..-.l... ..--s.. s.-...
The villagers of Baldinsville, Long Is
land. have manufactured effigies of the
Mormon bishops and elders, and hung
them in trees adjoining the railroad track,
so that all can see them.
A new fog signal has just been COM
pleted at the New Haven light station. The
bell is struck bya powerful hammer, weigh
ing So pounds, four times per minute. The
intervals are always exactly uniform, being
regulated by clock-work and pendulum.
"A Boston correspondent of a western
paper says the Boston club women sit
about their pleasant, open fire in their un-
obtrusive attire, and talk by the hour on
Greek philosophy and the Hindoo telg-
ion. .a--s --r -s
George Francis Train congratulated
Brigham Young on the passage of the wo-
mans suffrage bill by the territorial legis-
ture of Utah, and received the following
dispatch in reply: -... ..
GREAT SALT LAKE CRY, Feb. Is, 1870
To GEo. Francis IRAN, New YORK:
My family and friends are all well. /
cordially return your congratulations Lii
berty, truth, love, happiness, and mountain
air, are lovely and desirable.
(Signed) BINGHAM You've.