The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-25
ouRanNr IPARAGRAPHs
Miscellaneous Items.

! TIE Davenports are in Richmond. yir-
/, ginia.
3 The Yale navy owns % boats.
How many knots an hour can person
tle7
The university of Virginia has over $50
students.
THE Union bridge depot at Atlanta is
nearly finished.
A SKATING rink hss been commenced in
; Memphis, Tenn.
'.How are your chills?" is the ordinary
salutation in Macon, Ga.
WATER works company has been or
ganized in Denver.
OVER 1000 people at the Atlanta fair on
Thursday. -- t.- ea- ID.
TIE original number Of cannon on the
forts around Paris was 1926.
A STEAM road engine viii be exhibited at
the Virginia State Fair,
Dalton, Georgia. is strutting over a
sweet potato which is a sevsn-pounder.
SIxTY-one per cent of the people of Mis-
sissippi can neither read nor write.
The fruit crop of Orange county, n. c.,
is estimated to be worth 100000.
Or the 500 Congregational churches in
Massachusetts,, only 294 have settled pas
tors.
The model switchman thinks that train
ing the mind is needful in minding the
train.
ST. LOUIS, No., is going to have psrk of
1000 acres, six miles away from the Mis-
sissippi.
THEnE are 22O convicts in the N. G. PEN
tentlary.
In many orchards in Monroe county, New
York, the winter fruit still remains on the
trees.
PORTSMOUTH, Va, is in bad way fnan-
cially, and her police have not been paid !
off for three months.
TIE ''one flesh" that an Indiana couple |
were recently made weighed 1000 pounds
aYoirdupois.
AMOUNT Of butter shipped from st. Al
bans, Vt, on Tuesday last, was 1,007 tubs
and 302 boxes of cheese.
TIE German ladies' bazaar in New York
has been very successful, and some $780,
900 have been raised.
THERE has been a great food in Western
Texas recently. causing an immense de-
struction ofproperty.
THERE will be a grand tournament at the
coming fair of the South Carolina institute
in Charleston.
WmMNeToH, North Carolina, is exercis-
ed over grand colored base ball levee,
whatever that may be.
TIE baseball clubs in various States are
resolving themselves into clubs for dancing
during the winter season.
GREECE was devasted by a terrible hur-
ricane in the latter part of August 1t de-
stroyed the entire wine crop.
BUFFALO is satisfied with one Ohinaman,
but whether one Chineman is satisfied with /:
Buffalo the papers don't stay.
ESUMDEs ofsxcursionists from ST Louis /,
were in Charleston, South Carolina, on
Thursday. They were the guests of the )
Board of Trade.
The Indians are very hostile in Arizona,
and papers from there are filed with ac-
counts of Indian fights and outrages. !
AcoLoRED fire company of Raleigh got !
the trumpet offered as n premium for the
best hend-engine company at the North
Carolina State Fair.
A CLUB of students in the Baptist Theo- I
logical Seminary, at Chicago. are boarding {
themselves at a cost for provisions 81 {
week each. I
CHICAGO coquettes have new filtration
sign. 1t is made by placing the little fin
fer of the right hand up to the mouth and
Struggling the shoulders e
A YOUNG man was found drowned at New :
Orleans. The papers do not give his name
''for fear of shocking the sensibilities of his ,
parents, who are absent from the city,"
TIE silver miners on Lake Superior are
said to be quite successful in their labors. /
$50, 900 worth of silver ore has recently 9
been brought on one vessel to Detroit.
TIE contract for building the great rail- .
road and carriage bridge across the Missis- !;
sIppi, at Davenport, Iowa, has been award :
ed 10 Baltimore firm, for S4OO, 900.
A VIGILANCE committee has been organ q
lied at Hugo, Colorado, and the roughs, Il
who now infest that town, have been given v
"a hours in which to leave. b
The Portland and Kennebec railroad
company advertise that they are ready to
pay the bonds given by the cities and towns .
on the road, 20 years ago, to help build toe =
road.
TIE Berlin manufacturers are busily en- | d
ployed in providing winter garments for O
the troops. Large numbers of wooden :
shirts are continually being made, as well 4
as caps, furs and clothes ofsll kinds
A COMPANY proposes to desulphurize ILL.,
nois coal to make pure coke for blast fur
naces. The coal, after being ground and Il
washed, makes very strong eliminating {
gas, t
IT is estimated that at least 1000 trunks
full of valuable articles belonging to the :
Americans are now at the railway station !,
in Paris. The trains would take no bag
gage during the stampede from the gay I,
capital. :
A NASHVILLE paper rhapsodizes over a C
marvellous mule. ''It is 19I hands high,
well proportioued, and is only four years t
old. When it gets its growth it will be,
according to measurement p hands i
high" t
A IETTER writer describing a recent ball, !
says the feature which made the deepest 4
impression on him Was the unusual num- n
Der of very plump women foaming over the h
tops of their dresses" I
EIGHTEEN hundred men make locomo-
tive engine in one day-boiler. cylinders,
frame, driving wheels, truck, stack; cab,
pilot and tender complete-the speed of
40 miles an hour and the power Of 1 900
tons CT ,ated in q day.
THE Peoria (nlinois) Transcript says f
''There were Al marriage licenses granted P
by the county clerk OF that county, last n
month, That is rather above the average, v
and shows healthy state of affairs" v
OK the 9th inst, at six mile rancho,
near Fort Laramie, a half-breed Indian :
shot and killed J. McCloskey, the interpre- =
ter, and man named Lowry. No motive :
is assigned for the shooting, other than
that NcCloskey had informed the suthori- /,
ties at the Fort of the half-breed having :
sold whisky to the Indians, which was the :
cause OF his being locked up in the guard :
Cheyenne Leader.
A POOR young Hungarian painter, named t
Michael Mangsssey, perfectly unknown @
bsratnfore sent a painting, 0The Last '