The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
WHOLE NO. $50.
cuRRENr PARAcRAPHs.
Miscellaneous Items.
Paris has 81 daily papers.

New York has 10, coo saloons. a
Chicago hackmen carry revOlyers
ice sells at $50 per ton in New York
New York city has ''shooAy" soeia
club.
jackson" is the name Of 81 township
n Indiana.
Maple sugar is being made all owe
Kentucky. az hin .. -. ...-
Lager beer is down to four cents i,
New York. as1-
-Pittsburg is supplying England viii
nail machines. -.
The theatres of Boston are given up t.
Sunday sermons.
Portland, Oregon, has six miles o
Nicholson pavement. --
New York makes olive oil from tht
lard of western hogs.
There are over 100 trade-unions il
New York and Brooklyn.
Cincinnati has packed over 80. OOt
more hogs than last year.
--Pennsylyania spends $50, 900, 900 ,
year for whisky and other drinks.
-O6erlin College. Ohio, wants dona
ton of $4,000 from Congress.
The mildness of the season is the sub
jecL of remark at New Orleans.
The National Hotel at St. Joseph, No.
was burned on Friday. Loss SS,O00.
The big drum of the Boston Jubilee i:
being made into tOoth-Ticks.
England will reduce her army by dis.
charging 10000 soldiers this year.
The primary production Of iron in this
country employs 10000 men. &
"A counterfeit money dealer, named
Mace has been arrested in Chicago.
The receipts of the Avondale fund art
nearly $40, 900. and yet coming in.
st Louis is agitating the pTopriety o.
Sunday evening theatrical performances.
Don Piatt says the Episcopal church
is the mildest form Of civilized religion.
The sun rose and set as usual at Bos
ton during the visit of Prince Arthur
A little boy at Fort Laramie has trap
ped $500 worth of furs this winter.
The Chinese in Texas are thinning out
the dogs. A fat cur at Calvert is now wortl
SO for his meat
"A southern writer informs us that
Southern literature has one pecUliarity OF
being billiDguoUs.
''ShOo Fly" hats coats, boots, neckties,
collars, shirts, stockings, ETC., are the rage
just now among the fancy"
A bill has passed The Ohio House max
ing teachers certificates obtained in one
county valid in all sounties of the State.
The Secretary of War recommends the
sale of 25, 100000 pounds of pig lead OF
hand in the various public srsenals.
Detroit, Mich. will have an information
al wrestling tournament in March, over q
$500 champion belt.
There are eleven scandinavian news.
papers in the United States, four Of which
hail from Chicago.
The California legislature has repealed
the act prohibiting the carrying of con-
cealed weapons.
There are but two Welsh newspaper
in this country, both of which are TrjI.s
in Utica, n. Y.
"A North Carolina preacltr hss made
sll,O 600 ont OF rat trap Of L. On inyeu-
ton
Oysters are selling at tie wharves at
Washington city for 25 cents to So cents a
bushel,
Fresh strawberries, grown in the open
air, are selling in Mobile at two dollars per
quart.
The old United States hotel in Rich
mond, Va, has been converted into freed
mems school.
Seven Americans, who are making p
tour round the world, have arrived at Cal
cutta.
IL is contemplated in Russia to build
barracks for the army, which numbers
800, ,000men.
It is said the autoerats of society have
noted hand-shsking out of fashion except
between intimate friends. ..
"A ship load of Mormon emigrants.
mostly from Wales arrived at New York Oh
the oh.
-AmeIicsn carpet-mskers produce nine
tenths Of all the carpets consumed in the
United States.
in France there is 1 Jew to 24O of the
population; in England, to 72S; and in
Austria, to 81.
The capital employed in the Wholesale
moot and shoe trade in New York city Is
nearly S1O0OOO,O0O.
"A state woman's suffrage convention
was held at Springfield, Illinois on the 8th
inst
In Johnson county, Kansas, corn is
now being burnt as fuel, as it was once in
times before the war.
The New York board of education ask
S2 966. 600 for current expenses for the year
1870.
An English coast steamer lately burn
100 pigs in order to get into port, having
exhausted her coal,
in 1869 the State dog tax of Kentucky
netted 81 100, and that year dogs killed
q, LOG sheep, valued at $50, ,342,
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says ''suicide is the sickle with whick the
Almighty reaps the harvest of fools"
"A mounted police is recommended for
the outskirts Of New York city, and a vigi-
lance committee is threatened.
F. A. Burrell, one of the oldest men,
bers of the New York Stock Exchange,
died suddenly on Wednesday evening.
Why is the animal upon which the far
rier operates like the farrier HIMSELF Be
cause he's horse, sure. -.
Professor Cox, state geologist of In
diana estimates the total value Of coal stu
ated in Clay county at $685. 600. 200.
The widows wood society. of Port
laud, Maine, has distributed this winter
568 tons of coal. and about 200 cords OF
wood.
"A Belfast, Ne, woman lately sold a
litter of young kittens to rag-man, who
bought them for paPerrogs - th-aa cents
a pound.
The Chicago Journal says: The mos
prevalent complaint in Chicago, this win
ter, is the complaint about high taxes and
big gas bills.
The returns Of the recent census taken
in Charleston, S G. makes the population
A 923, composed of "a, $40 cOlored, and
20, 353 whites,
The South Bend Ind. Register, CON-
menting on the high price of eggs, thinks
that ''hens could make piles of money now
by paying strict attention to business.
"A school boy, being asked by his teach
er of what is the German diet composed,
replied: ''Sour krout, sehnapps, Iager besI
and nix eumarouse."
During the violent storm which ragged
in Germany on the 18th of December, more
than 400 trees were broken in the ZoolOg-
ical garden at Berlin.
The Paris workmen who went ont 10
bury Noir lost $50, ,000 in wages, and the
whole loss to trade by the demonstration
is put at S40O coo.
A Georgia writer SAYS that an ingrati
tuds ''fslls like drop of acidlnto the milk