The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-04

we're in the act of alighting at their hotel,
whtn the driver of their vehicle suddenly
lashed his horses, aud got away with the
box which had been guarded with such
care.
The consumption ofhorse flesh contin-
ues to increase in Europe. The quantity
sold during September. October and No
vember OF 1858, was 226, 900 pounds, being
the produce of 565 horses; in the same
period of 1869 it had increased to 272, 900
pounds, and 6S3 Of those animals.
"A lawyer and a red-hot stove, the one
having its feet braoed against the other,
upset in the Ohaneery Court at Nashville
the other day, while Judge Gaut was read
ing a deposition. The FIRE few all over
the room, o panic transpired, and the
chancellor vociferously declared the court
adjourned.
Kit Burns notorious Water Street Dog
Pit, in New York, has been leased for three
years TO missionaries, who propose TO re-
vive the work so abortively done over a
year ago. when The Wickedest Man"
went up lions hill aud then went down
again.
We have recently read several startling
instances of poor men finding considerable
packages of money and returning them to
their owners. They we're poor men, bear
in mind; il they hadn't been we should
think the beginning of the end was at
hand.
-Coleridge at one Of the Bristol lectures,
when the audience showed some signs Of
disa%pprobation, said: 81 am not at all
surprised that when the red-hot ~prejudices
of aristocracy are plunged into tho cool
element OF reason, they should go off with
a hiss"
The following quakerish advertisement
appeared in the New York Herald of the
2lst: eff Personal Of the 18th of Janu-
airy is from thee, my Charlie, give me the
first initial of thy next name, and make
sure that my poor broken heart can yet re-
viye."
"A F~renohman OF Montmorency has
solved the problem Of aerial navigation by
constructing a machine which can be guild
ed through the air as readily rs a cab on
land, and by means Of which he confident,
ly expects to go from Paris to Marseilles in
four hours.
The following we're tho receipts Of the
places Of amusement in Boston the Inst
month:-Adelphi, Sl2. 952; Rich, Hart a.
T~rowbridge, 1851; Howard Ather aum,
SIS, G54; Boston Museum, S14. 731; Boston
Theatre, dor Now s41, 615; Selwyn's The
afro, S23 25l.
And yet again the Charleston Hews
appeals TO the planters of the south 10
diversity their crops. Plant corn corn
corn II cries; 1.-THE cotton which bleach6s
the fields may crown our hard endeavor,
hut what we lean on most is-bread, the
stat Of life,
New York Ia trying to prevent by legis-
latiye act the repacking of old barrels with
-four, sugar., meal, &c. Old barrels are
collected in this city and its subufbs, and
and are found in the most foul recesses,
even from the cellar TO the attic Of. tone
ment houses.
Bill Childs, a notorious b~ushwhacker
during the war, and known since as a des-
perate outlaw, wqs found hanging in his
mothers barn o few days ago, In Lafayette
county, Missouri. Whether died by hja
wi land or by aid of regulators 10 NOT
known, but the community are satisfied
with the result.
"A letter has been received from DR..
Livingstone, dated MAY 30th. Livingstone
was at URigi, onthe Fan Zan Xxi Lake,
whore he had found his supplies. H.e'was
IN good health aud spirits, and proposed
travelling to the windwnrd Of the Fan Zan
Tiki, unless some boatmen and further
supplies, for which he had sent, reached
UgigL
90 A great storm swept over the city OF
Limerick, Ireland, on December 30th.
When the storm was at its highest, a house
in John street, built over FIVE hundred
years ngo, fell m, buryipg tho inmates,
supposed 10 be some sixteen persons, in
the ruins. Five of them were rescued
alive, but in a very bad state, and Eve
others were taken out dead aud dreadfully
mangled.
"A lazy but ingenious Yankee in North
Haven, Msss., has invented a machine for
feeding his horses, cattle aud poultry with
out the help Of an attendant 1t is n clock
work arrangement, by which at a certain
hour a bottom drops out of a hopper and
the feed goes 10 the animals, while the
farmer lies soundly in his bed or hoYers IN
the chimney corner. He is now at work
on q machine for putting ~victuals into his
" mouth while his hands are in his
pockets. tt.a rI...
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