The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-28
Miscellaneous Items.


There we're IA, TAO arrests made in st.
10 last ear.
lar ford, Conn.,, put up 2, 1000, 600
worsh OF new buildings last year.
The real estate transaction in New
York in 1869, amounted to $40, 513, 600.
During FIVE days Of last week $500, 900
worth Of real estate changed hands in Chi
cago.
Losses by FIRE foot up in the United
States for the past fourteen years $780,
299, 900.
The police Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, attach
hose 10 the Jail hydrant, and drench with
cold water refractory OF abusive prisoners.
The ruins Of Tr~ajanapolis, capital Of
one of the Roman provinces of Thrace,
have been recently discovered near Dymes.
A servant in Michigan who stole $50,
was not held for trial, because she was sub.
ject to fits when under excitement. Fits
Of abstraction.
New York had, last year, but AZ MUIR
ders, Ill suicides, 175 deaths by drowning,
and 20 persons killed by the horse cars, and
IL, 533 births.
AT Columbia, Ohio, the other day, sew
eral young ladies refused to be baptized af-
tor q colored mar had been let down into
the font by the pastor.
During 1869, 81, Os5, O0s. SO Of money
| orders we're paid at the st. Louis post.
Office; sl9l, 9S6 worth of stamps we're sold,
md the Office expenses footed up to $40,
917.92.
The postage on letters to Great Britain
is six cents per one.half ounce. This may
be paid by aHixing either the ordinary
United States stamps, or n six cent Canadf
stamp. Letters for France, by way of Eng
land, four cents per half ounce; for France,
by direct mail, ten cents per half ounce
prepaid.
The largest woolen-mill In the worlC
is that OF Mark Olroyd & Sons, in Dews
bury, Yorkshire. England. The firm keel
on hand constantly at least $500, 900 wortl
Of wool. In one room they have 500 loom
in operation. The engines employed il
driving the machinery have power equal 4
1,116 horses.
American dairying now represents
capital of $500, 600, 600. The cheese pro
duct for 1867 sold for S25, OOO, 600, and tn.
butter produce OF New York alone wa.
nearly IS, 900, 900 pounds. and the quaint
ty of cheese made ~, 600, 900 pounds. Tn
value of the products. at a very moderate
estimate, was $50, 900, 900.
Herr Kircher, Of Connstadt. Wurtem
burg, has invented. a new printing ink
which by a peculiar process can bo CON
pletely removed from tho surface of tn
paper, at q cost of half a dollar Zone gulden
for every hundred pounds OF printed paper
and the material is then readJ for us
again.
On New Years eve the house Of MI
George Shepherd, in Russell county, Va.
was entered by three disguised men, VIII
forced Mrs. S. 10 give up 81, 900 her hu'
band had recently received for q tract {
land. One Of tho robbers was u son {
Mr.. Shepherd.
A tobacco chewer in Missouri, o
taking a chew of tobacco, felt somethin
sting him on the lip. On examination h
found he had been stung by a hornet. TIL
insect, though imbedded in the tobacco f
months, was still alive, and lived sever
hours after having been cut in two with IL
knife.
1t has been stated that the valley
! the Lower Rio Grande had a mild an
, genial climate, thatthe growing season II
cluded ten months Of the year. I'll
Brownsville Sentinel, of the 18th ult., say
; at is now the middle Of December and v
have roasting ears. We have had the
/ for eight months. We have hid 9th,
J. esculents and vegetables for q longer p
. Rod of time. These facts speak cor
/ ment is unnecessary. Let the unbeliey
20 the market and see for himself"