The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-11
WHOLE NO. 17S.
Miscellaneous items.
Vermont has 525 physieiaians.

efs 40O acres.
The first settlement at Buffalo was
made in 1888.
Bogus five cent ''nickels" are in eircu-
lation in Chicago.
The Mobile Registers printed on pa
per made from the okra plant
California has abolished the law pro-
hibiting Sunday theatres.
The Fifteenth Amendment will give
Missouri 20, 1000 colored votes.
At noon, Jan. u, the Thermometer
stood at 80 degrees at Little-R Rock.
The Philadelphia Mercantile Library
new contains over 80, 600 volumes.
The pTopTietress of drinking saloon
In Philadelphia weighs 600 pounds.
The famine In RajpOOtna, India, has
caused the death of half a million persons.
"A murderer's skull was sold by auction
the other day near Ebensburg, Pennsyl-
vania.
Physicians assert that the skin of tea
drinkers will eventually become tanned
like leather.
"A new State. to be called Chesar cake,
ise talked of in Delaware, Marylan ,. and
East Virginia.
An attempt will be made in Rhode Isl
and to abolish the state law of imprison-
ment for debt.
"A call is out for a Massachusetts Wo-
mans Suffrage Association, to meet at Bos-
ton on the 2Sth inst
= The Elgin Watch Company will send
watch to the Emperor of China-one man
ufactured on purpose.
I'm Pennsylvania there are e even mil
lions of dollars In church property exempt
from taxation.
In England, in olden times, people who
could not spend S5O0s year were forbidden
by law to wear furs.
The present debt of the city of Paris
is l, ,O47, 900 800 of francs, which is to be
paid of in sixty years.
"A Judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court has decided tina charitable beGuest
to an intidel society is void in law.
Mr.. Chas OConnor's new Fifth avenue
mansion is to be second in magniieence
only to A. T. Stewards.
There is a literary club of ladies and
gentlemen IN Kalamazoo, Mich, called the
''Ginger Schnapp Club"
The entire weight of iron used in the
Washington is 8, ,OO9, 200 pounds.
"A member of our diplomatic corps
franked his trunk, weighing $50 pounds,
from Washington to San Francisco.
1t Is q curious fact that among north
ern races the sword is everywhere recog
nized as male; in the south, as female.
The Missionary Record is the name of
a paper published at Charleston, S. C.,and
edited by a freedman named Cain.
Seventeen of the principal silver mines
in Comstock Ledge, Nevada, yielded for
the past year, 1t is stated, 81, 265, 900.
Although the population Of New Jer-
sey is not over 1,0O00 600, she pays more
income tax than any other state, excepting
four.
In Java, after the bride and groom ore
at the altar, the law requires her to .su
his feet before the ceremony can b. ais Ell
to go on
The lake tunnel at Cleyeh ] Is exca-
waited 120 feet under the lax. Be-, u the shore
shaft. The proposed length OF the tunnel
is 66O feet.
The residence of II. c. Cape, OF New
York, was robbed of S4 coo in diamonds
on Monday of last week, willis the family
were at dinner.
In 1860 the census placed the total
number of negroes in Kentucky Mt 236 167;
in 1869 the State Auditor reports only 49,
AS in the state.
1t is reported that q line of Russian
steamers, to run from the Black Sea to
Bombay by way OF the Suez Canal, is
soon to be established.
New England chickens" are placard-
ed in San Francisco markets, and fresh
oysters from the East are opened at twelve
and half cents apiece.
The Russian infantry is now armed
with needle rifles, and factory has been
established in ST. Petersburg to manufac-
ture 500, 600 stand.
"A horse shoeing match came off at
Omaha few days ago, IN which one man
made 100 and the other 10l horseshoes
in hours and 10 minutes.
The money obtained for the oil and
skins of three bears killed at Huntington
VT, last week, with the state bounty, net
ted the hunters ST. 900.
One hundred and fifty babies have been
found in the little basket crib at the door
of the New York Founding Asylum since
the goth of last November.
"A little girl lost in London streets, on
being questioned as to her parentage, and
place of birth replied that she was the
''child of Sin" and was "born in Wrath"
The shipments of boots and shoes from
Boston foE the year 1869 amounted to l.,
343 O23 cases; an excess of more than 3OO,-
600 cases over the business Of 1868.
Some lumbermen in Missaukee coun-
ty, Michigan, recently killed two bears with
their axes, after a sharp fight. One of them
weighed $50 and the other 1OO pounds.
An enterprising journalist got into the
secret session of the Gcumenical as an
Eastern Bishop in full rig. His Latin be-
trayed him, aud the Papal police escorted
him to prison.
Maine has got a moOse-warden to pro-
tect the deer against the hunter from JAN
uary 18th to the next fall. Both the slayer
and the purchaser of a deer so killed are
heavily fined.
All Holland has less than twelve thou
sand square miles, but it is densely pOpu-
lated, and in it is compressed a population
of not quite four millions of people, with q
language and literature of their own.
Five hundred and sixty-nine vessels
are licensed by the state Of Maryland to
engage III luC OlalCI NdlCAlHS LNioilACoH-
They take 1000 900 bushels year and en-
ploy 5000 men.
The total number of children between
six and twenty one years of age IN Indiana,
is COS, 661; colored children, 4,094. The
total amount of the school fund OF the state
is SO, $50, 368.69.
A monster lobster has been caught of
the cost of Scotland, measuring two feet
eight inches from the tips of the claws to
the tip of the tail One claw measured
eleven inches and three quarters in cir
cumference.
An odd suit Is on trial in Ulster county,
New York. A young lady, who wished to
marry youth with 500 promised a
lady friend 50, 600 for her assistance if the
game proved successful. The young man
fell victim. of course, but the successful
bride refused to pay the So, 600 when de
manded, and hence the suit.
1t is estimated that thsre are employ
ed in the primary production of iron In this
country, 140, 900 persons. At blast furna-
ces, II, 500; in preparing the ore and fuel
for sale, AZ, 600; at forges and b.oomeries,
/ 2, 500; in rolling mills, $500; ami In
| preparing fuel for the latter, a, ,0G0. In the
progress of iron to Its finished condition, II
is estimated that 800, 600 in addition to the
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