The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-02
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Miscellaneous Items.
THz Chinese never use ice water.

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Rapids.
EIGHT CENTS Is all the doctors fee thelaw
allows in China.
CHICAGO win open women's medical
college in the fall.
AT Marths's Vineyard the camp meeting
meets under huge awning.
In England, the hop crop this year, it is
said, will be a partial failure.
THE Kansas press is said to be unani-
nous in favor OF female suffrage.
TIE late rain,storm extended over all the
New England and Middle States.
WHEAT is arriving at the Atlantic ports
IN large quantities from the west.
oWHa to the intense heat in Madrid,
business is suspended after 9 O. m.
THERE are five female preachers in the
Unlversalist churches in this country.
SINCE the war began they have been
singing the Marseillaise at Tipperary.
4 New York paper has been humbuging
the people with unimportant extras"
I TIE tea plant is being successfully eul-
tivated at Auburn, Placer county, Cal.
MENDocINo county will ship 800, 900 rail-
road ties this year.
The farmers of San Joaquin valley are
organizing club.
A CANDIDATE for Congress in Arkansas
originally went there as ''bones" in min
strel show.
IT is said that Carl Formes lost his great
bass voice by drinking the inferior lager
beer of America.
SAILORS In the United States navy are to
receive dollar and half per month ad-
diuonal pay instead of grog.
KANSAS CRY arrests hackmen for solicit
ing passengers on the depot platform.
THERE are London pickpockets : the
most skilful in the world-in San Francisco.
France very quickly initiates Americas
legal tender plan when war comes upon
her. =
THIEVES and highway robbers are un-
comfortably numerous about Portland, Ore
gon.
A San JOSE recruit for the army stands
/ SIX feet seven and half inches high in his
socks. .-.-..1.-.
FoRTY-FoUR marriage licenses have been
| issued IN White Pine county since its or
ganizations.
TIE census returns indicate that Maine
has population of 100000, about 5000
less than in 1850.
FIFTEEN thonEand cotton spinners of
Fan River are on strike to prevent re-
duetion of wages.
In Indiana, man had fainting fit while
being married recently and died during
the ceremony.
TIE iron-elad AIiantonomah Is being
thoroughly overhauled at the CharIestown
(Mass. } Navy yard.
Two LITTLE girls in Cincinnati, recently,
sat down in tub of boiling water, and
were scalded to death.
IL Richmond they will not allow their
policemen to carry umbrellas, smoke, or
wear dusters while duty. go : sa-
The census, so far, shows that most of
the towns in Rhode1sland have had an in
crease OF population since 1865.
THEY never execute murderers in Swe-
den until they make confession. That
plan would hardly work well In this coun-
try. -
A SUMMER boarder at o Southern hotel
had his false teeth stolen a few nights ago,
and nearly starved before he could replace
them.
A PHILADELPHIA paper, anxious to have
theory of its own about the Nathan mur-
der, suggests that the murderer was prob
ably insane.
A BOY in Maryland fell dead, recently,
after making run around the bases in
base ball game. The exeftion was too
much for him.
The towns along the line of the Kansas
Facine railroad are becoming the most ex-
tenslVe markets for the shipment Of Texas
cattle to the east.
A Cincinnati man was 50 much incensed
at an assessor for rating his property too
high, that he and his wife pounded him
nearly to death with clubs.
The excursions of the bees to collect
honey are variously estimated at from one
/, to three miles each, and they are supposed
to make each about ten trips day.
PEOPLE supposed to have been shot
lanced, or hOgged to death by the late
President of Paraguay, are turning up and
claiming their houses and property.
The peanut crop of Virginia this year is
estimated at 400, 900 bushels, while Ten
nessee raises 300, 600 bushels, and Georgia
and the Carolinas from $50, 900 to 175, 600.
WoRGI lozenges sold in several Massa-
ehusetts towns have been analysed and
found to contain strychnine, in quantity
calculated to cause great injury, if not
death, t
A 'fsUPPLY" once prayed for an absent
pastor, referring to his arrival in England
as ''worshipping God in a foreign land,
where the language Is the same, but the
accent different"
| TIE Grenzboten, O German literary Or
gan, says that Dickens's '''PIckwick Pa
pers eInancipated the German mind from
the predominating influence of French
fiction, and had q most powerful and
healthy influence on German literature
CHANGING ones name is illegal in France,
and the authorities are petitioned for per-
mission in due form which is frequently
refused, especially if people want, as is Of
ten the case, to change their name for one
already appropriated by q distinguished
! family. Last year one hundred and forty
asked permission, and thirty got it.
! WITHIN six days after the arrival of the
Swedish colony in Aroostook, Me-, few of
the Sweds hand-piled, burned and cleared
two acres of land and sowed it with Eng
lish turnips. The larger portion of the
colony have been steadily at work building
houses and telling trees, says the Sunrise
The immigrants are well pleased with their
new homes, are very Industrious, at work
early and late, and promise all and more
than was ever expected of them.
SOME experiments have been made this
summer in watering portions of the Lon
don streets with patented preparation,
composed of water, common salt, and
chloride of calcium dissolved. The expert
ment thus far has been no satisfactory that
power has been given to the Sanitary Com.
mittee to arrange for the watering of the
entire district of the Westminster Board
of Works with this patent solution for one
year.
STIRRING TEE SoL.-Those persons who
do not believe in deep culture, or in stir
ring the soil in time of drought, have an
excellent opportunity the present season of
learning useful lesson. They have only
to look at yellow leaves on the trees stand
in grass upon the lawn or on the roadaide