The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Items in General.

1HkkE lS not one Protestant or American
minister in Alaska.
A BEGGAR who lately died in Portage Co.
Ohio, had s., 900 sewed up in his coat,
TIE Baltimore city authorities have
issued an order interdicting organ grind
ers.
Some of the daily papers in Scotland
have telegraph line of their own to Lon,
don.
THERE have been 100000 Baltimore
oysters planted in California and Oregon
waters.
TIE Chicago Court House which tum.
bled down recently cost nearly million
dollars.
The British House of Lords now num-
bers 474 members, only 81 of whom are
unmarried.
The prospects for large yield of wheat
In East Tennessee were never more favora-
bic than now.
SEVEN merchants, all doing business on
the same street, were lost in the steamer
City of Boston.
An astronomical observatory has been
established by the Russian Government on
Mount Ararat.
THERE are 25 oyster houses in Baltimore,
the largest of which uses 5000 bushels OF
oysters per day.
AN enterprising Frenchman has offered
5000, 900 lire for ten years lease of Pom
peii, as ''show."
The 22d anniversary of Modern Spirit
uallsm was celebrated in Philadelphia on
4 the 31st ult.
THERE are three men in New York who
make good ivings by writing advertise
ments for the public.
An old bachelor is described as a traveller
on 1fes journey who has entirely failed to
make the proper connections.
THEY have fined a Nevada minister"
S25 for performing mock marriage, the
victim being girl of II years.
DYNAMITE, the safe substitute for nitro
glyeerine is three-quarters nitro-glycerine,
the rest porous earth and sand.
An average crop of fifty bushels of pea
nuts to the acre, is what the North Caro-
lima farmers can safely count on.
A Boston paper says: A snow pIow with
six horses got stuck in fremont row. on
Tuesday afternoon, and had to be dug out.
A LETTER reached Washington Saturday,
dated august z, 1S49," having been
tweniy-one years on its passage from Ger
manv.
A BILL is in the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture to compel railroads to open their
ticket offices at least an hour before train
time.
The new hotel at Hot Springs, Arkansas,
intended to accommodate hundred and
fifty guests, will be opened about the first
of April
A WRITER from Chihuahua says he at
tended dance where he saw a sign over
the door which read: mo gentlemen ad-
mitted without pants on"
Two Mexican lions that escaped from g
show in Falls county, Texas, recently, ara
twelve miles from Brenham, and slayiue
hogs, sheep, etc, quite lively.
The feminine journalists at Washington
are importuning congressman to have
portion of the public galleries set apart for
their exclusive accommodation.
IT IS said that f.Lean Mems Associa-
ton" is about forming in Hackensack.
Crawling through key-hole is the first
step in the initiation ceremonies.
ABOUT 5000 beer houses have been closed
throughout Great Britain, by stringent
amendment in the excise law. England
spends 500, 600, 900 year in beer.
OF THE forty-fve base ball players in
the five leading clubs of the country
Cincinnati, Athletics, Mutuals, Atlanties,
and Chicago -twenty-one are Brooklyn
men.
A MAINE man is prospecting in South
Carolina for a large tract of marsh land,
where he can go into the raising of
frogs on q large scale, for the northern
market.
THE London Spectator regards the ad-
mission of Mr.. Revsls to a seat in the United
States Senate as q work of Divine power
quite as conspicuous as the deliverance of
Israel from Egypt
LORD NAPIER, of Magdala, lately told a
committee of the House of Commons that
on the borders of the Red Sea the effect of
putting the bulb of q thermometer into a
mans mouth was to send down the mercury
ten degrees.
THE eldest daughter of ex-King George
of Hanover, will soon be married to the
Archduke Victor, of Austria. This will be
the first time in the history of the Haps-
burg dynasty when one of its princes mar
ries Protestant lady.
A FINE fat buck was run over and killed
by the passenger train of the Virginia and
railroad, Monday night, on Pea
Greek mountain. This is a new ''inven-
ton" in the sporting line.
TIE Louisville Courier Journal SAYS:
''The only argument that can possibly be
urged in favor of the annexation of San
Domingo is, that the island would furnish
us with home market for the ice we raise
in Alaska"
JUDITH MCCARTY, q colored woman, JOG
years old, who died few days ago, was
doubtless the oldest inhabitant of Fall
River, Mass. She retained her faculties
to an extraordinary degree till short time
before her death.
A CoLoRED woman has got a verdict for
fifteen hundred dollars against the Wash
ington and Alexandria Railroad. She
would not obey the rules and got into the
smoking car, and in putting her off she
was seriously injured.
a SOUTHERN paper says: 1t seems Texas
has been boarding gold for years. Fifty
millions, probably, are now in the state.
The fall in gold has cost Texas, on account
of this boarding, at least five millions. This
capital will now be employed.
A woMAN's rights advocate insists that
divorced women have a right to vote under
the Fifteenth amendment, which provides
that the right of suffrage shall notbe denied
or abridged on account of race, color, or
''previous condition of servitude."
A CONFLICT is raging between the mana
gers of the Paris theatres, who decline
giving up ten per cent of their daily gross
receipts, and the Government, which in
sists upon the execution of the law requir-
ing this subsidy to be given to the poor.
The Detroit Tribune says the Michigan
Agricultural College will have over one
hundred students, as soon as the winter
schools close, in which many of them are
teachers. The Freshman class will contain
about eighty.
AT Lanesboro', Mass, on Wednesday of
last week, the steeple of the Episcopal
church was blown down. The bell was
carried twenty feet, striking the roof,
breaking several rafters, and then rolling to
the ground unbroken.
IT Is stated there are more Israehtes In
New York city than in the Holy Land, or
in all Syria There are about 20, QUO in that
city, and this is probably larger number
than now inhabit the Scripture lands above
mentioned. OF that 10000 there are not
1000 that can Justly be called poor, while