The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-08
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Facts and Figures.


| ing good business. -r.
A New JERSEY burglar spent three hours
in opening a safe and got nine cents.
The cost of the new Liverpool Exchange
is estimated at S1,0OO.0 600. --
IT is proposed to establish an ice manu-.
featuring company in Jackson, Tenn.
THERE were 8. 121 marriages in North Car.
olina during the past year.
The late freeze has destroyed the pros
pect for peach crop in parts of Texas.
THE Illinois press association will go on
an eastern tour, in Jnne.
The whole number Of species of birds
now found IN Massachusetts, 1905.
THERE has been no court held IN Navarro
county, Texas, for two years.
SIX beavers were caught in trap neaI
Talladega, Ala, few days since. 4.-
A GIRL in Dover. n H, has co instructed
III words out of Washington.
NORTH CAROLINA hires out her jail pris-
oners at so cents per day. 4
BILLIARDS are discount in Montreal =
Two of the largest saloons have been forced
to close.
The bones of the msstodon that were
discovered in Salem county, N. j.. last fall,
have been sold to the state for $500.
VIRGINIA CITY is to baVe a Waltzing match
for p purse OF 81, 900 and the championship
OF Nevada
The Massachusetts, House has passed a
Law permitting husband and wife to testify
against each other in civil or criminal suits.
IT Is claimed that the water of the Gets
burg Pennsylvania spring is solvent Of
calculus. ...-.-
A Few days since herd of 2, 500 buffalo
crossed tha Union Pacific railroad track, q
81 ort distance west Laramie City.
A CoLoRED WOMAN In Pennsylvania, over
100 years old, committed suicide q few days
ago.
INcoMBUsTIBLR wicks for kerosene are
made in Vienna of asbestos, bsiled IN wax.
They last at least year.
ALABAMA has GIG miles of railroad. the
total assessed value of which is S11, O95,-
781.
A NEGso baby, with ten fingers on each
hand. was born near Lloyd's, In Essex CO.,
Va, few nights ago.
DoNN P1ATT says that ''the recording an
gel has no jurisdiction over the District of
Columbus"
One can subsist on bananas at Sierra Le-
one for three cents day. Bloated aristo-
Gratis pay eight cents day for board.
The Philadelphis Printers Uni7n has
recently admitted lady to membership in
that body.
The American women in Rome propose
TO give masquerade ball for the benefit OF
the poor of that city. s.-.-s .f.
TWENTY barrels of silver coin arrived in
New York last Saturday, from the Philadel-
hia mint. ---.4.....-
TWENTY theatres and places of entertain
ment are now nightly open IN London.
Paris has 81. Ea .
DERToTT had a wrestling tournament few
days since. Mclaughlin won the belt. De
foe the gold medal, and Brown the silver
medal -..s-... --
IT is said that Francis Joseph is the most
profane monarch in Europe, and that the
Emp ror OF Russia swears only when he Is
drunk.
A BILL has been introduced in the Penn
sylvanla legislature to prevent premature
interments, by requiring 4S hours to slapse
after the supposed death OF q person.
Two HUNDRED and forty-seven vessels en-
tered the port of New York from foreign
countries during the month of February,
1870.
New YoRKERs boarded over $40, 600, 600
in gold, which they bought at varying
prices, between $50 and 200, and are still
holding it for a rise.
The New York Evening Post says that if
letter postage is reduced to one cent there
Will be two sent where there is one sent
now.
The exports of Cuba in 1868 amounted to
S1O4, 600, 600 and in 1869 to only $50, ,00O,-
900. Tue population of the island is es-
timated at 1900, 600.
The high price Of corn in Texas (scarce
in some sections at 50 per bushel) viii In
duce farmers to plant less cotton and pay
more attention to grain | ~
IT cost 81 8I5 to wash towels for the
Treasury Department at Washington city
last year and there were $4,000 towels
washed. .fs
A SARCASTIC New York journal, alluding
to Fechter's departure from Niblo's says
''the frangnents OF broken English we're
swept up on Saturday evening.
THERE are great geese in Connecticut :
One IN Fairfield county has laid an g 8
inches round and II inches long, weighing
5 ounces.
GEN. WALKER reports that the Chinese
imported by him to work on the Texas c N
tral railroad labor steadily with docility,
and he is about to send for more.
The annual value of the wool manufac-
lures OF the United States. and of those
in which wool is a compO-
nent part, is said to be not less than S175,
600 600. rs.
IT is a curious fact that oranges, brought
hundreds OF miles from beyond sea, sell in
New YORK at less than half the price Of ap-
pies ofthe came size, which grow almost at
our very doors.
The London Daily News says that Brig
ham Young is as ANXIOUS to establish the
doctrine OF personal infallibIlity as Pho Nino
himself and that Young has the better
chaUces OF the two.
The State auditor of Georgia reports a
loss Of two-fiths of the negro populationin
nine years. Reports show heavy decrease
IN ali the other Southern States, except,
perhaps, Mississippi and louisiana
A GENTLEMAN of Columbus, Georgia, the
other day, who has great patience and is
fond of making minute observations, timed
the pace of q snail. 1t made 20 inches IN
60 minntes-
THANK Con, my constitutes can't readI'
was the devout ejaculation of the reverend
representative Whittemore, when the re
port of the committee, in his case was laid
before the house. So says the Charleston
News.
The Times gives The colored population
of ST. Louis city and county at 21, 254. and
the number of colnred voters at 8. 272 in
the city. and 5000 in the county, total
of 362 or about one fourth of the voting
population.
LAST week six iron sailing vessels, all
British, left San Francisco for Cork and
Liverpool, laden with wheat, and much in
terest is felt as to their sailing qualities and
relative speed. 1t is seldom that so many
vessels start so nearly together on so long
a voyage over the same route.
THE Deaf Mute Advance, of Jackson
vile, Ill, gives a singular instance of a
man who had been blind, but on recover
ing his sight became deaf and dumb. As
soon as he recovered his speech and hear
inn ha hecama blind AGAIN Roth fransi-