The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-04
Miscellaneous Items.

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cred In Winston. N. @.
Brooklyn, the 'City Of Churches, ="
contains 206 churches.
-Four prominent English magazines
are edited by women.
The elevated railway in New York has
thus far cost IS, 200, 0O0.
The Bank of California paid n divi.
dend of 5000, 600 last year.
The sanitary authorities of Chicago are
going for the milk vendors.
There are now three hundred and fifty
American families in Dresden.
Island No. 10, so famous during the
war, is now a resort Tor river pirates.
Philadelphia is the only large city
which still sticks TO hand fire engines.
The profit Of the richest gold mine in
California last year was S340, 900.
Brooklyn is furnishing coal for her
poor ut the rate of 81, 900 per day.
Whisky was the cause of at least forty
murders in the South during the holidays s.
Tho Paducah, KY, Rolling Mill com
menced operations ON Thursday Of last
week.
Railroads In South Carolina have re-
duced their fare to immigrants at one cent
a mile.
-'Riddles of Love" is the title of
Sidney Blanchard's new novel in London
Society.
The anti. Br~ighamites now have an
organization in every county in Utah Ter
ritory.
The mercury at st. Adams, on Friday
night, the 18th inst, fell TO 80 degrees be.
low zero.
The city council of Montgomery, Ala,
have resolved not to receive any pay for
their services.
"A Woodbury., Vt, farmer made and
sold, in 1869, butter to the amount of one
thousand dollars.
On Monday, the 18th, Louisville was
complaining of April-like showers and
muddy streets.
"A copper mino yielding nineteen per
cent of pure metal has been discovered at
Hanover, N. II.
The opposition papers in Paris have
420, 600 subscribers; those of the govern
ment side only AZ, 1000.
An expedition 10 recover $40, 000, 900
in treasure, lost on the coast of Spain, is in
preparation in France.
an uktu hntillihuN nus Dttu uTIthltu
at Bayonne, France, who carried SO, 200 in
gold about his person.
Mr.. Isaac Stratton, of keene, N. H.,
a few days since sold boards from one pine
tree TO the sun Of $l25.
"A Virginia negro who stole a valuable
horse and killed him for his hide, has been
sent to prison for eighteen years,
"A couple of New York doctors have
chartered n steam yacht TO take their pa.
tents around Florida this winter.
-Philadelphie claims So. 900, 900 of the
$40, 600, 900 worth ofproperty destroyed by
frei in the United States in 1869.
The National Rubber Works, recently
destroyed by Ere at Bristol, will be rebuilt
and in operation within ninety days.
The mercury a San Francisco has been
above ninety degrees only six times for the
last nineteen years, aud seldom goes below
forty.
Tho wives OF upward of q hundred
c%onvicts at Cayenne have petitioned to be
allowed TO rejoin their husbands in that
penal colony.
The Greeks rave long wanted one ele-
ment Of nationality--a national anthem.
The King has ordered one to be composed
by D~'Adalberg.
"A silver quarter that a man in Millers-
burg, Ohio, gave to his child six years ago,
has just been found in the stomach OF o
slaughtered bullock, "
Don Piatt writes that one possessed of
a whole coat, q clean shirt, and who is a
member OF Congress, can go into Whash-
ington society at once,
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Of Chicago has gone into the business
Of finding employment for girls and wo-
men as housekeepers in the South,
The first milk train on the Housatonic
Railroad carried l760 quarts, Oct. l, 1867.
In 1868 the average was 9, 200 quarts a day,
and last year about IL, 1000 quarts,
"A negro explains the apathy in cele-
brating the anniversary of the battle of
New Orleans, by the fact that Cutters
bin dar since Jackson's bin gone"
Mrs. Stanton's advice about choosing
a wife is; always look for a girl with
good teeth, for the teeth are a sample of
every bone in the fair ones body"
"A company at Windsor, Vt, are com.
plotting an order for $50, 900 worth of mill
ing and screw machines, which are to be
shipped to Edinburgh, Scotland,
In one ranch near Los Angeles, Cal,
it is intended TO plant one hundred acres
with English mustard seed, as an expert
ment, Nearly a ton of seed will be sown.
Tho articles in the Mace-Allen prize
fight have been signed. The fight is 10 be
for 50, 500 and the cha ~npionship of Amer
lea. II is to take place on May IS, within
So miles Of New Orleans.
"A consignment Of Ave hundred half
chests of tea, in bond, was received in
Chicago on S .turday, via the Union Pacific
Railroad, direct from ~Shanghae, China
the first instance of the kind ON record.
Portland, Maine, is one of the chief
sugar refining cities Of the country, That
city imported last year 9, 34s, 97l gallons of
molasses and 90, sos, s46 pounds of sugar.
A Natchez man obtained some cur
reney a few days ago by charging some
emigrants a dollar o wagon for crossing n
bridge which has been free for the last 40
years.
"A wild cat that had been depredatinp
on the tame squirrels in Court Square,
Memphis, was discovered and killed by
Mr.. Kiernan, the keeper, on Saturday
morning.
The Vermont Central Railroad has had
to pay John i. Farwell, cashier of the
Claremont national bank, 81, 900 and costs
for putting him off the train at Charles
town some years since,
The ''small sewing machine" which
some rascal in New York sends TO those
people who respond to his advertisement
by inclosing him 81, is a shoemaker's avl,
worth about fifteen cents.
The Army and Navy J ournal says that
out OF the an officers OF our army, te-
tween 700 and 800 entered the service as
private soldiers, and that only 622 ever en-
joyed the advantages of West Point,
1t is estimated that $500, 900, 900 are
deposited in the v%nrious savings banks of
the United States. Estimating the popu-
lation at 40, 600, 600. this would give Sl2 so