The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
WHOLE. NO. 179.
Miscellaneous Items.

Win an average attendance of S3, 1872.
The Chicago Library Association made
SlOO from Anna Dickinson's lecture.
"A Charleston paper heads its fasbic n
able intelligence, ''0ur Chignon." - H
The eclipse of the sun on the 31st ult.
was partial 70 the northern regions.
"A cotton compress in Memphis, turns
out five hundred bales per day..
The London omnibusses carry forty
millions of passengers last year.
-''What her face said is the title of a
new novel announced in London. ---
: There were 1885 births, and 5,522
deaths in Boston last year.
Columbus, Ga, has thirty-six LAWYERS
and forty-two physicians. %.
The Pope's table expenses rarely ex-
ceed thirty cents day.
The almond trees in and around Marys-
vile, Cal, are in blossom.
-Dandelions and Mayhowers are in
bloom in Nova Scotia.
In Kansas City intoxicating drink is
called Ready Relief"
"A new railroad town in Illinois is called
young America" a-r --
-Manton Marble, of the New York
World, is 35.
Chicago lost s56.7OO by fires last
month. .. .
Sixteen Cardinals hats are waiting for
heads.
Chicago now has the original Cardiff.
An English enthusiast is soliciting
funds for an exploration of Mount Ararat,
with view of recovering relics of the Ark.
Tuesday, the 1st, was the coolest day
of the season at Grand Rapids. Mich.--the
mercury standing at 10 degrees GbOUs zero.
of over $500 persons confined in the
city Lookup of Pittsburgh last wear, nine
teen-twentisths were in for drunkenness.
"A two headed child was recently born
in Tazewell, Tenn. The phenomenon
did not live, and is preserved in spirits.
Chicago talks of going back to the
pillOry and lash as a punishment for
thievery and other petty raseality.
The law prohibiting the sale of liquors
and cigars in places of amusement is being
rigidly enforced in Memphis.
One hundred and thirty N. DIS grad
mated at the recent commencement of Rush
hctlCoA COlitRc IN OulCdBO.
The Sun says infanticide is decreasing
in New York. while the founding hospital
has an increase of business.
"A man in New York the other day,
while laughing, burst q blood vessel and
died in fifteen minutes.
New York has nearly one thousand
shoe clerks, whose average weekly earnings
are about fifteen dollars. n -....-
The Government recently sold s. 0O0,-
900 acres of land in Texas for unpaid taxes,
realizing only $4,000.
AT arecent Bal Mosque in Philadelphia
the Spanish throne was wheeled about the
stage labelled ITO Let ~
"A company of merchants have res " d
to Introduce the culture of infig o. the
IsthmUs of Panama Il E-
"A Boston editor will soon issue book
entitled ''The mysteries and miseries of a
Newspaper Life" Tt- H---
AT Belvidere, Nj, aclergyman refus-
ed to marry couple because they had only
spanked week. @
The Muscatine fIowa) Journal says no
troops are to be sent to Iowa to collect rail-
road bond taxes.
The Chinese in San Francisco held
jubilee on jan 80, the first day of the Chi
nese new year.
The pay roll of the Chicago Fire De-
partment for the month of January fOOts
up SIS, ,405.3S. t....-.- .r.-..r ..-s-.--
The oyster inspector of Virginia col
lected $4,000 in taxes during the month
of December.
The Indianapolis Medical College gets
its subjects" from Chicago for thirty dol
lars apiece.
The new Presbyterian paper soon to
be started in Chicago will be called ''The
Interior"
--Great Britain has Is, ,223 miles of rail
wsy, on which has been expended 81, 49,
600 900.
The London Telegraph sent report
er to Portland to describe the Peabody fu-
neral. .-... -.
Great competition among tobacco buv-
ers in Lynchburg, Virginia, and prices rule
high. - --..-. ---.r
Two splendid esmels were recently
sold in San Antonio, Texas, for $500 in
gold. . -
"A Frenchman was lately found in
Of Washington at Mount Vernon, but it
turned cut to be only the ice-house.
An industrious old man in Eastern
Connecticut, whose early education was
neglected, has put out sign announcing:
"Goin out whitewashin done in here"
"A reporter was discovered in the Htch-
en- of Minister Thornton, "lnterviewing"
the cook about Prince Arthur, during bis
visit at Washington, last week.
The flag of the Red River insurgents
consists of three fuer de Us above three
IN q white field, with gold
fringe around the border.
Many of the people of Waterbury, CT,
have shut off their gas and taken to kero-
sene, on account of the high prices and
poor quality of the gas. t-f
The Court House of MacOupin county,
Illinois, cost 81, 100000. The property of
the whole county is estimated at but little
more thou S8 0O0, coo.
All of the storms in New Hampshire
and Vermont this winter hayeended in rain,
so that sheet of ice has covered the coun-
try most of the time. -.-..-...
The Nile has risen this year to a
greater height than on any occasion within
living memory. The damage is ,.hont 2OO,-
600. 900 Of francs. -.-
A st. Louis paper says Lite Insurance
companies in that city require conditis Il
in the policy, that the insured shall not
visit Chicago.
The champion jumpist of Massachu-
setts, one DAY last week, arranged seven
teen barrels in row, and jumped from one
into the other, without stopping, through
the whole number.
The gasoline lamps in Huntsville,
Alabama, don't work well. One street
lamp exploded. and a conAagration uar-
rowly escaped a
A firm in West Gardiner. Me-, have
received an order from New York for
twenty-four thousand bat sticks for the use
of baseball players, which they are rapidly
filing.
Fifteen hundred tons of chalk are i'm
ported at Boston annually. 1t used TO
come as ballast and was given away Now
it sells at so per ton, and pays a duty of
SO per ton.
A Cincinnati paper says: "The suicide
mania which recently prevailed to such an
alarming degree has most beautifully
played out. The coroner, in consequence
thereof, has become quite melancholy over
the fact"