The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

204, 131.
The late cold weather in the South
made sad havoc with the colored popu-
lation.
The "gold crop" of Montana for
the year 1870 has yielded s44, ,000, 900
TIE Indian Territory wants to be
promoted to the estate of Ocmulgee- "
Two THOUSAND miles of railroads
have been built In Illinois and are now
in operation, since 1863.
An indianapolis paper puts the cap
ture of a four-pound eel in its chrome
logical record.
A NARRow-eUAGE RAILWAY is to be
built from Virginia City 70 White Pine,
Nevada.
LATE accounts from France indicate
that the French are very near their last
ditch.
4 II is expected that by April next
every British soldier in India will have
Snider rifle.
TEE Chicago Republican publishes
Births, Betrothals, Marriages, Divorces
and Deaths.
CALRoRN1ASs have contributed nearly
$500, 900 to the French and German re-
lief funds.
SAN FRANc1so exported last year S17,-
769, 742 worth. of merchandise and $685.
973, 139 in treasure.
THERE is talk in Utah about making
Corinne the capital instead of Salt Lake
city.
A WILD turkey was shot near Leaven-
worth few days ago weighing thirty
eight pounds.
| RECENTLY a number of houses In st.
Louis had their roofs crushed in by
heavy fall of snow.
THE English journals complain of the
unusual number of railway accidents
there this winter.
THERE are fifty-two physicians in
Morgan county, H., of whom twenty
eight live in Jacksonville.
The average salary of Methodist
preachers in Rhode Island has increas-
ed the past twenty years from $3.50 to
81, 1,015.
EXETER CATHEDRAL, England, is about
to be restored. The Improvement has
been long talked Of.
A PAPER MILL on large scale Is to
be erected at Fort Dodge, Iowa, during
the coming season.
THERE are in the state of New York
133 savings banks, with assets amount
ing to 500, 100000.
The Northern people about Gaines
vile, Florida, are selling out and leay-
ing that section of the country.
ILLINOIS has paid all its state debt
but 81, 800, ,937, and there is $3,082, 104
available toward hquidating that.
ST. LOUIS taxpayers protest against
the management of the parks being
placed und 5e control OF one man.
BREAD oflfie supply of a school at
Concord, N. H, is baked in Boston,
and is sent to Concord, by express, twice
week.
THROUGHOUT New England and New
York prayers are being offered In the
churches for much needed rain.
TIE Davenport Qowa) Democrat
saws General Add Sanders has resigned
the Secretaryship of Montana.
A WESTERN paper, versed in weather
signs, saws blue streaks in the sky Is a
sign of coming cold weather.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Ohio Legislature for general increase
in the salaries of State officials.
A MANS character is above reproach
If his own acts do not warrant the
charges made against 1t.
HAPPY is that nan who is satisfied
to OCCUPY that niche in the universe to
which his requirements entitle him.
SUNDAY afternoon preachings in the
courthouse have been inaugurated by
the people of Knoxville, Tennessee.
FoRrY thousand pounds of silk from
China recently came over the Union
Pacific Road, ca the way to New York
A NEW town has been laid out on the
main road from Denver to Santa Fe,
called Upton. It is 50 miles from the
former.
THE river closed at Council Bluffs on
the Doth ult., four days earlier than
last year. Foot passengers cross on
ice.
AN engineer oh the Kansas Pacific r.
r. had his feet and three fingers of his
right hand frozen while on his engine
last week.
The internal revenue returns at Pitts
turgh for 1870 show that there are two
hundred and thirty firms in that city
who do business to the amount Of $780,
600 and upwards.
The new Cheyenne national bank will
be made the designated depository Of
the United States for all the posts IN
that Territory, which are now compel
/ led TO do their business In Omaha
THE cheese manufacture of New York
state is growing to stupendous proper
tions. Twelve hundred factories are
now in operation, making one million
mounds YEARLY