The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
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OMAHA talks Of new theatre.
TTUsvnLE has an oil exchange.
UTAH has grass two inches high.
TIE English Parliament meets Thurs
day.
PORTLAND, Oregon, has skating
rink.
oNz-EoURrH of the globe is said to
be granite.
The smallest internal revenue payin
State is Arkansas.
Dome roaring Keeping
a wild beast show.
TIE Minnesota legislators were all
born out of the State.
Some fat men do not seek greatness
it is thrust upon them.
The Philadelphia Library is the old
est in the United States.
81 AM on the trail of dear, said q
gentleman when he trod on a lady's
dress.
TEBRE HAUTE's rum mills outnumber
all her other industrial and business
houses.
HORSE stealing issaid to be the chief
business now persued in some parts of
Missouri.
NEW YORK State has ], 200 cheese fac
tories, making 100000 pounds of
cheese yearly.
CLEARsoid ice, fifteen inches thick, is
now delivering on ship board at the
wharves of Bath, Maine.
NINE Japanese officers have been sent
to France by the Mikado, to gain an in
sight into military affairs.
AT recent Connecticut funeral, the
carriages lost the way, not being able
to keep up with the hearse.
A BosToN paper speaks of a meeting
in that city of what it calls Z" the in
temperate friends of temperance.
Four HUNDRED woman of the Illinois
Normal School have sent aremonstrance
to Washington against woman suffrage.
A DoUeRyUT, simmering In kettle
of lard recently, exploded in Chicago,
and man in the room was badly in
jured.
YIoLErs, jessamins, verbenas, phlox,
ETC., are delighting the eyes Of the
Floridians. Havana complains of sui
try weather.
cluded in France, the German troops
occupied and controlled thirty-two of
the eighty-six French departments,
comprising 5000 communes.
THE large amount of deposits in the
saving banks of New York is attribu-
table to the fact that some of the in
stitutions are allowed to receive 5000
and in.some cases $40, 600 from single
depositor.
A COMMITTEE of $50 ladies of North :
Attleboro. Mass, having tried in vain
to persuade the liquor dealers of the
place to abandon their business, now
threaten to substitute violence for
persuasion
A PACKAGE marked 'EClothing," di-
rected to French captain prisoner
at Coblentz, was so heavy as to excite
suspicion. On being opened six re-
volvers and dirk were found wrapped
up in some shirts.
Ar last safe breaker has been caught
while in the act of robbing jewelry
store in Bleecker street, New York A
set of magnificent burglars tools was
also captured. It is to be hoped now
that an example viii be made.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE man, who recently
had one of his great toes frozen, chop
ped it off with a mallet and chisel,
thinking thus to be eased from pain,
but he found he was sadly mistaken
A RUNAWAY couple in Delaware was
about being married, when the stern
parent put in an appearance. Friends
interefered and argued the case with
him till the ceremony was nicely COM
pleted in an adjoining room.
PREPARATIONS have been made In sew
eral German towns and fortresses for
the reception of prisoners from Paris.
Several railway companies have stop
ped the goods traffic and are collecting
vans for the transport of the prisoners.
Is New Orleans recently, party of
workmen were engaged In removing a
large peiceof glass from ashop window.
The glass suddenly fell to pieces and
person who was passing at the time,
had his throat cut, and died almost b
instantly.
THE captain of the bark Mary Baker,
which arrived at Boston on the 18th, re
ports having seen war vessel off the
northwest coast of Hayti on the zSth OF
January; and from the description he
gives of her it is thought that it must
have been the Tennessee.
VAN BUREN county, Iowa, is visited
| by a shower of blood. The Repubh-
can says the rain came from the north,
passing over the residence of Joseph
Drake, leaving on the weather side of
the building myriads of crimson drops
resembling blood, which yet remain
plainly to be seen.
THERE was a sensitive young man IN
Kentucky who was upbraided by his
father the other day for coming home
in state of intoxication- As the young
man had never been intoxicated before,
the language of his parent grieved
! him, and he ended his sorrows by
shooting himself through the head with
a shotgun
The Death Of Alice Cary.
From the n. Y. Post, 18th
The announcement of the death of