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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
THE DISORDERS AT LYONS,

LYONS, Dec. 20, VIA LONDON, Dec. "a.
The occupation of Nuts by the enc
my caused a panic here. Meetings
were held, at which the orators made
frantic appeals to the multitude. The
tocsin was sounded, the National and
Mobile Guards appeared, and delega-
cations assembled. A procession Of
women in mourning passed through
the streets. The Red Republicans
gathered in large numbers before the
Hotel de Vile, and clamored for ven
geance. Gen. Conaud, commander of
the National Guard, refused them ad-
mission to the hall. He was assailed
and his sword broken, and, in self
defence, discharged his revolver at the
assailants. The mob then rushed upon
and overpowered him, and, after jury
trial, he was condemned to death, and
shot few minutes after receiving SEN
tence. The troops remained passive
during the disorders.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
The Financial Condition Of France at
the Rp0lnning of the Present Contest


From the January No. Of Lppincott's Magazine.
The present condition of the French
finances under the Empire has been
less accurately known than that of al
most any other of the states of Europe,
it having been seemingly the object of
all the recent French ministers of fin
ance to make up their annual budgets
in such way as to prevent alike their
own people and the world outside from
clearly knowing the extent and increase
of the national liabilities. The dis
trust which such course of procedure
has naturally left upon the European
public mind was well illustrated dur
ing the past summer by the circum-
stance that when the English and Con-
tinental journals began discussing what
course the Bank of France, in view of
present and prospective French re-
verses, would adopt for the protection
of the two hundred million dollars of
bullion reported as in its vaults. the
writer found that there was a general
feeling of disbelief among London and
German bankers that any such vast
sum had ever been actually in the
bank s possession.
But make such allowance as is neces-
sary for our lack of accurate informa-
tiOn respecting the French finances, and
allow further, as we must, that France
has greatly increased her wealth, her
commerce and her productiveness un-
der the second Empire, it is yet certain
that, in view of her annual large treas
ury deficit, the evil day of financial, if
not of civil disaster, to the nation
could not have been indefinitely post
poned, In the spring of 1867, John
Bright found himself side by side with
NJ. Fould at one of the splendid mill
tary reviews given by the Emperor in
honor of the opening of the great Ex-
position; and when the former, after
commenting on the evidence of exces-
s;ve expenditure for military purposes
thus presented before them, and also
upon the regularity of the national de-
ficit, finally asked the latter what would
be the ultimate result of it all, the
great minister of finance shrugged his
shoulders with the significance which
only a Frenchman is capable of giving
to this gesture, and pithily replied,
"The end is only a question of time
and endurance
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

DISPATCHES from North Platte, Ne
braska, bring us information of a terri
BILE shooting affair which occurred
Tuesday on Horse Greek, twenty-five
miles north of Pine Bluff Station, in
which Vim. Parks and L. D. Eastwood
were killed and A. Belts dangerously
wounded. They were shot by Huburt
Nourse, who was supposed to be insane
at the time, and imagined them to be
Indians. Parks was shot through the
head and killed instantly. Eastwood
lived two hours after being shot. The
other man was in a very dangerous con-
dition when last heard from. Nourse
was captured, and is now in the hands
of officers of the law. These men and
others were employed as herders by
Mr. Creighton. An attempt was made
to poison some of these men, not long
since, by mixing strychnine with then
salt
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
THE gATTIFoE nlIITs

BORDEAUX, Dec. 2l-The official re-
port of the b tile of Nuts on the 18th,
shows that Cfn. Ducrot was attacked
by "a, 900 P ssians, with heavy force
of artillery. The French had only TO-
600 men, Tha, after fighting many
hours, retreated quarter of a mile
from the town. The Germans lost
more than 500 killed and wounded,
among whom were Duke William of Ba-
den and several Colonels. The peasants
fought bravely by the side of regular
troops. Reinforcements came up the
next morning, and the Germans retreat
ed in such haste that the prisoners
taken the day before escaped. The
French loss was l, ,200killed and wound
oil
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

New YORK, Dec. 2S.-A special dis
patch from Versailles of the 22d inst.
shows that Paris yet retains her old
brilliancy. The necessary business of
the day is conducted as gaily as usual
within her precincts, and cabs and ON
nibusses ply the streets, and ship mas
ters display their tempting array just
as in former times.
The sortie of a few days ago was a
gallant effort, but it was completely
repelled. 1t was bold in its compila-
tion, but. feeble in its execution. There
were 100, 900 men engaged, besides gun
boats, and upward of 20 batteries, with
out counting guns in earthworks. The
German losses were insignificant.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
FARM, GARDEN AND HoUsEHoLD.


TIE Scientific American says corned
beef should not be put into a pot until
the water boils, and not taken out until
it is s-cold, unless yen want it dry as a
chip.
It Is said that four parts of yolk OF
J eggs rubbed together with five parts of
glyeerine, form an excellent. ointment
for cutaneous affections, and will keep
even if exposed to the air, for years.
TIE American Agriculturist, while
admitting that good butter may be
made, under favorable circumstances,
without washing, insists that where one
woman can make fair butter thus, nine
viii learn to make excellent butter with
washing. Opinions differ.
To Fry CHICKENS. .-Disseet, salt and
pepper them with cayenne, roll them in
flour and fry them in lard. When the
whole IS fried pour off the lard and put
III quarter of a pound of butter, q
teaeup of cream, little white -four and
some parsley sealded and chopped fine,
for the sauce.
BUNNs.-Half cup of butter, half a
cup of yeast, half cup of sugar, one
cup of milk, -four enough to make
batter like griddle-cakes. Let this rise
till light, then add half cup of sugar,
one cup of currants or stoned raisins,
cinnamon or nutmeg to taste, a little
more flour, let it rise again, put in a
third of teaspoonful of soda, cut in
cakes, let them rise a third time, then
bake.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
THE WORKOUT FONT F.rYpr.

Pm sitting by my desk, George
Before me on the floor
lnere lies worn-out font Of type,
run twenty thousand score.
Ana many months have passed. Georga
since they were bright and new.
and many are the tales they've told
Inc faAse, the strange the true.
What tales of horror they-hs7e told,
O tempest and Of wreck:
Vi murder in the midnight hour,
vi war full many "speck ."
Of ships that lost away at sea
Went down before the blast,
OF stified cries of agony
As hfes last moments passed
OF earthquakes and Of suicides,
OF bank defsulters, broken banks.
And banking systems rotten
OF boilers bursting, steamboats, snaeeed.
Of riots, duels fought;
Of robbers with their prey escaped.
Of thieves, their booty caught.
Of food, and fire, and accident.
Those WORKOUT types have told
And how the pestiience has swept
The youthful and the old;
OF marriages, of births and deaths-
OF things 20 please or vex us:
Of one mans jumping overheard,
Another gone to Texas.
They We told US how sweet Summer davs
Have faded from ol1r view:
how @uIumnis chilling winds have swept
The leaf-croWned forest through:
How Winters snow hath come and CONE
Dark reign Of storm and strife
And hoxthe smiling Spring hath warmed
Inc paie flowers back 10 life. 80
l can't pretend 10 mention half
Ny inky friends have told,
since shining bright and beautiful --.
They issued from the mold
How unto some they joy have brought,
To others grief and tears:
Yet faithfully the record kept
OF fast recediDg years.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
Manipulated Tea,

The business of manipulating tea
is largely carried on in our city. The
n1Odus operandt is as follows: An i'm
porter has a cargo of tea to arrive.
which, from the length of the voyage
or some other cause, has become par
tally or wholly damaged. This is
known to the different parties engaged
in manipulating, who are always on
the watch for such an opportunity, and
offers are made to the consignee for the
whole cargo; if none of these offers
are accepted, the cargo is usually dis
posed of at auction, and generally pur-
chased by the persons whose offers had
previously been refused the tea is
then removed to the buyers establish
ment, where it is carefully assorted, a
large part of it probably not having to
be "doctored." The damaged por-
ton is then spread on large surface
pans, where slow heat thorough
ly dries it; this drying requiring
sometimes two or three days. Alter this
operation, probably the color is bad,
the mould. having affected it; and to
restore this, in green teas, the damaged
leaves in process of "doctoringp are
placed IN large cylinder with copper
as, and a swift rotary motion imparts a
beautiful green shade to the contents.
1t is then winnowed, and a portion of
the dust-the fnest-is separated and
reserved for future use in conjunction
with copperas for coloring purposes. In
the case of black tea, the coloris restor-
ed by means of some chemical, of which
we were unable TO obtain the name,
In the same manner as the green re-
ceives its color The tea is then
packed in small fancy boxes, shipped
and sold all over the country as fresh
There are a number of
devoted solely to this
business in our city, and it is reported |
IS being highly profitable. The fore
men in these houses have a very deli
cate business to attend to, and there
fore must be thoroughly competent to
lecide upon the length of time for dry
ng, the shade of color to be impaired,
stc. The position commands a high
Ialary, and it is stated that there are
7ery few men in the country to fill it,
lTc1p TorE R,fIIcy;,,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
MEMPHIS NEWS.

MEMPHIS, Zee. 2S.-Broom's Varie-
ties, Jefferson street, was burned early
this morning The building, ward
robes, scenery, ETC., was entirely des-
troyed, supposed accidental. Loss s1O,-
600.
Jack DAVIS, formerly Deputy Sheriff,
suicided last night by taking strych-
nine. Poverty was the cause.
Ice is still running heavily; weather
moderatinQ fast
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
The Mason and Hamlin Cabinet Organs.
Ten Thousand Organs Year.

The Mason and Hamlin Organ Company
have recently purchased two acres of land in
CambTidgeport, and erected another factory
for the making of their various STYLES of or
gans. The Grand Junction Railway, which
connects the several railroads running into
Boston, passes just in the rear of their Cam
bridgeport lot, and viii lay down all the ma
terials used in their business at their door,
and so obviate the expense of carriage
The Mason and Hamlin Company have
hitherto produced more Cabinet Organs than
any other manufacturer in the world, and
more than double the number produced by
any other manufacturer in this country. But
the demand for their instruments has been so
great. that at no time for several years have
they been able to fill their orders. With the
increased facilities which their new factory
will afford them, they can turn out two
hundred instruments every week, or more
than ten thousand year-enough, one would
suppose, to supply the whole world.
The Mason and Hamlin organs have mcreas-
ed in excellence as rapidly as in numbers
Each year some marked improvement has
been made in style or quality. Scientific eX-
pertinent and skilled workmanship have COM
bined to make better what was at hrst very
good, until now these organs have a most en-
viable reputation in Europe not less than IN
America, and are in large demand there ~
well as here. But the Company are not yet
satisfied. Only this year, June II and August
%, they procured patents for improvements
which experts pronounce very important, and
which will undoubtedly add largely to the value
and desirableness of these fayorite instru
ments.-EUeT.y Saturday.
PERSONS who prefer oysters cooked
in their own liquor may be interested
in knowing what the fluid contains.
The Journal of Microscopy says; :;
"Open an oyster, retain the liquor in
the lower or deep shell, and, if viewed
through a microscope, it will be found
to contain multtudes of small oysters,
covered with shells and swimming
nimbly about-one hundred and twen-
ty of which extend but one inch. Be
sides these young oysters, the liquor
contains a variety of animalcule and
myriads of three distinct species of
worms. Sometimes their light re-
presents a blush star about the center
of the shell, which will be beautifully
luminous in dark room"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
Yield of Corn.

Mr.. J. G. Brown, of Henry county,
Ill, in speaking Of the yield of corn In
his vicinity this year, IN comparison
with 1869 end 1868, says:
The quality of this seasons crop is
generally superior, last seasons inferi-
or, and year before last fair. The aver
age of corn is twenty per cent. greater
this year than last, and wheat forty per
cent.
A general report of large crop of
corn is universally circulated by the
press; but our observations in geneal
of the principal corn growing counties
of this State, and through the central
part of Iowa, do not justify the report.
A fair crop was found in Fulton county,
this State, and Jasper county, Iowa;
while the crop in other portions was
generally found to be greatly below an
average. The increase in acreage viii
not make up the decrease in yield; and
we believe the cry of "large crop" will
be turned to "short crop" before an
other is grown.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

AN old man named Dabney Kernell,
who, for the last forty years, has kept
a small grocery on the Lebanon pike,
about four miles from Nashville, Tenn,
was murdered in a most shocking man.
ner after dark Tuesday evening. A
party of three men called to get some
whisky, as they said, but while he was
waiting on them they demanded his
money. He Immediately struck one OF
them with heavy stick which he al
ways carried about him, when they com.
menced firing upon him. He was shot
several times, and killed almost instant
ly. The murderers escaped.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
LATE NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
NAT,oNAl BANK oRoAnlzen

CHEYENNE, Dec. 26.-The First Ma
tional Bank Of Cheyenne has been CT
ganized with one hundred thousand
dollars capital A. r. Converse was
elected president, and H J. Rogers
cashier.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

In Ohio there has been a war between
pork and whisky. The pork dealers at
Cincinnati needed all the money ayaih-
able to move the pork crop; there was
none to lend the whisky dealers, and
hence the recent whisky failures in Gin
cinnati.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
nara.n the Neel.. o. ronr rsans.

Some horses have tender skin, and
the harness viii sometimes gall them
cruelty, in defiance of all means to pre-
vent it. But, many times, the true
cause is attributable to o bad collar.
bad harness, or to a good harness i'm
properly fitted to the animal. A woke
of bows that do not st the oxen veil
will often gall them, and unfit them for
labor, when if these things were as they
ought TO be, they would work with lar
more ease, and their skin would not be
CALLED.
When harness or yoke of bows do
not fit properly, and their skin is liable
to be CALLED, bathe those parts before
they are CALLED with cold water until
the outside skin appears to be quite
soft, and then bathe those parts with a
strong decoction of white oak bark.
Let this be done every day, and the
skin will soon become much harderand
tougher than 1t usually is. A little
care in preventing an i'll is far better
than much labor and skill IN curing it,
or in endeavoring to obviate its in
furious effects Working Farmer.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
DESTRUCTIVE EIREs.

HARRISBURG, Va, Dec. 25.-A very
destructive fire occurred here this
morning, between four and five O'Clock,
which consumed a large number of the
principal business houses in town. The
fire originated in Walls store, and
consumed the whole square before the
flames were subdued, including the
First National Bank and Semi-weekly
Enterprise Office.
Walls liquor store, and many other
stores and dwellings, were totally de-
stroyed. Loss, 100000; insurance,
$4,000.
PogGHKEEPsIE, Dec. PA fire on
Main street yesterday morning burned
the following stores: E. r. Pease,
boots and shoes; Schwartz, dry goods /;
Lambert, cigars; Won Wyck, hats and
caps; Meyers, photographer; Mslrose,
fancy goods; Farnum, drugs Wilson,
books; Hyde, shoes. On Gordon st.
the following persons were burned out:
Hyatt, umbrellas; also an engraving
establishment. Contents were nearly
all saved of Farnum's drug store, vii
sons book store, and Hyde's shoe
store. Loss not ascertained.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
FROM WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The Senate
Judiciary Committee will meet on Sat
urday preceding the assembling of Con-
gress, tc hear the arguments on the
Georgia senatorship. There are four
applicants for the honor. Hill and Mil
Ter, elected in 1868, they claim
that the legislature which elected them
waslegally constituted, the negroes not
being expelled until after their election.
But the claim made against Hill and
Miller was that thelegislature by which
they were elected was from the first IL
legally constituted, the ironclad oath
never having been administered, and
there being a number unable to take it.
Hill, however, claims that in his case
the votes cast for him were all legal, or
so nearly SO as to leave him still the
majority requisite for an election, he
receiving the Democratic vote. This
was not the case; besides Miller's disa-
bilities had never been removed, for
Whiteley and Farrow, Republicans
elect, were chosen in 1869 The claim
is made that they were elected
by the only legally constituted
legislature under the act of 1860, pass
ed by Congress in consequence of the
democratic usurpation. The British
Minister has, under instructions from
home, already taken the initiatory steps
towards considering the fishery contro-
versy and arranging for settlement of
the claims which will arise from the
seizure of our vessels. Sir Edward
Thornton has acknowledged the sub
stantial correctness of Mr.. Fish's posi-
ton, as shown by the diplomatic CORE
spondence Just published, running from
April to November of the present year,
relating to the fishery question.
The Canadian authorizes claim that
their refusal to issue licenses to for
eign fishermen does not interfere with
American privileges under the treaty OF
1918, and that there are now no waters
embraced in the treaty under the con-
troll of the New Dominion. Fish takes
the opposite ground, and in illustration
points to that portion of the coast for
merly known as Labrador, from Au
Sable to Magdalen Island. He also
points to the discrepancies in the posi-
ton taken by the home provincial au-
thorities, one being that the Canadian
line is three miles from the shore, while
others assume it is three miles from an
imaginary line drawn across the mouth
of all the rivers and bays.
Thornton concurred in the general
correctness of Fish's position, and that
it will make an adjustment of all points
comparatively easy. 1t is well under
stood by the British Minister that the
regulations made by Canada are illib-
eral and illadvised, and the manner OF
their execution shows an unfriendly
spirit.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

ADMIRAL RoBEsoN gives the most
magnificent dinners to be found IN
Washington. He has imported stew
ard who formerly purveyed the hash for
the English royal family,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

SEA-IsLAND cotton has been grown
successfully in Liberty county, Texas.
From experiments made 800 pounds of
seed cotton were grown to the acre on
thin sandy upland which has been in
cultivation for 20 years. The proceeds
of this crop are estimated at $3.50 per
acre.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

IT is said that Miss Kellogg intends
to organize troupe, next year, for the
purpose of giving a season of English
opera, and representing some Of the
best italian works that have not yet
been translated.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

1t was recently stated before an Agri-
cultural Club that the cost of raising
the sugar beet is about eight cents per
bushel; that the product of an acre
Will feed twenty-five cows eight weeks.
Four pounds Of seed to the acre is re-
quired, sown, as early as the soil can
be prepared in May, in rows two-and-a-
half feet apart, and the plants eigh-
teen inches apart in the rows Tie la
Dor has been the great bugbear in the
root culture; but Mr.. Lane says that
the principal labor is in the thinning
the horse cultivator will do the rest,
and should be used often, and adds,
that store hogs winter well upon these
roots.
The President of the club thought
beets were excellent for hogs and better
still for cows. A bushel day and one
ton of hay for the winter are better
for COW than two ton of hay without
the roots. They are as easily cultivated
as corn, if proper care be taken at the
outset. They are more profitable for
a mich COW, than any other crop, un-
less it be green corn in August.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

AN American naval captain is at Con-
stantinople, manufacturing torpedoes
and other materials of war for use, in
case of need, against Russia.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

RUSSIA continues her war prepara-
tions on an immense scale.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06
Storing Apples.

A correspondent of Laws of Life, who
claims to have had extended expert
ence, is decidedly of opinion that ap-
Piles keep far better when put into close
boxes or barrels, and secluded as much
as possible from the air. When thus
stored, he says, they will come out in
the spring full and plump as when tax
en- from the trees. Many varieties, as
the Talman Sweet, Spitzenberg, and
those kinds that are not considered
as long keepers, and shriyel badly, will
do well treated this way. have, he
continues, found universally that they
keep better to let them lie without
picking over 1t is much better to
pile them into a large bin across the
cellar, say six or seven feet high and
four feet wide, and cover them up
tightly, than to lay them on shelves. L
once saw such bin that a man had
kept through the winter. About the
1st of April he thought he could open
the windows on the side of the cellar
next the bin, to let in air, that they
might keep better. was at his place
and he called my attention to the fact.
two windows Just over the bin were
opened about ten days or two weeks,
and the apples exactly opposite the
windows for about one-third rotted as
much as foot in depth, and the re-
manning part on either side were not
rotted at all.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-06

end of her days, and her spirit never
was laid until the French nobility were
swept from the face of the earth.