The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-17

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= NORTH CAROLINA is the fourteent
: J. State in the Union in point of populs
7 ton. She is one of the sixteen tina
: have over one million inhabitants.
: An anti-kissing society has beel
formed by the Galena Gil. girls. an
, kissing before marriage" is their motto
! FKEScH PORTS are filed with provis
! ions bound for Paris, but which canno
be forwarded for want of transporta
ton. .--s-..-..-. -
Two printers left Selma few. days
since in skiff, for Mobile. Stores Oh
board-two bottles of benzine and q
blanket.
AN aeronaut has discovered that q
woman's voice is audible at a height OF
two miles, while mans voice has never
been heard higher than q mile ~
I TIE ice-banks on the shores Of Lake
| Ontario are more lofty at present than
for some years indicating heavy seas
and greater period Of cold weather.
Ar a lecture given in Frankfort Indi
ana, not long since, the tickets read !:
I" Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God. Admit one
The famous Pantheon of Paris has
escaped serious injury, although the
dome and outer walls bear marks of the
bombardment ~ ~ s1la
The Asphalte Pavementsin Paris du-
ring the siege were, it is stated, exclu-
siyely used for fuel IN the Chocolate
factories and rice mills.
II is said that white, smooth, and
unchapped hands can be obtained by
washing them in equal parts of corn
starch and carbonate of magnesia
A LARGE number of lovers quarrels
have been reported in Terre Haute, be
cause the ungallant swains refused 10
invest months salary in two Nilsson
concert tickets. fa1
MISSOURI laments the fact that its
State prison, with 700 able bodied con-
victs, has in the last three years cost
$231, 900, more than it has earned.
THE agent of the Mobile and Girard
road reports that q large number of
immigrants are about to settle on the
lands granted to tAe company z
The Inman steamship line viii put
new frst-elass steamer on their Hns
this spring, and have contracted for
another to be built in time for the
spring of 1872.
Or the French prisoners in Belgium,
more than 700 who wers without any
instruction, have been taught TO read,
writ and cipher since their residence
in that country. ss5.
That the war must have told terribly
on the resources of the Germans is evi-
dent from the fact that they accept for
garrison duty volunteers of sixty years
of age and upward.
In Baltimore the Friends hayebuilt
meeting g-house with front of pressed
brick and brown stone trimmings The
interior is fitted up with walnut pews,
cushions and carpets. gfas - ls54s
HARRoDsBURG, Kentucky, reports a
marvellous meteor, followed by waves
of stray -colored and blue light, and
"long, torn, faded, but beautiful gar
meDt of light
THE Maryland Court of Appeals has
decided that man who marries minor
becomes responsible for any debts
which might have been enforced against
her notwithstanding her minority
/. THE new missionary packet Morning
Star VIII sail from Boston for Honolulu
this week-a messenger from the Sab
bath schools of America to the isles of
the sea. - 49,
In Clarion county, Pa, recently, a
man, who recklessly discharged a pis-
tod into crowd and killed an unoffend-
ing person, was convicted of involun-
tary manslsughter only, and sentenced
TO but eight months imprisonment.
DIcKENs's executors, Mr.. John Eros
ter and Mr.. Dickns's sister-in-law, Miss
Hogarth, having disposed of the sau-
thor's entire series of copyrights. to
Messrs. Chapman and Hall at very
high price. - ~
Ir is said that the Republican mem
bers of the West Virginia General As
sembly have adopted platform, one
plank of which is ga fnir and equitable
adjustment of the matter of the old
Virginia debt
The Kansas Senate has passed bill
making liquor dealers liable to be sued
ror damages by the persons to WHOM
hey sell liquor. The owner Of the
building where the liquor is sold is al
70 liable for damages sea
SoSE consider the frightful smallpox
epidemic now prevailing in London, to
ne the result of the characterization war
lf a few years ago, as 80 per cent. of the
.ases prove fatal where vaccination is
.g
A GEORGIA colored debating society
vas lately discussing, (which is the
oest for the laboring man, to work for
wages or part of the crops p An old
uncle" spoke the..sense of the meeting
yhen he thought, " bofe was de best,
dey could only be brung togedder
omehow.
,ONE of the Prussian shells entered
through the roof of the bath house IN
Paris, and fell into bath in which
here was bather at the time. OF
curse it did not explode, but the gem
leman in the bath Immediately yaca-
ed it IN favor of the new conner, and
,ot away with few slight bruises.
LONDON has 316newspapers, ofwhich
/ are daily, PIG are weeklies, 100 of
rhieh are issued on Saturday and only
ne on Sunday. 1t has also 4S3 period1-
al publications, such as magazines,
eviews, ETC., of which 299 are reh-
ious, representing every shade OF opin-
on. 1t has so Juvenile publications.
early all of them illustrated.
The Kansas City (Missouri) Bulle-
in, in its admiration of the member OF
congress for that district, says thatithas
-atched the congressional course of
IoI. Robert I. Van Horn, and the con-
ietion established thereby is that
)aniel Webster was an inordmately
man.
HoSoRs are being thickly heaped
pom the head of Kaiser Wilhelm The
lst and most touching tribute to lbs
rorth and greatness Is his election as
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