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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
A Determination to be snindIed.


Adams & Co.'S Express carry q large
number of the bogus watch and coun-
terfeit money packages which are sent
to those who are fools enough to reply
to the advertisements of concerns offer
ing large inducements for small invest
ments. The watches always come in
neat packages, tied with red tape. and
securely sealed. They are marked col
lect on delivery, $3.50 In every case
the Express Company warns the recip-
tents that the watch in the package is
valueless, and advises the party not to
take the package. In some cases they
are successful in stopping the fraud, but
in the majority of cases the party is i'm
pressed with the belief that the watch
is genuine, as advertised.
The other day a party of father,
mother, and daughter appeared at the
Office and inquired for such package.
1t was handed to the daughter, who
had sent for it, the clerk at the same
time advising her to send it back. The
father was of the same opinion, but the
mother "voted" with the daughter,
and advised her to take the package.
She paid her So. 50and opened the bum
die. Inside lay little brass toy watch,
with three or four inches of brass chain
and fancy key attached. The tears
rushed into the eyes of the daughter,
and that mothers indignation knew no
bounds. Silently gathering up the
watch and box, the girl turned away.
1t is not likely she viii invest in an
other. Such cases occur almost every
day.
In regard to the counterfeit money
packages nothing is done, except to de-
liver them to the party addressed. As
they never contain anything except
sawdust, nothing can be done with the
party sending or receiving them. Both
are swindlers, but the man who has
sent his money to be exchanged for
counterfeit cannot complain of the man
who sends him sawdust instead without
eliminating himself, and so the hounds
escape the penalty of the law.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
Emigration of Seeds.

Those who have travelled in Western
Kansas late in summer cannot have
failed to observe the hundreds and
hundreds of acres of sunhowers, wav-
ing "fields of cloth of gold, as far as
the eye can reach. As one went west
ward, they grew more and more scarce,
till at length they disappeared alto
gether. Now it is singular fact, which
might bother Professor Huxley, that,
with the rapid advance of the rail
way during the last summer, the
sunhower went with it, pari pas
Su. As the soil was turned up to
light and moisture the width of the
track, the sunfower, whose seed is too
heavy to be carried by the winds, and
which man does not convey, as he may
grain or grass seed for use, sprung up
inevitably for hundreds of miles beyond
the point where heretofore it ceased to
grow. The same fact If true of grass
and of grain. The soil that, for count
less ages, had produced nothing but
the distinctive grass and limited fora
of the plains, greedily devoured the
seed of other vegetation which chance
had brought it, and the fresh-turned
earth along the railroad track suddenly
clothed itself, for the first time
since the Rocky Mountains burst up
from the bowels of the earth, with q
new verdure. Such facts, of course
could not pass unnoticed, and they led
to fresh theories and observations.
There are old settlers-and we believe
that Mr.. Elliott is among them-who
hold that the progress of settlement
westward In western Kansas has
been marked by cognate phe-
nomena, which had hitherto at
tracted little attention. Not only have
the cultivated grasses and other vege-
tation encroached upon the "Desert u
and changed its character, but with
this change also, it is asserted, has
come one of climate. The rainy re.
gion has kept pace with the altered
condition of the soil. We doubt wheth,
er time enough and observation enongf
have yet been given to establish this
-fact absolutely, but there is nothing q
DriOFi incredible or unreasonable abouf
it. The influence of forests upon eli
mate is as well established as any othel
scientific fact
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
Particulars Of the Assassination ol
Marshal Prim.

The New York Herald's special cor
respondent at Madrid writes the 10Th
OF December In regard to the assassin.
alton of Prim:
:" L was at the opera when the news
first reached US. The curtain fell on
the first act, when, as the audience
strolled through the lobbies, Govern
ment messenger rushed in with haste
inquiring for Prim. Instantly, as If
by magic, the cry went forth all over
the house, 'Prim has been shot
'Prim has been assassinated = How
the news was first uttered aloud, how,
with electric rapidity, it ran over the
pit, the boxes, the gallery, and the sa-
looms, it is impossible to say; but
as the cry spread the effect was
tremendous. Deciding to go to
the fountain-head for news, 1 hastened
to the War Office, where the General
lives. There was crowd of carriages
at the entrance of the ornamented
grounds surrounding the palace of war.
A throng of idlers were obstructing the
sidewalks and ways, in spite of the
thick snow. As l went up the wide
staircase, the guard, which had been
instantly doubled, sorrowfully pointed
out the reddish blotches on the balus-
trade. The Generals blood, he whis-
pered The Generals Adiutant gave
me the first correct story. He witness
cd the scene, having occupied a front
seat IN the carriage. His own version
of the affair is as follows: Prim and
two aids, as usual, left the Cortes at the
conclusion of the debate in the evening,
at half-past 7 o'clock, and entered a
carriage and drove rapidly in the short
est way from the Cortes to the War
Office. The streets were deserted at
the time. At the point where the Gale
del Tured debouches into the Alcalla,
the broadest street in the city, through
a narrow passage, two hired cabs were
drawn up and obstructed the way. This
is so common an event, however, that it
would scarcely attract notice; but Lieut..
Mayo, my informant, dropped the glass
in the door nearest him and looked out
just in time to see two men, who were
carrying guns under their long Andalu-
sian cfoaks, advancing from the shadow
of the cabs. He had barely time to
cry out Stop, General They are going
to firel' when the muzzles of the blum
derbusses were dashed into the car
riage through the windows on either
hand, shivering the glass to atoms, and
the contents discharged point blank at
the occupants in the back seat, who
must have been undistingHishable in
the darkness. The next moment the
assassins darted back under cover of
the cabs, and so around into the Al
Gala, where they mounted two horses
that were there tied to trees, and in an
instant were safe from pursuit because
of the snow and darkness. The coach
man dashed the horses forward against
a number of cabs, upsetting one, and
drove in hot haste to the War Office,
where the wounded men alighted.
Prim simply remarked to the sentinel:
Il am wounded, but not much"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
HunlOr.

THEY have in Indiana a spring with a
pool sixty feet wide, in which no sound
ings can be found at the depth of 400
feet. The stream from it turns grist
mill
That is mean man they tell ofPort
land, who makes practice of dropping
into store every morning, reading his
friends paper, pocketing it and giving
it to another friend, who pays him half
the subscription price for the privilege
of reading :" his" paper.
II viii be remembered that the ex-
Empress Eugenie's retreat from France
was made in the yacht of Sir John
Montague Burgoyne. His wife has
lately received from the ex-imperial
passenger handsome locket, in which
her portrait is to be enclosed.
"WHY don't you wear your ring, my
deari" said father in ballroom to
his daughter. Because, papa, it hurts
me when any one squeezes my hand. "
"What business have you to have your
have squeezed ~ Certainly none but
still, you know, papa, that one would
like to keep it in squeezable order ,
A BOY. was sent by his mother to saw
some stove-wood out of railroad ties
Going outdoors shortly after she found
the youth sitting on the saw-horse with
head down. The mother asked erhope-
full son why he was cast down, and why
he didn't keep at his work. The boy
replied: 'cMy dear mother, find it hard,
very hard, to sever old ties"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

DIR. ALBERT BARNES, the eminent re-
hgious commentator, who died in Phil
adelphia last week, was man of great
Eberality. The Harpers have sold
more than a million copies of his works.
Whenever any minister or other person
solicited one of his books he would
send note to the Harpers to forward
the book to the party soliciting and
charge the bill to his account. Vol
umes have been constantly sent off In
response to such requests. He died on
the night of the 23d. As showing the
suddenness of his death, the Harpers
received a business letter from him
postmarked December 24 1t must
have been written the evening previous
and shipped in a street letter-box.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
a4.n0n Seeking an Owner.

1t is strange how difficult it some
times is to find the owners of very val
liable property. There is in the pos
session of one of the great English rail-
way companies amagnifcent snuff box,
encrusted with diamonds, which was
found by some superatiyely honest
porter in one of the carriages. The
company advertised in every conceive
BILE manner to try and discover its own
er, but In vain, and it is now filed with
snuff. and handed round at meetings OF
"the board" 1t seems by the follow
ing advertisement, which has been 60
ing the round of London papers, that
an owner is wanted for still more val
liable property:
STOLEN DIAMONDS AND JEwELs.-No-
tice is hereby given, that in the course
of the month of September, probably
the 18th, a casket was stolen at Rosen-
helm, in Bavaria, from the luggage of
travellers from Vienna to Munich.
This casket contained several jewels,
and the value of the stones now in the
hands of the police is estimated at
"a, 600.
The Jewels appear to be very old, ac-
cording to their cutting and setting, and
of Oriental workmanship.
Amongst others is triangular emer-
aid seal, engraved on the three sides, as
follows:
(a.) In niz beguzared.
(b.) Nasil chodoscha
(c.) Nasil.
Several gold and silver seals, on one
of which are the letters, Mani Schah-
As the owners of these jewels have,
up to the present time, not claimed
their property, notice is hereby given
them to apply either at the Royal
Police Court at Munich, or at the Ba-
varian Consulate General, London, a
Palmerston buildings.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

LAST Saturday afternoon, at Browns
town, Jefferson county, Kentucky, some
men and boys filed hollow anvil with
powder and placed another anvil upon
it, that the explosion might be loud.
When the explosion occurred, one piece
of the anvil struck negro in the breast,
killing him instantly. A boy in the
party was slightly injured at the same
time.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

CHGPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections, cured, and
the skin made soft and smooth. byusing
the JUNIPER TAR Soar, made by CAS-
WE'LL, HAZARD & Co., New York. 1t is
more convenientand easily applied than
other remedies, avoiding the trouble Of
the greasy compounds now in use.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

HORACE GREELEY's ESSAYS, "What /
Know of Farming" " which have been
published in The Tribune cry week
during 1870, are to be printed in book
form, and copy viii be sent, postpaid,
to each subscriber who sends SO for
The Daily, 81 for The Semi-Weekly, or
81 for The Weekly Tribune, and re-
quests the book at the time of sub
scribing. This wi l enable old sub
scribers to secure the Essays for preser-
vation, on renewing theirsubscriptions,
and new subscribers viii, of course, be
glad to obtain them, free of cost.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

A BAND of Greek brigands, number
ing eighty, had a fight on the 3lst ult
with Turkish troops near the frontier,
and were defeated with loss of twenty
men. They were under command OF
the noted chieftain Aryanitelh.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

THt six leading news companies of
this cauntry do a business, in selling
newspapers and monthly magazines, of
over eight millions of dollars per an
mum.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

O'DoNovAN Rosa and other Fenians
were released from Chatham on the 9Th.
They proceeded to Liverpool to leave
the country. The British Government,
it is said, pays their expenses to the
United States. They sailed for New
York on the 7th, in the steamer Cuba.
When the steamer reached Queenstown
a committee visited the prisoners and
gave them an outfit and twenty pounds
each. The men seemed to be satisfied
with their treatment by the Govern
ment. The people of Queenstown gave
them a serenade before they sailed.
Their pardon is not complete. So long
as they remain within British domini-
ons, they are subject to the full penal
ties of the law under which they were
sentenced. Halpin. still refuses to ac-
cent a conditional pardon.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

A LARGE number of invalids from the
east are spending the winter in Cali
fornia, attracted by the delightful eli
mate of its more southern counties.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

TIE force now under Chauzey's COM
mand is reported to be 200, 900 strong,
and ready for action.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

Ar THE NORTH PoLE.-Capt. Hall,
the Arctic explorer, in his recent lee
ture in New York, was reported thus:
When he shall stand on the North
Pole there is one thing which will
trouble him, and that, how shall he
keep his chronometers regulated; how
shall he tell whether they are gaining
or losing Every direction then will
be south. There will be no north, no
east, no west. The North Star will be
directly over head, or nearly so, and on
the first day of March the sun viii Just
appear above the horizon and go
round and round, day by day, never
rising or setting, but gradually attain
ing a greater altitude, until finally it
viii get to height of 23{ degrees, and
then gradually get lower and lower, un-
til on the 23d of September it viii dis
appear, to be seen no more for SIX
months. What object can he site to
regulate his ehronometersl He has
asked the question Of the best talent IN
the country, and no man can answer
him. In the winter Of 1872 he viii be
where no sun can shine, but In a fine
place Tor people fond of eating, for it
viii always be dinner-time-alway IL
| o'clock
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

The oyster trade of Boston, it is said,
amounts to more than 600, 900 bushels
annually.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
'FRONT.' the Atlantic for J.nuary.l
DOROTHY @.

ArANnx roaTRArr, BT OLIVER wEsDE1I zor.rr
Grandmother's mother; her ace. I Ieues..
= Thirteen summers, OF something less:
0irish bus, but womsnly air,
smooth, square forehead, with uprolled hair,
lips that lover has never kissed.
Taper fingers and slender wrist
Hanging sleeves Of stiff brocade-
So they painted the little maid.
On her hand parrot green
slts unmoying and broods serene.
Eold up the canvas full in view
Looki there's a rent, the light shines through,
Dark with century's fringe Of dust
That was Red-Coais rapier thrust,
Such is the tale the lacy old
Dorothyis daughters daughter told
Who the painter was none may tel,
One whose hest was not over well;
Hard and dry, 1t must be confessed.
Fiat As q rose that has long been pressed;
Yet In her check the hues are bright
Dainty colors Of red and white;
And in her slender shape are seen
Hint and promise Of stately mien.
Look not on her with eyes OF scorn.-
Dorothy Q. was lady born!
Aye, since the galloping Ncrmans came
Engiand's annals have known her name;
Andstfl to the three-biled rebel town
Dear is that ancient names renown,
For many civic wreath they won
The youthful sire and the gray-haired sca-
oDamsel Dorothy, Dorothy OF 49,
,Strangeis the gift that owe 70 you:
Sucha GIFT as never king
Save 70 daughter or sou may bring
An my tenure OF heart and hand,
Almy title 70 house and land;
Mother and sister and child and wife
And joy and sorrow and death and lifei
What If hundred years ago
= Those cl0se-shut bps had answered No a.
When forth the tremRIous question came.
That cost the maiden her Norman name
And under the folds that look 30 stin
The bodice swelled with the bosom's thrill?
Should be ], or would it be
One-tenIn another, to nine-tenths NET
Soft Il the breath Of maiden's YES;
Net ne light gossanner stirs with less:
But neTera cable that holds so fast
Through al the battles Of wave and blast,
- And never an echo Of speech or song
That nves IN the babhling air 90 long -
There were tones in the voice that whispered n.
You may hear to-day in hundred men
o lady and lover, how faint and far
Your images hover,-11d here we are,
Solid and stirring in flesh and bone
Edwards and Dorothy's-an their own
A goodly record for time 10 show
OF syllable spoken SO long ago.
Shall bless yon, Dorothy, or forgive
For the little whisper that made me live7
It shall be blessing, my little maid!
win heal the stab Of the Red-Coat's blade.
And freshee the gold Of the tarnished frame,
And gid with rhyme your household name
80 you shan smile on US brave and bright
As hrst yor greeted the nocning's light,
And live untroubled by woes and fears
Through second youth of hundred years.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

WESLEY s. MEAD died in Poughkeep-
sic, n. Y, Friday night. He celebrat-
ed the seventieth anniversary of his
birthday at the Morgan House two
weeks ago, on which occasion he gave
five thousand dollars to the Widows
Home in Cincinnati, making thirty
seven Thousand dollars he has given
that institution in all He has given
literally to the charitable institutions
Of Poughkeepsie. He was well known
in the West, and also in business cir
cles in New York.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

Where sailors gang to fish for cod"
Amid the dense fogs of that latitude
those so strangely sundered shall be
united, and the curtain of peace shall
envelope them.
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It has been ascertained that there are
in the United States, 81 600 ministers, Of
all denominations, at all average salary
of$700
Th French have women surgeons, and
they are said to take leg off in such
q fascinating manner, that amputation
is favor.
Every man, as lie is a fool and con-
temptble, 80 is his tongue hanged loose,
being like bell, in which there Is Moth
ing but tongue and noise.
The man who examines himself and
his ways through life, has little to 90 IN
examining them when he comes 10 Ole.
Gunlocks were invented at Nurem-
burg in 15l7.
"Did any of you ever see an elephants
skin?u inquired teacher OF an infant
class. "Yes, sir" "Where?" ION an
elephant" .
What was the first bet made? The
Alphabet.
Why was Robinson Crusoe's man Fri
day like rooster? Because he scratch
cd for himself and creW-so.
It is said that the war costs Germany
million sterling day.
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Approved March 2, 1871.

JOINT RESOLUTION Ordering thot
the Hon. Jas. L, Orr. Judge of the
Eighth Judicial Circuit, be allowed
Estra Compensation for Holding Er-.
ira Courte.
Resolved, by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State Of
South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same: That the Hon.
James L. Orr, Judge of the Eighth
Judicial Circuit be allowed an extra
compensation of eight hundred (SSoO
dollars, for holding extra Courts, thir-
teen weeks, in the counties of Edge
field, Abbeville, New berry, Laurens,
and Spartanbarg, which said Coun-
ties were not included in his Circuit.
Approved March l, 1871.
JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the
Stote Treasurer to Refund to Messrs.
Risley d. Creighton Sir Hundred and
Three Dollars and Seveaty-Eight
Cents, Tores Overpoid By them.
Resolved, by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the State of
South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same, Thst the State
Treasurer be, and he is hereby, direct
ed TO refund to Messrs. Risley &
Creighton, or either Of them, the sum
of six hundred and three dollars and
seventy-cight cents, being the amount
of taxes overpaid by them.
Approved tho 9th day of March,
A. D. 1871.
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AN ACT to Amend Section T~enty't'So
Of the Code Of Procedure.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by tho
Senate and House Of Representatives
of the State & South Carolina, now
met and sitting iu General Assembly,.
and by the authority of the same,
That Section % of an Act entitled
AN Act to revise, simplify and abridge
tho rules, practice, pleeadlngs and
forms Of Courts in this Stato," be so
amended as to read as follows; l. The
Court Of General Sessions at Camden,
for tho County of Kershaw, on the
third Monday Of January, April and
September; and the Court Of Com
mon Pleas at Camden, for the County
of Kershaw, on the first Thursday
after the third Monday Of January,
April and September. 2. The Court
of General Sessions at Columbia. for
the County of Richland, on the first
Monday of Fcruary, May and Octo-
Der; and the Court Of Common Pleas
at Columbia, for the County Of Rich
and, on the second Monday Of FoDru
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ary, May and October. 8. The Court
of General Sessions at Lexington, for
the County Of Lexington, on the
fourth Monday of February, May and
Oct ober; and the Court of Common
Pleas at Lexington, for the County Of
Lexington, on the first Wednesday
after the fourth Monday of February,
May and October. 4. The Court of
General Sessions at EdgeGeld, for the
County Of Edgefeld, on the first
Monday of March, June and Novem-
ber; and the Court of Common Pleas
at Edge6eld, for the County Of Edge
field, on the second Monday Of March,
June and November.
Sec. 2. Section 10 of the Act men;
toned in the Third Section of this
Act is hereby amended so as to, read
as follows: The Court of General
Sessions at Orangeburg, County of
Orangeburg, on the first Monday Of
January, May and October; and the
Court of Common Pleas at Orange
burg, for the County of Orangeburg,
on the first Monday Of january,
May and October.
SEC. 3. That all Writs and Process
es which shall have been made re.
turnable to the Courts of any Of the
said Counties, according to the laws
heretofore in force, shall be legal and
valid to all intents and purposes, FOR
the Courts next to be held in the
said Counties, respectively, according
to the provisions of this Act, and all
persons already summoned, ,ortwho
may hereafter be summoned, to at
tend the Courts of any of the said
Counties as Jurors or Witnesses, or
who are now, or hereafter shall bo.
bound 10 recognizance to appear at
any of the said Courts, according tc
the laws heretofore of force, shall be-,
and are hereby required to attend or
appear at the Courts of the said
Counties, respectively, next to be-
held, according to the provisions Q
this Act.
Approved the 10th day of March,
a. D. 1871. .