Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-06-18
NEWS ITEMS.

The celebrated Miss Dix is now visiting the
prisons Of Illinois. She is making general
tour through the South and West.
At Chicago the other day, the fremont
House furnished its guests with bread made
IRON new wheat AoOr raised in Mississippi.--
The -four costs only s2OPsr barrel
During the recent visit Of Norths Circus to
Massillon, man named Ephraim Thayer wss
fatally stabbed in an affray with D. Ritter and
L. Babney, who have been arrested aud bound
over for the homicide.
The subscription in New York City to the
fund for the relief Of families Of Italian soldiers
engaged 10 war ofindependence Of amounts to
s. 900,
At Bellville, @ w., on Monday, Samuel P.
Rock was hung for the murder Of r. d. Dickie
He made speech Of half an hour, confessing
the crime. and closed by asking the crowd to
Join him in the Lords Prayer. which he re-
pea,ed.
We learn from the GSlena, Iowa, papers that
cattle are dying 10 that county Of hydroPhobis.
At Council Hill fourteen had died. They are
supposed to have been bitten by mad dogs.
Minnesota entirely escaped the frcst Of the
5th according TO the St. Paul MiunesOtian Of
the 10th, which boasts that there has been no
frost since planting time Of sufficient power to
do any damage.
According to present indications. the peach
growing district OF New Jersey, Delaware aud
Maryland will furnish bountiful supply Of
fruit during the coming season. The strswber
~ season is now at its height in New York,
aud the supply is abundant.
Gov. Newell. of New Jersey, has offered a
reward Of $500 for the apprehension Of DR..
Wickham, charged with being an accOmplice
10 the receut wife poisoning case In SUSSEX
county, in which it will be remembered the
woman was supposed to be poisoned in order to
get the insurance on her life.
On the 9th of next November the Prince Of
Wales, Queen Victoria's eldest son, will be "oi
age" He can thence after hold himself indie
pendent until he gets the crown, (if he ever do,
wbeu his actual dependence begins. Being "of
Vge" in "a princely sense" means attaining
| tne eighteenth yeht Oh one me
1t is estimated that the annual revenue from
the Overland Pacific mail route will not excesd
SIS, 900. while the cost transporting the mail
is $50 ,0On so that at the end of six years, over
which time the contract extends, the depart
ment will be minus S3,5l0.O00.
Last week, 10 Lawrence, Mass, a child was
born. perfect in all its proportions, and weight
log ten pounds, bat with a remark able malfor-
nation, the head being formed in every pSrtic'
ular like the head of cat. Ii lived but mo.
ment after birth.
According to last accounts from Mexico, that
unhappy country is fast relApsing into barbAr,
that business does not pay--the robbers being
more numerous than those left to be robbed.
The Catholic Mirror announces the conver-
SION to catholicity Of Mrs. Blouut, Of George
town, daughter Of Mr. G. Key, author of the
Star Spangled Banner, and father of Philip
Barton Key. Mrs. Blouut is niece Of CHIEF
Justice Taney.
The iron temple. ordered by the State ofVir-
giDia, TO be erec:ed over the grave Of President
Monroe, has been completed by Philadelphiu
manufacturer. Ii is a Gothic structure. twenty
one feet high, eleven feet long. and eight feel
wide.
The Market street Baptist Church Of Zaness
vile, Ohio, day or two since, expelled deputy
U. s. Marshal Ezekiel 7. Cox, who had long
been one Of its DeacOns, for bis completely with