Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-04-23
NEWS ITEMS.

The taxes at Rock Island amount to per
cent on taxable property.
Daniel Noble, on Tuesday last, hanged him
selfnear Wellsville, "all for love-"
A man named Wager hanged himself at Nor
row on the 18th. he was formerly switch ten.
der there.
Bishop Doane, Of New Jersey, is seriously
i'll at Burlington, and fears are entertained that
he may not recover.
A young woman in Arkansas recently mar
ried one of three brothers who are in Jail for
murder apd sentenced to be hanged. She ex-
poets shortly TO be dow.
The fires in the woods on Cape Cod have
already burned over about 1000 acres, entail
ing loss of some $4,000. Several persons
narrowly escaped with their lives.
The deficit in the accounts of ex State Treas
urer McMeans, of California, is $l0S,OOO.-
Proceedings have been commenced against his
sureties.
Twenty eases of smallpox are reported in
the village of Columbia, Henry county, Ala
and the disease was increasing in violence and
spreading rapidly through other counties.
The Charleston papers announce the death
of Col. Thomas o. Elliott, leading member of
the Charleston Bar, and formerly Representa-
tive in the Legislature.
Madame Ristori is at Paris. Her brother and
a son of Tamburini, the opera singer have gone
to Piedmont 10 inlist 10 Garibaldi's company
/ Ex-senator y. "a. Sti,io,i, VINO recen,.y .!,i
in Indiana, was first elected to Congress in
1896 He rode on horseback to Washington to
take his seat, which journey occupied seven
teen days.
Hon. James B Clay has been re nominated
as the Democratic candidate for the Ashland
District, notwithstanding his formal withdraw
al some months since.
The spring meeting over the Association
Course, May 90, and continue all the week.
Good purses are offered, and fine sport may be
expected.
1t is calculated that one million tuns of an.
thraeite coal, from 4he Pennsylvania mines,
have already been carried to market by the
various transporters this year-an increase of
not less than 250,000 tuns in comparison with
the same trade TO this time in 1858.
| Smoking and reading cars have recently been
placed on the New York, New Haven and Bos
ton Railroad, with accommodations for forty.
four persons each. They are provided with
tables, and other facilities, for reading and
writing, aad are lighted with gas.
The man who travels Thousand miles in
thousand hours may be tolerably quick footed
but he isn't touch to the woman who keeps
up with the fashions.
Among the visitors now staying at the Adel
phi Hotel, Liverpool, is King Peppel. of Bonny.
an extensive district on the coast Of Western
Africa. His Majesty, though exceedingly dark,
is tall. good looking man, about fifty years Of
age. He is said to be highly intelligent. and
speaks English with tolerable fluency. The
Kings nephew, youth about twenty years of
age is travelling with him, and they are accom-.
panied by Mr.. Twaites, gentleman connected
with the Sewerage Commissioners of London.
His Majesty is unattended by any servants.
Conrad Koehler, German daguerreotypist,
formerly Postmaster of Benheim, Hesse Darn
stadt, but since his arrival in this country had
been in very impoverished circumstances, com
mitted suicide in New York on Sunday by
swallowing dose of cyanide of potassium.