Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-11-10
NEWS IrRms

All the Niagara Falls hotels are closed. It
is "aid the season has beso avery profitable
one for the proprietors.
William Preston. convicted in Troy, N Y.
Of forgery in 1855 and sentenced to Clinton
Prison for four years aud seven months. es
caped from that institution last week negro
named DicksOu was h,s companion.
The entire armament Of all Uniied slales
national vessels, amount to 1901 gupss divided
as follows Line Of hatile ahips. a72 Guns:
friga,es. 500 guns; sloops, 496P slt6mtrs. 4odi
br'gs, l6i and an Others, % guns.
The numbers Of revolutionary pensioners re~
siding within the Stale Of Maine last March
was thirteen. only ten applied for the Sep,
tember instalmept Of their pensions
Fifteen hundred houses have been built in
Memphis, Tennessee, during the present season
costing 50 600 900. The city is about two
miles long aud one mile wide. The value Of
real estate in the city limits is sic 100000
Postmaster General Holt has left Washing
ton, 20 accompany his wife, who is in feeble
health, to southern climate, where she ins
tends TO spend the winter. The head ofthe
Department viii be absent but few days.
A mule recently died in North Carolina 60
years old. Twenty years ago he was consid>
cred past service but under kind care and good
treatment he remained useful until two months
before his death. He seemed to "give out
very gradully.
Colonel Edge Of Doniphan County, Kansas,
Informed US few days since, that he had Just
harvested field Of rye which yielded twenty
bnshels to the acre. aud which was the third
crop gathered from a single sowing. The two
crops previously harvested averaged twenty
FIVE bushels 10 the acre.
A night or two since, the Jail in Milan. Mis-
soun, caught FIRE and was entirely consumed
before the progress Of the flames could be ares
led. runaway negro was confined in the
jail at the time, aud was almost suffocated beN
fore the turnkey could get him out.
Workmen eagaged in excayatDg a cellar in
South Water Street, Chicago exhumed five cof
fns, supposed to contain the remains Of the
soldiers of Gen, Scott buried IN 1892. during
the Black Hawk war
In Turkey there are now IO,s7g schools for
Mussulmaus, which are frequented by $50 .545
boys and Ill 1885 girls, and superintended by
,226 teachers. There are also 2,2l9 schools
for Christians, receiving lO5,35l boys and
z 7,sO6 girls, with 9,259 teachers,
Rev. t, d. Keesey, Minister Of the United
Brehren's Church, at Greensburg, Pa, disaps
Peared a few weeks since, aud has not since
been heard from. He left wife aud five chill.
drsn at Greensburg.
Ordinary paper is 30 scarce in Madrid, Spain,
that several printing Offices have to suspend
operations, and the journals press the govern
ment to allow foreign paper TO be imported
free, or at least greatly reduced duty
The United States Pension Office issued |
during the month closing yesterday sos county |
land warrants under the act Of March 3, 1855. !
Of these svven hundred and twsosy.slghs are
for l6O acres, fcrtysfour for 1870 acres, aud |
thirry six for eighty acres.
A Paris correspondent says the Emperor Ma
poeon, since his return from Biauitz. looks i'll !
aDd careworo, considerably aged since his dc, |
parture, snd so much stouier in figure that his
head seems fast sinking into his shoulders, like
people suffering from weakness