Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-09-16
NEWs MEMS

ret Hanuao, pretty white gill. sixteen yeas
Of age, attempted 10 commit suicide BY drown
ing, at New London, on the 18Th, because her
father would not permit her to marry Portu.
gnese negro. She was rescued. .e
W. B. Fletcher, at York Center, Medina co..
Ohio, few days ago commuedea brutal out
rage on tho deughter Of Rev, Mr. McEwen, aged
ten years He was arrested, but escaped.
Fletcher has a large farm, is over forty years Of
age, aud has family The people Of York
threaten The villain with Lynch Law should they |
catch him,
There is field OF broom corn this season in
die vicinity Of Rockford / linois, Of nearly sOD
acres. The seed wac plaaied by machinery,
the corn being drilled in rows two feet nine
inches apart The whole crop Is contracted at
Ss5 ton Ordiuarily three acres will produce
a ton. The crop this year viii come TO 100000
The mag ieiic Telegraph is slowly vending
its way westward aud has alresdy resched
Atchson on The Missouri river. From he Pa
ciic side the work is extending to Salt Lake
city, 1t will not be very loog before the two,
uniting win give a complete Telegraph connec-
} ton between lhe Atlantic and Pacific.
A man in Pittsburg invested thirty cents il
! two lickeLs, giving admiuance tot snake show.
He saw Bohemian giant and Pixies Peak
pony. but no "snaix." He brought action
against the owner Of the concern for Obtaining
R money under false pretenees. The Snowman
has b,en heldto bail in the sum Of $500 to ans
swer the charge.
The name Of the man whose wife recently
deserted him at ST. Louis, was Lowe, Red
River pilot He had been married TO her but a
d few weeks, and was on his bridal tour. She
d carried with her between two aud three thousN
r aud dollars Of her husbands money. The man
r with whom she eloped wac young physician
4 of Vickshurg.
ic NJ Phelan and Mr. Foley, a couple of notabes
se among knights Of the cue passed through
,e Cleveland on Monday last en- route for Chicago
The pckpockets en- route for Chicago, on
Friday evening last, were said to have adroitly
re abstrsc,ed $3.50 from the pocket Of gentleman
e. at the depot in Toledo. $50
- On Thursday Of last week the stea saw mill
u of Mr.. P. s. Bradford, at Norwalk, was burned
The fire is supposed to haveurigiuated neartb'
boiler, Loss aboot 2.OOO and no insurance.
The democrats of shelby county have noni'
in mated Alexander E Corey for representative
as and in Prtble county the same party has nomi'
he mated Abner Dunlap to represent their county
,Dr ,Dr in the next Legislature.
I'd ,nd The black tongue is committing dreadful raw
be ages among The cattle in the peighborhood o
Belleville, Ind.
/. The inhabitants of southern Nebraska, hav
ry, ing failed to get annexed 10 Kansas, are desi
rous of forming state government, and hay
prevailed upon the Governor TO call an extr
session OF the Legislature
The agricultural department Of :he Psten
Office will have one hundred thousand yigoron
o' tea plants ready for Rratuitous dstribuiio
within three or four months. 1t is expecte
that American grown tea will enter the natkc
within five years.
The New Orleans packet Adriaic was SUI
q near Memphis. on Monday night, by striking
- bank, which caused her to spring leak. Sh
was Immediately run ashore near By the seer
of The accident and every effort made to saV
her freight but the loss, Notwithstanding, II
:, Supposed will he $4,000.
A cane was presented 10 Mr. james II. Jobr
son, Norfolk merchant, few days ago, whlC
700 is manufactured of Nicaragua Rosewood, take
''' from the old fort at Riyas. Of General Walk
notorety : mounted with native gold Of Oslifo
MIA, and set ilh gold quartz, and feuled vii
silver steel.
-. The New Harmony Advertiser says:-Fl
hog cholera is still very bad SOME three
four miles from that place some OF the farme
go, have lost nearly all their hogs II IL tcontinu
N'' much longer there win not be much distilli'
done in thot place this season, for the hogs a
!! the principal profit in distillery
r,,s. A new shot gun has been perfected at Col
armory at Hartford. which is made for fl
charges On the revolver principle, and is load
et' and fred with great facility it is Of conyenie
weight. aud may be carried in any way witho
involving even the possibility Of accident
IN A tavern keeper Of Hwrisbareh, Pa, h
-. been arrested aud held far trial, al the suit o
- widow whose hubbapd had died few da
,.,,- ago from the effects Of drekiug 10 excess at
y has tavern of the defendant civil suit for dan
sary ges will also be instituted.
Vso,, yonf The body Of man, 10 an advanced stage
eryes decomposition, was found few days ago s
Z aim pended to branch OF a tfee back Ct Newp,
m Kentucky. The horror stricken citizens v
Jopy performed the last sad rites Of burial
n"'N able to determine only hiatt was a suicide,
the condition Of the body prevented them Il
recognizing the "poor unfortunate
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