Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-06-11
NEWS ITEMS.

PhiladslPhia has just had O,41O dram shops
legaliEed.
The Marshal Of La sslle killed $50 dogs in
that place during the last week.
The comet now approaching the sun will be
visible, fiat all, in less than two weeks.
A woman Of disreputablo character was
tansd Sud feathered a few days since, at Keo.
kuk, Iowa.
At Norwich, Conn, on Friday, the light
ming struck an umbrella carried by Michael
Cochran, demolishing it completely, without
iniuring him in the least.
The Newark Advertiser says the 6rst TEN,
peranee Society in this country was established
10 1898, at Allentown, NJ j. It was called the
sober Society" and was composed Of SO mem.
bers.
Accounts from different parts Of Canada
state that the wheat is uniniured, aud it is
thought that the effect Of the frost may be the
destruction Of the fly, which was beginning to
appear iu some sections
The Grown Point Register says that the
Sheriff Of Lake county, Indiana, has abscond-
ed, probably leaving to his bail snug legacy
of from s., 900 to $40 900.
The two negroes. Moore aud Over, who re
Gently murdered mail carrier IN Bradford, @
W., were hung Friday morning. A full con-
fesson Of their guilt was made previous TO
their execution.
The romantic Riviere, Of Blouut notoriety is
happily Willing away the summer season in
company with the wife Of Boston broker, and
fair maiden who acts as her companion, at
swariz's hotel, Aiken Village. $ O.
The reve nue. of the French Government from
the tobacco monopoly for the present year is
estimated to reach s36, 6,6OOOOO. In Russia,
the revenue derived from duties on tobacco ex-
ceeds S36. 600, 900. In Austria it amounts to
$l4OOO.OOO.
One of the miseres Of human life-the being
beaten in argument, and afterwards thinking
Of some happy retort, or very appropriate joke,
which would have smashed your adversary to
smithereens.
Private advces from London state that while
the involvement Of England in the war was re-
garded as not Immediately probable, such
contingency was generally apprehended as
likely to take place ultimately.
The Ausburg Gazette calls on the German
ladies TO give up purchasing any French arti.
cles Of millinery "We must not >" it says, "let
German money pass from our pockets into
those Of the French and enable them 10 make
war on u.s."
Advices from Havana states that there was a
hail storm at Villa Clara on the 18th ult The
hail stones are represented to have been very
large. The storm extended distance of three
quarters Of q mile, killed many animals and
injured the tobacco fields in the vicinity very
considerably.
Mrs. Fleming, the actress, died at Savannah
Ca, on the % inst She was the daughter Of
Mr.. chippendale, formerly of the Park theater,
in New York city, and the wife Of William M.
Fleming, recently one Of the proprietors of the
National Theater, Boston, and manager Of sew.
eral other theSters in the United States.
Some Cuban residents Of New York have in
view the erection Of public monument to the
memory of the fifty one Americsns--C Crittenden
and his brave companions-including their
Cuban comrades, who were mRssaored by Gems
OonchA, after attempt at liberating Cuba in
1851.
Corn is becoming quite cheap at Texas, il
the following from the Austin Gazette be cor
rect; While our farmers are getting sixty cents
per bushel in Austin for corn, contract was
lately made At Gonzales, at twenty five cents
per bushel and still later another contract for
a thousand bushels has been made at twenty
cents per bushel
The remains Of the late Alexander Hamilton,
buried thirty seven years ago, in the New HH.
ven Cemetery, were day or Two since exhumed
for the purpose Of being removed to Bridgeport,
| (where his sons remains have within 4 few
years been drposited.) The cofin being Of
mahogany, was found TO be almost perfectly
sound, and the skeleton appeared perfect.
The Prussian Courtiers are scandaliEed by
the discovery of how little importance Hum
boldt attached to personal distinctions, After
his death, the great number Of decorations
which he had received from the soveIegns Of
all countries. were found lying pell mell in a
cupboard. He did not take half the pains to
preserve them that he bestowed upon the wing
Of butterfly or a piece of Old red sandstone.