Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-10-21
NEWS rrRMs

- "e' ~ HtAhati'7 SHOWS thot the number o.
suicides throughout the UnIted staics average
sbout nine Per weel,
A lie, Of statistics shows that the number Of
suicides throughoufihe United States average
abou, ulne per weoH.
Forty eight Inalsn squsws were arrested on
Sunday evening last IN q house Of il.lams in
Montreal
Governor Weller seems 90 be- the airongcsl
candidate ior tho sea, In the uniied States Ssn
ate, made vacant bg the death ofscnrlt Brod
erick, Of California,
Mr. Henry James, The author. who took his
departure for Europe. Saturday IN tho yander-
bilt, intends remaining some years 10 Switzer
land, TO educate his ehilireo
The BnGlo commaicial ellis OF an oilieiai
Of that city Who lot thirteen hundred dollan
by betting on Australian Kelley, the nsrd ~
priza fighter
An old fashioned Eoglsh clock was sold at
auction Tor slO. NV days since In New York.
in which the owner after getting 10 homo
found $4,000, in good English baok.no,,s-
Good purchase.
The consumption Of suails ia steadily iasrca,.
ing in Paris. More than a million francs worth
Of this exquisite, generous and nutritious ami.
nal is brOughtto market during year.
The printers Of Sacramento have formed
Typographical Union. lis object is to prevent
any further reduction in the raies for oopposi-
,iou.
The grinding season in the sugar culture has
commenced in Louisiana The cane is aid 70
be very dry and hard. aud lho yield ii is
thought i'll turn ont poorly.
/ Legislators make queer mistakes In Great.
ing the new county Of Wilcox in Georgia the
Legislature forgot TO attach IL TO some Congres,
sionSl District, and The inhabitants ato there
fore without a representative in the national
councils
! gay lothario Of only rs has recently been
malcied in the sum Of $3.50. in CayuRa Co., n
~, for sn assault upcn young lady Of Is
with felonious intent The spectacle of age
totteriHg before Justice upon such charge
must have been a sad one.
The Winaus steamer at Baltimore, about
which so much has been SAID and written. re.
Gently made midnight trial trip What Is the
matter with the experiment.
A negro Sickles was hung in Washington
county, N. o on the 7lh inst, in presence Of
some 3 900 spectators. The culprit suspected
that his wife was becoming too intimate with
white man, and in fit Of frepzy procured a
pistol and shot him dead
An exchange says that Bishop soule, ftho
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Dr. Ly'
mao Beecber and the Rev. Dr. Briggs. Of CHS
cnnai are now the only survivors OF the
American Bible Society in 1916.
The yalae of the New York Central Railroad
its stock, dc, according to the recent report of
the Directors, is something over lhir'y millions
seven hundred and forty two thousand dollars;
exceeding, by over two millions. us estimated
value in 1855
A chap up in Dearborn county. Ind recent>
ly welded pretty girl aud plum at once
and feeling reioiced in the possession ofa wife
and fortune, got drunk. fell ont Of wagon
was run over and killed before he had timeio
enjoy either,
Capt. Simpson. who has iGst reached Lea,s
enworlh from California. via Camp Floyd re,
ports that his return route was better than his
outward one, and that both are $50 miles short,
er than the route by way of Humboldt River
and of greatly superior grade for a railroad.
| Miss Charlotte Cashmar and Miss Stebbius
have left Paris on their way toRonIe via swilz.
erland Miss Stebbins has received some flat.
tering orders from home, and also been offered
a handsome sun by large porcelain manufac-
turer in England, for the privilege Of copying
her miner" on their work
There is a project on foot "a make the Big
Sandy River nayigsble during all seasons of
the year by locks aud dams, This is a scheme
Of vast importance to he people of the Sandy
Valley If IL succeeds they will become he
most formidable rivals TO Piltsburg 10 the coal
trade, as they are $50 miles nearer Cincinnati
Had Ia Mountain and Haddock remained in
thrir balloon ten hours, and gone due north, as
they did for the short time they We're up, or VI.
til the following moroing, at the same rate Of
speed they had travelled, they would have
found themselves near Hudsons Strait or Daf
fms Bay, where they might have descended
among the Esquimaux and icehorgs.
MINISTER MAsoNs SUCCESSOR We learn