Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-08-09


No. -Parodi's Opera troupe is coming west;
it is announced to apreIr at Buffalo on Nom
day next.
nea- Widow Rush, Of Milwaukee, gave
birth to three children one day last week.
She is doing rushing business for a wild.
ow
RN, Nine guns Of riAed ordnance, on tri,
al at Fort Monroe, have been found far su-
perior to the smooth hore, after a very severe
test.
DW~The number of emigrants arrived at
the port of New York up to this date of the
present year lie 46,97s against 4s,065 last
year.
ReA-M me, the Baroness de Pierres, dame
d'honeur Of the Empress of the French lie one
Of the daughters of Herman Thorne Just de-
ceased, in New York.
R@. Two bars of gold, weighing twelve
hundred pennyweights, are the product of
the labor of fourteen hands, seven weeks, in
a mine in Lincoln county, Ga.
ReA. Betsy Purkell was dreadfuly burned
at Cincinnati Monday, while ironing, her
clothes taking FIRE from the furnace where
she was heating the irons, being extended
over the Goals by her hoops.
peR.The importation of dry goods into
New York, which 10 1857 footed mp $780,
III, ,293, and during the crisis on the follow,
ing year was cut down to $50, l69,3 1853, has
gone this year up to $7l,7s2,9sj.
sHMartin Adams, Esq Postmaster at
Cope's Mill, Belmont county, was robbed on
Tuesday last of eleven hundred dollars in
specie, One of the robbers was arrested, and
is now in jail
EaS- The Eighth Annual Fair, of the Fair
field County Agricultural Society will be
held at Lancaster, on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, the 18th, 18th and 18th days of
October next
p@- New Neshancock potatoes on II, r.
track are offered at Cleveland by tho car
load at 81 per bushel; in small lots at 81 II.
The receipts are chiefly from Michigan, and
the Southern portion OF the State
BeA-The New York City Inspector eau
tions the public against the purchase Of
pork about these days as large quantities of
diseased swine's flesh is daily thrown into
the market, tho hogs having died OF choi-
err.
D1s- Upton Startzman, charged with rob-
hing the Post Office at Lewiston, Champaign
County, on the 18th of December last, was
committed to jail Monday at Cincinnati,
in default OF $1,000 bail for his future up
pearanee
BA.The New York Times of the 30
presents a chapter Of suicides, numbering
36--all Of which occurred in 6rtnight-
Eleven were cases of death by hanging by
drowning, 6 by poisoning 5 by cutting the
throat, and by stabbing
noa- Tuesday night says the Newbuyport
Herald, was a time to try watch springs -
Stepping into a watehmaker's on Wednes
day, we found half dozen watches, the
mainsprings Of which had broken the night
before, during the thunder storm, when
the whole air seemed charged with elec-
trieity.
Ba5"A new thing in Paris, is bonnet
mado Of fne black hair, embroidered with
buttercups in silken straw The ribbon
used for the trimming has q black ground,
and the flowers at the side are entirely black
with JET centres. The effect Of this combs
nation is considered as very original, and il
has the advantage of deiyiog dust
no. Virginia Stewart, shot some time ago
in New York by man named Mcdonald
from Mobile, died on Thursday morning in
the New York Hospital, just thirteen days
after she was shot During most Of that
time the patient was unconscious and her
few lucid intervals have been Of short dura-
ton. The case attracted the attention Of
medioia men, from the fact that she fingered
so long with bullet in her brain.
RaA.we learn from Steubenyille paper
that the house OF Mira Jones, Of Island
Creek, was entered on Sunday night by five
men, who demanded her money. Mrs Jones
handed them her pocket book, containing
I've dollars One of the girls, who Is mar
riod, jumped out Of the window 10 20 10 the
nearest neighbor; the thieves discovering
this, left the house. Some time during the
fore part Of the evening, il is supposed. .they
poisoned the dogs, as they were ionnd dead
the next morning