Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-07-07

Peter Runnells, an Employee Of the New
Jersey Railroad Company, had his arms, legs
ribs and neck broken, recently, BY NE locOmo.
tive Of a train.
A Physician Of New York City i Of the o
piniou that calcined charcoal ia an excellent
remedy for the disease nov prevalent among
the cattle.
The other evening John O'RouFke, a liitl,
boy six years old, vet Gre TO a stable in RrOok
lyn, N Y, and causeda destructive confagra
ton.
The disease which has been 30 disastrous Il
cattle in the Eastern States, has broken oul
among the sheep in Washington County
Penn, and carried of a large number.
A welLknown citizen of Indiana, Jane,
Graham, while in pursuit Of a notorious horse
thief, was shot dead by the villain in Law.
renee County a day or two ago.
A man who lived in q house In Boston
where gas had once been used, tapped the
pipe, and by means Of a gutta-percha tubs
used the gas for some weeks before the larceny
was discovered.
The Artesian Well in the State Capitol
Grounds at Columbus, reached a depth of q
400 feet on Thursday of last week, and every
twenty-four hours it sinks four feet deeper
through a limestone rock.
A few days since, thirteen miners, most Of
whom we're intoxicated, attempted to cross
Portage Lake, Lake Superior, from Hancock
to Houghton, in a skia, but when about half
way across, the boat swamped, and seven Of
the party were drowned.
A new eotton-mill is about being erected
by the Nammkrag Company, at Salem, Mass.
with thirtytwo thousand seven hundred and
sixty-eight spindles, and six hundred and fifty
looms. Amount Of subscription called for to
build the mill, 100000.
At a banquet given at Palermo, on the &C.
casion Of the armistice, Garibaldi proposed as
a toast-"The Independence Of Hungary"
and, turning to his Adjutant-G% General, Col Turr,
said: "Friend, you we're my guest at Como and
Varese, and you are now my guest here but
in January next, ! will return your visit-at
Pesthl'
A writer in the Nationol Magazine argues
that the landed class in Great Britain have
grown philanthropic. Their aim is TO build
churches, to form schools, to caution their Ia
borers against beer shops, to send out distress
ed needle-women to Australia, 10 turn ragged
boys into decent and Industrious shoe blacks
and to learn St Giles's the value af q cheap
bath and a clean shirt.
Wives are such uncertain property that the
proprietor Of the Nixon House, at Alliance,
in this State, celebrated the safe return Of his
spouse from a three weeks visit in Cleveland,
one evening this week, by a grand illumination,
band of music, and free drinks at the bar
The event was enjoyed by the whole town, as
we're also several fights growing out of the oc-
casion.
Trollope, in his new work on Jamaica says
of the emancipated negro; He lies under the
mango tree and eats the luscious fruit in the
sun; he sends his black urchin up for a bread
fruit, and behold the family table is spread
He p~ierces a cocos-nut, and, loi there is his
beverage. He lies upon the grass, surround
ed by oranges, bananas and pine apples.
A remarkable case Of forgery and fraud has
Just been discovered in the county Of Oxford,
Canada, perpetrated bya youth from the back
woods, under the assumed names Of Learney
and Bernard, who, by q deed, and having it
duly registered in Woodstock, succeeded in
obtaining 1850 on mortgage from the Hon. j.
G. Goodhue, Of London, The particulars of
his transactions d~evelope a degree Of clever
ness in r~ascality not often exhibited by unsO-
phisticated country boys.
A few days since the Newton IN. j. Elk
press train, consisting Of FIVE or six cars full
of passengers, narrowly escaped being precip-
itated into the Passaic River, by running off
the Newark bridge. The draw was opened to
allow the passage of a vessel, and the proper
shown; but the engineer, who has re-
Gently been placed on the road, failed to dis
cover it The conductor of the train saw the
and pulled the engineers bell to stop.
The order was promptly obeyed, but not an
instant too soon, for the locomotive was with
six feet of the draw.