Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-29
M miscellaneous.


In marshy districts consumption is very
rare, and it has been noticed that when agns
disappears consumption becomes prevalent
The banks of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware held a meeting in Philadelphia on
Friday, and formed an association for the pre-
%yeniion of counierfeiiing and forgery. A sim
liar association is in operation in the New Eng
land States.
Among the incidents attending the visit OF
the Putnam Phalanx, of Boston, to the grave
Of Putnam, on the occasion of the anniversary
of the battle Of Bunker Hill, was the present.
alton to the corps of two aged and venerable
men who attended General Putnam funeral
seventy years ago. These aged men, both
residents of Windham county, Massachusetts,,
are Judge Holbrook Jagged 9O) and Mr.. Itch
field.
The Havana Gazette (%oaicial paper) gives
the total revenue of the royal treasury Of
Cuba for the first four months Of the present
year as $6,5s3, 75l, viii ii is a slight increase
over the year 1859. OF this'amount, $l,363,
63j is classed marine revenues" and 81
220, ll6 land revenues" The probability is
now, that the total receipts into the royal
treasury, from both sources, during the present
year, will reach the enormous and unprece-
dented sum of 500, OOO 1900.
The Venice Gazette publishes an edict by
which 365 persons who have gone abroad, are
ordered to return to Austria within four months,
under pain of mourning the penalties imposed
by the law ofMarch "a, 1892. That measure,
promulgated by Francis !, provides that those
who emigrate without authorization, and are
found guilty of emigration, can neither buy
nor sell any property in the Austrian States,
nor be allowed to enjoy any inheritance, even
a%curuing from II will.
Suit has been commenced against n physi-
clan residing in Arch street, Philadelphia, to
recover n penalty of $50 which he has incurred
by refusing to answer the question of the CEN
sus-taker as to the value of his property. The
doctor takes the ground that the government
has no power to compel him to answer such a
question. He is both obstinate and wealthy,
and viii defend the stand he has taken TO the
last. ~
We learn from the Baltimore SIM, Of Satur-
day, that the robber of the Adams Express
Company of $4,000 has been convicted and
to ten years Imprisonment The
money, it will be remembered, was recovered
August, having been found buried in an
obscure place near Philadelphia The guilty
party was Maroney, n former agent of the
company, whose wife and other parties are al
SO implicated, and will doubtless be brought
10 justice.
A Paris correspondent writes, June IL, that
On Thursday last there was a brilliant throng
assembled at the Church of the Madeleine to
the wedding of Prince de P~olignac
with Mile. Mires, n daughter of the great
banker Of Bordeaux and Paris. 1t is a Gus
at Bordeaux 10 present to a bride a pyra-
mid of artificial roses, among which some nat
lral ones are interspersed, and these last the
bride distributes among her friends who attend
the ceremony. The number of roses thus ar
seldom exceed two hundred. But
Mile. Mires received from her native town n 4
containing three thousand real roses,
and without knowing the name Of the donor.
By the marriage contract the lady father has
assigned to her an income of 400, 600 francs,
a suite departments in his hotel in the Chaus-
see d Antin, and two carriages. She is said
to he very handsome, so, bravo, Prince Polig-
nacl