Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-07-26

Twelve vessels left Chicago on the 18TH, la
den with 202, 1872 bushels of cornl What
other inland port of the world can make alike
boast2
The capital Of the State Bank of Indiana
amounts TO 50, 000, 600, on which 1t has paid
annual dividends of ten per cent since its es-
Enlistment
Fifteen hogs were killed, in the pens of Sny-
der and & Jenkins, at Petersburgh, Ky, by a
stroke of lightning, on Thursday evening.
Last Saturday the Italian Tricolor flag was
hoisted on a Neapolitan vessel lying at New
York.
The Brooklyn, New York, police have seized
$4,000 of counterfeit bills on the Treasury
Of Hayti,
The Syracuse Journal reports the discovery
of rock oil in that region; and that it exists in
large quantities in the Onondaga lime rock
and in the Medina sandstone group.
On Tuesday of last week, the Massaehus-
etts Spy, of Worcester, entered upon the 9lst
year Of its existence. The first number of the
paper was issued on the 18th day of July
ITO.
The Syracuse Courier recently chronicler,
the passage at that place ola steam propeller
having in tow six boats with eleven hundred
and fifty tons of freight on board. This must
Indicate a new era in canal navigation.
Recently FIVE old ladies met at the house Of
Edmund Wordell, Westport, Mass, about one
mile from the Narrows, aged respectively S3,
80, 7S, "a and n. making unitedly 1896 years,
or an average offs 10 years, There was an
cient gossip there, and no mistake.
1t is said that by a curious oversight the
last New York Legislature repealed the only
section in the laws of the State which defined
the mode of punishment by death, and conse-
quently that MCPHERSON can be legally execu-
ted in the Empire State.
Madame Ristori, the eminent Italian TRACE
dienne, rival of Rachel when living, and now
the undisputed queen oftragedy, has been en-
gagged for three months at St Petersburg, by
order Of the Car, at the salary of $4,000.
The Lynn shoe manufacturers. are in the
midst Of an 'irrepressible conflict with the
NEW elastic rubber company the company
having fixed the price of woven elastic shoe
web at an advance of thirty per cent, thus
adding FIVE per cent, per pair to the cost Of
the congress boot, which is now extensively
worn. The manufacturers wouldn't submit
An attempt was made on the evening of the
18th inst. to rob the Medina Bank, at Medina,
Orleans county, New York, which resulted
disastrously to the robbers. They got
through the outer door and attempting 10 blow
open the lock of the vault, used too much pow.
der, it is supposed, and were blown out Of thu
Bank room and alarmed the village so that
the robbers fed without booty. III
The Boston Advertiser gives an account o.
the steam feet of that city, from which we
learn that there are now twenty steamers run
ming between Boston and ports in the United
States and the British Provinces. Ten o
these run to Southern ports, seven to port
t in Maine, and three to ports in the British
Provinces.
The East Saginaw Courier, of the 18th
says, the manufacture of salt at the rate o
; 200 bushels per day, is going on steadily a
: the East Saginaw Salt Manufacturing Co
r Works, in this city, and the quality of tn
. article is A. No. l in every respect As sool
as the new. cisterns are completed the quantity
, manufactured per day will be more than dou
1 bled.
II is stated that a careful computation show
the steam power Of the Great Eastern steam
ship is equalto the water power that drives tn
mills at Lowell. This gives an idea of tn
immense power of the steamer, equal TO tina
! required for the works of the great manufaC
= turing city of Ameriea.
; The Plymouth Advertiser says, on Tuesda
, last, a German, named Miller, living nea
/ Waynesburg in Crawford county met with a
a accident which deprived him of both legl
He was engaged in harvesting with a machin
reaper, aud had gone forward to give the drl
yer some instruction in regard to a ditcl
which was in the field When the machin
started on again, he had not moved far enougI
away, so that the knife cut off one leg entire
ly, above the ankle, and injured the other 81
badly that Il had TO be ampntated