Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-03
NEWS OF the DAY.

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did not know Of the treasure.
Highland county, which contained
population Of FIVE thousand five hundred
and twenty-five males, including those Of
its citizens in the army, polled for Brough
six thousand one hundred and four that
is, five hundred and eighty-two more votes
than there is, or ever was, in the county.
The quantity of coal required for Gov
eminent vessels is really incredible. There
are three hundred and fifty steamers ahoat
in the service burning coal. The Iron
sides alone, burns two tuns per hour,
forty-eight tuns per day, or sixty-thousand
tuns per AMMAN. One million five hun
dred thousands tuns is the estimated guam
tity required for this species of the SER
vice.
Folks are getting married in Boston at
a fearful rate. The City Register issued
twenty-six licenses on Saturday week, the
biggest days work ever done, except one.
1t is generally understood that the coming
winter is to be cold one.
The indianapolis Common Council has
appropriated five thousand dollars for the
purchase of wood for the poor.
Let those who now assail the Democra-
tic party remember always one fact-that
history has vindicated every position and
justified every important act of that party
from the organization of the Government
down to now. Discreet men who anlci-
pate future, and do not object to the en-
joyment Of self-respect in time to come,
had better ruminate little on this signi-
licant TRUTH
A contraband says General Gilmore
will open the ball at Charleston by lead
ing out the "Swamp Angel" A cotem-
porary calls it the dance of death.
A penny journal in London is devoted
to record of dreams, and a discussion of
the philosophy of dreaming.
Secretary Chase commenced on that
little pile of $34 100000 which the en-
gravers have had for some time past.
The pirates in the Jail in Portland have
lately been paid their monthly wages in
gold by the Southern Confedoracy.
Mayor opdyke is about to publish
Thurlow Weeds lobby operations. 1t
will take several volumes.
Ship Reindeer, of New Bedford, has ar
rived at Honolulu, from the Arctic Ocean,
having taken the past season 1859 bbls,
of whale oil and $4,000 lbs. of bone
making total for the voyage of 1000
bbls. OF whale, 120 do. sperm oil, and
about 55, 900 lbs. whalebone She had
been absent three years and has made one
ofthe greatest voyages ON record.
Miss Sheperd, good looking young
lady of eighteen, has recoved seven hun
dred dollars damages from e. M. Potter,
in Rochester, New York, for not marrying
her, as he promised TO.
The Philadelphia Age asks, "if seventy
five thousand officials were required to pro-
duce sixty thousand conscripts from the
last draft, how many will it take to get
three hundred thousand more %
A Judgment has been rendered in the
District Court of San Jose county, Cali
iornia, against Daniel 9. Vance and II.
N. McCullone, for the immense sum Of
$160, ,0U0,000. The suit was brought by
Morris Wise, to recover on note Of ST.
800 given in January, 1861, at eight per
cent. per month compound interest, the
principal and interest amounting at this
time to the above sum. The attorney for
the plaintiff waived the little matter Of
$4,000, 900, and consented to let the
Judgment stand $40, 100000.
Minnesota papers say that in conse-
quence of the absence of hunters, prairie
chickens are running through the streets
st. Paul.
A Paris letter relates that poor little
milliner found an English nobleman's
pocket-book with $4,000 francs in it.
She restored it intact, aud he rewarded her
by promising to speak we'll of her
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