Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

creasing riches, the increasing lnsolence,
and the rondyism of the shoddy aristocrats.
A Washington dispatch to the Cincin-
natl Gazette says special to the War De-
partment has discovered enormous frauds,
transacted by millions in Kentucky and
Ohio, in contracts for all sorts of army
supplies.
Miss Cushman's acting in Washington
gives, two hundred thousand dollars to
the Sanitary Fund. The President and
all his Cabinet, save Chase, were at the
theater.
Everybody in Washington is said to be
trying to be next President.
Brigham Young has sixty children, and
a prospect of more.
The Government touches $9,000,000
for exemptions from the draft
When raising treasury note press from
the ground to the attic of the Treasury
building in Washington, on Tuesday last,
the tao king gave way, and the press,
weighing five tuns, fell thirty feet to the
ground, killing one man instantly, and
badly injuring three others.
The story of the destruction of Cal
houn's statue in Charleston, by one of Gen
eral Gilmole's shells, seems to be con-
firmed.
The deed of General Baxter's marble
quarry at Rutland, recently sold by him
for $3.50, 900, required about $3.50 worth
of revenue stamps. ..
An acre of ground at the Dexter asy-
lum farm, Providence, this year has
produced 500 bushels of beets worth one
dollar per bushel. 1t was an excellent
yield, and very profitable besides.
Punch says he never could see that Can
ada was of much benefit to England; for
all that country ever got from these Pro-
vinccs was wars, fights, and rows-except
the Canadian beat song, and even that
commences-"Row, brothers, row."
The surgeon-major of lhe Royal Horse
guards writes to the London Times that
the root of the pitcher plant is a speic for
the small pox. An ounce of the root is
sliced and infused in quart of water and
allowed to simmer down to a pint and
given in two-teaspoonful doses every few
hours, while the patient is well nourished
with beef-tea and arrowroot.
Copper has been discovered at Rutland,
Vermont, and forty acres of land has been
leased for ninety-nine years to get at it.
The proceeds of the sale of the prize
steamer Victoria have been ordered for dis
tribusion by the United States district
court The total sum realized from the
vessel and cargo was $35O,000.
The champagne widow Clicquot re-
Gently recovered thirty thousand francs
damages from an imitator Of her wine, and
gave it all to the poor of Rheims. Her
disposition is as good as her grapes, says
tho Boston Post.
On THE COMMUNICATIONS army corps
subscribed $1,000 for the testimonial to
General Mcclellan.
The board Of supervisors of New York
city voted S2,000,00O to aid volunteer
ing.
Artemus Ward says there is no daily
paper published in his town, but there is
a ladies sewing circle, which answers the
same purpose.
New York is to have new State
house--plans all ready and so are the con-
tractors.
Cleveland rejoices in the odor of sixteen
petroleum refineries.
A small bit of land-ninety thou
sand acres--is to be sold at auction in
Canada.
The English are experimenting with
war balloons to ascertain their value to the
army system.
Secretary Chase who came to Ohio to
vote for Brough, had to have special
train of cars to ride in from Washington
to Columbus. He couldn't ride with other
travellers. Greenbacks were too plenty for
that