Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-29


Tie price pal in Nss York on Thursday
for three year substitutes was $500, and for
one year substitutes $500
The public schools at Buffalo, n +, offer
prizes 70 The young hdy po pills for the best
ioayes ?! bread. This i5 . much koeaded &C.
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A man was robbed Of $4,000 In the Eagle
Bank, Boston, on Friday He laid the bundle
on the counter, aud somebody picked IT. up
while be was counting another roll Of bills.
Mr. Bradburne, editor Of the PlaquemiDe
(La Gazette, one OF the oldest newspaper
men in the State, was lately found dead 10
his bed. ---.-------.
Judge Stephen Vail, one Of the best ma.
ichinists in New Jersey died on Tuesday last
He built the engines Of the frat steamer that
ever crossed the Atlantic
III The Mormonb will he able to lay up large
stock Of grain this year for future famines.-
The Deseret News, Of July 4th, says the crops
look well, promising good haryests every
where. utIf}N
The BARRIERS of Troy prosecute Any one
Of their craft who shaves a customer on Sun
day
Garibaldi has been elected Grand Master of
the Freemasons in Itnly
The receipts Of the Boston street railways
on the 4th were $4,000.
At latest dates gold was dsarer onetenth
per cent in Paris than in London, and four
tenths dearer in London than in Hamburg
Garricks villa, at Hampton, England, was
recently sold for GlO 900 sterling to London
merchant.
The prospect Of the vino crop in the south
of France is very hatteriug. Burgundy vine
yards are also doing we'll
A Georgia letter says that it is wonderful
what an immense breadth of the country there
is planted and sown to grain
/, A torpedo boat is Constructing at East Ha.
ven, Connecticut She will be bomb.proof
covered with iron plates Of greater thickn ss
than those upon the monitors, and provided
with powerful machinery.
Mr John Wilson, Of Lawrence, Massachu.
setts, while searching for guIls' eggs, recently,
on the southern head OF Grand Menan, fell
down a steep declivity to the distance Of q
hundred feet or more and was killed. 3.
American rhododendrons are tho pride Of
the British ConservstoFies, The scarlet va
riety is much tri2ed, and Is now the greatest
attraction at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Re.
gents Park. t.s .lI. .s..f.
The prices OF wheat are advancing in the
4 English market, foreign being held with firm
ness in contemplation Of the influence of
political upon agroui'ural affairs rise of
one shilling sterling is quoted.
HEAVY TRANSACTION IN WHtsKT - On
/ Thursday last Messrs. BUshong & Sons Of
4 Reading, PENNSYLVANIA, closed negotiat on
] Tor the sole of 5000 barrels of whisky, being
all their stock here, TO firm in Philadelphia,
lat 81 70 per gallon The transaction foots
/ up the handsome sum of over 1886, 900.
There is new oil excitement in Western
! Pennsy lvania. Gushing wells send out olea-
| ginous streams, and many greenbacks are the
result. In Greene and Eayette counties the
excitement is intense as great as il used TO be
abo ut TitusvilIe and Oil City Several new
companies have been formed and before many
weeks pass eli the available territory will be
bought up ssfs ~ a4gs, ,Ff...
The Canada papers contain accounts Of
very disastrous fres in the woods in various
places throughout the country Many cattle
have perisbed in the flames, and in some vi
entities the con6agrations are extending 80
as to become alarming.