Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-03-23
Current News Items.
D. CLARK, sec'y

\ negro, in attempting to escape from the
gu ard, was shot aud instantly killed, 10 Nssh'
vile, last week.
The price OF liquor licenses 10 Memphis has
been reduced from $500 to $3.50 per month.
The receipts of hemp at the port ofst. Louis
for the year 1864 amounted to 66, ,267 bales
A bill before the Legislature Of New York
appropriAtes Sl65,OOO for charitable Pur-
poses. I.....
Gangs Of bounty jumpers and deserters
are committing dspredatious in New Jer-
sey.
One dollar and costs for horse'whipPing
man in st. Louis-Cheap.
Taxes collected in St. Louis county for the
year 1864 amounted to s963,ls3 81.
The bill before the Indiana Legislature,
appropriating $SOO,OoO to pay the damage
done by the Morgan RAID through Indiana,
failed to become law
In the police report Of last year, New York
City reveals the fact that 50, 929 victims of the
wine cup found lodgings at the thrty-One STA.
ton houses in the city. So.
The State Fair Of Indiana will be held at
Fort Wayne, that city having subscribed $l2.-
900, for the purpose Of fitting up the
grounds.
A National Bank will soon be in operation
at Vincennes.
Buffalo are becoming scarce in the Western
hunting grounds. They have been so much
disturbed of late by rowing Indians that they
are seeking more retired homesteads, far
away, near the Rocky Mountains.
The General Government owes the State Of
Illinois 100000
There have been more than fifty serious
railway accidents in the country since the
year opened 10 the last week Of February there
we're ten, and since the FIRST Of January more
than sixty people have been killed, and near
FIVE hundred wounded In times of peace this
would arouse the popular Indignation,
Spotted fever prevails in Amo Hendricks
county, Indiana, and the local physicians are
making "heroic" 6ght against it A young
man Of eighteen took one hundred and ffty
grains Of quinine in twenty.four hours, in
large amount Of diluted alcohol, and sur.
Vived it
The announcement Of the revocation Of the
passport order was cause for jubilee on the
banks oil the Niagara AtSuspension Bridge
and Niagara Falls in particular, the people Of
both sides of the river we're delighted. The
hotels we're thrown open, and the people from
either side went there for reciprocal congrat-
ulations Everything was free, and some
who appreciated the importance of the event.
celebrated it more fully than others, and went
in for grand drunk
Copeland, the young man who stabbed and
killed SAlyers near Madison, Indiana last
week, has had an examination, and been held
in the sum Of one thousand dollars for his ap-
pearanee at court to answer to the charge Of
nanslsughter, ..it '.t
How 10 make uoSe-gay-cultivate toddy
blossoms
A black man recently testified in q St Louis
court against white person. Something
new there.
The late Cardinel WiSeman--a great and
good mAn-had the shYnsss Of boy and the
bashfulness ofA maiden.
A Washington banking house feels very
unpleasant at having taken 5000 in cOun
tsrfeit gresn-bACks few days since
The N Y, Tribune calls PhilAdslphiA "lh'
great mother Of false intelligence, windy ru
mors and sidewalk stories" H.,
The sewing women have addressed pro
test 70 President Lincoln against making
shirts at one dollar per dozen.
Cardinal WiSensn'S dying words were
"Wsll, here l am at last, like child from
school, gong home for the holidays"
ThAd, Stevens declares that we're the Hous'
Representatives in session, he should NOV,
the impeachment Of Apube functionary 70
the extraordinary 4th of March speech.
Among the presents made TO the Hol!
Father during the recent feOtivAls, was
specimen Of cotton cultivated in the soil o