Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-03-06
llaiIg empire.
MONDAY, MARCH G, 1865.
Current News Items.

OANA OAAh W. w ANNNAAFN
ii 49,
Joel @ Morgan has retired from the edi,o.
rial control OF the Cairo Democrat
1t ia said that the freedmen and women in
South Carolina, now that they have no one to
supervise their conduct are unspeabably dirty
in their habits, aud stand IN more immediate
need Of soapnnd.waisr, shan Of spsllpg books
and testamcnts
There are in China atthe present time one
huDdred and eleven Protestant missionaries
fottytwo imjss1ons, aAd two Thousand Eve
hundred converts. There are about twenty
different societies engaged in the work OF
propagatng the Gospel OF the missionaries
fity-seven are from America, iorty.fSe from
England, Ireland and Scotland and nine from
Germany. 81 ID an
A great number Of persons, according to
the Louisville Democrat, nre now in prison in
Kentucky with no definite charge against
them, and wholly ignorant Of the cause Of
their arrest Measures have been instituted
TO give these persons a trial
A young lady is The sole owner Of the great
petroleum lands in Trimble county, Ky A
company Of Eastern gentlemen lately pro-
posed to give her 900 for the place
which consisting of eighty acres, would make
81 900 an acre-A handsome sum indeed, but
the fair owner refuses at present to accept
the offer.
mysterious murder has occurred in Nor
folk, Virginia, where the Rev A. H. Boykin,
quiet and respectable clergyman, who had
been noncommittal on the unhappy question
between North and South, was found on
street corner, shot with IA bullet through the
head. No clue 10 the murderer Mr. B
leaves a wife with large family of child.
rem i
On the 22d OF February, the Capitol at Wash
ipgtop was lighted at every window pane for
the irst time, and presented a brilliant spec.
tacle, says a correspondent Of the Boston
Post. ab .DFaa-
A carpet cleaner in Boston recently receiv.
ed two carpets from a lady, on which TO exer
else his skill, and left them On the sidewalk
for a minute or two, when they were stolen.
The owner sued him to recover their value,
and on Wednesday a jury gave her verdict
of Slls 82.
A rebel lady in Newton, Virginia, boasts
of having made money enough by selling pies
to the Union soldiers, last summer to paper !
her kitchen with greenbAcks.
On Friday a young soldier died at Todd
Barracks, Of bydrophobia He had been bit
ten by a mad dog three weeks before he had
enlisted, and not knowing the animal was
mad, bad forgotten the circumstance He
died in great torment--t requiring the com
bined strength of three men to restrain him
His father was present, and was nearly dis
tracted from grief
The two items following are from the In
dianapolis special to the Enquirer Between
Hon C. Durham, Mr. Speaker Petit and
tho Sorgeant-atArms Browning, there was
an outbreak today Dunham's arrest was Or
dered BY the Speaker, and the Sergeantat
Arms approached to execute it, when Durham
struck him 10 the face Subsequently Mr..
Dunham was arrested by the civil authorities
sAd fined aud during the afternoon a resolu.
lion was introduced by Mr. Newcomb for the
expulsion of Mr.. Dnnham, which was indefn.
iteiy postponed, ending the whole matter in
good hnmor