The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-10-22
NEWS BREVITIEs.

The colored preaclicr Erskine. from La
bciia, so pleased the people Of I.ynchburg
Va. with his address that they Invited him
Co repeat u, aud turned out In large num-
hers 20 hear him.
A bed of excellent bitumiuous coal has
been recently discovered In Houston cOun-
a.. Texas. eighteen miles east Of Crockett.
The Seuhnd says the coal Is found near
The surface.
The work Of levellng Fort lIill. at Bos-
tom. has been commenced and Will not be
completed before spring. The earth eN-
cavatcd win be used in extending various
wharvcs, and viii increase their value 81,
NO,000. Twenty acres of territory Will
be included in the proposed improvements.
The Macon ,Ga) Citisen is about to en-
ploy female compositors. The Field aud
Ereside is entirely set by young ladies.
The editor saws they belongto the best FAM
war. A number Of girls are also employed
On the Montgomery AdUertiser.
II is thought by those persons who are
best acquainted with the cultivation and
curing Of tobacco. that the recent contin-
ued rains have had an injurious effect upon
the quality of the crop, both that which
was housed and not seasoned, and that
which was uncut,
Il is estimated that the corn crop in
Pennsylvania for the present year Will
amount TO about 30000O00 bushels, being
an average yield of three bushels for each
acre planted.
The Turkish Government has given per
mission for the sale and distribution Of the
books and publications Of the American
missionaries throughout all parts Of the
Empire,
4 little orphan boy in Little Rock. Ark.
who has recently followed the trade of
bootblack, was on Tuesday last made owner
of 10000 by the will OF q deceased rela-
tive IN Louisiana.
Edgar Tisdale. a wealthy merchant Of
Dubuque, Iowa, arrived in Chicago on the
25th Of last month, aud disappeared from
his hotel the next day, since which time
nothing has been heard OF him. He had
$4,000 on his person.
The Sandusky Registe, claims popula-
tiou of nearly $1,000 for that city. The CEN
sus Of 1850 gave 10000 as the number OF in
habitauts,
The Mansfield tO.l Heroia says that the
crop of apples In Richlnnd county. has
been unusually large this season. and great
quantities are being shipped from Mans
field. They are generally of a superior
quality.
a young lady now employed as COM
positor on the Montgomery AdrertiSer had
300 bales of cotton burned during the war.
\ man in south Carolina sends boy
every day 30 miles on horseback to get his
daily paper.
The Governor, Auditor and Secretary of
State have advanced Toledo to a city of the
first class having been satisfied with salts
factory evidence that its population ex-|
ceeds 10000, being A,i0l.
one of the Michigan districts is going to
be represented in Congress by General
Pritchard, the captor of Jefferson Davis.
Adyices from Europe by the Hibernia
mention an article In the OpiaioRe NatiORGle
advising an alliance of the powers of West
ern Europe to drive Russia back into Asia
and curb the growing propensitics Of the
United States The Austrian Empire seems
beset with many difficulties.
The richest man in St. Louis is. accord
ing to the late income list, James IL. Lucas,
whose income is S103,27l Forty years
ago a considerable amount of property in
land was left him by an uncle. He was at
that time living in poverty in Kentucky.
He repaired to st. Louis, and since then
has done nothing but improve his pos
sessions and pay taxes.