The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-06-23
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs.

III - not gcncfaly known, says u w ahll-
lngton corrcspondenk that senator sum
NEn Il aid has been for six or eight weeks
suffering seriously from nervous troubles
caused by the bludgeon of DRooss ten
years ago. lie was getting much better
until RossEAu, Of Ky, cancd GRISNRIs, of
Iowa, and that tragic circumstance caused
a serious relapse. Gales are powerful Inn
pleinents; they have caused the death Of
more 1beI men than SUNNKR.
JAY Cook, who is building house worth
half million Of dollars obtained bis
wealth by advertising National bonds,
which would have been unsold to this day
but for the newspapers. That Is, he adver-
tiscd the quack green-back medicine bust
ness the CHASE & Co. yJl
GENERAL LEE.-Thc Nashville GdSette
reports on the authority of a private letter,
that General LIE win spend the simmer
vacation of his college IN the vicinity of
Crab Orchard, Kentucky
Mr.. w. ID. Snow, United States Senator
elect for Arkansas not getting his seat,
has taken to transporting oil in tanks from
ShafIer, Pennsylvania, to New York.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's sixty-fnh birthday
was celebrated ON Saturday, by the lead
ing Mormons now in New York, who
dned togetherat the Metropolitan Hotel.
The health of Brother BRIGHAM" was, OF
course, pledged, and then one, all-round for
each of his wives-one hundred and TWEEN
ty-seven. For his next bride, a bamp-'eri
The Ways and Means Committee have de-
clined not to report on the question of adj
journment until 1.-The tariff bill is safely
through the House. A compromise has
been effected between the wool growers
aud the manufacturers. ...
SENECA the eminent moralist, speaking
of the Roman Empire said "What would
our Empire have been to-day had not the
conquered been permitted TO mlngle with
the conquerors as the results of salutary
policy RoMULUs, our founder, showed
wisdom In pursuing this policy 10 such an
extent that he made citizensof his enemies
the same day that he conquered them"
DIvoRcE.-The New York Nation takes
the ground thatwe need general marriage
law for the whole Union as much and more
than we need general system of coinage
"All American men and women" il says,
''ought to be married. and all American
children to be born under the same law"
To effect this and make it work, it is fur
ther proposed that Congress shall provide q
"DtCorce Bureau" salary of the Chief
$4,000 per year, with assistants in each
township and ward in the several States, at
81 900.
T. DARCY MCGEE, an Irishman by birth.
when importuned by Catholic priest, OF
his acquaintance, in behalf of captured
Fenian from Connecticut, replies that he is
sorry to disobllge the reverend father, but
no word of his shall ever be spoken in
mitigation of the punishment of one of the
invaders, not even if lie was his own
brother.
The authorized officer of the Controller
of the Currency Bureau recently destroyed
by burning $4,000 of National Bank notes
because the signature of the Cashier apd
President were printed thereon, instead ol
written, as directed by law.
Governor Cox and staff will be present
ON the Fourth of July to present the vet
eran soldiers with the medal of the Legion
of Honor" rs ordered by the last Legisla.
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