The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-06-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.


A shipment Of 100000 of fractional cur
rcncy 70 the Depository at Cincinnati has
been authorized.
Thad Stevens was taken sick on Thurs
day, aud had not improved Friday night,
His friends were apprehensiyc. Possibly
his poisoned malice has 'struck in
The receipts from Internal Revenue on
Saturday were S3,d2l,0S2 40. The receipts
for the week amounted 70 S7,l767lb 10,
and the total receipts for May were S2l,-
72i,GS0 40.
George sheridan has been tried in Bow
ling Green, Kentucky, for the murder Of
Patrick Donavan, on the 18th of April
last. The accused was found guilty, and
sentenced to be executed on the first Friday
In July.
Two car loads of strawberries now ar
rive daily at Chicago from tabden. Anna
and Villa Ridge, on the Illinois Central
Railroad. There is nm area of over three
hundred acres of strawberries now ripen-
| ing in those three towns. and promising
the heaviest yield that any season has af-
forded
| Supervisors will take notice that there
Is law on the statute books OF Ohio, re-
quiring them to put up guide-bOards at
every cross roads under penalty of fine
aud costs. Nit
! The Lewiston (Me.) journal says gen
tleman living In Auburn last oyear raised
| 81, 900 worth Of garden plants ami vegeta-
bles on about one acre of land, aud this
year he will, if ordinarily successful, get
$1,000 worth from the same land.
Count Marmora, the Italian premier,
thinks that the army of Italy Is the best in
Europe, excepting that of France.
! In the course of evidence given recently
before the Deputy Recorder of London, 1t
was stated that land near 81. Paul's Church.
yard was worth tl,02O,0O0 per acre.
| The Wesleyan Methodists, some time ago,
built n hall in Bishopsgate street, London,
a freehold, which cost them E35000. They
have been recently offered cl57,0O0 for the
property.
| There has been another break in the
Mississippi levee, in front OF Alexandria,
which town is under three 10 five of water.
Much damage has been done, and more Is
apprehended.
A "FAT TAKE."-A Canadian printer, j.
X. Dunlop, was married in Chicago recently
To the daughter of "A Milwaukee merchant,
the young lady coming out on the occasion
in fifteen thousand dollars worth of fancy
dry goods and jewelry She is said to be
worth one hundred Thousand dollars. OF
course Mr.. Dunlop will "put on sub" and
walk around town for the rest of his life.
The Bureau Superintendent for Alabama
reports that for June (this month"; he will
be called on TO issue TO the free niggers no
less than $4,000 rations.
In the course of the last month a novel
incident occurred in the capital of San Do
mingo. 1t appears that at ball lately
given there the Governor of the city en-
tered the saloon on horseback, and Just
when an enemy of his fired revolver al
him, the horse. raising his head, received
the contents, falling dead in the middle OF
the saloon.
SQUIRREL HUNT.-A party of twenty
four gentlemen in Caldwell county, North
Carolina, have just returned from great
squirrel hunt. Half of the number exhib-
tied one thousand three hundred scalps
and the othersexhibited nineteen hundred
and sixty-six. The largest number killed
by one man was eight hundred and twenty
seven.