The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-31
NEWS BREvITIEs.

| A horrible murder took place on Sunday
night, uear Salem. Davies county, where an
! idiot chased his wife and her sister out of
doors and brutally beat them with q stick
till they were dead. Wt o
a dispatch to the New York World says (:
"The President has come to an irrevocable
decision that Mr.. Stanton must leave the
Cabinet a l at I.l. aHI naH
The indianapolis papers record the arrest
of James Bennett, somewhat notorious for
his numerous matrimonial alliances.
4 About five rich widows are believed To
lhaVe surrendered their hearts to his keep
IiuSs ef o.
John Taylor, the eolored man, the MUIR
dcrer of the Buck family, at Delhi, Michi-
gan, was taken from the Jail by mob on
Monday night and hung. a
An Illinois paper says @0ut OF 81. 400, 900
acres of land. Illinois contains 32,000,000 of
tillable land. Only one-seventll of this has
yet been touched by the plow.
The New York Post records the fact that
| yesterday the London cotton market up to
noon was received before the New York
market up TO the same hour had been re-
Ceivcd. H
Letters from IIayt report a fire at Cape
ilaytien ON the 25th ult., which destroyed
property worth S700,000
There are $50 prisoners in the Ohio Peni-
tentiary. -Four military prisoners arrived
yesterday from Detroit.
EIKs.-Two elks recently brought to
Troy from the plains by cavalry man,
were turned into the park adjoining the
court house, where they attracted much at
tentiOn. The next day the female made
plunge through the window and alighted
ON the floor of the Justices court. tIN
In package containing $2,s00 In frac-
tional currency, received on Monday from
| the South at the United States Treasury in
Washington, counterfeits amounting to
$203 were detected.
Chilian agents in New York are trying To
buy the steam ram Dunderberg Mr. Webb,
the builder, Offers it Is said, to sell her for
S3,6OO,OOO. Some seventy guns of heavy
calibre have already been bought In this
country for that Government.
IL is reported that the owners of the
noted tr0tter Dexter intend TO show him Ia
Europe. Napoleon has made inquiries
which indicate his royal desire to purchase
Dexter, and 1t is quite likely that II he
leaves this country he will not return.
A petroleum train on the New York and
Erie railroad collded with another train
near Narrowsburg, N. j. and was demol-
dwellings and 10000 feet OF lumber were
burned. The fire caught from the running
petroleum. A whole family named VIII
liams lost their lives by the event.
In their Convention at Reading, Pa, last
week, the faction of radicalism inserted In
their platform such language as this "An-
drew Johnson, the man made President bv
Wilkes BoothHi ''the Infamous Andrew
Johnson &e.
10 is reported at Washington that 300 dis |
tilleries have been seized Ia PennsvsVania
within the past few days, the propriet0rs ofI
which are charged with Illicit distilIation |
of whisky.
The famine In India is dreadful linz
mcnse numbers Of sick and starving pco- |
pie from the districts of Bengal are
Hooking into Calcutta for relief
The Medical Department has furnished TO
soldiers, up 10 May IL, 1856, the following
artificial limbs: arms, 2l34; legs 3,7S4 |
hands Ia feet, ., nc n cost of 1857, ,72S.
The negro worshippers of the Third Dis
trict delight to call Schenck ''the bluff old
veteran" The Columbus Statesman sup |
posed the circumstance which gave rise 10
this eognoman was the bluff he got at vi
enna. 1ll oN
A Lcavenworth dispatch says that in
luiilallbll Has bttu FtttlNtu .LilhL TIE in-
dams, 10 the number of eight hundred are
at the forks of Solomon on the war path
They have driven all the settlers of, and
have scalped several whites.
The shipping disasters IN July embrace
twenty nine American sea-gOing vessels,
ana ten Foreigners engaged in our trade,
worth with their cargoes, Sl55,0OO In gold,
AT Mobile, Alobama, an insane woman