The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-01
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.


There are IN the State of Vermont tsoon-
tg-four thousand, four hundred and eIeV6H
children between the ages of four and eigh-
teen, who have attended no school during
the past year. All the schOol-martns have
gone down 10 "Illlton-lIeadw
John j. McCann, OF Nashville, recently
gave 100 barrels OF flour aud 500 pounds of
bacon TO the suffering poor Of North Ala
bamn, and said he would rather give mp the
last farthing he had than see one person
starve.
A newspaper correspondent who has
travelled over several hundred miles In
PENNSYLVANIA, Delaware aud Maryland, re-
ports that, excepting, perhaps, one field In
twenty five, wheat Is In fine condition.
During the past winter, young man In
New Paltz, New York, killed two hundred
and eight muskrnts, fourteen minks, five
foxes eight 'coons aud five skunks.
A Bro HAUL.--Mr. John Carson hauled
In over $4,000 herring one day last week.
This Is considered n large days work for
fisheries In this locality. AT one haul he
took over 30OO.- Crumpton (Md) GdFetie.
A contemporary suggests that lady, on
putting on her corsets. Is like man who
drinks 10 drown his grief because In so-ld-
cling herself she is getting ttght
The large Tea sale at New York, on
Wednesday, went OF at very unsatisfactory
prices to the owners, prices generally show
Ing an average decline of fully ten cents a
pound for both green and black descriptions
General Cabell, who was captured with
General Marmaduke during the Conteder-
ate invasion of Missouri, Is keeping boot
and shoe store ut Fort Smith, Arkansas.
There Is surplus of nearly 1,0O0,0O0 BUSH
els of corn In Mills, Cass, Harrison, Monona,
and Pottawatamie Counties, Iowa.
Ada Isaacs Menken has purchased an ele-
giant mansion In the neighborhood of Cen
trail Park, and styles It "Bleak House"
"Mother, | shouldn't be surprised II our
Susan gets choked some day" why,
MinaP" "Bccause her beau twisted his
arms around her neck the other night, and
III she had not kissed him to let her 20 he
would have strangled her"
Cartersburg. Ia., has afforded the New
York market, this season, with over $l2OOO
worth of pigeons.
A poor widow was asked how she became
so much attached to certain neighbor,
and she replied that she was bound to him
by several cords of wood which he had sent
TO her during the hard winter.
Mrs. O'Bricn, n soldiers widow, Mt Mont
lpelier died In her house last week from
lcold and exhaustion. She was twenty-five
, years old, and left child which was nearly
dead when found. Have they no bureaus
W Vermont?
REYNOLDS, the dramatlst, observing the
thinncss of the house at one of his pieces,
said II suppose 1t Is owing to the war,
"No,' was the reply; "it Is owing to the
, piece
The king of Portugal made Mr.. Slidelrs
daughter the baroness Erlanger, by con-
= ferring patent of nobility on her hus'
band.
q The Nashville Gazette of the 10Th says
4 Yesterday afternoon two members OF The
q Sixteenth United States Cavalry attackeC
f and knocked down II one legged ex-confed'
g crate soldier, whom they robbed OF on'
n hundred dollars.
Q The coming session of the old schoo
x Presbyterian Church Mt st. Louis Is re
o garded with much interest, rs IL Is probable
that the question of Reunion of the OLD ant
new school will be under discussion.
A Mississippi River correspondent of tn
" Memphis Bulletin thinks that not NOR
!; than one-fiith of the cotton and corn vii
!. be produced on the river plantations, n
v compared with 1850, the year before th
II war.
!, III don't miss my church so much as yo
!" suppose" said lady TO her minister VIII
, had called upon her during her Illness, sc
make Betsy sit up by the window as 500
30 as the bells begin 10 chime, and tell me VIII
10 are going to church and whether they hav
81, lanythinR uew.N