The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-09
NEWS BREvITIEs.

OF the contemplated ONO lNVcr improve
ments. He Is expected at Pittsburg In a
few days to commence operations.
MIR. Isaac Solomon, Of Baltimore, has
purchased one of the finest islands In the
Chesapeake Bay aud is erecting n mgpii4
cent mansion which, with the Buildings fot
isOystcr business and other improvements,
will cost over FIVE hundred thousand dol
lars. This fortune was made in the oyster
business.
Two young men, belonging TO party
visiting the Mammoth Cave, were lost on
the LIST instant. 1t Is feared they fell down
a steep bank near which they were last
seen.
Some excitement is created in Vincenncs,
lnd- circles by the elopement of a young
miss, who is yet IN her teens, with "circus
hummer who has been lettering about
town for some time Ga -
John Seaver, OF Portsmouth, New Harnp-
shire, lately walk one hundred miles In one
hundred consecutive hours. During the
last five hours of the performance he faint
ed twice
Colonel George Wynkoop, of the eighty
ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, who has
been on n journey over the plains for his
health, died In Kansas last week. t.t
We understand that the estimable wife
of General John G. Brcckinridge, ut pres
ent temporarily residing in Canada, pre-
scnted HIM, few days since, with twins.
It is the intention of the Navy Depart
meut TO lit out several of our sea-gong
inronclads for distant cruises, in order to
show to foreign naval powers that the
Monadnock and Miantonomah are not the
only irOnclads In our service that can stand
a loEg ocean cruise.
Prof. Il. II. Stafford, director of the great
equatorial telescope on the Chicago Obser
vatory, has been elected associate of the
Royal Astronomical Society of London,
distinction which is held at the present
time by only three other American astron-
omers, Professors Gould, Pcarcc and Bache
A returned miner from Montana was
drugged and robbed of about eight thOus-
and dollars in gold dust at a low doggcry
on the leyoe,. at Louis, one day last week.
During the past two weeks 7Gs emigrants
passed through Columbus. OF these $50
will remain in Ohio, The balance divided
among other Western States.
IL is said that the Republican managers
of Indiana are In despair over their party
prospects in that State.
One hundred and twelve thousand dol
lars were realized at Savannah, Ga, few
| days ago on a lot of shot and shell. broken
cannon, field and siege pieces, collected
from Georgia battle fields.
A drove of hogs for Louisville started
from Stanford. Kentucky, last week, and
about one hundred Of them died on the way
of hog cholera. The rest were hurried to
Louisville, killed and consumed.
| A lIuGE SToNE.-It Is announced from
| what is known rs the State granite quarry,
of California. that blast recently threw
out solid piece of granite, without seam
or flaw, 80 feet long, 60 deep and p thick.
This granite is for the new State capitol,
now In process of construction.
The grandest firemen's celebration and
tournament ever held in Northern Ohio
came of at Fremont on Thursday. IL is
estimated that at least 10000 persons were
present Every thing passed of satisIac-
torily.
A late Paris letter says: "Thc cholera is
now decidedly in Paris, and am sorry to
have TO mention n truly melancholy case of
its ravages. Miss Harbeck. u beautiful and
accomplished young lady from New York,
died of cholera at four o'clock yesterday
morning, at the Hotel Wagram."
Mr.. l.. Kroncnberg, of New Jersey, and
MIR. George llerzog, of Cincinnati, claim to
have discovered the secret of the compost
ton by which the cartridge of the Prussian
needle gun is ignted. Mr.. Herzog will
have a gun on exhibition In Cincinnati in Il
few days.
Under the late law, the Secretary of the
| Treasury has been authorized to suspend
the collection in any of the United States
heretofore declared in insurrection, of the
direct tax imposed by the law of 1861.
The Commissioner of Agriculture, in the
report for the present quarter congratu-
lates the the country upon year of average
lfruitfulncss. He states that the bread crop
will average about eight and one-half ftenths
in quantity, and Is of n quality that will
make IL equal In value to the crop of last
year. Oats and potatoes promise an abund-
ant yield, while at least ten per cent. more
corn has been planted than usual.
Three French war frigates have been or
dered, at Cherbourg, TO land their guns and
sail for Mexico to commence the retirement
of the French army.
Advices from Texas say that in every part
of the state the cotton crop is promising.
The breadth sown is very large, and the
plant thrifty. a large yield is anticipated.
The Rev. George ID. Cummlns. ID. d.. has
signitied TO the Standing Committee his ae-
ceptanee of the high aud responsible oillee
OF Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Ken
lucky, TO which he was elected by the
Episcopal Convention last May.
The War Department has ordered the
honorable discharge from the service of
Brigadier General j. A. Wilcox, Chief Mus
tering and Disbursing Officer for the State
Of Ohio.
The corn crop in Indiana is immense, and
special attention Is being given to the pur-
chase Of hogs for fattening.
A gentleman who has Travelled exten-
siyely In the East states that Ia Egypt
where sun-stroke is Of frequent occurrence,
the Arabs dissolve salt In water and pour IL
into the sufferers ears, thus speedily re-
lieving him.
"BREAD AND BUTTER BRIGADR."-The
Radicals will have 10 admit Congress into
this brigade since II has raised the pay of
members to $1,000.
The children of Israel we're once Sc
verely punished for adoring false calC.
Let the public take warming
The Emperor Napoleon has inst sub
scribed ten thousand frames toward the
erection of a monument 10 Joan Of Arc,
and the restoration of the douion tower at
Rouen, where she was tortured.
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