The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-06
GLEANINGs FROM THEMAILs.


looked very much as If the chap had just
LEFT the Donnybrook fair
Ex-President Pierce has Just presented
10 the New Hampshire Historical Society
the "Records Of the Court of Sessions In
the Province of New Hampshire, from 1892
to 1901. I.
A writer recommends people TO raise the
English horse bean as q substitute for cof-
see. He says IL Is rs good as the West India
coffee, IL u prepared In the same manner
as the genuine article. ....I .s..tuaH
At recent great stecple chase, near
Liverpool, thirty horses started, all the aa-
vorites were beaten, and the winner was u
gaunt outsider, whose owner quietly pock-
eted sl3b,OOO by the race. q gl,l eEtll !.
A whale fifty-slx feet In length made its
appearance in the Cape Fear river last
week, aud was captured by the Smithvlile
people.
The selma (Alnbalna) Messenger states
that General W. i. lIardee has, at the re-
quest of Generals Grant and sherman, re-
ceived from President johnson an assur-
Rncc that he may continue In the pursuits
Of civil life without fear of molestation by
the United States authorities.
The Empire Gouislana) Parish states
that the property In the Parish of Plaque
mines, belonging to the estate of the late
Lucien Bonaparte, sold Inst week for $30,-
800. II had front on the river of two and
two-thirds arpcnts by forty In depth. and
there Mt least l,50O orangc-trces upon IL. !
The Council Bluns (Iowa) Bugie states
that several hundred teams will bc Ia
Council Bnils the eomlng summer "a carry
the Mormon emigration to Salt Lake CITY.
When IN Jacksonville. Illinois, Anna
| Dickinson refused TO stop Mt n hotel be-
cause the landlord few days previous had
declined to entertain Fred Douglass. Poor
| girl IL is tho had that the lion aud the
| hmb can not lie down together and have u
little child 10 lead them = Brick Pom.
The Democrats carried the charter
election at 81. Paul, Minnesota, day before
yesterday. lIitHC aFttl alu w ht
Julian is rcnominated to Congress In the
Fifth Indiana District, by n majority of
900 10 1000.
One hundred and seventy five negroes
voted at the election IN Madison, Wisconsin.
. few days ago, under the recent decision of
| the State Supreme Court.
| The Conservative majority at the st.
Louis election, day before yesterday, was
1900. Tho City Council stands twenty
three Conservatives and seven Radicals.
A Chicago broker, named H. II, Badger,
has been discovered 10 be dcfiultcr 10 the
extent of thirty or forty thousand dollars.
The Second National Bank of that city
| loses S25,000.
| VALUABLE MEMoRY.--Mrs. ID. &. Phil
| lips formerly of Boston, died In New
| York last week, and left will in which
she bequeathed one fourth of her estate,
said to be worth $4,000, TO Charles Crow
ley, Esq. u well known lawyer In Boston,.
who obtained divorce for her some years
since, 80 .
The "Pionecrs" of Cincinnati started for
Marietta to-day, to participate In the cee-
bration Of the first settlement of Ohio. No
doubt there will be u good time on the oc-
| CasiOn. ... .t...
| by the raising of the supken ships In the
harbor of Sebastopol, Russia, thirty-siX
tuns Of iron, twelve hundred cannon, four
thousand balls, twelve thousand cast iron
ballast pigs one hundred chain cables, and
| a large quantity of miscellaneous stores
| were recovered.
| An Intelligent farmer, residing near IIar-
risonburg, informs the Rockingham (YaJ
Register that more land VIII bo plowed md
put into cultivation In that section this
spring than has ever before been titled.
The Missouri Republican states that
careful canvass shows that the press of that
State stands forty eight against the Presi-
dent to twenty-seyen for him.
News from Mexico states that the I'M
Iperialist General Mendez was recently de-
teated at Urnapas, and that two hundred of
his men were shot by the Liberals In retail
alton for Maximilian's decree for the exc
cution of all Liberal captives.
1t is said TO be the intention of the COM
pany of gentlemen who recently purchased
the Wesleyan Female College property, on
Vine street, 10 erect fine hall on the
ground floor, and not an Opera-house, rs
was at first contemplated. While nm opera
house, built on aslmagnifccnt scale rs was
!. proposed, would be great ornament TO
lCincinnatl, u fine hall would better supply
the wants of the community.
Frequent inquiries having recently been
made as to whether pension money can be
attached for debt Commissioner Barrett
has decided that as the money allowed pen
sloners Ia In the nature OF gratlIity, Il Is
therefore not liable 10 attachment.
~ IL Is announced that Fam, DOUGLASS
and JANE SwIssHELM intend stirring up the
piOus souls of New England with a series
of lectures ON "the assassination and Its
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