The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-30
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.


Sylvanus Morse, of East Montpelier, VT,
has 25OO maple trees in flow, and two
story sugar-house, with everything conve-
nient clean and In beautiful order. The
product, when In full operation. averages
from 500 to 600 lbs. per day of first quality
sugar.
/ Mrs. Elliott, whose husband was killed In
the service, has been appointed postmistress
at Fairfield, Iowa.
Complaints are made in different parts OF
Iowa of the failure of the wheat 10 sprout.
In the neighbOrhood of Des Moines the crop
Is reported to be larger than usual, and do
ing finely.
The emigration to Minnesota this season
Is said to be greater than that of any previ-
Gus year
A vine-grower made S7,9s7 last year from
five acres of island soil in Lake Erie. He
raised 34,500 pounds of grapes, and made
5000 gallons of wine.
Sixteen thousand barrels of flour are ly-
| ing in the warehouse of one mill at Min
neapolis. Mimi awaiting the opening OF
navigation TO be shipped east.
Clement c. Clay was greatly overjoyed
when his parole was received, so much so
as to be unable to speak. His request to
be allowed an interview with JEFF. Davis
before he left Fortress Monroe was denied.
John Howard, convicted ofrobbery at the
| last term of the Scioto Common Pleas and
sentenced to the Peniteatiary for ten years.
died In the Jail of that county on the 10Th
! inst.
The Mercer female expedition put in at
Rio ON the 10th of February. All the ladies
were well.
|
RADICAL CRowD.-A republican in
Maine, who had served out his time of thirty
| days In the Augusta jail, was asked when
he came ont how he liked it. Il had bully
time said he. There were seventy-six
inmates of the jail, and not id democrat
amongst the lot.
! The Lawrence Tribune estimates that 2OO
families per week are cmigrating to Kan
sas, bringing with them AN average of ST.
OOO to each family.
| A private letter received states that on
the 10th inst. the ice in the Straits of Mack
inaw was firm and solid, while the sleighing
was good on land and water. The pros
pect was not favorable fer an early break
up.
bill has passed to first reading in the
Tennessee State Senate rendering the Her
mitage," formerly Gen. Jackson's residence,
and POO hundred acres of land to the Gov
ernment, providing branch of the West
Point Military Academy or some other
public institution be established there.
OF twenty-five lots of kerosene oil lately
tested at Providence, X. l., only five were
safe for Illuminating purposes. The rest
were as explosive as gunpowder.
| The prospect for large crop of fruit in
the Southern States is very good-better
than for years past, the peaches only be-
ing hurt by frost, but not materially in
jured.
Bishop Soule, the patriarch of Wesleyan
Methodism in America, is said to be rapidly
declining. He is eighty-flve years of age,
and has been more than half a century in
the ministry.
! A car load of freedmen-men, women
and children-arriyed at Providence II. l.,
on Sunday. from the South, an agent of
the Freedmen's Bureau having secured
places for them as servants there.
The National Horse Show will be held at
Adrian. Michigan, this year, commencing
on the 18th, and lasting till the 23d of June.
A negress in Pontotoc Co., Miss, lately
killed her five small children and their de-
crepid grandmother, to get rid ofhaving to
work for their support.
A gentleman in Circleville, who had a
number of hams stolen, notified the thief
that they were full of trichine and would
cause death.
| William Foster, young man, was COM
mitted on Friday, at Philadelphia, Pa. in
default of $4,000 bail, on the charge of hay
ing stolen a quantity of checks and bonds,
which were found upon his person, to the
amount of $4,000 to $4,000, partly on Gin
cinnati banks.
An Irish gentleman, who had been spend
| ing the evening with few friends, looked
at his watch just after midnight, and said
1T is Tomorrow morning; | must bid you
good night gentlemen ~