The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-03-28

No less than 7,OO0OOO gallons OF water
were used. by the steam fre-engines, to
suppress the opera-House fire at Clncin-
natl.
Lebanon, Ia was visited by big hail
storm on the evening of the 10th, accom-
panied by heavy winds from the west, up
roofing many of the forest-trees and dis
placing the fences in that vicinity gener-
ally. In that place. one-half of all the
windows fronting west were broken out
by the hailstOnes. The same evening, a
tornado swept over the southern part Of
Montgomery County, near Ladoga, Ind,
destroying timber. houses, &c Four per-
sons were killed, and twenty or more
crushed and bruised.
FACECIoUs.-W entworth, of Illinois in
quired In the hall of the House of Repre-
sentatives on saturday, whether prepara-
tions We're being made to put the Hall in
mourning Ia consequence of the fall of gold
to 1875. "
"Longview Asylum" near Cincinnati,
with the furnishing and grounds, cost s572,-
0OO 1t is one of the finest institutions of
the kind in the Union.
The 81 per head, of men liable to mill
tary duty, amounted In Hamilton county,
last year, to $4,000.
A dry. warm soil seems most favorable
to the production of honey. White clover,
even when 1t grows on low, marshy land,
has little or no honey in 1t.
A man undergoing Imprisonment for life
In Wisconsin, for murder has been discov-
cred to be innocent, another man confess
sing the crime.
Three safes have so far, been recovered
from the ruins of the late great fire in Gin
cinnati; one of the Adams Express Com
pany, containing valuable records and pa
pers, and $4,000 in money; that of r. w.
Carrolls. with valuable papers, insurance
policies and considerable money. and the
Enquirer Office safe-condition of contents
not spoken of.
GENERoUs.-On Saturday,ast, at Cinein-
natl. Alfred Gather, Superintendent of
Adams Express, purchased S400 worth Of
tickets to the National Theater, where the
company recently employed at the Opera
House are to give benefit performances.
This is certainly a generous example.
Cincinnati, through her municipal man
ayers, aided by her delegation In the Leg
islature, proposes to expend, in new i'm
provements, increased salaries of officials,
&c, the neat little sum of sir millions ttoo
hundred and ten thous0nd dollarsi They
must be flush down there.
They are going learn one hundred con-
victs in the Louisiana Penitentiary how to
make shoes. It'll calculated that in this
way the trade, in this one article, with
Massachusetts, win save to the State $4,000
pairs per year. Stick peg there.
A letter from the Dry Tortugas says the
alleged conspirators, Spangler, Mudd, and
OLaughlin, were taking their imprison-
ment very philosophically, and had con-
Quoted themselves so as TO get released
from the heavy load they have been wear
ing. ,,,..I .u -. H.|
1t is more than probable that Congress
siOnal committee will be appointed to in
vestigate 5. NJ. Clark's management of the
Treasury Note Printing Bureau Some
rich developments are expected.
A correspondent of the New York Times
says that the Canadian authorities have
made arrangements to destroy the Niagara
Suspension Bridge in the event of Feni-
an raid. t.r. I.... uI aH#.
Mazzini has written letter In which he
warns the American people to give no Gre
dence to Louis Napoleon's promises of with
drawing the French troops from Mexico.
He says that the seventeen years spent by
Napoleon's soldiers In Rome must serve as
warning to us.
The Chicago RepablicaH gives the partic-
ulars of the arrest of two men in Terre
Haute, upon the charge of arson. They had
recently engaged in the fur business In that
city, and had secured an insurance upon
their stock to the amount of $1,000.
1t Is asserted that II Congress should IA
vOr the Endorsement of the Mexican bonds,
the agents of Maximilian will demand a
similar guaranty for the same amount of
the Imperial loan.
Robert Barker, a sport" of Cincinnati,
was robbed, few days since, by two of his
negro walters of $1,000. .. .....
Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second
son, now young fellow of twenty-one,
has just been promoted to Captain in the
British navy, and Parliament has granted
him an allowance Of $4,000 year.
II is stated that 10000 acres of land in
Southeast Missouri are being taken up every
month, under the Homestead act, and that
the extraordinary amount of 10000 will be
reached by next May. ...,.
A disturbance took place in Macon Ga.
last night, between the citizens and the coll
ored troops. Several persons were
wounded, but none killed. Martial law
was, enforced, and the streets were pa
trolled. rlHHr llu u.
Hon. Cave johnson, Postmaster General
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