The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-07-03
EDIToRIAL BREYITIEs.

Most neart-rendlng accounts continue to
be received of the famine in Orissa, India.
One man is reported to have destroyed his
own family and those of his two brothers
to save them from dying OF hunger land it
is even said that cases of cannibalism have
occurred. HF = ah9' Hfss
The River and Harbor Improvement Bill
passed by Congress appropriates $390,0O0
for that purpose. OF that amount the riv-
ers get but little, the harbors monopolizing
the lions share.
On Monday, last, the House of Represen-
tatives concurred in'the Senate amendment
to the Freedmen's Bureau Bill appropria-
ting $6922,450 forits support with an ad-
ditional appropriation of $4,000 for tele-
graphing. 5t..)l .......,
A Parisan has conceived the notion of
opening an exhibition, at ten centimes
head to show million of money spread
out in gold pieces. He thinks he win have %
rush of visitors, as the curiosity to know
what million is'like Is universal a tr
AT a ''drawing-room," held on the 9th of
June by the Prince of Wales on behalf of
theQueen, Mrs. ADAMS presented tliefollow-
ing ladies': Mrs. SPRAGUE wife of Senator
SPRAGuE, RI; Miss CHASE, daughter of
Chief-justice CHASE; Mrs. W. w. STORY
and Miss STORY, of Boston Miss VAN Bu-
RES and Miss ELLEN j. VAN BUREN of New
York. iiah- F'U
A combustib lie stone. which is said to
burn like tinder, has recently been dis
covered at Shullsburg, Lafayette county,
Wisconsin. Ii is a greyish clay color,
about as hard as sandstone and seems to be
impregnated with very large quantity Of
oil. 1t is found in immense beds, and the
owners are at loss to know whether it
would be more profitable to extract the oil
or to sell it for fuel as it comes from the
quarry.
There are nineteen brides at Union Hall,
Saratoga, and correspondent, who speaks
of their movements, says: The fact Is
that these nineteen couples are too funnyfor
anything, and they know it, .i--,n -3r-.-
yEsuvIus GETTING LIvELY.-People who
live in the neighborhood of Mount Nesu-
vius say that the volcano is again exhibit
ing signs of internal eommotion. The
small cone recently threw quantities of
stone in the air, and on the large cone two
new craters have been formed. .
Louis, offer list of premiums for the fall
races amounting to $4,000
1t is reported that an Austrian officer is
endeayoring to raise recruits for the Kaiser
in tta Gnnfb A NnhiIa o.,
erals HOWE and +. T. CAVE, and Col. Il.
SPENCER, late of the rebel army, have ac-
cepted commissions. ,U ..,...
A dispatch from Desmoinrs Iowa, says
that three horse thieves were taken from
the Jail at Newton, in that State, a ewdays
since, and, AS is reported, hung by vigi-
lance committee. 4H .I-t..iy IA
Nebraska City papers say that seven hun
dred wagons belonging TO the Mormons
have arrived at Wyoming, on the Missouri
river, for the purpose of carrying Mormon
emigrants to Salt Lake. The emigrants
from Europe. this season, TO Salt Lake will
exceed that of any two previous years
The number is estimated at from five to ten
thousand.
New Orleans papers record the sale ofthe
magnificent residence of Mr.. SHEPARD
BRowN, of that city. II was the most ex-
pensive dwelling in the city of New Or
leans, having cost $4,000 in gold, before
the war, and sold for $4,000 currency.
MCCONNELL, accused of the murder of.
Mrs, CoLAIN, in Olmstead, Ohio, last spring,
and whose trial has been in progress this
week at Cleveland, was found guilty of
murder, Saturday, in the first degree.
Certain Alabama papers estimate that
there will be at least one thousand convicts
sent to the penitentiary in that State before
Christmas. Nearly half that number of
negroes are now in jails, indicted, in the
main, for larceny. The Yankee agents OF
the Bureaus there are hiding and getting
away as fast as they can save their cotton
The Radical Legislature of Connecticut >
Is the first to ratify the Rump amendment
TO the Convention of the United States.
Not many weeks ago the people of the
same State, by decided majority, decided D
against amending their own Constitution
so as 10 give the elective franchise TO
negroes st'u "F
The Cincinnati Gdsene awaits the "fear-
ful alternative" of the President cutting Off
the official head of Parson GADDis, with
the most disinterested impartialityr' How
ungratefnl, after his all-over Radical speech i
at the late State Convention of the Dis
unionists iH''an f'' t iH s,@ i.H q"
q Some two weeks ago a difficulty occurred
In Charlton county, between two families
named WHICH and GARRETT, in relation to
some land, and WIiIIAM and JosEPH wELcn
were killed. The relatives Of the WEIcAEs
on Saturday last took the law into their I,
own hands and killed two Of the G GARRErrs :.
! A portion of the Chicago slate was smash-io
ed, on saturday, by the President who has ,
asceftained that the applicants for Federal
otiices there are playing a double game;
that they talk JOHNSON to, him. aud preach
radieaiism at heme' or adi hrris iluou a.
An oldlfooIi named EMERy. near Canton,