The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-08
Gleanings from the Mails.


A fire occurred at the Cumberland Hos
pital, Nashville, on Friday morning, witch
partially consumed that building, and
burned 10 death a man named Thomas Par
ker, who was inebriated at the time, and
whose carelessness caused the contlagra-
tion.
Reports are received from Utah that the
Mormons contemplate the abandonment of
that territory, and wholesale emigration
to the Sandwich Islands. IL Is said that
Brigham Young has purchased or secured
the refusal of two of the Sandwich Islands
for future colonization by the Mormons.
Somebody has discovered the lower limbs
of female on the sidewalk In Chicago, and
the people are intensely Mortified. The in
'cideut Is very common one in this Sec
ton. We have often deprecated the prac-
tlce, but the public has become callous on
the subject.
The assumption that the negroes are dis
liked only by the late rebels Is refuted by
Governor Brownlow. who saws that ifthere
is anything loyal Tcnnessecan hates more
than a rebel, it is a nigger-BOst0n paper.
The ''late rebels" do not hate the negro
when the negro behaves himself but they
do not like Brownlow.-Mobile Times.
The Chicago Post gives the details of a
cOurtship and marriage between an Eng
lish scion of nobility and a farmers girl on
the prairies. The Lord was wounded
while hunting near her fathers house, was
taken there 10 be cared for stayed several
months, and then honorably married the
girl who had been his nurse.
A party, composed of members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Bluifton,
Ia, went on slcighing excursion to New
vile, last Thursday night and behaved in
a most disgraceful manner. They invaded
every part of the Washington Hotel, and
wound up with carrying Off preserve jar,
and several other articles unbidden. The
proprietor of the Hotel, MIR. John, became
so disguSted that the next morning he took
down his sign and abandoned hotel keep
ing. ~. i....u #.l -.guluG ... Z
The Norfolk Vtgiilidn is informed that
Ex-Governor Morehcad, of North Carolina,
has been arrested by the Federal authori-
ties for interfering with the sale of some
property previously advertised to be sold.
Maysvillc, KY. was no little stirred up,
on Tuesday last, by the failure ofa promi-
nent business firm for 100000.
The Adams Express Company's building,
in Little Rock, Arkansas, was destroyed by
| fire a few days since together with all their
books and papers. The loss is estimated at
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars (sl25,OC0s on which there was no in
HARD WEATHER or RAnRoADs.-Thc ex-
treme cold weather of the past few days
| has been quite detrimental to railroad run
ming stock. On the Cleveland and Column
bus Railroad, alone, five locomotives were
broken down in one day, owing to the in
tense cold. Trains have been put upon
running time, more with regard to safety
| than schedule time. 80
Thomas Averitt, the keeper of noted
negro miscegination house in Cincinnati
was arrested in that city on Tuesday last
and held to bail, in $500. charged by Ca
madam young woman, named Mary Melon
| ada likely looking girl of eighteen year:
with representing himself to her as ricl
jew, and being, in consequence the father
of a miscegenated youngster, which he re-
fused to provide for. The "Freedmen's
Bureau" if it gets an inkling of this, vii
probably get after the Magistrate who thus
interfcres in the privileges of the ''African
of American per centPi t# .T..l.l. ~.