The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-20
GLEANINGs FROM THE MAILS.

GLEANINGS FROM THE MAILS.
Louis Napoleon's private theatricals cost
him eleven thousand francs for each per-
formance.
The chair In which General Robert II
Lee sat when he signed the articles of ca
pltulati0n 70 General Grant, nj Appomat-
toX, was secured at the time by General
Whitaker, and is now In Hartford, Conn.
II Is a large easy chair of oak, with cane
seat.
A little girl at Kenosha Wis. whom
some of her mates put into bag aud rolled
aboutjust for fun, was killed by thclopera-
ton. 81
In 1865 there were 6S2 murders com
mitted in the United States and only 0S
executions; 35 were committed on Christ
mas day.
BY the loss of the house of Gen. Coffee,
by fire, near Florence, Ala, $4,000 worth
OF property was destroyed. Among the in
tercsting historical relics destroyed in the
conflagratlon was magnificent sword, pre-
sented to Gen. jackson by the citizens of
New Orleans, and bequeathcd by him 10
Col Andrew J. Coffee.
An application of a colored girl for ad
mission to the High School in Troy, New
York, which was refused by the Principal,
was taken to the Supreme Court where it
was recently decided against the applicant.
Two farmers disagreed about balance
of accounts, one claiming 81 II, the other
$l5 30. The former sued Result-forty
witnesses and an array of counsel verdict
for plaintiff SO q; whole expenses about
$1,000
Albert Spraguc, of Newport N. H., was
frozen to death, last Thursday night, within
few rods of his dwelling while on his re-
turn from the village.
A heavy storm. a regular tornado. oc-
CURED on the Mobile Il Ohio Railroad, in
| the neighborhOod of HUMBOLDT, on the 2Gth
ult. Houses were blown down, trees were
torn up by the roots, and other indications
of its violence every where abounded. One
| large tree fell across a train, badly smash
| ing the express car, and burying the mes
senger, Mr.. Giddy Gee, among the ruins
alive.
At the time of Senator Douglas decease.
his estate was so encumbered that 1t was
believed that there would be nothing left
| for his family. During the war, however,
the price of real estate in Chicago, which
belonged to him, appreciated so in value,
that its sale has paid all of the debts, and
left his family handsome competence,
| All hnlnense llOll DlOck III OHlcaHO'
owned by George Il. Robbins, of New
York, five stories in hight, and. with its
contents about $4,000 tuns, has just been
raised twenty-seven inches, without in the
least interrupting the business of the oc-
lcupants.
| The Boston Post says that if SchenclS
beats Sherman in Ohio, it will be the first
battle he has won since the rebellion broke
out. $50.
Then he is still General without vic
toryl fI.f rH. moi.
The fire at the Woodruff House, Cincin-
natl, on Wednesday night last, was rather
mysterious affair. As it had been oc-
lcupicd for a long time by Government ofiic-
/, ials, and as some arrests has Just been made
of the aforesaid officials, the reasonable
i presumption is that some evidences of vii
lainy were reduced to ashes.
Twenty-seveny years ago the total amount
of grain exported from Chicago was rs
bushels, quantity which might have been
drawn by a pair of horses ut single load
In 1865 the shipments reached 40000,00C
bushels, and would have loaded l,000,00C
wagons
1 The selling of colored people in Della
ware for term of years as Il punishment
for crime, the Wilmington Republican
says lis now perfect farce" Four per-
sons were sold few days since aud brought
from twelve to fifteen cents each, and theiI
purchasers Immediately let them go.