The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-06
GLEANINGs FROM THE MAILS.

through the ice ana uTOWneus
A freight train ran of the bridge over
Blue river. on the Bellefontaine road, Mon
day night and was completely wrecked.
Docs AND MurroN.-JefTerson county, !
Ohio was the happy owner of l,560 dogs !
In 1865, which killed outright, In that year, |
3l8 sheep aud injured l62 more, the two
lots being worth S2,077. Valueof the dogs
not estimated. - afi. -'
PAY OF THE FRNfANs.-Thc pay of nine |
officers of the Fenian organization, at New
York Headquarters foots up. monthly,
Sll.300. .. .IU
The mercury at St. Paul, Minnesota, night
before last was twenty degrees below
zero.
General Forrest, who latclyileft Memphis
In mysterious manner, has turned up at
Vera Cruz. I.t i.u t..t.
A number of blockade runners in the
South, finding their late occupation gone,
are engaged In smuggling goods into Flor
ida.
The Washington Republican, a Radical
paper, denounces the recent speech of
Thaddeus Stevens for its attack on Presi-
dent johnson.
Mr.. Richardson, of Royalton, Ohio, was
smothered to death, last Friday, while at
| tempting to save some cattle from his barn,
which was in flames.
General Robert +. Lee, who is now on a
visit to Georgetown, D. c., is the guest of q
former ward, the wife of the Spanish Sec
retary of legation
A DISHONEST CLERK,-At Cincinnati. on
Saturday night an officer arrested q man
named VIM. Boggs, formerly clerk in the
| dry goods establishment Of John Shillito
Il Co, on the charge of stealing $400 worth
of gloves, laces, &c. Two trunks filed
with the stolen property were found In his
possession.
The Cincinnati papers, of Monday, an
nounce the death of Garrett Van Ausdal,
In A FIx-R. t. Colburn, of the New
| York Tribune, and j. Knapp, of the st.
Louis Republican, were arrested in New
York on Friday, on the complaint of A. T.
Stewart, the ground of which was a letter
recently published in the Republican and
said to have been written by Mr.. Colburn.
They were both imprisoned in the Toombs
over night, and in the morning admitted to
bail. .....---...
A dispatch from Lawrence, Kansas, por-
tends trouble between the holders of land
warrants from the Pacific Railroad and the
lsquatters. The latter have sent the former
a threatening order to vacate by certain
day. t. ..
| THE ONO CLAIM.--Ohio expended sixty
five millions in equipping regiments during
the war This sum, 1t is proposed, with
other like State obligations, shall be audi
ted and assumed by Congress as part of
the national debt.
A gentleman who left General Forests
| plantation, In Sunfiower county, Miss, on
the Both ult., states that instead of General
Forrest being in full flight for Mexico, as
has been reported, he was quietly Mt work
preparing to plant for a large cotton crop.
After session of two months, the Cir
cult Court for Montgomery county, Ala,
adjourned. About eighteen persons, all
freedmen, were sent to the penitentiary,
principally for grand larceny, and one,
Nelson Berthae, was convicted Of murder
in the first degree, and will be hung on the
9th of March. 1t was the most protracted
session ever held there.
The Memphis Bulletin says 1t has been
ascertained that regular organized band
of thieves has been discovered between
lTupelo, Mississippi and Fort Pillow, on
the plan of Murrei's gang. They have re-
lay posts every twelve miles, where horses
stolen at either terminus of the line are
ridden rapidly to the first point beyond and
lpassed on. .r.
The Port Gibson Standard of the Goth
says it is reported that Col. 0sbroan (or
Osborn) who commanded raid made on
that place when so many of the citizens
were carried Off and imprisoned, was found
dead in his bed on his plantation in Bolivar
county, his throat having been cut.
Among the passengers on the Inflated
steamer NJ. II. Carter, the following per-
/, sons are known to be lost: Mrs. DIR. Rich
{, Il n n pf N nrlo -.
Mrs. Gibbons, Mrs. Wolf and Mrs. Rice, of
Cincinnati; Mrs. Osterman, of Texas Mrs.
Moose and Mrs. Morris, of Columbus; Mrs.
Rowland and many others were scaded
and otherwise injured.