The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-24
NEWS RREVTTIEs.

we're al seriously @ohnded by the flying
pieces, 7
The Atlantic Cable, from the point where
lt leaves Valentia Island to the spot where
lt was landed ut Hearts Content Is precise
~ one thousand eight hundred and sixty
SIX miles In length. It's queer coinciL
dence that IL should have been perfected
this year.
At Lipman's circus, In st. Louis. last
"wednesday, the keeper of the sacred Bra
nah bull, being sick, young man named
Buck attempted to show him in the arena.
The Bull didn't like it. and gored him near
~ 10 death.-StdGesmdR
Wasn't that playing circus2 Il was FIX
ing of a Buck with two horns.
The conscience fund was further in
creased ON Thursday by donation of a mu-
tilated three-cent note, inclosed in a letter,
in which the writer stated that he was
overpatd that amount in receiving his
bounty in 1862. Bully for SchenckI He
would scOTm such littleness.
Some of the fractional currency now
ready to be issued by the Treasury Depart-
ment is printed, it is said, on Confederate
hank-note paper, bearing the letters c. S.
A., in .water-mark, which was manufactur-
ed in London for the rebel Treasury, and
captured on board of a blockade-runner.
The citizens of Lenox, Mass, are greatly
incensed against Il teacher in one of the
primary schools there, named Frances VIII
liams' who beat little child in cruel
manner for mispronOuncing a word. The
child is not quite four years old, and he
was pounded on the 18th day of July, with
ruler, so that twelve days afterward his
back shoulders and arms above the elbows
plainly showed the marks of the shamefl
punishment. How unfortunate it was that
the child was white
The La Crosse (Wis.) Republican learns
that there has been great freshet in Root
river, Minnesota. and that the town of
Houston was completely inundated on
Thursday. Several persons are reported to
have been drowned in Houston county.
During tornado at Saginaw, Mich,
Tuesday, brick building in process of
completion was blown down, and a num-
Der of men were buried in the ruins. Five
have been since extricated--two dead! and
the. other three in very dangerous con-
Gition.
An English paper states that Major
General }. z. Walker, of the late Confeder-
ate army, has been appointed Colonel of an
English regiment. General Walker com
manded a division in the Army of Tennes-
see, serving with distinction.
Hon. Joseph S. Wilson, Commissioner Of
the General Land Office, has so far recov-
cred from his illness as to be able to be pre.
sent at his Office.
At Greenville Alabama. Mr.. w. r. Will
ilams was murdered last week near that
place on his farm by negroes. formerlv
his slaves. His wife is supposed to be NJ
the bottom oftlle affair. She, with the ne.
grOeS, is now in iail.
The residence of r. II. Taylor, near
BroWnsyllle, Tennessee, was burned Sum
day night. His son, Joseph was burned in
the building. The other inmates ESCAPED
Dy Jumping from the upper windows.
An army of squirrels has been for some
time passing through the region of country
about Nuncia, in Michigan. As they tend
south swimming streams, they are no re-
spectors of cornfields, orchards, &C.
The drugstore of Mr.. Walker. drug
gist, in Vernon, Ind. was entered on Sun-
day night, last week, and the safe broken
open and robbed of $4,000 and thiry-fiye
good watches, the property owned by sew
eral citizens.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Press saws
Goodsell Buckingham, Esq, of Ohio. for
several years chief clerk in the office of the
second Comptroller OF the Treasury De-
partment, has resigned his position on ac
count ofthe inadequacy of his salary.
The crops in North Georgia are totally
ruined by the drought; and now from aiI |
parts of Tennessee, especially Middle Ten |
nessee' are coming loud complaints of want
of rain.
"Brick" Pomeroy says he homes when
Ben. Butler dies he will be buried all in one
place. If cut up in pound chunks and bur
led IN different cities, thieves would grow
from his grave spontaneously, as do mush-
rooms from compost heap.
The presidency of Antioch College has
Deen accepted by Rev. George w. Hosmer.
D. -, pastor of the Unitarian Society IN
Buftalo. His son, Rev. James X. Hosmer
minister of the church in Deerfield, Mass
S 10 be associated with him in the faculty
Is one of the professors.
A CANADIAN CHEEsE.-At factory in
canada, huge cheese has lately been made
which weighs three and half tons, and
measures six feet eight inches in breadth.
md three feet in thickness. The milk used
II iCs manufacture weighed thirty-fve tons.
md was furnished by eight hundred cows
This huge cheese will be on, exhibition in
Toronto at an agricultural fair to be held
here during September.
nv t1uoe ttfufeoS6euH mas eleven aud q Ii
lalf columns of land advertised for sale on /
he first Monday in September, at Cross
'ille, Tenn, for small sums due for taxes.
A MAN TURNED TO SToNE-Thc Mobile
Adcerttser of the 18th says:
In exhuming the bodies inferred in the
''otter's field of the new graveyard a short
ime ago, one of the coflins broke, and re-
,,ealed to the astonished gaze of the grave
Iiggers the remains OF a Federal soldier
perfectly petrified, and looking as natural
IS life. What was further remarkable. he
lad not been buried upward of nine months.
Near Columbus, Ind, on the 10th inst.
)aniel and Alfred Pyles picked a quarrel
WITH young man named Joseph SNYDER.
Vho was accompanying young lady from
social gathering, and stabbed him TO the !
eart. The Pyles were arrested next morn G
ng, and committed for trial.
HoRRIBLE.-On Monday last the quiet
of Jerusalem, Lancaster coun- !
Y, Pa was thrown into state of the wild \
st excitement by the mysterious murder
I Mrs. Mary Emerson, wife of one of the
iealtlliest citizens in the county. She was
)und in the nursery, her child In her arms :,