The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-07-09
.ENERAL NEWS.

70 the authenticity of the report Of SANTA
= ANNA's execution Mt Sisal on the 25th ult
Letters from that place, by steamer that
left there at noon Of the 2Gth. report him a
prisoner then, at Campeachy, near two
hundred miles from the place where he is
reported to have been shot the day pre-
yious.
On account of the Illness of Colonel SIT-
GREASEs, the commission to audit Ohio
war claims will not meet until the 18th OF
August.
W. j. Smithsou, of Philadelphia and
Miss Maggie +. Fornshell, Of Wooster,
Ohio, were married in . balloon, at Pitts
hufgh, on Saturday.
;. N9gner's pawn-brokcr's Office in
Cleveland, ohio, was robbed on Sunday
night of money .aI iewelry TO the value
of $4,000. ..a
The new railroad schedule. which went
into effect yesterday, makes the time from
New York to New Orleans, rja Memphis
eighty-three hours.
Three thousand aud forty five immi-
grants arrived in New Yorl, yesterday.
Providence paper recounts an exploit
which throws Leander's swim in the
shade. Ayouug fellow Of nineteen, named
Patrick Keller, swan nearly three-quar-
ters of II mile. drawing after him a boat
twelve feet long, containing six good sized
men. The time was inside of three-quar-
tiers of an hour.
In Portland, Maine, the liquor business is
thing of the past. All the old resorts on
Fore street are closed. One of them has
putup the following placard: Bar taken
out; prayer meeting at four o'clock"
Mrs. Melville died Mt Shelbyvillc, lndi-
ana, ON the ID instant, from the effects of
burns received the day before from coal
oil explosion. She was lighting Il fire with
coal oil
Mr.. Wood offered II resolution in Congress
for an inquiry into the outrage lately COM
mtted by the Mexican authorities in the
abduction of Santa Anna from an Amer
lean vess''l, which was referred.
4 new attempt will be made to connect
Europe and America by cable This time
it WILDE undertaken by Il French Amer
lean company, which will lay cable be
tween Brest and some point on the Amer
lean coast.
The steamer Raleigh, from New Orleans
for Havana, las on board ten Austrian Of
tlccrs. who arrived from Vera Cruz. via
Mobile, and now 20 10 Havana, with
the view ofremaining there until they have
an opportunity to join some Mexican
chirltain at enmty with Juarez. They de-
clare they will remain in Mexico and
avenge Maximilian's death; and that "A
few days will see powerful chieftain Mt
the head of large anti-Juarez party. The
remnant of the Austrians, will rendezvous
at Havana. from which point they will re-
turn to Mexico
In the case of Lawrence Harl tried last
week in Warsaw. Indiana for the murder
ofa boy. verdict of guilty was rendered
on Saturday, midnight, and a sentence of
twenty-onc years Imprisonment passed
upon him. After his sentence was an
nounced, the prisoner confessed that he
killed the child purposely that lie knocked
him down with broom-handle. and kicked
him in the side until he was dead.
At Bordentown, New Jersey, on the 4rh
inst, at a picnic. William Wood (colored),
who is about fifty years of age. became
jealous of his wife, who is but twenty, and
seizing her in the midst of a gay party.
deliberately cut her throat. A physi-
clan sewed up tie wound, and at last ac-
counts was stlll living, although in very
precarious condition.
During performance at the circus of
Thayer q Noyes, in Rochester, New York.
on the 9th inst. Elias White, the Lion King
entered n cage Of ferocious lions. One OF
the males attacked him, telling him to the
floor Of the den, and fastening his paws
uponhis shoulder, inhicting severe wounds.
The circus men now went to the rescue
with iron bars, and finally succeeded In res
ouing Mr.. White from the cage alive, but
severely iniOred. The affair caused great
excitement in the audience. @
a thrilling incident of the night of the
assassination in Washington, receives a
shockingly prosaic translation at the hands
of the witnesses for the defense, examined
in the Strrratt trial yesterday. Somebody
called the hour in front of Ford's theatre,
just before the fatal shot was fired; and
sergeant Dye swore, with positlVeness the
other day, that it was Surratt who did it.
He had seen that face, he said, in his
dreams, ever since. But another man was
on the witness stand yesterday, and he
swears that it was he who called the hour,
and that it was for no other purpose than
TO notify an actor or singer who was to ap-
pear In an ilterlude, so that he might know
when TO prepare himself for the stage, The
singer himself confirms this explanation,
and it is sustained by other evidence.
2 Thomas Goslce, an Old citizen Of Madison
County, Ohio, was found dead in his bed
on Saturday morning. ....
A special dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
Qurer says that the deaths in St. Louis last
week were one hundred and twelve.