The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-18
News by Telegraph and Mails.

Gold closed, on yesterday, in New York
at 1864,
The Great Eastern sailed from New York
yesterday.
Accounts from the Upper Missouri say
the high water of Platte River has done
great damage to the Omaha Branch of the
Pacific Railroad, and no trains are rum
ming at present. The track for forty miles
is under water.
The levees of the lower Mississippi are
giving way, and can not be repaired in con-
sequence OF the impossibility of obtaining
the necessary labor. The richest aud most
profitable lands are overllOwed.
The majority for Rice, Republican. for
Mayor of Chicago, in the election on Tues
day, was 1888. The total vote in the city
was l9,ssO-being 3,176 less than the vote
of Cincinnati in the city election the other
day.
The Richmond House, Chicago was sold
at auction yesterday. d. j. Lake purchased
it for $ss,OOO.
DIR. Abrahams, who died suddenly in
New York few days ago, left nearly hi
whole fortune (S3OO,OOO) to various charita
BILE institutions.
Subscriptions for the relief of the South
have been received for a couple of days by
the Pittsburg Post. The receipts already
amount to Sl,927.
A Washington dispatch says motion
will be made in the Supreme Court to-day
to bring up the Georgia injunction case
Immediately, by waving the sixty day
rule of the Court in relation to subpenas.
Major John A. Goodson, formerly Mayor
lofCoyington. Kentucky, committed suicide
yesterday, near Walton, Boone County, in
in that State, shooting himself with a gun.
He was seventy-one years of age.
The town of Napoleon, Arkansas, is situ-
ated on a tongue of land at the junction of
the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers. Last
year the river cut deeply into this point,
and now large portion of the town has
disappeared. The water the other day was
sixteen feet deep in the streets.
Ex-Governor Gilmore died yesterday at
Concord, New Hampshire.
The election. in Quincy, Illinois, has re-
suited in a complete Democratic victory.
The Chdester House. at Akron, Ohio, the
dwelling of w. j. Raymond, and some ad-
Joining buildings, were burned on Tuesday
night.
The miners strike at Dover, New Jersey,
is ended, and all the mines were in opera
ton on Monday The strikers have gone
to work at the old price.
On Monday night the police captured
about forty pretty waiter girls employed
in various beer saloons in st. Louis, They
were afterward released on bail.
The Raleigh Sentinel reports that two
freed-women, named Mary and Becky
Collins, mother and daughter, burned to
death a child of four years, nephew of one
and grandson of the other, because, as they
alleged, the child's mother had come back
and made him devil. The horrible crime
occurred in Louisburg, North Carolina.
The Secretary of the Treasury received a
telegram yesterday, stating that the First
National Bank ofSelma, Alabama, Gov
eGuucnI depository, WAS louo'u oll thpH-
day night of 100000.
At Oneida, Iowa, on Sunday night, a
burglar stole safe-key from the house of
Mr.. VIM. Hubbard, merchant, and then,
breaking into his store, opened the safe and
robbed it of over $4,000.
Benz, S. Riley, of Ohio, has been appoint
ed Principal Clerk of Public Lands In the
General Land Office.
ST, PAUL, MINI, April 1.-THE eXtcn-
sive saw-mill and tub and pail factory of
Cutter q Smith, AnOka, was burned this
morning.
Floods are threatening again. The Mis-
souri, is over its banks in some places, and
the boats are unable to stem its swift cur
rent. The Susquehannah is rising, and the
large loom at Williamsport, its left bank,
has been carried off. A very severe rain
storm prevailed in Stark county, Ohio, from
Monday until last evening, injuring the
Pittsburg 4 Fort Wayne Railroad, and in
terrupting travel from the East.
On the 18th inst, the Ohio Penitentiary
had 96G convicts, being more than have
been confined there at any previous time
. since tho hrpalgiuU ont nf tha war I'm 1851