The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-11
ONO LOCAL ITEMS.

A stable, owned by Mr.. Wilson, in Mans
field was destroyed by fire, with all Its con-
tents, on Tuesday morning. A big boy
had been p~hilosophically smokinga cigar
In the NOV.
some rascal, in the shape Of man, made
an attempt to set fire to the steamer City OF
Toledo, on Saturday night, says the Toledo
Blade. The evidences of this fact are un-
mistakablc.
Early on Wednesday a fire totally des-
troyed the factory Of the Ohio Furniture
Company, in the vicinity ofColumbus, and
several adjoining buildings. Loss, $4,000.
workmcn are busy tearing down the old
Deaf and Dumb Asylum building at Column
bus. There are but three patients LEFT in
the building, and these too sick to be re-
moved.
Henry Fricke, who was convicted ofmur-
der in the second degree, in Cleveland, in
1858, and sentenced to the Ohio Peniten-
tiary for life, was released on Saturday,
having been p%ardoned by the Governor.
Large numbers Of United States troops
have been passing through Cleveland, of
late, for the plains, to take the Indian war
path.
The Clyde, Ohio, Times relates this re-
markable incident. Our citizen, Mr.. Brown,
who is now passing his forty-seventh day,
without eating any food, has encourage
ment by it to hold out indefinitely:
Last July Mr.. jefferson Olmstead, of
Savannah, missed a hog weighing some two
hundred pounds. and nothing was seen or
heard of him until last week, when Mr.,
Olmstead having occasion to take down a
straw stack on his place, his swincship was
discovered underneath. There was no
doubt, from the-signs and the facts given,
that the hog had been in the straw since
last July. He was probably asleep In the
straw when the stack was being made,
which was the time the hog was missed,
and wa covered up so completely and
closely that he could not escape. His
weight was, when found, about sixty
pounds. The hog seemed to be as well rs
ever, save the falling of in weight
COUNTY SURvEYoRs.-The Ohio Legisla-
ture passed an act, regulating the fees of
county surveyors, which is o fpublic inter-
est: For all work by the day So. And
when otherwise employed-for each rod
or perch run less than a mile, l cent. For
each rod or perch run over one mile,94 of
one cent. For making out or recording a
plat of six lines, 81. For each line in adj
dition, . cents. For each one hundred
words or figures therein, II cents. For cal
culating "A tract of four sides, 60 cents,
Each additional line, 10 cents. Mileage, GO
and returning, 10 cents per mile, and the
chain-carriers and markers fees to be paid
by the person requesting the survey.
MARROW EscAPE.-Three young ladie.
residents of this city, while at a party in
Putnam, one evening last week, had Oc-
casiOn to visit Il building situated in the
garden. Whilst there. the floor gave way
preCipitating all three below, and we learn
that one of the young ladies was almost
suffocated before reliefreached ~her.-ZGneS-
UiNie Signal.
At McCoy's Station, on the Cleveland and
Pittsburg Railroad, on Saturday, John Nc
Coy shot and killed Joseph Mcdonald
There was an old quarrel between the
parties, Mcdonald having once severely
beaten Mccoy. The murderer went tC
Steubenville, and gave himself up, stating
that he had not intended to kill, but onlytC
wound, his victim.
+. F. Fuller, General Ticket Agent of tn,
Atlantic and Great Western Railway, ha,
resigned. The Receiver OF the Company
has appointed as his successor W. b. Shat
tuck, Esq, who will have his ~headquarter,
in Cincinnati l.. d. Rucker, long mana
ger of the Cleveland and Toledo Road, ha.
been appointed superintendent Of the At
lantic and Great Western.
DIED.-At the residence of her son, Col
Dom Piatt, ut Glen Mac-a-chee, Logan
County, o.. Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett Piatt,
in the SSth year of her age.