The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-06
OHIO LOCAL ITEMS.

1t is stated that w. b. Brooks has shipped
from his Nelsonville bank of coal, last sea-
son, near ten million of bushels, three hun
dred and fifty thousand of 1t crossing to
Athens.
The firemen of Wooster, says the Demo-
crdt, are making great efforts to insure that
their proposed celebration of the 22d OF
February shall be the grandest ever held in
Ohio.
The revival at the Methodist Church in
New Lisbon is still in progress. SO far
there have been from sixty to seventy con-
verts.
Farmers tell the Circleville Union that
the greater part of the corn in that vicinity
has not yet been gathered. The weather
has been so cold and the snow so deep.
Mr.. Benjamin Davis, of AcoaXit, West
port, killed hog few days since which
weighed 7l5 pounds-a bigger hog than
Hon. jim. Ashley.
! 1t is estimated that about twenty new coal
mines will be opened along cline of the
| Ohio Central Railroad during the coming
summer.
The damage done at McConnelsville seems
to have been serious. A gorge was formed
around the piers of the iron bridge at that
| place and continued TO accumulate until
last evening, when the bridge was entirely
covered, and the back water extended to
| this place, distance of about twenty eight
miles. The water rose here in consequence,
fully ten inches. The bridge was, we
learn. swept away last night by the break
ing of the gorge. This is serious loss to
McConnelsville and the county. The bridge
was all completed except the draw. and
cost somewhere near $4,000. No doubt
the country has been greatly inundated for
several miles this side of McCOnnelsville,
and great damage edone.-ZdResUHie Courier.
The following communication is pub
| lished in the Cincinnati Gazette:
SPRINGFIELD, o., January 81.
| TO the Editor Of the Cincinnati Gazette;
General Thomas l.. Young, of your city,
is spoken of in this District as the candi-
| date for Governor of Ohio. No better man
could be selected, and he will carry Ohio by
$4,000 majority.
Judge Lawrence, member of Congress foI
the Champaign county district of this State
is reported to be suffering from disease OF
the eyes, which has rendered him partially
| blind. and unable to attend to his duties
He has gone to Philadelphia for treatment
THE OHIo.-At Cincinnati the Ohio rose
five feet yesterday, with thirty-scven feet
hence to Louisville. The Wheeling ice wa;
floating past that city all day, in large
quantities, almost filling the river from
shore to shore. Fifteen coal barges wer,
swept out ofthe Muskingum River, on Sat
urday night and are floating down the Ohio
with the ice. The towboat Fearless alsC
lost four barges, by the ice, at Peyton's Is
land. The steamer Golden Era, bound from
Cincinnati for Pittsburg, is reported sunl
/. at Capatine.
, OF the gorge in the Muskingum, gen
tleman writes that paper from Zanesville-
, The heavy gorge below the dams. causet
, the water to rise with alarming rapidty
and in less than two hours all of the lowe
, portion of South GAINESVILLE was c0vere
with water and floating ice.
Families We're compelled to beat n hast
. retreat from their houses, some barely es
n Gaping with their evening apparel
In some places where the lands are low
. dwellings were upset and shivered TO pieces
\ Scarce anything could Withstand the fore
,. of those mOnstrous cakes of ice. The dam
= age on the lower Muskingum will be yer
/ great. Never in the history of Ohio ha
- llltIt Dttu hHoWh W Dt SUCH II SOIBe /
. | this river as this winter.
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: FASHIONS IN New YoRK-A Cincinna
gossiper, writes from New York, to til
d Enquirer this much about the fashions:
e The fashions among the ladies hay
y changed little; they wear the waterfa
If on the top of the head, instead of whel
l. it used TO be; dresses short, and wadde
e calves. high-heeled boots, and q bonnt
z about as large as a saucer. You would M
II know it to be a bonnet, unless some OF
e who lives in New York and knew it, callC
= your attention TO it. Sharp-toed boot
IS tight pants and plug hats, with a coat th
o has no tail, is the fashion for gents,
q GB- As we learn from the Commerce.
Il about half-past one o'clock, this mornin
- fire broke out in the KentOn Woolt
: Mills, near the suspension bridge, in Co
e ington, and spread so rapidly that, in spi
y of the exertions of the fremen, the bull,
ing was entirely destroyed. 1t was own,
/. by Glaser & Brothers, of llG Third stree
Cincinnati.