The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-07-05
News by Telegraph and Mail.


On Wednesday the gold report was $4lo,-
000 On Saturday the steamer Montana
left San Francisco with S2,272,000 in gold.
A Presbyterian preacher in Troy has q
million and a half, his father has three mil
lions and his wife half million. What
about camel travelling through the eye
of needle?
There was grand meteoric shower mt
st. Louis Oh Tuesday night. 1t was so
brilliant as to cause considerable alarm.
It's said that important papers have
been found In the possession of Santa Anna
who is kept 4 close prisoner In Mexico.
Recent advices from Utah state that the
grasshoppers have appeared In immense
numbers in the northern part of that Ter
ritory, and are making sad havoc with the
newly planted crops, stripping entire fields
Late news from Brazil says that the
United States colonists are suffering the
greatest destitutlon and bitterly repent
their journey.
The estate of Sir Morton Peto has been
put in bankruptcy.
Twelve houses, shops and small stores,
were burned in Covington, opposite Gin
cinnati, on Wednesday. Loss about $780,
600; insured IN $4,000. -. ..
The Orange County, Va, court house,
was struck by lightning on Wednesday,
and it and five other buildings burnt.
Serious disturbances are reported in
Porto Rico. Artillery had to be used TO
quell the insurrection, and large number
were shot.
Vera Cruz dates of the 2lst ult, and
Sisal 23d, have been received. The capitu-
lation of the former city was about being
signed.
Denver dispatch says band Of two
hundred Indians attacked Fort Wallace,
June %, killing two soldiers and wounding
several. Three Indians are known to have
been killed.
GOV. Crawford, of Kansas, is raising eight
companies of volunteers to tight the Indi-
ans. He expects to have them at Fort Har-
ker on Saturday.
The steamer Ben johnson reached Omaha
yesterday, from Fort Benton, with 100000
in gold dust. t
Two boys were killed by lightning, near
Litchfeld, H., on the Sd, while standing
in harvest field.
Wood, colored barber, testified, on the
Sd, that he shaved Surratt on the morning
preceding the assassination of Lincoln
Said he knew him, although he never saw
him before.
An Athens, Greece, dispatch, says the
Greek blockade-runner, Arcadia has made
her fourteenth voyage TO Gambia She
landed five hundred volunteers for the In
surgent army, and 2,0nO lnuskets and u
supply of food.
The New Orleans Board OF Health reports
officially eight cases and six deaths from
yellow fever during the past two weeks
the disease is not considered epidemic.
A freedman in Texas proved claim OF
$3.50 for wages against his master, but Il
negro jury would allow him only $ll1 on
the ground that they knew him 10 be "a
trihing, lazy scoundrel,' and not worth
what his employer agreed to give him.
The amount ofgold in the Treasury lst
of July was one hundred and eight millions
and sixty thousand dollars Of which nine
teen mnilonsis payable on gold certifi-
Gates Ihls amount VIII De reduced by the
payment of July interest on Bonds amount
ing to eighteen millions. -
Judge SYayne, OF the United States su-
preme Court, Is very III, at Washington
Chauncy Page has at last been convicted
of the murder of his wife and her mother
near Valparaiso, Ind, and sentenced 10 thu
penitentiary for life. rg-..-....,
The city postmaster at washini on City
has commenced employing lady clerks in
that postofiee, .,.,.rrrs..-
In Newburg, N. T. and along the Hud'
son In Its Vicinity, the price Of brick II
about 81 per thousand, against 80 80 II
April and May. i'e" h7i~'
The Saginaw tMich.j Enterprise says
: The bulk of the wool clip throughout th,
State is held for better prices, Some II
sold for about az average OE 10 cents,