The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-26
The DAILY EMPIRE
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P0mr0y, editor
VINO ieeer .tly visited the Innate asy.
Of the inmsF ION, KY in speaking of some
Of The ,Ins, Ces, says; Theodore Clay, son
ieotnol Ic Crious Henry, is here, an intel
insane ,oking patient, helpless as 'twere,
haSn ; Jver an affair of affection. He has
Iere for many years.
nj sHLEY has written home to some OF
sToledo friends that he would like 10
AVE a complimentary dinner on his return
from Washington. Some "admiring" con-
Stltuentthen suggests It through the Blade,
lie is a most delicious humbug.
The Inauguration Of the statue of Mar
snail at Richmond gave rise to some funny
things. A bystander. informing a negro
III quest of knowledge. that the statue was
Jlat OF Chief Justice Marshall. blackev re-
plled' what provOst-marshal wor heP"
Ihirty-eight years g an Indian woman
rode on horseback from Los Angeles to
santa Barbara, using n piece of grapevine
as a switch. On reaching her destination
she stuck her switch into the ground. 1t
TOOK root, and sixty barrels Of wine were
made last season from its fruit.
Real estate sis so high in some parts of
London that the purchaser now has almost
literally to cover it with gold to purchase
It. In important business centers i'm thAt
city the sites for recently erected buildings
have cost nearly 97O0 the square yard.
This is at the rate of more than G. 5000 900
per acre. and as q London paper computes,
IL takes Hl2O.OOO sovereigns, lying close to-
gether and Nat, to cover an acre.
Mr.. /. w. Jerome's private theater in
New York is occupied lust now by the
ladies of the Southern Relief Association,
who are giving a series ofamateur enter
tainments for the benefit of its funds.
About $4,000 have already been received
from this source.
Mack" of the Cincinnati Commercial.
wants the Republicans to drop all their old
party hacks and run General NJ. ID. Ley
gett, of GAINESVILLE, for Governor.
Leg-tt would be a good dodge, should
THURMAN get after him.
"JEs So.'-A preacher out west said It
was impossible to think of General WASH
ington without thinking at the same time
of John Brown, Well, we suppose it is
equally impossible to think Of Deity with
out thinking, also, of what Chancellor Hall
sted calls the Orthodox Devil"
DAMAGES FOR MURDER.-A civil suit at
hastings, Minnesota, against Thomas
Eagan, who killed a soldier in Dakotah
county, in 1864, has resulted in a verdict of
Sl.S46 damages to the widow of the muir
dered man. Eagan had previously been
tried and acquitted.
EXTRAORDINARY PRICE FOR SHEEp.-T.
G, Dunlap, Esq, of Shelby county, Ky,
sold to Mr.. VIM. Youn@ fsur two year old
from his flock for one hundred dol
lars each. This beats anything on record.
The Lowell Courier says Moses Wingate,
Haverhill, is probably the oldest Mason
In the world. He is ninety-eight years old,
has been a Mason sixty-four years.
These are said to be two of the scenes of
a new domestic drama: Scene l. Mother In
the cellar splitting wood. Scene z. Daugh-
ter in the parlor singing to a well-dressed
simpleton the pathetic ballad, "Who shall
care for mother now.'
In the old times, just before the great
crash of '30-'37, when everybody was run
mad on the subject of cotton, Just as we
are now, says the Natchez Courier, n team
poor, lean mule team-was staggering
up Main street under a heavy load. The
owner, in a sort OF apologize way, remark
70 q knot of friends Upon my word,
l wish ! III I know what would fatten my
mules. I've tried nu1 Uomicd aud asaf9ti
da, and every sort OF thing, and it don't
seem to do Il particle of good" Did you
ever try corn ~ quietly asked the Diogenes
of the party,