The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-15
News by Telegraph and Mails.


Gold closed, yesterday, in New York, at
1917.
Brigham Young took only two dozen of
his wives with him on his recent pleasure
trip South.
Ten thousand dollars have been raised for
the relief of families of victims of the Phil
adelphia explosion.
Two children and one man were drowned
in Republican River, west of Junction
City. Eight men were drowned in Big
Creek, Kansas.
The Gill divorce case, which has been for
several months pending in the Fairfield, o.,
Common Pleas Court has been settled by n
decree of separation, $4,000 alimony to the
Divorce.
j. j. Phillips has been arrested, charged
with the murder of Mary j. Pitts. Her
body was found near Richmond some
months ago. The murder created much ex-
citeInent.
Citizens of Wyandottc assert that the two
negroes, Webster and Van Buren,, were
lynched upon the evidence of colored
prostitute. .s I'd. ..
Barney Aaron, the winner of the prize
fight, is getting along well. On examina-
ton, no ribs were found to be broken.
The Auditor Of Virginia has announced
that the July interest on the State debt
will be paid when due. The State will have
a surplus of funds for the purpose.
j. NJ. Langston, the colored lawyer of
Oberlin, Ohio, addressed meeting of ne
groes in Richmond, Virginia, last evening.
A band Of armed men, last Wednesday
night, fogged several negroes near Stan.
ford, KY, and shot one who attempted to
escape. They were said to be horse
thieves.
Mr.. Turton, first clerk; chief engineer
Cornelius, and a cabin boy named George.
are the only persons known to have lost
theirllves by the sinking of the steamer
Governor Sharkey, near st. Louis.
James Torregan was fatally sun-struck
in New York yesterday; and two men,
named Cofirey and Eastman, while caulk-
ing boat, were sun-struek, fell into the
East River. and were drowned. . --.-
The call by Congress for report of the
stoppage of soldiers pay, rcmitted by the
President will keep about twenty-five
clerks busy for three years preparing the
statement.
| Robert IIendershott, the drummer boy"
whose elopcment and marriage with a
Poughkeepsie lady has been published, ar
rived at Clinton, Lenawee County, Michi-
gan, with his lady, on the 9th, on the way
to his fathers six miles distant.
There is now in process of formation in
New York cooperative tailor shop, with
$4,000 paid in capital, and in which about
100 good workmen will be partners. In
Worcester, Massachusetts, cooperative
carpenter shop has been opened, with 500
600 capital. % t
The New Orleans Herdids dispatch of
MAY 20 states that Maximilian, Miramon,
Meja and Castillo may possibly be shot.
Maximilian eAers to abdicate on condition
ofsafe conduct out of the country.
1t Is proposed In England TO devote II
part Of the money remaining in the Lam
cashire Cotton Famine Fund 10 the relief
of the suffering poor In our Southern
States. The balance on hand amounts to
nearly 100000 in our currency,
New Jersey, not the most advanced
State in educatiopal matters, has abolished
corporeal punishment in public schools.
Mail service between the famous Stone
House aud Manassas Station, Virginia, is
performed by a little girl fourteen years of
age, who rides bareback and makes fast
time.
The steamer Palos, built for the Govern
ment, aud calculated to run eight knots an
hour-which is all she could ever make
with ordinary fuel-made an experimental
trip down Boston harbor, yesterday, with
crude coal oil for flei. She ran twenty
five nautical miles in one hour and fifty
Ave minutes-a fraction over thirteen miles
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