The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-22
News by telegraph and Mails.

The "Presidentlal Mansion" JEFFERSON
DAVIS late residence in Richmond, Is offer
ed for sale. The managers hope to get
$4,000 for IL, and win turn over this sum
70 Mrs. DAVIS. ~
MILLARD FILLMORE, WILLIAM G. FARGO
,IoHN NJ. HUTCHINSON and other leading
citizens of Buffalo have organized a club to
which the initiation fee is one hundred dol
lars, annual dues fifty dollars
MADAME BLACE, Of st. Patrick street, OF
tawa Canada. has given birth TO child
with only one eye, in the middle of the
forehead, an inch aud a half above thenose.
The infant is IN perfect health, and has no
other deformity.
A SOUTHERN FAoToRY.--One factory In
Augusta, Ca, has turned out, during the
last year. 6,4lO,OO0 yards of cloth, and paid
a adividend, or clear profit, ofs6ll ,000to the
stockholders.
General SHERMAN, when last heard from,
was heartily sick of diplomacy. He told a
friend in New Orleans that he always liked
to obey orders, but he'd be damned if he
was going to ride a thousand miles on a
mule to hunt for JuAREs or MAMMALIAN
either.
The only beverage at Gen. GRANTS re-
ception last week was iced lemonade.
A practical test of the honesty of the
Senatorial advocates of female suffrage will
soon be made from an unexpected quarter.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. SUMNER
and others tacitly agreed to the proposition
that women should be allowed to vote and
hold office whenever they asked for it.
A huge political joke is pending on this
point.
1t Is asserted that cargo of sixty thous-
and bushels of white wheat was delivered
by sea in the port of Philadelphia on New
Years day, from san Francisco at a less
cost of transportation than the same
amount of wheat could have been delivered
in that city from Chicago by railroad.
A. A. Brown, the Litchfield merchant
who was robbed of ten thousand dollars, at
the East st. Louis depot on Thursday night
has mysteriously disappeared, and it is
now suspected that he robbed himself, and
left for parts unknown, to avoid the pay
ment of heavy debts against him.
N p. WILLIS, one of the most celebrated
of the Hterdti of America, and poet of
marked ability, died yesterday at Idlewild,
his late residence.
A singular and very destructive epidemic
prevails among the hogs in Southern Iowa.
The intestines of the dead hogs are found
to be filled with worms from six to twelve
inches in length, The disease is new.
General GRANT has announced his inten-
tion to visit Europe this year. and will
probably sail in April next, so as to be
present at the Paris Exposition. He will
take his entire family with him.
y Washington special says there is a
dead lock in the Maryland Legislature,
which promises to defeat the plans of Gov
ernor SWAMI to be elected United States
Senator.
1t is reported from Washington that Min
lister CAMPBELL has been instructed to re-
main at New Orleans at present.
Pittsburg dispatch, of yesterday, says
The railroads are all blocked up with snow.
The Pennsylvania Central shipped, since
morning. over 800 laborers to clear the
track. Their wages are 81 per day and
found. Several trains behind
Last Tuesday morning, a fire broke out
in Garfield, Ohio, which destroyed the Hol-
lis Block, and the building of WN. SCBMICK.
adjoining. Loss ABOUT $4,000, partially in
sured.
A terrible snow-storm occurred at San
Antonio, Texas. Over thousand head of
sheep perished from cold.
Cattle were in excellent order. Fine
beeves selling at from Sl4 to SIS cash, for
specie. Sheep are selling atSl 50per head,
and pork 2la@5c per lb.
The TIvoI Saloon, at st. Louis, was de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday; and the Boz
Ton Saloon (owned by a Cincinnatian,)
and some adjoining stores were badly dam
aged.