The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-30
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

Radical papers make great ado over the
fact that JEFF. Davis received attentions in
Richmond, but they thought It all right to
honor a Garrison who called the Federal
Constitution "a league with death and a
covenant with hell"
In the heart of a white oak log In Sails
bury, N. II, was found. the other day, a full
grown owl, well preserved, and deeply inn
bedded in the wood.
Joel Lindsey, who whipped his son to
death, has been released from Auburn iail,
on bail, In order that he may stand new
trial, an order tor which has been obtained
by his counsel.
The largest income Taxpayer in Wash
ington Is Henry d. Cooke, $4,000; w. w.
Corcoran reports $4,000; Gen. Grant re-
ports over and above what he receives from
the government on which the tax is de-
Quoted, S4,s00i Secretary Stanton, under
the same circumstances, $500, and Post
master General Randall, S2S00.
Ex-President Frank Pierce is Just COM
| pleting his new summer residence at Rye
Beach, on the picturesque bluff known as
Little Boar's Head, half a mile or so from
the Atlantic and Farragut Houses.
r. c. Loveridge, of Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut, has written, without the aid of q
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inside circle the size of a gold dollar. The
feat was accomplished in four hours. The
writing includes 267 words, or l,03S letters.
Admiral Semmes speaks of Brownlow as
the "cuttle-fish Governor" To appreciate
the appositeness of this comparison one
must remember that the euttle- fish Is a
creature that can hide himself in a cloud
of his own filth.
Typhus, remittent and intermittent fevers
are sweeping off the Inhabitants of the
island of Mauritius at the rate Of from $50
to 200 per day. .. -r--. -.
| The 'Perfectionists" at the Oneida, n. Y.
and Wallingford, Ct, communities increase
so fast that a third association has been
formed in New York, to be known rs the
Willow Place community
Fifty barrels of mackerel, worth $500,
were taken at single haul, of the Hen and
Chickens, on Saturday, by the schooner
Alert. a1' r- ~ ..NH, s~,,ci
Brownlow is lowering the character OF
the Governorship Of Tennessee, but the
Tennesseeans have one consolation-that
! his successor will not be able to do the
same thing, 10 matter how hard he may
try.-PTentice.
Albert Allen, boy Of Linesvilis, Erie
county, Pa, lately ran away with SO 000
belonging to his father, and was finally ar
rested in Saginaw, Mich. He bought an
| interest in saloon In Cleveland for S450,
and Immediately sold it for $l00 then
bought the tugboat Emma, of Saginaw,
paying $3.50 cash for it, and was about
going into the towing business when ar
rested.
A New York Jury has made Edwin B
Hunter pay $4,000 for woman and child
whom he suffOeated. They lived in his
house, and he wished them to leave. They
did not 90, and 1t would cost money and
time TO get them out. So Edwin stopped
the chimney tight. The coal gas stopped
the breathing of the woman aud child and
very nearly did as much Tor several other
persons.
There is blind boy in England who
can repeat not only the whole of the hun
dred and fifty Prayer book Psalms, and 9
large number of metrical psalms and
hymns, US well as considerable amount OF
modern poetry; including Goldsmith s
l'Deserted Village" but the whole of Mil
toms Paradise Lost" with marginal notes
and biography.
FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.-A party of three
ladies and two gentlemen took refuge, Mon
day evening, from thunder storm, under
the portico of st. Michael's Church, Charles
ton. But the lightning found them out
and stripped the right legs of both the gen
tlemen of pants, boots and socks, scorcheC
the hair and benumbed them. 1t took the
gaiter off the left foot of one of the ladies
and set the dresses OF the other two on fire