The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-17
ONO G ITEMS.

The Defiance Democrat Of Saturday says,
that Isaac smith, ofDclawarc township, a
young man, married, by trade a carpenter,
was drowned In Tinln river, at Burners
burg, on Sunday last, by the swapping Of
his canoe near the dam.
The S~andusky Register records the death
of Mr.. job Squire, an old pioneer, aged
about ninety years. Heh had been a resident
Of the county since 1917. lie had sixteen
children, nine Of whom are now living. His
descendants number about 100 persons.
The Delano-M Morgan contest is being
prosecuted in Newark. SO far It is Il very
shallow farce. The Advocate, of Friday,
says: On yesterday, down to the hour of
going to press, they had accomplished
nothing, except to establish the fact, after
the use of the most untiring effort, there
was scarcely II shadow on which to rest a
charge of fraudulent voting on the part of
General Morgan's friends In Licking. In
Knox County the result was the same.
At Cleveland, on Sunday last, the holy
rite of confirmation was administered to
dubAtN AuiiNl IftNpliN ut y = "a = 'ilAANAs
and to as many at Grace Church, by Bishop
McIlvaine. The congregations at both
churches were very large.
Senator Wiliamson's bill, authorizing
cities to appropriate lands for parks and
public grounds, has been decisiyely de-
fcated, receiving only q meagcr vote in its
support.
A NEWSPAPER SwINDLE.-We have heard
from various sections of the Western por-
ton of Ohio, that many of our people, in
clined to cheap newspapers, have been pref
ty cfectually aud extensively swindled, by
subscribing for a newspaper styled The
american Statesman, issuing its prospectus
from New York, putting its terms for sub
scription at 81 a year, and agreeing to give
a sewing machine worth $50 to any agent
sending 500 for one hundred subscribers
Iii their anxiety to get a cheap newspaper,
and sucha splendid prize, quite a number
of persons in Ohio worked night and day
to get up clubs, and sent the 500 on, but
never received the machine.
Inquiry of Mayor Hoffman, ofNew York,
for the bantling, brought out the fact that
there is no such paper, that it is a myth-a
downright "swindling confidence game"
We have not heard the matter mentioned
but suppose that Beast Butler is in Ohio
the residence ofMr. Clough, down Mt Mid
dletown, having been burglariously en-
tered last Thursday night by thieves, who
are yet at large, and a number of Siluer
spoons and other articles stolen.
OFF THE TRACK.-The freight train bound
east on the Central Ohio Road, on Saturday
evening, was thrown from the track near
Dillon's Falls, west of GAINESVILLE, damag-
ing some three or four cars. No one was
injured.
Wendell Phillips, the chief pioneer in all
Radicalisms-managing adroitly to keep
just a little ahead of his party, but who
morrow evening, at Mozart Hall, on "The
Times" The last time Wendell lcctured
there, in the then Opera House, he was
b%owldcred out of the back-door, by some
non-admirers, with eggs and big turnipSl
SuICIDE.-Simon Snider, of Reading Perry
Ohio, in afluent circumstances
suffering with spinal disease, imagining
himself a burthen to his family, uponT Tues
day last ended his existence by hanging
himself. His family had no intimation of
his intentions, except he had often asked
his wife if she could manage the children
and get along without him. Mr.. Sniderha
been married but once, and was the father
of seventeen children, the youngest being
about seven months old. Mrs Snider is a
woman yet in the prime of life.