The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-07
News by Telegraph and Malls.

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The typhoid fever is raging in wash--
ington. Hundreds Of cases were reported
yesterday-seyeral of fatal termination.
The famine In India continues. Whole
nations have died ofstarvatIon.
Beverly Tucker the Rebel, Is In Mexico,
managing a large establishment for a
wealthy Mexican.
Tobacco, sound and sweet, sixteen years
old, was sold In Lyuchburg tho other day.
Barnum has sold his villa for $4,000.
The Hayward mine in Amador County,
California, has been worked thirteen years.
has yielded ~, ,0OO, 900, and the net Income
Is now over $4,000 per month. The mime
| is l,200 feet deep. -------- -.--4--------
Calfornia now exports ten thousand tons
of copper per, annum, which Is five times as
large as the product of the whole United
States only ten years ago. .. .- - -. b.
lthas been officially announced In the
British blouse OF Commons that the SEN
tence Of all convicted Fenlans will be COM
muted. s.I n......
The Fenans who were arrested in an at
tempt to land at Dungannon,st state that they
were from Boston, Mass, "A o. "-4l
Gold closed yesterday, In New York, at
1867. ra+
The Pennsy lvania College, at G. Gettysburg,
has formally insugurated preparatory de-
partment, giving it the name Of Stevens,
Hall, in honor of Thaddeus Stevens. If all
the graduates emulate the character OF
Thad., what spawn of rascals VIC will have.
At Springfield, Mass, on Friday night,
Miss Eliza Taylor and Miss Eliza Thompson
had retired to their room for the night, and
had nearly finished disrobing, when kerr
osene lamp exploded, so burning the for
mer that she died In the morning, and the
other seriously.
At Coldwater, Michigan, on Wednesday
night, Stevens wheel barrow mandatory,
with all its contents,Iincluding six hundred
wheel-barrows ready TO be shipped, was
burned. Loss $4,000. ...--.... -..-
A new Island was discovered by the
United States mail steamship Colorado on
her last trip from Japan. 1t is twenty miles
long, and lies in l50 deg, west longitude,
and latitude 40 deg. 80 min.
The New York Southern Relief CommIs-
sion reports that one hundred aud sixty
thousand bushels of corn and two hundred
thousand dollars in money have been sent
South up to this time.
Olleial returns show terrible increase
In pauperlsm In England and Wales. In
the fourth week In February relief was
given to 9ls,9ls outdoor poor, and to l40-
4s5 ia poor-houses, &c. the gross number
being 60,8ll greater than In the correspond.
ing week of 1896.
A steam boiler In mandatory in rear
of 2O4 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, ex-
ploded last evening, demo fishing the build
ing aud burylng its inmates under the
ruins. There were supposed 10 be forty In
the Building AZ the time, Of whom, at the
last accounts, only five had been got out
alive. Two dead bodies had been recov-
cred, and all the remainder were pro badly
killed. % .% ata-s AHa kA4
few days since, ON suspicion of being |
concerned In the Richmond bank robbery, |
was taken out Of the WarrehSburg jail by |
four hundred men, and hung. s..4
Miss Julia Weirshank, an accomplished |
young lady, Of Belleview, Mich, dlsap-
pointed IN an affair of the heart, drowned |
herself the other day. 8.#.."
A gay old boy ofslxty-odd years recent
ly married, III Portland, Maine, blooming
maiden not ont Of her teens, and on Satur-
day night last the young woman presented
10 her venerable but vlgorous lord and mas-
ter four children at one fell swoop--two
boys and two girls After mature consld-
Grafton the old fellow has concluded not 10
drown any of the litter. f ..H.' .oi
A gang of railroad robbers--four broth
ers--haye just been nabbed in Chicago, aud
about SiO,O 600 fgoOds recovered from their
depoti y 1859 ea blW d. s'Dr'b Hu.W