The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-21
rHE DAILY EMPIRE.
ALL sORTs oF ITENs.


A man is on trial in Detroit for the se-
duction of his wife, after having been di-
vorced from her aud married to another
woman.
st. Paul's Church, in Brooklyn was rob
bed few nights since, for the fifth time,
Of its carpet.
Fourteen thousand four hundred and
twenty-three tuns of stone were thrown
out by a single blast, with three kegs of
powder, at quarry In Middletown, Conn,
on the 7th inst.
A SHREwD GUEss.--At a parish school
examination. when the question was asked,
'Why did the Children of Israel make n
golden calf sharp little fellow replied,
Because they hadn't gold enough to make
bull"
The tobacco trade in New York amounts
to S100000,000 annually, employs 2bOOO
persons, and is conducted by 1913 distinct
firms. The fifteen tine-cut manufactures
employ l.500 operatives, and there are 800
makers of cigars.
The Paris, Mo- Mercury, of the sth inst,
says some 1900 head of cattle in Monroe
county have been sold to traders at Ga to
61a cents per pound, to be delivered during
the summer. The Mercury says that coun-
| y
the prairies being literally alive with
them,
The HOosac tunnel has received another
appropriation of 100000 from the Massa-
chusetts Legislature An eGpOse of the
great bore shows that it viii cost S32,000,-
600, and that it will take forty-liye years tC
complete 1t. The borers have gone one
thirteenth of the distance through the
mountain, and it has cost S2,5OO,O00.
High prices, fast living and great expect.
ations are the order of the day ut Omaha
| Land sells at enormous rates and rents arc
| fabulous. The houses are frame structures
sent there ready to be put up. A new ho-
tel, three stories and 103 by SO feet, is un-
der contract to be completed in siXty-onc
days. One story stores rent at from 81, ,S0(
to $4,000 per annum.
| 1t Is estimated that there are four hun
dred mills for crushing quartz and cement
in California, forty in Idaho, thirty in Mon
tana, and fourteen in Oregon, w,iCh have
cost nearly $10,000000. The State of Ne
yada, according to the State Mneralogist
has one hundred and thirty -four mills
many of them the finest on the coast Ado
to the cost of these the large amount in
vested in hydraulic mining, and an idea
may be formed of the immensity of the
mining interest.
STENwAY PIANOS Malakofi," " in his
letter to the New York Times, April 2G
says:
TO the surprise and the shame and the
horror of all Paris, the unartistic savages o
| the New World will take the Grand Media
for musical'instruments in the person o.
Mr.. Steinway, of New York--an event tha
has astonished the Parisians more than i
the Prussians were to march up the Boule.
ward, this afternoon, with Bismark at theil
head. "
The CoTnwell Iron Works, near Cedar
Bluff, Ala, will commence work in tn,
course of ten days. The iron made at these
works is considered the best in the United
States, and arrangements have been mad,
to ship large quantities of pig iron to New
York.
A wrecking firm at Norfolk Va, have
commenced preparations for raising the
hulks of the two 74-gun ships Delaware
and Columbus, which were sunk by the
rebels at the GOsport Navy Yard in 1861.
The Charlotte (Va.) Democrat says
Along the road between this place ant
Monroe, Union County, we saw several
white girls plowing. In one instance W,
saw two girls about l6 years old managing
Il plow with two oxen attached-one hell
the plow handles and the other drove tn,
| oxen.