The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-17
rHE DAILY EMPIRE.
All sORTs OF 1rENIs.

Rev. James Belcher, seven years ago the
pastor the Baldwin Place Baptist church,
died last week at Blackwell's Island, of
delirium tremcns. His body fills apauper's
grave. .. .,....
Tho latest fish story of the season is told
by n correspondent OF the Machias Repab-
ttcdn, who records the capture, after des-
perate fight of two hours, near Flint Island,
In Narragansett Bay, n lobster four feet
long; length of extended claws, nine feet (;
and live weight 300 pounds
Gov Fenton has signed the clght-hour
law passed by tho New York Legislature.
IL IS like the laws passed by some of the
western States, and provides that eight
hours shall be a legal days work where
there Is no agreement to tile contrary.
Mr.. A. I. Stewart has sent in the plans
lof his new store To the Superintendent OF
Buildings. 1t Is estimated that the altera-
lions VIII cost S2,50OOO0. His house on
Fifth Avenue Is to cost Sl,5O0O00. Three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars are TO
be spent upon its internal fittings.
The Lynchburg Virginian says that a
person named Willie Price died n short
time since near Marlsyillc, In tlmt State,
ut the age of thirty years, who occupied a
cradle up to the day of his death, being
then mere infant in physical Development.
NC was HNUys ltu WIN sp8on' ana hNd
to be carried in the arms Of his friends.
A young gentleman named Harry Turn
recently married his colHln of the same
name. When lnterrogated as to Why he
did so, he replied that IL had always been n
maxim of his that "one good turn deserves
another and he had acted accordingly.
A Lawrenceburg, Indiana, paper. says
REV. Mr.. Schneider, Lutheran minister nj
| Aurora hrpntrnf n
In jail, upon the charge of seduction and
bastardy. If reports are true, he has been
| playing fantastic tricks with quite Il num-
Der of the female members Of the consre-
CATION. He is married, and has a respecta-
bic family. rH
A boy and girl. one six and the other
eight years old, lately stayed over night nc
q Troy, N. y /, hOtek having come alone all
the way from Shasta, California, en- route
for New Hampshire.
The London Times has n new printing
machine. which throws OF twenty thou
sand copies an hour. The paper is printed
on continuous sheet. which is afterwhfd
cut into separate copies.
KILLED BY IIGHTNING.-ThC fine blOOugd
mare Angeline, OF Mai. Thos. g. Bacon, of
Edgefleld, 5. g., with her bennington colt,
q sucking, was Killed hv lirhtuinp on
Thursday morning, in the pas turc of the
late Col. George Elliott, near Gallatln.
Her loss may be appreciated when we state
the fact that Major Bacon would not take
$4,000 for her. GdlidtR (Iem.) EGam6,ey,
l1M.
TExAs.--The crops of WestermTeSas are
In 1ourishiug condition, although not SO
far advanced rs they usually are at this
season of the year. The Indians have been
very troublesome on the border oflate.
cB waiter girl in II hotel in Burlng-
ton, VT, chose a mulatto tor her husband,
who took her last fall to a clergyman ofthe
Radical miscegenation school, who united
them In the bonds of wedlock. The mulat-
to took his wife to Hartford, aud there
abandoned her. She has become miser-
able outcast, and is now in prison ou charge
of bigamy, having induced Il white boy to
marry her.
cSS- An Indian got drunl, IN Bangor. Ne.
a few nights since and was taken to the
watch-house. On being pressed to tell