The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-15
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The Consul ut Lambayeque, Peru, re-
ports the discovery of the silk plant In that
neighborhood, growing Wild and yielding
fabric finer and stronger than that of the
SILK worm.
In 1887 flour was imported from Odessa,
on the Black Sea: aud shortly after the
sweeping bankruptcy all over the land.
The same system has preceded other mon
led commissions. II is likely to be the pre-
cursor Of another now.
The population of Crete and the neigh
boring portions of European Turkey, the
Inhabitants of which are In revolt or de-
sire 10 be annexed TO the Kingdom OF
Greece, Is about $4,000 Greek Christians
and $4,000 Mussulmans.
During the year 1866, as shown by the re-
turns In the General Postonice, 10, lO6, 900
letters passed through the Cincinnati city
office.
The London Telegraph alluies TO Banks
~ n mad wag, whose best joke was un-
doubtedly that Of trying to pass himself of
as a general.
The province Of New Brunswick Is I'm an
enviable financial position. In his speech
on Saturday the Lieutenant Governor an
%nounced that the revenue far exceeded the
expenditure.
The Cleveland Herald says: Captain ID.
Brown, of Auburn, New York, passed
through the city yesterday with Il hog
weighing fourteen hundred pounds. 1t was
captured In Australia, and Is en- route to
Norwalk, Ohio.
Mr.. Weevil having been out to n late
tea-party with "A few friends, upon getting
into bed at IA. NJ. hoists his umbrella.
Mrs. w. pleasantly desires to know "why
he is making such a ridiculous ass Of him
self2r
"Well, you see, my dear, | expected II
storm, and | came prepared"
PREcocrTY.--A girl only eleven years of
age coaxed another one eight years old to
n retired place in Saginaw City. Michigan,
recently, stripped her of most ofher clothes,
and then Induced her to get on n floating
piece of Ice In the dock, from which she
slipped aud would have drowned but for n
boatman who happened to row that way
and rescued her. Tn precocious and in
human little thief was afterward discovered
ut school with the stolen garments on.
A Charlottesville correspondent of the
indianapolis Journal says that the chicken
cholera Is alarmingly prevalent around
Charlottesville. Chickens and turkeys.
young and old, die by the dozen. Many
families who had large numbers of chick
ems In the early part Of spring have scarce
ly any LETT. IL Is nothing to
find a dozen or fifteen dead hens under the
roost of a morning.
About twenty miles from Carson City,
Nevada, are sOme mineral springs, called
Steamboat Springs, from the noise they
make, which sounds like several steamers
discharging steam. These springs cover
an area of about three acres. The water Is
boiling hot, and the escaping steam can be
seen for several miles, before sunrise, and
the atmosphere in the vicinity Is filed with
the smell of sulphur. There are crevices
In the rocks where the water can be seen
boiling at a depth of thirty feet.
FAITHFUL INTO DEATH.--That is touch
ing account which is given of the way in
which Commodore Smith knew of the death
of his son Joseph, who commanded the
frlgate Congress. The irOn-clad Mcrrlmac
raked the old wooden frigate, setting her on
fire and doing murderous work among the
crew. The Commodore received "A telegram
that the Congress had struck her flag,
''Then," said he, quietly, Joe Is deddP' So
II proved. The eulogy of three words from
his fathers lips ought to be sculptured on
his tombstone or oil his cenotaph.
STRANGE SToRY.-The following, which
Is going the rounds, should be read cum
0rdno sails:
We have recently seen n well authenti-
Gated account of an old man In an adjoin-
Ing county who always paid for his news