The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-25
News by Telegraph and Mails.


Gold advanced in New York, yesterday,
to l4l1a.
A small boat crossing the James River
at Claremont, Virginia, capszed on Mon
day, and six ladies and one man were
drowned.
The Indiana Central Insurance Company,
of Lafayette has failed. The assets will
probably cover the liabilities.
1t appears that only $1,000 votes were
cast in New York city on Tuesday. Dem
ocratic majority, 1900. The Tribune es-
Inmates the Republican majority in the
State at 10000.
Severe shocks of earthquakes were felt
yesterday throughout large portion of
Missouri and Kansas, and much alarm was
experienced.
John Titus, a boy ten years old, acciden-
tally stepped into den of rattlesnakes the
other day, near Villa Ridge, sixteen miles
from Cairo, Illinois, and was bitten so that
he died in twenty-four hours.
The steamer Black Bird, which carried
Mr.. Stewards message to Juarez, to inter
cede for MaXimilian, put into Brazos out
of coal, and would have to land the messen-
ger at Tampico.
Clouds of grasshoppers have made their
appearance in Texas, and threaten all crops
with destruction.
An additional ten thousand dollars in
gold have been forwarded from San Fran
cisco to the Southern Relief Commission In
New York.
Chaplain Thos. j. Taylor, well-known
citizen of Aurora, Indiana, committed sui
eide last week by taking stryehnine.
A fire ut Petroleum Center on Tuesday
night, destroyed the Union Hotel, Theater,
Kempursky's dry goods and Schwartz's Ii
quor stores. Loss about $4,000, The sup
posed incendiary has been arrested.
Dispatches from Altoona, Pottsville, Bed
ford, and other points in Pennsylvania, re-
port quite a heavy fall of snow yesterday.
The Great Eastern is an eighth Of a mile
long, as large as many villages, and when
she has her complement of passengers and
crew, boasts a population of 10000; yet she
sailed homeward with less than 200.
Under the war news from Europe yester-
day, gold advanced to l42 and fell to l41 Is.
A severe shock of an earthquake was felt
at st. Joseph, Missouri, yesterday.
Mexican advices state that Macmillan
attempted to escape from Queretaro, on the
26th of March, accompanied by single
officer, but was obliged to return, column
of Juarists having occupied the road.
The Prescott (Arizona) Miner, Of January
IL, says fourteen members of Captain
Hodges company of Rangers surprised a
camp Of Indians about one hundred miles
from Prescott, December 81, and killed
twenty-three of them. One Ranger was
killed and three wounded.
General Godfrey Massey, who is reported
to have turned Queens evidence in Ireland,
is the assumed name of fLieutenant-Colonel
Condor, of the Eighty-eighth New York
Volunteers.
Preparations are being generally made
throughout the South to cOnseerate the
graves ofthe Confederate dead on the 2Gth
inst, as was done last year.
Mr.. Nun, a merchant in Gholson, Mlssis-
sippi, was murdered while asleep in his
store, on the night Of the 18th inst, by
blow on the head with n hammer The
murderer took about Sl,7OO in money from
the store and escaped.
Several car loads of ammunition have ar
rived in Nashville, for Governor Brownlow
food intended, by the amiable and pious
parson, for his white subjects should they
prove refractory.
One of the suits of c, A. Sherman against
the Western Stage Company for damages
for the loss Of his wife, child and mother,
by drowning, While passing Boone River,
in one of their coaches, was decided in
Lincoln, Iowa. last week, in favor of the
plaintiff, giving $4,000 damages.