The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-29
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
AL sORTs OF ITEMs.


Chicago sold half million Of Christmas
gifts, which, we suppose, accounts for their
papers speaking of the gifted sons Of Illi-
nois." m
Sumner has introduced an inquiry into
the Senate, whether the people Of New
Mexico don't seize Indians and peon them.
He is opposed to It,
There is a Chinese boy in a San Francisco
photograph saloon who has, "betweon
worksr translated nearly all the words in
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary into the
Chinese vernacular.
A number of English capitalists have OBJ
tained from the Brazilian Government a
charter granting the privilege of construct
Ing steam tram-road from Bahia to the
diamond mining district, and large tracts
of land through which the road will pass
have been given to the company.
The State Constabulary made their first
liquor seizure In Lowell during the storm
Of Thursday. A posse of Cdnstables visi-
ted five liquor saloons, the principal one of
the five being kept by Mr.. Armstrong, on
Merrlmack street. They obtained In all
the places liquors valued at about Sb,000.-
Boston Post.
The present capacity of the Erie Canal
for eastward movement of property Is
equal to that of eighty railway trains
daily. The proposed enlargement of the
locks, as provided IN the bill introduced In
the State Senate, will. when consummated,
augment the capacity of the canal so as to
be equal to more than two hundred rail-
way trains daily.
Cardinal Gousset, Archbishop OF Rheims,
France, died on the 22d of December. He
was the son of farmer, and worked IN the
fields before he entered Il clerical college
for his education. He was afterwards
know as a man of extensive learning, and
became Bishop of Perigueux in 1886. He
was promoted to the ArchbishOprlc of
Rheims In 1910. on the death of Mgr. DE
Latil. He was created Cardinal In 1850.
The Hon. Gustavus A. Henry aud wife.
both of Tennessee were passengers on the
illfated steamboat Fashion. which was
burned on the Sd inst. two hundred miles
above Bayou Sara.
Mr.. Sumner has successfully opposed the
placing of Judge Taneys bust In the Su-
preme Court Room, with those Of his pre-
deCessors on the bench. Asan offset, Chief
Justice Taney's friends are about to erect
a monument to his memory at Frederick
City, Maryland. Senator Sumner and his
coadjutors might have remembered the
Roman statue precedent to more advan-
tage.
A correspondent inquiries whether Mr..
Ashley has yet given notice OF his inten-
tion to bring in bill to abolish the cele-
bration of the Fourth of July" as among
the "played out" National Holidays.
Two girls were recently arrested in the
streets of Pittsfeld, Massachusetts, for
drunkenness. When found, they were
stuck in u snow-bank, from which they
were taken with some difficulty.
A celebrated wholesale merchant In Lon
don, England, has presented the proprie-
tors of the newspaper called the 7eiegrayh
with prlnting-press which cost $4,000,
as token of appreciation. In doing 50 he
accompanied the gift by letter, which
said: ''In your paper, by judicious adver-
tising, first built the foundation of for
tune-and in your paper, by judcious adj
vertising, | have amassed the fortune which
enables me to offer this testimony of regard
and good will"