The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-07-01
News by Telegraph and Mail.

Gold closed, Saturday, in New York at
1881.
The receipts of internal revenue on Sat
nrday, were S1,0OS.ll7 70. Total for the
fiscal year, S265, ,s53,l94 50.
A st. Louis dispatch states that an inves-
tigation into the reported robbery of the
steamer +. w. Brooks, at the levee, on Sun
day morning last of $4,000, disclosed the
fact that the owners did it, and have forked
over $3.50 of the grab.
fire in Minneapolis, Mimi, yesterday,
burned the st. Paul Hotel and two or three
business houses loss, $4,000.
Brownlow has DISTINGUISHED, by procla-
nation, Giles county, making the thr-
teenth county disfranchised since the 18th
of April.
Mr.. Nicholson has obtained judgment
against the city of Chicago for S20,73 for
an alleged Infringement of his patent pave
ment.
A bridge one hundred feet long, on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail
road, at Plymouth, Ind, was knocked into
the. riyerby train which got Off the track
on Saturday.
The New York Board of Aldermen have
appropriated $4,000 toward celebrating
the Fourth of July.
The trial of Chauncy Page, charged with
the horrible double murder at Valparaiso,
Ind, on the 10Th of January last was COM
menced at Laporte on Thursday.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad
has adopted the eight honr system at their
workshops. The pay of the employees has
been reduced twenty per cent.
The trunk factory of Dewey & Brady, in
Detroit, was entirely destroyed by fire on
Friday night, The loss is about $4,000.
Insured.
The receipts of the Paris Exposition du-
ring the month of May realized an average
of fifty thousand francs day, without
reckoning the payments for weekly tickets.
Brigham Young is preparing to abdicate
in favor OF young Brigham, but the elders
all want his place for themselves, and there
is a squabble imminent. rr
What is declared tO be the Veritable
Asiatic plague has appeared at Kerbelah,
Oh NliC I@upllldl' anu vi lllt I"O eclJttu
Arab tribcs-l,000 strong-whom it has at
tackled, Il hundred have been carried Off
One thousand breech-loading arms, and
fifty thousand cartridges have been issued
from the arsenal at Leavenworth for the
use Of the engineers and workmen of the
Pacific Railroad, in order to protect them
selves against the attacks of Indians.
The dwelling of Mr.. George +. Crosby,
of Dead River settlement, Me, was burned
last Friday, and two daughters pcrished in
the flames, one aged seven aad the other
four years.
At Rochester, the other day ! large New
fonndlrnd dog, while bathing in the river
near the gas works, was taken by the
strong current over the High Falls. The
animal swan ashore few hundred feet be-
low the falls, and made his way home.
Two men ia Davenport Iowa, claim the
same woman as their lawful wife, They have
gone to law about it, and the Judge is puz-
zled as to which man to assign her to. The
woman herself don't care particularly which
sure OF having one no matter
how the case is decided ."
The great tabernacle Of the Saints at Salt
Lake City, jsnow fnished.' 1t Is two hun
dred and fifty feet long, and one hundred
and fifty feet wide, and furnishes comforts
able sitting room for ten thousand persons, ]