The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-12-15

mouse OF bad repute. DIR. Wilson and Mrs.
Hallway have been arrested, and the former
has given bail in the sum of $4,000.
Sons Of Temperance The following gen.
tlemen have been elected officers of the
Grand Division of North Carolina:
GWP,D rJF Foard, Newbern; G WA.
Col M NJ Grier, Mecklenburg: G S, A NJ
Gormon, Raleigh; CT, w X Martin, Frank
lin; G, q W d Trotter, Greensboro' G
Sen, J F Little, Mecklenburg; G Chap, Rev
R l. Abernethy, Burke.
A Flying Machine.-M. Camille Vert, a.
Partisan, has invented a flying machine in
the shape of fish, which, while in the air,
he can guide in any direction. The Emperor
was present at the trial trip, which took
place under the high ceiling of the Indus
trial Palace, and has authorized public ex-
hibition of the machine.
A Man Eaten By Hogs.-John Rigney, a
respectable citizen of Casey county, Kentuc
ky, while in the woods a few days since, was
crushed by the fall of a tree, and while thus
confined was attacked by his hogs, which
were feeding near by, and literally torn in
pieces. Nothing of his head and face were
found undisfgured except one of his lips,-
He leaves wife and seven children.
The sum of five hundred dollars (ten fifty
dollar bils) of the Troy City Bank, were re-
ceived at that institution recently from the
Union Bank, which had been paid out about
ten years since, and were for the first time
returned to the institution from which they
were issued.
Eli Stout, residing in Lebanon, Warren
County, New York, has been arrested on
charge of murderingshis wife. Stouts son,
child only four years old, says that his
father knocked his mother down and then
burned the body. u
Heevy Damages..-A Miss Thompson, in
Tennessee, has recently recovered $l5, 900 in
suit for breach of promise against man
named Patterson. The lady, if of an acauisi
tive turn, would not probably object to
pair of such breeches.
A resolution has been adopted by the Leg.
islature OF Texas, to print five hundred copies
OF the Governors message in Spanish, i've
hundred in German, and two hundred in the
Norwegian language.
Mr.. Francis Stanton, one of tn assistant
engineers of the survey of Sonora, grand
son of Gen. Macomb, formerly Commander
in-Chief of the U. s. army, died at Fort
Yuma, CAL, on the lst of November.
The eccentric and talented Themes f Mar.
sensation few years ago, has again fallen
into the slough of Bacchus.
The Albany Argus has seen the statement
that the aggregate of gold is greater the
present winter than during any for 20 wears
past, except that of 1845.
A villain has been arrested at Brighton,
Q. W., for selling beef and pork, which
had been killed after being bitten by mad
dog.
The Hon. Mount Stuart Elphinson, dis
tinguished writer and author on Indian
life and affairs in the East, died at Surrey,
England, on Sunday, the 2lst of last Novem-
Der.
Cavare, a vegetable poison used by the
Indians of South America, for poisoning
the ends of their arrows, has been success
fully used in France in the treatment of
lockjaw.
Mrs. Locknecker, Chester county, Pa. has
been arrested on a charge of intentionally
smothering her child, an infant, only three
months old.
A notorious Abolitionist in Massachusetts,
announces that he will lecture ON The Gal
lows. We hope he will get the hang of his
subject.
Last week Henry Brown, of Haywood
county, Tenn, murdered his sister and then
fed. 1t is supposed he is hidden away in
Memphis.
There were hundred and sixty eight in
terments in the city of Philadelphia last
week; twenty.four less than the previous
week.
The Brunswick Guard, a rifle company,
was lately organized in Brunswick CO., Va.
David 4. Poyner, Captain.
of the Brunswick bar, has been appointed
aid to Gov. Wise.
A memorial to the Legislature of Mary
land for the removal of Judge Stump, is cir
culating in Boston.
The notoriety lately given to Helper S book
has created an immense demand for it in N.
York.
Schenectady county, New York, has con-
tributed over one thousand dollars to the
Mount Vernon fund.
Two colored men, both of whom were drunk,
were frozen to dea th in Louisville, KY, on
Wednesday night.
On the 25th ult Brooks Bark, of Maury
county, Tenn, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head with pistol.
Margaret Quinn, an Irish woman,was bru-
tally murdered by her husbnnd, Patr lex
Quinn, in Indianapolis, on the 7th inst
Quinn has been arrested.
Mrs. Caroline S. Beman, mother of the
Hon. W lillian IL. Yancey, died in Montgoms
ny, Ala, on the 9th inst, aged 70 years.
John Strain, Jr., well-known citizen of
Warren county, Indiana, committed suicide
recently by cutting his throat.