The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-11-01

Distressing Casualty The Actinq Movor
/ Accidentally Shot.--An unfortunate occur
1 renee transpired last evening at the Old
1 City Hall, which it is our unweleome duty
j to record, and with profound regret. The
tacts,as we learn them from Mr. Hanna, re-
| porter on The Sun, who is party to the af-
fair, are to this effect That he entered the
station-houss and found assembled there
some fifteen or twenty persons, among whom
was WIN. McPhail, Esq. acting mayor, and
approaching Mr.. Harcourt, the telegram
operator at the station, he asked if there
was any news
Being answered that there was moth
| ing OF note, be asked loosely, "what is
this, political gathering 2" to which Mr..
! Harcourt responded aHgrily, bidding Mr..
Hanna not to joke with him, or sometime
to that effect, at the same time drawing a
single barrel pistol, and presenting it at
| Hanna, upon which Hanna drew a revolver,
and with it struck Harcourt's pistol. At the
same instant Harcourt grasped Hanna's pig
| toll, and cooking it, presented it at Hanna.
who retreated within the inner room. I'm.
| mediately thereafter he heard cry of don't
| shoot and the report OF pistol, and learn
ing that Mr.. McPhail was shot,in the excite
/ ment which ensued, at the suggestion of
some one present, be withdrew.
| On the other hand, it stated BY some who
were present that when Mr.. Hanna came in
Harceurt said to him, "Where did Won get
| such tine clothes2" to which Hanna angrily
| responded, "Do you mean to insult meP'r and
drew a single barreled pistol, which Har-
court took from him; that he then drew a re-
voiVer, when scuft1s eusued, and in the
struggle between the two the pistol went of,
and the ball struck Mr.. McPhail.
1t was immediately ascertained that the
~ a
ed, the ball having struck the upper portion
OF the thigh, and passing entirely through.
Inc nervous system was for some time great
ly Frustrated, but in the course of an hour
reaction took place and consciousness was
restored, the natural warmth also returning.
Upon recovering sufficiently to converse, Mr..
McPhall stated that the shooting was entire
~ accidental, though, of course, he must be
painfully sensible of the exceeding impro-
priety of the whole transaction.
r At half past one o'clock this morn
ing we learn that Mr.. McPhail is compare
lively easy; the physicians in attendance had
stopped the hom0rrhage from the wound,
and it was hoped that the femoral artery was
untouched. Anodynes had been administer
ed, and he seemed likely to fall into Sleep
Belt. Sun Of Monday.
a Judge on Matrtmony.-Judge Stump,
of the Baltimore City Court, has sent q wo-
man to Jail for one year, and her husband for
one year and one month, because the woman
was excessively cruel to child Of her hus-
band by former wife. The judge inflicted
the heavier punishment upon the husband
because, he said, he had no business to mar
~ the woman anyhow; and having married
her, should have put stop to her proceed
ings. His Honor declared it reprehensible
practice Of parties with children marryingj
and thus breeding discord in their own fam
HES it was proper subject, he thought
for legislation.
The Prince Of Wales Coming Mon
treal Pilot has it on authority, that His Roy
al Highness the Prince Of Wales, accompa-
MED by the colonial secretary, and other
distinguished personages, will visit Canada
In the end of May or the beginning of June
next. The formal opening Of the Victoria
bridge will then take place.
The members of the Massachusetts Lepis.
lature have petitioned the Governor for the
removal of the State liquor agent. The ira
veler says that several of the members testi-
ned that the liquor sold at the agency was
bad and that better could be obtained Of out
side dealers at the place.
Married.-The daughter of the late Capt,
HerndoR. who was lost in the Central Amert-
ca, was married 81 CaiVary Church, New
York, Rev. DR.. Hawks, officiating last Wed
nesday evening, to a young lawyer of that
city. Capt. Maury, .. s. N, gave the bride
away.
Brown's Firginian CounseI.-Mr. Lawson
Bolts, the counsel for Brown and his confed-
crates, is a son of the late General Thss. H.
Bets, of Virginia, and nephew of John M.
Bolts and the Princess Catharine d. Murat,
of Florida. mother is a grand niece of
Gen. Washington. Mr.. Bolts is said to be
young lawyer who relies on his profession
for subsistence, and a man of good ability
and spotless character. ss
Mr. and Mrs. Charles II Webb of Kochest-
ter, N. NJ, have lost three young children
within ten days. by malady which is pre-
vailing among the children of that city.
Only one child remains to them.
Suicide. DIR. John Il. Tibbels, of Lowell,
confined in the jail in that city on charge
of keeping house of ill.fame, committed
suicide Monday night by hanging himself
with his cravat to the bars of his cell. lib
belts has long been notorious in Lowell, and
has done the State some service-in State
prison.
Mrs. Mary Jane Walker committed suicide
at Newark, N. j., on the 25th inst, by ta-
/ king arsenic. .5'