The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-13
Small Poe.-The Lexington Gazette of the

tSnldU P0G.-Ihe Lexington Gazette OF the
9th says: 1t is confidently hoped that this
loathsome disease has run its course in our
community and is now abating. No new
cases have occurred within the last five or
six days, at least none outside OF the families
where it already existed, and the whole po-
pulation have, by this time, been thoroughly
vaccinated. There have been between forty
and fifty cases in all, but confined to some
fifteen families, whose houses have been
placed in quarantine, which will be cnntinu-
ed till all danger has passed away.
officers of the Typographical Union
regular semi-annual election of officers
of the Memphis Typographical Union was
held Wednesday evening. with the follow
ing result: President, John Il 0berly; Vice
President,E w Thrift; Recording Secretary,
John II Blackburn; Financial Secretary,
John L Nelson; Corresponding Secretary,
Daniel G Jones; Treasurer, Thos B Reynolds
Board of Directors, Crandall, & Mex
Luken, Henry W Kean, Moses Parish, Geo
NJ Medary; Sergeant-at-Arms, VIM l. Rey-
nolds.
Painful Accident.-Mr Albert G Camp, of
Lynchburg, met with an accident at I've
River Bridge, last Thursday, on the Lynch
burg and Alexandria Railro'1, by which he
came near losing his life. Mr.. C. was riding
y
the brake attached to the car 49, L oxen,
and thereby becoming unmanageable, the
car dashed off at speed of about sixty miles
per hour. When the car reached Tye
River Bridge, it ran OH the end of the track,
which had not been laid to the abutmeut Of
the bridge, throwing Mr. Camp down an en-
bankment, and badly bruising his person, be-
sides cutting oft one OF his fingers.
Valuable Relic.--The body of Bishop Jno
N. Neumasn, formerly of Baltimore, lay in
state for several DAYS in St. Johns church,
Philadelphia. Above the head of the de-
ceased there was large ivory crucitlx, so
large that no elephant of modern times
could supply tusk enough to make it. This
relic was br ought to this country from &c.
noa, by Mr.. Lester, for uer U. s. Consul.
Mr.. Lester afterwards sold it to the Cosmo.
politan Art Association for $4,000. In q
subsequent drawing of premiums, school
master in Lancaster county, Pa, obtained
it,and from him Bi shop Neumann bought it.
Cold Weother.-The Houston Telegraph
makes the following extraordinary state
ment
As near as We can ascertain, there were
from nifty to sixty people frozen to death
within the State of Texas during the late
under the influence of liquor when frozen.
There were many thousand hogs, cattle and
sheep frozen to death ..also,. none of whom,
it is fair to suppose, were under the infiu-
ence ofsprits.
MOVEMENT OF ARMY OFFICERS ON THE Pa
cIFIC.-Gen. Totten, engineer-in-chief of the
United States army, left San Francisco on the
18th ult. for Oregon. He is to inspect the for
titications on the Pacific coast. Lieut. Casey,
the same day for Fort Vancouvre. Col. Hof-
man and Lieuts. Corley and Walker, left Fort
TETON, to attend court-martial Captain
Foote, 9th infantry, has joined his company
at Fort Yuma.
MARX HIM.-Mr Longworth, of Gin
cinnati, has sent to Mr.. Sherman, the Re
publican candidate for Speaker, a present
of 200 bottles of his famous Catawba
wine.
John Smith has been-convicted at York,
Pa, of burning his house in order to de-
fraud an insurance company--sentencsd
to one years imprisonment.
A Mrs. Jackson accomplished the feat
of walking eighty miles in eighty consec-
utive hours, at Union Hall, in Staunton,
Va, last week.
The average total of nightly dodgers at
the New York station-houses, during the
cold nights, was three hundred, and as
many more were turned away.
Hon. Henry w. Miller, of North Car
DINA, has added 4,OOu to the Mount Ver-
non fund by his lectures.
DR.. VIM. McCombs, formerly of Nash
vile, died in New Orleans on Friday last,
of consumption.