The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-03-09

dents of Sapienza, Roman University at
Rome, prepared an address to the Pope sym
patbizing with him and advocating his
cause. Upon circulating it for signatures
on the 9Th ult., the other students tore it to
pieces and burnt the fragments in the Uni
versity yard. The gen d'armes were called
in by the faculty, and at last accounts the in
stit1tion was to be closed. During the anto
da fe the cries of f'liberty" and "long live
Victor Emanuel" were frequent.
A married man named James Owen, living
near Vincennes, Ind, lately went to st Louis
and procured the insertion in a paper there
of a notice of his own death by drowning,
and then, while his relatives were mourning
his death he managed to get back to the
neighborhood from whence he came,and held
a secret interview with the partner OF his
shame, the wife of another man, and made ar
rangements to elope, which were carried out
last Tuesday, and the twain are now suppos-
ed to be on their way to New Orleans.
A controversy is being raised in England
now, in the columns of some of the Metho-
dist papers, on the propriety of lining the
hymns at public worship. Old Methedism
cliugs to the system OF giving out the hymn
by lines. Young Methodism prefers to have
the whole verse given out at once, and there
does not seem much probability OF the two
being likely soon to come to anything like
definite settlement of the question.
At fashionable party in Washington
City, few evenings since, a gentleman was
engaged in lively Irritation with hand
some young lady, when happening to take
out his handk erchief, to his intense dismay,
there dropped out of it round ivory token,
known among gamblers as a "red check"
which rolled forth on the carpet and lodged
I:,ookIu undar tho rill1apt GA II Loo hit in fuIl
view of the company.
HANDSOME SweRD.-Congress having gran
ted its permission, Commodore Shubrick
has received the sword presented him By
Gen. Urquiza, President of the Argentine
Confederation-the scabbard in silver and
god, the hilt tipped with diamonds, and
it is valued at $4,000.
young lady, named Susan A. Cottle,
committed suicide by drownin G at Leaven-
worth City, on the 25th ult., by plunging
from raft of logs into the river. She left
no letters explaing the cause of the self-de-
struction, which must remain a mysteey.
She had been living in Leavenworth since
October last, to which place she went from
Alton, ILL.,, though formerly of Massachusetts;
was accomplished, of good personal appear
ance, and her character was above reproach.
Phrenologist has been examining Queen
Victoria's head, and bsays that he finds the
bump of adheslveness was sadly deficient, if
it existed there at all. In Justice, however,
to this gentleman, we must say that the
Queens head under examination was a post
age stamp.
A FOOLISH HoAx.-A story is going the
rounds about the drowning of forty-nine
children at Hardin, Calhoun county, in this
State. There is not word of truth in the
whole story. 1t was got up, we presume, as
a sensation item, and is both foolish and
wicked. There is no University at Hardin,
and although the town is thriving, being on
ly few years old, it is doubtful whether
that number of children could be got togeth-
er from a circuit of miles.-AHon, (W.)
Courier, Feb. Il.
The Attorney General Of Iowa, reports to
the Legislature that he has found it impos-
sible to collect any portion OF the $3.50, 900 of
the State School Funds, illegally loaned to
individuals by DR. James ID Eads, late Sup
erindent of Public Instruction. 1t is also
Eads' official bond. So the State is cheated
out of the entire sum.
Gen. Daft Green has reappeared in Texas,
after an absence OF IA years. His visit has
reference to certain railroad charters in
connection with the acifc Railroad scheme.
Last Thursday jury in Cincinnati decided
that Asa H. Cone had violated plighted af-
lection ito Francis Hobson, and that he
should pay her $4,000.
The Troy papers notice a singular cause of
death. A Mrs. Doyle, while washing clothes
fortnight ago, ran needle, or portion of
one into the palm of her hand, so far as to be
beyond reach, and to render its removal
by ordinary means impossible. The wound
testered and the woman died.
There were "a deaths in Cincinnati last
week.
At the delivering desk of the New
York City Postottice, letters for ladies are
delivered by Lady,