The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-02-02

it, for there are one hundred thousand oil
these poor wretches in Massachusetts alone
who do not go to the polls, and it is high
time for them to take the power that belongs
to than into their own hands. II they per-
mi. their politicians to exasperate the South
ern people as they are now doing, there will
be but one alternative for them, and it is to
do like the poor irish-they must starve or
emiprate. This is thought that has prOba-
bly never occurred to the negro philan.
thropists of New England, that whereas
huager and want reduced the population OF
Ireland in ten years some three millions OF
souls. so the same causes can do likewise Tor
New England, and that more rapidly
A man named Anthony Dumnnt, last FRI
day in Chicago, turned his w.te out OF doors
in the dead of night, and when she came
back and begged for admittance, beat her IN
the laost unmercitul manner with ciuD anu
then tore most of the clothes from her per-
son, and turned her out again. She would
have frozen to death but for the AID render
ed by the neighbors, who took her IN and
provided her with II comfortable lSdging.
Such man is unit TO live in this world or
any other. What should be done with him.
Last week while the youth aud beauty Of
Centervle, lii, were gathered as social
party at the Centreyille Exchange, al old
gentleman who WAS subject to spells OF walk
ing in his sleep after going to bed !tll into
slunber (ia sonlaambnia). lie arose from
his bed stirred in nothing but Il shirt, aud
walked directly among those who were par
ticipatiHg ia the scenes OF testiVity. The
surprise was said to be more as tonishing
than agreeable.
A woman named Collochin was killed 1T
Cohoes, near Troy, last Friday. She WAS
very near the period OF her C 'uhntm ent. An
ARRAY occurred at her house, growing out
of the use of liquor, during which she was
brutally kicked IN the abdomen by arelatiye
Soon after she VAS taken ill., and, after saf
iering the most horrible agonies, died. The
child is alsn dead.
A man named ieorge W Dugan has been
held in philadelphia an charge OF adbuet-
inr the daughter oil II MYERS, lG years. The
accused il said to be married man snd t"
have visited the house of Dir Myers for sew
eral months as the beau of the young wo-
man, and finally induced her to leave home
with him, taking her to New Jersey. Her
friends have not been able to discover her
whereabouts.
The free negroes recently expelled from
Arkansas have pubiishe an appeal to the
Christian world TO protect them. They say
Indiana shuts her doors upon them. slhnois
denies prnlrie homes 10 them. Oregon will
not receive them and Minnesota is debating
whether or not she vii! admit them. They
complain OF being forced intota cold climate
suddenly from warm one and present sad
picture OF the distress THAI they suT1er. II
their iniudieiOus friends in the free States
had let them alone, it is qaite likely that
they would have been still enjoging their
freedom unmoiested in the Suutn-
The Milwaukee News says that the mem
beers of family residing near that city have
lately eyinced unmistakable sigGs Of hydro
phobia, caused by the milk from COW
which was bitten some time since BY mad
dou. The first iniimation Whica the family
had of the horrors which await them, was
few days ago, when 0ne OF the chItdren,
boy, began to show symptoms OF hydropao-
bia, and during one OF the hts succeeded Ia
iuaicting several wounds on the father
PhyaicianS gave il as their UpiniOn that i!
tho boy s madness was caused by the use Of
milk, the whole family must suffer hsrrlhie
death sooner or later.
A horrible accident occurred 1T Bellows
Mills, Iowa, last week. A young Gernan
named Joseph Hill, at work in the mill, had
occasion to examine same OF the lower ma
chinery, dnd while doing So thu skirt OF MA
coat caught in some large cog wheels: he
was drawn between them and literally cut
in two in the middle. His knee wss drawn
between the cogs and stopped the mill.
When found his body was still warm and IN
MIA hand was lighted candle.
The old fellow in Newburyport, Mass, who
lost mis- pot af coin after it was buried in his
a .sl ,,sslaA IN la
thief. AS soon as she saw the paragraph in
the papers, she ran to her husband and sal d
she was the person that took it, and that 1t
had been expended for the benefit OF the
family. The supposed loss has been kept a
secret even from her, and she first learned
of it from the papers.
The st. Louis Evening News gives an &C,
count of how spiritaalist was induced by
the spirits to make spirit gas, the receipt tor
which he sold quite extensively in Tennessee.
butit turning out that the mixture would
not generate gas, the officers OF the law
brought an invitation from the Governor re-
nuest;ng his attendance in Tennessee.
MANY have been the experiments OF estab.
fishing manual labor schools, but each at
tempt has signally failed. The State Agri--
cultural College of Michigan is now being
added to the category OF ta'lutes IN tbat
line. The press of tho State generally re-
gard il as an exploded experiment. after
having swallowed up more than two hundred
thousand dollars OF the public money, and
some swamp land
A brutal sehoolmaster at Boardman, Ohlo,
has been put under bonds for beating Young
lady of eighteen with an OK CAD, until her
back was black and blue. The girl was good
looking and had resisted the teachers ad
vancess to c0urtship.
The New Orleans Crescent states that
suit was concluded in that city Oh the Stb
instant, ia hich it was decided that Ba!ti-
more City owed New Orlerns $50, 900, one
halt OF the expenses OF 100000 incurred
by New Orleans in settling the MeDonoagh
estate