The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-18

for his house. After sending home his goods
he wrete TO his brother that he should not
return till the next day, being unwell.
Since then he has not been heard from. His
horse, sleigh, great coat, and other things
were found at the Caedonian House, where
be had stopped, and 500 is offered for any
information in relation to him.
a Celestial Cargo ship recently sailed
from San Francisco for Hong Kong with a
cargo consisting Of the dead bodies of some
hundreds Of Cinnamon bound for the tomb
OF their ancestors. The perfume was almost
as delightful as that from the rats that their
comrades eat. This kind of trade still
.hrives in the Pacific. Ships take live Chi
namen and live rats to California, and carry
back to Asia dead Cinnamon and live rats.
Difficulty about the Pay.-No man elected
% Congress, can receive the'pay and emolu-
nents OF a member, unless he first take the
legal oaths prescribed, and the House to
which he is elected, be legally constituted.
aience, the present difficulty about the paw
Of the Representatives. Money however,
it is said, is furnished to those who wan,
It. by brokers and others, who take the GER
tidcates of the members, and make the ad-
vance.
Death from the Bite af Hog.-Jas. MUIR
ply, residing in Louisville, KY, the day be-
fore Christmas, in attempting to extract
lone out OF hogs throat, was badly Bit
ten by the animal In less than week he
was attacked with symptoms of hydropho-
bia, which lasted until Thursday, when be
got better, but on the 9th instant he was
again attacked, and soon died in horrible
agony.
4 cath from Cdn,pkeae.--The number of
Geaths which have occurred from the use of
camphene since July, 1850, according to an
account kept by E Merriam, is four hundred
and twenty-four; injured, six hundred and
twenty-three. The loss by fire, resulting
from the use of camPhene, during the year
1853, he states to be 1890.
Severely Scalded.-A woman named Mar.
t n, residing II Manchester, N. H., tipped
b )iler of scaldiug water upon herself on Fri
d ~ last, terribly scalding her body and ex-
entities. She remained in this condition
f,r forty EIGHT hours before medical aid was
called, and when the physicians arrived she
vas cold and almost pulseless. Her recovery
is very doubtful.
The Killed and Missing at buprence.-Ac.
counts vary of the killed and missing of the
Lawrence disasaster. The list published
gives the names of IS dead and missing-a
total of SO. Other accounts make the num-
Der of dead bodies already recovered as high
as 10, with 81 missing-a total of l3l. II is
possible that some of the missing have left
Lawrence without the knowledge of their
friends, but quite a number are probably yet
beneath the ruins. Ii this does not prove
t. be the case. the loss OF life is not so great
as was at first supposed.
Fatal Laiosyncracy.-The Cincinnati Penny
Press tells a tale about citizen OF that place
who actually destroyed himself by taking
care Of his health. at the age of twenty,
with an excellent constitution, he began to be
troubled with hypochondria, and imagining
1 very week that he had new disease, he
: widowed various drugs and nostrums, until
they finally killed him.
Erecmion in Ne~ jersey. Patrick Maude
who was sentenced to death for the mu rider
Of his sister in May last,was executed in Ne
Uark, n. j., on the 18th instant, on the
same gallews on which James McMahone
vas executed Jast oRe year ago. The con-
emned spoke from the scatfold for half an
lour. 1t was part incoherent.
A Domestic Leonidas.-There is man in
laine, the owner of a pretty piece OF crino-
line, who shows decided pluck. He says that
7hen then minister was hugging and kissing
his wife, he peeped through the crack of the
door and sa it all; and as long as he has the
spirit OF man remaihing,he will peep on such
occasion.
The clipper ship Flora Temple, whose loss,
with 800 coolies on board, was announced a
a day or two since, was built iu Baltimore,
where her commander and some boys on
board belonged.
Z knight, printer, was shot recently
ia Beaufort, S. c., by U. T Canady, but not
wounded.
negro trader named Scruggs was slung.
shotted in his bed on the night OF the Sth,
and robbed Of $1,000, and a gold watch
Three hundred and thirty i've coolie emf
grants lately arrived at Demarara from Cal
cutta. Fifty others died on the passage.
b. b. Bonner, Esq, late editor and pro-
Qrietor of the Greencastle .(Pa.) Ledger,
died on the 9th inst.
The Wheeling (Va) Union says the sale
OF iron manufactured in that city the past
year will probably reach $4,000 900.
There was great missionary demonstra-
ton in the churches of Washington last
week.
The time the race was won by Exchequer,
at Savannah, on Friday last,w 4:0l-4:03.
1t is apprehendea that the bark Thomas
Allibone, OF Baltimore, has been lost at sea.
The steamer Bohemian sailed from Port
and for Liverpool on the l4sh.
A citizen of Petersburg, being unable to
make his gas burn, went to ascertain the cause,
and found that servant man had sucked all
the whisky out of tue metre
The late John w. Houghton, of Augusta,
Ga, hequtathed 1893, 900 TO be held in perpetu-
lty, by the Council of that city, to be applied
to the support of school for the loor.
Capt James Jenkins has been examined in
Caroline county Va, Tor shooting James Tay-
lor, with intent to kill, and sent on TOR trial.
Mr. Francis Gaines, an instructor OF youth,
we'll known III Ha9ay county, Va, died very
suddenly on the morning OF the 20 nit
MARRIED,
In Baltimore, en- the 18th inst, by the Rev.
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